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"Love Where You Live" - Hammertown's Mantra Is Now A Book, Too

By Dan Shaw If grown-up life is really high school all over again and again, then the Rural Intelligence region finally has a yearbook thanks to Joan Osofsky of Hammertown: Love Where You Live: At Home in the Country, a coffee-table design tome published by Rizzoli that features

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All’s Welles That Ends Welles: A New Book From Chatham Film Festival's Peter Biskind

By Sam PrattOne afternoon in Los Angeles in 1983, Richard Burton cautiously approached Orson Welles’ usual table at Ma Maison, to ask if he could bring Liz Taylor over to meet him. Welles rudely shooed both away. Now, with the publication of Vanity Fair critic and Chatham Film Festival honcho

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Back In The Saddle: Laura Chester Rides Out the Storm of Transition

All photos courtesy of Trafalgar Square BooksBy Nichole DupontLaura Chester does not like to dwell in the past, especially her own. That's why the veteran author and horsewoman decided to write a book about it; to get some of that stuff out. But make no mistake, Riding Barranca,

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The Wondrous Words of Junot Diaz

Novelist Junot Diaz exudes an otherworldly level of awesomeness. The author and 2012 MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant recipient is on the phone discussing his third book, the linked short-story collection This Is How You Lose Her, which chronicles the relationship detonations in the life of Yunior, a

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Brian Selznick: A Head Full of Secrets

(Photo by Jamey Mazzie) Having an imagination is hard work, especially if you're living inside 46-year-old Brian Selznick's head. The author of the Caldecott Award-winning children's novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret (which was adapted for the Oscar-winning 2011 Scorcese

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Women Writers Unite! (and Chat) at Berkshire Festival

At the risk of sounding like a self-help guru, I’m going to share with you my Moment of Personal Transformation. It happened about four years when I attended my first writing workshop in Hudson, New York. The facilitator was a short, sharp New York City author and teacher

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Verlyn Klinkenborg Signing and Giveaway

Verlyn Klinkenborg, an award-winning American non-fiction author who lives in the RI region, has been writing literary meditations about the joys, rewards, and tribulations of farm life for years now, most notably as a columnist for The New York Times, where he serves on the editorial board, and

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Interview with John Kelly, author of The Graves Are Walking, on the Irish Famine

After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously remarked, “What’s the point of being Irish if the world doesn’t break your heart?” Central to that tragic view of life was the Irish potato famine of the 1840s that left more than a million people

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A Talk with Peter Wheelwright, Architect and Author of As It Is On Earth

Peter Wheelwright, a former dean (now associate professor) in the School of Architecture at Parsons The New School for Design, has just published his first novel, As It Is On Earth. Wheelwright grew up in Lenox, MA., and he and his wife, the photographer Eliza Hicks, have a house in

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Books: Sandisfield Then and Now

Anyone who lives in Sandisfield, the bucolic village at the southern tip of Berkshire County that lays claim to the distinction of being the county’s largest and most sparsely populated town, has likely heard from Ron Bernard. For the past two-and-a-half years, Bernard has been interviewing

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Berkshires as Backdrop: Why Joshua Henkin Set "The World Without You" in Lenox

Whether or not you think of the Berkshires as New York City's sixth borough as some wags do, you have no doubt sat next to a family like the fictional Frankels on the lawn at Tanglewood or stood on line with them at Guido's. In Joshua

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Thirty Year Plan: Share Your Thoughts on Saving the World and Win Orion's New Book

As a way of marking its 30th anniversary, Orion magazine asked 30 writers and environmental leaders to consider what we need to build a better future on our planet. Their answers comprise a new book, Thirty Year Plan, which Orion launched on Sunday, July 8, at Bascom Lodge, atop Mt.

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