Sculptor/animator Joe Laudati releases new YA book about a prankster fairy
He comes off as a low-key, soft-spoken guy; but in the ComicCon world, he’s something of a legend.
Books
Joy Road is a Woodstockian tale of adventures — spiritual and otherwise —lost and regained
Julie Evans arrived in Woodstock after an already tumultuous life. The year was 1981, and she had just left the back of a galloping horse that was about to jump over a parked car in Central Park.
Martha Frankel wants Woodstock Bookfest to bring different points of view together
The Woodstock Bookfest is in its eighth year of entertaining and inspiring writers and book-lovers alike. Since its conception, the festival has drawn speakers, panelists, and literarians from across the country as well as locally.
Stephen Tobolowsky highlights Woodstock Book Fest
Friday, April 28: Stephen Tobolowsky is best known as a character actor, one of those guys on the periphery of a movie scene that fills in all the gaps. More recently, Tobolowsky has developed radio and podcast pieces highlighting the life of a guy who is born Jewish in Dallas, Texas, attends a Methodist college, and becomes a success in L.A.
Saugerties gets 12 ‘Little Free Libraries’
Residents can take a book or leave a book- it goes by the honor system, and isn’t organized like regular public library loans.
Learn the benefits of Modern American Manners
Fred Mayo & Michael Gold to discuss their new book on etiquette in Gardiner and New Paltz Sunday, April 2.
The Quarry Fox snares your heart
“The Quarry Fox: And Other Critters of the Wild Catskills” is an amazing work, as much a clarion call announcing a quietly strong new voice in nonfiction writing and reflection as a key work about this unique region we call home.
Woodstock writer Alison Gaylin nominated for top mystery novel prize
“What Remains of Me” a finalist for the Edgar Award, given yearly by the Mystery Writers of America (MWA).
Judith Kerman’s Aleph, broken
The mud-luscious season we entered as soon as this past pile of snow started melting is perfect for poetry. Or at least its reading.
Michael Rosenthal’s Barney: Fighting censorship
Barney Rosset, the spirited subject of Michael Rosenthal’s new biography, “Barney: Grove Press and Barney Rosset, America’s Maverick Publisher and His Battle against Censorship” — which will be the subject of a reading and book signing event at 4 p.m. Saturday, March 18 at the Golden Notebook, 29 Tinker Street, Woodstock — seems to have made only one key trip to Woodstock in his lifetime.