Friendly City Books in the News
2024
5 Best Mississippi Book Podcasts (FeedSpot) - March 9, 2024
Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Violin Conspiracy’ (Minnesota Public Radio) - March 2, 2024
Book Talk: Five Questions with Gerry Wilson (Commercial Dispatch) - March 2, 2024
Weekend bets: Fun things to do in the Golden Triangle this weekend (Commercial Dispatch) - February 22, 2024
Book Talk: Award-winning historian Grace Elizabeth Hale coming to Columbus (Commercial Dispatch) - February 17, 2024
Book Talk: Five Questions with Jumata Emill (Commercial Dispatch) - January 27, 2024
New photography book of country-wide journey includes Columbus stop (Commercial Dispatch) - January 20, 2024
2023
Book Talk: Five Questions with Kate Medley (Commercial Dispatch) - December 16, 2023
Book Talk: Five Questions with Rick Cleveland (Commercial Dispatch) - November 4, 2023
National book tour brings author Margaret Renkl to Columbus (Commercial Dispatch) - October 21, 2023
Book talk: Five questions with Katy Simpson Smith (Commercial Dispatch) - October 14, 2023
Friendly City Books promotes local authors (The [MSU] Reflector) - October 2, 2023
Book Talk: Five Questions with Nyani Nkrumah (Commercial Dispatch) - September 9, 2023
Former Disney art director follows dream of writing children’s books (Commercial Dispatch) - September 2, 2023
Book Talk: Five questions with Tyriek White (Commercial Dispatch) - August 26, 2023
Former Disney animator and children’s book author to visit library (Commercial Dispatch) - August 12, 2023
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient facilitates conversation about the South (Commercial Dispatch) - July 30, 2023
Book Talk: Five questions with Christie Collins (Commercial Dispatch) - July 29, 2023
Book talk: Five questions with Exodus Oktavia Brownlow (Commercial Dispatch) - July 8, 2023
Famous literary sneak coming to Columbus (Commercial Dispatch) - July 1, 2023
The Top 10 Bookstores in Mississippi (Southern Living) - June 24, 2023
Book Talk: Five questions with Alex Bostic (Commercial Dispatch) - June 10, 2023
City and University partner for Community Read (Commercial Dispatch) - May 13, 2023
Michael Ferris Smith signs books as part of Indie Bookstore Day (Commercial Dispatch) - April 29, 2023
Book talk: Five questions with Michael Farris Smith (Commercial Dispatch) - April 29, 2023
Book Talk: 2023 brings a bumper crop of new books by Mississippi authors (Commercial Dispatch) - February 4, 2023
Bookseller Dog: Scarlet at Friendly City Books (Shelf Awareness) - January 30, 2023
One hot trend on TikTok influences users to pick up a book (WCBI-TV) - January 11, 2023
2022
Book Talk: Five questions with T. K. Lee (Commercial Dispatch) - December 24, 2022
Bookstore adorns ‘lucky’ pole for Festivus (Commercial Dispatch) - December 24, 2022
Photo: Book signing with Vishwesh Bhatt (Commercial Dispatch) - December 17, 2022
A local book store celebrates its second year in business (WCBI-TV) - November 26, 2022
Book Talk: Five questions with Steve Yarbrough (Commercial Dispatch) - October 22, 2022
Book Talk: The Mississippi Book Festival returns to the capital city (Commercial Dispatch) - August 13, 2022
Book Talk: Five questions with Matt Bondurant (Commercial Dispatch) - July 23, 2022
Citizens create ‘ideal vision’ for a new Columbus (Commercial Dispatch) - July 16, 2022
Celebrity chef Andre Rush visits the friendly city for book signing (WCBI-TV) - July 9, 2022
Book Talk: Five questions with Olivia Clare Friedman (Commercial Dispatch) - July 2, 2022
Five questions with Diane C. McPhail (Commercial Dispatch) - June 8, 2022
Book Talk: Five questions with Teresa Nicholas (Commercial Dispatch) - May 21, 2022
Book Talk: Five questions with Becky Hagenston (Commercial Dispatch) - April 30, 2022
Alumna opens bookstore in the town of Columbus, Mississippi (Georgetown Magazine) - April 26, 2022
Friendly City Books, A local bookstore for a tight-knit community (The [MUW] Spectator) - April 20, 2022
Book Talk: Five questions with Linda Williams Jackson (Commercial Dispatch) - April 9, 2022
Book Talk: Five questions with Sally Palmer Thomason and Jean Carter Fisher (Commercial Dispatch) - March 19, 2022
Book Talk: Five questions with C. T. Salazar (Commercial Dispatch) - February 12, 2022
Book Talk: A conversation with Berkley Hudson (Commercial Dispatch) - January 30, 2022
Book Talk: 5 questions with Joshua Nguyen, author of ‘Come Clean’ (Commercial Dispatch) - January 15, 2022
Book Talk: Five questions with Jennifer Moffett (Commercial Dispatch) - January 2, 2022
2021
Book Talk: Five big stories from the local literary scene in 2021 (Commercial Dispatch) - December 25, 2021
Homeward bound: Millennial entrepreneur finds new rewards with Friendly City Books in Columbus (Daily Journal) - December 8, 2021
Five questions with Anthony Thaxton (Commercial Dispatch) - December 5, 2021
We want to rip off the Bandaid (Worth Reading Wednesday Podcast) - December 1, 2021
Book Talk: Five questions with Ashley M. Jones (Commercial Dispatch) - November 19, 2021
Mary Means Business: Friendly City Books prepares for reopening (Commercial Dispatch) - November 18, 2021
Book Talk: Five questions with Thomas Richardson (Commercial Dispatch) - November 6, 2021
Book talk: Five questions with Gabriella Saab (Commercial Dispatch) - October 23, 2021
Book talk: Five questions with Ralph Eubanks (Commercial Dispatch) - October 9, 2021
Book talk: Five questions with Kelly Mustian (Commercial Dispatch) - September 25, 2021
Book talk: Five questions with Robert Khayat (Commercial Dispatch) - September 11, 2021
Meet Emily Liner, Friendly City Books (Southern Independent Bookstore Alliance) September 9, 2021
Have indie bookstores found answers to counter Amazon? (RetailWire) - July 21, 2021
Don’t complain unless you’re going to be part of the solution (The Southern Bookseller Review) - May 18, 2021
Richardson’s debut poetry collection is released (Commercial Dispatch) - May 9, 2021
A 'Community Gathering Place' (Progress Magazine) - March 2021
Downtown story walk to promote ‘a community of readers’ (Commercial Dispatch) - January 29, 2021
2020
Business Moves with Mary: Golden Triangle buzzing with Black Friday deals (Commercial Dispatch) - November 25, 2020