Alice Sedgwick Wohl is an independent scholar, translator, and local author. Her translations include The Life of Michelangelo by Ascanio Condivi, The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Giovan Pietro Bellori, and On Antique Painting by Francisco de Hollanda. She will be speaking on her new book, As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy, in conversation…

Travels With Witchcraft: A Historian Looks Back John Demos is the Samuel Knight Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University.  His books include ENTERTAINING SATAN: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England, THE UNREDEEMED CAPTIVE: A Family Story From Early New England,  THE HEATHEN SCHOOL: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic, and THE ENEMY…

For the Stockbridge Library community and intermediate English language learners who want a space to listen and speak in English in a safe community. RSVP for the event with LitNet here. Jana Laiz, is a writer and educator living in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. She is the author of the award-winning novels Weeping Under This Same…

Join us for a lecture with Daniel Bullen on his new book on a different look at Shays's Rebellion. DANIEL BULLEN earned a PhD in American literature from New York University. He is the author of The Dangers of Passion: The Transcendental Friendship of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller and The Love Lives of the Artists: Five Stories…

A Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent and a former private investigator dive deep into the murky waters of the international salmon farming industry, exposing the unappetizing truth about a fish that is not as good for you as you have been told. A decade ago, farmed Atlantic salmon replaced tuna as the most popular fish on North America’s dinner tables. We…

POSTPONED Please check back for new date.   Matthew Cole, author of Code Over Country : the Tragedy and Corruption of Seal Team Six, will be in conversation with André Bernard, Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The myth of SEAL Team 6 had secured the unit’s place in America’s imagination as the unambiguous heroes…

For the Stockbridge Library community and intermediate English language learners who want a space to listen and speak in English in a safe community. RSVP for the event with LitNet here. Jana Laiz, is a writer and educator living in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. She is the author of the award-winning novels Weeping Under This…

Deborah Herman will be speaking on Saturday, January 7 at 3:00 p.m. about her latest book, Spiritual Writing from Inspiration to Publication 2nd Edition.   Deborah Levine Herman is a bestselling author, publisher, former literary agent, and intuitive writing coach who guides writers on their journeys. As a gifted spiritual teacher, an expert at author branding, and someone…

Famed in the sports world for having invented Rotisserie Baseball, and for his iconic red sweater-wearing appearance on Ken Burns's PBS film "Baseball," Dan Okrent is best known for his journalism and nonfiction writing.  He served as the first public editor of The New York Times after the Jason Blair scandal, and was the editor…

CANCELLED   Julian Zelizer is familiar to Sunday morning TV audiences as CNN's Political Analyst.  He is also a regular commentator on National Public Radio's "Here and Now."  A pioneer in the revival of American political history, Zelizer, who teaches at Princeton, is the author of Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and…