Spice Girls is our romance book club. April’s pick is Cold-Hearted Rake by Lisa Kleypas. Our club meets on the fourth Tuesday of every month at 7 pm at Friendly City Books, 109 5th Street North. See you there!

Join us as we sink our teeth into Twilight and Midnight Sun and experience the beloved story through both Bella's and Edward's perspective. During our meeting on April 27th we will also be hosting a screening of the film!

Join us at Friendly City Books’ new location at 109 5th Street North for our fifth annual Independent Bookstore Day celebration! We’ll have fun surprises and exclusive merch available for one day only. Don’t miss it!

Join us for Lessa Harvey’s Feminist Book Club! Lessa is an 1884 Fellow in the Women’s College at the Mississippi University for Women. She came up with the idea to host a feminist book club while working as an intern at Friendly City Books as part of The W’s Nancy Yates Community Engagement Program.

Join the group on April 22nd at 4:00 p.m. for a discussion of Florence Given’s Women Don’t Owe You Pretty.

The Feminist Book Club is free and open to the public and MUW students.

April’s meeting will be at the new Friendly City Books location of 109 5th Street North, right beside Coffee House on 5th!

This virtual event is hosted by MUW Fant Memorial Library.

Registration is required for this event. There are 20 seats available.

Visit https://libreserves.muw.edu/event/16250705 to register.

Richard Grant, author of the multi-award-winning Dispatches from Pluto and The Deepest South of All, is originally from London, England but spent several years living in a remote farmhouse in the Mississippi Delta, an experience chronicled in Dispatches from Pluto. He is a traveler, author of nonfiction books, a journalist, and a documentary film writer. His previous books include the adventure travel classic God’s Middle Finger: Into the Heart of the Sierra Madre and American Nomads, which was made into an acclaimed BBC documentary with Grant as the writer and star. Currently a contributor to Smithsonian magazine, Grant has published journalism in Esquire, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications.

Biographical information from https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Richard-Grant/40124613

Cursed Books is our horror book club. April’s pick is The Macabre by Kosoko Jackson. Our club meets on the third Tuesday of every month at 7 pm at Friendly City Books, 109 5th Street North. See you there!

Tales From the Crypt is an annual performance presented by the students of the Mississippi School for Math and Science. Each spring, students choose individuals buried in Columbus’s historic Friendship Cemetery, research their subjects, write scripts, source costumes and props, and perform monologues as their subjects during evening cemetery tours. Each year’s performances are unique - this is an incredible, immersive experience you don’t want to miss!

The tours are ticketed - see the QR code on the flyer or visit https://themsms.org/tales-from-the-crypt/ for more information.

Tales From the Crypt is an annual performance presented by the students of the Mississippi School for Math and Science. Each spring, students choose individuals buried in Columbus’s historic Friendship Cemetery, research their subjects, write scripts, source costumes and props, and perform monologues as their subjects during evening cemetery tours. Each year’s performances are unique - this is an incredible, immersive experience you don’t want to miss!

The tours are ticketed - see the QR code on the flyer or visit https://themsms.org/tales-from-the-crypt/ for more information.

Join us for a virtual discussion of this year's Community Read, The Barn by Wright Thompson.

Visit https://libreserves.muw.edu/event/15732674 to register.

Natchez explores the complex history and memory of the Mississippi town of the same name. Equal parts amusing and disturbing, we journey through an antebellum tourist destination at a crossroads as it grapples with a deeply troubled history so thoroughly ingrained in its present that we’re left to wonder if it’s actually past at all.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring filmmakers Suzannah Hebert and Darcy McKinnon, Tracy “Rev” Collins from the film, and local community leaders Laverne Greene-Leach and Chuck Yarborough.

This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.

Save the date for a beloved Friendly City tradition: the annual Stella Shouting Contest!

Saturday, April 11th, in honor of Columbus’s own Tennessee Williams, sign up to scream “STELLLAAAAAA!!” in your best Brando impersonation - winner gets major bragging rights!

Using poetry examples and interview style prompts, we will help each other explore our lives (real and imagined!) in a free-for-all poetry romp. We will read some autobiographical poems and use them, along with additional prompts, to write some wild and wonderful and maybe even true things! No charge. Registration is limited. Some digital materials will be sent to you in advance after you sign up.

RSVP required. Email spokenwordandarts@gmail.com.

For more information, visit https://allinthesamebreath.org/

Tales From the Crypt is an annual performance presented by the students of the Mississippi School for Math and Science. Each spring, students choose individuals buried in Columbus’s historic Friendship Cemetery, research their subjects, write scripts, source costumes and props, and perform monologues as their subjects during evening cemetery tours. Each year’s performances are unique - this is an incredible, immersive experience you don’t want to miss!

The tours are ticketed - see the QR code on the flyer or visit https://themsms.org/tales-from-the-crypt/ for more information.

Tales From the Crypt is an annual performance presented by the students of the Mississippi School for Math and Science. Each spring, students choose individuals buried in Columbus’s historic Friendship Cemetery, research their subjects, write scripts, source costumes and props, and perform monologues as their subjects during evening cemetery tours. Each year’s performances are unique - this is an incredible, immersive experience you don’t want to miss!

The tours are ticketed - see the QR code on the flyer or visit https://themsms.org/tales-from-the-crypt/ for more information.

Join the community discussion of Part IV of Wright Thompson’s The Barn at Fant Memorial Library, located on the MUW campus. Visit muw.edu/read for more information.

Our friends Catherine Pierce and Michael Kardos are in town for a Friendly City Heist!

On Monday, April 6, we're taking over Bushy's Clubhouse for a friends and family get together. Kids and adults alike can play all the arcade games, and we'll have all of Katie and Mike's new books: Fun City Heist (Mike's novel), Foxes for Everybody (Katie's essays), Dear Beast (Katie's poetry), and Quick Change (Mike's short stories).

RSVP on Facebook to let us know you’re coming!

VERY IMPORTANT: Street parking only. Please do not block any driveways or park at the car wash or your car may be towed ... and that would not be a very Fun City Heist.

Join us as we sink our teeth into Twilight and Midnight Sun and experience the beloved story through both Bella's and Edward's perspective. 

Join us at the Columbus Arts Council for a special fashion show! Students will walk the runway in wearable garments they have created from book pages and newspaper. Come check it out and cheer for your favorite!

Join us for Lessa Harvey’s Feminist Book Club! Lessa is an 1884 Fellow in the Women’s College at the Mississippi University for Women. She came up with the idea to host a feminist book club while working as an intern at Friendly City Books as part of The W’s Nancy Yates Community Engagement Program.

Join the group on March 25th at 4:00 p.m. for a discussion of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower.

The Feminist Book Club is free and open to the public and MUW students.

March’s meeting will be at the new Friendly City Books location of 109 5th Street North, right beside Coffee House on 5th!

Spice Girls is our romance book club. March’s pick is I Married a Lizardman by Regine Abel. Our club meets on the fourth Tuesday of every month at 7 pm at Friendly City Books. This month’s meeting will be in our new location at 109 5th Street North! See you there!

Meet Art Historian and Author Elise Smith, who will discuss her book Southern Women, Southern Landscapes: Cultural Reflections on the Garden, 1870-1970.

All are welcome to attend. Lunch will be provided to the first 20 attendees.

Visit https://libreserves.muw.edu/event/16244683 for more information.

Cursed Books is our horror book club. March’s pick is Trad Wife by Saratoga Schaefer. Our club meets on the third Tuesday of every month at 7 pm at Friendly City Books. This month’s meeting will be at our new location of 109 5th Street North. See you there!

Participate as a presenter (5 minute time-slots) or as an audience member and join the discussion.

Friendly and welcoming environment, works in progress welcome.

All arts welcome, even ones we haven’t thought of yet – if it’s art to you it’s probably art to us!

Sign up for a time-slot or take your chances and just show up! :)

For more information, visit https://allinthesamebreath.org/

Participate as a presenter (5 minute time-slots) or as an audience member and join the discussion.

Friendly and welcoming environment, works in progress welcome.

All arts welcome, even ones we haven’t thought of yet – if it’s art to you it’s probably art to us!

Sign up for a time-slot or take your chances and just show up! :)

For more information, visit https://allinthesamebreath.org/

We’re reopening in our new location at 109 5th Street North on Saturday, February 28! Join us for the big celebration!

Join us for Lessa Harvey’s Feminist Book Club! Lessa is an 1884 Fellow in the Women’s College at the Mississippi University for Women. She came up with the idea to host a feminist book club while working as an intern at Friendly City Books as part of The W’s Nancy Yates Community Engagement Program.

Join the group on February 25th at 4:00 p.m. for a discussion of Caitlin Moran’s What About Men?

The Feminist Book Club is free and open to the public and MUW students.

PLEASE NOTE LOCATION CHANGE: for this month only, the Feminist Book Club meeting will be held in the Gail P. Gunter room of Fant Memorial Library on MUW’s campus.

Spice Girls is our romance book club. February’s pick is Game Changer by Rachel Reid. Our club meets on the fourth Tuesday of every month at 7 pm at Friendly City Books. This month’s meeting will be in our new location at 109 5th Street North! See you there!

Using poetry examples and interview style prompts, we will help each other explore our lives (real and imagined!) in a free-for-all poetry romp. 

RSVP required - maximum of 10 seats available.

For more information, visit https://allinthesamebreath.org/

Cursed Books is our horror book club. February’s pick is The Reformatory by Tananarive Due. Our club meets on the third Tuesday of every month at 7 pm at Friendly City Books. See you there!