Doors: 7 || Reading: 7:30 || $ Entry By Donation

Sponsored by The Ridgway Library & Friends of the Ridgway Library

Part literary reading, part author Q&A, part open mic…Literary Living Room is the Sherbino’s dynamic year-round series featuring local and national literary artists of all persuasions. The mic opens for open readings after the Q&A with the author.

This month we’re excited to bring you decorated librarian and writer Jamie LaRue.  LaRue is the director of the Garfield County (Colorado) Public Library District. Author of “The New Inquisition: Understanding and Managing Intellectual Freedom Challenges,” (2007) and “On Censorship: A Public Librarian Examines Cancel Culture in the US,” (2023) LaRue has been a public library director for many years, as well as a weekly newspaper columnist and cable TV host. From January of 2016 to November of 2018, he was director of the Freedom to Read Foundation, and ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. He has written, spoken, and consulted extensively on intellectual freedom issues, leadership and organizational development, community engagement, and the future of libraries.