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Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival presents Negroland

Charleston Library Society 164 King Street, Charleston

Margo Jefferson's memoir, Negroland, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. A deeply felt meditation on race, sex, class and American culture, it describes the contradictions of her comparatively privileged upbringing among Chicago's upper-class Black community. She is alsoRead more

$25

Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival presents Circe

Charleston Library Society 164 King Street, Charleston

Madeline Miller's Circe - an uncompromising portrait of a super-heroine who wields divine power - makes Homer pertinent to the 21st century. The novel has garnered praise equal to her previous work of fiction based on Homer's epic poem, the Orange PrizeRead more

$25

Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival presents Chronicling Conflict

Historic Dock Street Theatre 135 Church Street, Charleston

John Avlon, author and Senior Political Analyst at CNN, Elliot Ackerman, novelist and former Marine who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Lynsey Addario, photojournalist who has documented every major conflict of her generation, discuss the desire to communicate andRead more

$50