Charleston Literary Festival
Wednesday, November 06, 2024 at 04:00pm
Charleston Literary Festival
Dock Street Theatre
135 Church Street
Schedule:
4:00 p.m
Dock Street Theatre - $30
Marie Arana With Bilal Qureshi
Latinoland
Peruvian-American author and Former Literary Director of the Library of Congress, Marie Arana discusses her sweeping book Latinoland with broadcaster, editor and critic, Bilal Qureshi. Arana conducted hundreds of in-depth interviews about the fastest-growing minority group in the US. Her family arrived in Miami in the 1950s, back when Latinos officially made up 2 percent of the United States. That number is closer to 20 percent today, an enormous and increasing population that, despite being mostly Mexican American, is also growing in its diversity. A central tension of Latinoland is how to navigate these demographic differences while holding 60 million people to a single, collective identity.
6:00 p.m
Dock Street Theatre - $30
Brody Mullins And Luke Mullins With Monica Langley
The Wolves Of K Street
On K Street, a few blocks from The White House, sit the offices of the most powerful men in Washington. Join brothers and co-authors Brody Mullins, an investigative reporter in the Washington, DC, bureau of The Wall Street Journal and Luke Mullins, a contributing writer at POLITICO magazine as they discuss their book The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History of How Big Money Took Over Big Government, a dazzling, yet infuriating, portrait of fifty years of corporate influence in the US capital. Brody and Luke will be in conversation with board member, Monica Langley, former EVP of Salesforce and former Wall Street Journal reporter.
8:00 p.m
Dock Street Theatre - $30
Chris Whitaker With Anthony Varallo
All The Colors Of The Dark
British author Chris Whitaker discusses his New York Times bestseller All the Colors of the Dark - a gripping thriller and love story that delves into the shadows of a small town, where secrets, betrayal, and haunting pasts converge in a tense, emotionally charged narrative of survival. A Read With Jenna book club pick, People magazine says it “melds tense suspense with a powerful exploration of devotion, obsession, and love." Chris Whitaker will be in conversation with Anthony Varallo, Professor and Director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at College of Charleston.