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Chronogram selects inspiring verse to help bring in the new year.
The poet laureate of Woodstock talks about “Poems for New Orleans,” his newest collection.
The eternal feminine takes many forms—Goth girl, sister, mother, wise woman, goddess—in six new books by Hudson Valley women.
Nina Shengold makes a booklist, checks it twice.
Nina Shengold profiles Beacon resident David Rees, creator of Get Your War On and Adventures of Confessions of St. Augustine Bear.
Think global, read local. Over a hundred books have been reviewed in these pages since last November’s Literary Supplement. Books editor Nina Shengold revisits some of the year’s highlights for literate locavores.
An ode to a familiar item from the pre-digital age: The printing press
Nina Shengold talks with writer Laura Shaine Cunningham about Sleeping Arrangements (featured in the 2008 One Book, One New Paltz celebration).
Hudson Valley authors keep it real in six striking works of memoir and nonfiction.
Nina Shengold profiles former Times newsman turned author John Darnton.
Looking for a great novel to tuck in that beach bag, or new ways to pamper the dog in your dog days? Read on!
Nina Shengold profiles memoirist and book reviewer Daniel Mendelsohn.
Nina Shengold profiles Newbery Honor winner and The Baby-Sitters Club series author Ann M. Martin about her life in prolific publishing.
When “School’s out!” gives way to “There’s nothing to doooo,” check out our summer reading list of recently published books for kids, teens, and young writers by Hudson Valley authors and illustrators.
Scrapping prepared remarks, I tell them 90 percent of my career has been failure. “I’ve been dead broke six times and if I don’t sell something soon it’ll be seven.”
For those who can’t get enough of sea chanteys, hornpipes, and ballads sung raw-whisky pure, the Barefoot Boys’ Sweetwater Passage is a 16-course banquet.
Millbrook’s Merritt Books will have its first ever book festival, complete with story telling, reading, a parade and book signings.
Benjamin Cheever goes the distance in both writing and running.
Hudson Valley children’s authors offer new treats for lions and lambs of all ages.
Nina Shengold profiles Nobel Prize winning author Chinua Achebe.
Six more books worth reading this month.
Six books to fulfill your New Year’s resolution to read more about mind and spirit.
Imagine: A studio drummer who’s never written anything but letters decides to write the definitive book about the Beatles, subject of some 500 previous books.
Nina Shengold picks these page-turners to give.
A celebration of vibrant new work by Hudson Valley poets and independent presses.
Berkshire novelist Andrea Barrett talks with Nina Shengold about fiction,science, and her new novel, The Air We Breathe.
The late Jim Ryan, curator of nearby Olana, once told Kermani, “Someday this house is going to be seen as a major work by John Ashbery.”
Small presses and obscure publications advertise for content.
Nina Shengold gets Charley Rosen to talk candidly about his upbringing, coaching meltdowns, and how he handles enraged bloggers.
Six must-reads for September.
There are few laudatory adjectives that critics haven’t applied to John Ashbery’s 26 books of poetry; “dazzling,” “sublime,” and the like become shopworn.
Susan Krawitz and Nina Shengold offer their picks for picture books, poetry, and young adult titles.
Daniel Pinkwater’s voice—instantly recognizable to NPR listeners—resonates down the stairwell as he appears, a Hitchcockian silhouette dressed in top-to-toe black with a dusting of pet hair.
Paetro told a friend she’s reached the point where her name will be linked to James Patterson’s in her obituary.
Summer reading in many flavors, including three books with upcoming launch parties, plus two more from some of our finest regional publishers.
Morrow writes like an architect, using intricate mathematical structures to create three-dimensional worlds full of beauty and light.
These five new releases offer sustenance to heart, mind, and body, including John Cuneo’s romp through the lowest of chakras.
Whether they’re writing about military realities, queer identity, land use issues up- and downriver, or that iconoclastic bride of Christ, these five local authors are helping to break new ground.
What do gardening, murder, women’s erotica, and Christmas past have in common? A most uncommon edito: Woodstocker Michele Slung.
Nina Shengold profiles essayist, novelist, poet, and writer of children’s books Nancy Willard.
Capsule reviews of books by Kenneth Salzmann, Norma Lehmeier Hartie, Leonard Shengold, Linda Zuckerman, and Sunny Berkley.
Author Mat Johnson does the write thing.
Start your New Year off reading with this quintet of diverse
new releases by Hudson Valley authors.
James Lasdun packs a prodigious literary pedigree. The London-born author has published two acclaimed novels and three collections apiece of short stories and poems.
Nina Shengold visits the multi-dimensional world of pop-up book creators Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart.
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