![]() Her most recent novel Moonrise was a SIBA Okra Pick and bestseller, as was The Same Sweet Girls Guide to Life: Advice from a Failed Southern Belle. Her New York Times and USA Today bestselling second novel, The Sunday Wife, was a People magazine Page-Turner, a South Carolina’s Readers Circle choice, and named as one of Book Sense’s top reading group selections. Books, to Schwalbe, are our last great hope to keep us from spiraling into the abyss,” and Real Simple called the volume “A love letter to reading, bibliophiles will close the last page with a few more entries on their to-read list.”Ībout our interviewer: Cassandra King Conroy is the award-winning author of five novels, a book of nonfiction, numerous short stories, essays, and magazine articles, most recently appearing in Coastal Living and Southern Living. Books for Living has been praised by the New York Times as “Inspiring and charming. He is the author of the New York Times best sellers The End of Your Life Book Club and Books for Living, and the coauthor, with David Shipley, of Send: Why People Email So Badly and How to Do It Better. Panelists to be announced.Ībout our keynote presenter: Will Schwalbe has worked in publishing digital media, as the founder and CEO of and as a journalist, writing for various publications, including the New York Times and the South China Morning Post. Panelists to be announced.ģ:00–4:30 p.m.: Book Club Recommended Lowcountry Writers: Meet local writers whose books have been read, discussed, and recommended by lowcountry book clubs. Noon–1:30 p.m.: Meet & mingle lunch break book signing with Will Schwalbe and Cassandra King Conroy.ġ:30–2:30 p.m.: Keeping Your Book Club from Becoming a Wine Club: Hear successful models for book discussion, title selection, and membership recruitment and retention from representative members of lowcountry book clubs and the Charleston, SC, chapter the Pulpwood Queens. A Pat Conroy Literary Center Visiting Writers Series program, sponsored by the Pulpwood Queens book club. Moderated by Margaret Evans (columnist and publisher of the Lowcountry Weekly).ġ1:00 a.m.–noon: Will Schwalbe, author of Books for Living and The End of Your Life Book Club, in conversation with Cassandra King Conroy. ![]() ![]() Panelists: Bill Thompson (book reviewer for Kirkus Reviews and former books editor for the Charleston Post & Courier), Adam Parker (current books editor for the Charleston Post & Courier), and Teresa Weaver (former books editor for the Atlanta Journal Constitution and Atlanta magazine). Read Like a Critic: Current and former book review professionals will discuss how they approach engaging with books and critiquing them to the benefit of fellow readers. The convention will be keynoted by best-selling author Will Schwalbe ( Books for Living and The End of Your Life Book Club) in conversation with Cassandra King Conroy, presented as part of the Pat Conroy Literary Center’s monthly Visiting Writers Series and sponsored in part by the nation’s largest book club, the Pulpwood Queens.įree and open to the public, the Lowcountry Book Club Convention is funded by a Literary Fast Track Grant from South Carolina Humanities and presented in partnership with the Technical College of the Lowcountry and the Friends of Beaufort County Library.ġ0:00–11:00 a.m. An all-day event, 10:00 a.m.– 4:30p.m., this will be an opportunity for book club members-or anyone interested in joining or forming a book club-to meet, mingle, and exchange ideas about fostering, inspiring, and sustaining a community of fellow book lovers. 12) on the Technical College of the Lowcountry’s Ribaut Road campus. The Pat Conroy Literary Center will host the first Lowcountry Book Club Convention on Friday, December 15, in MacLean Hall (bldg. What better way to share a book than with others who have also ventured on the same journey, marveled at the same landscape, been awed by the same art. Contact: Maura Connelly, CENTER TO HOST FIRST LOWCOUNTRY BOOK CLUB CONVENTION, DECEMBER 15 AT TECHNICAL COLLEGE OF LOWCOUNTYīEAUFORT, SC - “Reading is the most rewarding form of exile,” Pat Conroy wrote in his 2010 memoir My Reading Life.
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