Please join us Monday Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m. as we welcome Greenville novelist Ashley Warlick to the Showroom at Hub-Bub for the last reading of the year in the Hub City Writers Project’s 2007 fall series. Ashley is the author of three novels, The Distance From The Heart of Things (1996), The Summer After June (2000), and Seek the Living (2005), all published by Houghton Mifflin. She is the youngest winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship, a founding member of the advisory board for the Novello Festival Press, and book columnist for several newspapers.

Hub City and Converse College invite you to a special evening of literature and goat cheese tasting Wednesday, Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the Showroom at Hub-Bub as we celebrate The Year of the Goat: 40,000 Miles and the Quest for the Perfect Cheese, a new book by New Yorker-turned-dairy farmer Margaret Hathaway, who will be here to read and sign. This is a free event and features the products of Split Creek Farm of Anderson, SC.

The father-son photography team of Alfred T. and Robert H. "Bob" Willis documented over eighty years of Spartanburg history. Now in a new Hub City book called Spartanburg Revisited, two contemporary photographers, Carroll Foster and Mark Olencki, return to places and people from an earlier era and recapture these iconic scenes in full color. We invite you to a book release program and celebration at the Spartanburg Public Library's Barrett Room, Sunday Nov. 18, from 2-4 pm. The event will also feature the "world premiere" of a 1920s era video shot by Alfred Willis (pictured) in Spartanburg. 

Please join us for a reading and book signing by the multi-talented Keith Flynn of Asheville on Monday, Nov. 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the Showroom at Hub-Bub, 149 S. Daniel Morgan Ave. Keith, editor of the Asheville Poetry Review, is also the author of four collections of poetry and has won several prizes for his work. Keith’s four collections of poetry include: The Talking Drum (1991), The Book of Monsters (1994), The Lost Sea (2000), and The Golden Ratio (Iris Press, 2007), and a collection of essays, entitled The Rhythm Method, Razzmatazz and Memory: How To Make Your Poetry Swing (Writer's Digest Books, 2007).