National Readathon Day is a day dedicated to the joy of reading and giving, when readers everywhere can join together in their local library, school, bookstore, and on social media (#Readathon2016) to read and raise funds in support of literacy.
Two University of South Carolina professors will discuss their new anthology work Found Anew during May's Speaker @ the Center event, discussing how the Palmetto State's rich history continues to inspire artists today. R.
National Book Award-winning author Sherman Alexie will be discussing his life as a writer, including his debut children’s picture book,
Meet this year’s celebrated authors at this daylong event at the Greenville County Public Library on Saturday, May 14, celebrating Southern fiction. Authors’ books will be available for purchase. This program is generously underwritten by the Friends of the Greenville County Library System.
Go back a bit in time and celebrate National Poetry Month with this Statewide Poetry Anthology from the SC Arts Commission, "The Cobra's Apartment is Disaster" from 1978-1979. Here is a selected poem from Tommy Scott Young titled Walking.
Join us on Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at noon for a free lunchtime author talk and book signing with Pat McNeely who will discuss her book, Lincoln, Sherman, Davis and the Lost Confederate Gold. The destinies of President Lincoln, General Sherman, and Confederate President Davis are forever bound to the Lost Confederate Gold, but questions still linger about those astonishing events. Bo
Join us for an evening with Ha Jin, National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize Finalist, on April 28, 2016, from 6pm-8pm at the SC State Museum. Jin sets many of his stories and novels in China, in the fictional Muji City. He has won the National Book Award for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novel, Waiting (1999).
Join us on Thursday, March 24, 2016, from noon to 1:00 p.m.
Have you seen the new Indie SC online catalog of self-published titles! There are now 53 books available to read online. Learn more at http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov/self-e
Join us on Wednesday, March 2, from noon to 1:00 p.m. for Speaker @ the Center, featuring South Carolina author Carla Damron.
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