Books

Anyone who has ever played with a dollhouse or watched someone else play with one knows that the structure itself is just a vehicle for the creation of elaborate fantasies and fictions.

Could the Van Dorens be one of America’s most famous families? It’s possible.But without question they are one of the most famous families of Litchfield County and it is an absolute certainty that they are one of the most famous families of Cornwall, Conn.

Eva Chen is a first-generation Chinese-American who grew up in New York City. Since 2020, the New York Times best-selling author and her family have been settled in Litchfield County, Conn. Chen released her eighth children’s book, “I Am Golden,” earlier this year.

As a general rule, if you want to know who wrote a book, you can refer to the spine with more detail found just inside the cover.

For Sharon Charde, poetry isn’t just a journey within or an artistic experiment in the uses of language and form.

It’s also a deeply therapeutic activity, one designed not only to explore her own emotional depths but also to help others do the same.

Author Roxana Robinson will interview Anne E. Fernald, editor of “The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf,”  in a Zoom talk sponsored by the Cornwall Library  in Cornwall, Conn., on Sunday, April 3, at 4 p.m.

Registration is required at  https://cornwalllibrary.org/events/

If only Edith Wharton could have lived long enough to embrace the wonders of scratch-and-sniff.

Zoom continues to make fascinating library talks from around the world easily available to literature fans here in the Tristate region.

Upcoming on Thursday, Feb. 24, at 7 p.m. is a talk by British biographer Matthew Sturgis, who will be interviewed by Knopf editor Victoria Wilson about his new book, “Oscar Wilde.”