Books

This year’s Haystack Book Talks Festival in Norfolk, Conn., will be held on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 and 2.

There will be 80 seats available in the Norfolk Library Great Hall and the programs will be live-streamed.

In that hypothetical game where I’m asked whom I’d love to host for dinner, Stanley Tucci remains firmly at the top of my guest list.

What would the author Henry James think if he knew that his books were still being discussed in the year 2022 — and that the discussions were being held “virtually,” on Zoom?

Philosopher Lee McIntyre, a Research Fellow at Boston University, opens his book, “How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason,” with his account of visiting a Flat Earth Convention in 2018 — where people committed to the idea that the Earth is flat gather to exchange their parti

The David M. Hunt Library in Falls Village, Conn., will host the second annual Writers Table Fall Celebration Reading outdoors under the library’s tent on Sunday, Sept. 11, at 4 p.m.  The Writers Table is a group of professional writers who have been meeting regularly for more than 20 years.

Author Sally Rooney has captured the world of young adults with her painfully accurate depictions of love.

Relationships in books, television shows and movies are dramatic — sensibly so, because audiences gravitate toward the sensational.

It’s not surprising that the Tri-state region book launch for “Growing Up Getty: The Story of America’s Most Unconventional Dynasty” took place last month at Tent, the sumptuous home furnishings shop that opened in Amenia, N.Y., in late 2020.

The highly anticipated Hotchkiss Library of Sharon Annual Sharon Summer Book Signing in Sharon, Conn., will be held this year on Friday, Aug. 5, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.