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Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Fischer’s Trivia Extravaganza
Oct 18 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
New Groove Artisan Brewery

Come out to New Groove and enjoy dinner and beer – then test your mental mettle with Fischer’s Trivia Extravaganza! General trivia with a Stupid Hard Question.

Weekly Prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd – Quarterly Tournaments with Overall Winners and a Booby Prize for the frequent flier non-winner. 🍻

Make your Wednesday plan for Trivia with Fischer at New Groove in Boiling Springs, SC!

Thursday, October 19, 2023
book signing party: The Wish Painters
Oct 19 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Artists Collective | Spartanburg
Did you know the Collective is haunted?

Author Cynthia Manuel, our Webmaster, has written and illustrated an intriguing chronicle of the ghost sightings at the Collective. History buffs will get a kick out of the considerable local history that she has woven into the tale.

 

The book, The Wish Painters will be available for sale at the Collective beginning October 3rd. Just in time for that spookiest of holidays.

 

There will be a book signing party at Art Walk on October 19th from 6 – 8pm

Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Duncan Park: Stories of a Classic American Ballpark Book Launch 
Oct 24 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Headquarters Library

 

Hub City Press will celebrate the launch of “Duncan Park: Stories of a Classic American Ballpark” by Edwin C. Epps at the Headquarters Library in the Barrett Room on Tuesday, October 24 at 6:00 p.m. Duncan Park recounts the history of Spartanburg’s oldest wooden grandstand stadium built in 1926.There will be a presentation followed by a Q&A and book signing.

Monthly Book Club- October
Oct 24 @ 6:00 pm
Cowpens Coffee & Creamery

Join us Tuesday October 24th at 6pm for our Monthly Book Club meeting! Enjoy your favorite handcrafted beverage while we discuss the thriller, ‘You Did This’ by Jamie Millen
Visit
https://jamiemillen.com/you-did-this
for more info on this month’s book selection!

This month’s meeting will be on the fourth Tuesday of the month, not the last due to Halloween. Thank you!

Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night at Dave and Buster’s – Greenville
Oct 24 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Dave and Buster's - Greenville

It’s the ultimate trivia mashup: Quiz by Geeks Who Drink, fun & games by Dave & Buster’s. The ultimate trivia party is finally here. Geeks Who Drink and Dave & Buster’s have teamed up to bring you the Dave & Buster’s Trivai Show. It’s a whole new format that combinest he super-social Geeks Who Drink trivia night with all the frenetic game-show action you’d expect from Dave & Buster’s. Get ready for pop culture-centric trivia where winners receive Power Cards. In between rounds, join in on the physical challenge fun for bonus prizes – or just gawk at the people who do. All in all, it’s two hours and it’s free to play. No reservations needed, just show up! Teams can be up to six players, so bring your smartest friends (or some likable dummies)—or come solo. We can always help you join a team!

This is a Weekly Recurring Event
Runs from Oct 3, 2023 to Dec 26, 2023 and happens every:
Tuesdays: 7:30pm – 9:30pm EDT

Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Fischer’s Trivia Extravaganza
Oct 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
New Groove Artisan Brewery

Come out to New Groove and enjoy dinner and beer – then test your mental mettle with Fischer’s Trivia Extravaganza! General trivia with a Stupid Hard Question.

Weekly Prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd – Quarterly Tournaments with Overall Winners and a Booby Prize for the frequent flier non-winner. 🍻

Make your Wednesday plan for Trivia with Fischer at New Groove in Boiling Springs, SC!

Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night at Dave and Buster’s – Greenville
Oct 31 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Dave and Buster's - Greenville

It’s the ultimate trivia mashup: Quiz by Geeks Who Drink, fun & games by Dave & Buster’s. The ultimate trivia party is finally here. Geeks Who Drink and Dave & Buster’s have teamed up to bring you the Dave & Buster’s Trivai Show. It’s a whole new format that combinest he super-social Geeks Who Drink trivia night with all the frenetic game-show action you’d expect from Dave & Buster’s. Get ready for pop culture-centric trivia where winners receive Power Cards. In between rounds, join in on the physical challenge fun for bonus prizes – or just gawk at the people who do. All in all, it’s two hours and it’s free to play. No reservations needed, just show up! Teams can be up to six players, so bring your smartest friends (or some likable dummies)—or come solo. We can always help you join a team!

This is a Weekly Recurring Event
Runs from Oct 3, 2023 to Dec 26, 2023 and happens every:
Tuesdays: 7:30pm – 9:30pm EDT

Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Fischer’s Trivia Extravaganza
Nov 1 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
New Groove Artisan Brewery

Come out to New Groove and enjoy dinner and beer – then test your mental mettle with Fischer’s Trivia Extravaganza! General trivia with a Stupid Hard Question.

Weekly Prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd – Quarterly Tournaments with Overall Winners and a Booby Prize for the frequent flier non-winner. 🍻

Make your Wednesday plan for Trivia with Fischer at New Groove in Boiling Springs, SC!

Saturday, November 4, 2023
S.Q. Peake Book Signing
Nov 4 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Fiction Addiction

Join South Carolina author S.Q. Peake for an in-store signing at Fiction Addiction on Saturday, November 4th from 2-4pm to celebrate his new book, Legends of the Soul: State of Emergency.

This event is free and open to the public, or you can purchase an $12.71 ticket that includes a copy of Legends of the Soul: State of Emergency. Additional books can be ordered on our website or purchased at the event while supplies last.

If you’re unable to attend, signed copies of the author’s book can be purchased on our website.

Book tickets can be purchased online through Friday, November 3rd at 2:30pm. Refunds can be requested up until the ticket cutoff. At-the-door tickets and books will be available as space allows.

The home country of Amar is up against its greatest threat. Enemy Iri soldiers have invaded and among them are the enhanced descendants of Amar’s runaway civil war criminals from decades ago. How will Amar’s already flimsy government handle the incursion?

Will a young Taurean be able to protect his family?

And what fate lies before young Dewayne. He’s broken a serious law. Some of the people believe he should be dealt the max punishment, which is imprisonment with the other uncontrollable E.I.s. Whether young or old, there’s only one prison in the entire country of Amar to hold them all. The penitentiary in Cainesville is the permanent home for enhanced lawbreakers until their will to be a legend is subdued and broken.

About the Author:

S.Q. Peake is a new author out of South Carolina. He believes a good story and a good read induces healing and creates bridges between people. This author is a fan of every genre, a movie lover and a huge football fan. He’s a proud father of four and a strong believer in his faith.

Tuesday, November 7, 2023
Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night at Dave and Buster’s – Greenville
Nov 7 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Dave and Buster's - Greenville

It’s the ultimate trivia mashup: Quiz by Geeks Who Drink, fun & games by Dave & Buster’s. The ultimate trivia party is finally here. Geeks Who Drink and Dave & Buster’s have teamed up to bring you the Dave & Buster’s Trivai Show. It’s a whole new format that combinest he super-social Geeks Who Drink trivia night with all the frenetic game-show action you’d expect from Dave & Buster’s. Get ready for pop culture-centric trivia where winners receive Power Cards. In between rounds, join in on the physical challenge fun for bonus prizes – or just gawk at the people who do. All in all, it’s two hours and it’s free to play. No reservations needed, just show up! Teams can be up to six players, so bring your smartest friends (or some likable dummies)—or come solo. We can always help you join a team!

This is a Weekly Recurring Event
Runs from Oct 3, 2023 to Dec 26, 2023 and happens every:
Tuesdays: 7:30pm – 9:30pm EDT

Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Fischer’s Trivia Extravaganza
Nov 8 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
New Groove Artisan Brewery

Come out to New Groove and enjoy dinner and beer – then test your mental mettle with Fischer’s Trivia Extravaganza! General trivia with a Stupid Hard Question.

Weekly Prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd – Quarterly Tournaments with Overall Winners and a Booby Prize for the frequent flier non-winner. 🍻

Make your Wednesday plan for Trivia with Fischer at New Groove in Boiling Springs, SC!

Thursday, November 9, 2023
Hub City Writers Project Gala with John T. Edge
Nov 9 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
TBA

Join Hub City Writers Project for an evening with John T. Edge, author, TV host, and historian. Hosted by Dorothy Chapman Josey.

Join Hub City Writers Project for an evening with John T. Edge, author, historian, host of TRUE SOUTH, and Founding Director of the Southern Foodways Alliance. Light refreshments will be provided. All proceeds will benefit the Hub City Writers Project. Hosted by Dorothy Chapman Josey.

John T. Edge has written or edited more than a dozen books, served as culinary curator for the weekend edition of NPR’s All Things Considered, and has been featured on dozens of television shows from CBS Sunday Morning to Iron Chef. He is a contributing editor at Garden & Gun and has served as a columnist for the New York Times and the Oxford American. His magazine and newspaper work has been featured in eleven editions of the Best Food Writing compilation. He has won four James Beard Foundation awards including Beard’s M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award in 2012 and 2020.

Edge holds an MA in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi. And an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College.

His 2017 book, The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South, was named a best book of 2017 by NPR, Publisher‘s Weekly, and a host of others. Since 2018, he has hosted the television show TrueSouth, which airs on the SEC Network, ESPN, and is available on Hulu.

At the University of Mississippi, he directs the Mississippi Lab, serves as Writer-in-Residence in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric, and serves the Southern Foodways Alliance as Founding Director. Edge is a distinguished visiting professor in the MFA in Narrative Nonfiction program at the Grady College of the University of Georgia. Edge lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife, Blair Hobbs, a teacher, writer, and painter.

Sunday, November 12, 2023
Grady Hendrix: In-store Appearance and Signing
Nov 12 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Hub City Writers Project

Grady Hendrix is in Spartanburg! The author will be at Hub City Bookshop on Sunday, November 12th from 3pm-4pm for a Q&A and book signingBooks are limited so grab your copy here or head to hubcity.org

 

Can’t make it? Consider attending Grady’s talk at Wofford on November 13th — 6PM, McMillan Theater — where he’ll discuss his new book. The South Carolina native and New York Times-bestselling author will discuss his book These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World. Hendrix will show how kung fu films introduced some of America’s first and most important non-white action heroes, helped to shape hip hop culture, and transformed American action movies.

Join us at Hub City Bookshop for a book signing, or catch Grady Hendrix’s talk at Wofford. You won’t want to miss these events!

About the author

Grady Hendrix is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter living in New York City. He is the author of HorrorstörMy Best Friend’s Exorcism (which was adapted into a feature film by Amazon Studios), We Sold Our Souls, and the New York Times bestseller The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires (currently being adapted into a TV series). Grady also authored the Bram Stoker Award–winning nonfiction book Paperbacks from Hell, a history of the horror paperback boom of the seventies and eighties, and his latest non-fiction book is These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World.

Monday, November 13, 2023
Reading and Signing with John Lane
Nov 13 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Hub City Bookshop + Press

Join Hub City Bookshop in welcoming John Lane for his latest book Gullies of My People: An Excavation of Family and Landscape! Buy your book on Eventbrite for 10% off and to be sure you snag a copy!

About the Book

While scouting sites for geology field trips, poet and naturalist John Lane encountered deep gullies created between the Civil War and the 1930s contributed to by his mother’s tenant farming family and their rural neighbors in Piedmont South Carolina. This brush with the poor farming practices of the past leads Lane into an exploration of his own family’s complicated history and of the larger environmental forces that have shaped the region where he chooses to live. With his sister as guide, Lane descends into the gully of his own childhood to uncover memories of a loving but alcoholic mother and a suicidal father.

Back and forth, the narrative progresses from depictions of the land—particularly the overgrown and neglected places that hold stories and mysteries of the region—to Lane’s ever-deepening search.He wonders how he, a college professor and husband settled into middle-class life, has emerged from the chaos of his family’s past. Along the way, we meet heroic Depression-era geologists, fascinating colleagues, and troubled ancestors. Lane’s extraordinary ability to weave personal history together with explorations of the natural world will remind readers of the works of Loren Eiseley and Terry Tempest Williams.

About the Author

John Lane is Emeritus Professor of environmental studies at Wofford College and was founding director of the college’s Goodall Environmental Studies Center. He is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose, COYOTE SETTLES THE SOUTH was one of four finalists for the John Burroughs Medal and was named by the Burroughs Society one of the year’s “Nature Books of Uncommon Merit.”

As an environmentalist in 2013 Lane was named Upstate Forever’s “Clean Water Champion,” and “Water Conservationist of the Year” by The South Carolina Wildlife Federation. In 2014 he was inducted into the SC Academy of Authors. He, with his wife Betsy Teter, is one of the co-founders of Spartanburg’s Hub City Writers Project.

Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night at Dave and Buster’s – Greenville
Nov 14 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Dave and Buster's - Greenville

It’s the ultimate trivia mashup: Quiz by Geeks Who Drink, fun & games by Dave & Buster’s. The ultimate trivia party is finally here. Geeks Who Drink and Dave & Buster’s have teamed up to bring you the Dave & Buster’s Trivai Show. It’s a whole new format that combinest he super-social Geeks Who Drink trivia night with all the frenetic game-show action you’d expect from Dave & Buster’s. Get ready for pop culture-centric trivia where winners receive Power Cards. In between rounds, join in on the physical challenge fun for bonus prizes – or just gawk at the people who do. All in all, it’s two hours and it’s free to play. No reservations needed, just show up! Teams can be up to six players, so bring your smartest friends (or some likable dummies)—or come solo. We can always help you join a team!

This is a Weekly Recurring Event
Runs from Oct 3, 2023 to Dec 26, 2023 and happens every:
Tuesdays: 7:30pm – 9:30pm EDT

Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Fischer’s Trivia Extravaganza
Nov 15 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
New Groove Artisan Brewery

Come out to New Groove and enjoy dinner and beer – then test your mental mettle with Fischer’s Trivia Extravaganza! General trivia with a Stupid Hard Question.

Weekly Prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd – Quarterly Tournaments with Overall Winners and a Booby Prize for the frequent flier non-winner. 🍻

Make your Wednesday plan for Trivia with Fischer at New Groove in Boiling Springs, SC!

Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night at Dave and Buster’s – Greenville
Nov 21 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Dave and Buster's - Greenville

It’s the ultimate trivia mashup: Quiz by Geeks Who Drink, fun & games by Dave & Buster’s. The ultimate trivia party is finally here. Geeks Who Drink and Dave & Buster’s have teamed up to bring you the Dave & Buster’s Trivai Show. It’s a whole new format that combinest he super-social Geeks Who Drink trivia night with all the frenetic game-show action you’d expect from Dave & Buster’s. Get ready for pop culture-centric trivia where winners receive Power Cards. In between rounds, join in on the physical challenge fun for bonus prizes – or just gawk at the people who do. All in all, it’s two hours and it’s free to play. No reservations needed, just show up! Teams can be up to six players, so bring your smartest friends (or some likable dummies)—or come solo. We can always help you join a team!

This is a Weekly Recurring Event
Runs from Oct 3, 2023 to Dec 26, 2023 and happens every:
Tuesdays: 7:30pm – 9:30pm EDT

Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Fischer’s Trivia Extravaganza
Nov 22 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
New Groove Artisan Brewery

Come out to New Groove and enjoy dinner and beer – then test your mental mettle with Fischer’s Trivia Extravaganza! General trivia with a Stupid Hard Question.

Weekly Prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd – Quarterly Tournaments with Overall Winners and a Booby Prize for the frequent flier non-winner. 🍻

Make your Wednesday plan for Trivia with Fischer at New Groove in Boiling Springs, SC!

Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night at Dave and Buster’s – Greenville
Nov 28 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Dave and Buster's - Greenville

It’s the ultimate trivia mashup: Quiz by Geeks Who Drink, fun & games by Dave & Buster’s. The ultimate trivia party is finally here. Geeks Who Drink and Dave & Buster’s have teamed up to bring you the Dave & Buster’s Trivai Show. It’s a whole new format that combinest he super-social Geeks Who Drink trivia night with all the frenetic game-show action you’d expect from Dave & Buster’s. Get ready for pop culture-centric trivia where winners receive Power Cards. In between rounds, join in on the physical challenge fun for bonus prizes – or just gawk at the people who do. All in all, it’s two hours and it’s free to play. No reservations needed, just show up! Teams can be up to six players, so bring your smartest friends (or some likable dummies)—or come solo. We can always help you join a team!

This is a Weekly Recurring Event
Runs from Oct 3, 2023 to Dec 26, 2023 and happens every:
Tuesdays: 7:30pm – 9:30pm EDT

Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Fischer’s Trivia Extravaganza
Nov 29 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
New Groove Artisan Brewery

Come out to New Groove and enjoy dinner and beer – then test your mental mettle with Fischer’s Trivia Extravaganza! General trivia with a Stupid Hard Question.

Weekly Prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd – Quarterly Tournaments with Overall Winners and a Booby Prize for the frequent flier non-winner. 🍻

Make your Wednesday plan for Trivia with Fischer at New Groove in Boiling Springs, SC!