Please join authors and educators Peggy S. Bud and Tamara L. Jacobson on Monday evening, April 24, at 7 pm in the Trefz Forum for an exploration of their new book, Navigating Special Education, which provides a timely and innovative roadmap for parents, educators, and administrators to build proactive, positive partnerships that will lead to 21st century best practices for students. Sivan Hong, a well-known advocate for special education and a bestselling children’s book author, will moderate the conversation.
The Westport Garden Club presented entomologist Doug Tallamy, who joined The Westport Library via Zoom to speak about how what humans plant affect the ecosystem in profound ways.
Author and Westport resident Amanda Freeman talks about her debut book, Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty.
Kick off StoryFest Saturday with a killer panel of thriller writers including Gabino Iglesias, Lynne Constantine, May Cobb, Greg Galloway and Bracken MacLeod.
Whether it’s releasing your first book days into a global pandemic or breaking through at a major publisher after years of small press success, hear from a group of authors who don’t quit, no matter what. Presented by the Westport Writers' Workshop with May Cobb, Rachel Harrison, Gabino Ingesias, Alma Katsu, Eric LaRocca, Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, and moderated by Tessa Smith McGovern.
Whether writing out from under oppression or helping to shine a light on others who've historically been disenfranchised, hear how these writers have used their own unique voices to amplify the voices of others in their lives and work. Participants include Mondiant Dogon, Sonya Huber, Gwendolyn Kiste, LaQuette, Julia Phillips, and Hugh Ryan.
Hear from a genre's premier editor, Ellen Datlow, and the award-winning authors she has worked with as they lift the veil on the symbiotic — and mysterious — relationship between writers and editors, with Stephen Graham Jones, John Langan, Bracken MacLeod, Seanan McGuire, Paul Tremblay.
Horror is all the rage these days, and we've got some of the genre's premier writers on hand to discuss the allure of dark fiction. Participants include Gus Moreno, Lorien Lawrence, Clay McLeod Chapmn, Eric LaRocca. Moderated by John Palisano of the Horror Writers Association.
Hear how writing and creating helped get this distinguished panel through the apocalypse. Participants include Greg Galloway, Coco Ma, Amanda Parrish Morgan, Kate Racculia, Libby Waterford. Moderated by Stephen Bowling.
Join Tessa Smith McGovern and Patricia Dunn for an in-depth conversation with NYT bestselling author Naomi Novik at StoryFest 2022! Be there as Tessa and Pat launch their brand-new podcast, Go Ahead, Write Something!
Mallory O’Meara (James Beard Book Award-winning author) and Brea Grant (filmmaker and actress) bring their ultra-popular podcast, Reading Glasses, to the Library’s stage for a very special live event featuring guest stars Paul Tremblay, Stephen Graham Jones, Alexis Henderson, and Clay McLeod Chapman, and a virtual appearance by Sarah Gailey!
StoryFest weekend kicked-off with an intimate conversation between best friends and best-selling authors Saeed Jones (How We Fight For Our Lives) and Isaac Fitzgerald (Dirtbag, Massachusetts).
Westporter Steve Parish continues his series of conversations with fascinating people. On Tuesday, July 19th, after an introduction by Dan Woog, Steve spoke with political journalist and co-founder of Politico, John Harris.
Corban Addison comes to Westport to discuss his new nonfiction book, Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial, with Sustainable Westport's Johanna Martell. As vivid and fast-paced as a thriller, Wastelands takes us into the heart of a legal battle over the future of America’s farmland and into the lives of the people who found the courage to fight.
Howard Blum returns to the Westport Library to discuss his newest history, The Spy Who Knew Too Much: An Ex-CIA Officer's Quest Through a Legacy of Betrayal with Maggie Mudd.
Westporters write books on a wide variety of subjects in all sorts of genres. Authors Gabi Coatsworth and Ted Aldrich will share their new books - a memoir and a history with our community. Saugatuck Scribes is a series that showcases Westport writers and their newest books: Love's Journey Home, Gabi Coatsworth; The Partnership: George Marshall, Henry Stimson, and the Extraordinary Collaboration that Won World War II by Edward Farley Aldrich.
Miles Rapoport and state senator Will Haskell will discuss whether it is time for the United States to take the leap and recognize voting as both a fundamental civil right and a civic duty. In 100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting, co-authors E.J. Dionne and Miles Rapoport argue that every citizen has the right to vote and full opportunities to do so—but also the duty to vote, a requirement to participate in our national choices.
Authors Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese will discuss their radical plan to address climate disaster and their book, Half-Earth Socialism with Kevin Gallagher, host of WPKN's "Digging in the Dirt."
Almost Happy authors Dr. Brian Kaplan and Hephzibah Kaplan talk with Elaine Daignault, Westport’s director of Health & Human Services about how to laugh your way to change. Dr. Brian Kaplan spent many years training in whole person approaches to health, well-being, and personal development. Brian has made regular appearances on Sky News, BBC Radio, LBC and local radio and has contributed chapters and forewords to several books.
Hephzibah Kaplan is a qualified art therapist, psychotherapy supervisor and artist. She founded the London Art Therapy Centre in 2010, and is its director as well as senior art therapist, supervisor,...
and head of training. She is a recognized national and international teacher and workshop facilitator, and appeared on BBC World News and radio.
Dinitia Smith, author of The Prince, discusses her novel with Erica Melnichok. The Prince is a modern retelling of The Golden Bowl by Henry James.
From their grand mansion on the Upper East Side to their magical private island in Long Island Sound, everything points to the Woodford family as being perfect and idyllic. Dinitia Smith is the author of four previous novels, including The Illusionist, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and her short stories have been published in numerous magazines.
