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SUMMARY:An Evening with Mark Larson\, Award-winning Educator and Author
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 29\, 2024 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nRegistration: Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-525-1066.\nVenue: Beaufort Bookstore (2127 Boundary St\, #15\, Beaufort) \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe Beaufort Bookstore and the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with Mark Larson\, award-winning educator and author of Working in the 21st Century: An Oral History of American Work in a Time of Social and Economic Transformation\, on Monday\, April 29\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Beaufort Bookstore (2127 Boundary St\, #15\, Beaufort). \nLarson will be in conversation with two of the interview subjects of his book\, Dr. N’kia J. Campbell\, officer of academic initiatives for the Beaufort County School District\, and Bradley Tarrance\, principal of Robert Smalls Leadership Academy. \nFree and open to the public. Books will be available for sale and signing. Please call to reserve your seat in advance: 843-525-1066. \nAbout the Book\nEsquire magazine has named Working in the 21st Century as One of the Best Books of 2024 (so far). \nFrom nurses and teachers to wildland firefighters and funeral directors—this oral history offers an intimate\, honest\, and illuminating collection of interviews that reveal what it’s like to work in America at this historic and volatile moment in time. \nAuthor Mark Larson sits down with more than one hundred workers from across the socioeconomic spectrum as they share their experiences with work and what it has meant in their lives—the good\, the bad\, the mundane\, and the profound. Doulas\, firefighters\, chefs\, hairstylists\, executives\, actors\, stay-at-home parents\, and so many more talk about what they do all day and how it aligns (or doesn’t) with what they want to be doing with their lives. The pandemic\, the ensuing “Great Resignation\,” and the current reckonings with racial justice are among the forces that are now upending and reshaping our longstanding relationships with work. Larson’s interviews display how these forces collide in the lives of average Americans as they tell their own stories with passion\, heartbreak\, and\, ultimately\, hope. \nWorking in the 21st Century asks why we show up—or don’t—to the jobs we’ve chosen\, and how the upheaval of the past few years has changed how we perceive the work we do. It will be released to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Studs Terkel’s 1974 classic Working. \n“Mark Larson’s superb and robust oral storytelling brings new light to the life of work. His book explores the intricacies of people working in these 21st-century times and shows that while work has been transformed\, it is also becoming more relevant and powerful than ever.”—Laura Washington\, Chicago Tribune contributing columnist and ABC7 Chicago political analyst \n“Mark Larson appeared in one of Studs Terkel’s books and is clearly an admirer of America’s 20th-century storyteller. While Working in the 21st Century celebrates the 50th anniversary of Studs’s Working\, the book\, through its diversity and clarity\, portrays both the similarities and differences of work 50 years later. Larson is a wonderful oral historian and the stories he tells depict the realities of work at the present time. His interviews and writing bring alive the breadth and depth of what it means to live in 2024.”—Alan Wieder\, author of Studs Terkel: Politics\, Culture\, but Mostly Conversation \nAbout the Author\nMark Larson is a Chicago-based writer and educator who holds a doctorate in educational leadership. Larson has worked at Evanston Township High School\, the Field Museum\, Lincoln Park Zoo\, and National Louis University. \nHe is the author of two books on education and Ensemble: An Oral History of Chicago Theater\, for which he conducted over 300 interviews with Chicago theater artists\, past and present. He lives in Chicago with his wife\, Mary. They have twin daughters and twin grandsons. \n  \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-mark-larson-award-winning-educator-and-author/
LOCATION:Beaufort Bookstore\, 2127 Boundary St\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Quitman Marshall\, author of Swampitude
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, November 27\, 2023 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nRegistration: Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-525-1066.\nVenue: Beaufort Bookstore | 2127 Boundary St. #15\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nBeaufort Bookstore and the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with poet and writer Quitman Marshall\, author of Swampitude: Escapes with the Congaree\, on Monday\, November 27\, at 5:00 p.m. at the Beaufort Bookstore (2127 Boundary St #15\, Beaufort). \nThis event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-525-1066. \nABOUT Swampitude\nA Finalist for the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize \n“Swampitude is the kind of book I look for…. I love its mix of the land and the personal and the philosophical. It’s marvelous….”–Joe Mackall\, editor\, River Teeth Journal \nSwampitude: Escapes with the Congaree explores and meditates upon the social\, literary\, historical\, personal\, ecological\, psychological\, and political meanings of a swamp: swamps in general\, and a particular swamp\, the Congaree in the center of South Carolina\, which has been designated a United Nations Biosphere Reserve and is now Congaree National Park. \nA magical place of escape and fecundity\, the Congaree Swamp\, emblematic of all such often forbidding terrains\, is the largest old-growth river bottom forest in the United States. It is in the American South and has filtered much of that region’s history. The Congaree is also lucky to have gathered an environmental movement\, escaped the fate of most similar wetlands\, and to continue to flood\, drain\, and provide refuge for all creatures in need of it. This book celebrates the survival\, the stories\, and the continuance of such places. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nBorn in South Carolina\, Quitman Marshall grew up in the swamp. He has published five books of poetry\, including You Were Born One Time (2014)\, which won the SC Poetry Archives Book Prize. A winner of the Writers Exchange Award sponsored by Poets and Writers\, Inc.\, and the founding coordinator of the Literary Series at the Spoleto Festival\, USA\, he has lived in Barcelona\, Washington\, DC\, Amherst\, MA\, New York City\, the suburbs of Paris\, and presently in Beaufort\, SC\, with his family. He works as a writer\, editor\, translator\, and teacher. \nPeggy Peattie is a multiple award-winning photo-journalist with 40 years experience. She worked for a decade in Los Angeles before joining The State newspaper in SC. There she published Down in Dixie\, a documentary of the racial tensions around the confederate flag. Back in San Diego\, she concentrates on stories of the border with Mexico and the unhoused community. \n  \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-quitman-marshall-author-of-swampitude/
LOCATION:Beaufort Bookstore\, 2127 Boundary St\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Kerry Peresta\, Author of The Torching
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday July 19\, 2023 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nRegistration: Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-525-1066.\nVenue: Beaufort Bookstore | 2127 Boundary St. #15\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nBeaufort Bookstore and the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with suspense novelist Kerry Peresta\, author of The Torching (book 3 in the Olivia Callahan series)\, on Wednesday\, July 19\, at 5:00 p.m. at the Beaufort Bookstore (2127 Boundary St #15\, Beaufort). \nThis event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-525-1066. \nABOUT The Torching\n“Kerry Peresta has done it again\, giving us Olivia Callahan\, a complex heroine\, who is strong\, yet vulnerable\, clear-headed one moment\, lost in the terrifying fog of traumatic brain injury the next. In THE TORCHING\, we get to ride along as Olivia battles to rebuild\, literally and figuratively\, her life and her home\, while her murky past continues to throw shadows over her present and future. Tightly written\, this one’s a heart-pounding page-turner from beginning to end.”–Annette Dashofy\, award-winning and USA Today bestselling author of the Zoe Cham \nThree years ago\, Olivia Callahan endured an assault that resulted in a devastating brain injury. She survived\, but she couldn’t remember anything about her life or who she was. Now\, she’s determined to build a bridge between the past she lost and the life she must reclaim. \nWhen Olivia crosses paths with Private Investigator Tom Stark\, she is drawn to the investigative field\, and becomes his intern. She finds a heavily redacted\, forty-five-year-old file locked in his desk drawer that mentions her mother as a young woman. Why had her mentor hidden the file from her\, and why had he never mentioned a case involving her mother? \nAs Olivia moves forward with her fledgling career\, a string of mysterious fires moves through the community\, puzzling the Baltimore Arson Investigative Unit. One of the fires strikes Olivia’s beloved farmhouse in rural Maryland. Now\, in addition to uncovering the secrets bound within the redacted file\, she becomes convinced that the fires happening around the area are disturbing calling cards…and they’re meant for her. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nKerry Peresta is the author of the Olivia Callahan Suspense series. Kerry spent thirty years in advertising as an account manager\, creative director\, copywriter\, and editor. She began writing full-time in 2009 as a newspaper humor columnist. \nHer books feature strong\, quirky\, women who wrestle with personal choices that result in dangerous and often bizarre situations. She is a member of Sisters in Crime\, Mystery Writers of America\, South Carolina Writers Association\, Island Writers Network\, and a presenter for the Pat Conroy Literary Center. Kerry and her husband live in Hilton Head Island\, South Carolina. www.kerryperesta.net. \n  \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-kerry-peresta-author-of-the-torching/
LOCATION:Beaufort Bookstore\, 2127 Boundary St\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Polly Stewart\, Author of The Good Ones\, in Conversation with Dana Ridenour
DESCRIPTION:Thursday June 29\, 2023 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nRegistration: Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-525-1066.\nVenue: Beaufort Bookstore | 2127 Boundary St. #15\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe Beaufort Bookstore\, in partnership with the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center\, will host an evening with novelist Polly Stewart\, author of The Good Ones\, in conversation with retired FBI special agent turned thriller writer Dana Ridenour. This free event will be held on Thursday\, June 29\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at 2127 Boundary St.\, Ste 15. Books will be available for sale and signing. Call Beaufort Bookstore to reserve your seat: 843-525-1066. \n“Polly Stewart’s The Good Ones is a fantastic achievement. A classic Southern Gothic tale told through the prism of modern-day sensibilities. Not to be missed.”—S. A. Cosby\, New York Times bestselling author of Razorblade Tears \n“Smart\, dark\, and suspenseful\, The Good Ones skillfully navigates the sharp edges of small-town secrets that cut deep. A beautifully written mystery that’ll keep you guessing til the end.”—Laura McHugh\, award-winning author of What’s Done in Darkness \nABOUT The Good Ones\nThe last time Nicola Bennett saw Lauren Ballard she was scraping a key along the side of a new cherry-red Chevy Silverado. That was the night before her friend mysteriously vanished from her home\, leaving a bloodstained washcloth and signs of a struggle—as well as her grieving husband and young daughter—behind. \nNow\, nearly twenty years later\, Nicola\, newly unemployed and still haunted by the disappearance of her childhood friend\, is returning to her Appalachian hometown. For Nicola\, Tyndall County has remained frozen in time. Everywhere she turns she’s reminded of Lauren. Yet shockingly\, her former friends and neighbors have all moved on. Drawn to stories of missing girls\, Nicola obsessively searches the internet\, hoping to discover a clue to Lauren’s ultimate fate. \nDriven by a desperate need to know what happened to her friend\, Nicola takes a job in her hometown\, determined to uncover any bit of information\, any small clue\, that can help. Deep down she knows the answers are tucked in the hollows and valleys of this small Blue Ridge county. As secrets come to light and the truth begins to unravel\, will Nicola finally find release and break free of the past—or lose herself completely to unanswered questions from her adolescence? \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nPolly Stewart is the author of The Good Ones\, forthcoming from Harper Books in June 2023. As Mary Stewart Atwell\, she’s also the author of Wild Girls (Scribner 2012). Her essays have appeared in the New York Times and Poets & Writers\, among other publications. She runs the Craft of Crime Fiction interview series\, formerly published on Fiction Writers Review and now appearing on Instagram. \n  \n  \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-polly-stewart/
LOCATION:Beaufort Bookstore\, 2127 Boundary St\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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