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PAM DURBAN
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1
7:00PM
JOIN US FOR EVENING WITH acclaimed writer Pam Durban, who will be reading from her new collection of short stories, Soon published by USC press. Pam Durban's new collection of stories explores the myriad ways people lose, find, and hold on to one another. When all else fails her characters—science, religion, family, self—the powerful act of storytelling itself keeps their broken lives together and fosters hope. Each story in this rewarding and multifaceted collection introduces people who yearn for better lives and find themselves entangled in the hopes and dreams that heal and bind us all.
Pam Durban is Doris Betts Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at UNC and author of a previous collection of short stories as well as two novels. Her short story, "Soon," appeared in The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike, and her work has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 1997 and twice in New Stories from the South, The Year's Best and in the series' twentieth anniversary edition
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RON RASH
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8
7:00PM
JOIN US AS WE WELCOME acclaimed author (and Spartanburg favorite) Ron Rash who will read from his newest novel, Above the Waterfall. Echoing the heartbreaking beauty of William Faulkner and the spiritual isolation of Marilynne Robinson, Above the Waterfall demonstrates once again the prodigious talent of “a gorgeous, brutal writer†(Richard Price) hailed as “one of the great American authors at work today†(Janet Maslin, New York Times).
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CHILDREN'S HOUR
SAT., OCTOBER 3
10:00AM
In cooperation with Converse College, Hub City Bookshop will host an interactive children's storytelling hour Saturdays at 10 a.m. These events are intended for children age infant to 10, but children of all ages are welcome to attend!
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MEET OUR NEW RESIDENT
JOUR FALL 2015 WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE is Timothy L. Marsh. Raised in Southern California, Timothy L. Marsh is a doctoral candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Wales Aberystwyth. His stories have appeared in Ninth Letter, Barrelhouse, Fourth River, The New Welsh Review, The Los Angeles Review and The MacGuffin. He has been a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, a graduate exchange scholar at Auburn University, and has likewise received scholarships from the Squaw Valley Writers' Workshop and the CAMAC Centre d' Arts. Most recently his work was longlisted for the New Welsh Writing Award: World Wildlife Federation Prize for Writing on Nature and the Environment. Read an interview with Tim here.
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