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Joyce Carol Oates to read her new short stories in Woodstock

July 19, 2018·0 comments·

Tuesday, July 24: Multi-prizewinning novelist Joyce Carol Oates has just published a new short-story collection that’s generating plenty of buzz in literary circles: Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense. The title story is her homage to the eldritch horror tales of H.P. Lovecraft; the volume of six new works also includes Eleven A.M., 1926, Oates’ contribution to a writing challenge to imagine the backstories behind iconic paintings by Edward Hopper.

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Samantha Hunt reads from The Seas in Rhinebeck

July 5, 2018·0 comments·

Tuesday, July 10: Dave Eggers declared the Tivoli writer “one of the most distinctive and unforgettable voices I have read in years.” Hunt’s recently reissued novel is about a young woman who believes herself to be a mermaid. She falls in a love with a damaged veteran of the first Iraq war, a fisherman named Jude.

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My Ex-Life: Stephen McCauley reads from his latest novel in Woodstock

June 14, 2018·0 comments·

Saturday, June 16: The story concerns the rekindling-under-duress of a friendship between Julie and her gay ex-husband from long ago. Sardonic, wry and ceaselessly funny as it may be, My Ex-Life genuinely surprises as it progresses, accumulating tenderness, warmth and complexity.

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Crispin Kott and Mike Katz pen guide to NYC’s hot rock ’n’ roll spots

June 9, 2018·0 comments·

This book is a wonderful and often brilliantly written resource for music fanatics or casual fans who may want to learn more about the city’s deeply rich rock history.

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Ed Sanders’ investigative poetry takes on RFK’s final years

May 30, 2018·0 comments·

Sanders said he chose to write in verse because that had been his original intention with his book on the Manson Family, which was then transformed to prose paragraphs by his typists. After all, it was his own 1975 manifesto that called for poets to again become historians, “as they were in ancient times.”

Books, People & Places

Philip Roth is laid to rest in Annandale

May 29, 2018·7 comments·

How did Philip Roth, widely acclaimed as the greatest living American novelist at the time of his death last week, come to be buried at Bard College?

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Carey Harrison reads Otis Kidwell Burger’s long ago lost sonnets

May 25, 2018·0 comments·

Carey Harrison will read Otis Kidwell Burger’s sonnet cycle Love is a Season on Saturday, May 26, at 3 p.m. at the Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Road, Woodstock. Copies of the book will be on sale at the reading or can be purchased at the Golden Notebook bookstore.

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Lee Reich’s new gardening book is another keeper

May 22, 2018·0 comments·

Reich is highly regarded as a national expert, but even more exciting is the fact that he’s a local! He knows our pain. How can we trust an expert from New Jersey, or worse, someone from California (who is probably just a surfer) with our delicate apple blossoms? We can not.

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Losing Aaron is a moving account of one family’s experience with a catastrophic mental illness

May 16, 2018·0 comments·

On Saturday, May 19, New Paltz author Ingrid Blaufarb Hughes will be giving a live reading at the Adriance Memorial Library in Poughkeepsie, along with Nina Belén Robins, author of The Supermarket Diaries and A Bed with My Name on It.

Art & Music, Books

Encounters with cancer

May 3, 2018·1 comment·

Opening on Saturday, May 5: “Handwriting on the Wall” exhibition at Arts Society of Kingston. “Cancer and other illnesses that are feared are whispered about, and it’s time to stop the whispering, because we’re all suffering on one level or another. And so many of us suffer alone.”

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