{"id":6696,"date":"2015-07-28T00:12:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T07:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6696"},"modified":"2015-08-15T00:17:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T07:17:27","slug":"local-author-festival-james-frey-to-give-free-talk-at-avon-public-library-on-thursday-july-30-from-6-to-8-p-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/28\/local-author-festival-james-frey-to-give-free-talk-at-avon-public-library-on-thursday-july-30-from-6-to-8-p-m\/","title":{"rendered":"LOCAL AUTHOR FESTIVAL: James Frey to give free talk at Avon Public Library on Thursday, July 30, from 6 to 8 p.m."},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Hartford Courant<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Local Literary Events Include Author James Frey, Twain Summer Program<\/h1>\n

\"JamesAuthor James Frey, who gained fame and notoriety from his 2003 memoir \u201cA Million Little Pieces,\u201d will give a free talk at Avon Public Library on Thursday, July 30, from 6 to 8 p.m. as part of the library\u2019s Local Author Festival that runs through Aug. 24. (Bebeto Matthews \/ Associated Press)<\/em><\/p>\n

Avon Local Author Festival<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Avon Free Public Library<\/a>‘s free Local Author Festival will run through Aug. 24 at the library, 281 Country Club Road.<\/p>\n

Children’s Night is Tuesday, July 28, at 7 p.m., with Donna LeBlanc, author of “Explorations of Commander Josh: Book One \u2014 In Space” (SDP Publishing, $14.95); Shannon Mazurick, author of “Gemma: The Search For The Gem” (AuthorHouse, $15); J. C. Phillipps, author of “The Simples Love a Picnic” (HMH Books for Young Readers, $16.99); and Martha Ritter, author of “The Nearly Calamitous Taming of PZ” (Bradley Street Press, $13.99).<\/p>\n

Author James Frey, who gained fame and notoriety from his 2003 memoir “A Million Little Pieces,” will give a free talk at the library on Thursday, July 30, from 6 to 8 p.m. Frey also is co-author with Nils Johnson-Shelton of “The Calling” (HarperCollins, $10.99).<\/p>\n

Local authors will sell and sign books at the library’s Farmers Market from 4 to 7 p.m. on Mondays. Glenn Maynard, author of “Desert Son” (Black Rose, $15.95) and Nan Arnstein, author of “Rocky Shores” (CreateSpace, $16) will sign on Monday, July 27.<\/p>\n

In addition, the library is offering a free Story Walk on its grounds during July and August based on the children’s book “Market Maze,” by Roxie Munro, a story about collecting things to take to a farmers market. Visitors can solve the maze and find objects hidden in pictures.<\/p>\n

Information: 860-673-9712, ext. 235.<\/p>\n

[ click to read at The Hartford Courant<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The Hartford Courant Local Literary Events Include Author James Frey, Twain Summer Program Author James Frey, who gained fame and notoriety from his 2003 memoir \u201cA Million Little Pieces,\u201d will give a free talk at Avon Public Library on Thursday, July 30, from 6 to 8 p.m. as part of the library\u2019s Local Author […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}