Please join us for a reading and book release celebration for Spartanburg author John Lane Monday, Nov. 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the Showroom at Hub-Bub, 149 S. Daniel Morgan Ave. Lane’s new book Circling Home is about discovering home ground after many years of limited commitments to people or places. Soon after settling in with a new family in a sustainable home on Lawson’s Fork Creek, Lane pinpoints his location on a topographical map, traces a circle one mile in radius and sets out to explore the area.

What follows from that simple act is a chronicle of Lane's deepening knowledge of the place where he'll likely finish out his life. An accomplished hiker and paddler, Lane discovers, within a mile of his home, a variety of coexistent landscapes-ancient and modern, natural and manmade. There is, of course, the creek with its granite shoals, floodplain, and surrounding woods. The circle also encompasses an eight-thousand-year-old cache of Native American artifacts, graves of a dozen British soldiers killed in 1780, an eighteenth-century ironworks site, remnants of two cotton plantations, a hundred-year-old country club, a sewer plant, and a smattering of mid- to late twentieth-century subdivisions.

The event is free and open to the public. Lane will sign copies of his book after the reading.

John Lane's writing has been published in Orion, American Whitewater, Southern Review, Terra Nova, and Fourth Genre. His books include Waist Deep in Black Water, The Woods Stretched for Miles, and Chattooga (all published by Georgia), several volumes of poetry, and Weed Time, a gathering of his essays. Lane is an associate professor of English at Wofford College.