Food Charmingly Neurotic "New Yorker" Cartoonists Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein Bring Their Kitchen Nightmares to MASS MoCA Two New Yorker cartoonists sit down with museum director Kristy Edmunds on October 17 to talk about the thing hiding at the back of everyone's refrigerator, ahead of their new book's release. By Jamie Larson •
Community Writing in Focus: Tig Notaro Opens First Rough Notes Festival in Kinderhook August 28 Presented by Kinderhook Books, the three-day event treats stand-up, songwriting, and screenwriting as seriously as it treats novels—with a kids' newsroom built entirely on typewriters. By Jamie Larson •
Community 10 Local Independent Bookstores With Stories Worth Knowing From Lakeville to Kinderhook, here are 10 of our favorite Indies, packed with books and personality too. By Jamie Larson •
Community "Motherland": Julia Ioffe's Monumental New Text on Russian Women Opens Summer Book Series at The Mount "Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy" is now required reading, and her book talk at the Mount is a can't-miss kickoff to a season of strongly curated events July 6-7. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Justice Alito and Conservative Legal Revenge: Journalist Peter S. Canellos in Lenox Lenox Library and The Berkshire Eagle host prize-winning journalist Peter S. Canellos in conversation with editor Priscilla Painton to discuss his new book, "Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement." By Jamie Larson •
Arts David Sedaris Book Signing in Rhinebeck May 27 David Sedaris comes to Oblong Books for an already sold out reading and an open book signing in support of his new collection, The Land and Its People. By Jamie Larson •
Books Francine Prose on “Five Weeks in the Country” and Dickens’s Domestic Drama In “Five Weeks in the Country,” Francine Prose reimagines Charles Dickens’s unraveling household during Hans Christian Andersen’s infamous visit—exploring literary genius, family strain, and the uneasy alchemy between life and art. By Brian K. Mahoney
Photos by Medea Giordano for Chronogram. Books "Surrender" by Jennifer Acker: Familiar Berkshire Settings, Feelings, Characters, and Goats One city-dwelling friend told Acker the novel worked as "a prophylactic for anyone thinking about country life." By Jamie Larson •
Community Inaugural Berkshire Book Con in Pittsfield The Berkshire Athenaeum is launching its first-ever Berkshire Book Con on April 18 By Jamie Larson •
Scenes like this from Stanley Kubrick's "Spartacus" (1966) sit uneasily beside the idealized Rome so often invoked as a civilizational model—a tension at the heart of Curtis Dozier’s "The White Pedestal." Community How White Nationalists Weaponize Ancient Greece and Rome In “The White Pedestal,” Vassar classics professor Curtis Dozier traces how the cultural prestige of Greece and Rome gets repurposed into a modern politics of hierarchy, exclusion, and “replacement.” By Brian K. Mahoney •
Food Better at Home: Colu Henry and the Art of Entertaining on Your Own Terms Living between Hudson and Nova Scotia, the cookbook author makes a case for simple, confident cooking—and hosting without the stress. By Brian K. Mahoney •
Arts Author Talk: Brian Schaefer "Town & Country" The Roe Jan Library welcomes local author Brian Schaefer for an afternoon conversation about his debut novel. By Jamie Larson •
