Category Archives: Corinne Manning (10-11)

(posted by Corinne) Before I left Spartanburg, Betsy asked me what I was going to miss about the South. We were floating down the Pacolet in kayaks and it was one of those late April days that was foreshadowing summer—the … Continue reading →

 My apartment is a disaster zone. Boxes and debris everywhere. It smells like how my brother’s room did in high school—sort of musty and over sweet. Amid all of the destruction was the one pot and this lone vegetable. In … Continue reading →

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better”–Beckett Last night we got together and watched Tommy Wiseau’s film “The Room”—a cult favorite for bad movies. Amidst the hilarity of reused sex scenes, erratic characters, plot lines … Continue reading →

If there ever was a Reading Series about being in love—well, in love with literature—Writers Reading is it. The monthly series began at the bookshop in January where Zoe Miller, local fiction writer, and I talked about James Baldwin, an … Continue reading →

This past Saturday Hub City hosted the Upstate Regional Competition for Poetry Out Loud. This is an amazing program sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation that made it’s way to South Carolina in 2005. … Continue reading →

A couple weeks ago I purchased this persimmon. I hadn’t encountered one in awhile and I was excited by the find. But yesterday afternoon I had some troubling results that required a scientific experiment.  First, a little background… When I … Continue reading →

I’m working on a book project and I need your assumptions. Use this survey to write three assumptions that you’ve had about people that you’ve encountered. This is completely anonymous– please don’t use any names. Fill out the form as … Continue reading →

Next week the next stage of The Yoga Project begins, a series of art and yoga workshops. I know, I’m the writer-in-residence and not the yoga-teacher-in-residence. I’ve gotten a lot of “Oh! You’re the yoga one,” and then “what else do … Continue reading →

This weekend, at the beautiful Bookshop/Coffee Bar/ Cake Head opening you might have seen me and Kari in that little alley between Carriage House Wines and the Masonic Temple. The two of us were managing a few different projects, one … Continue reading →

Since arriving at Hub Bub I’ve been trying to think of new ways to reapproach my novel. I feel a bit hesitant, the way one might feel about getting back into a relationship that was questionable in the first place. … Continue reading →