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Word Up! Taylor Mali on Word X Word Festival 2011 and the Lives of the Poets

What’s the word? Find out this week in Pittsfield at the third annual Word X Word Festival from August 13 – 20. This celebration of words written, spoken and sung—created in 2009 by Jim Benson, proprietor of Mission Bar + Tapas—kicks off with its now-legendary rooftop party, one

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A Happening Reading Relaunches the Basilica

A reading of renowned novelist and screenwriter, Rudolph Wurlitzer’s 1984 novel Slow Fade by singer-songwriter, folk-music legend Will Oldham (below), who has played with the band Palace Brothers as Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy.  The evening celebrates the release of Slow Fade, the first in a new line of

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Video Intelligence: The RI Interview with "Hero" Author Michael Korda

Michael Korda at home on his farm in Dutchess County. Apple-cheeked and clutching a steaming cup of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee, the best-selling author Michael Korda doesn’t look tired when he strides from the stables at his Stone Gate Farm in Pleasant Valley, NY, on a recent Sunday

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Michael Korda on His T.E. Lawrence Bio

December 3, @ 5 p.m.; December 4 @ 5 p.m. According to Michael Korda's new biography of the British soldier and adventurer T.E. Lawrence (aka Lawrence of Arabia; 1888 – 1935), George Bernard Shaw once scolded his friend, who had just published a biography, Seven Pillars of Wisdom,

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Molly O'Neill of "One Big Table" at Oblong

December 4 @ 4 - 6 p.m. To celebrate the spirit of the season, Oblong Books is hosting a community cookie swap with Molly O'Neill, author of the delectable new cookbook, One Big Table.  Oblong has invited local home cooks and professional bakers to rustle up a batch and

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Mann and Davis' "Sacred Landscapes"

Saturday, November 27 @ 6 - 8 p.m. Generally, the bigger the book, the slighter its content, but this rule of thumb is turned on its head by A.T. Mann and Lynn Davis's Sacred Landscapes: The Threshold Between Worlds (Sterling Publishers, $35).  Yes, it is a big, lushly

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Paul DeAngelis' Dear Mrs. Kennedy

By Kathryn Matthews Saying “I’m sorry for your loss...” is never easy.  Especially to the grieving widow of President John F. Kennedy. On a recent Saturday evening at Oblong Books and Music in Rhinebeck, author Paul De Angelis swallowed hard after reading a letter sent by a Navy chaplain

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The Frankies' Spuntino Kitchen Companion

November 6 @ 3 – 6 p.m. Let's start by parsing the title. The Frankies are two chefs, both named Frank, who knew each other as kids, then went on to do a lot of swell chef-ing here and abroad before deciding (long before it became a trend—

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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

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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

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