Charleston Literary Festival

About the Event

Schedule:

9:30 a.m
Dock Street Theatre - $10
Film Screening: Brooklyn
Directed by John Crowley
Written by Nick Hornby
Starring Saorise Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent and Julie Walters
"You have to think like an American. You'll feel so homesick that you'll want to die, and there's nothing you can do about it apart from endure it. But you will, and it won't kill you. And one day the sun will come out - you might not even notice straight away, it'll be that faint."  Brooklyn, adapted from Colm Tóibín’s novel, follows Eilis Lacey, an Irish immigrant in 1950s New York, as she navigates homesickness, love, and identity. Torn between two countries and two lives, she ultimately must choose one path forward. The film won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film 2015, and was nominated for three Academy Awards.

12:00 p.m
Dock Street Theatre - $30
Colm Tóibín With Bilal Qureshi
Long Island
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.

2:00 p.m
Dock Street Theatre - $30
Bianca Bosker With Patrick Bringley
Get The Picture
An instant New York Times bestseller, join Bianca Bosker as she plunges deep inside the world of art and the people who live for it: gallerists, collectors, curators and, of course, artists themselves - the kind who work multiple jobs and let their paintings sleep soundly in the studio while they wake up covered in cat pee on a friend's couch. Bosker details her experiences stretching canvases until her fingers blister, attending A-list parties full of billionaire art collectors, and staring at a single sculpture for an hour straight while working as a museum security guard - all on a journey to discover why art matters and what it does for us. From ancient cave paintings to Instagram posts, Bianca Bosker will discuss art and its role in our lives with her friend, author and former museum guard at The Met, Patrick Bringley.

4:00 p.m
Dock Street Theatre - $30
Ramie Targoff
Shakespeare's Sisters
Ramie Targoff, Professor of Humanities at Brandeis University, presents her ground-breaking book, Shakespeare's Sisters. This illuminating work uncovers and celebrates the overlooked lives and contributions of women writers in Shakespeare’s era, offering fresh insights into their impact on literature and the challenges they faced and surmounted. Taking her cue from Virginia Woolf’s famous essay, A Room of One’s Own, Targoff refutes Woolf’s argument that the voice of Shakespeare’s mythical sister would have been suppressed. Ramie Targoff will be in conversation with Regina Marler, editor of The Letters of Vanessa Bell (Virginia Woolf's sister).

6:00 p.m
Dock Street Theatre - $30
Catherine Lacey With Regina Marler
Biography Of X
Biography of X, named one of The Great American Novels by The Atlantic, and "a Russian Doll of a book" by the Financial Times, is a novel disguised in biographical form. When "X", an iconoclastic artist dies suddenly, her grief stricken widow begins to realize how little she knew the woman she loves. Together with Regina Marler, New York Review of Books essayist, she discusses whether an artist’s story can ever be truly known, and how our own stories impact our experience of art.

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