La Grua Center, 32 Water St. 6 PM. With Elissa Sweet of Bank Square Books.

The La Grua Center in Stonington presents music, art, and literature in a lovely building on Water Street, which, of course, is near the water. The people who came to my event–a conversation with Elissa Sweet, of Bank Square Books in Mystic (which I am off to visit the moment it opens)–were deeply engaged. More than one of them wanted to talk about wide spacing. A music programmer approached to tell me about the international guidelines for styling G-flat Major, b minor, and other compositions with a key in the title. There were also lots of questions about Greek and Greece, but I find I’m happy to see BETWEEN YOU & ME: CONFESSIONS OF A COMMA QUEEN for sale alongside GREEK TO ME, and even happier to see people buying both books. So far, at no event has the subject of the serial comma NOT come up.

I signed a book for a woman named Chris Wolak (pictured here), who, with a friend, produces a podcast called Book Cougars. Here we are:

Later, eating at Breakwater, I sat near two women who had been at the book talk. I told them I was interested in the James Merrill House. The poet lived in Stonington, and left the building to the town, which administers a writers’ residency program. I am hoping to get a tour before I leave town.