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Literary Itinerary by Carole Flynn

2010 Author Events: Appearances, Readings, Book Signings, and Lectures in Connecticut (and a few noteworthy author appearances nearby in Massachusetts)

 

 

AUGUST 
Listings compiled by Carole Flynn

 

LESTER COLODNY, Thursday August 26th, Wesport Public Library, 7:30 pm.  See www.westportpubliclibrary.org/events for more details. 
Hollywood in the 1960s was filled with some of the greatest names in TV, movies, and music. The city was filled with people like Frank Sinatra, Mel Brooks, Florence Henderson, Marlo Thomas, and more. But what were these talents really like to the people working around them? Westporter and Emmy award-winner Lester Colodny tells his story in A Funny Thing Happened—Life Behind the Scenes: Hollywood Hilarity and Manhattan Mayhem. He was a scriptwriter, worked at the William Morris Agency, was a producer, and sold scripts to shows and actors to producers. He knew these people at a professional and personal level, and he was backstage to see what really went on. Books available for purchase and signing.

 

SEPTEMBER 
Listings compiled by Carole Flynn

 

CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER READS FROM ARCHIBALD MACLEISH, Thursday, September 16th, 7:00 pm, Westport Country Playhouse
Emmy and Tony award-winning actor Christopher Plummer will do readings from Archibald MacLeish with an interview following with Annie Keefe, Westport Country Playhouse Artistic Advisor, about his career and book, In Spite of Myself: A Memoir.

Registration begins August 19 and is required for this free event. Phone the Westport Country Playhouse box office at 203-227-4177. There is a limit of 4 tickets. DO NOT LEAVE A MESSAGE UNDER COMMENTS IF YOU WANT RESERVATIONS.
YOU MUST CALL THE PLAYHOUSE AT THE NUMBER ABOVE.

Books will be available for purchase and signing. A percentage of all purchases will benefit the Library. Also, see: http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/ for more info.

 

TIME OUT FOR WOMEN, Friday, September 17th, 6:30-9:30, CT Convention Ctr. Hartford, CT

A day filled with messages of inspiration from respected authors and music artists, you will learn, you will laugh, and your spirits and sights will be lifted. It is Deseret Book’s great pleasure to invite you to catch your breath, take a break from daily pressures, “huddle” with your sisters and friends, and feel rejuvenated for the days ahead. For more info: http://deseretbook.com/time-out/event/101

 

FRANCINE PROSE, Sunday, Sept. 19th, 3:00 pm, Westport Country Playhouse

Francine Prose, author of Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife, the story of the book The Diary of Anne Frank, will talk about her book. A discussion with David Kennedy, Associate Artistic Director at the Playhouse, about the book and the Playhouse’s upcoming production will follow.

Prose is the author of many bestselling books of fiction, including A Changed Man and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the nonfiction New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer. Her novel, Household Saints, was adapted for a movie. Another novel, The Glorious Ones, has been adapted into a musical of the same name. Registration required for this free event at: http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/

 

OCTOBER 
Listings compiled by Carole Flynn

 

ERIC BURNS, Monday, October 18th, 7:30 pm, Westport Public Library

Eric Burns, a former NBC News correspondent who is an Emmy-winner for his broadcast writing, knows about the impact of television. His new book, Invasion of the Mind Snatchers: Television's Conquest of America in the Fifties, chronicles the influence of television that was watched daily by the baby boomer generation. As kids became spellbound by "Howdy Doody" and "The Ed Sullivan Show," Burns reveals, they often acted out their favorite programs. Likewise, they purchased the merchandise being promoted by performers and became fascinated by the personalities they saw on screen, often emulating their behavior. It was the first generation raised by TV and Burns looks at both the promise of broadcasting as espoused by the inventor, and how that promise was both redefined and lost by the corporations who helped to spread the technology. Books will be available for purchase and signing. A percentage of all purchases will benefit the Library. For more info: http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/

 

JEANNETTE WALLS, Tuesday, October 19th, 10:30 am & 7:30 pm, Westport Public Library

Discussion of the book Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeannette Walls. 288 pages. The author of Glass Castle writes this true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy--but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still remains a woman of indomitable spirit. For copies of the book, phone 203-291-4821 or email Sue Madeo at smadeo@westportlibrary.org.
For more info: http://www.westportlibrary.org/events/