(HUDSON, N.Y.) – A free reading and discussion devoted to the groundbreaking literary publishing house New Directions will take place at Time and Space Limited on Sunday, May 17, 2015, at 1pm. The event, “Literchoor Is My Beat: A New Directions Festival,” will feature a reading by Ian MacNiven, author of the biography “Literchoor Is…
(WOODSTOCK, N.Y.) – Chris Stein, a cofounder of New Wave group Blondie as well as a photographer, novelists Jane Smiley and Elisa Albert, poet and novelist Stephen Dobyns, memoirist and novelist Ann Hood, biographers Amanda Vaill, Sheila Weller, and James Grissom, authors Mark Matousek and Clark Strand, and memoirists Abigail Thomas, Christina Haag, Jillian Lauren,…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Hudson native Elisabeth Sheffield will read from and sign copies of her new novel, “Helen Keller Really Lived” – which has nothing to do with Helen Keller – at Spotty Dog Books & Ale on Wednesday, October 1, 2014, at 7pm. Set in eastern upstate New York, “Helen Keller Really Lived” features…
(SPENCERTOWN, N.Y.) – With more than 20 authors, 2,000 book lovers expected to attend, and 10,000 books for sale, Spencertown Academy Arts Center’s Festival of Books truly earns its name as a festival. This is no mere book sale, but a celebration of all things literary. The sixth annual event takes place this coming Labor…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff, a native of Adams, Mass., and a graduate of Williams College, will discuss her latest work and recent New York Times #1 best seller, Cleopatra: A Life, on Sunday, June 12, at 5 at the Founders’ Theatre at Shakespeare & Company. Schiff won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Authors Cornelia Brooke Gilder and Richard S. Jackson, Jr. will be at The Bookloft on Saturday, June 11, from 10 until noon, signing copies of the new edition of Houses of the Berkshires, 1870 – 1930, published by Acanthus Press LLC. This revised edition of the award-winning volume Houses of the…
