Meet the Author: Rich Zahradnik
Thursday, February 9 at 7 PM Boardman Road Branch Library. Registration required.
Valentine’s Greetings
Wednesday, February 8 at 7 PM Virtual. Registration required.
International Food Festival / Festival de Comida Internacional
Saturday, February 25 / 25 de febrero Adriance Memorial Library. No registration required. / No es necesario inscribirse.
Birth of a New Perennial Garden
Tuesday, January 31 at 7 PM Virtual, registration required.
Artist Talk: James R Mann – Rescheduled
New date! Wednesday, February 22 at 5:30 PM Boardman Road Branch Library. Registration required.
About Kelly Link
"Kelly Link is the author of the collections Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, Pretty Monsters, and Get in Trouble. Her short stories have been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Best American Short Stories, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. She is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow and has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She and Gavin J. Grant have co-edited a number of anthologies, including multiple volumes of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and, for young adults, Steampunk! and Monstrous Affections. She is the co-founder of Small Beer Press and co-edits the occasional zine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. Link was born in Miami, Florida. She currently lives with her husband and daughter, dog, and chickens in Northampton, Massachusetts." Source Kelly Link's Website Videos: Kelly Link - MacArthur Fellow Kelly Link - New England Public Media Kelly Link - Library of Congress Kelly Link - NEA Art Works Podcast Kelly Link - NEA Big Read Keynote at OCLS
Big Read – Additional Reading Recommendations
Adult Fiction: Get in Trouble by Kelly Link Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman Florida by Lauren Groff How Long ‘Til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin A People's Future of the United States, edited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado The (Other) You by Joyce Carol Oates The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Mallory Ortberg What is Not Yours is Not Yours: Stories by Helen Oyeyemi Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell Tenth of December by George Saunders Excuse Me While I Disappear: Stories by Joanna Scott And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories and Other Revenges by Amber Sparks Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine: Stories by Kevin Wilson The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories From the Pandemic, edited by The New York Times Magazine Classic Fiction: The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings by Shirley Jackson The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson The Moment of Tenderness by