05/20/2026
It's a privilege to have the historic West Newton Cinema in our community -- and we are thrilled to host an event with literary luminaries Tom Perrotta and Jayne Anne Phillips this Sunday at 4pm! Tickets available via West Newton box office.
"The brisk, resonant Ghost Town might be Perrotta’s best book. I’ve enjoyed all of his novels, but it feels like he has pared this one down to its essence, which is beautiful and true: how we stay connected to the people we’ve lost and how we learn to move on." —Chris Hewitt, Minnesota Star-Tribune
“A bittersweet triumph. . . . Phillips’s new book is rich with evocative descriptions of her hometown. . . . Her love and respect for the people and their pasts, and for the splendor of the landscape, gives the writing at times the feel of a meditation, one that is ideally served by the eloquence and precision of the author’s prose. . . . One of the finest descriptions I have read of how a fiction writer’s mind works.” —Sigrid Nunez, New York Times Book Review
