C.H. Booth Library invites readers and writers in for tea and a cozy respite from the snow as the Connecticut Authors Reading Series continues with a new slate of talent. The series introduces readers and writers to the work of authors who live in the Nutmeg State.

The next event will take place Sunday, February 26, from 2 to 4 pm, in the main meeting room of the library, 25 Main Street. The writers include Newtown novelist Rachel Basch, novelist Charlotte Rogan, and essayist James M. Chesbro. The reading series is curated by Newtown author Sophfronia Scott.

The writers will read from both published works and works in progress, with time in between each reading for discussion and Q&A with the audience about the craft of writing. Refreshments will be served and books available for purchase.

For additional information or to make a reservation, call 203-426-4533 or visit chboothlibrary.org.

February's Featured Authors

Rachel Basch is the author of three novels: The Listener (Pegasus Books), short listed for The 2016 Firecracker Awards by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses; The Passion of Reverend Nash (W.W. Norton), named one of the five best novels of 2003 by The Christian Science Monitor; and Degrees of Love (W.W. Norton, Harper Paperbacks), a selection of The Hartford Courant's Book Club.

Ms Basch has reviewed books for The Washington Post Book World, and her nonfiction has appeared in n+1, Salon, The Huffington Post, The Millions, and Literary Hub. She was a 2011 MacDowell Colony Fellow, and she received the William Van Wert prize for an excerpt from The Listener.

Ms Basch teaches in the MFA Program at Fairfield University and in the Graduate Liberal Studies Program at Wesleyan University.

James M. Chesbro's work has appeared in The Writer's Chronicle, The Washington Post, Brain, Child Magazine, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, Under the Gum Tree, The Collagist, Essay Daily, Connecticut Review, River Teeth online, The Huffington Post, AOL.com, The Good Men Project, Superstition Review, Pilgrim, Weston Magazine, The Connecticut Post, and SpiritusZone 3.. "Trains" is forthcoming in

Mr Chesbro's essays have been listed as notable selections in The Best American Sports Writing 2014 and The Best American Essays (2012, 2014 and 2015). He is the co-editor of You: An Anthology of Essays Devoted to the Second Person (Welcome Table Press).

Mr Chesbro teaches at Fairfield Prep, and is an adjunct professor of English at Fairfield University.

Charlotte Rogan studied architecture at Princeton University and worked for a large construction firm before turning to fiction.

She is the author of The Lifeboat, which was nominated for The Guardian First Book Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Goldsboro Books and Historical Writers Association Debut Historical Fiction Prize. It was also included on The Huffington Post's 2015 list of "21 books from the last 5 years that every woman should read," is in development as a motion picture starring Anne Hathaway, and has been translated into 26 languages.

Ms Rogan's second novel, Now and Again, continues to explore issues of morality and justice.

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