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William Kennedy to Read at Bard

Monday, October 4 @ 6:30 p.m. “What James Joyce did for Dublin and Saul Bellow did for Chicago, William Kennedy has done for Albany, New York,” wrote critic James Atlas in Vogue. Kennedy is the author of eight novels, including Legs and Ironweed, which won the Pulitzer Prize and

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Lane Smith Defends Print

Saturday, September 18 @ noon Best-selling children's book author Lane Smith (Madam President and John, Paul, George & Ben) will read from and sign his latest, It's a Book, a defense of print in the digital age targeted at little ones.  Smith, who lives in Litchfield County,

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Spencertown Academy Festival of Books

Friday, September 3 - Monday, September 6 This weekend bookworms and bibliophiles by the thousands will descend upon the tiny hamlet of Spencertown, NY for the Spencertown Academy's Fifth Annual Festival of Books, three days of free programs featuring more than twenty nationally and internationally-known authors, a sale

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Thomas O'Brien, Author of "American Modern" at Hudson Home

August 14 @ 5 - 7 p.m. If there had never been an Aero, Thomas O'Brien's seminal home design store in Soho, there never would have been a—well, just look around. The hip-yet-accessible, clean-lined-yet-un-rigid, look of today's dominant interior-design style is the result,

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Millbrook Author Reads from Debut Novel

Saturday, August 7 @ 11 a.m & 5 p.m. Jenny Nelson, who lives in Millbrook, will read from and sign her debut novel, Georgia's Kitchen, the story of Georgia Gray, the head chef at a trendy New York restaurant who travels to Tuscany to open a trattoria.

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The Logic of the World and Other Fictions

Friday, July 23 @ 7:30 p.m. Robert Kelly, author of four previous volumes of "unsettling," "exhilerating," and "sparkling" fiction that has have been compared favorably with that of Borges, Nabokov, Calvino, and Coover, will read from and sign his latest collection of short

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Duane Hampton, author of 'Mark Hampton: An American Decorator' at Rural Residence

July 10 @ 6 - 8 p.m. The interior designer Mark Hampton (1940 - 1998) was almost as highly regarded for his writing (a column in House & Garden) and painting (watercolors, one of which is in the collection of London's V & A) as he was for

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Sally Helgesen Signs "The Female Vision"

June 19, 4 - 7 p.m Sally Helgesen , an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and consultant, is one of the world’s brand-name experts on women’s leadership.  Her latest book, The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work, co-authored with executive coach Julie Johnson, explores the strategic nature

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Ben Hewitt's "The Town That Food Saved"

Wednesday, June 16 @ 7:30 p.m. Ben Hewitt's The Town That Food Saved: How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food now rivals Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma as the must read for locavores. Hewitt chronicles how Hardwick, VT, leanred to feed itself

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Berkshire WordFest Bows at The Mount

A New Festival in Lenox: July 23 - 25 Once again, words will prevail at The Mount.  For the past thirty years, actors, directors, gardeners and decorators have lovingly put their stamp on Edith Wharton's 1902 estate and gardens in Lenox.  But the literary community is taking it

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Michael Perry's "Coop: A Family, a Farm, and the Pursuit of One Good Egg"

Wednesday, June 16 @ 7:30 p.m. From the acclaimed author of Truck: A Love Story comes this humorous, heartfelt memoir. Living in a ramshackle Wisconsin farmhouse, faced with thirty-seven acres of fallen fences and overgrown fields, and recently informed by his pregnant wife that she intends to deliver their

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Books: Millbrook Festival, Storytime for All

Everyone has long known the value of reading aloud to young children.  Now there is mounting evidence—the growing popularity of books on CD and entertainments such as staged play readings and, of course, NPR's beloved "Selected Shorts"—that adults want and perhaps need to be

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