Actress and author Illeana Douglas says it's all Dennis Hopper's fault. She will give a free Book/Mark talk about her memoir, "I Blame Dennis Hopper: And Other Stories from a Life Lived In a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:30AMHartford's role in helping the United States and its allies achieve victory in World War I will be discussed at a free program that will begin the sixth season of the Tolland Public Library …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMAs 2015 comes to an end, readers who also would like to be writers may be interested in taking workshops to improve their skills. Here is a sampling of those that will be offered in 2016. At…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:19AMConnecticut authors turned out many books this year. Here is a sampling of what they published in 2015. FICTION Matthew Dicks' novel "The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs" (St. Martin's, …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMA philosopher and scientist, the author of a biography about Joan of Arc, a scholar of literary history and a biographer of actor Bill Murray will give talks, each beginning at 7 p.m., at th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMSweet! David Leff will sign copies of "Maple Sugaring: Keeping It Real in New England" (Wesleyan University Press, $24.95) at The Hickory Stick Bookshop, 2 Green Hill Road, Washington, on Sa…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMTo mark (pardon the pun) the 180th anniversary of Mark Twain's birth, there will be a reading of his widely reviled yet intriguing 1833 play, "Colonel Sellers: Reanimator," which he wrote wi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMIndependent bookstores nationwide will take part in the annual "Indies First" Small Business Saturday, which will be held Saturday, Nov. 28. Launched by novelist Sherman Alexis, Indies First…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThe annual Mandell JCC Jewish Book Festival will open its series of talks with lawyer Alan M. Dershowitz, author of "Abraham — The World's First (But Certainly Not Last) Jewish Lawyer" (Sc…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:01PMThe annual Mark My Words fundraising gala for the Mark Twain House & Museum Center will go intergalactic when "Mark My Words V ... In a Galaxy Far, Far Away" takes place Friday, Nov. 6, at 7…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMGloria Steinem, one of America's foremost feminists, will talk about her new memoir, "My Life on the Road" (Random House, $28) at a "Making Waves: 20 Years of Advancing Women and Girls" prog…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:06AMBob Woodward, one of America's most famous and influential journalists, will talk about his new book, "The Last of the President's Men" (Simon & Schuster, $28), Monday, Oct. 19, at the Crown…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:46AMA novelist who has published more than 60 books, many of which were best-sellers, will speak at the Mark Twain House & Museum, 351 Farmington Ave., Hartford, on Tuesday, Oct. 13, at 7 p.m. S…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:05AMNicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, who won the 2011 Harriet Beecher Stowe Prize for Writing to Advance Social Justice for their best-selling nonfiction book "Half the Sky: Turning Oppres…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:43AMA talk by the author of a new book about the horrific Petit family murders and a discussion of a controversial novel will be among the free events presented by R.J. Julia Booksellers, 768 Bo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:39AMWe've come to the end of the trail - the 2015 Connecticut Authors Trail, that is. The annual series at libraries in eastern Connecticut presented free talks by authors who live in the state …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:28AMThe Mark Twain House & Museum will offer four writing classes beginning Wednesday, Sept. 2, and running each Wednesday through Oct. 7 from 6 to 8 p.m. Each course costs $265 to attend.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:32PMThe Mark Twain House & Museum, 351 Farmington Ave., Hartford, will offer a workshop on writing nature poetry on Saturday, Aug. 29, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The cost is $40, and participants sh…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:54PMThe Hill-Stead Museum, 35 Mountain Road, Farmington will present its second Sunday afternoon Sunken Garden Poetry Festival program on Sunday, Aug. 9.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:56AMFor the first time, Capital Community College, the Mark Twain House & Museum and the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center will jointly offer a course titled "English 220 Studies in American Literatu…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:51AMThe Mark Twain House & Museum Center, 351 Farmington Ave., Hartford, continues its programs of author talks and writing workshops.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:39AMPulitzer Prize-winning poet, essayist and critic Vijay Seshadri is the featured artist Wednesday, July 22, for the 23rd annual Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, the nationally acclaimed series …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:20AMThe 23rd annual Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, the nationally acclaimed series of outdoor readings on the grounds of the Hill-Stead Museum, 35 Mountain Road, Farmington, is offering somethin…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:18AMThe authors of a poignant memoir, a comic novel that spoofs celebrity worship, the newest in a series about a food writer who solves mysteries and a novel about country club society in Conne…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:01PMDr. Ruth Westheimer, the famous sex therapist and advice columnist on intimate issues, is now 87 and has had a lifetime of dramatic events, including escaping from the Holocaust, living in a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:12AMJudy Blume, the beloved best-selling author, will appear Friday, June 26, at 7 p.m. with Carole Baron to discuss Blume's new adult novel, "In The Unlikely Event" (Knopf, $27.95) at First Con…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:34PMWith more than 300 million copies of his books in print and more than 10 million e-books sold, James Patterson has been called the world's best-selling author. On Wednesday, June 17, at 7:30…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:45AMJames Tillman was in his public housing apartment in Hartford when the police burst in and arrested him for the brutal rape of a young corporate executive. For more than 18 years, through a …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:14PMThe Fifth Annual Big Tent Jubilee, celebrating the awarding of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Prize for Writing to Advance Social Justice to Ta-Nehisi Coates, a journalist and blogger for The Atl…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:14PMIt'll be back - way back - to the future on Saturday, May 30, from noon to 3 p.m., at The Mark Twain House & Museum, 351 Farmington Ave., Hartford, at a Steampunk Social tea party featuring …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:00AMIt'll be back — way back — to the future on Saturday, May 30, from noon to 3 p.m., at The Mark Twain House & Museum, 351 Farmington Ave., Hartford, at a Steampunk Social tea party featur…
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