Events Calendar

Join us for a dinner party you’ll never forget! On Sunday, May 22nd, we’ll be hosting author Chris Pavone in celebration of his novel Two Nights in Lisbon. Starting with a welcome cocktail, we’ll spend an evening with Chris enjoying a four course meal prepared by Chef Teryi Musolf, all staged in the bookstore itself.

One of the most wonderful things we do here at the bookstore is our Sunday Sit Down Supper series, where we invite a great writer to talk about their work and a local chef to plan a menu inspired by it. After hours, we transform the bookstore with long tables and family china, wine and conversation, books and inspiration. If you haven’t joined us for one of these evenings before, now is the time.

We’re excited to pair Chris’s riveting thriller about putting everything on the line with a delicious meal and lively conversation between the shelves. The perfect date night, gift, or night on the town, tickets include your cocktail, dinner, evening with Chris, signed copy of his book, and gratuity.

We are so excited to spend an evening with Joy talking over her latest book The Grand Design. What better way to do it than over a couple of cocktails??

Based on the true story of famed designer Dorothy Draper, The Grand Design is a moving tale of one woman’s quest to transform the walls that hold her captive.

Join us Tuesday, June 21st at 7:30 pm. Your ticket includes admission, a cocktail, and a copy of the book.

Join us for a book-inspired wine tasting! We pair the qualities of each wine with a book that shares the same spirit. Your ticket to the tasting, apart from the tastes, includes your choice of one of the featured books. Bottles of the featured wines will be for sale at great prices, too. This event is a crowd favorite, serving as a great date, a perfect girls night out, or treat to yourself. Buy your ticket now and join us on Thursday, June 23rd at 7:30pm.

Join Chef Teryi Youngblood Musolf for our very first Camilla Kitchen event: Chef Recommends!

This will be a fun evening of listening to Chef Teryi dish on the culinary heroes who inspired her life in the kitchen, sharing their books and why she loves them. In upcoming Chef Recommends events, we’ll have different themes for the selection, but we had to start with the fundamentals!

Your ticket includes a glass of bubbles and your choice of one of the cookbooks featured.

Join Chef Teryi on Wednesday, July 13th at 7:30 pm for COOK THE BOOK, our newest Camilla Kitchen event series.

COOK THE BOOK is a seated, limited, taste-and-see kind of event where Chef Teryi features a new favorite cookbook. She’ll do some cooking in front of us, giving tips and tricks along the way, and then we eat! We’ll spend the evening talking about the featured cookbook while savoring small plates and sipping on the wine pairing provided.

Your ticket includes three small plates, a glass of wine, and a copy of the cookbook!

REVIEWS

“Snacks for Dinner perfectly captures the vibes of my favorite kind of dinner party: impromptu yet deeply thoughtful, fancy-feeling but not fussy, with vegetables at the center. With delightfully clever recipes and his warm, confident guidance, Lukas shows us how to turn something as humble as dip and crackers into a memorable meal that’s worth sharing.” —Christina Chaey, senior food editor, Bon Appétit

“Snacks for Dinner is a joyful invitation to make your meals simpler, fresher, and SO much more fun! Whether you want to spice up a weeknight dinner or assemble a stunning special occasion spread, Lukas’s thoughtful writing and creative recipes will give you the skills, confidence, and inspiration you need.” —Jeanine Donofrio, author of The Love & Lemons Cookbook

We are so excited to spend an evening with Viola Shipman talking over her book The Edge of Summer. What better way to do it than over a couple of cocktails??

Reminiscent of the complex, uplifting family stories by Nancy Thayer, Sunny Hostin and Mary Alice Monroe, Viola Shipman’s poignant new novel explores the relationship between a curious woman and her secretive mother, taking readers from their hardscrabble life in the Ozarks to her search for answers along the sparkling shores of Lake Michigan.

Your ticket includes admission, a cocktail, and a copy of the book!

Join us for a dinner party you’ll never forget honoring author Megan Miranda and her new novel, The Last to Vanish.

We are beyond excited to have Megan Miranda not just in our building, but at our table! Megan is “a master of misdirection and sudden plot twists” (Booklist, STARRED REVIEW), the author of “clever, stylish mysteries that will seize readers like a riptide” (Publishers Weekly, STARRED review) featuring “dizzying plot twists and multiple surprise endings” (The New York Times Book Review). And she’s one of our favorites! This new novel, set in the Appalachian foothills near hundreds of miles of vast wilderness, is no exception.

To celebrate having Megan with us, and with her brand new book no less, we’re hosting an after-hours four course meal, all inspired by The Last to Vanish. Each book-inspired course is paired with an equally delicious and inspired wine, making this a night to go down in book-lovers history!

Your ticket includes a welcome cocktail, a four course meal prepared by Chef Teryi Musolf, wine pairings, an evening with the author, and a signed copy of the book.

Gratuity included.

Join us for a book-inspired wine tasting! We pair the qualities of each wine with a book that shares the same spirit. Your ticket to the tasting, apart from the tastes, includes your choice of one of the featured books. Bottles of the featured wines will be for sale at great prices, too. This event is a crowd favorite, serving as a great date, a perfect girls night out, or treat to yourself. Buy your ticket now and join us on Thursday, July 28th!

We are so excited to spend an evening with Allie, the heart and soul behind Ladygroove, talking over her book of fine art nudes: Her Body: A riotous celebration of the female form. What better way to do it than over a couple of cocktails?? Ladygroove is a fine art nude & somatic photography studio based in Greenville, South Carolina, founded by Allie Monday. Her muse is the human body. Her philosophy is peace & play.

Join us Thursday, August 4th at 7:30 pm to learn more!

Your ticket includes admission, a cocktail, and a copy of the book.

* If you are coming with a guest and would like to share a single book between you, please select the couple ticket option.

We are so excited to spend an evening with Catherine talking over her latest book Please Join Us. What better way to do it than over a couple of cocktails??

“Catherine McKenzie knows how to write a twisty ending, and this one certainly delivers. Please Join Us has all the hallmarks of a great suspense novel—a secretive group, a woman at a crossroads, and a crime that might not be all it seems to be. The shocking conclusion pulls together all the pieces while leaving the reader guessing.”—Kaitlin O., Editor, on Please Join Us.

Please join us (ha!) Thursday, August 25th at 7:30 pm! Your ticket includes admission, a cocktail, and a copy of the book.

Join us for a book-inspired wine tasting! We pair the qualities of each wine with a book that shares the same spirit. Your ticket to the tasting, apart from the tastes, includes your choice of one of the featured books. Bottles of the featured wines will be for sale at great prices, too. This event is a crowd favorite, serving as a great date, a perfect girls night out, or treat to yourself. Buy your ticket now and join us on Tuesday, August 30th!

What if we could replace the growl of empty stomachs with the growl of an audience for just one night? Join Loaves & Fishes Greenville as we rock out to reduce hunger on Saturday, September 10th, at the Radio Room.

Doors open at 6pm, show starts at 7pm. Tickets available now. $15 in advance, $20 at the door. Thanks to friends at the Radio Room Greenville, this year’s Rock Out Hunger benefit concert line-up is 100% local and 100% fresh. Featuring psychedelic songsters Brother Oliver, energetic rockers Her Pilots, and singer songwriters Barryle and Mourning Dove.

100% of the proceeds from Rock Out Hunger will be put to immediate use this year rescuing food in Greenville County. The 2022 Rock Out Hunger benefit concert is generously supported by our friends at the Radio Room Greenville, Dodge Industries, Iron Hill Brewery, Southern First, the Swamp Rabbits, and Piedmont Natural Gas.

Join us for a book-inspired wine tasting! We pair the qualities of each wine with a book that shares the same spirit. Your ticket to the tasting, apart from the tastes, includes your choice of one of the featured books. Bottles of the featured wines will be for sale at great prices, too. This event is a crowd favorite, serving as a great date, a perfect girls night out, or treat to yourself. Buy your ticket now and join us on Tuesday, September 20th!

We are so excited to spend an evening with Katherine St. John talking about The Vicious Circle!

Known for her critically acclaimed novels The Lion’s Den and The Siren, Katherine brings readers a new twisty suspense novel perfect for fans of We Were Never Here and Nine Perfect Strangers. What happens when you realize that your wellness retreat center in the Mexican jungle is actually harboring violent secrets?? Find out and hear more about the writing process as we enjoy a book-inspired cocktail with Katherine!

This is a ticketed event. Your ticket includes admission, a cocktail, and a copy of the book.

SUMMARY

A perfect paradise? Or a perfect nightmare?

On a river deep in the Mexican jungle stands the colossal villa Xanadu, a wellness center that’s home to The Mandala, an ardent spiritual group devoted to self-help guru Paul Bentzen and his enigmatic wife Kali. But when, mysteriously, Paul suddenly dies, his entire estate—including Xanadu—is left to his estranged niece Sveta, a former model living in New York City.

Shocked and confused, Sveta travels to Mexico to pay her respects. At first, Xanadu seems like a secluded paradise with its tumbling gardens, beautiful people, transcendent vibe, and mesmerizing de-facto leader Kali. But soon the mystical façade wears thin, revealing a group of brainwashed members drunk on false promises of an impossible utopia and a disturbing, dangerous belief system—and leader—guiding them.

As the sinister forces surrounding Sveta become apparent, she realizes, too late, she can’t escape. Frantic and terrified, she discovers her only hope for survival is to put her confidence in the very person she trusts the least.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Katherine St. John is a native of Mississippi, graduate of the University of Southern California, and author of the critically acclaimed novels The Lion’s Den and The Siren. When she’s not writing, she can be found hiking or on the beach with a good book. Katherine lives in Atlanta with her husband and two children.

Join us for a book-inspired wine tasting! We pair the qualities of each wine with a book that shares the same spirit. Your ticket to the tasting, apart from the tastes, includes your choice of one of the featured books. Bottles of the featured wines will be for sale at great prices, too. This event is a crowd favorite, serving as a great date, a perfect girls night out, or treat to yourself. Buy your ticket now and join us on Tuesday, October 25th!

Celebrating his seventh season on Discovery Channel’s hit series, “Moonshiners”, comedian Killer Beaz is touring the nation’s distilleries, breweries and wineries. With well over three decades of comedy clubs and theatres, television and radio, Killer Beaz is changing things up; reaching out into the country with a tour that is as local as it gets. There is a “local” scene in just about every city, taking over the taverns and pubs throughout the land that highlights craft-made beverages and cocktail culture in our nation’s breweries, distilleries and wineries, and many of these establishments have entertainment venues. Killer Beaz has uncorked the “Official Bootleg Tour” and its next stop is Greenville, South Carolina at Thomas Creek Brewery, Saturday, November 5th at 7:30 PM. Tickets and information for the tour are available at www.KillerBeaz.com.

Beaz is not only looking forward to performing for his fans, but also to sampling the only-of-its-kind at each stop along the way. Beaz says of the upcoming shows, “Visiting breweries, wineries and distilleries is an excellent way to explore the culture and history of our cities and towns. My years with Moonshiners TV have inspired me to experience the various flavors our great nation and abundant local products. Brewers, distillers and wine makers throughout are proving that hand-crafted is the way to go, and I think the show has been an inspiration to many startups in the industry. I’m betting this will be the most fun tour yet!”

The tour kicked off in May, and will eventually expand to the four corners of the country. Beaz will continue to make regular stops on The Grand Ole Opry stage, and will continue his role as a moonshiner. Stay tuned to his social media for an inside look at Americana’s finest…. It’s LIVE, it’s LOCAL, it’s “THE BEST BUZZ in TOWN”. See him on television, hear him on the radio, see his stage performance live…you’ll be “Stung for Life!” The show is in Greenville, South Carolina at Thomas Creek Winery, Saturday, November 5th at 7:30 PM. Tickets and information are available at KillerBeaz.com.

MORE ABOUT KILLER BEAZ
Killer Beaz has his own, unique brand of “Hard Hitting” – “Laugh out Loud” – “Laugh A Lot” – “HI-PROOF” – “High Energy” – “Everyman” style humor that appeals to any audience. When asked, Beaz says about his shows, “I love the art of stand-up comedy! Having been given the opportunity to make people laugh and smile for all these years is truly a blessing!” With many thousands of radio, television and stage appearances, Beaz has been entertaining audiences for over three decades. He is an award winning artist and has been signed with both Sony and Warner Brothers Records, and received reviews such as:

“Beaz is ‘Killer!’” – Rolling Stone Magazine

“Killer Beaz lives up to his name, “Killing” his audience, night after night, show after show!”
– Entertainment Today/Las Vegas, NV

“Killer Beaz has a universal appeal that makes him a crowd favorite!” – SHOWTIME/Reno, NV

For more information on Killer Beaz go to www.killerbeaz.com.
MORE ABOUT KILLER BEAZ
Killer Beaz is a favorite guest of several nationally syndicated radio shows, Beaz entertains millions of his fans on a regular basis. USA Today says he is a “Star rising in the South!” He’s made numerous appearances on The Discovery Channel, Showtime, Entertainment Tonight, Comedy Central, ABC, NBC, CBS, E!, A&E, CNN, ESPN, CMT, GAC, Circle TV. He has also been featured on radio shows such as Bob & Tom, John Boy & Billy, Rick & Bubba, Bob & Sheri, Big D and Bubba, WTF with Marc Maron, Taste of Country Nights, iHeart Radio, SIRIUSXM Comedy Channels, SIRIUSXM NASCAR Radio and The Grand Ole Opry. Stay social with Killer Beaz at www.killerbeaz.com, twitter.com/killerbeaz, and Facebook.com/killerbeazcomedy

We have always loved the way food and wine tell stories from the table. So we’re teaming up with our friends at Mission Grape to highlight new winemakers, pairing their bottles with inspired food from the mastermind of Chef Teryi Youngblood Musolf for a really special evening. Welcome to Big Wine Nights with Camilla Kitchen, super-exclusive chef-centered wine dinners we host in our beautiful event space, The Gallery at M. Judson.

“Buona Notte is driven by wine, but ruled by its belly.” —winemaker Graham Markel

The first time we tasted Buona Notte Wines, we knew we’d found a kindred spirit. (We might be driven by books, but we’ve got some pretty great gastronomical rulers these days too.) Buona Notte makes natural wines from vineyards in the Columbia River Gorge, a region of tremendous diversity that straddles both Washington and Oregon, from desert to tropical rainforest, including two volcanoes. Put that kind of terroir into the hands of a winemaker with a lifelong love of Italy and Italian food, and you’ve got some real magic to contend with. Chef Teryi paired these varietals from Buona Notte with her favorite Italian-American dishes, food to truly complement the character of the wines.

Both Chef Teryi and Danny Baker from Mission Grape will be on hand to talk roots and inspiration. Wines will be available for sale by the bottle and by the case at a 15% discount. Take a look at the menu below and get your tickets today!

MENU

Aperitivo

Buona Notte Vermouth Cocktail

Assorted Bruschetta

First:

Buona Notte “Panna Cotta” Chardonnay

Tuscan White Bean Soup

Second:

Buona Notte “Brutto Nobile” Syrah

Prawns with Tomato Tapenade

Main:

Buona Notte “Cento Por Cento” Sangiovese

Braciole with Pasta Rags and Broccoli Rabe

To Finish:

Buona Notte “Puntarelle” Gruner Veltliner

Delizie al Limone

Formed in Columbus, OH in the Spring of 2016, the The Quasi Kings have quickly “cemented [their] place as the sprawling, multi-instrumental next generation of Columbus reggae.” (Columbus Dispatch). The band, led by brothers Zach (vocals, saxophone, percussion) & Benny Coleman (vocals, bass), varies in age, musical backgrounds, and taste, leading to a worldly & distinctive collage. Their premier offering, 2013’s Throwaway Culture EP, features catchy hooks, tight vocal harmonies, and a unique blend of reggae, rock, and hip-hop. Their latest album, Eye of the Storm, takes things a step further with songs like “Booze”, a raucous Sabbath inspired tune, and the dubby, horn driven “Cut It Out”. Their live shows are high energy, captivating and ever-evolving. The Quasi Kings have had the privilege to play with the likes of Steel Pulse, Badfish, Fortunate Youth, Passafire, The Expanders, Third World, Israel Vibration, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, The Werks, Dark Star Orchestra, Tropidelic, and more. Visit thequasikings.com for tour dates & more info.