Please join us Monday Oct. 22 at 7:30 pm as we host readings by two Spartanburg poets, each of whom begins his first book tour here at The Showroom at Hub-Bub. Philip Belcher, a winner in the South Carolina Poetry Initiative's annual chapbook contest, will read from that chapbook, The Flies and Their Lovely Names. Alex Richardson will read from his new book, Porch Night on Walnut Street, published by Plainview Press of Austin, TX. Their books will be for sale at the event.

"Work Shirts for Madmen is kind of funny and kind of sad," says George Singleton about the new novel he will read from Monday, Oct. 1 at 7:30 p.m. at The Showroom. "Contrary to early reviews, it's not autobiographical. Except for maybe the smuggled anteaters, the heartless republican hitman, the crazy mother, the scary dermatologist, the ex-drinking, the men who fused their elbows together so they couldn't drink, and so on." Please join the Hub City Writers Project as we host a return engagement for one of the funniest writers in America, Pickens County's own George Singleton.

Hub City kicks off the fall reading series with North Carolina poet Barbara Presnell, whose collection, Piece Work, won the 2006 Cleveland State University Poetry Center's First Book Prize, and was published by CSU in 2007. Barbara will read from her work in the The Showroom at Hub-Bub, Monday September 17, at 7:30 pm. The event is free and open to the public.

We host Erik Reece, author of Lost Mountain, the story of mountaintop removal, for a reading Monday, May 7 at 7:30 p.m. in The Showroom at Hub-Bub. Reece, a poet and essayist, has contributed numerous articles to such publications as The Oxford American and Harper's Magazine. In February 2006, he published Lost Mountain, an alarming account of the irreversible effects radical strip-mining has on the mountains of Appalachia.