Speaker named for Friends meeting

AUSTINTOWN — The featured speaker at the 10 a.m. Monday meeting of Austintown Friends of the Library at the community room of the library will be Christopher Barzak, local author and creative writing instructor at Youngstown State University. The meeting is open to the public.

Barzak, author of the novel “The Love We Share Without Knowing,” published by Bantam Books, short stories and poems, organized the Y-Town Reading Series, which provides local authors and book fans with an opportunity to share their literary works.