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Monday, June 2
June 2 to July 31Opening reception: Friday, June 6, from 6:00 to 7:00 pm.
Light refreshments served. Enter through the main level Library entrance.
Tuesday, June 3Michael Shavel, Certified Professional Resume Writer with the CT Department of Labor will review resumes of participants. For more information, contact Sylvia at 291-4844 or e-mail sschulman@westportlibrary.org
Wednesday, June 4Westport author A. E. Hotchner traveled with Ernest Hemingway for 14 years and collected a lifetime's worth of Hemingway's experiences, anecdotes, and observations about everything imaginable, from war to women, hunting to Hollywood, life to death. His new book, The Good Life According to Hemingway, which includes over 150 rare black and white photos from Hotchner’s personal collection, is an exuberant, fully illustrated celebration of Hemingway’s remarkable genius and the wild adventures of his life.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
More information about A.E. Hotchner.
Book review.
Thursday, June 5Janis Abrahms Spring, Westport author of How Can I Forgive You? The Courage to Forgive, The Freedom Not To, will discuss a radical approach and an empowering model to healing intimate wounds and forgiveness. Her third book, an inspirational memoir on caring for an aging parent, will be published in late spring 2009.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book review.
Saturday, June 7Invite a grandparent, parent, older sibling, or friend to learn basic knitting skills. Bring a pair of knitting needles and we will supply the yarn. Registration is required for beginning knitters and is limited to 8. Advanced knitters can just drop in!
Contact Jaina Lewis at 291-4809 or email jlewis@westportlibrary.org
Monday, June 9Books available for purchase and signing.
Book review.
About Pete Fornatale's radio program.
Tuesday, June 10Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book Review.
Wednesday, June 11 NYT article from 1997 about the book
Furthur book information.
The honoree for 2008 will be Oscar Hijuelos, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. The Tenth Westport Library Award will be given at the Library's Booked for the evening fundraising event on June 12, 2008 at 7:30 pm.
Friday, June 13Noted Brooklyn-based altered book artist Doug Beube will give a talk and slide show on “The Alternative Library: The Book in the Environment,” looking at the fact that books, which we may not think of as books at all, are everywhere in the environment. He will also discuss how, with the advent of the computer, many books are thrown away by individuals and institutions around the globe, and how fortunately many are reclaimed by artists.
above, Disasters; Twister Series; Yellow Pages by Doug Beube)
More about the artist.
More information on the Library's Books Unbound project, including furthur Book Grab dates
Part of the Library's 100th Birthday Celebration.
Sunday, June 15
Sunday, June 15Discussion of The Bookman’s Wake by John Dunning. Paper Chase #1: Cliff Janeway, cop-turned-book-dealer, is trying to find “Eleanor Rigby” who has stolen a rare copy of Poe’s "The Raven."
For copies of the book, phone 291-4821. New participants always welcome.
Book Review.
Monday, June 16Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Article by author.
Tuesday, June 17Discuss The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, by Jean-Dominique Bauby, translated by Jeremy Leggatt. An extraordinary book about the author's survival of a paralyzing stroke and his determination to live a rewarding life despite this. Made into a movie.
For copies of the book, phone 291-4821.
New participants always welcome.
Book Review.
Wednesday, June 18Come celebrate the last day of school with an afternoon of Wii with your friends! Just drop in.
Note: this is a new date!
Wednesday, June 25Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East is a brilliant narrative history tracing today's troubles back to grandiose imperial overreach of Great Britain and the United States. Authors Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac tell this character-driven story of how the modern Middle East came to be through the colorful lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book review.
Saturday, June 28 
Monday, June 30 Sonny Fox is the embodiment of life after 50...60...70...and 80..! With clips from his early years on television, he will entertain, enlighten, and show the enthusiasm that has allowed him to re-invent his life from his early on-air television career to his more recent activities with international social and health reform through entertainment .
Sponsored by The Smilow Family.
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