10/03/2026
10:30 am - 4:30 pm
The Haystack Book Festival continues its 2026 season on Saturday, October 3 at the Norfolk Library with three author conversations.
Across Borders and Belonging – Exile, Identity, and American Lives Abroad
10:30 a.m. Norfolk Library
David Mayers, author of “Seekers and Partisans: Americans Abroad in Crisis Years 1936-1941”
in conversation with
Nicholas Bogs, author of “Baldwin: A Love Story”
After the Wounds – War, Memory, and the Search for What Endures
1:00 p.m. Norfolk Library
David Nasaw, author of “The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After WWII”
in conversation with
Elizabeth Samet, author of “Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness”
Inventing American – Power and Myth at the Nations Edges
3:00 p.m. Norfolk Library
Craig Fehrman, author of “The Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis and Clark”
in conversation with
Meghan Kate Nelson, author of “The Westerners: Myth Making and Belonging on the American Frontier”
Registration for all Conversations
www.haystackbookfestival.org
(860) 542-7185
office@nofolkhub.org
Location
Norfolk Library
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