FROM STAFF REPORTS

CALERA – Kirk Curnutt will speak about F. Scott Fitzgerald at the Calera Public Library on March 26 at 6 p.m.

Curnutt is a professor and chair of English at Troy University’s Montgomery campus, where he also serves as a director of the Alabama Book Festival. His 13 books include two novels – “Breathing Out the Ghost” (2008) and “Dixie Noir” (2009). He is best known for “Coffee With Hemingway” (with a foreword by John Updike)(2007).

Curnutt will sign copies of his own books following his speech about Hemingway. The program is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. The Calera Public Library is located at 9700 Highway 25, Calera. For more information, call 205-668-7200.