Back by popular demand for a 9th year! Using Zoom, professional book discussion leader Susan Boyar will discuss 4 short stories published in The New Yorker magazine over 4 consecutive weeks: August 2, 9, 16, and 23. Story titles will be announced one week prior to the discussion. The current issue of The New Yorker […]
Back by popular demand for a 9th year! Using Zoom, professional book discussion leader Susan Boyar will discuss 4 short stories published in The New Yorker magazine over 4 consecutive weeks: August 2, 9, 16, and 23. Story titles will be announced one week prior to the discussion. The current issue of The New Yorker […]
Professional book discussion leader Susan Boyar discusses Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver this month. Demon Copperhead is the story of the son of an Appalachian teenager who uses his good looks, wit and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves and crushing losses. It was inspired by David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens. […]
Professional book discussion leader Susan Boyar discusses Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton this month at Wilton Library. A gripping psychological thriller from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its drama, Austenian in its wit, and, like both influences, fascinated by what makes us who we are. A […]
Please join Wilton Library during this baseball playoff season for a conversation on the sport by two Wilton High School graduates. Ed Porcelli and Jonathan Silverman will discuss their books about baseball and how they connect to the current state of the national pastime. Porcelli's book, The Last Dance: The Eagles' Rise to Extinction, is […]
Please join Wilton Library as Ray Rauth leads a discussion of D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. Banned in many countries for years, and even decades, Lawrence’s novel is a landmark in literary history. In 1960, the book was at the center of a major obscenity trial in London against its publisher Penguin Books. Prevailing in […]
Professional book discussion leader Susan Boyar discusses Booker Prize Winner Last Orders by Graham Swift this month at Wilton Library. Four men gather in a London pub. They have taken it upon themselves to carry out the last orders of Jack Dodds, master butcher, and deliver his ashes to the sea. As they drive towards […]
Professional book discussion leader Susan Boyar discusses Hell of a Book by Jason Mott on Zoom this month. A work of fiction that goes to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon Black Americans, and America as a whole. Mott’s poetic, cinematic novel tackles what it means to live in […]
Professional book discussion leader Susan Boyar discusses Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy this month on Zoom. Hailed as a classic of speculative fiction, Piercy’s landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futures - and what it takes to will one or the other into reality. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on […]
Professional book discussion leader Susan Boyar discusses the Wilton Reads selection The Great Divide by Cristina Henriquez this month at Wilton Library. The Great Divide is a fascinating historical novel about one of the greatest engineering feats in history, the Panama Canal. It explores the interwoven stories of laborers, locals, activists, doctors, scientists. It sheds […]
