Tuesday, Oct. 21
7 p.m. REESE WITHERSPOON and HARLAN COBEN Presented with The Charleston Gaillard Center GONEBEFOREGOODBYE
$69
Friday, Nov. 7
10:30 a.m. ARIEL SULLIVAN with Jenna Bush Hager CONFORM From $30
3 p.m. IMANI PERRY with Dolen Perkins-Valdez BLACKINBLUES
$30
5:30 p.m. KEVIN SACK with Eddie S. Glaude Jr. and Mother Emanuel Choir MOTHEREMANUEL
*Thiseventwilltakeplaceat MotherEmanuelChurch, 110CalhounSt.Downtown. FREE (Registration required)
Saturday, Nov. 8
8:45 a.m. FILM THEHOURS $10
11 a.m. MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM with Jenny Offill DALLOWAY100
$30
1 p.m. REBECCA ROMNEY with Sunday Steinkirchner JANEAUSTEN’SBOOKSHELF
$30
3 p.m. ARIA ABER with Lisa Taddeo GOODGIRL
$30
5 p.m. TIM BOUVERIE with Jonathan Freedland ALLIESATWAR $30
7 p.m. GLORY EDIM with Safiya Sinclair GATHERME
$30
Sunday, Nov. 9
9 a.m. THEATER YOU’LLSEE... Family-friendly performance by Branar Theater Company $20 (12 and younger free)
12 p.m. JOYCE CAROL OATES with Jean Hanff Korelitz FOX
$30
2 p.m. JONATHAN FREEDLAND with Jennifer Griffin THETRAITORSCIRCLE $30
4 p.m. MAX BOOT with Kurt Andersen REAGAN:HISLIFEANDLEGEND
$30
6 p.m. PHILIPPE SANDS with Greg Myre 38LONDRESSTREET
$30
8 p.m. DEBORAH TREISMAN with Nathan Englander ACENTURYOFFICTION INTHENEWYORKER
$30
Monday, Nov. 10
12 p.m. CHARLES F. BOLDEN and LES JOHNSON with Scott “Scooter” Altman THROUGHTHESTARS
$30
2 p.m. GISH JEN, DOLEN PERKINS-VALDEZ, and SUE HALPERN with Regina Marler FAMILYLEGACYINFICTION
$30
4 p.m. BILL McKIBBEN with Leilani Brown HERECOMESTHESUN
$30
6 p.m. PATRICIA ALTSCHUL with Marc Cherry EAT,DRINK,ANDREMARRY From $30
Tuesday, Nov. 11
12 p.m. DAVA SOBEL with Angela Saini THEELEMENTSOF MARIECURIE
$30
2 p.m. ANTHONY C. WOOD with Paul Goldberger SERVANTOFBEAUTY
$30
4 p.m. CHARLESTON LITERARY FESTIVAL CATO FELLOWS ANAUDIENCEWITH THE2025CHARLESTON LITERARYFESTIVAL CATOFELLOWS FREE
6 p.m. GARY SHTEYNGART with Ross Benjamin VERA,ORFAITH
$30
Wednesday, Nov. 12
10 a.m. JAMES GEARY APHORISMATPLAY
$30
12 p.m. DANIEL MENDELSOHN THEODYSSEY
$30
The venue
WENTWORTHBEAUFAINST
DOCK STREET THEATRE 135 Church St.Downtown
All sessions are at the Dock Street Theatre unless noted otherwise.
2 p.m. DR. EDDA FIELDS-BLACK with David Blight COMBEE
$30
4 p.m. ELLIOT ACKERMAN and ROXANA ROBINSON with Lucas Wittmann HONORINLITERATURE
$30
6 p.m. CHRIS PAVONE with Anne Blessing THEDOORMAN
$30
8 p.m. MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM with Nancy Novogrod EMPIREOFTHEELITE $30
Thursday, Nov. 13
12 p.m. RUHA BENJAMIN with Benny Starr IMAGINATION:AMANIFESTO
$30
2 p.m. CULINARY EVENT HUNTER LEWIS with Alexander B. Smalls
$30
4 p.m. AATISH TASEER with Bilal Qureshi RETURNTOSELF: EXCURSIONSINEXILE
$30
6 p.m. CARL ZIMMER with David Adams AIR-BORNE $30
Friday, Nov. 14
11 a.m. JIM CLYBURN with Tonya Matthews THEFIRSTEIGHT:A PERSONALHISTORYOF THEPIONEERINGBLACK CONGRESSMENWHO SHAPEDANATION From $30
1 p.m. JAKE TAPPER with TBD RACEAGAINSTTERROR From $30
3 p.m. PATRICIA LOCKWOOD with Martha McLendon WILLTHEREEVERBE ANOTHERYOU
$30
5 p.m. PETER GODWIN with Autumn Phillips EXITWOUNDS
$30
7 p.m. MAGGIE SMITH with Georgina Godwin DEARWRITER:PEPTALKS &PRACTICALADVICEFOR THECREATIVELIFE
$30
Saturday, Nov. 15
9 a.m. LINDSAY SCHAKENBACH REGELE with Kim Cliett Long FLOWERS,GUNS,ANDMONEY FREE (Registration required)
11 a.m. ANDREY KURKOV with Jon Gundersen THEROLEOFTHEWRITER
$30
1 p.m. CARYL PHILLIPS with Bilal Qureshi ANOTHERMAN INTHESTREET
$30
3 p.m. KATIE KITAMURA with Regina Marler AUDITION
$30
5 p.m. STEPHEN GREENBLATT with Geoffrey Harpham DARKRENAISSANCE $30
7 p.m. THEATER ADAM GOPNIK TALKTHERAPY $45
Sunday, Nov. 16
11 a.m. ADAM GOPNIK and STEPHEN GREENBLATT with Mena Mark Hanna MAKEITNEW:ADAPTING “THESWERVE” $30
1 p.m. ADAM HASLETT with Bill Goldstein MOTHERSANDSONS $30
3 p.m. LOLA LAFON with Maurice Samuels WHENYOULISTENTOTHIS SONG:ONMEMORY,LOSS, ANDWRITING From $30
5 p.m. VIET THANH NGUYEN with Bilal Qureshi TOSAVEANDTODESTROY $30
7 p.m. DAVID SZALAY with Bill Goldstein FLESH $30
“When I’m in the archives, I cast a very wide net and try to get all of the puzzle pieces,” she said. “Then as my research questions evolve, I usually have the pieces I need to put the puzzle together and form a single repository and can move on to the next.”
In COMBEE, Fields-Black used more than 175 U.S. Civil War pension files and other documents to reconstruct the stories of enslaved South Carolinians who freed themselves on June 2, 1863, in the Combahee River Raid. At that time
Exciting Literary Fest partnerships for 2025
You can connect with other avid readers through four exciting 2025 partnerships by the Charleston Literary Festival (CLF):
Listen and read. The Charleston County Public Library has a playlist of this year’s festival books on its popular Libby app, which is available to all library cardholders. You can access festival books for free in text and audio. More: libbyapp.com/library/ charlestoncounty
Win prizes with CLF Bingo. Pick up a CLF Bingo card at any library branch in a new read-along program. Then turn in the card by the end of the month to win prizes, including tickets.
Feasting on books. Enjoy light snacks (and even bring a dish to share) at three libraries in October as part of CLF conversations that feed your brain with good reading. Discussions include:
• Oct. 11 , 1 p.m.: Fox, by Joyce Carol Oates, Main Library.
• Oct. 16, 11 a.m., Fox, by Joyce Carolin Oates, Wando Mount Pleasant Library
• Oct. 18 , 11 a.m., Glory Edim, Dorchester Road Library
Mini-book Festival with Wings for Kids. Festival authors will visit elementary children in underresourced and overlooked communities at the highly-touted Wings for Kids’ after-school program. From Nov. 10-14 at the Arthur Christopher Community Center on Fishburne Street, they’ll explore new themes daily. Free books will be provided by the Books and Beyond nonprofit to open new books and curious young minds.
just five months after the Emancipation Proclamation, abolitionist Harriet Tubman led a group of 150 Black Union soldiers as Union ships rescued more than 750 enslaved Africans. Many later joined the Union Army.
Fields-Black, who got to know the Lowcountry as a child visiting the family of her paternal grandmother in Green Pond, said the occasionally frustrating times she spends transcribing and looking at archival documents are not the only way she gets information. Insights also come from visiting sites, such as Combahee River marshes.
At one point during a research visit, she wrote about people running through the rice fields to get to the boats. The next morning before sunrise, she found herself going through pluff mud in bare feet to feel what it was like. She then encountered a baby alligator, which caused her to run.
“I figured the mother alligator couldn’t be too far behind. So I unsuccessfully tried to run but discovered the pluff mud was too quicksand-like and the vegetation simultaneously slippery and prickly.”
So she walked — and revised the previous day’s passage, which made for a better book.
• IF YOU WANT TO GO: Fields-Black will talk with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Blight at 2 p.m. Nov. 12 at the Dock Street Theatre. Tickets are $30.
Pavone: Outline and plan
Novelist Chris Pavone was working as a young copy editor in New York when legendary South Carolina writer Pat Conroy taught him something that has helped through the years.
Back in 1995, Pavone was working with Conroy on revisions for his novel Beach Music.
“He knew I wanted advice, but he turned every conversation back toward me — my job, my family, my social life,” Pavone recalled. “It was very frustrating until our final day together when he advised me:
‘Listen to other people’s stories,’ he said. ‘Listen carefully.’ ”
Pavone, whose new book is The Doorman, said he then realized Conroy had been working in a different way — listening to Pavone’s stories — during the revision process. Conroy knew, Pavone concluded, that “writing fiction isn’t something you do only when you’re typing. It’s something you’re doing all the time.”
A Cornell graduate whose first novel, The Expats, received broad praise, Pavone said he plans his books carefully using an outline.
“I write meticulously, according to plan — the plot, the twists, the themes, the tensions,” he told the Charleston City Paper.
“ I read it through again, focusing on one question: What more can happen? Then I dive back in there, and I make more happen.”
—Chris Pavone
“When I get to the end of a first draft, I set the thing aside for a bit.
“Then I read it through again, focusing on one question: What more can happen? Then I dive back in there, and I make more happen.”
In a June substack post about beginning a new book, Pavone related how the most important initial part of the book-writing process is to draft a one-page summary. He said he refers to it constantly to make sure he’s on track.
“Until I can describe a book, I don’t actually have a book, no matter how much I believe I do,” he wrote.
He might know pieces of it — the setting, characters, themes, some stories and maybe the ending. But until he writes a description — something that can take a long time to complete — it’s not a bonafide book project for him.
old stuff
to her new research subjects
“It’s this exercise of describing a book that forces me to focus on all the necessary elements, how they fit together and what makes this a novel and not just a setting, not just a character, not just a predicament.”
Another benefit of the one-pager: It’s about the same length as the description of the book on the inside flap.
• IF YOU WANT TO GO: Pavone will talk with Professor Anne Blessing at 6 p.m., Nov. 12, at the Dock Street Theatre. Tickets are $30.
Sobel:
Stringing together lots of term papers
Unlike writers who rely on interviews for source material, nonfiction author Dava Sobel will tell you she spends a lot of time with the “long dead.”
It’s in the reading of old stuff that she discovers nuggets that tug at her.
“The choice of topic happens usually unexpectedly,” said the 78-year-old writer who now lives in Charlotte to be nearer to family.
“I’m reading, looking for one thing, and I learn something else that really surprises me and delights me, and I really want to know more about that. That is usually how it starts.” And that’s what happened with Galileo’s
Novelist Chris Pavone talks with Anne Blessing on Nov. 12 Dava Sobel says reading
leads
Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love, a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2000 that took five years to research, write and rewrite.
In the early 1990s, Sobel discovered that Galileo, a scientist who was accused and tried for heresy by the Catholic church, had two daughters who were nuns. And that piqued her interest. And then she learned that one of them left 124 letters to her father — and that they were still available.
“When I found out that he had two daughters who were nuns, it was counter to everything I knew about him,” she said. “I’m not Catholic myself, but I wondered what would it have been like for her being in a convent when her father was being tried by the Inquisition for heresy. It was such a rich vein.”
To understand the story, Sobel said she had to learn a lot about the Catholic church and how convents work.
But to really get inside the story, Sobel had to brush up on three years of college Italian. She said she was fortunate to have a tutor who had a lot of old Italian dictionaries, which helped her to translate the letters.
“To have original material to work with is a thrill,” she said. “So that’s what I like to do.”
She’s found similar thrills with Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (1995) and The Elements of Marie Curie (2024).
Writing these works about scientific topics is like, she said, crafting a series of college term papers.
“I have a good time,” she said.
• IF YOU WANT TO GO: Sobel will speak with author Angela Saini at noon Nov. 11 at the Dock Street Theater. Tickets are $30.
Festival events
This season is the most ambitious in the Festival’s nine-year history, presenting over 50 separate events featuring more than 70 world-renowned writers and thinkers from around the globe who will discuss their works in a conversational format to encourage dialogue, understanding, and imagination. Sobel’s 5 tips for writers
• Make sure you have an interesting topic that really engages you “because writing a book is a long time to sit alone in a room.”
• Having characters who are companions “because they really become companions. I got through the pandemic with Madame Curie. And she was the perfect person.”
• Remember that writing is a full-time job.
• Guard your time. “If you are working at home, people have the sense that you are not really working and expect you to do things at all hours.”
• Find out when you work best and work at those times. “Mine is early. What I accomplish in those two (very early) hours would probably take four to five hours later — and it wouldn’t be as good.”
TUESDAY, OCT. 21
REESE WITHERSPOON and HARLAN COBEN
GoneBeforeGoodbye
2 p.m / $69
PRE-FESTIVAL EVENT
Presented with the Charleston Gaillard Center
Actress Reese Witherspoon and author Harlan Coben discuss their collaborative book Gone Before Goodbye — a gripping thriller following ex-Army surgeon Maggie McCabe, whose mysterious new job unravels a dangerous conspiracy at the heart of the global elite. Takes place at Charleston Gaillard Center.
FRIDAY, NOV. 7
ARIEL SULLIVAN
with Jenna Bush Hager Conform
10:30 a.m / $30
With thanks to Wells Fargo
Conform by Ariel Sullivan is the first novel from Jenna Bush Hager’s new publishing venture, Thousand Voices. Join Bush and Sullivan as they discuss this irresistible dystopian romance that Sarah J. Maas calls “compulsively readable.”
TUESDAY, NOV. 11
DAVA SOBEL
with Angela Saini
TheElementsofMarieCurie
12 p.m / $30
Dava Sobel’s The Elements of Marie Curie is a vivid study of the iconic scientist, revealing her impact on the women she mentored. In conversation with Angela Saini, author of The Patriarchs.
TUESDAY, NOV. 11
GARY SHTEYNGART
with Ross Benjamin Vera,orFaith
6 p.m / $30
Named “one of his generation’s most exhilarating writers” (New York Times), Gary Shteyngart, bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story, joins us to share his poignant, darkly funny story of a remarkable ten-year-old experiencing family troubles in a declining democracy.
TUESDAY, NOV. 11
ANTHONY C. WOOD
with Paul Goldberger ServantofBeauty
2 p.m / $30
Anthony C. Wood presents his spellbinding biography of Albert Bard, one of New York City’s greatest civic activists, laced with a fascinating twist of espionage. In conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and architectural critic Paul Goldberger.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12
JAMES GEARY
Aphorismatplay
10 a.m / $30
For lovers of words and how they work, James Geary, lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School, celebrates the art of the aphorism — what he dubs “the shortest literary form in the world”— in this entertaining, interactive session.
TUESDAY, NOV. 11
CHARLESTON LITERARY FESTIVAL CATO FELLOWS
Anaudiencewiththe2025Charleston LiteraryFestivalCatoFellows
4 p.m / FREE
Join us for an onstage conversation with the two 2025 Charleston Literary Festival Cato Fellows. These two writers, chosen via a competitive application process, will present readings of their work and share the inspiration behind their writing — offering a unique glimpse into two emerging literary voices from the Carolinas.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12
DANIEL MENDELSOHN
TheOdyssey
12 p.m / $30
Classicist Daniel Mendelsohn discusses his translation of The Odyssey, which brings to life the gripping adventures and profound human insights that have made Homer’s work resonate for twenty-eight centuries, while remaining close to the epic story’s original cadences.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12
DR. EDDA FIELDS-BLACK
with David Blight Combee
2 p.m / $30
Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize For History
A quest to discover her family history led Dr. Edda FieldsBlack to delve into her ancestor’s participation in the Combahee River Raid led by Harriet Tubman during the Civil War. In conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Blight.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12
MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
with Nancy Novogrod EmpireoftheElite
8 p.m / $30
Join Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times media correspondent, as he dives into his dishy history of the Condé Nast magazine empire, home of Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and more, focusing on its glitzy heyday from the 1980s through the 2000s.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12
ELLIOT ACKERMAN and ROXANA ROBINSON
with Lucas Wittmann HonorinLiterature
4 p.m / $30
Presented with the 92nd Street Y, New York
Award-winning writers Roxana Robinson, author of Leaving, and Elliot Ackerman, author of Sheepdogs, join us for a conversation on the concept of honor in contemporary literature and society. Moderated by Lucas Wittmann, Executive Director of the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center.
THURSDAY, NOV. 13
RUHA BENJAMIN
with Benny Starr Imagination:AManifesto
12 p.m / $30
Presented with International African American Museum
Transdisciplinary scholar, Ruha Benjamin, joins hip-hop artist Benny Starr for a conversation about the importance of human imagination. Drawing from Benjamin’s manifesto, the two explore the power of imagination to challenge systems of oppression and create a world in which everyone can thrive.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12
CHRIS PAVONE
with Anne Blessing
TheDoorman
6 p.m / $30
Chris Pavone’s pulsing, international thrillers consistently appear on the New York Times bestseller list. The Doorman, his latest pageturner set in New York is “a Bonfire of the Vanities for the 21st century” (Stephen King).
THURSDAY, NOV. 13
ALEXANDER B. SMALLS
with Hunter Lewis
2 p.m / $30
CULINARY EVENT
Presented with Food & Wine Classic Charleston
Editor-in-chief of Food & Wine, Hunter Lewis, joins us for an extra special event with James Beard Award–winning chef, cookbook author, and raconteur Alexander B. Smalls. A regular celebrity chef on the Today show, Top Chef, and other Food Network shows, Smalls is also a world-renowned opera singer and the winner of both a Grammy Award and a Tony Award for the cast recording of Porgy and Bess.
THURSDAY, NOV. 13
AATISH TASEER
with Bilal Qureshi
AReturntoSelf:ExcursionsinExile
4 p.m / $30
In 2019, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi revoked Aatish Taseer’s Indian citizenship, thereby banning him from the country where he grew up. A Return To Self is a blend of travelog and memoir that reflects on broader questions of self, culture, nationality, and home.
THURSDAY, NOV. 13
CARL ZIMMER
with David Adams Air-Borne
6 p.m / $30
New York Times science columnist Carl Zimmer’s Air-Borne is a fascinating odyssey through the invisible elements present in the atmosphere we inhabit, from pollen to viruses. In conversation with David Adams, MUSC Emeritus Professor.
FRIDAY, NOV. 14
JAKE TAPPER
RaceAgainstTerror
1 p.m / From $30
CNN’s Jake Tapper joins us to run-down his gripping new book that spotlights two assistant U.S. attorneys as they race to lock up a dangerous Al Qaeda terrorist in one of the most riveting true crime stories of the 21st century.
FRIDAY, NOV. 14
PATRICIA LOCKWOOD
with Martha McLendon WillThereEverBeAnotherYou
3 p.m / $30
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2021 for her book Nobody Is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood joins us to talk about her new novel, Will There Ever Be Another You, about one woman attempting to keep it together amid a global pandemic.
FRIDAY, NOV. 14
JIM CLYBURN
with Tonya Matthews
TheFirstEight:APersonalHistory ofthePioneeringBlackCongressmen WhoShapedaNation
11 a.m / From $30
South Carolina congressman James E. Clyburn’s new book The First Eight tells the powerful stories of pioneering Black politicians from South Carolina who were elected to Congress in the aftermath of the Civil War. In conversation with International African American Museum CEO, Tonya Matthews.
FRIDAY, NOV. 14
PETER GODWIN
with Autumn Phillips ExitWounds
5 p.m / $30
Award-winning writer and former President of PEN America, Peter Godwin discusses his stunning memoir, Exit Wounds, set in Zimbabwe, that meditates on grief, belonging, and the relationships and places that shaped his life with journalist and travel writer, Autumn Phillips.
SATURDAY, NOV. 15
ADAM GOPNIK
TalkTherapy
7 p.m / $45
THEATER
Adam Gopnik, a celebrated writer for The New Yorker who has spent over three decades writing essays, memoirs, and criticism, now turns his eye to theatre. Join us for this intimate once-off performance of his brand new one-manshow, Talk Therapy. The play reveals his experiences as a young writer cutting his teeth in the wilds of New York City and the relationships that helped him along the way.
SUNDAY, NOV. 16
LOLA LAFON
with Maurice Samuels
WhenYouListentoThisSong:OnMemory, Loss,andWriting
3 p.m / From $30
OFFICIAL BOOK LAUNCH • presented with Villa Albertine
Celebrated French author Lola Lafon launches the English language translation of When You Listen To This Song, a meditation on a night she spent alone in Anne Frank’s annex, exploring memory, loss, myth, and why — in the face of danger and confinement — women write. In conversation with Maurice Samuels, Director of Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism.
SUNDAY, NOV. 16
ADAM GOPNIK and STEPHEN GREENBLATT
with Mena Mark Hanna
MakeitNew:AdaptingThe Swerve
11 a.m / $30
Presented with Spoleto Festival Usa
A conversation with Adam Gopnik, Stephen Greenblatt and musicologist Mena Mark Hanna on shaping Greenblatt’s Pulitzer-winning The Swerve — a meditation on ancient thought — into an opera, where history, philosophy, and music converge. Currently in development with Spoleto Festival USA.
SUNDAY, NOV. 16
VIET THANH NGUYEN
with Bilal Qureshi
ToSaveandtoDestroy
5 p.m / $30
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen joins us to discuss his latest essay collection: a personal and sweeping meditation on the outsider in literary history and the role of the writer in the world at large.
SUNDAY, NOV. 16
ADAM HASLETT
with Bill Goldstein
MothersandSons
1 p.m / $30
Pulitzer Prize-finalist, Adam Haslett, named “one of the country’s most talented writers” (Wall Street Journal ) discusses his latest novel. Estranged for many years, a mother and son reckon with the secret that has kept them apart in this “epic family saga that packs an emotional punch”. (The Observer.) With literary critic Bill Goldstein.
SUNDAY, NOV. 16
DAVID SZALAY
with Bill Goldstein Flesh
7 p.m / $30
Longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize
Flesh, a propulsive, hypnotic novel by the “uncommonly gifted” David Szalay (New York Times), traces the history of a perpetual outsider as he navigates a rags to riches journey from boyhood in Hungary to wealth and power in London.
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