LOVELL — The Charlotte Hobbs Library Speaker Series welcomes its first speaker of 2024 on Thursday, Jan. 18 at 7 p.m. with a Zoom-only talk with Gillian Burnes, author of “Soft Features” a finalist for the 2023 Maine Literary Award for fiction. The novel, set in a fictional Maine town in 1994, tells the story of an overly empathetic national public radio journalist whose attempts to find cheerful stories, or soft features, take her on a series of misadventures. Burnes’s stories have appeared in Glimmer Train and The Dillydoun Review, and her non-fiction work has appeared in Outside, OnEarth, Wilderness, and other magazines. She lives with her husband and daughter on the edge of her in-laws’ organic cattle farm in central Maine. “Soft Features” is her first novel.
This is a Zoom-only talk. For details and the link to join, go to www.hobbslibrary.org. For queries, contact the Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library at 207-925-3177.
The Charlotte Hobbs Library Speaker Series is supported in part by a generous contribution from Norway Savings Bank.