City Lights Bookstore is in Sylva, North Carolina, a small Main Street town tucked in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains. Our goal is to share the literature of the Southern Appalachian region with the world, and the world of books with our community.
City Lights Bookstore will celebrate the release of
High Vistas Volume II on Friday, January 27th at 6 p.m. with a
reception and discussion with a few of the authors featured in the book. The
second volume continues the tradition set by the first with nature writing
focused on Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains. Arranged
chronologically the pieces range from 1900 to 2009. George Ellison will present
the book and talk about the importance of nature writing.Featured writers and artists will
include, Elizabeth Ellison, Jim Casada, Jim Costa, Thomas Rain Crowe, John Lane
and Bill Hart.
Poet doris davenport will return to City Lights on Saturday afternoon,
February 4th at 2 p.m. Her always energetic readings are a joy. This
visit she'll be focusing on her latest collection of poems (with a dash
of prose), titled ascent. Previous works include Madness Like Morning Glories, and Hunger for Moonlight.
Anne Clinard Barnhill will be at City Lights Bookstore
Friday, February 3rd at 7 p.m to read from her new novel, At the Mercy of the Queen. A sweeping tale of sexual seduction
and intrigue at the court of Henry VIII, At the Mercy of the Queen is a rich and dramatic debut historical about Madge
Shelton, cousin and lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn.
