2021 TICKETS
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$200 per pass
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$50 per pass
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20 south battery party
Please join us at our Opening Night Party at 20 South Battery featuring ETHEL, the resident string quartet ensemble at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s balcony bar making their Charleston debut
“In the hands of ETHEL, American music is alive and well.” Washington Post
Friday, November 5 at 8pm
$125 per ticket
SOLD OUT
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THE CODE BREAKER
WALTER ISAACSON with Suzanne Austin
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5
1:30 - 2:30PM
$10 / VIRTUAL EVENT
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LIFE'S EDGE
CARL ZIMMER with Elizabeth Meyer-Bernstein
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5
3:30 - 4:30 PM
$25 / COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON
SOTTILE THEATRE -
THE PLOT
JEAN HANFF KORELITZ with Anne Blessing
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5
5:30 - 6:30PM
$25 / COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON
SOTTILE THEATRE
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TRASCENDENT KINGDOM
YAA GYASI with Kerri Forrest
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6
11AM - 12PM
$10 / VIRTUAL EVENT
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CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
ANDRÉ ACIMAN and JAMES IVORY with Colleen Glenn
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6
Film: 2:30 - 4:45PM
From book to film conversation: 5 - 6PM
$25 / COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON
SOTTILE THEATRE -
THE RATLINE
PHILIPPE SANDS and NIKLAS FRANK with Richard Wolffe
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7
11AM - 12PM
$10 / VIRTUAL EVENT
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SOLID IVORY
JAMES IVORY with Bernard Cornwell
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7
2 - 3PM
$25 / COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON
SOTTILE THEATRE -
THE CHARLESTON GAMBIT
STUART BENNETT with Walter Edgar
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7
4 - 5PM
$25 / COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON
SOTTILE THEATRE -
HOW I FOUND MY WRITING VOICE
ANDRÉ ACIMAN with Maura Hogan
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7
6 - 7PM
$25 / COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON
SOTTILE THEATRE
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BURNING BOY
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED
PAUL AUSTER with Sarah Churchwell
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8
4 - 5PM
$10 / VIRTUAL EVENT
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MASTER OF THE MACABRE
SCOTT PEEPLES and JON VARESE
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8
6 - 7PM
$25 / COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON HOLLINGS SCIENCE CENTER RM 101
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THE LURE OF OBJECTS
EDMUND DE WAAL and TRISTRAM HUNT
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9
2 - 3PM
$10 / VIRTUAL EVENT
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A SLICE OF LIFE
GEORGE SAUNDERS with Deborah Eisenberg
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9
4 - 5PM
$10 / VIRTUAL EVENT
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THE MAGICIAN
COLM TÓIBÍN with Geoffrey Harpham
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10
11AM - 12PM
$10 / VIRTUAL EVENT
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TOLSTOY TOGETHER
YIYUN LI with Kirk Curnutt
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10
3 - 4PM
$10 / VIRTUAL EVENT
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JUSTICE DEFERRED
ARMAND DERFNER and ORVILLE BURTON
with FRYE GAILLARDWEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10
5 - 6PM
$25 / DOCK STREET THEATRE
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TENDERNESS
ALISON MACLEOD with Bill Goldstein
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11
11AM - 12PM
$10 / VIRTUAL EVENT
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BOOKER PRIZE CELEBRATION
NATHAN HARRIS, PATRICIA LOCKWOOD
and MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD with Bill GoldsteinTHURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11
3 - 4PM
$10 / VIRTUAL EVENT
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WAKE
REBECCA HALL and HUGO MARTINEZ
with Kerri ForrestTHURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11
5 - 6PM
$25 / DOCK STREET THEATRE
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THE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY
ANNE SEBBA with Belinda Gergel
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12
11AM - 12PM
$10 / VIRTUAL EVENT
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THE FREE WORLD
LOUIS MENAND with Geoffrey Harpham
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12
4 - 5PM
$25 / DOCK STREET THEATRE
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WHAT WOMEN WANT
LISA TADDEO with Regina Marler
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12
6 - 7PM
$25 / DOCK STREET THEATRE
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BOOK BRUNCH
MENA MARK HANNA with Edward Hart
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13
2 - 3PM
$25 / DOCK STREET THEATRE
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JUSTICE RISING
PATRICIA SULLIVAN with Richard Gergel
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13
4 - 5PM
$25 / DOCK STREET THEATRE
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MATRIX
LAUREN GROFF with Regina Marler
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13
6 - 7PM
$25 / DOCK STREET THEATRE
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DESERT ISLAND BOOKS
BERNARD CORNWELL with Stuart Bennett
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14
2 - 3PM
$25 / DOCK STREET THEATRE
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ALL THAT SHE CARRIED
TIYA MILES with Kameelah Martin
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14
4 - 5PM
$10 / VIRTUAL EVENT