Wednesday, May 16 @ noon
at The New Canaan Library

May 16 @ noon at The New Canaan Library

Reeve Lindbergh,

author of Against Wind & Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986

Against Wind & Tide is the sixth and concluding volume of selected letters and diary entries of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, beloved author of Gift From the Sea.

 

In this sixth and final collection of Lindbergh's diaries and letters, taking us from 1947 to 1986, we mark her progress as she navigated a remarkable life and a remarkable century with enthusiasm and delight, humor and wit, sorrow and bewilderment, but above all devoted to finding the essential truth in life's experiences through a hard-won spirituality and a passion for literature.
Reservations-203-594-5000
PreOrder a signed copy 203-966-4545

Don't miss author and decorator Matthew Patrick Smyth on Thursday evening 6:00-8:00pm - at the
Antique and Artisan Center, 69 Jefferson Blvd., Stamford, CT

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Mention Matthew Patrick Smyth in conversation and everyone will remark about his warm, genteel, and generous nature.
Expert at the interweaving of European and American traditions, Michael Patrick Smyth's rooms hold art, architecture and design as the sacred trinity.

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Get your Pink on for a Pinalicious event!
May 20, 1:00pm @
the New Canaan Library

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Sunday June 10th @ 4:00pm

at The New Canaan Library, 151 Main Street

Reservations 203-594-5000

Jeanette Seaver,

The Tender Hour of Twilight: Paris in the '50s, New York in the '60s: A Memoir of Publishing's Golden Age
by Richard Seaver

Richard Seaver came to Paris in 1950 seeking Hemingway’s moveable feast. Paris had become a different city, traumatized by World War II, yet the red wine still flowed, the cafés bustled, and the Parisian women found American men exotic and heroic. There was an Irishman in Paris writing plays and novels unlike anything anyone had ever read—but hardly anyone was reading them. There were others, too, doing equivalently groundbreaking work for equivalently small audiences. So when his friends launched a literary magazine, Merlin, Seaver knew this was his calling: to bring the work of the likes of Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, and Jean Genet to the world. The Korean War ended all that—the navy had paid for college and it was time to pay them back. After two years at sea, Seaver washed ashore in New York City with a beautiful French wife and a wider sense of the world than his compatriots. The only young literary man with the audacity to match Seaver’s own was Barney Rosset of Grove Press. A remarkable partnership was born, one that would demolish U.S. censorship laws with inimitable joie de vivre as Seaver and Rosset introduced American readers to Lady Chatterly’s Lover, Henry Miller, Story of O, William Burroughs, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and more. As publishing hurtles into its uncertain future, The Tender Hour of Twilight is a stirring reminder of the passion, the vitality, and even the glamour of a true life in literature.