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SAVE THE DATE FOR THE CHARLESTON LITERARY FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 4 – 13, 2022 SOUTH CAROLINA, USAWATCH ALL RECORDED CHARLESTON LITERARY FESTIVAL 2021 SESSIONS 22 sessions from Charleston Literary Festival 2021 are now available to watch online and they are free to view! WATCH NOWWhat does it take to write a Booker-nominated novel? Watch three of the four US nominees for the 2021 Booker Prize – Maggie Shipstead, Patricia Lockwood and Nathan Harris – in vibrant conversation with Bill Goldstein about their respective writing processes. WATCH NOWDiscover how Call Me By Your Name award-winning author André Aciman found his writing voice thanks to a melange of languages and a passion for the rhythm of music. WATCH NOWJoin Carl Zimmer, New York Times science columnist, on a spell-binding journey to the margins of life, from viruses to computer intelligence, as he seeks to define what it means to be alive. WATCH NOWRELIVE THE EXCITEMENT OF THE 2021 CHARLESTON LITERARY FESTIVAL WITH SESSIONS FEATURING YAA GYASI, GEORGE SAUNDERS, LAUREN GROFF, JAMES IVORY, COLM TÓIBÍN, YIYUN LI, LOUIS MENAND, JEAN HANFF KORELITZ AND MANY MORE WATCH IT ALL HEREYou can purchase any of the books mentioned above at Buxton Books or via bookshop.orgThis year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of the seminal modernist poem: T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. To commemorate the publication, a new audiobook, read by audiobook superstar Edoardo Ballerini, featuring the poem and some of Eliot’s other work, has just been released. To mark the centenary, Faber is releasing its award-winning iPad app The Waste Land for the first time on iPhone. Keep an eye out for the Charleston Literary Festival program announcement and a live event focusing on T.S. Eliot and The Waste Land. |