Vegar Abelsnes Arts 10 Questions For Alexandra Horowitz The renowned dog cognition researcher, who has a home in Columbia County, has just published a new book, "Our Dogs, Ourselves." By Editor
Arts 10 Questions For Food Writer, Eater, And Cook Ruth Reichl Though a consummate New Yorker, Reichl lives full time in our region, where she wrote her latest bestseller. By Editor
The cover of THEN AGAIN is a painted found photo by Christensen; one of Christensen's painted pieces in the book. Arts Laura Christensen's ‘Then Again’ Is A Third Radiant Thing Thirty writers responded to Laura Christensen's fantastical artworks in order to create this unique anthology. By Amy Krzanik
The author and her latest book. © The Joy of Junk by Mary Randoph Carter, Rizzoli New York, 2018. Photography © Carter Berg. Arts Ode to Joy: Mary Randolph Carter's New Book On Junk In "The Joy of Junk," the author goes back to her junking roots, sharing her collector’s passion and wisdom. By Editor
Arts "Life Along the Hudson" Shows The Style To Which The Livingstons Were Accustomed "Life Along the Hudson: The Historic Country Estates of the Livingston Family" offers a gorgeous look at an old family. By Jamie Larson
Arts Storey Celebrates 35 Years With A Community Book Sale North Adams' own Storey Publishing will hold a community book sale to celebrate its 35 years in business. By Editor
Arts Q&A With Francis Greenburger, Entrepreneur In Our Midst By Jamie Larson Francis Greenburger has led an astonishingly successful, self-made, elite life. Last year he condensed a lifetime of accomplishments and struggles into a co-authored biography called “Risk Game: Self Portrait of an Entrepreneur.” On Saturday, Nov. 4, the longtime/part-time Columbia County resident will read from his book By Editor
Arts The Meaning Of Movement: Choreographer Paula Josa-Jones By Amy Krzanik You don’t need to be a “horse person” to read this article. You don’t have to have a background in dance, either. Although Paula Josa-Jones has had years of practice as both a rider and a choreographer, the only thing she asks you to bring By Editor
Arts Food, Farming And Sex: Alice Clayton's Hudson Valley Series By Andrea Pyros Inspiration comes at the oddest of moments. For best-selling romance novelist Alice Clayton, the idea for her sexy, saucy, food-obsessed Hudson Valley-based trilogy — Nuts, Cream of the Crop and Buns — came to her while she was waiting in line to buy cucumbers at her local St. Louis By Editor
Arts Dani Shapiro's 'Hourglass' Explores A Marriage Over Time In her new memoir, Hourglass (Knopf), Dani Shapiro of Litchfield County excavates and celebrates her marriage of nearly 20 years to screenwriter/director Michael Maren. In her previous critically acclaimed memoirs—Slow Motion and Devotion —Shapiro has put her personal history under the microscope to come to terms with her By Editor
Arts 'Love Where You Eat' Brings Joan Osofsky To The Table By Dan Shaw “Here in the country, when you invite people to dinner, they always ask, “What can I bring?” writes Joan Osofsky in her new book, Entertaining in the Country: Love Where You Eat (Rizzoli.) Osofsky, who owns the Hammertown stores in Great Barrington, Pine Plains and Rhinebeck, understands By Editor
Arts Joan Juliet Buck Leaves Paris And New York For…Rhinebeck By Dan Shaw Like many other “expats” in our region who’ve traded urban glamour and turmoil for rural simplicity and quietude, Joan Juliet Buck once had power, influence and an expense account. She was formidable, as they say in France, where she was editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris from 1994 By Editor
