Presented by CCU’s Department of English, “Belonging Through Books: Reading/Writing/Communicating Across Boundaries” features a lecture by award-winning author Gabriel Bump, who gives a reading of his work. He’s the author of the novels The New Naturals (2023) and Everywhere You Don’t Belong (2020), which was named a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2020, an Electric Lit Favorite Novel of 2020, and won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Coastal Carolina University, 100 Chanticleer Dr. Johnson Auditorium, WALL 116. Thursday, 5:30 p.m. Free. (843) 347-3161, www.coastal.edu