Upcoming and Current Events
 

Lecture by Robin Price
Thursday, May 17th

Sponsored by the Thomas Cooper Library and the Book Arts Conference
Reception to follow 6:00 p.m. in the Graniteville Room.
Robin Price is a printer and publisher from Middletown Connecticut. Her recent works include limited editions of Yusef Komunyakaa's poem "Love in the time of war" and a translation Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz' "Enigmas," with woodcuts by Anita Segalman.

Recent Events

The South Carolina Humanities Council and the Thomas Cooper Library
are sponsoring a reception celebrating the opening of the
South Carolina Humanities Council Book Festival featuring
keynote speaker, Dorothea Benton Frank.

Friday, February 23, 2007
Keynote address at 7:00 p.m. on the Mezzanine
Reception to follow on the Mezzanine Gallery

This is a ticketed event with proceeds going to benefit USC's
Children, Libraries, and Literacy Initiative.

Tickets are $60. R.S.V.P. to the Humanities Council,
803-771-2477 or pay online at www.scbookfestival.org
Checks made payable to the SC Book Festival can be
sent before 2/17/07 to the SC Book Festival, The Humanities
Council, P.O. Box. 5287, Columbia, SC 29250

On Friday, January 19th, as part of the University’s James Dickey conference, the Society and library are hosting a panel discussion on Dickey and his publishers, with Professor Matthew J. Bruccoli and Shaye Areheart, Dickey’s editor at Random House, in the Graniteville Room. The panel will be followed by a reception for a new exhibition from the library’s Dickey collections: James Dickey’s personal library, the Matthew J. & Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of James Dickey, the Donald J. & Ellen Greiner Collection of James Dickey, and other library holdings.

The James Dickey conference, which runs all day Friday and Saturday (January 19-20, 2007) in the Daniel Management Center, Moore School of Business, concludes in the Business School Auditorium on Saturday afternoon, with an address by Pat Conroy scheduled for 4 p.m. Further details from www.jamesdickey.org or the Department of English.

George V. Higgins: A Retrospective Exhibition

Thomas Cooper Library
University of South Carolina
November 9, 2006 - January 15, 2007

Exhibition Opening
Thursday, November 9th, 2006
4:30 p.m.

This exhibition celebrates the life and work of George V. Higgins (1939-1999).
Higgins, the author of the bestselling novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle and 25
additional works of fiction, also published 4 nonfiction books, short stories,
magazine articles, literary criticism and book reviews, and was a regular
columnist for three major newspapers. In addition, he excelled at parallel
careers as a journalist, an attorney in private practice, a prosecutor and
assistant U.S. Attorney, and a professor and teacher of writing and the law.
Items on display are taken from the George V. Higgins Archive, which is
housed at the University of South Carolina and is newly-opened for research,
and the Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of George V. Higgins.

Remarks will be made by Dr. Matthew J. Bruccoli, Jefferies Distinguished Professor of English, Emeritus.

USC's Fall Festival of Authors was on Oct 26, 27 and Nov 2. Law School Auditorium.

Reception and Reading by Michael Ondaatje,
author of The English Patient

The Thomas Cooper Society hosted a reception on Thursday, November 2nd
for guests to meet Michael Ondaatje in the Graniteville Room, Rare Books and
Special Collections, Thomas Cooper Library from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
A reading by Mr. Ondaatje followed at 6 p.m. in the Law School Auditorium.