BOOKS & AUTHORS BOOK GROUPS MYSTERY BOOK GROUP Mondays, 7:30 p.m., Quiet Room Dec. 4 “The Mistletoe Murders: And Other Stories” by P.D. James Jan. 8 “Magpie Murders” by Anthony Horowitz Feb. 5 “The Dry” by Jane Harper CONTEMPORARY FICTION BOOK GROUP Thursdays, 10:30 a.m., Conference Room Dec. 14 “Swing Time” by Zadie Smith Jan. 11 “The Year of the Runaways” by Sunjeev Sahota Feb. 8 “The Improbability of Love” by Hannah Rothschild BLACK VOICES BOOK GROUP Thursdays, 7 p.m., Princeton Room Dec. 14 “The Souls of Black Folk” by W.E.B. Du Bois Jan. 11 “My Song, A Memoir” by Harry Belafonte Feb. 8 “Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson” by Barbara Ransby VIETNAM WAR SERIES BOOK DISCUSSIONS See Page 5 for Details
POETS AT THE LIBRARY
Featured poets read from their works for 20 minutes each followed by an open-mic session. Co-sponsored by the library, Delaware Valley Poets and the U.S. 1 Poets’ Cooperative. All events are in the Newsroom.
David Crews and Betty Lies Monday, Dec. 11, 7 p.m. Crews earned a master’s in poetry from Drew University and is director of the Betty June Silconas Poetry Center at Sussex County College. He is the author of two poetry collections and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Lies is the author of four volumes of poetry and four other books. She is the senior poetry editor of U.S. 1 Worksheets, teaches at the Princeton Senior Resource Center and is a member of Cool Women Poets.
HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK GROUP Scholars participate in discussions of the fictional elements and the nonfictional local and regional context of selected books at the headquarters of the Historical Society of Princeton.
Presented with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this programming do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Elizabeth Anne Socolow and Erika Wagner Monday, Jan. 8, 7 p.m. Socolow is a founding member of the U.S. 1 Poets’ Cooperative. She was awarded two fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and won the Barnard Women Poets Prize for her first published book of poems. Wagner received a degree in art history and painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She also earned a degree in German literature from Rutgers and teaches French and German. Presented with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this programming do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Thursday, Feb. 22, 6:30 p.m. “A Gentleman in Moscow” by Amor Towles with Elena Fratto, assistant professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road Co-sponsored by the library and the Historical Society of Princeton. Presented with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this programming do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
8 I CONNECTIONS
Alicia Ostriker and Ilene Millman Monday, Feb. 12, 7 p.m. Ostriker is the author of 16 books of verse as well as several books on poetry and on the Bible. Twice a National Book Award finalist, she is widely published in prestigious journals. She is a professor emerita of English at Rutgers University and teaches in the MFA program of Drew University. Millman is a speech/language therapist whose poetry has been published in a variety of print journals. Her first poetry collection is forthcoming. Presented with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this programming do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.