The HEA Club: YA Romance

Blue Cypress Books 8123 Oak Street, New Orleans, LA

The Happily Ever After Club is a romance book club hosted by Blue Cypress Books bookseller and romance enthusiast, Jodi! For 2023, The HEA Club will function as a sort of romance 101, featuring a selection from a different sub-genre each month. This month's focus is Young Adult (YA) Romance, and the HEA Club will be [...]

Book Banter with Trang Thanh Tran

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We are thrilled to welcome debut author, Trang Thanh Tran to Book Banter! Book Banter is a free, fun, interactive (you can ask questions and we will answer them during the event), event that streams live. Join the conversation on Facebook or YouTube! Tran smartly weaves Vietnamese culture and real horrors of French imperialism to deliver an eerie [...]

A Book Launch with Danny Unger

Blue Cypress Books 8123 Oak Street, New Orleans, LA

Join us Saturday, March 4th at 5 pm to celebrate the release of Danny Unger's chapbook, Dear Egg! Dear Egg is a book of epistolary poems about love and anxiety set (mostly) in New Orleans published locally by Tilted House. She will be joined by Justin Lacour and Meghan Sullivan. Danny Unger is a queer, [...]

A Reading with Chachi Hauser

Blue Cypress Books 8123 Oak Street, New Orleans, LA

Join us Monday, March 6th at 6 pm for a reading with Chachi Hauser, author of It's Fun to Be a Person I Don't Know! This event is free to attend. Reserve Your Signed Book At first glance a reader might mistake It’s Fun to Be a Person I Don’t Know for a juicy Hollywood [...]

Blue Cypress Books Book Club

Blue Cypress Books 8123 Oak Street, New Orleans, LA

The Blue Cypress Books Book Club meets every second Thursday of the month at our shop, unless otherwise noted. Email us at team@bluecypressbooks.com for more information on how to join. The March pick is Interview with the Vampire.

Lucky Bean Poetry Night

Blue Cypress Books 8123 Oak Street, New Orleans, LA

Join us Monday, March 13th at 6:30 pm for a poetry reading hosted by Lucky Bean Press, followed by an open mic. This event is free to attend. This month’s featured reader is Isaiah Underwood. Lucky Bean Poetry is a press and reading series in New Orleans, LA. Lucky Bean Press publishes an ongoing chapbook [...]

A Reading with Karisma Price

Blue Cypress Books 8123 Oak Street, New Orleans, LA

Join us Tuesday, March 14th at 6 pm to celebrate Karisma Price's poetry book, I'm Always So Serious! She will be in conversation with Christopher Romaguera. This event is free to attend. Karisma Price’s stunning debut collection is an extended meditation on Blackness, on family, on loss. Anchored in New Orleans and New York City, [...]

International Fiction Book Club

Blue Cypress Books 8123 Oak Street, New Orleans, LA

The International Book Club meets every third Wednesday of the month at our shop and read books written by authors not native to the United States. Email us at team@bluecypressbooks.com for more information on how to join. The pick for March is Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin

A Reading with Kristen Bird

Blue Cypress Books 8123 Oak Street, New Orleans, LA

Join us Thursday, March 16th at 6 pm for a signing with Kristen Bird, author of I Love It When You Lie! Kristen will be in conversation with Samantha Downing. This event is free to attend. Reserve Your Signed Book The Williams women don’t just keep secrets… They bury them. The three Williams girls are [...]

A Signing with Scott Billington

Blue Cypress Books 8123 Oak Street, New Orleans, LA

Join us Saturday, March 18th at 2pm for a signing with Scott Billington, author of Making Tracks: A Record Producer's Southern Roots Music Journey! This event is free to attend. Reserve Your Signed Book From the 1980s through the early 2000s, a golden era for southern roots music, producer and three-time Grammy winner Scott Billington [...]

Author Panel with Brian Fairbanks & Friends

Blue Cypress Books 8123 Oak Street, New Orleans, LA

Join us Monday, March 20th at 6 pm for a local author panel featuring Brian Fairbanks, Quin Hillyer, Lawrence Powell, and more! This event is free to attend. More info to come! Brian Fairbanks got his break as a writer at the age of 15, talking himself into a staff writer position at the Hartford [...]

An Evening with Bex Mui

Blue Cypress Books 8123 Oak Street, New Orleans, LA

Join us Friday, March 24th at 6 pm for a signing with Bex Mui, author of House of Our Queer: Healing, Reframing, and Reclaiming Your Spiritual Practice! This event is free to attend. Reserve Your Signed Book Queerness is a blessing. Reclaim your Spiritual Practice. In House of Our Queer, activist and organizer, Bex Mui [...]