Attend: Literary

  • Wednesday Writers Workshop

    June 19, 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

  • Summer Reading Club Registration

    June 21, 2013 - 9:00am - 9:00pm
    Location: Youth Services, 3rd Floor

    Registration begins today for Summer Reading Clubs, including “Wee Reads: Dig Into Reading” for preschoolers; “Dig Into Reading” for children entering kindergarten through fifth grade; “Going Beneath the Surface” for teens in grades 6-12 and Groundbreaking Reads, for adults. Youth Services, third...

  • Books on Tap

    June 25, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    Location: Yankee Doodle Tap Room, Nassau Inn

    Librarian Kristin Friberg for a discussion of Jean Hanff Korelitz's "Admission." Thirty-eight-year old Portia Nathan, a Princeton University admissions officer, must decide whether to confront the truth when a life-altering decision from her past resurfaces. Bring your library card to get $2 and $3 selected beer specials...

  • Library will be Closed

    July 4, 2013 - 9:00am - 9:00pm
    Location: Library

    The library will be closed for the Independence Day holiday.

  • Poets at the Library

    Poets at the Library
    July 8, 2013 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
    Location: Fireplace, 2nd Floor

    Featured poets Ajay Manissery Konchery and Mark Hillringhouse read from their works for 20 minutes each followed by an open-mic session. A native of Kerala, India, who relocated to Basking Ridge last year, Ajay has published two collections of poems: “Facsimile of Beliefs” and “Sweetness of Salt.” “Urban...

  • Non-fiction Book Group

    Non-fiction Book Group
    July 10, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    Location: Princeton Room

    Libby Zinman Schwartz leads a discussion of “Dinner at Mr. Jefferson’s: Three Men, Five Great Wines, and the Evening that Changed America” by Charles Cerami. Discover the little-known story behind a pivotal evening in American history, in which Thomas Jefferson and his two guests, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison,...

  • Summer Shorts

    July 11, 2013 - 10:30am - 11:30am
    Location: Conference Room, 2nd Floor

    This summer discussion series, led by librarian Kristin Friberg,  focuses on short stories. Read one or all of the stories in this month’s featured title, “This Is How You Lose Her” by Junot Diaz. Princeton Room

  • Begin Your Odyssey

    July 11, 2013 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    Rising high school freshmen are invited to get a head start on Homer’s epic poem “The Odyssey” in this two-hour workshop presented by teacher Margaret Spear. Students should come prepared to move, play and travel around Ancient Greece through their imagination and Homer’s words. “The Odyssey” is...

  • “Breaking New Ground in Literature”

    July 17, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    Location: Fireplace, 2nd Floor

    Keri Walsh, assistant professor at Fordham University and the editor of “The Letters of Sylvia Beach,” presents a lecture that examines the earlier works of James Joyce (including “Dubliners”) that led up to his writing

    of “Ulysses,” and his meeting with the groundbreaking

    Sylvia Beach....

  • Author Lily Koppel

    Author Lily Koppel
    July 23, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    The author discusses her book “The Astronaut Wives Club” which tells the story of the women who stood behind some of the biggest heroes in American history, how they became celebrities, and supported each other with lifelong friendships. A Q-and-A session and book signing follows the talk. Come dressed in your most...

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