You’re Invited to a Special Day at Lemuria by Lisa

“It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up with themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they came from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them–with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.”

-Eudora Welty, One Writer’s Beginnings

This Saturday, December 7th, we will celebrate our love of the physical book and the books of Eudora Welty from 2:00-4:00.

Carolyn Brown will be on hand to sign and inscribe her biography of Eudora Welty, A Daring Life. Lee Anne Bryan will also be here from the Welty House. If you’ve never been to The Welty House and Museum, it’s a great time to get some information and plan a tour with some friends.

We will have on display rare editions of Miss Welty’s work as well as some of our favorite trade editions of her novels and stories. Our first edition rooms will also be open for browsing. You never know what you might find!

We’re calling Saturday Welty Day. We hope you’ll join us in the spirit of community, in the very community Miss Welty loved so much.

The idea for Welty Day came from a group called Cereus Readers–a book club that is open to anyone who would like to read Eudora Welty’s work and also the writers she knew and loved.

We will be resuming our regular meeting schedule on January 23rd and we are still open for new people to join. If you’d like to learn more or be added to our e-mail list, please send a note to: lisa at lemuriabooks dot com.

Above: Eudora Welty on top of the Lamar Life Building with the Standard Life Building in the background. (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)

from Lemuria Bookstore Blog http://blog.lemuriabooks.com/2013/12/youre-invited-to-a-special-day-at-lemuria/

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