Science journalist Andrew Revkin to speak about climate change at the Cary Institute
Friday, Sept. 8: Revkin will discuss lessons “learned and unlearned” during his 30 years of reporting on climate change – from the North Pole to the Vatican.
Books
Hillary Clinton is coming to Rhinebeck
Hillary Rodham Clinton will be visiting Oblong Books in Rhinebeck Thursday, Dec. 7 to sign copies of her book What Happened, about the 2016 election.
The near-death laughter of Malachy McCourt
During the course of his life, writer and raconteur Malachy McCourt started the first singles’ bar in America, was a concrete inspector on the New Jersey Turnpike, a pioneer in talk radio, a soap opera star and a candidate for governor of the state of New York. Now he turns his gaze to Death.
Half Moon Books doing fine in the paper trade
Owner Jessica DuPont has noticed a lot of young people preferring to pick up a copy of a paper book as an antidote to screens.
Saugerties man creates his own funky ‘Little Free Library’
“Since I first saw one, I’ve fallen in love with Little Free Libraries,” he said. “I figured that there was nothing stopping me from having my own, and it was a fun idea.”
New Paltz author’s debut dark fantasy novel Uncle Brucker the Rat Killer will tickle your whiskers
Sometimes a book — especially a funny one — grabs you right from the get-go. That happened on page two.
Reading in Rhinebeck for the clothes-minded
Saturday, August 5: Tracy Tynan’s memoir Wear and Tear: The Threads of My Life features stories from the fashionable lives of her parents, theater critic Kenneth Tynan and novelist Elaine Dundy.
Memoir recalls growing up as a “bar brat” in Rosendale
Author Judith Boggess chronicles what life was like growing up in Rosendale in the 1940s and ‘50s as Judy Cherny, the daughter of hard-drinking Edith and mercurial “Big Ed,” who together ran one of the toughest bars on Main Street at Reid’s Hotel and Bar.
Mayapple Press holds its annual Writers’ Retreat
The sixth annual Mayapple Writers’ Retreat, which takes place at Byrdcliffe from July 27 to 31, will present four public readings of poetry and prose by regional and national writers at a quartet of local venues including two restaurants, the Woodstock Library, and Byrdcliffe’s historic Villetta Inn.
Joyce Carol Oates reading in Woodstock on Saturday
Saturday, July 29: The Golden Notebook in Woodstock presents a reading by the dynamo of American arts and letters Joyce Carol Oates at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum.