Book Readings

 

I have just returned from an event at the Westport library: Cathleen Schine reading from, and talking about her new book, The Three Weissmanns of Westport.

I do not often go to book readings, other than those of my friends, and it was a rare treat indeed to hear the author's words in her own voice.
There was, as there always is, that terrifying silence after the reading bit, when you ask for the first question, and you are met with a sea of blank faces, but the silence did not last –...