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Joyce Carol Oates to read her new short stories in Woodstock
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Joyce Carol Oates to read her new short stories in Woodstock

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Tuesday, July 24: Multi-prizewinning novelist Joyce Carol Oates has just published a new short-story collection that’s generating plenty of buzz in literary circles: Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense. The title story is her homage to the eldritch horror tales of H.P. Lovecraft; the volume of six new works also includes Eleven A.M., 1926, Oates’ contribution to a writing challenge to imagine the backstories behind iconic paintings by Edward Hopper. 

Samantha Hunt reads from The Seas in Rhinebeck
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Samantha Hunt reads from The Seas in Rhinebeck

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Tuesday, July 10: Dave Eggers declared the Tivoli writer “one of the most distinctive and unforgettable voices I have read in years.” Hunt’s recently reissued novel is about a young woman who believes herself to be a mermaid. She falls in a love with a damaged veteran of the first Iraq war, a fisherman named Jude.

Encounters with cancer
Art & Music, Books

Encounters with cancer

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Opening on Saturday, May 5: “Handwriting on the Wall” exhibition at Arts Society of Kingston. “Cancer and other illnesses that are feared are whispered about, and it’s time to stop the whispering, because we’re all suffering on one level or another. And so many of us suffer alone.”

Tim Youd retypes Mary McCarthy’s The Group in Vassar performance piece
Books, Local History

Tim Youd retypes Mary McCarthy’s The Group in Vassar performance piece

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Thursday, 4/19 and several dates afterward: In his ongoing 100 Novels project, Youd specializes in retyping novels (with the same make and model typewriter used by the author) from beginning to end in locations that are charged with literary significance in the author’s biography. The retyping of Mary McCarthy’s The Group will constitute the 56th novel that Youd has typed, and is one of several titles that he will undertake in the Hudson Valley in 2018.

Mary Beth Pfeiffer reads from her new book on Lyme disease in Woodstock & Poughkeepsie
Books, Nature

Mary Beth Pfeiffer reads from her new book on Lyme disease in Woodstock & Poughkeepsie

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Sunday, April 15: Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change has already garnered critical accolades, including from such environmentalist icons as Jane Goodall and Bill McKibben. The book makes the case that Lyme disease is spreading rapidly around the globe as ticks move into places they could not survive before, infecting half a million people in the US and Europe each year, and untold multitudes in Canada, China, Russia and Australia.