Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival

Regina Marler, Sarah Milroy with Virginia Nicholson | Vanessa Bell was a pivotal figure in the 20th Century British art world. In this session, Regina Marler - editor of The Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell - and Sarah Milroy - curator of a recent Va... more

Lionel Shriver, Philip K. Howard with Geoffrey Harpham | In her latest novel, Lionel Shriver introduced us to a dark, dystopian future most of us would rather not encounter in real life. Philip K. Howard, however, has a more hopeful view of the futur... more

Rebecca Makkai with Bill Goldstein | Rebecca Makkai took Bill Goldstein and their audience on a journey back to 1980s Chicago, when the AIDS epidemic was reaching its height and an entire generation of gay men was dying. But while the topic was heady... more

Bart van Es and Belinda Gergel | In what would prove to be perhaps the most poignant moment of the 2019 Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival, Bart van Es read aloud the letter written by a mother to her daughter, moments before the mother was d... more

Joyce Carol Oates with Geoffrey Harpham | Joyce Carol Oates took the stage before a sold-out crowd at the historic Dock Street Theatre, and a hush fell over the audience. Of course it did. That is the only response to seeing one of the world’s most p... more

David W. Blight with Judge Richard Gergel | “The only power, the only real weapon, Douglass ever had were his words.” So says David W. Blight, historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Prophet of Freedom, a deep dive into the life of Frederick D... more

Carl Zimmer with Melissa Hughes | Modern-day genetics study has come a long way from the simple Punnett Squares we all learned in middle school. Today we know there are layers of complicating factors that determine who we are, what we look like, and ... more

Karen Kukil with Regina Marler | Karen Kukil is an archivist at Smith College and has spent her career immersed in the private papers of Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf. In this conversation with Bloomsbury expert Regina Marler, Karen Kukil treated a... more