Books & Authors
Local Bookstore Owners Share their Quarantine Book Picks
Who better to help us fill out our reading list than the owners and employees of the Hudson Valley's independent bookstores? Classics and new releases; memoirs, essays, fiction, and historical fiction, here are the 13 books they recommend reading while cooped up in quarantine.
By Chronogram Staff
Apr 4, 2020
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Books & Authors
Anne Pyburn Craig reviews Carol Goodman’s novel The Sea of Lost Girls, which explores a series of tragedies at a home for wayward girls; plus five short book reviews for your reading list.
By Anne Pyburn Craig
Apr 1, 2020
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Books & Authors
From Hilary Mantel to Michael Crichton, Some Fresh Ideas for Your Reading List
From an anthology of writings on the modern immigrant experience, to a biography of legend Janis Joplin, to a 1960s sci-fi thriller on stopping the spread of alien contagion, here are nine books we are reading right now.
By Marie Doyon
Mar 24, 2020
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General Wellness
Author Darcey Steinke Discusses Her Latest Book, Flash Count Diary
Health & Wellness editor Wendy Kagan sits down with author Darcey Steinke to discuss her latest book, Flash Count Diary, and the challenges of menopause in the modern era.
By Wendy Kagan
Mar 1, 2020
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Visual Art
Photographer Madeline Cottingham shares notes and starkly beautiful images from a polar expedition she took to Antarctica last year, the subject of her new book.
By Madeline Cottingham
Mar 1, 2020
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Books & Authors
Carolyn Quimby reviews Jennifer Rosner’s debut novel The Yellow Bird, which follows a mother and daughter as they struggle to survive the Holocaust, plus five short book reviews for your reading list.
By Carolyn Quimby, Abby Foster and Tiana Headley
Mar 1, 2020
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Books & Authors
Festival Director Martha Frankel Shares the Details of This Year's Lineup
Executive director of the Woodstock Bookfest, Martha Frankel, shares some of what to expect during the annual literary festival, which returns March 26-29, 2020.
By Chronogram Staff
Mar 1, 2020
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Books & Authors
Ambrose Bierce’s 'The Devil’s Dictionary' is collected from 30 years of newspapers columns, first published in 1911. In his recent edition of the classic satire, illustrator Keith Bendis softens the sharp edges of Bierce's wit.
By Keith Bendis
Feb 1, 2020
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Books & Authors
Anne Pyburn Craig reviews David Levine’s “mostly
chronological and occasionally personal history,” The Hudson Valley: The First 250 Million Years, plus five short book reviews for your February reading.
By Anne Pyburn Craig
Feb 1, 2020
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Books & Authors
In his new memoir, The Art of Resistance, Holocaust survivor Justus Rosenburg chronicles the four years he spent in the French Resistance during World War II; plus short book reviews.
By Carolyn Quimby
Jan 1, 2020
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Books & Authors
Hudson Valley bookstore owners pick their favorite books of the year for your holiday shopping list.
By Chronogram Staff
Dec 1, 2019
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Books & Authors
In August, Brooklyn-based digital designer Michelle Layne Lawson read an article on Chronogram's website about Tomorrow, Tomorrow, a 150-acre farm animal sanctuary in Columbia County that was struggling to raise funds to stay afloat. Within a few days, Lawson was on her way up to Hudson to visit the farm. And what began as casual cute animal pics turned into a coffee table book that is being sold to raise funds for the sanctuary and a renewed sense of creative vocation. Don't mind us, we're just sobbing over here.
By Anne Pyburn Craig
Nov 12, 2019
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Books & Authors
On November 12, counterterrorist and intelligence specialist Malcolm Nance will release his latest book, The Plot to Betray America, detailing evidence he's gathered on the Trump campaign's collusion with Russia. Ahead of the release, he speaks at Helsinki Hudson on 11/10.
By Claudia Larsen
Nov 7, 2019
Tags: politics malcolm nance book release russia investigation collusion Web Only
Books & Authors
Six local literary picks for your November reading from the experts at Chatham Bookstore, Postmark Books, Rough Draft, Spotty Dog, Golden Notebook, and Oblong Books.
By Chronogram Staff
Nov 1, 2019
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We're impressed and grateful for the creative pivots Hudson Valley businesses have been taking to ride out this COVID-19 storm. As always, crisis seems to breed ingenuity. Here are some of our favorite COVID-19 business pivots.
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With social distancing measures and the country on lockdown until at least the end of April, Hudson Valley entertainment and music venues struggle to stay afloat, working to pivot while grappling with an unknown future.
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