WINTHROP — Bailey Public Library will host bestselling and critically acclaimed author Susan Conley at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Conley will read from her new novel, “Paris Was the Place,” and talk about the creative process. This event is part of the library’s annual Winthrop Community Read, a program that encourages all adults in the Winthrop region to read and discuss the same book at the same time, according to a news release from the library.

A Maine native, Conley currently teaches at the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA Program and is the Jack Kerouac Visiting Writer at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.

Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing. For more information, call 377-8673.