Off to the races
Erica Obey touts The Horseman’s Word at Saugerties Library August 29, Golden Notebook September 7.
Books
The English channeler: Red Hook’s Charlotte Mandell translates modern French classics
Even if “a good translator,” in her words, “should disappear,” Mandell wants readers to understand just how much work is involved in her profession.
Morton Library hosts Accidental Presidents book talk with Jigsaw CEO Jared Cohen
Tuesday, Aug. 13: Jared Cohen’s interest in unexpected transfers of power began during his childhood when he read the late Staatsburg author/illustrator Alice Provensen’s The Buck Stops Here, a book about US presidents.
Check out Phoenicia Library’s collection of fly-fishing info
The Phoenicia Library is home to the Jerry Bartlett Memorial Angling Collection, an impressive inventory of books about fishing and fly-tying. “It could be hyperbole, but we like to say we have the largest circulating collection in the Northeast,” says Library Board member Beth Waterman.
Compassionate Cuisine book signing at bluecashew
Both Chef Linda Soper-Kolton and Chef Sara Boan graduated from the Natural Gourmet Institute in Manhattan before landing their dream jobs at the Catskill Animal Sanctuary, tucked away between Saugerties and Lake Katrine, where they teach the vegan way of compassionate cooking. Now the dynamic duo is making the rounds at bookstores and other venues to launch a cookbook, Compassionate Cuisine: 125 Plant-Based Recipes from Our Vegan Kitchen.
Register now to take tea with American Girl Blaire & her creator at Ulster County Fair
Wednesday, July 31: Among the attractions at this summer’s Ulster County Fair will be an opportunity for children who love the history-based American Girl dolls to attend a tea party with New Paltz resident Jennifer Castle, author of two books about American Girl’s 2019 Girl of the Year, Blaire Wilson. Set in Ulster County, Blaire’s story involves living on a sustainable farm turned into a bed-and-breakfast and volunteering for the local food pantry.
Jennifer Deering’s new book gives tips on how to avoid, recover from Lyme disease
New Paltz resident Jennifer Deering knows all about the dangers of undiagnosed Lyme disease; in 2011, it left her effectively crippled for about six months with extreme joint pain and a raft of neurological symptoms triggered by her autoimmune response. Deering has written and self-published a book about her experiences, Stronger than Lyme: My Battle and Blueprint for Overcoming This Strange Disease, and will be giving a presentation about it from 4 to 6 p.m. this Saturday, July 13 at Roost Studios.
Talk with marathoners Kathrine Switzer & Roger Robinson at Rough Draft
Monday, July 1: Switzer is the first woman to officially register and run the Boston Marathon (and the subject of a very famous photograph) and the author of Marathon Woman, which has recently been optioned for a major featurelength film. Robinson is the author of When Running Made History, a new book that redefines the contribution of running to modern society via eyewitness stories from the last 70 years. Outside magazine’s Amby Burfoot called it “the best running book of all time.”
Keith Karchner & Matt Maley channel zeitgeist in graphic short-story collection Nonsecal
The ’zine age, as well as the work of such cartoon memoirists as Linda Barry, has demonstrated that the graphic narrative form is well-suited to intimate miniatures (if Edward Gorey hadn’t already made the point), but Nonsecal is something else entirely; it is short but grand and maximalist, visually and conceptually.
Author Salman Rushdie comes to the Hudson Valley
Author Salman Rushdie will appear in conversation with WAMC’s Joe Donahue at Bard College Sept. 10. He’ll discuss his forthcoming novel Quichotte, a retelling of Cervantes’ Don Quixote.