Attend: Literary

  • Wednesday Writers Workshop

    June 12, 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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  • Fiction Book Group

    June 13, 2013 - 10:30am - 11:30am
    Location: Conference Room, 2nd Floor

    Librarian Kristin Friberg leads a discussion of "Admission" by Jean Hanff Korelitz. 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. Conference Roomc

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  • Black Voices Book Group

    June 13, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    Location: Princeton Room

    The group discusses the award-winning “The Round House” by Louise Erdrich,  the story of a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota who  is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as she is traumatized and reluctant to reveal the details of what happened, either to the police, her husband, or 13...

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  • Author Sue Hallgarth

    June 13, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    Location: Fireplace, Second Floor

    The author discusses “On the Rocks: A Willa Cather and Edith Lewis Mystery,” the first book in her new literary mystery series featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Willa Cather and her talented life partner Edith Lewis. Fireplace Area, second floor

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  • 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

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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,...

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  • 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

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