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Meet the Author: An Afternoon with Guy Trebay and Chris Frantz
Pequot Library 720 Pequot Avenue, FairfieldGuy Trebay has chronicled culture, both high and low, for decades, writing for The New Yorker, the Village Voice, Interview, Esquire, and Artforum. He has served as a style reporter and critic for The New York Times for the last two decades. In his new memoir, Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of ’70s New York, Trebay details […]
Interiority: Writing Craft Workshop at Westport Writers’ Workshop
Westport Writers’ Workshop 25 Sylvan Rd. S Suite J,, WestportWhether we’re inventing characters in fiction or conveying the workings of our own minds and hearts as non-fiction narrators, we’re able to know both the external and internal worlds of the people we’re writing about. In short, we can know our characters completely, which is something we can never do in real life. (In real […]
Emily Austin (We Could Be Rats) Author Talk and Signing at Bank Square Books
Bank Square Books 80 Stonington Road, Mystic, CTBank Square Books presents an author talk and signing with Emily Austin, for her new book, We Could Be Rats. Emily will be in conversation with Lara Ehrlich, author of Animal Wife. A moving story about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and the power of imagination—from the bestselling author of Everyone […]
Jeff Benedict on ‘The Dynasty’ of the New England Patriots at Westport Library
The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, WestportIn anticipation of the Big Game, The Westport Library welcomes best-selling author Jeff Benedict to talk football and discuss his definitive book on the New England Patriots, The Dynasty. As an author, producer, and commentator, Benedict is the ultimate cultural authority on the most dominant sports dynasty of the 21st century, the New England Patriots, as featured at […]
Interior Styling with Mieke ten Have at New Canaan Library
New Canaan Library 151 Main Street, New CanaanLearn about interior styling from Mieke ten Have. Mieke shares her expertise on pattern play, color theory, flowers and more while discussing her book, Interiors Styled by Mieke ten Have. The book is a beautiful representation of Mieke's talent. Mieke ten Have is an interiors stylist, design writer, and creative consultant. After years working as a magazine editor, […]
Pulitzer Prize Winner Series: Marcia Chatelain, Author of Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America at the Ferguson Library
Ferguson Libray Main Branch 1 Public Library Plaza, StamfordMarcia Chatelain, an American academic who serves as the Penn Presidential Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss her book Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for History. Chatelain’s Franchise investigates the complex interrelationship between Black communities and America’s largest, most popular fast food chain. […]
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Hernan Díaz on IN THE DISTANCE at Westport Library
The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, WestportPulitzer Prize-winning author Hernan Díaz joins the Westport community for a keynote conversation on the 2025 WestportREADS selection, In the Distance, Díaz's 2017 Pulitzer Prize-nominated debut novel about a young Swedish immigrant who travels east from California in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing west. About Hernan Díaz Díaz is […]
From Trenton to Yorktown: Virtual Author Event with John R. Maass
Join us for a virtual author event and John R. Maass Published to coincide with the 250th anniversary, this sweeping narrative is an astute exploration of the five critical military events that changed the outcome of the Revolutionary war. For eight grueling years, American and British military forces struggled in a bloody war over colonial […]
In The Shadows with Hostage Negotiator and Author Mickey Bergman at the Ferguson Library
Ferguson Libray Main Branch 1 Public Library Plaza, StamfordWhen an American is captured abroad, that’s when private hostage negotiators like Mickey Bergman step in to bring them home. Mickey Bergman, two-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee and CEO of Global Reach, has spent the past decade freeing Americans from the world’s most insulated countries. He joins us in Stamford to reveal true stories from […]
Madness with Best-Selling Author Antonia Hylton at New Canaan Library
New Canaan Library 151 Main Street, New CanaanWidely listed as one of the best books of 2024, Madness tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the last segregated asylums with surviving records and a campus that still stands in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Award-winning journalist Antonia Hylton traces the legacy of slavery to the treatment of Black people’s bodies and minds in […]
An Evening with Poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, Author of Doggerel, a Black History Month Program at the Ferguson Library
Ferguson Libray Main Branch 1 Public Library Plaza, StamfordAn evening with poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, who will discuss his new book of poetry, Doggerel. Simultaneously philosophical and playful, Doggerel is a revelatory meditation on Blackness, masculinity and vulnerability as well as family, falling in love, friendship and those who accompany us on our walk through life. Betts is a foremost chronicler of the ways prison shapes and […]
Sloane Crosley (Grief Is for People) Author Talk and Signing at Bank Square Books
Bank Square Books 80 Stonington Road, Mystic, CTBank Square Books presents an author talk and signing with Sloane Crosley for the paperback release of her book Grief Is for People. Sloane will be in conversation with Ethan Rutherford. An aching meditation on loss and friendship…Crosley elegantly links the two losses by explaining how her fevered desire to reclaim her burglarized items stood in […]