Saturday, Sept. 19
Ticketed event – Milford Theater

Michael Kosta is an Emmy-winning Host and Senior Correspondent on The Daily Show for Comedy Central. 

He is well known for his numerous late-night appearances on The Tonight Show, Conan, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and @midnight, and can currently be seen in Tracy Morgan’s new NBC series The Rise and Fall of Reggie Dinkins.  His one-hour Comedy Central stand-up special: Michael Kosta: Detroit. NY. LA. is now streaming on Paramount+ and YouTube. Prior to his career in television and comedy, Kosta was a professional tennis player (ranked No. 864 in the world) and is still a contributor to the Tennis Channel.  He also hosts the podcast Tennis Anyone, which can be found on any podcast platform.

Michael’s first book, the memoir Lucky Loser, chronicling his path from the court to comedy, was released in March 2025 from HarperCollins.

Saturday Sept. 19
Ticketed event – Milford Theater

Dr. Emily Sneff is an early American historian and leading expert on the Declaration of Independence.

She earned her Ph.D. in History from William & Mary. She is a consulting curator for exhibitions marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration at the Museum of the American Revolution and Historic Trappe.

Appearing for the 250th anniversary of the United States, When the Declaration of Independence Was News focuses on the nation’s founding document at the moment of its creation in 1776, before anyone knew what the legacy of the Declaration would be or if the United States would win the war against Great Britain. It explores how the Declaration was communicated to people in the new nation and around the Atlantic world and reveals the stories of the many people involved in the process of declaring independence, from printers to soldiers to diplomats to translators.

Saturday, Sept. 19
Ticketed event – Milford Theater

Stephen Fishbach is a bestselling novelist and Pushcart Prize-winning short story writer.

His novel Escape! was an instant national bestseller and received praise in the Atlantic, Slate, Los Angeles Review of Books, People, and many others. The New Yorker’s Emily Nussbaum called it “a gorgeously written, compassionate, but ultimately devastating portrait of the lives of the human beings working inside (and often, crushed by) the entertainment machine.” It was also featured on Entertainment Weekly’s Must List.

Stephen is host of the literary podcast Paraphrase and co-host of The Survivor Know-It-Alls with Rob Cesternino. In 2008, he was runner-up on the TV show Survivor, and in 2015, he was voted by fans to return for an all-star season of the show.

Saturday, Sept. 19
Ticketed event – Milford Theater

Mary Beth Keane on her novels Whale Harbor, The Half Moon, and Ask Again, Yes.

Mary Beth Keane graduated from Barnard College and received an MFA from the University of Virginia. She is a John S. Guggenheim Fellow in the Creative Arts and the The New York Times–bestselling author of The Walking People, Fever, Ask Again, Yes and The Half Moon. She has received citations from the National Book Foundation, PEN America, and the Hemingway Society. Ask Again, Yes was a Tonight Show Summer Reads pick and has been translated into twenty-three languages. Her fifth novel, Whale Harbor, is forthcoming November 3, 2026.