The library will offer a four-week workshop in "Writing the Personal Essay" beginning Tuesday, October 11. Sessions will be held at the library beginning at 7:00 PM. There is a $100 registration fee, all of which will go to benefit the library, and enrollment is limited to 10. No previous writing experience is required. The weekly sessions will be held:
Tuesday, October 11: Discovering your material
Tuesday, October 18: Observation and description
Tuesday, October 25: Organizing your thoughts
Tuesday, November 1: Polishing your presentation
Activities will include in-class and take-home exercises, reading and discussing one another's work, and analyzing examples of outstanding personal essays.
To register, call 603-989-5831.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Friday, September 9, 2011
Fall Book Discussion Series
The library's fall 2011 book discussion series will feature Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and Virginia Woolf. Discussions will be held on the second Monday of October, November, and December at the library, beginning at 7:00 PM. We will read and discuss:
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Monday, October 10
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Monday November 14
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, Monday, December 12
Discussions are free and open to the public, and copies of the books will be available to borrow from the library in advance.
We hope you'll join us!
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Book Sale!
The Haverhill Corner Library will hold its annual book sale on Saturday, September 10 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. As usual, the sale will be held on the lawn in front of the library, and all sales will be "by donation."
Our patrons have been very generous with book donations this year, so we will have a large selection of fiction, non-fiction, children's books, videos, and other materials. We will also have light refreshments available.
Please join us on Saturday the 10th!
Our patrons have been very generous with book donations this year, so we will have a large selection of fiction, non-fiction, children's books, videos, and other materials. We will also have light refreshments available.
Please join us on Saturday the 10th!
Friday, July 22, 2011
Book Club for Writers: Jackson and Le Guin
The library will hold its next Book Club for Writers event on Thursday, July 28 at 7:00 PM, when we will discuss "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson and "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin. The program is free and open to the public, and copies of the stories are available at the library.
"The Lottery" and "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" are both relatively short stories that nevertheless have a powerful effect on readers, and our discussion will consider how they achieve such a concentrated impact. "The Lottery" is one of the best-known stories in American fiction, one that caused a sensation when published in The New Yorker in 1948; some readers cancelled their subscriptions to the magazine and sent hate mail to the author after it appeared. Le Guin says that "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" was inspired by a passage from the works of the philosopher William James; it won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story of 1973.
Book Club for Writers is a fiction discussion program that meets four times a year; the conversation particularly focuses on issues of craft and technique that will appeal to writers and aspiring writers, but the program is open to anyone who wishes to participate. The fall edition will be held on Thursday, October 27, when we will discuss "Some Other, Better Otto" by Deborah Eisenberg and "People Like That Are the Only People Here" by Lorrie Moore.
"The Lottery" and "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" are both relatively short stories that nevertheless have a powerful effect on readers, and our discussion will consider how they achieve such a concentrated impact. "The Lottery" is one of the best-known stories in American fiction, one that caused a sensation when published in The New Yorker in 1948; some readers cancelled their subscriptions to the magazine and sent hate mail to the author after it appeared. Le Guin says that "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" was inspired by a passage from the works of the philosopher William James; it won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story of 1973.
Book Club for Writers is a fiction discussion program that meets four times a year; the conversation particularly focuses on issues of craft and technique that will appeal to writers and aspiring writers, but the program is open to anyone who wishes to participate. The fall edition will be held on Thursday, October 27, when we will discuss "Some Other, Better Otto" by Deborah Eisenberg and "People Like That Are the Only People Here" by Lorrie Moore.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Shakespeare Book Discussion
Join us Wednesday, June 29 at 7:00 PM for a discussion of Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt. This discussion will be free and open to the public, and will be the perfect introduction to the series of Shakespeare performances that Alumni Hall will host beginning the following week. On Wednesdays during July and early August, the Theatre Under the Stars troupe will perform on the lawn between Alumni Hall and the library.
Will in the World is a lively combination of biography, cultural history, and criticism by one of the foremost living scholars of Shakespeare. Greenblatt brilliantly fleshes out the known facts of Shakespeare's life with his encyclopedic knowledge of Elizabethan England and of the Bard's own works. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Will in the World was named the best non-fiction book of the year by Time magazine.
Copies of the book are available to borrow from the library in advance of the discussion.
Will in the World is a lively combination of biography, cultural history, and criticism by one of the foremost living scholars of Shakespeare. Greenblatt brilliantly fleshes out the known facts of Shakespeare's life with his encyclopedic knowledge of Elizabethan England and of the Bard's own works. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Will in the World was named the best non-fiction book of the year by Time magazine.
Copies of the book are available to borrow from the library in advance of the discussion.
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