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In this ongoing series, young writers are invited to join notable authors in exploring different genres. Author and illustrator Sara Varon leads a discussion about making comic books and graphic novels and works with young writers and artists to explore the possibilities of cartooning. Participants will learn the tools needed to create their own mini comic books.

Library members are invited to stop by and chat, or to bring in their portable electronic devices (laptops, tablets, cell phones, e-book readers, cameras, etc.) for a question-and-answer session with a member of the Library’s Systems staff.

Near the end of the nineteenth century, authors addressed unusual aspects of British life at the height of its imperial era, including Henry James with The Princess Casamassima and The Tragic Muse and Joseph Conrad with The Secret Agent. This seminar looks at their settings beyond the subject matter of most novelists of that era, with surprising relevance for today.

The Library hosts monthly writing groups for fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, and children’s/young adult writers.

The Library hosts monthly writing groups for fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, and children’s/young adult writers.

When the imagination is on fire and you’re writing up a storm, it’s great. When it becomes a slog, your efforts mired in resistance, what can you do? Stock your toolkit with 25 specific tools for writing with less struggle and more pleasure. C.S. Hanson is an award-winning playwright with Off-Broadway and regional credits.

From his lifetime until ours, Euripides caused controversy. He does not give his audience, in his own time or ours, the expected, and the result can shock. This representative set of four plays echoes the structure (three tragedies and a comedy) of an Athenian competition. This session covers Euripides’ Hippolytus.

Educator Blanche Siegal leads informal discussions of the beloved Victorian author Anthony Trollope and other master writers of the same century. This popular group is now in its eighth season.

The Library hosts monthly writing groups for fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, and children’s/young adult writers.

When the imagination is on fire and you’re writing up a storm, it’s great. When it becomes a slog, your efforts mired in resistance, what can you do? Stock your toolkit with 25 specific tools for writing with less struggle and more pleasure. C.S. Hanson is an award-winning playwright with Off-Broadway and regional credits.

In this fresh, authoritative version―the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman―this stirring tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic comes alive in an entirely new way. Written in iambic pentameter verse and a vivid, contemporary idiom, this engrossing translation matches the number of lines in the Greek original, thus striding at Homer’s sprightly pace and singing with a voice that echoes Homer’s music. An Oxford University graduate, Emily Wilson is a Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Don your frilliest, silliest frock and join us for stories, songs, and crafts…with a drag queen!