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Books & Bites

The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, Westport

Come share your reading recommendations at Books and Bites.  From time to time, guests will share and recommend their top titles. Enjoy coffee and tea and light refreshments while we […]

Event Series Writing Sprints with Tessa Smith McGovern

Writing Sprints with Tessa Smith McGovern

The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, Westport

Stay accountable with two free weekly virtual writing workshops from WestportWRITES! The Westport Library is delighted to present two, free weekly Writing Sprints to Prompts and an AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) with award-winning author and teacher Tessa Smith McGovern. This is like a write-in but with extras …it's writing time followed by a 30-minute Q&A where […]

POSTPONED: Verso University Presents: Author/Historian Darrin McMahon on ‘Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea’

The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, Westport

We live in a time of soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nationality. Equality, in short, is in crisis. Yet, surprisingly, little historical work has been done to explore equality and its broader aspects. Under the Verso University banner, Darrin McMahon will present a talk based on his sweeping new book, EQUALITY: The History of an Elusive Idea. In this definitive intellectual history, McMahon seeks to address the questions of how can we strive for equality if we don’t understand it? As much as we continue to struggle for equality, we have always remained profoundly skeptical about it. How much do we want, and for whom?

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