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Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival presents Bloomsbury Muse

Charleston Library Society 164 King Street, Charleston, United States

Regina Marler, editor of Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell, and Sarah Milroy, curator of the recent Vanessa Bell exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery London, discuss the modernist painter, a pivotal figure in 20th century British art - as innovative as her sister Virginia WoolfRead more

$25

Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival presents The Blue Touch Paper

Historic Dock Street Theatre 135 Church Street, Charleston, SC, United States

David Hare was recently described by the Washington Post as "the premier political dramatist writing in English." His stage plays include the Tony Award nominated Plenty, Racing Demon, and Skylight, and his screenplays include Damage, The Hours, The Reader, and Denial. His memoir, The Blue Touch Paper, is a frank account ofRead more

$25

College of Charleston School of the Arts presents Charleston Music Fest

Albert Simons Center Recital Hall 54 St. Phillip Street , Charleston , SC, United States

Housed in the College of Charleston School of the Arts, Charleston Music Fest will present internationally acclaimed soprano Zoia Rozkok and esteemed faculty duo Natalia Khoma and Volydymyr Vynnytsky for a night of intimate chamber music and operatic arias. AnRead more

$10 – $25

Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival presents Negroland

Charleston Library Society 164 King Street, Charleston, United States

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, United States

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, SC, United States

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

Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival presents Renaissance Muse

Charleston Library Society 164 King Street, Charleston, United States

Ramie Targoff's biography of Vittoria Colonna is a timely study of the first published female Italian poet, a close friend of Michelangelo. With a novelist's flair she brings this remarkable and influential woman to life, while also dissecting an entireRead more

$25

Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival presents The Vanity Fair Diaries

Historic Dock Street Theatre 135 Church Street, Charleston, SC, United States

One of journalism's legendary editors, Tina Brown kept diaries throughout her eight years as editor in chief of Vanity Fair. The result is an insightful, intimate, fascinating and laugh-out-loud-funny social history of the excessive eighties. Tina Brown is founder of theRead more

$25

Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival presents Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power

Charleston Library Society 164 King Street, Charleston, United States

In an illuminating exercise, Stephen Greenblatt, author of Will in the World, interrogates the Collected Works to construct a checklist of tyranny based on Shakespeare's plays. Can he demonstrate that the power dynamics in Shakespeare's dramas have contemporary resonance? Stephen Greenblatt, HarvardRead more

$25

Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival presents To Catch a King

Historic Dock Street Theatre 135 Church Street, Charleston, SC, United States

Historian Charles Spencer brings to life one of the greatest escapes in British history: an action-packed story of Royalists versus Cromwell's Republicans, recounting how the future Charles II fled from the men who had beheaded his father, Charles I. ChairedRead more

$50