Summer Reading 2023: Imagine Your Summer
Join Summer Reading : Imagine Your Summer to earn prizes and help decorate the library. Read anything, anywhere. Signup online starting June 1.
Join Summer Reading : Imagine Your Summer to earn prizes and help decorate the library. Read anything, anywhere. Signup online starting June 1.
Come read with us: June 1 - August 31 Heyo, Readers! It is SUMMER READING CHALLENGE time! Cue the music and the fireworks for year 7! If you have participated in the past, welcome back-- the rules are all the same. If this is your first time joining us, we're thrilled to have you, and we've got […]
Book Chat is becoming Books & Bites! That's right, our popular book chat program is getting a new name for 2023! Books and Bites will remain similar in structure to the Book Chat program but will now include more reading recommendations, and from time to time, guests who will share and recommend their top titles. […]
Kate White, bestselling suspense author (whose 2022 thriller took place in Westport) and former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, talks about her newest thriller, Between Two Strangers and reinventing herself as an author with Gabi Coatsworth. Please register to attend this in-person event. Books will be available for purchase and signing. In case you missed the event, you may watch […]
Lisa Belkin will discuss her book, Genealogy of a Murder, with Laurel S. Peterson. This new work unwraps a true crime story that took place in Connecticut in 1960. Independence Day weekend, 1960: a young cop is murdered, shocking his close-knit community in Stamford, Connecticut. The killer remains at large, his identity still unknown. But on […]
Discuss "The Sweetness of Water" by Nathan Harris, the story of an unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their lives, and his, forever set in the waning days of the Civil War. For copies of the book, phone 203.291.4807. New participants always welcome. Room 210 […]
Bonnie Siegler and Helene Stapinski, co-authors of The American Way: A True Story of Nazi Escape, Superman, and Marilyn Monroe, will discuss investigating the book and crafting this family tale with Emmy Award-winning journalist David Pogue. According to Bonnie's family, her grandfather filmed Marilyn Monroe's legendary white dress flying up with his home camera, but […]
Take a break from your keyboard or quill and get energized! Come to the Library to meet other area writers on the third Wednesday of each month. Tell us what you're working on, get some feedback, come to congratulate or commiserate, exchange tips, brag, and compare notes. We try to keep you updated with places […]
Pages Through the Ages is a book discussion group focused on both historical non-fiction and fiction. This month the group will discuss the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. This is your chance to read the book before it becomes a major […]
David Grann returns to Westport to talk about his latest book, The Wager. REGISTER HERE In case you missed the event, you may watch the recorded program here. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, delivers a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and […]
In coordination with partners the Westport Weston Family YMCA, the Y’s Men of Westport/Weston, and the 06880 Blog, The Westport Library is proud to present NBA superstar Chris Paul, who will join award-winning sports journalist Lindsay Czarniak for an in-depth conversation about his new book, life in the NBA, the importance of family, and much […]
Westporter Sybil Steinberg, former book review section editor for Publishers Weekly, returns LIVE in the Trefz Forum, with suggestions for your reading with her ever-popular talk on the best new reads. […]
Discuss 1984 by George Orwell. Written more than 70 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever. For copies of the book, phone 203.291.4807. New participants always welcome. Room […]
If you write and need a place to read your work in front of a group of friendly, non-threatening fellow writers, this is the place for you! We meet in person and on Zoom from 7 to 9 pm on the third Tuesday of every month in a casual open mic format. We welcome fiction, […]
Take a break from your keyboard or quill and get energized! Come to the Library to meet other area writers on the third Wednesday of each month. Tell us what you're working on, get some feedback, come to congratulate or commiserate, exchange tips, brag, and compare notes. We try to keep you updated with places […]
Closings & Delayed Openings