Business Type: Bookstore
55 Haywood Street
Asheville, North Carolina 28801-2834
Phone: (828) 254-6734
Website: http://www.malaprops.com
Email: info@malaprops.com
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| 8am-9pm Mon-Sat 8am-7pm Sun Order online 24/7 at www.malaprops.com |
Eclectic, quality selection. We will go to extremes to connect readers with the best books. No books on direct violence. Great foreign language, children's & books on the inner arts. Poetry & fiction par excellence. Banned book literature available.
Specialties: book clubs, Conscious Living, fiction, poetry, Southern literature & much more...
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2 hour drive well worth it!
I was so excited to finally get to see Malaprop's the other day. It was every bit as wonderful as I had hoped...and then some. The store's layout and design are appealing, create a good flow for the shopper, and most of all, FUN! It is clear that they have great buyers who bring in a wide variety of books and non-book merchandise. And when I asked Alsace to find me a novel that was really, really great, she didn't miss a beat and immediately put into my hands one of her favorite reads from last year. I am so excited to have this store two hours away from me...that drive is well worth it. :)
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Over the course of quite a number of years, I have witnessed this store evolve in and through some of most harrowing of times for persons who care about literature in its most expansive sense. Throughout these years, Malaprop's has been a model of creative ingenuity, tenacious devotion to the ideal of a "free press", and entrepreneurial savvy such as to make this store the heart of a most fascinating town well known for its own independent and alluring nature. It was for this reason that when a friend of mine came to Asheville as part of author tour promoting his book, One World Democracy, I dedicated the exclusive printing of one of his essays, Entering the Era of Deep Politics: Defining Existential Polity to the this store, as one singularly devoted "to fostering the voice of peace in a world at war".
Rob Davis
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Art of Racing in the Rain Garth Stein HarperCollins |
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Skeletons at the Feast Chris Bohjalian Crown |
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Last Night at the Lobster Stewart O'Nan Viking |
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The Story of a Marriage Andrew Sean Greer Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
great looking store, author series
As an indie event planner, I was seriously impressed by Malaprop's lineup of really legit authors coming through.
Located right downtown, the store is an excellent destination stop for a booksigning event as something cool to do some night-- a date, a girl's night, a night on the town along being intellectual with a cup of coffee and a book in hand.
Malaprop's fits the bill, with a selection bigger than you'd think they could fit inside. I recommend it to all first-time Asheville visitors, for certain!