Books Over Drinks with John T. Edge (Hosted by Wright Thompson)

Name: Books Over Drinks with John T. Edge (Hosted by Wright Thompson)
Start: 2025-10-01T18:30:00-05:00
Location: 149 E. Magnolia Avenue, Suite A, Auburn, AL, United States, Alabama 36830

Schedule

Wed, 01 Oct, 2025 at 06:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

149 E. Magnolia Avenue, Suite A, Auburn, AL, United States, Alabama 36830 | Auburn, AL

Join us on Wednesday, October 1, at 6:30 p.m. for Books over Drinks with author John T. Edge and host Wright Thompson as they discuss Edge’s memoir, The House of Smoke.
John T. Edge is the host of the Emmy Award-winning show TrueSouth on the SEC Network, ESPN, Disney, and Hulu. He also writes a restaurant column for Garden & Gun and is the author of The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South, named one of the best books of 2017 by NPR and Publishers Weekly.
In his memoir, House of Smoke, Edge reflects on his personal journey through a South that has both shaped and challenged him. Raised in a home steeped in Lost Cause mythology, he sought to escape his past while reimagining a better, more honest South. As founding director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, he became a leading voice in American food culture—until he found himself denounced by the audience he once guided. Spanning Georgia to Mississippi, House of Smoke is a powerful story of identity, reckoning, and the complicated love of your people and your place.
Your $40 ticket provides you with a pre-ordered copy of The House of Smoke and a glass of wine, John T. will be available to sign books and answer questions.