NEW ORLEANS (press release) – Blue Cypress Books hosts a Flower Drying Workshop with author Katy Simpson Smith on Tuesday, April 23, at 6:30 p.m. This event is in celebration of the paperback release of Ms. Smith’s book, “The Weeds.” This interactive experience inspired by “The Weeds” will be led by Stephanie Tarrant, owner of The Crypt Flowers. The workshop will be followed by a book signing.
Tickets are required for this event. Ticket prices start at $10. Tickets may be purchased through this link. This event will take place at Blue Cypress Books, located at 8123 Oak Street, New Orleans, LA 70118. Copies of Ms. Smith’s book, “The Weeds” (Picador, 2024) may be purchased before or during the event. Or as when purchasing a ticket. More about the event may be found here.
The Weeds: Lush, intoxicating, and teeming with mischief, Katy Simpson Smith’s “The Weeds” is a tense, mesmerizing page-turner about science and survival, the roles women are given and have taken from them, and the lives they make for themselves. More info here.
Katy Simpson Smith was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. She is the author of the novels “The Story of Land and Sea,” a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and one of Vogue’s Best Books of 2014; “Free Men”; and “The Everlasting,” a New York Times Best Historical Fiction Book of 2020. Her writing has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Oxford American, Granta, and elsewhere. She received a PhD in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars, and is also the author of “We Have Raised All of You: Motherhood in the South, 1750-1835.” She lives in New Orleans.
The Crypt Flowers: Stephanie Tarrant is a second generation florist living in New Orleans. Using botanical material, they preserve the fleeting beauty of blooming and once living things laid and arranged in epoxy resin creating home decor, altar adornments and wearable jewelry. Through many methods of drying and pressing flowers and foliage, they challenge the economic and environmental impacts of the retail floral industry by conserving perishables as permanent fixtures of beauty. More info here.