Wellesley is fortunate enough to draw multiple authors and speakers to town each month who are knowledgable across a wide range of subjects, and who visit to connect with audiences and promote their work. Attending such an event is a great way to meet the current stars of the literary and lecture scene. Here are just a few events happening soon.
Book: Joni Mitchell Paints a Symphony, by Lisa Rogers
EVENT: Book launch
DATE: Wednesday, March 26
TIME: 6:30pm-8pm
LOCATION: Wellesley Free Library, 530 Washington St.
COST: Free
DESCRIPTION: Lisa Rogers is a former Wellesley Public Schools elementary library teacher and award-winning author who writes lyrical picture book biographies that focus on artists and their inspiration.
This event will feature a reading of Lisa’s new picture book, Joan Mitchell Paints a Symphony, illustrated by Stacy Innerst and praised by Kirkus Reviews as “simply marvelous.” A panel of local abstract artists, including Carolyn Mackin and Elizabeth Cohen, will join Lisa to discuss the creative process and inspiration for their works.
Book: Native Americans of New England, by Christoph Strobel
EVENT: Author visit
DATE: Sunday, March 30
TIME: 2pm-3pm
COST: Free
LOCATION: Wellesley Free Library, 530 Washington St. and online
DESCRIPTION: Native Americans of New England offers a comprehensive synthesis of indigenous history in the northeastern United States. Strobel’s work spans millennia, from the earliest archaeological evidence to contemporary times, providing a nuanced examination of how historic processes shaped Native lives.
The book balances accounts of colonization and dispossession with powerful narratives of indigenous resistance, adaptation, and survival. Christoph Strobel, Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, brings his extensive research and academic expertise to this sweeping regional history. Strobel’s approach combines rigorous scholarship with accessible prose, making complex historical narratives comprehensible to both academic and general audiences.
This series is presented in partnership with the Wellesley Historical Society and made possible through their generous sponsor Christine Mayer.
An Evening with Poets Lynne Viti, Heather Treseler, and Lloyd Schwartz
EVENT: The poets discuss their collections
DATE: April 3
TIME: 7pm
LOCATION: Wellesley Books, 82 Central St., Wellesley
COST: Admission is $5. Tickets here.
Book: Mud Season, by Jeff Kramer
EVENT: Author visit
DATE: Tuesday, April 1
TIME: 7pm-8pm,
LOCATION: Ten Trees Books @The Hive, 22 N. Nain St., Natick
COST: Free
RSVP here
DESCRIPTION: Jeff Kramer unloads the story of Woody Hackworth, a newspaper reporter laid off amid whispers he made up a source. Thirsting for redemption, Woody makes a fateful decision: To write an environmental thriller and post chapters on social media as he goes.
His book wins a following, but not for the reasons Woody intended. Readers believe Woody is using his fiction to expose his in-laws and their family-owned Upstate, N.Y. construction business. The cracks in the foundation of Woody’s home life deepen with each new post, but how can he stop writing now that fame has come calling?
A capstone to Kramer’s 35-year-career as an award-winning humor columnist and reporter, “Mud Season” wallows in the classic conflict between ambition and family, digs into the muck of online notoriety and slings a comic-tragic elegy to the once-mighty daily newspaper.”
