On the last Sunday of each month, Walker Brents gives a talk, on subjects ranging widely across the cultural and intellectual spectrum. This month, in keeping with the light-hearted spirit of the street fair playing out down the block, Walker Continue reading
Each month, Walker Brents gives a talk on a subject literary, poetic, mythological, or wherever his investigations lead… This month, the poet William Butler Yeats and his enigmatic system articulated in the work called “A Vision”
Sunday, September 30 – 2:30 pm In the hills of North Carolina from the 1930s into the 1950s, a unique succession of intellectual and artistic developments occurred in the rather ramshackle environment of Black Mountain College, as if it were Continue reading
Friday, August 31st – 5:30 to 8:00 pm Special 5th Friday booking in our weekly jazz in the bookshop series Scott Foster Trio live jazz without fail every Friday since October 2002!! 10 years & counting… Each Friday, we present Continue reading
Thursday, May 24 – 7:00 pm The Monthly Eminent Authors’ Birthdays Open Reading a long-standing Bird & Beckett tradition, recurring on the fourth Thursday of each month Have a favorite writer born in May? Come down to Bird & Beckett Continue reading