Delta delicious: Tour the ‘Soul of the South’ when Table Talk hosts author of ‘Eat Drink Delta’
For more than three years, on and off, veteran food journalist and Jackson native Susan Puckett delved into the Delta, its history, its communities and, most of all, its food.
Indulge in ‘Good Food’ — Table Talk’s June focus
If there’s one thing the Deep South appreciates it’s good food. So the Friends of the Columbus-Lowndes Library and the Hitching Lot Farmers’ Market are teaming up to present a series of insightful talks on the topic each Wednesday in June for Table Talk: A Casual Visit with Books.
What’s new in young people’s literature? Table Talk knows
From Maurice Sendak’s classic, “In the Night Kitchen,” through the Harry Potter series, and all kinds of titles in between, children and teen literature has become a hot topic.
Table Talk hosts children’s book author-illustrator
Have you ever wanted to write or illustrate a children’s book, but had no idea how to do it, or even where to start? Friends of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library just might be able to help.
Nothing ‘peculiar’ about Table Talk’s featured guest
Friends of the Library is pleased to welcome poetess Catherine Pierce to the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library for Table Talk on Wednesday, April 10.
Officials discuss favorite childhood books
When Lowndes County Chancery Clerk Lisa Younger Neese was a child, her mother read selections from “The Christmas Messenger,” a collection of poems and short stories, to her and her siblings every Christmas before they were allowed to open presents.
Those memories of her mother reading from the 1941 anthology made it her favorite childhood book, Neese said Wednesday during a Table Talk lecture with other city and county officials at the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library.
Public officials to share their favorite childhood books at Table Talk
Friends of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library will host April’s first Table Talk this Wednesday, April 3. Find out how some of our local political office holders will finish this sentence: “My favorite childhood book is … “
Oral histories are focus Wednesday as Table Talk concludes memoirs theme
On Wednesday, Feb. 27, Mississippi University for Women professor Dr. Erin Kempker will be the speaker for Friends of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library’s Table Talk: A Casual Visit With Books.
Colom is featured speaker at Wednesday’s Table Talk
“What was it like growing up in Mississippi?” This is a question heard many times in the Magnolia State — even by those who didn’t grow up here. Or else, “Now tell me the truth — what was it really like?”
Wednesday’s Table Talk offers twice the laughs
You may think you are seeing double when Friends of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library kick off February’s Table Talk with the book, “Y’all Twins?” Mississippi authors Katherine and Margaret King will share tales from their first book on Wednesday, Feb. 6, in the second floor meeting room of the public library located at 314 Seventh St. N, in Columbus.
Wednesday Table Talk explores South’s wealth of creativity
University of Mississippi Professor of Southern Studies Charles Reagan Wilson is the upcoming speaker at Wednesday’s Friends of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library Table Talk. Dr. Wilson will explore the prolific creativity of Southern writers, artists and musicians.
Truth is stranger than fiction as Table Talk hosts acclaimed author
The Friends of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library continues its September Table Talk series with a presentation by author Neil White, who will speak about and read from his award-winning memoir “In the Sanctuary of Outcasts.”
‘Walk’ in Welty’s garden when Table Talk presents author Susan Haltom
Near the end of her life, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty (1909-2001) still lived in her parents’ home in Jackson. Her mother’s beloved garden she had helped tend there many years earlier, however, had all but disappeared — a fact Welty lamented. Today, it has been restored to its former glory, thanks to garden designer and preservationist Susan Haltom and a committed core of volunteers.
Table Talk turns to ‘Bones’ mystery series, Skype chat
The Friends of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library continues its programming on detective and mystery novels on Feb. 22. Wednesday’s discussion focuses on the popular “Bones” mystery series by Mississippi author Carolyn Haines.
Renowned journalist, author to conclude Table Talk series
Curtis Wilkie, author of “The Fall of the House of Zeus: The Rise and Ruin of America’s Greatest Trial Lawyer,” is the featured speaker at the Sept. 28 Friends of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library Table Talk series.
Wednesday’s Table Talk examines ‘The Help’
The Friends of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library continues its Table Talk series Sept. 14 with an examination of Kathryn Stockett’s best-selling novel “The Help.” Members of a local book discussion group, The Sisters, will analyze the book’s setting, its taut 1960s historical context, and focus on the complex relationships among the main characters.
September Table Talks begin Wednesday
The Friends of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library will launch the September Table Talk series on Wednesday, Sept. 7, at noon in the library meeting room, 314 7th St. N., with a presentation on Tennessee Williams’ Family in Columbus.
Table Talk tackles organic farming
Scott Enlow, USDA certified organic farmer and owner of Black Creek Farms, is the June 22 speaker at the Friends of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library and Hitching Lot Farmers’ Market Table Talk series.
Table Talk’s Poetry Month concludes Wednesday
The Friends of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library concludes its celebration of National Poetry Month Wednesday, April 27, with a Table Talk presentation by director emeritus of the University Honors Program at Mississippi State University, Dr. Jack H. White.
Poetry is topic of Wednesday Table Talk
The Friends of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library continues its Table Talk series April 13 with a dual presentation by Tom and Emma Richardson. Dr. Tom Richardson, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Mississippi University for Women, will discuss various ideas about “what poetry is” by reading examples of “poems about poetry” and poems that experiment with language and the “look” of poems on the printed page.