Angie Kim, Julia Phillips and Melissa Rivero discuss the first year after publishing their debut novels.
Writing teacher Mary-Lou Weisman interviews Paul Podolsky about his memoir about raising a child with reactive attachment disorder.
Sybil Steinberg, contributing editor and former book review section editor for Publishers Weekly, shares the best new books for the summer of 2020.
The Library offers its next Summer Reading Spotlight event, featuring author and historian Dr. James Carter on "Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai", which tells the story of how a single day revealed the history and foreshadowed the future of Shanghai. It is November 12, 1941, and the world is at war.
The Saugatuck Scribes series celebrates authors living in or who grew up in the town of Westport. In this episode, Bonnie Adler, author of LIFE GOES ON...THANKFULLY speaks with local writing teacher Jan Bassin about her biographical memoir.
The Saugatuck Scribes series celebrates authors living in or who grew up in the town. In this episode, Hilary A. Burns, author of THE SECOND PIECE OF FRENCH TOAST speaks with writing teacher and author Jessica Bram about her memoir.
Bette Bono's novel, THE BETTER ANGELS, is a genre-defying series debut. Here, she discusses her writing and the joys and challenges of becoming a writer after other career paths.
Robin Wolfe Scheffler traces the hunt for a human cancer virus in America in A Contagious Cause. He is an Associate Professor in the Program on Science,Technology, and Society at MIT.
The Library partners with TEAM Westport to host a virtual book club discussion on Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's "How to be an Antiracist." The conversation will be led by members of TEAM Westport. In his memoir, Kendi weaves together an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science--including the story of his own awakening to antiracism--bringing it all together in a cogent, accessible form.
In her memoir "8: Rediscovering Life After a Brain Tumor", Nathalie Jacob tells the incredible and inspiring story of rediscovering life and purpose after doctors discovered a golf ball sized tumor in her brain.
Hear about one woman's journey of discovery through empty nesting in Kim Brown Seely's book Uncharted, in conversation with Positive Directions, and Westport together
Join us for a chat with debut author, Leigha Grushkin, about her new book, "Where It Begins".
#ShelterinPoetry with Courtney Peppernell, author of six books of poetry and two novels, her most recent collections are I Hope You Stay and Hope in the Morning. Follow Courtney on Instagram!
#ShelterinPoetry with Jon Sands and Richard Blanco!
#ShelterinPoetry with chemistry lecturer Peter Davern. His new collection entitled From Arsenic to Zirconium: Poems and and Surprising Facts about the Elements combines science and poetry.
#ShelterinPoetry with Edward Hirsch, author of Stranger by Night. Learn why poetry is well-suited for isolating times.
#ShelterinPoetry with Roya Marsh, poet, performer, educator, and activist. Her new collection is entitled DayliGht.
#ShelterinPoetry with us while you shelter in place. Poet Rick Barot, author of the newly published collection of poems called "The Galleons" discusses his inspirations during national poetry month.
#ShelterinPoetry with Vincent Katz, author of thirteen books of poetry, including Southness and Swimming Home. He is the curator of the Readings in Contemporary Poetry series at Dia Art Foundation.
Author Danielle Trussoni answers our 10 quarantine questions. Danielle is an internationally bestselling author, columnist, and creator. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review, where she writes the excellent horror column, and her latest book, The Ancestor, was released on April 7.
#ShelterinPoetry with Jane Hirshfield, poet and inductee to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She is the author of nine books of poetry, including her newest, Ledger.
Stuck at home? Who isn't! #ShelterinPoetry with us while you shelter in place. Join us for a chat with Milford's poet laureate, Mick Theebs.
Our Media Studios producer David Bibbey, also a Poet Laureate, wrote this poem - so apt for today.
Stuck at home? Who isn't! #ShelterinPoetry with us while you shelter in place. Poet Jack Powers, author of a collection of poems called "Everybody's Vaguely Familiar" discusses what is getting him through isolation during national poetry month.
Stuck at home? Who isn't! #ShelterinPoetry with us while you shelter in place. Traci Brimhall is the author of four collections of poetry.
