Free and open to the public events around the Friends of the Claremont Library’s 2025 On the Same Page community read, “Hollywood Park,” by Mikel Jollett, begin at 10 a.m. Saturday, January 25 with a discussion at the Claremont Helen Renwick Library, 208 N. Harvard Ave.

Musician and first-time author Jollett is best known as the frontman for American indie rock band the Airborne Toxic Event. “Hollywood Park” is “a memoir of a tumultuous life,” according to a press release. “Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country’s most infamous cults, and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction, and emotional abuse.”

At 10 a.m. Saturday, February 15, a panel discussion with Marie Carr, Christopher Smith, and Michelle Dowd, “The Effects of Cults on Children and Families,” takes place at the library. Jollett will speak with journalist Emily St. Martin at the Alexander Hughes Community Center, 1700 Danbury Rd., Claremont, at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 8.

The Claremont library has copies of “Hollywood Park” available for check out. Lawn signs are also available. For more information visit claremontlibrary.org.