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SUMMARY:A Special Story Time with Matt Diffee
DESCRIPTION:RESCHEDULED FROM JUNE 23RD\, 2026. \nWhat does the dog say? Zip zap wickety wack! We look forward to hosting award-winning cartoonist and The New Yorker contributor\, Matt Diffee\, for a special\, silly story time to debut his new children’s book. Stemming from classic animal sound books\, and already slated as best for the category under WSJ and NYT reviews\, this laugh-out-loud\, soon-to-be classic puts a new spin on the old “cow says moo.” Bring the littles (all ages welcome) for an unexpected and delightfully absurd\, but widely appealing program. \nPurchase Tickets Here! \nChildren’s Admission to this Program is Free!  \nPlease note\, we’ve updated our ticketing system—purchases now go through Neon Events for a smoother registration experience. For any issues\, please call our Front Desk at 843-723-9912. \nIf you are unable to attend the event\, but would like to purchase one or more copies\, please visit Buxton Books. \nAbout the Book \nNew Yorker cartoonist Matthew Diffee makes his children’s book debut with this laugh-out-loud twist on the classic animal sound book. The cow says “moo.” The horse says “neigh.” Everyone can agree on these. But when the sheep says “baa\,” the goat cuts in. The goat also says “baa.” Now what? No one wants to share their sound! The sheep has an idea—he’ll just say something no one’s ever said before: “zip zap wickety wack bing bang walla balla flip flap yackety yack.” But an otherworldly visitor shows up to lay claim to this sound\, too—and the alien doesn’t want to share his identity either. When the alien proposes a radical new way forward\, the sheep and the goat find a compromise—and it may sound familiar to adult readers . . . Matthew Diffee’s hilarious wit will be an immediate hit with young readers in his first picture book. Sure to inspire boisterous read-alouds and threaded with a sneaky message about sharing\, Zip Zap Wickety Wack will inspire new nonsense and new values in homes\, classrooms\, and farmyards around the world. \nAbout the Author \n\n\nMatthew Diffee has been contributing cartoons to The New Yorker since 1999. His work has also appeared in Time\, The Huffington Post\, The Believer\, and Texas Monthly. He is the editor of three volumes of The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw and Never Will See in The New Yorker\, and has also worked as a freelance illustrator. Diffee is a recipient of the Silver Reuben Award for gag cartooning and was recently named Chairman of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society. He grew up in Texas and now lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/a-special-story-time-with-matt-diffee/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Workshop // Exploration in Marbling
DESCRIPTION:Given the ongoing success of our paper marbling workshops\, we are thrilled to introduce a new twist using traditional Turkish paper marbling in creating your own designs on a variety of materials. In this hands-on class\, you’ll learn how to float pigments on water\, manipulate colors with tools\, and transform them into enchanting shapes like flowers\, butterflies\, and other imaginative motifs. Perfect for beginners and creatives of all levels\, this workshop blends techniques\, history\, and play—resulting in one-of-a-kind artworks to take home. \nPurchase Tickets Here!
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/workshop-exploration-in-marbling/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Democracy Then and Now: Jill Lepore
DESCRIPTION:From the 2026 Pulitzer Prize winner of We the People comes an urgent account of how rule by machine has ravaged the world in The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State. Jill Lepore is an international best-selling author\, American historian\, and journalist currently serving as the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History and Professor of Law at Harvard University\, in addition to her contributions as a staff writer for The New Yorker since 2005. As a wide-ranging and prolific essayist\, Lepore writes about American history\, law\, literature\, and politics\, with much of her scholarship exploring absences and asymmetries in the historical record\, giving particular emphasis on the history and technology of evidence. In a year with great emphasis on our 250th\, Lepore visits Charleston as part of a limited number of appearances to share this new book and an intimate understanding of the fascinating origins of modern civilization\, and the creep of automated democracy in the name of progress that has seen its apotheosis in AI. \nPurchase Tickets HERE! – Presale tickets available to CLS Members on 6/17\, general admission on sale 6/18. \nP1: 293 (book bundled) @$65 \nP2: 620 (book bundled) @$55 \nP3: 100 (no book) @$45 \nSTUDENT & TEACHERS: 60 @$15  (located in P3/rear orchestra \nIf you are unable to attend the event\, but would like to purchase one or more signed copies of the speakers’ books\, please visit Buxton Books here. \n\n\n\nAbout the Author \nJill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her books include We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution\, which won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for history and was long-listed for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction; The Name of War\, which won a Bancroft Prize; New York Burning\, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for history; Book of Ages\, a finalist for the National Book Award; The Secret History of Wonder Woman; the international best-seller These Truths: A History of the United States; and The Deadline\, which received a PEN America award for the art of the essay. She is the host of the podcast “The Last Archive” and of the BBC Radio 4 program “X-Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story.” \n“The Artificial State is the factory farming of humans\, the sorting and segmenting\, the isolation and alienation\, the destruction of both human community and the capacity for self-government\, the replacement of rule of\, by\, and for the people with the rule of machines owned by corporations. Within the Artificial State\, humans become to machines what animals have been to humans.” —Jill Lepore
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/democracy-then-and-now-jill-lepore/
LOCATION:Charleston Gaillard Center\, 95 Calhoun St\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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