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Pulitzer Prize Winner Brian Goldstone to Keynote Trident United Way’s State of Our Families
September 2, 2026 by Leave a Comment
What happens when having a job is no longer enough to afford a home? Journalist and anthropologist Brian Goldstone will bring that question to North Charleston on Tuesday, Oct. 13, as keynote speaker for Trident United Way’s 2026 State of Our Families. Goldstone’s nonfiction debut, “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in […]
Read of the Month: “The Watersmith” by Yance Wyatt
September 2, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Water imagery cascades through Yance Wyatt’s lyrical literary novel, The Watersmith, from beginning to end in both expected and very unexpected ways. Three epigraphs illustrate the religious importance of water with quotations from the Buddha, Allah, and Jesus.—totally expected use of water in a novel. So are the thunder, rainstorms, rivers, and lakes created by […]
Elizabeth Broadbent interviews Del Sandeen, author of “This Cursed House”
September 1, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Del Sandeen’s This Cursed House (Berkley 2024) begins in 1962, Jemma Barker escapes her life in Chicago with a job offer from the well-to-do Duchon family in New Orleans. Pale enough to pass for white, the Black Duchons look down on darker-skinned Jemma, and the job she came to do doesn’t seem to exist. As […]
“The Train from Santa Fe” by Ginger Pinholster
September 1, 2026 by Leave a Comment
The Train from Santa Fe (Regal House 2026) by Ginger Pinholster is an intricately layered story about the generational and cultural time in our country’s history that nearly wiped out the indigenous society that had lived and thrived in cohabitation with a part of the planet now called the U.S. The story explores the impact […]
“Wounded Boarders” by George Singleton
September 1, 2026 by Leave a Comment
South Carolina writer George Singleton’s new short story collection Wounded Boarders (Dzanc Books 2026) introduces us to a motley crew of distinctly Southern characters. Eclectic, vulnerable, and often not entirely likable, they find themselves working unusual and sporadic jobs, in strange and sometimes absurd settings, and dealing with equally unusual interlocutors. Opening story “Horace Poor, […]
