This fall’s Speaker @ the Center schedule is full of South Carolina authors that you won’t want to miss!  All programs are free and open to the public and authors will be available to sell and sign books.

 

This fall’s Speaker @ the Center sessions featuring new releases from the University of South Carolina Press will take place from noon to 1:00 pm in room 309 of the administrative building of the South Carolina State Library located at 1430 Senate Street.  Attendees are encouraged to bring a bag lunch.

Fall 2008 Schedule of Authors

Thursday, Aug 28 - Bob Fulton & Alex Hawkins
Tuesday, Sept 9 - Benjamin Franklin V
Thursday, Oct 16 - Vernon Burton & Bo Moore
Thursday, Nov 6 - Jim Piecuch
Thursday, Dec 11 - Mary & Martin Schaller

Thursday, Aug 28 - Bob Fulton & Alex Hawkins
Bob Fulton: My Career My Life (Foreword by Steve Spurrier) Reflections from the sportscaster's booth, as told by the Voice of the Gamecocks.
Cookin' with Cocky II: All New Recipes! by Charlie and Alex Hawkins. More than 300 original recipes from a host of familiar Gamecock tailgate gourmets.

Tuesday, Sept 9 - Ben Franklin
Jazz and Blues Musicians of South Carolina: Interviews with Jabbo, Dizzy, Drink, and Others by Benjamin Franklin V.  An oral history of musical genres from the Palmetto State musicians who helped define the sounds.

Thursday, Oct 16 - Vernon Burton & Bo Moore
Toward the Meeting of the Waters: Currents in the Civil Rights Movement of South Carolina during the Twentieth Century  Edited by Winfred B. Moore Jr. and Orville Vernon Burton. A provocative look into civil rights progress in the Palmetto State from activists, statesmen, and historians

Thursday, Nov 6 - Jim Piecuch
Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, and Slaves in the American Revolutionary South, 1775–1782 by Jim Piecuch.  A new understanding of the wartime roles and fates of three groups who stood with Britain against colonial rebels.

Thursday, Dec 11 - Mary & Martin Schaller
Soldiering for Glory:  The Civil War Letters of Colonel Frank Schaller, Twenty-second Mississippi Infantry Edited by Mary W. Schaller and Martin N. Schaller. An ambitious German commander's views of military life and courtship in the Confederacy.

This free lunchtime program is presented by the South Carolina Center for the Book, the South Carolina affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book. The SC Center for the Book is a cooperative project of the SC State Library, the University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science, and The Humanities Council SC.  For more information about Speaker @ the Center, visit www.sccenterforthebook.org.  For more information about featured authors and USC Press, visit www.sc.edu/uscpress/.