Rockland — Rockland Public Library, 80 Union St., will host an evening with author and radio producer Caitlin Shetterly Thursday. Oct. 11 at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free. Handicapped accommodations with 48 hour notice; call 594-0310.

Shetterly, author of “Made for You and Me: Going West, Going Broke, Finding Home” (Hyperion, 2011), is a freelance reporter, writer and contributing producer to National Public Radio and she freelances for The New York Times. She can be heard regularly on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” “Morning Edition” and “Weekend Edition.” Shetterly also has been a frequent contributor to the PRI shows “This American Life” and “Studio 360,” among others. She will play some of her radio pieces and speak about them. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

This is one in a continuing Thursday series of literary, film and cultural offerings sponsored by the Rockland Public Library & The Friends of the Rockland Public Library. Admission is free.

Courier Publications’ A&E Editor Dagney C. Ernest can be reached at (207) 594-4401, ext. 115 or dernest@courierpublicationsllc.com.