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A search for one women's lost ancestral history, a child friendly spin on an ancient Chinese tale, and recipes from a cannabis cookbook.
By Jane Kinney-Denning and Diana Testa
May 1, 2021
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A review of Jo Ann Beard's Festival Days, an anthology of 30 short stories, essays, and plays, plus five short book write-ups for your April reading
By Diana Testa
Apr 1, 2021
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Tony Levin's Images from the Road
Images of Kingston resident and bass legend Tony Levin's life on the road.
By Peter Aaron
Mar 1, 2021
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A roundup of the newest reads; from a deep dive into the world of modern mycological movement to a silly, rhyming tale of pirates.
By Diana Testa and Jane Kinney-Denning
Mar 1, 2021
Tags: Books Neil Gaiman Children
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The DIY Art Projects of Open Studio
More than a dozen well-known contemporary artists created DIY art projects for Open Studio (Phaidon), which features photos by Casey Kelbaugh.
By Dan Fisher
Feb 1, 2021
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A longer review of Sam J. Miller's The Blade Between, plus 5 other picks for your February reading list.
By Seth Rogovoy
Feb 1, 2021
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A longer review of David Michaelis's new biography on influential first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, plus 5 other picks for your January reading list.
Jan 1, 2021
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Carloyn Quimby reviews Mary Gordon’s Payback, a new novel from the award winning author about a lifelong reckoning between two women that wends its way from a boarding school in New England to reality television.
Plus short reviews of Lotus Kay’s Jenny the Chimpanzee; Edward Schwarzschild’s In Security; Tom Schachtman’s, The Memoir of the Minotaur; Jeffrey McDaniel’s Holiday in the Islands of Grief; and James Lancel MElhinney’s, Sketchbook Traveler.
By Carolyn Quimby and Lee Anne Albritton
Dec 1, 2020
Tags: Book Review Mary Gordon Lotus Kay Edward Schwarzschild Tom Shachtman Jeffrey McDaniel James Lancel McElhinney
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How Repair Cafes & Its Fixers Are Transforming Our Throwaway Culture
Since the world’s first Repair Cafe was held in Amsterdam in 2009, the fix-it movement has swept across the globe. One early adopting community was New Paltz. Its founder, John Wackman, teams up Elizabeth Knight to document the culture of thrift and resilience in Repair Revolution (New World Library).
By John Wackman and Elizabeth Knight
Nov 1, 2020
Tags: sustainability repair revolution excerpt repair cafe reduce reuse recycle
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The following is an excerpt from Small Happiness & Other Epiphanies by Sparrow, which will be published this month by Monkfish Book Publishing Company. A longtime contributor to this magazine and frequent presidential candidate, Sparrow is the author of numerous books on a wide range of subjects, from psychoanalysis to wedding planning to advice on aging, from which the following essay is excerpted.
By Sparrow
Oct 1, 2020
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Seth Rogovoy reviews Annik LaFarge’s Chasing Chopin: A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Counties, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions; plus short reviews of new books by Nick Flynn, Bradford Morrow, Carole Bell Ford, Aimee Molloy, and Lisa Selin-Davis.
By Seth Rogovoy and Lee Anne Albritton
Oct 1, 2020
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