Wide Angle Lunch series returns to Charleston

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The annual series of Wide Angle Lunches is returning to the Charleston Library Society in the city’s historic district.

The weekly, monthlong series of talks opens Friday with an appearance by Robert Hicks, the bestselling author of “The Widow of the South” and “A Separate Country.”

Penguin Books president and publisher Kathryn Court appears next week, followed by Sam Helfrich on May 3. Helfrich is directing the Philip Glass opera “Kepler” at this year’s Spoleto Festival USA.

The series concludes on May 11 with a talk by John Jeremiah Sullivan, the southern editor of The Paris Review.