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The Sitting Room Library Newsletter

Subscribe to the Sitting Room Library newsletter for weekly emails from us with updates about upcoming events and other things going on at the Sitting Room Library. To access past and current issues, visit thesittingroomlibrary.substack.com.

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About Round Tables

Round Tables are a new way of getting small groups in conversation using the rich resources of the Sitting Room Library. Here is how we are imagining them: no cost, no advance preparation needed. And only one meeting planned. Browse the library, select a book. Each person speaks and also listens, and thus we have what we all want: conversation. Bring your curiosity!

Listen to "The Sitting Room: A Treasure Trove of 'Lost Ladies'" — a new podcast episode!

The hosts of the Lost Ladies of Lit podcast, Kim and Amy, visited the Sitting Room Library in October and made a special episode all about our collection and work. Listen to hear snippets from co-founder J.J. Wilson's tour, and conversations about the history, present and future of the Sitting Room Library and the many wonderful readers and writers who have spent time here.

Available to listen on any podcast platform; for a direct link to the Lost Ladies of lit webpage for the episode, click here.

Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

Lost Ladies of Lit is a podcast hosted by writing partners Amy Helmes and Kim Askew about “lost” classics by women writers.

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Upcoming Events at The Sitting Room

05/24/2026

Memoir Workshop with Ianthe Brautigan

2 PM

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4 PM

The Sitting Room

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05/24/2026

Memoir Workshop with Ianthe Brautigan

During this memoir workshop, we’ll be exploring different structures and approaches to writing about one’s life with a literary lens. We wi...

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2 PM

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4 PM

The Sitting Room

06/06/2026

The Sitting Room Birthday Party

2pm

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6pm

The Sitting Room

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06/06/2026

The Sitting Room Birthday Party

Copies of our latest anthology: Who is She? Remarkable Women You Want to Know will be available along with past issues, Samplers, free book...

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2pm

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6pm

The Sitting Room

06/07/2026

We All Know Him, But What About Her? with the Lost Ladies of Lit Amy Helmes and Kim Askew

1pm

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3pm

The Sitting Room

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06/07/2026

We All Know Him, But What About Her? with the Lost Ladies of Lit Amy Helmes and Kim Askew

Melville, James, Proust, Huxley, Chandler, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Kerouac … they’re giants of the literary canon, of course, yet all have fe...

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3pm

The Sitting Room

06/28/2026

Discussing Gender Expression in Virginia Woolf's Orlando

2pm

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4:30 pm

The Sitting Room

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06/28/2026

Discussing Gender Expression in Virginia Woolf's Orlando

Join us for a discussion of gender expression that spans 1928, when Woolf's "novelography" Orlando was published, up to today. Hannah Hellma...