Bigfoot Books & Brews 📚☕️💕 (@bigfootbooks)

So, we made a BIG announcement! After less than a year of being open, we have an EXCITING opportunity to expand. But we know we can’t do it without YOU. So we’ve launched a new Kickstarter campaign, and y’all, it’s already over 30% funded?!? Yall are AMAZING! Will you please consider chipping in whatever you can to help us get to 100% (and hopefully go BEYOND)? 🙏 bigfootbooksnc.com/kickstarter Thank you for all your love and support!! We are deeply grateful. With Big Love, Olyvia and Stephen (daughter and father co-owners, Bigfoot Books & Brews, Marion, NC) #IndieBookstore #IndependentBookstore #Kickstarter #AVL #WNC

Thank you, @David Gate Poet for sharing your words and your wisdom with us! (Posted by permission) #OdeToIndieBookstores #IndieBookstores #IndependentBookstores #DavidGate #Poetry

Best-selling author Kirsten Miller says, “Let books be magical.” She helped us kick off Banned Books Week 2026 with an hour-long virtual conversation via Zoom from her home in Brooklyn. #KirstenMiller #LulaDean #LetBooksBe #BannedBooks #BannedBooksWeek2026

Some days are just not ideal for going out for coffee or to look at books. We have good news for you: There’s a website where you can order all the new books you want, and it helps support independent bookstores like us! It’s called @Bookshop.org, and you can select us from anywhere in the country as your indie bookstore to support! 🙏 #Bookshop #IndieBookstore #IndependentBookstore #AmazonAlternative #SupportUs

Thank you to Anna Caldwell and Diane Zinna for the great event last night for the new book “Letting Grief Speak” — and holding space for communal grieving the loss of #DollyParton. Writing Portal 68 - “Making Art in the Face of F*ck” - Write a piece that weaves together your grief over the day’s current world events and your own grief at the same time. To learn more about Diane’s writings and teaching, including how to join a free Grief Writing Sunday, visit DianeZinna.com. #Grief #CommunalGrief #GriefWritingSunday #DianeZinna

Do you have an INTERESTING family secret or family history? Come join the conversation Saturday 8/15 at 2pm here at Bigfoot Books & Brews! #Geneaology #FamilyHistory #FamilySecrets #AVL #WNC

Congratulations to Vanessa Miller on the release of her new book “The Ladies Hall”! Order it through us in the next 24 hours and SAVE (cheaper than you can get it from Bezos the Billionaire)! 👉 bigfootbooksnc.com/vanessabook #HistoricalFiction #VanessaMiller #TheLadiesHall #OberlinCollege #WNC

David Childers says just pull a few bucks out of your pocket and get those tickets now for tomorrow’s show here in Marion, North Carolina! Tickets in advance 👉 bigfootbooksnc.com/davidchilders #DavidChilders #MarionNC #McDowellCountyNC #WNC #AVL

Freddy Bradburn debuted some new songs here today! It was great. He’ll be back again with the Youth String Band THIS Thursday 7/16 at 7pm and again NEXT SUNDAY 7/19 at 2pm for Sunday Afternoon Songs. Come out and see him this week! #McDowellCountyNC #MarionNC #WNC #LiveMusic #FreddyBradburn

Yes, the book reading stats are abysmal. Which is why reading a book is punk AF. Get counter-cultural, y’all! #Reading #TheAtlantic #Books #BookTok

“PRACTICE MAKES PERMANENT.” Join us next Saturday, July 11 at 2pm for former professional soccer player, Episcopal priest, and author of the new book “The Athlete Devotional: 40 Days of Spiritual Practice,” Rev. Kelsey Davis! RSVP: bigfootbooksnc.com/kelsey #40Days #Devotional #Athletes #WorldCup #Soccer

Paul Wilczynski reads a passage about the Blue Ridge Parkway from his new book “Don’t Move to Asheville: A Ruthlessly Honest Guide That Will Ruin Everywhere Else.” #AshevilleNC #AVL #WNC #BlueRidgeParkway #McDowellCountyNC

Support independent bookstores like ours, not billionaires. Shop for books TODAY on Bookshop.org and select Bigfoot Books & Brews in Marion, NC, as your bookstore to support, and it will help us stay in business! We really appreciate it. 🙏 #PrimeDay #AmazonPrimeWeek #Bookshop #IndieBookstore #IndependentBookstore @Bookshop.org

Melvin Bray reads a passage from his new book “UnLearn InEquity.” Thanks to West Marion Inc. and the Racial Equity Book Club for partnering with us on this great event! #MelvinBray #UnLearnInEquity #MarionNC #WestMarionNC #RacialEquity

Fr. James Martin explains his long-time fascination with Bigfoot and the paranormal—and how it relates to his chosen profession in the Roman Catholic Church. #FatherJamesMartin #WorkInProgress #Bigfoot #Aliens #Paranormal @JamesMartinSJ

Where in the world is the mecca for salamanders? Is it Asia, South America, or … western North Carolina? If you guessed WNC, you would be correct! Dr. Josh Holbrook from Montreat College, author of “The Field Herping Guide” explains. #WNC #Salamanders #Herping #Herps #SalamanderMecca

The Kickstarter campaign has kind of stagnated over the past several days, so we’re calling on all of you to just please share this link and chip in any amount you can now to help get things moving again: bigfootbooksnc.con/kickstarter #IndieBookstore #IndependentBookstore #Kickstarter #AVL #WNC

BIG UPDATE: We ROCKETED past $3K on our way to trying to raise $4.5K. Thanks to the BIG donors, AND we know it’s going to take a lot of smaller pledges to get us to this goal. So thanks to EVERYONE for chipping in ANY amount. And we have cool rewards, y’all! Go check those out!! 👉 bigfootbooksnc.com/kickstarter #IndieBookstore #IndependentBookstore #Kickstarter #AVL #WNC

We raised $2K in 2 days. If we can raise another $2K, we can do THIS! Check it out, y’all!!! Thank you for contributing any amount, even $1, to help us reach this next goal. 🙏 👉 bigfootbooksnc.com/kickstarter #IndieBookstore #IndependentBookstore #Kickstarter #Vinyl #WNC

It would mean SO MUCH to us if you came out to Marion, NC, this Saturday 4/25 for John Pavlovitz AND our BIG announcement about the future of Bigfoot Books & Brews. Don’t miss it! Be there!!! MLITFEST.COM

Our first-ever open mic Poetry Night event was a great success! Thanks to everyone for coming out and reading — and for indulging me in a little full-circle moment of nostalgia as I read the same poem I wrote in the 1990s to memorialize the coffeeshop I was a regular at for poetry readings. 🙏

“Hidden Historian” Heather Leah is coming to Marion THIS SATURDAY 3/14 at 2pm! Learn more & RSVP on our website now to let us know you’re coming: bigfootbooksnc.com/heatherleah #HeatherLeah #HiddenHistorian #RaleighNC #CaryNC #WNC

“A good story changes like everything else …” Thank you, Freddy Bradburn for hosting our first GREAT third Thursday “Songwriter Night” open mic!

WIN TICKETS to see @Saxsquatch in Asheville on Wednesday, February 18! That’s right, we’re giving away two tickets to the show, and the winner will be announced on Wednesday, February 11 (right before Valentine’s Day). Raffle tickets are just $1 each, and proceeds from the raffle will go to support McDowell SAGE 🌈 Good luck!

Did you hear? F. Scott Fitzgerald once slept on the green velvet couch at 124 E. Court St. in downtown Marion. Prove it wrong! We’re putting up a plaque. 😅 #GreatGatsby #FScottFitzgerald #WNC #McDowellCountyNC #MarionNC

When you realize you can do the Nugget Drop on Main Street in Marion, NC, on New Year’s Eve AND go to the Great Gatsby party at Bigfoot Books & Brews right after! #WNC #AVL #MarionNC #McDowellCountyNC #GreatGatsby

Tomorrow (Friday 12/12) night at 7pm, don’t miss Gareth Higgins Author Talk & Book Signing at Bigfoot Books & Brews! Here’s a clip of Gareth talking about one of the film’s that he explores in his latest book “A Whole Life Twelve Films: A Cinematic Journey to a Deeper Spirituality,” co-authord with Catholic spirituality writer Kathleen Norris, “Wonder Woman 1984” (2020): #GarethHiggins #WonderWoman1984 @Mike Morrell

This speech was too powerful not to share! Patricia Smith accepting her 2025 National Book Award for poetry for her book “The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems.” #NationalBookAwards #Poetry #PatriciaSmith

Next Saturday, November 29 - Don’t miss your chance to experience Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas when #1 New York Times best-selling author Megan Shepherd comes to downtown Marion in western NC! FREE public author talk & book signing at Golden Hour (44 Depot St., Marion) at 2pm Private ticketed “meet and greet” at 1pm (same location) Learn more and RSVP now at bigfootbooksnc.com/meganshepherd #MarionNC #McDowellCountyNC #WNC #AVL

Omar El Akkad, winner of the 2025 National Book Award for non-fiction for his book “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” about the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza, speaking at the awards gala in New York City where he accepted the award. #Palestine #FreePalestine #NationalBookAwards #NationalBookAwards2025 #Nonfiction