Join CALS’s Deb Moore and the Writing Circle for an Exquisite Corpse activity, a collaborative game with origins in the Parisian Surrealist Movement. Drop in and add your unique sentence or phrase to an evolving piece of collaborative and creative writing. Breakfast treats, too!

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Come bake pie number one in the 50 Pies, 50 States journey with author Stacey Mei Yan Fong as she chats about all things American, pie, and, most of all, the friendships that made her decide to call this country her home. Limited seating. Get your ticket today!

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In A Most Tolerant Little Town, historian Rachel Louise Martin weaves together over a dozen perspectives to tell the forgotten story of the first school to attempt court-mandated desegregation in the wake of 1954’s Brown v. Board of Education decision.

In Monica Potts’s New York Times bestselling memoir The Forgotten Girls,

Arkansas author and columnist Eli Cranor’s second novel, Ozark Dogs, is a Southern noir thriller about a decades-old blood feud between two families in a small Arkansas town.

Michael X. Wang’s Lost in the Long March is an unflinching debut novel set against the backdrop of Mao’s Long March and its aftermath.

Whether you’re an aspiring writer or just interested in how the writing process works, don’t miss this unique opportunity to talk shop with Quinn Connor, author of Cicadas Sing of Summer Graves, and CALS’s Jasmine Jobe.

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Join VIETRI founder Susan Gravely as she prepares recipes and shares stories from her new memoir and cookbook, Italy on a Plate, a loving tribute to 40 years of Italian travels and friendships. Limited seating. Get your ticket today!

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In the instant New York Times bestseller The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth, Jermaine Fowler takes a sweeping survey of human history to show how Black humanity has been erased and relate how its recovery can save the humanity of us all.

In Hilary Leichter’s Terrace Story, Annie, Edward, and their daughter find a beautiful terrace hidden in the closet of their cramped apartment. But every bit of extra space has a hidden cost, and the terrace sets off a seismic chain of events, forever changing the shape of the world.

Ben Purkert’s debut novel The Men Can’t Be Saved tackles a haunting question: What do our jobs do to our souls?

Regina Black’s The Art of Scandal is a steamy contemporary romance about a Black trophy wife who agrees to fake a perfect marriage for her cheating husband’s political campaign in exchange for a large divorce settlement but starts questioning her life choices when she falls for a handsome young artist.

In Nikki Payne’s debut novel Pride and Protest,

Share an hour with Sandra A. Gutierrez, acclaimed food journalist, professional cooking instructor, recipe developer, and author of Latinísimo: Home Recipes from the Twenty-One Countries of Latin America. Limited seating. Get your ticket today!

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Harrison Scott Key is the executive dean at Savannah College of Art and Design and is the author of three books, including The World’s Largest Man and Congratulations, Who Are You Again?, the inspiration for his TEDx talk, “The Funny Thing About the American Dream.” How to Stay Married tells the hilarious,

The deeply researched true-crime odyssey An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President’s Murder tells the interlocking stories of the Oneida Community and its radical founder, John Humphrey Noyes; eccentric newspaper publisher Horace Greeley; the gloomy, indecisive President James Garfield; and Garfield’s demented assassin, who was connected to all of them in surprising ways.

Exploring how the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves are inextricably bound to the places we call home, Karin Lin-Greenberg’s novel You Are Here is a keenly perceptive and deeply humane portrait of a community in transition.

Terah Shelton Harris’s debut novel One Summer in Savannah features a young poet who returns home to run her father’s bookstore and finds she must protect her gifted daughter—and herself—from the powerful family of the man who raped her,

In Elizabeth McKenzie’s slyly humorous novel The Dog of the North, Penny Rush has problems. But she is a virtuoso at what’s possible when all else fails. In Penny’s quest for a fresh start, there will be a road trip in the Dog of the North, an old van with gingham curtains,

Playful, kinetic, and devastating in turn, Juliana Lamy’s You Were Watching from the Sand is a story collection written in a mixture of high lyricism, absurdist comedy, and Haitian cultural witticisms.

Jennifer Maritza McCauley’s When Trying to Return Home is a dazzling debut short-story collection spanning a century of Black American and Afro-Latino life in Puerto Rico,

Weaving together riveting research with the voices of survivors, Donovan X. Ramsey’s When Crack Was King is a crucial reevaluation of the crack epidemic of the 1980s and ’90s and a powerful argument for providing historically violated communities with the resources they deserve.

Erin Sharkey’s A Darker Wilderness is a vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in conversation with archival objects of Black history and memory.

Each pie in Fong’s 50 Pies, 50 States: An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the United States through Pie is a whimsical tribute that encapsulates a state’s unique flavors and honors its culture. With recipes organized like the all-American road trip we’ve all wanted to complete, this book is a journey through the wonders of pie for bakers of all skill levels—and also the story of one extraordinary woman who chose to make this place her home.

Equal parts memoir, travelogue, and primer on the art of birding, Better Living through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World tells the story of Christian Cooper’s extraordinary life leading up to the now-infamous incident in Central Park and shows how a life spent looking up at the birds prepared him,

Andrew Sean Greer is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of six works of fiction, including the bestsellers The Confessions of Max Tivoli and Less. In the Less sequel Less Is Lost, for Arthur Less, life is going surprisingly well. But nothing lasts: the death of an old lover and a sudden financial crisis have Less running away from his problems yet again as he accepts a series of literary gigs that send him zigzagging across the country.