Author Bruce Watson will discuss his new e-biography of "Daily Show" star Jon Stewart at the Jones Library.
Vice President Joe Biden, left, and host Jon Stewart appear on set during Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" in 2009. The author of an e-book biography of Stewart, Bruce Watson, will be reading in Amherst Jon Stewart bio
AMHERST - Author Bruce Watson will discuss his new e-biography of "Daily Show" star Jon Stewart at the Jones Library at 7 p.m. on May 23.
Watson is the author of “Freedom Summer,” “Sacco and Vanzetti” and “Bread and Roses.”
Reading, music party
NORTHAMPTON – The Greenfield-based Shape & Nature Press will host a summertime reading and music party at Bishop’s Lounge in from 4:30 to 9 p.m. on June 2.
The party, which celebrates local writers and presses, is a fund-raiser for the press.
The cost is $10 at the door and includes 20 raffle tickets to use at the raffle table.
Participants include writers Jedediah Berry, Corwin Ericson Mary Koncel, Forbes Library writer-in-residenceSusan Stinson and Amy Dryansky among the list. Northampton Poet Laureate and children’s book author Richard Michaelson will speak about the importance of “reading local.”
Writers unbuttoned
EASTHAMPTON - Easthampton City Arts+ presents another UNBUTTONED, An Evening of Spoken Word June 13 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Luthier’s Co-Op, 108 Cottage St.
Janice Beetle author of “Divine Renovations: A Carpenter, His Soul Mate and Their Story of Love and Loss” is the featured speaker.
Six open-mic slots for five-minute long readings are open to participants on a first-come, first-serve basis. The sign-up sheet will be available at 6:45 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.