Barnes & Noble presents Brad's Annual Christmas Reading 2025

“It’s fruitcake weather!” For eightteen years beloved bookseller Brad Craft has been reading aloud Truman Capote’s holiday classic, A Christmas Memory at the bookstore. Please join us Saturday, December 6th, at 6pm for this edition of Brad’s annual reading which will also feature Brad’s book of personal essays, Plates a Christmas Concatenation. Please come out and show your support for a bookstore holiday tradition!

This event is free to attend, though registration is requested through the link provided. Thank you for supporting this local tradition!

Originally published in 1956, A Christmas Memory is a short story based on Capote's childhood in Alabama. It tells of a young boy who lovingly makes fruitcakes from scratch at Christmastime with his elderly cousin. Now an American holiday classic.

Brad Craft is a beloved bookseller with over 30 years of experience. His passion for literature can be seen on his usedbuyer2.0 blog. Brad is also the gifted author and illustrator of Just a Few Clerihews and The Hat and Other Sentimental Essays, and Plates: A Christmas Concatenation.

Truman Capote (1924-1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and the true crime novel In Cold Blood (1966), which he labeled a "non-fiction novel." His works have been adapted into more than 20 films and television dramas.

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