Hub City Bookshop

Chicago/Lake Forest! Milwaukee! Greenville SC! Spartanburg! I'm hitting the road again this month, so tell your friends who live in these places or reserve a spot for yourself. Bring a buddy or the whole dang book club. It's going to be FUN.

Catch you this month at Lake Forest Book Store, Boswell Book Company, M. Judson Booksellers, Hub City Bookshop / Hub City Writers Project, and later this summer at Mississippi Book Festival! Details in the comments for tickets and such.

Located in downtown Spartanburg, Hub City Bookshop is a full-service independent bookstore inside a historic Masonic Temple. 📚☕️

Twice named one of the "South's Best Bookstores" by Southern Living magazine and "Bookstore of the Year" by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance, this is the place to go for southern literature.
All proceeds fund their mission to "cultivate readers and nurture writers." through creative writing education, community outreach, and publishing.

Grab your next great book at Hub City Bookshop or check them out online 👉https://www.hubcity.org/bookshop

Texas! Midwest! South Carolina! Mississippi! Save the dates: I'm comin' for ya, baby, and I'm wearing loose-fitting natural fabrics, because it's already hot as 🔥🔥🔥 out there. But you know where it's cool? Wherever you and Bomb Shelter are. Come hang out. Tell your friends who live in these places. We'll have a grand time, and we'll talk about what life's really like, and I'll give you a Frank sticker.

Heading to the airport now to see Nowhere Bookshop & San Antonio Book Festival this weekend! Catch you later this summer at Lake Forest Book Store, Boswell Book Company, M. Judson Booksellers, Hub City Bookshop / Hub City Writers Project, and Mississippi Book Festival! Details on my website for tickets and such.

In my element last night at Hub City Bookshop! Thank you for the photo.

Today I get to see the fine folks at The Country Bookshop in Southern pines, NC — 4pm!

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WINGWALKERS appears to be Zora-approved! 😻

Spartanburg! I’ll be at Hub City Bookshop tomorrow at 6pm — excited to see the Hub City fam!

Book tour has been such a lovely whirlwind and I have good news to share! THE LOST BOOK OF ELEANOR DARE is a Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance bestseller! 🥂 I’ll be celebrating with readers and friends, thanking you all as tour continues with Eagle Eye Book Shop at 7pm ET tonight, then a special Warwick's virtual chat with Aimie K. Runyan & Rachel McMillan before I’m traveling again for a luncheon at The Piedmont Club with Hub City Bookshop and then Books Over Drinks with M. Judson Booksellers 📖🎉💫 I can’t wait for each of these events…and MORE!

Find links for ALL upcoming EVENTS/RSVP/TICKETS in bio

“An Evening With Carlos” opens in 2 days! We are ready to celebrate Artistic Director, Carlos Agudelo, incredible 30 year anniversary with Ballet Spartanburg! Incredible dance, champagne, and chocolates are awaiting our guests for this special performance! 🎉

To commemorate Carlos’s achievement, 3 novels from our 2020 collaboration with Hub City Writers Project and Hub City Bookshop will be presented. Thomas McConnell’s “The Wooden King” choreographed by Ilya Kozadayev, Michel Stone’s “The Iguana Tree” choreographed by , and Ron Rash’s “Eureka Mill” choreographed by Carlos Agudelo are sure to inspire and move viewers. 📚

Tickets still available for this ONE NIGHT show. For more information visit balletspartanburg.org. 🩰

📷 are Ballet Spartanburg Professional Company dancers rehearsing for “An Evening With Carlos”.

If you're free tomorrow night I hope you'll join me and Diana Giovinazzo as we discuss her novel, ANTOINETTE'S SISTER, hosted by Hub City Bookshop virtually. 6pm EST on March 3 and free! XO

Link: https://www.hubcity.org/events/269/diana-giovinazzo-in-conversation-with-christina-baker-kline

As we approach the busiest shopping weekend of the year, Buddy the Elf wants to remind you of all the great local businesses right here in Spartanburg! is this Saturday, November 27! Join us in shopping "small" this holiday season! 🎁✨

PS: Elf the Musical Jr. plays December 3-5 at the Spartanburg Youth Theatre!!! ❄️ Follow the link to view showtimes and make reservations online: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35984/production/1071631

Hub City Bookshop
Little River Roasting
Hub City Scoops
The Local Hiker
Paisley Paw
City of Spartanburg

Read the book, then see the show! Purchase your family’s tickets for Elf Jr. (link below) and receive 15% off the book at Hub City Bookshop! 📖 We love our local bookstore!! ❤️

For tickets: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35984/production/1071631

The forthcoming book of our friend, Taylor Brorby, is available for pre-order! "Boys and Oil: Growing up gay in a fractured land" "covers everything from growing up gay in coal country and Lutheranism, to the DAPL war and Lawrence Welk."

Sandra: "I don’t know any other gay writer from the Great Plains who is getting beat up in the oil patch, getting arrested to stop pipelines, and who’s an amazing young author now getting published by a major press. So let’s support this book. this voice, and this issue with pre-orders."

Please support local bookstores by ordering through https://bookshop.org/ or directly from independent bookstores.
These are some of Taylor's favorites:

Spartanburg, SC, Hub City Bookshop
Ithaca, NY: Buffalo Street Books
St. Paul: Next Chapter Booksellers
Minneapolis: Louise Erdrich's Birchbark Books and Native Arts
Fargo: Zandbroz Variety
Bismarck: Ferguson Books & More
Livingston, MT: Elk River Books
Port Angeles, WA: Port Book and News
Salt Lake: The King's English Bookshop

Join us on Monday, October 25th for this month’s Reading for Transformation! You can use the link in the comments section and choose ‘October 25th: Reading for Transformation’ and the session you plan to attend (12 noon or 7pm) to register.

We will be discussing the book ‘Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity’. This book is a collection of essays, edited by genderqueer (non-binary) American author and activist Mattilda Berstein Sycamore. The essays within this book “confronts and challenges the very notion of belonging, exploring the act of passing-as the right gender, race, class, sexuality, age, ability, body type, ethnicity, and beyond.”

“By examining the perilous intersections of identity, categorization, and community, contributors challenge societal mores and countercultural norms. Nobody Passes explores and critiques the various systems of power seen (or not seen) in the act of passing. In a pass/fail situation, standards for acceptance may vary, but somebody always gets trampled on. This anthology seeks to eliminate the pressure to pass and thereby unearth the delicious and devastating opportunities for transformation that might create”.

If you need a copy of the book and you want to support local business you can visit Hub City Bookshop (186 W Main St, Spartanburg, SC 29306) or visit their online bookshop at bookshop.org.