Attend: Literary

  • Writers Room Group

    May 21, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    Location: Princeton Room

    Writers can receive constructive feedback at these sessions, during which participants read their work and members offer suggestions. Works read are usually less than 15 minutes long, so there is time to discuss a number of pieces during each session. While nonfiction has been a focus in the past, fiction writers are welcome....

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  • Wednesday Writers Workshop

    May 22, 2013 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm
    Location: Princeton Room

    Led by Beth Plankey, this group encourages and supports creative writers through group and individual discussion sessions leading up to the November celebration of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Princeton Room

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  • Gente Y Cuentos

    May 23, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    Location: Conference Room

    In discussing Latin American short stories in Spanish, participants recount their personal experiences and how they relate to the characters in the story.

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  • Explorers Club

    May 25, 2013 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
    Location: Conference Room

    This book club, open to children in grades 1-5, uses stories, folk tales, picture and chapter books, and songs to bring the culture of countries around the world to life.

    Registration is not required

     

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  • Books on Tap

    Books on Tap
    May 28, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    Location: Yankee Doodle Tap Room, Nassau Inn

    Join librarian Kristin Friberg for a discussion of “The Fault in Our Stars” John Green’s novel about a 16-year-old cancer patient whose chance meeting with a boy at a support group changes her perspective on love, loss and life.

    Bring your library card to get $2 and $3 selected beer specials and a 10 percent...

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  • Wednesday Writers Workshop

    May 29, 2013 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm
    Location: Princeton Room

    Led by Beth Plankey, this group encourages and supports creative writers through group and individual discussion sessions leading up to the November celebration of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Princeton Room

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  • Author Ron Berler

    Author Ron Berler
    May 30, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    The author discusses “Raising the Curve: A Year Inside One of America’s 45,000 Failing Public Schools,” his book about Brookside Elementary in Norwalk, Conn., and those who populate it: administrators and faculty, students and their parents, the superintendent and local school board. The book chronicles the struggles...

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  • Wednesday Writers Workshop

    June 5, 2013 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm
    Location: Princeton Room

    Led by Beth Plankey, this group encourages and supports creative writers through group and individual discussion sessions leading up to the November celebration of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Princeton Room

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  • Gente y Cuentos

    June 6, 2013 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
    Location: Conference Room, 2nd Floor

    In discussing Latin American short stories in Spanish, participants recount their personal experiences and how they relate to the characters in the story. Conference Room

     

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  • Beach Reads

    Beach Reads
    June 7, 2013 - 6:30pm - 9:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    A panel of eight authors, including Lisa Cullen (“Pastors’ Wives”), Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus (“The Nanny Diaries” and "Between You and Me"), Christina Baker Kline (“Orphan Train”), Sally Koslow (“The Widow Waltz”), Pamela Satran (“The Possibility of You),...

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