Events

Julia Elliott in Conversation with Ray McManus

Julia Elliott in Conversation with Ray McManus

May 8th 2025 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Join us at Hub City Bookshop on May 8th at 6 pm for an evening with Julia Elliott and Ray McManus. With exuberance, ferocity, and astounding imagination, Julia Elliott’s Hellions jumps from the occult to the comic, from the horrific to the wondrous, in eleven stories of earthbound characters who long for the otherworldly.

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Kellyn Carni Author Pop-Up: Ricochet

Kellyn Carni Author Pop-Up: Ricochet

May 10th 2025 | 11:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Meet author Kellyn Carni for a book signing of her novel Ricochet — a young adult fanatasy novel set in 1918 Russia on the brink of revolution, filled with magic, wars, and family betrayals. Carni will be at Hub City Bookshop on Saturday, May 10th from 11am to 1pm.

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Stacey Hettes In Conversation with Melissa Walker: Reading and Signing

Stacey Hettes In Conversation with Melissa Walker: Reading and Signing

May 13th 2025 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Join us on May 13th at 6 PM at Hub City Bookshop for a conversation with Melissa Walker and Stacey Hettes on Hettes' new memoir Dispatches From the Couch. This debut memoir reveals the laborious, complex, but promising work of revisiting the past in order to extract its remnants of shame and loneliness from the present.

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Adam Gussow: Reading and Signing

Adam Gussow: Reading and Signing

May 15th 2025 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Listen in on a reading of My Family and I: A Mississippi Memoir read by the author, Adam Gussow on May 15th at 6 PM at Hub City Bookshop. This memoir is about Gussow's lifelong quest for racial reconciliation, the love that sustains his interracial family in contemporary Mississippi, and the “Yes we can!” hope for American renewal that fades after the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and the despair-driven rise of Black Lives Matter.

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Kevin Wilson, Run for the Hills: Reading & Signing

Kevin Wilson, Run for the Hills: Reading & Signing

May 20th 2025 | 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Join Hub City Bookshop off-site at the Cyrill-Westside Library on Tuesday, May 20th at 7 PM for a reading of Run for the Hills with Kevin Wilson. From the bestselling author of Nothing to See Here and Now Is Not the Time to Panic, Run for the Hills  is a sibling story like no other—a novel about a family forged under the most unlikely circumstances and united by hope in an unknown future. Meet us at the library for a an evening with Kevin Wilson. 

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Eric Lawson Author Pop-Up: Leaving Long Beach

Eric Lawson Author Pop-Up: Leaving Long Beach

May 24th 2025 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Visit our bookshop on Saturday, May 24th and meet Eric Lawson, author of Leaving Long Beach. From the mouth of the Covid pandemic and homelessness crisis to post Covid workforce, a poetic narrative unfolds of strength, tenacity, and resilience in Leaving Long Beach. Lawson will be signing books from 11am to 1pm.

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Scott Withrow & William Duncan Reading/Signing

Scott Withrow & William Duncan Reading/Signing

May 27th 2025 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Join us at Hub City Bookshop on May 27th from 6-7 PM to learn more about William Duncan and Scott Withrow's new book, The Super Highway in Upstate South Carolina, an illuminating history of our very own US Highway 29.

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Halle Hill: Good Women Reading & Signing

Halle Hill: Good Women Reading & Signing

May 31st 2025 | 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Join us at Hub City Bookshop for a faculty reading and signing of Good Women with author Halle Hill in partnership with Converse University MFA. This event is open to students, faculty and the public. 

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