Tag: author events

February 29, 2024

Upcoming Events for WILD, TAMED, LOST, REVIVED

Meet multiple-time James Beard Award finalist for Outstanding Wine, Spirits, or Beer Professional, Diane Flynt, at one of her upcoming events for her recent book Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived: The Surprising Story of Apples in the South. Published under our Ferris & Ferris imprint, Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived offers a new history of the apple and reveals how it changed not… Continue Reading Upcoming Events for WILD, TAMED, LOST, REVIVED

Events/Southern Studies

October 2, 2023

Upcoming Tour Dates with Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, author of “The Vice President’s Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn”

Historian and author Amrita Chakrabarti Myers will be touring (in-person, unless otherwise noted as virtual or hybrid) to discuss her new book, The Vice President’s Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn, an innovative and complex recovery history, offering the first complete picture yet of Julia Chinn, wife and enslaved woman to US Vice President Richard Mentor Johnson. What… Continue Reading Upcoming Tour Dates with Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, author of “The Vice President’s Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn”

UNC Press News

September 15, 2023

Celebrate Apple Season with Upcoming Events for “Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived”

Are you looking for the perfect fall event to add to your calendar? Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived: The Surprising Story of Apples in the South by Diane Flynt, with photography by Angie Mosier and a Foreword by Sean Brock (published under our Ferris & Ferris imprint) offers a new history of the apple and how it changed the South and the nation. This… Continue Reading Celebrate Apple Season with Upcoming Events for “Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived”

Food Studies/Southern

Coming Home: A Book Tour in NC

The following is a guest post by Felicia Arriaga, author of BEHIND CRIMMIGRATION: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America. 5/23 at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe, Asheville, NC 5/25 at the Levine Museum in the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, Charlotte, NC 5/27 at Diamante Arts & Cultural Center, Raleigh, NC I wanted to host a book tour in North Carolina in the first… Continue Reading Coming Home: A Book Tour in NC

Guest Bloggers/Latino Studies/Sociology

September 22, 2022

Upcoming UNC Press Author Events

Bland Simpson and Ann Cary SimpsonClover GardenNovember 19, 2024 | 4:00pmNorth Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, NC Leon FinkThe Maya of MorgantonNovember 19, 2024 | 4:30pm Mortara Center at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Sayantani DasguptaBrown Women Have EverythingNovember 23, 2024 | 12:00pmCape Fear Book Festival, Wilmington, NC (details TBD) Timothy SilverDeath in Briar BottomDecember 5, 2024 | 5pm ETPalm Harbor… Continue Reading Upcoming UNC Press Author Events

Events/UNC Press News

December 13, 2021

Author Book Events in the Time of Covid

The following is a guest blog post from Georgann Eubanks, author of Saving The Wild South: The Fight for Native Plants on the Brink of Extinction. The American South is famous for its astonishingly rich biodiversity. In this book, Georgann Eubanks takes a wondrous trek from Alabama to North Carolina to search out native plants that are endangered and wavering on the… Continue Reading Author Book Events in the Time of Covid

Environmental Studies/Guest Bloggers/North Carolina

David Blevins on tour with North Carolina’s Barrier Islands

Heading to the North Carolina beach next week? David Blevins will be there too with North Carolina’s Barrier Islands: Wonders of Sand, Sea, and Sky! Stop by for an inspiring presentation on David’s writing journey and how he captures the wonder of the islands. Continue Reading David Blevins on tour with North Carolina’s Barrier Islands

Events/Local Indy Booksellers/Nature/North Carolina/Photography/Science/Travel

Jump into Spring! Some great events coming up

If you’re in the Triangle over the next week, we’ve got so many great events lined up we can keep your dance card full! Book talk & Nature Walk with David Blevins and Michael P. Schafale Wild North Carolina: Discovering the Wonders of Our State’s Natural Communities Sunday, April 3, 2011 3:00 PM North Carolina Botanical Garden Chapel Hill, NC… Continue Reading Jump into Spring! Some great events coming up

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