Month: August 2023

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Barnes & Noble, Bookstore Bar Host September Events Featuring Tenured Cynic’s Hopeful Book

Jeremy and Edie White atop Rattlesnake Ridge with the Cascades in the background

Author Jeremy White signing copies of The Little Girl at the Bottom of the Picture

Baton Rouge, LA — August 31, 2023 —  A literary-themed bar and a mega retail bookseller are hosting September events in Baton Rouge featuring Jeremy White’s new book about his wife discovering her biological family in 2018 and the insanely beautiful, transformational journey that ensued. The Little Girl at the Bottom of the Picture: A Journey of Selfless Discovery details how Edie White solved a 65-year-old mystery that plagued a Ukrainian American family, after initially learning her pacifist father is cited in two books for challenging David Duke with a bloody knife at LSU.

The tenured cynic will be on hand to sign copies of his hopeful book at the Citiplace location of Barnes & Noble (2590 Citiplace Ct.) starting at noon on Saturday, September 9. Four days later, on Wednesday, September 13, The Bookstore Bar (10466 Airline Hwy.) is hosting a signing by White from 5 to 7 p.m.

“‘If I had bought a bookstore instead of a bar, y’all wouldn’t be hanging your underwear from the ceiling.'”

While most folks know Barnes & Noble as the nation’s largest bookstore chain, with over 600 stores across the country, The Bookstore Bar has been hosting book club meetings and serving cocktails with literary names since 2020. For decades before that, owner/operator Pamela Sandoz was the tour de force behind Slinky’s, “the last real dive bar at the storied LSU North Gates,” as White describes it in The Little Girl. A significant rent increase for the Chimes Street location forced her to shutter the place in 2018.

Sandoz says the idea for her new bar came from a running joke with customers and employees at her old one. “Whenever it got wild at Slinky’s, someone would inevitably say that my life would’ve been easier if I had just bought a bookstore,” Sandoz recalls. “I’d reply, ‘Well, if I had bought a bookstore instead of a bar, y’all wouldn’t be hanging your underwear from the ceiling.'”

White Lines Press published the ebook and 468-page hardcover edition of The Little Girl at the Bottom of the Picture on July 1. Signed editions are available at LittleGirlBook.com and through partnered indie bookstores around the country. For more information and resources, visit our media center. Inquiries should be sent to [email protected].

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Blue Cypress Books Hosts Event Featuring Tenured Cynic’s Hopeful Book

Author Jeremy White signing copies of The Little Girl at the Bottom of the Picture

Baton Rouge, LA — August 4, 2023 — Blue Cypress Books in the New Orleans Riverbend neighborhood is hosting an event featuring Jeremy White’s The Little Girl at the Bottom of the Picture: A Journey of Selfless Discovery at 2 p.m. Saturday, August 12. White will be on hand to sign copies of his new book about his wife, Edie, discovering her biological family in 2018 and the beautifully insane adventure that ensued.

Literally overnight, the baby of Edie’s adoptive family becomes the eldest sibling in a new, amazing family, fathered by a pacifist cited in two books for challenging David Duke at LSU with a bloody knife. During her pre-COVID travels with Jeremy to Seattle, Austin, Chicago, and California wine country, Edie ultimately solves the last of three mysteries presented to her: What happened to the little girl at the bottom of the picture? It’s a question that plagued an enthusiastic horde of gangster-adjacent Ukrainian Americans for more than 65 years.

“While we launched The Little Girl precisely five years after the most pivotal event from our story, this book signing falls on the five-year anniversary of the most powerful moment in this unicorn of a real-life family saga.”

“Several months ago,” Jeremy White recalls, “Blue Cypress Books became the first New Orleans indie bookstore to partner with us on our pre-order campaign, so we’re thrilled that the wonderful folks there are hosting our initial Crescent City book signing. The timing of it is significant, as well.” The author explains, “While we launched The Little Girl precisely five years after the most pivotal event from our story, this book signing falls on the five-year anniversary of the most powerful moment in this unicorn of a real-life family saga.”

Blue Cypress Books is a local, woman-owned, indie bookstore located at 8123 Oak Street, just off Carrollton Avenue. Since 2008, Blue Cypress has offered high-quality secondhand and new books in a warm, inclusive place where minds are spoken and open conversations are invited. Blue Cypress is a proud member of both the American Booksellers Association and the Southern Independent Booksellers Association. Open seven days a week, BCB is consistently rated as a top bookstore in New Orleans.

White Lines Press published the 468-page hardcover edition of The Little Girl at the Bottom of the Picture on July 1. Signed editions are available at LittleGirlBook.com and through partnered indie bookstores around the country. For more information and resources, visit our media center. Inquiries should be sent to [email protected].

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