Stone Ridge Library hosts its 73rd annual Library Fair
Saturday, June 8: The festivities will include an outrageously stocked book sale, plant sale, children’s activities, craft and gift booths, food and drink and entertainment all day.
Books
Michael Beschloss & Susan Dunn headline Roosevelt Reading Festival
Saturday, June 15: Throughout the day, from 9:45 a.m. to 5 p.m., 15 authors of recently published books that draw upon the Roosevelt Library archives or focus on the FDR era will present book talks followed by question-and-answer sessions and book-signings.
Learn the insider tricks to getting published
Wednesday, May 22: It is agents, not publishers, who read unsolicited manuscripts. Jeff Herman will discuss this and other aspects of the publishing industry at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck.
Woodstock suspense writer Alison Gaylin wins Edgar award
Gaylin won an Edgar Allan Poe Award from Mystery Writers of America (MWA) for her novel If I Die Tonight (HarperCollins, 2018). Popularly known as “the Edgars,” the awards are given annually in a number of categories.
Jane Yolen headlines Hudson Children’s Book Festival
Saturday, May 4: This free showcase of literature for children and young adults is one of the biggest book festivals in the State of New York.
Pick up your free gifts at Independent Bookstore Day
Saturday, April 27: Here are some of the one-day specials being offered at Oblong Books & Music in Millerton and Rhinebeck on Independent Bookstore Day: Free while supplies last, Oblong will be handing out copies of Atlas Obscura Literary Locations by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton and Poems to Keep in Your Pocket, a hardcover mini-book of classic poems by Kipling, Wordsworth, Pope, Shakespeare, Dickinson and more.
Poughkeepsie Library hosts its first Kids Read: A Book Festival at Lourdes High School
Saturday, April 13: The free one-day Kids Read festival showcases talks by 39 authors and illustrators of kid lit on multiple stages.
Mary Giuliani hosts a “hometown” launch of her book Tiny Hot Dogs with a cocktail party in Kingston
Saturday, April 13: In her memoir, Tiny Hotdogs: A Memoir in Small Bites, Giuliani recounts how she went from a “friendless, hairy, deeply uncool” teenager to discovering her passion for food and creating a life around serving it in style.
Poet Gretchen Primack reads from Visiting Days in Woodstock
Saturday, April 13: In her latest volume of poetry, Visiting Days, area poet Gretchen Primack literally goes to jail. A collection of short, imagistically keen dramatic monologues, Visiting Days captures images, stories, voices and fragments of lives on the inside, connecting them in subtly woven themes to the racial, economic, and human realities that feed the booming and largely private prison complex that is barely ever mentioned in public discourse.
What they said, at the Bookfest
The 2019 Woodstock Bookfest featured, as usual, smart panels, bright speakers, and festive parties. I am able to report on a sampling of events, along with my favorite quotes from presenters.
