The Charleston County Public Library is partnering with the Charleston Literary Festival to livestream select author sessions at three library branches for free. You're invited to join us as we broadcast the following sessions during the festival:
Michele Norris with Kerri Forrest: Our Hidden Conversations
Sat, Nov 2 from 2 - 3 p.m.
Dorchester Road Library
From Michele Norris, award-winning journalist and the first African-American female host for NPR, is a profound project on race that began with a simple note on a card, “Race. Your Thoughts. Six Words. Please Send.” Over half a million people submitted their responses to what we now know as The Race Card Project. Her resulting book, Our Hidden Conversations, was a New York Times bestseller. Norris discusses her transformative national project on race and identity—a unique, moving compilation of personal stories, essays, and photographs providing a window into real-life experiences of race in the United States.
A Conversation with Nikki Giovanni: Nikki Giovanni with Tonya Matthews
Mon, Nov 4 from 12 - 1 p.m.
Bees Ferry West Ashley Library
Nikki Giovanni is a generation-defining poet, writer, and activist renowned for her five-decade career creating evocative works exploring themes of social justice and love, while captivating audiences with her conviction, humor, and devotion to telling her truth as a Black woman. Charleston Literary Festival is collaborating with the International African American Museum (IAAM) demonstrating great alignment between the two organizations and their complementary missions to illuminate untold stories of the African American experience.
In this marquee event, Prof. Giovanni will be in conversation with Dr. Tonya Matthews, CEO of IAAM. This is an important opportunity for audiences to embrace a conversation with one of the most important poets of our time. Prof. Giovanni has been awarded 7 NAACP awards, a Grammy nomination, and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Colm Tóibín with Bilal Qureshi
Sat, Nov 9 from 12 - 1 p.m.
Main Library
Celebrated author Colm Tóibín, currently Laureate for Irish Fiction, discusses his latest novel, Long Island, a sequel to his award-winning novel Brooklyn, which reunites the reader with Eilis Lacey in the 1970s, as she returns to Ireland and tries to reconcile lost love with current reality. Set mainly in Enniscorthy, the small town in Ireland where Colm Tóibín was born and still has a home, the novel foregrounds some of the minor characters in Brooklyn. He discusses the themes of abandonment, loss, lust and denial in the novel with Bilal Qureshi, broadcaster, editor and critic.
The Charleston Literary Festival runs every November for ten days in Charleston, South Carolina. It includes ticketed events with world renowned authors. Learn more about the festival, these events and others at www.charlestonliteraryfestival.com.