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SUMMARY:4th Annual Lowcountry Book Club Convention (Free Virtual Event!)
DESCRIPTION:Technical College of the Lowcountry (partial) \n\nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host the 4th annual Lowcountry Book Club Convention as a live-streamed event on Saturday\, September 12—featuring New York Times best-selling novelists Grady Hendrix (The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires) and Wiley Cash (The Last Ballad); actress\, counselor\, and author Ruthie Landis (Beyond the Book Club); and a trio of authors selected by Wiley Cash’s Open Canon Book Club: Lori Horvitz (The Girls of Unusually)\, Silas House (Southernmost)\, and Crystal Hana Kim (If You Leave Me). \nThe Lowcountry Book Club Convention is presented in partnership with NeverMore Books and SCETV Lowcountry\, and made possible by the generous support of the Pulpwood Queens Books Club\, the largest book club in the US. \nBroadcast from the SCETV Lowcountry studio in Beaufort\, the live-streamed video of the Lowcountry Book Club Convention will be freely available on the Pat Conroy Literary Center’s Facebook page with the recorded videos posted afterwards to the Conroy Center’s YouTube channel. Limited in-person attendance for this event is now sold out.  \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \n \nSCHEDULE OF EVENTS \n10:30 to Noon: Ruthie Landis\, author of Beyond the Book Club: We Are the Books We Must Read\, will lead an interactive workshop for our in-person and online participants to help enrich their reading experiences as members of a literary community. Landis’s workshop will also incorporate a discussion of Pat Conroy’s 1972 teaching memoir The Water Is Wide. \nNoon to 1:00 p.m.: Lunch break\, catered by Debbi Covington for our in-studio audience. (No live-streaming at this time.) \n1:00 to 2:30 p.m.: New York Times best-selling novelist and winner of the 2019 Pat Conroy Legacy Award Wiley Cash will discuss his innovative Open Canon Book Club in conversation with a trio of writers selected for the Open Canon (participating remotely): memoirist Lori Horvitz (The Girls of Unusually) and novelists Silas House (Southernmost) and Crystal Hana Kim (If You Leave Me). \n3:00 to 4:00 p.m.: New York Times best-selling horror writer Grady Hendrix will discuss his new novel The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires\, inspired by his mother’s long-running book club in Mt. Pleasant\, South Carolina\, where he was raised. (Hendrix will be presenting remotely.) \nBooks by the presenters will be available through the Beaufort-based independent bookstore NeverMore Books (www.nevermorebooks.com). \nABOUT OUR PRESENTERS\nWinner of the 2019 Pat Conroy Legacy Award of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance\, Wiley Cash is the New York Times bestselling author of three novels\, most recently The Last Ballad. He has led dozens of writing workshops around the country\, including for the Pat Conroy Literary Center. Cash currently serves as writer-in-residence at the University of North Carolina-Asheville. In September 2018\, he launched the Open Canon Book Club to highlight the voices and contributions of a diverse group of writers and foster greater understanding and empathy through their portrayals of the American experience. www.wileycash.com/opencanon \nRaised in Mt. Pleasant\, South Carolina\, novelist and screenwriter Grady Hendrix is the author of The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires. He is also the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Paperbacks from Hell\, and the Shirley Jackson and Locus Award nominated author of Horrorstör\, My Best Friend’s Exorcism\, and We Sold Our Souls. His writing has also been featured in Playboy\, the Village Voice\, and Variety. www.gradyhendrix.com \n  \nLori Horvitz is the author of the memoir The Girls from Unusually (winner of the 2016 IPPY Award for Autobiography/Memoir and the 2015 USA Best Book Award for Gay & Lesbian Nonfiction\, and a finalist for the 2015 IndieFab Book of the Year Award for Autobiography & Memoir). Her writing has appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies including South Dakota Review\, Southeast Review\, Hotel Amerika\, and Chattahoochee Review. A professor of literature and language at UNC Asheville\, Horvitz also directs the Women\, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. www.lorihorvitz.com \nSilas House is the author of five novels\, most recently Southernmost (winner of the 2019 Judy Gaines Young Award and the 2019 Weatherford Award for Fiction\, and a finalist for the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction). His book for middle-grade readers\, Same Sun Here\, was a finalist for the E. B. White Read-Aloud award. A frequent contributor to the New York Times and a former commentator for NPR’s All Things Considered\, House is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. www.silas-house.com \nCrystal Hana Kim’s debut novel If You Leave Me was named a best book of 2018 by the Washington Post\, Booklist\, Literary Hub\, Cosmopolitan\, and others. It was also longlisted for the Center for Fiction Novel Prize. Kim was a 2017 PEN America Dau Short Story Prize winner and her work has been published in Guernica\, Elle Magazine\, Paris Review\, and elsewhere. She is a Teach For America alum and has taught elementary school\, high school\, and collegiate writing. She currently teaches at Columbia University and is a contributing editor at Apogee Journal. www.crystalhanakim.com \nAward-winning workshop designer\, body-centered psychotherapist and coach\, writer\, teacher\, actress\, and director Ruthie Landis has been designing powerful and interactive group experiences for over thirty years. Among the many disciplines she practices\, she is a master of the Enneagram\, and uses its wisdom in nearly every aspect of her creative\, professional\, and personal life. She is the author of Beyond the Book Club: We Are the Books We Must Read and Acting Lessons for Life: Play the Scenes of Your Life with Intention\, Presence\, and Pure Potential. www.ruthienergy.com
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/4th-annual-lowcountry-book-club-convention-free-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion,Reader Meet Writer,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:Thrill in the 'Ville Book Club: Throwback Thriller with Silence of the Lambs!
DESCRIPTION:For Summerville lovers of mystery and thrillers\, our Thrill in the ‘Ville Book Club meets on the second Tuesday of each month\, September 8th this month! All are welcome… \n\nNext up is a throwback thriller choice to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the nearly legendary The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris\, featuring the extraordinary Hannibal Lecter. \nThe twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling classic\, now with a note by author Thomas Harris revealing his inspiration for Hannibal Lecter. \nA serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname–Buffalo Bill–is stalking particular women. He has a purpose\, but no one can fathom it\, for the bodies are discovered in different states. Clarice Starling\, a young trainee at the F.B.I. Academy\, is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford\, Chief of the Bureau’s Behavioral Science section. Her assignment: to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter\, a brilliant psychiatrist and grisly killer now kept under close watch in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Lecter’s insight into the minds of murderers could help track and capture Buffalo Bill. \nSmart and attractive\, Starling is shaken to find herself in a strange\, intense relationship with the acutely perceptive Lecter. His cryptic clues launch Clarice on a search that every reader will find startling\, harrowing\, and totally compelling. \nAn ingenious\, masterfully written novel\, The Silence of the Lambs is a classic of suspense and storytelling. \n\nCopies are available at Main Street Reads at the 10% book club discount price. Prefer to order online? CLICK HERE
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/thrill-in-the-ville-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Lee Smith Blue Marlin (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join our special Reader Meet Writer virtual event on Tuesday\, April 21st at 4:00 p.m. \nBorn in the small coal-mining town of Grundy\, Virginia\, Lee Smith began writing stories at the age of nine and selling them for a nickel apiece. Since then\, she has written seventeen works of fiction\, including Fair and Tender Ladies\, Oral History\, and\, most recently\, Guests on Earth. She has received many awards\, including the North Carolina Award for Literature and an Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her novel The Last Girls was a New York Times bestseller as well as winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. She lives in Hillsborough\, North Carolina\, with her husband\, the writer Hal Crowther. \nNow comes this gem of a novella\, which Smith names one of her favorite works of her illustrious career. \nLee Smith’s masterful storytelling manifests in this jewel of a novella that follows Jenny\, an adventurous thirteen-year-old\, down to Key West for a patched-up family vacation following the discovery of her father’s affair. Jenny confronts the frailty of family life while vying for the attention of dreamy actor Tony Curtis and even a role in his latest movie. \nAvailable for the first time as a stand-alone novella\, this book centers on the Blue Marlin Motel\, where Jenny\, her beautiful socialite mother\, and chastened father share their sunny days with movie stars who are in town to film the 1959 classic\, Operation Petticoat. Blue Marlin showcases this iconic writer at her best: sharp characterizations\, perfect pitch\, generous humor\, and a quietly profound understanding of human nature.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-lee-smith-blue-marlin/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Discussion,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:Thrill in the 'Ville: Thriller & Mystery Book Club
DESCRIPTION:For mystery and thriller readers\, we meet on the third Tuesday of each month. Our first stunning read was The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides\, and we’re following that up with a psychological thriller titled\, A Nearly Normal Family by M. T. Edwardsson. Those ordering/purchasing the book from Main Street Reads will enjoy a special price of $22.99 (normally $26.99). \nHailed as a stunning psychological thriller\, A Nearly Normal Family is told from three differing viewpoints – father\, mother and daughter – and asks the question: ‘What would you do if your child was accused of murder?’. This is a thriller everyone is talking about this summer! \nUpcoming Meetings: \n\nNovember 19\, 2019\nDecember 17\, 2019\n\nHave a book you’d like on the list? Let us know!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/thrill-in-the-ville-thriller-mystery-book-club/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Thriller Book Club Meeting: The Silent Patient
DESCRIPTION:For mystery and thriller readers\, we meet on the third Tuesday of each month\, and we’ve chosen as our first selection\, to discuss at this month’s meeting on July 16th\, The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides. We’ve lowered the price of the book at the store to $25 if you’re looking for a copy of your own! \nWe have book club questions ready to talk about that evening as a jumping off point. If you want to look ahead\, CLICK HERE (but fair warning on the spoiler alerts!)
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/thriller-book-club-meeting-the-silent-patient/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
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