Library Book Club
We're highlighting older books that are listed as “must-reads” and are chosen (or resurrected) to celebrate the birthdays of their authors.
Keeping It Reel
Come on out and bring a friend!
Ship of Fools
1:00 p.m. on May 3, 2025
In this movie trailer, Stanley Kramer, producer and director of Ship of Fools,
introduces a film based upon the best-selling novel by Katherine Ann Porter
Location: Wilkes County Public Library North Wilkesboro, NC
Contact:
Suzanne Manners
336-838-2818 ext 241.
Currently Reading
Join us for a conversation about
Katherine Anne Porter and her
collection of stories
Noon - May 8 - at Traphill Branch Library
Set in Porter's native Texas and her beloved Mexico, prewar Nazi Germany and the gothic Old South, these are stories of love, outrage, betrayal, and spiritual reckoning that are severe but never cruel, and always exquisitely precise.
Literary critic for The New York Times, Howard Moss, comments on the relationship between Porter's style and her subject matter: Extraordinarily well-formed, often brilliantly written, they are firmly grounded in life…Experience is the reason for their having been written, yet experience does not exist in them for its own sake; it has been formulated but not simplified…In the best of her work, the factual and the lyrical are kept in perfect balance.
Books are available for checkout at the main library and branch location.