Friendly City Books

Type: 
Indie Bookstore
Phone: 
(662) 570-4247

Friendly City Books is a bookstore located in historic downtown Columbus in Mississippi offering books in an array of genres, including children’s books. Launched with the intention of bolstering community in the city, the bookstore intends to be not merely a seller but a gathering place for writers and readers. Their curated events hope to highlight Mississippi’s rich literary tradition, and their publishing imprint seeks to promote new voices from the Hospitality State. They also help facilitate the Rooted Book Club with Mississippi Book Festival and Lemuria Books, an effort to share and discuss works of fiction and nonfiction about the South.

More about this reading venue
Name of reading series: 
Rooted Book Club
Genre: 
Cross-Genre
Event types: 
Reading
Typical admission fee: 
Free
Number of events annually: 
5-10
Representative readers: 

Katy Simpson Smith, Tyriek White, Ellen Ann Fentress

Address: 
118 Fifth Street
North Columbus, MA 39701