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CONTACT:
Jill Hendrix
Fiction Addiction
864-675-0540
info@fiction-addiction.com
http://www.fiction-addiction.com
Book Your Lunch with South Carolina Columnist & Author Ken Burger
 Greenville, SC, September 17, 2012 - Book Your Lunch with South Carolina columnist and author Ken Burger on Friday, October 12th, from 12-2 pm at The Lazy Goat in Greenville. Tickets are $25 each and must be purchased in advance at http://www.bookyourlunch.com or by calling Fiction Addiction at 864-675-0540.
After almost 40 years as a journalist covering sports, business, politics, and life in the Palmetto State, Ken Burger will talk about his life as a columnist at one of the South's most well-known newspapers. Ken is one of the South's most beloved authors, and his new award-winning book, Baptized in Sweet Tea (Evening Post, paperback, $21.95), collects his columns celebrating the South.
Veteran Southern writer Ken Burger turns his daily news columns into a witty and insightful book filled with unforgettable images, incidents, and characters from all aspects of Southern culture.
Awarded the Independent Book Publishers Association 2012 Gold Medal in the Gift Book category, Baptized in Sweet Tea commemorates all that Ken loves about the South. This book is for an older southerner who longs to remember . . . for a younger southerner who's only heard tell . . . even for a non-southerner who simply had no idea. There are words of wisdom here, but also prayers of confession. There is humor and pathos, but never too much of either, always just enough.
While he may have been baptized in sweet tea, Burger's essays are steeped in a bittersweet nostalgia for a way of life that's passing into memory . . . and a reverence for those timeless qualities that abide.
This sweet tea goes down easily.
| "Baptized in Sweet Tea is written with the warmth and wit of a Southern storyteller at his best. Ken Burger's collection of columns are filled with unforgettable images, incidents, and people from different aspects of southern culture. I recommend that you sit on the porch with this book and a glass of sweet tea and enjoy every word." - Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling Southern author |
.jpg) Ken Burger spent almost 40 years writing for two South Carolina newspapers, a career that included stints covering sports, business, politics, and life in the Palmetto State.
While writing sports for The Post and Courier in Charleston, Burger won numerous statewide writing awards and was named one of the nation's best sports columnists three times. He also was named S.C. Journalist of the Year in 1996.
Burger topped off his journalism career by writing a popular metro column for the Charleston paper before retiring in 2011.
His first novel, Swallow Savannah, was published in 2008. His second novel, Sister Santee, came out in 2010. Both novels were touted as among the best in Southern fiction by the Independent Publishers Association. He also published Life Through the Earholes of Our Youth, a collection of sports columns that has become a collector's item. In retirement, Ken entertains himself and others with a blog at www.kenburgerblog.com.
Born and raised in Allendale, SC, Burger graduated dead last in his class at the University of Georgia, has been married five times, is a gratefully recovering alcoholic, a cancer survivor, and a happy man.
If you cannot make the event, you can reserve a personalized copy of many of Mr. Burger's books by contacting Fiction Addiction in advance at 864-675-0540 or at info@fiction-addiction.com.
ABOUT FICTION ADDICTION
Fiction Addiction is a local, woman-owned, independent bookstore established in 2001. The store carries a mixture of new and used fiction and nofiction, including children's books, as well as gift items. We have recently moved to a new location at 1175 Woods Crossing Road (in the shopping center with Five Guys and Fried Green Tomatoes). For more information, visit our website at http://www.fiction-addiction.com or call us at 864-675-0540.
 ABOUT BOOK YOUR LUNCH
The Book Your Lunch author event program was launched in September 2009, and is a new way to bring authors and readers together -- right here in Greenville. This luncheon series provides the ultimate food for thought with a wide range of authors -- from mystery writers, to award-winning regional novelists to nonfiction and cookbook authors. Jill Hendrix, the owner of Fiction Addiction, founded the event program and is responsible for booking the authors. For more information about Book Your Lunch, please visit our website at http://www.bookyourlunch.com.
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