WRITING

I recall the first time I walked through the Piazza della Libertá in Spoleto, Italy, glancing at shop windows and poking my American head through open doors to find my first glass of authentic Italian wine. I was fortunate to be accompanied by my roommates – two other students who, like myself, were part of the study abroad program College of Charleston hosted every year. Kate, with her thick mahogany hair, stood a couple inches above me and always looked like she was going o

Bret Lott, a Creative Writing professor at the College of Charleston, read from his latest novel, Dead Low Tide, on February 16 at the college’s Alumni Hall. This novel marks Lott’s thirteenth since his first came out in 1987 and, according to him, is the sequel to his 1999 novel, The Hunt Club. Of course, this information isn’t anything one couldn’t find on the internet nowadays. What you can’t find online is the rich story beneath the powerful words that make up Dead Low Ti