{"id":3970,"date":"2023-10-09T10:50:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T14:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/?p=3970"},"modified":"2023-10-09T10:50:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T14:50:49","slug":"the-10th-annual-celebration-of-verse-vino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/blog\/2023\/10\/09\/the-10th-annual-celebration-of-verse-vino\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10th Annual Celebration of Verse & Vino"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The tenth annual celebration of Verse & Vino<\/em>, the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation\u2019s grand literary gala and fundraiser, will take place in the Charlotte Convention Center on November 2, 2023.  This event will feature five New York Times <\/em>best-selling authors, wine, and food.  I contacted Maggie Bean, the Director of Communications for the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation, and asked her for more information about this year\u2019s Verse & Vino<\/em> event.  Here is what she sent to me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every year \u2014 now for 10 years \u2014 we have worked diligently to put together a diverse group of authors for our <\/em>Verse & Vino attendees, and this year we hope we\u2019ve done our anniversary justice with this line up\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starting with beloved cultural critic and <\/em>Bad Feminist author Roxane Gay! We are a stop on Ms. Gay\u2019s book tour for her new compilation of essays called <\/em>Opinions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Historical fiction fans will not be disappointed as we have two amazing authors joining us: Melanie Benjamin and Sadeqa Johnson with novels set in the midst of 1960s surf culture titled <\/em>California Golden and in 1950s DC and Philadelphia titled <\/em>The House of Eve, respectively.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our thriller readers will definitely not want to miss Brad Taylor, former U.S. Army infantry and special forces officer and author of the current bestselling novel <\/em>The Devil\u2019s Ransom.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Etaf Rum rounds out our group with her highly-anticipated sophomore effort, <\/em>Evil Eye, a follow-up to her acclaimed first novel <\/em>A Woman Is No Man, a novel that \u201ccomplicates and deepens the Arab American story \u2014 a tale as rich and varied as America itself\u201d (<\/em>The Washington Post).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We at the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation are so excited to share this event with you, but don\u2019t take our word for it. <\/em>Verse & Vino alumna and beloved <\/em>New York Times best-selling author Adriana Trigiani has declared, \u201c<\/em>Verse & Vino is the best event in the United States of America!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information about participating in this year\u2019s Verse & Vino<\/em> event, please click on the following link:  https:\/\/foundation.cmlibrary.org\/verse-vino\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I attended the very first Verse & Vino event in 2013, and I remember how much I enjoyed the evening.  Since then, I have been impressed with how Verse & Vino<\/em> has established itself over the past ten years as one of our community\u2019s premier cultural events.  While Verse & Vino<\/em> is an important fundraiser for the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, it is also a celebration of libraries, literacy, and books.  As a long-time supporter of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, I believe that participating in Verse & Vino<\/em> is wonderful way to engage in our Storied Charlotte community and support our storied public library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The tenth annual celebration of Verse & Vino, the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation\u2019s grand literary gala and fundraiser, will take place in the Charlotte Convention Center on November 2, 2023.  This event will feature five New York Times best-selling authors, wine, and food.  I contacted Maggie Bean, the Director of Communications for the Charlotte Mecklenburg […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[141],"class_list":["post-3970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storied-charlotte","tag-verse-vino"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3973,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions\/3973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}