http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/ en Copyright 2010 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 05:00:01 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sunday July 11, 2010
2:00 pm
McManus Room

Historian Alice Sparberg Alexiou will speak on her new book, The Flatiron: The New York Landmark and the Incomparable City That Arose with It . From its completion in 1902, the Flatiron Building became a symbol of turn-of-the-century New York, representing the changes that were about to make the city what it is today. Its unique architectural style captured the imagination of painters, photographers, and writers, and the building has become almost synonymous with New York itself. The book will be the basis of a new documentary film by Vanguard Documentaries. Alice Sparberg Alexiou holds a masters in journalism from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in classics from Fordham University. She has written for several publications, including The New York Times and Newsday, and is an editor of Lilith magazine, an independent magazine for Jewish women. ]]> http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2010/07/authors_the_library_alice_spar.html http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2010/07/authors_the_library_alice_spar.html Authors @ the Library Sun, 11 Jul 2010 05:00:00 -0500 Thursday, July 22, 2010
2:00 pm
McManus Room

Enjoy summer Thursdays with a cool drink, a short introduction, and a film as a part of the tenth season of this series. At once a suspense film and a character study, Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation was nominated for four Oscars and won the Golden Palm at Cannes. Starring Gene Hackman with Harrison Ford in an early appearance. "One of the best of the decade" said the critics. (1974, 113 minutes)]]> http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2010/07/sizzling_summer_film_series_th_3.html http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2010/07/sizzling_summer_film_series_th_3.html Film @ the Library Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:00:01 -0500 Wednesday July 28, 2010
Noon
McManus Room

Ronica Dhar discusses her debut novel Bijou Roy: A Novel. When Bijou Roy loses her father to a long illness, she travels to India a quest for answers of what happens next when the customs of neither an original nor an adopted culture provide comfort. Bijou sees how each generation must wrestle—often at great risk—with the one who came before, and, perhaps above all, comes to learn how to replace sorrow with hope. “Ronica Dhar captures the struggles of family and cultural identity with such tenderness and depth of feeling that she makes these subjects completely her own. Bijou Roy is a thoughtful, elegant novel.”—Ann Patchett Ronica Dahr was a New York Foundation for the Arts 2006 Fellow in Fiction. She holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Michigan where she received the Meijer award and the Hopwood award. Books will be available for purchase and signing.]]> http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2010/07/authors_the_library_ronica_dha.html http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2010/07/authors_the_library_ronica_dha.html Authors @ the Library Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:00:01 -0500 Thursday, July 29, 2010
2:00 pm
McManus Room

Enjoy summer Thursdays with a cool drink, a short introduction, and a film as a part of the tenth season of this summer series. In Being Julia, Annette Bening, as a stage star in 1930s London, does a wonderful send-up of a diva. She won the Golden Globe for best actress and was nominated for an Oscar. With Jeremy Irons and Michael Gambon, it's about an amorous folly and magnificent — and totally delicious — revenge. (2004, 104 minutes)]]> http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2010/07/sizzling_summer_film_series_be.html http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2010/07/sizzling_summer_film_series_be.html Film @ the Library Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:00:01 -0500 Thursday, August 5, 2010
2:00 pm
McManus Room

Enjoy summer Thursdays with a cool drink, a short introduction, and a film as a part of the tenth season of this summer series. Want to see a young Denzel Washington in his break-through role? The Mighty Quinn, set in Jamaica, stars Washington as a police chief whose best friend is accused of murder. His charm and off-beat humor make the film as much a musical and a comedy as a thriller. (1989, 98 minutes)]]> http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2010/08/sizzling_summer_film_series_th_4.html http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2010/08/sizzling_summer_film_series_th_4.html Film @ the Library Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:00:01 -0500 Thursday, August 12, 2010
2:00 pm
McManus Room

Enjoy summer Thursdays with a cool drink, a short introduction, and a film as a part of the tenth season of this summer series. This documentary, My Architect, about the late, great architect Louis Kahn (who mentored Frank Lloyd Wright) was made by his son. He travels the world, seeking out his father's magnificent buildings, famous architects, several wives, and other children. Nominated for best documentary. (2003, 116 minutes) ]]> http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2010/08/sizzling_summer_film_series_my.html http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2010/08/sizzling_summer_film_series_my.html Film @ the Library Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:00:01 -0500 Sunday, August 15, 2010
2:00 pm
Seminar Room

Discussion of the award winning mystery In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson. DCI Alan Banks investigates when a dried up reservoir reveals the unidentified bones of a brutally murdered young woman that has lain there for half a century.

For copies of the book, phone 291-4821. New participants always welcome. ]]> http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2010/08/the_usual_suspects_in_a_dry_se.html http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2010/08/the_usual_suspects_in_a_dry_se.html Book Discussion Groups Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:00:00 -0500 Thursday, August 19, 2010
2:00 pm
McManus Room

Enjoy summer Thursdays with a cool drink, a short introduction, and a film as a part of the tenth season of this summer series. The original The Lady Vanishes by Alfred Hitchcock is one of his last British films and stars Michael Redgrave, Paul Lucas, Margaret Lockwood, and Dame May Whitty. Set on a Trans-European train, The Lady Vanishes has been called "the greatest ever comedy-thriller" by the incomparable "master of suspense". (1938, 96 minutes)]]> http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2010/08/sizzling_summer_film_series_th_5.html http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2010/08/sizzling_summer_film_series_th_5.html Film @ the Library Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:00:01 -0500 Thursday, September 16, 2010
Noon
McManus Room

In A Happy Marriage: A Novel , Rafael Yglesias tells the story of Enrique Sabas and his wife Margaret, alternating between the romantic misadventures of the first weeks of their courtship and the final months of Margaret's life as she says good-bye to her family, friends, and children — and to Enrique. Spanning thirty years, the story is tells it means for two people to spend a lifetime together, capturing the maturing of feelings, the issues around sex, and the frustrations of parenthood — and what makes a happy marriage. "Maybe marriage is the oldest story in the world, but in Mr. Yglesias's tender, funny, rueful telling, the lifelong relationship is the story of life itself.”— Wall Street Journal, The Summer Book List. Books will be available for purchase and signing. ]]> http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2010/09/authors_the_library_rafael_ygl.html http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2010/09/authors_the_library_rafael_ygl.html Authors @ the Library Thu, 16 Sep 2010 05:00:00 -0500 Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Noon
McManus Room

Connecticut radio talk show host and attorney Lisa Wexler discusses her book Secrets of a Jewish Mother, co-written with her mother Gloria Kamen and sister Jill Zarin, a star of The Real Housewives of New York City. Books will be available for purchase and signing.]]> http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2010/09/authors_the_library_lisa_wexle.html http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2010/09/authors_the_library_lisa_wexle.html Authors @ the Library Wed, 22 Sep 2010 05:00:00 -0500 Sunday, September 26, 2010
2:00 pm
Seminar Room

Discussion of the award-winning mystery Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman. When two young boys suddenly disappear, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police, must observe the strange laws of the Zuñi while tracking their brutal killer.

For copies of the book, phone 291-4821. New participants always welcome. ]]> http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2010/09/the_usual_suspects_dance_hall.html http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2010/09/the_usual_suspects_dance_hall.html Book Discussion Groups Sun, 26 Sep 2010 05:00:00 -0500 Sunday, October 17, 2010
2:00 pm
Seminar Room

Discussion of the mystery Murder in the Marais by Cara Black. Aime Leduc, a intrepid young French-American detective, is hired to investigate the grisly murder of an old Jewish woman in the Marais district of Paris.

For copies of the book, phone 291-4821. New participants always welcome. ]]> http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2010/10/the_usual_suspects_murder_in_t.html http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2010/10/the_usual_suspects_murder_in_t.html Book Discussion Groups Sun, 17 Oct 2010 05:00:00 -0500 Sunday, November 21, 2010
2:00 pm
Seminar Room

Discussion of the award-winning mystery Still Life by Louise Penny. Chief Inspector Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec is called to a tiny hamlet south of Montreal to investigate the suspicious hunting "accident" that claimed the life a local woman.

For copies of the book, phone 291-4821. New participants always welcome. ]]> http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2010/11/the_usual_suspects_still_life.html http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2010/11/the_usual_suspects_still_life.html Book Discussion Groups Sun, 21 Nov 2010 05:00:00 -0500 Sunday, December 19, 2010
2:00 pm
Seminar Room

Discussion of the mystery The 39 Steps by John Buchan. Adventurer Richard Hannay is thoroughly bored with his life until a murder is committed in his flat. This 1915 thriller inspired many other novelists and filmmakers including Alfred Hitchcock.

For copies of the book, phone 291-4821. New participants always welcome. ]]> http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2010/12/the_usual_suspects_the_39_step.html http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2010/12/the_usual_suspects_the_39_step.html Book Discussion Groups Sun, 19 Dec 2010 05:00:00 -0500 Saturday, February 5, 2011
1:00 pm
McManus Room

Photo of finalists from the February 2010 contest: (l to r) Peter Rimkus, grand prize winner, Will Shortz, Jan O'Sullivan, and Alice Dutton. Photo credit Larry Untermeyer. YouTube video of the 2009 contest on the Library's YouTube website. ]]> http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2011/02/westport_library_twelfth_annua.html http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/2011/02/westport_library_twelfth_annua.html Crossword Puzzle Contest Sat, 05 Feb 2011 05:00:01 -0500