Please join Wilton Library for a special Author Talk with Melissa Newman on Monday, Dec. 4 at 7 p.m., when she shares an extraordinary and deeply personal new look inside the private life of her parents Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward as presented in the recently published and lushly illustrated book, Head Over Heels: Joanne […]
Please join Wilton Library online as Janet Krauss leads a discussion of a selection of poems by A.R. Ammons. Links to the poems will be emailed in advance of the program. The spirit of Nature runs through Ammons’ soul. That is the Transcendental belief. A critic said that Ammons adheres “to a fidelity to details […]
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 […]
Please join us for an Author Talk with Terence Hawkins, who will speak on January 11 from 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. about his first novel, The Rage of Achilles, first published in 2009 and republished in 2021. In The Rage of Achilles, Terence Hawkins recounts the "Iliad" as a novel and imagines a Trojan […]
Please join Wilton Library online via Zoom as Mark Schenker takes us through Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, a Victorian take on the medieval Arthurian legends. In the early 19th century, the rise of Romanticism in Europe generally, and in England in particular, led to a renewed interest in medievalism. Consequences of this resurgence persisted […]
Home cooks looking for healthy comfort food, this one is for you! Darien Library and Wilton Library, along with Barrett Bookstore, team up to welcome social media sensation, Kat Ashmore, creator of Kat Can Cook, to talk about her new book, Big Bites: Wholesome, Comforting Recipes That Are Big on Flavor, Nourishment, and Fun. With […]
Poetry is a “way of getting your reality shaped a little better.” — R.P.W. Join Wilton Library for a seminar series in which Judson Scruton takes us through a selection of remarkable poems by Robert Penn Warren from his seminal book Understanding Poetry. Warren was a major force in American literature during the 20th century. […]
Please join Wilton Library online via Zoom as Mark Schenker takes us through Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, a Victorian take on the medieval Arthurian legends. In the early 19th century, the rise of Romanticism in Europe generally, and in England in particular, led to a renewed interest in medievalism. Consequences of this resurgence persisted […]
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 […]
Poetry is a “way of getting your reality shaped a little better.” — R.P.W. Join Wilton Library for a seminar series in which Judson Scruton takes us through a selection of remarkable poems by Robert Penn Warren from his seminal book Understanding Poetry. Warren was a major force in American literature during the 20th century. […]
