The Chappaqua Library has moved one of its author talks into the biggest room in town. On Sunday, November 15, Maggie Haberman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning senior White House correspondent for The New York Times, discusses her new book Regime Change with Katy Tur, host of The Moment with Katy Tur on MS NOW, in the 425-seat theater of the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center on the former Reader's Digest campus.

The program starts at 2 p.m. Doors open at 1:15 p.m. and ticket holders must be in their seats by 1:50 p.m.

Free, but ticketed, and the standby line is real

Admission is free and open to the public, but registration is required and a digital or printed ticket is needed to get in. The library has built the afternoon around a standby line: at 2 p.m. any unclaimed seats are released, and late arrivals may be sent to the standby line rather than to their seat. Anyone without a ticket can join the standby line and take a seat if one opens.

A book signing follows the conversation. Scattered Books, the independent bookstore in Chappaqua, sells copies at the event and takes pre-orders. The library thanks the performing arts center for the theater and the Town of New Castle for its support of community programs. Questions go to info@chappaqualibrary.org or 914-238-4779.

The rest of the week in Chappaqua

The Haberman talk is the headline of a full week.

The Chappaqua Farmers Market runs Saturday, November 14, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Chappaqua train station on Allen Place, with more than 40 vendors and three Saturdays left in its season, which ends December 5. This week's list adds old boy donuts as a new vendor and has Adam Hart playing at 10:30 a.m. Community tables include the SNAP matching program, a textile drop-off, a cookbook swap, a book drive for New York City schools, a collection of used tennis gear, and Troop 2 Scouts taking orders for holiday wreaths.

Back at the library on Tuesday, November 17, authors Heather Clark and Kris Jansma appear together, and the library's jazz concert series has a date on Thursday, November 19. Through November the library is also a drop-off point for Turn the Page, a drive collecting new children's and teen books for local organizations.

At the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center on Saturday, November 28, the 25-piece Frank Shiner Orchestra plays big band and blues with a holiday turn, 6 to 8 p.m., tickets $55 to $200.

Getting there

The Chappaqua Performing Arts Center is on the former Reader's Digest campus in Chappaqua. The library itself is open Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. and is closed on Wednesdays.

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