Field Notes
From Ritual to Romance
Happy Lughnasadh [ritual] and [Romance] Awareness Month!
I was going to go with Dog Days and Deep Reads, but when we discovered that August was Romance Awareness month… AND… we are hosting Julia Turshen’s debut romance novel Down to Earth (our Book of the Month selection) as our farewell-to-August event on Saturday, August 29th, at 6 pm, then everything, like true love, fell into place.
The Stories We Tell
Finch (at 9 featured left; now at 12! featured right)
Our first reader for Kids Read to Kids!
As I write, a 23-year-old, wild card qualifier, Arthur Fery, has made it to the quarterfinals of Wimbledon. He grew up around the corner and still lives there.
You All Made a Difference! And We Made that Difference Together.
You All Made a Difference!
And We Made that Difference Together.
Loomings: Live to Tell the Tale, a Marathon Reading of MOBY DICK
On Saturday, 11/29/25, from 9AM-7PM (ish); and On Sunday, 11/30, from 9AM til whenever, We set sail on our 3rd Marathon Reading just as we embark on the 3rd year of our existence!
Virginia Woolf - Reading is a Complex Art
For 30 years, Woolf read and reviewed one book a week for the Times Literary Supplement. What’s on your reading list?
All Hail, High Falls!
Marathon live reading of Emily Wilson’s new translation of Homer’s The Iliad