Coffee, and so much more
Hub City Bookshop brings literary world together
AUGUST 17, 2010 7:59 a.m. 
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Little River Roasting Co. has been in Spartanburg since 2002 but it wasn’t until the The Coffee Bar opened in the historic Masonic Temple downtown that the company had a retail presence.
The Coffee Bar and Cakehead Bakery opened up shop in the building with the Hub City Bookshop. Continue reading...
The nature of writing
Hub City Press publishes book on all that’s great about the great outdoors
NOVEMBER 4, 2010 11:50 a.m. (0)
In that disconnect lies the heart of great nature writing. With each passing year there is less of nature and more civilization. Somewhere, deep inside, most people feel a longing to get closer to nature, but don’t have a clue as to how.
That’s why they go to the ever dwindling woods in ever increasing numbers and almost always come back feeling vaguely dissatisfied. Continue reading...
Have music, will travel
Spartanburg Music Trail celebrates contributions of local musicians to national, international music scene
JANUARY 6, 2011 12:02 p.m. (0)
Spartanburg’s musical heritage did not start or stop with the Marshall Tucker Band.
While the band is arguably the headliner of the influential musical acts to come from Spartanburg, it is by far not the only one that has gone on to national or international prominence. Continue reading...
An investment, of the writing kind
It’s been 15 years since Hub City began. Forty-seven books later, and the story’s just begun.
JUNE 2, 2011 10:46 a.m. (0)
She’s been working with an author on an upcoming book.
Ready for her next meeting, she sits in a chair covered in polka-dot fabric near the front window at the Hub City Bookshop to relate once again the phenomenon that is Hub Culture, Spartanburg’s own literary organization that grew from a single book published 15 years ago. Continue reading...
Now in residence
Hub-Bub chooses four artists to live here, serve here
JULY 18, 2011 11:00 a.m. (1)
They’ll share it with the community for the next 10 months.
Camille Bonham has taught drawing, bookmaking and alternative photographic processes to such disparate groups as inmates at the New Correctional Facility in Iowa and students at the M’Adamfo Pa Community Center in Accra, Ghana. Continue reading...
100 words, 1 illustration
Upstate Book Project seeks local artists to write, illustrate group project
AUGUST 18, 2011 11:20 a.m. (0)
He’s looking for 29 adult artists from the Upstate to finish it.
“Artists, even the most nonchalant, are control freaks up to a point,” Bailie said. “This project is all about giving up comfort and security. It’s out of control and awesome.” Continue reading...
Books and the digital age
It’s a growing business model and one Upstate author is taking it for a ride
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011 11:56 a.m. (0)
Having had three books published in the traditional way, author Carl T. Smith resents e-books.
“When e-books came out, I thought they’d be like books on tape and kind of a flash-in-the-pan,” Smith said. Continue reading...
Artists. Here, everywhere
Diverse in their backgrounds and their talents, they have shaped and continue to shape Spartanburg’s visual arts scene
DECEMBER 21, 2011 2:33 p.m. (0)
They are the diners sitting at the next table, the next person in line at the grocery store.
They are neighbors, co-workers and the teachers at the school down the street. Continue reading...
The long, from the short of it
Filmmakers will be looking for cast members, crew during Film Fan Night
JANUARY 27, 2012 9:59 a.m. (0)
Spartanburg writer Michel Stone was thrilled when editor C. Michael Curtis chose her short story, “Expecting Goodness,” for a collection to be published by Hub City Press.
Excitement came when the book was named after her story about a hesitant husband beginning the journey toward adopting a child. Continue reading...
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