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The Book Bike will be at the Inn at Lathrop! Librarians will be stationed in the lobby with materials for checkout, to answer library questions, and to register you for a CWMARS library card if you don’t already have one. Stop by and say hi!

Librarians will be stationed at the Farmers’ Market with materials for checkout, to answer library questions, and to register you for a CWMARS library card if you don’t already have one. Stop by and say hi!

The Book Bike will be at the Inn at Lathrop! Librarians will be stationed in the lobby with materials for checkout, to answer library questions, and to register you for a CWMARS library card if you don’t already have one. Stop by and say hi!

The Book Bike will be at the Inn at Lathrop! Librarians will be stationed in the lobby with materials for checkout, to answer library questions, and to register you for a CWMARS library card if you don’t already have one. Stop by and say hi!

This new series, geared toward teens but open to all, will tackle important issues facing our local community and beyond.

Did you know that, at the Easthampton Community Center alone, over 1400 families facing food insecurity are served each month, with over 8000 pounds of food distributed every week? So often the struggles these families face remain invisible to most, and it’s critical that we shed light on this issue.

Join us in welcoming a panel of food-access-experts to the Library, who will share their perspectives on this important topic. Please consider bringing your own questions, comments, or stories to share as well.

“Critical” is brought to you with federal funds provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and administered by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

Librarians will be stationed at the Farmers’ Market with materials for checkout, to answer library questions, and to register you for a CWMARS library card if you don’t already have one. Stop by and say hi!

The Book Bike will be at the Inn at Lathrop! Librarians will be stationed in the lobby with materials for checkout, to answer library questions, and to register you for a CWMARS library card if you don’t already have one. Stop by and say hi!

The Book Bike will be at the Inn at Lathrop! Librarians will be stationed in the lobby with materials for checkout, to answer library questions, and to register you for a CWMARS library card if you don’t already have one. Stop by and say hi!

Join us for this special event — A Meat for Tea author reading with Andrew Varnon! Andrew will read his essay “The Other Side of the Net”. This event is drop-in. 

In “The Other Side of the Net,” writer Andrew Varnon imagines playing tennis with the ghost of David Foster Wallace, the author of the monumental novel Infinite Jest. Wallace committed suicide in 2008, but has a devoted following of readers and fans. In his essay, Varnon describes how he came to read Wallace’s novel Infinite Jest through his interest in tennis. The novel is partially set at the fictional Enfield Tennis Academy in Massachusetts. In the tennis community, Wallace is also known for his essay on tennis icon Roger Federer, “Both Flesh and Not,” and is widely credited with the appellation for tennis as “chess on the run.” In his essay, Varnon engages Wallace’s writing style – complete with end notes – and explores the idea of how the activity of reading and writing is, in fact, like playing tennis.

Writer and teacher Andrew Varnon lives in Greenfield with his wife and family. He is the boys tennis coach at Greenfield High School and an active recreational tennis player. He is also a journalist and an award-winning poet. “The Other Side of the Net” was originally published online at The Smart Set (www.thesmartset.com/the-other-side-of-the-net/) and was republished locally in Meat for Tea. Varnon presented a portion of his essay to the David Foster Wallace Conference in Normal, Illinois, this June.