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Love cookbooks, book clubs, and dinner parties? Us too. We’re excited to host the next meeting of Cook the Book, a cookb...
04/30/2026

Love cookbooks, book clubs, and dinner parties? Us too.

We’re excited to host the next meeting of Cook the Book, a cookbook book club that’s also a dinner party, with founder, Kelsey Jones.

WHAT: a cookbook book club and dinner party wrapped into one. Guests will select a recipe from the book, prepare it, and bring it to the dinner to share. The dinner party takes place at Golden Hour Books.

WHEN: Sunday, June 7 at 5pm

WHERE: Golden Hour Books

BOOK: The Taste of Country Cooking, 50th Anniversary Edition by Edna Lewis

COST:
Ticket option 1: $47 (for one person—includes the price of the cookbook + fun dinner vibes)
Ticket option 2: $57 (for two people—includes one cookbook, fun vibes)

Grab your spot on our website: www.goldenhourbooks.net/events

We can’t wait to share a meal and conversation with you 🥂

Che serata! We’re so honored to have spent an evening with , of .indy, and all of you over at . This convo covered it a...
04/24/2026

Che serata! We’re so honored to have spent an evening with , of .indy, and all of you over at .

This convo covered it all— Roman history, the half-life of food trends, Italian influencers, under the radar wine regions, and certain ingredients which will never make it to our shore.

Sad you missed this night and want to snag a copy of the gorgeous ROME cookbook? We’ve got you covered. Swing by the shop for a signed copy and brush up on your Roman history while perfecting your Pizzette Rosse. Be the force to be reckoned with.

Thanks again to the beautiful Solely Wine for hosting, Nick Detrich for being such a thoughtful interviewer, and Katie Parla for including us on her tour. Grazie, all around.

We’re really excited for this one, folks ✨Join us on Tuesday, June 9 for the launch of Shasta Grant’s debut novel, When ...
04/22/2026

We’re really excited for this one, folks ✨

Join us on Tuesday, June 9 for the launch of Shasta Grant’s debut novel, When We Were Feral (Regal House Publishing). Grant will be in conversation with author Sarah Layden.

Shasta Grant grew up in New Hampshire and now lives in Indianapolis. An Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellow, Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest winner, and recipient of writing residencies from Hedgebrook and The Kerouac Project, she holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of the chapbook Gather Us Up and Bring Us Home and her stories and essays have appeared in cream city review, Epiphany, wigleaf, and elsewhere. When We Were Feral is her debut novel.

Sarah Layden is the author of Imagine Your Life Like This, stories; Trip Through Your Wires, a novel; and The Story I Tell Myself About Myself, a flash fiction chapbook. She is co-author with Bryan Furuness of The Invisible Art of Literary Editing. Her short fiction appears in Boston Review, Blackbird, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Best Microfiction 2020, and elsewhere, with recent nonfiction in The Washington Post, Poets & Writers, Salon, River Teeth, and The Millions. She is an Associate Professor of English at Indiana University Indianapolis.

Please RSVP at the link in our profile or on our website. We can’t wait to see you there!

Consuming lots of historical/social science/resistance reads these days? Us too. Join us for this next meeting of Critic...
04/17/2026

Consuming lots of historical/social science/resistance reads these days? Us too.

Join us for this next meeting of Critical History, a semi-regular book club exploring history through untold perspectives. The book for May’s meeting is The Ground Breaking by Scott Ellsworth, available both in store and online.

RSVP through the link in our bio or on our Eventbrite page. We can’t wait to see you there!

Looking for community? Camaraderie? Great conversations centered on great books (often outside of the traditional “book ...
04/16/2026

Looking for community? Camaraderie? Great conversations centered on great books (often outside of the traditional “book club” picks)?

We’re proud to offer 7 monthly book clubs (and 2 semi-regular ones!) within Golden Hour, and think they represent what makes any bookstore an important part of any neighborhood.

Today we’re highlighting our Short Story Club, hosted by GHB friend, regular, and all around Midtown hero, Kirsten Eamon-Shine.

“The Short Story Club starts with a handful of stories and the idea that a few pages are enough to spark a real conversation. Each month focuses on a single collection — sometimes one author, sometimes an anthology.

We all come as we are. Our group is attentive, open to interpretation and genuinely curious. We like diverse genres, voices and perspectives, always. Snacks fuel each meeting.”

Head on over to Eventbrite to sign up for any of our monthly book clubs. We can’t wait to see you there ✨

May is fast approaching and our book clubs, as usual, are reading widely. Want to join? Head to the link in our profile ...
04/15/2026

May is fast approaching and our book clubs, as usual, are reading widely.

Want to join? Head to the link in our profile to RSVP for the club of your choice (we’ve opened up lots of seats in each club, but will always keep the intimate vibe).

And don’t forget: book club members get 20% off book club books, so be sure to tell your bookseller. Can’t make it to the store but want to read along? Head to our website and enter the code BOOKCLUB at checkout for 10% off book club selections.

We can’t wait to see you there.

Mark your calendars! On Thursday, May 7th is back at Golden Hour Books, and it’s going to be a good one. Join us as som...
04/14/2026

Mark your calendars! On Thursday, May 7th is back at Golden Hour Books, and it’s going to be a good one.

Join us as some of Indy’s finest actors perform 3 short stories in one swift, delicious hour. Stories and their authors will be publicized after each event.

WHAT TO EXPECT:
* A 1 hour performance by some of our city’s best professional actors in an energetic, non-stodgy atmosphere
* PG-13 and older content
* Stories selected by the creative team.
* FREE ADMISSION

Reserve your seat at the link in our bio or on our website, and visit www.naptownstoryhour.com for more information

We can’t wait to see you there!

Join us! Independent Bookstore Day is Saturday, April 25, and we’ll be celebrating our thriving bookstore community with...
04/11/2026

Join us! Independent Bookstore Day is Saturday, April 25, and we’ll be celebrating our thriving bookstore community with:

👁‍🗨 10am-1pm: Complimentary .mind.coffee coffee
👁‍🗨 12-3PM: BOOK SWAP—bring your best books for our first swap of the year (weather permitting) 📚
👁‍🗨 12-4PM: Flowers! Match your book stack with the perfect bouquet from flower pop up 💐
👁‍🗨 New merch drop (t-shirts and totes) from our friends
👁‍🗨 GHB gift card raffle 🎟️
👁‍🗨 Good tunes, good people, good hanging throughout the day (because hey, this is Midtown)

We can’t wait to see you there ✨

Our topics table has turned for April, and we’re celebrating national poetry month and the upcoming Record Store Day (co...
04/09/2026

Our topics table has turned for April, and we’re celebrating national poetry month and the upcoming Record Store Day (come see our neighbors on April 18th!) and Independent Bookstore Day (April 25 right here at GHB—details coming soon!) In other words, you’ll probably just want to camp out on the 52nd/College corner with a tote bag and all your friends.

Swing by the shop to see what we’ve got in store, and we hope we see your face during this month’s celebrations 🎉

Join us on Friday, April 24 for Golden Hour conversation with authors Jill Christman and Molly Ferguson. They will be di...
04/06/2026

Join us on Friday, April 24 for Golden Hour conversation with authors Jill Christman and Molly Ferguson. They will be discussing their new books, The Heart Folds Early and Bansheese, Hags, and Changelings.

Jill Christman’s third memoir, The Heart Folds Early, is about what it means to make a choice—and was released by the University of Nebraska Press on March 1, 2026. Christman’s other books include If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays, Darkroom: A Family Exposure, and Borrowed Babies: Apprenticing for Motherhood. A 2020 NEA Literature fellow, she teaches at Ball State University and serves as co-editor of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and editor of Beautiful Things (a weekly online magazine of micro essays—subscribe for free!). Visit her at jillchristman.com.

Molly Ferguson is an Associate Professor of English at Ball State University, where she teaches postcolonial literature and gender studies. She has published articles in journals such as Irish University Review, Éire-Ireland, the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Banshees, Hags, and Changelings: Feminist Folklore Transformations in Irish Writing (Syracuse UP, 2026) is her first monograph.

RSVP at the link in our profile. We can’t wait to see you there!

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