News & Events
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 say we are wanting: 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.
2026 Events
01/24/2026
A Luminous Halo Selected Writings by Virginia Woolf, with JoAnn Borri
2pm
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4:30pm
The Sitting Room Library
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01/24/2026
A Luminous Halo Selected Writings by Virginia Woolf, with JoAnn Borri
Let’s celebrate Virginia Woolf’s birthday gathered around the table to discuss selected writings by Virginia Woolf collected in A Luminous H...
2pm
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4:30pm
The Sitting Room Library
01/25/2026
Memoir Writers Making Progress, with Nicole R. Zimmerman
10am
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12pm
The Sitting Room Library
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01/25/2026
Memoir Writers Making Progress, with Nicole R. Zimmerman
Are you in the midst of working on a memoir and feeling isolated in your writing or revision process? Whether you’re stuck or inspired, come...
10am
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12pm
The Sitting Room Library
02/21/2026
Two Nuns' Stories Juliana of Norwich and Hildegard of Bingen with Karen Petersen and Carol Flinders
2pm
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4:30pm
The Sitting Room Library
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02/21/2026
Two Nuns' Stories Juliana of Norwich and Hildegard of Bingen with Karen Petersen and Carol Flinders
Join us as we explore the remarkable lives of two medieval nuns, Juliana of Norwich, the anchoress whose Revelations of Divine Love is wide...
2pm
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4:30pm
The Sitting Room Library
02/28/2026
The Emergency Was Curiosity: Creating “book reports,” with Christie George and Jessi Haley
1pm
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4:30pm
The Sitting Room Library
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02/28/2026
The Emergency Was Curiosity: Creating “book reports,” with Christie George and Jessi Haley
In 2020, inspired by the book How to Do Nothing by Jenny O’Dell, writer/producer Christie George began pursuing a new form of reading and cu...
1pm
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4:30pm
The Sitting Room Library
03/07/2026
Exploring Poems of Emily Dickinson, with Holly Springfield
2pm
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4:30pm
The Sitting Room Library
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03/07/2026
Exploring Poems of Emily Dickinson, with Holly Springfield
Come join us for an exploration of Emily Dickinson's mystical poetry. Emily writes: “my business is circumference, my business is to love, m...
2pm
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4:30pm
The Sitting Room Library
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