Name: Joseph Coulson's THE PRINCE OF MEMPHIS In-Store Event And Book Signing
Start: 2026-09-16T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-09-16T20:30:00-07:00
Location: Mrs Dalloway's

Joseph Coulson's THE PRINCE OF MEMPHIS In-Store Event And Book Signing

Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore

Elvis’ long-lost son faces a sinister conspiracy in Coulson's offbeat novel of alternative music history

Mrs Dalloway's

Join us at Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore on Wednesday, September 16 at 7:00 PM when novelist, poet, playwright, and musician Joseph Coulson comes to the store to share his new novel The Prince of Memphis. Joseph will be joined in conversation by Gary Shapiro and will sign copies of his book after the presentation.<a href="https://mrsdalloways.com/book/9781960865441" title="https://mrsdalloways.com/book/9781960865441" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Click here</a> to preorder a copy of The Prince of Memphis.Aron Beale is the unacknowledged son of Elvis—and a Black mother, Clara Mae Beale—the result of a chance meeting at New York’s Warwick Hotel in the summer of ’56. Few know Aron’s secret, and his mid-life plan to publish a revealing memoir brings out lawyers from Graceland, religious fanatics, and death threats aiming to silence him. But his decades-old, chart-topping song, “Midnight Candy,” catches the ear of a young journalist, Odelia Jane Phillips, triggering an unlikely love affair and a partnership in writing and adventure—a shared mission to confront and expose the conspirators who would bury Aron’s controversial book.Grounded in pop culture, The Prince of Memphis immerses readers in a dreamlike journey from Detroit to Las Vegas to the Birthplace of Rock ’n’ Roll. Along the way we encounter a haunted jukebox that plays whatever it wants (and mostly it wants “The King”), a “Hall of Fame junkyard” of Elvis memorabilia, and a tattooed lady who gives tours of her body—tours that end with the gates of Graceland. As Aron and Odelia’s relationship collides with the magnetic pull of Aron’s past, they find themselves on a musical odyssey, racing through the shadowlands bordering black and white and reckoning all the while with an absent father who is endlessly present.JOSEPH COULSON is a novelist, poet, playwright, and musician. His first novel, The Vanishing Moon, was selected for the Barnes &amp; Noble Great New Writers series and won the Book of the Year Award in Literary Fiction from ForeWord Magazine. His second novel, Of Song and Water, was a finalist for the Great Lakes Book Award. Coulson holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He worked for several years at the Great Books Foundation in Chicago, first as Editorial Director and then, after a ten-year hiatus, as President. He is now President and Chief Academic Officer at Harrison Middleton University. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area.A veteran broadcaster and producer, GARY SHAPIRO has been hosting radio programming across Northern California since 1976. He currently hosts and produces several shows on Santa Cruz's KSQD 90.7 FM, the author interview show From the Bookshelf and the music shows Shapiro At Large, Shapiro at Night, and The Beatles Fan Club. THIS EVENT is free but registration is requested. Registration ends at 6:00 pm on September16.BECAUSE SEATING is limited, please register only if you plan to attend.DUE TO SPACE limitations, we may not be able to accommodate every person at an event, so early registration is encouraged.WALK-INS will be accommodated only if space allows.WE ASK that attendees arrive between 6:45 and 7:00 PM for the event.PLEASE leave your non-support companion animals at home.OUR shared restrooms are not accessible after 6:30 PM, please plan accordingly.

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