Melissa Petro in Conversation with Sari Botton
Reading from and signing ner new book, Shame On You: How to be a Woman in the Age of Mortification. Free.
(Due to personal reasons, Lynn Slater will not be attending the event)
Melissa Petro
is a journalist whose writing has been featured in The Washington Post, Allure, Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone, Good Housekeeping, The Guardian, InStyle, and many other national publications. She was a finalist for the PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize, and she holds a bachelor in Women’s Studies from Antioch and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from The New School. She lives with her husband and two young children in Upstate New York.
Sari Botton‘s memoir in essays, And You May Find Yourself…Confessions of a Late-Blooming Gen-X Weirdo, was chosen by Poets & Writers magazine for the 2022 edition of its annual “5 Over 50” feature. An essay from it received notable mention in The Best American Essays 2023, edited by Vivian Gornick. For five years, she was the Essays Editor at Longreads. She edited the bestselling anthologies Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York and Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York. She publishes Oldster Magazine, Memoir Land, and Adventures in Journalism. She was the Writer in Residence in the creative writing department at SUNY New Paltz for Spring, 2023.MORE
That Time of Year
A quarterly-ish reading series around a theme. Tonight's theme: Hellscape. Free.
LAURA MARRIS
is a writer and translator. Her writing has appeared in The Yale Review, The Paris Review Daily, The New York Times, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. Her first essay collection, The Age of Loneliness, was published in August.
EMMA COPLEY EISENBERG
is the author of the nationally bestselling novel Housemates and the narrative nonfiction book The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia, which was named a New York Times Notable Book.
LAURIE STONE
is the author of six books, most recently Streaming Now, Postcards from the Thing that is Happening, longlisted for a PEN Award. She writes the literary Substack publication Everything is Personal, with over 11,000 subscribers
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Books are available for purchase and signing.
Created and Hosted by Andrea Kleine.
This event is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Wreckless Eric: A Shut Up and Listen Solo Performance
Electric / Acoustic / Songs / Words / Electronics. Suggested Donation: $15.
“A psychedelic ambience that resurrects the spirits of Syd Barrett and Steve Marriott at their most playful.”
–The Wire
“He has ritten a vast succession of wonderful songs.”
–The Guardian
Bring the family? / Don’t bring the familyMORE
Coraline: Film Screening and Book Discussion for Kids and Adults!
In partnership with Story Screen Movie Theater!
COME EARLY! The theater will have pumpkins for sale prior to the screening for PUMPKIN CARVING from 2-4:00 PM in our Lobby! All ages welcome!
Join us after the film for a discussion on both the original book and the film, hosted by The Spotty Dog Books & Ale. Want to be a part of the Book Club? Purchase your copy of the original book through The Spotty Dog and receive a free popcorn at the movie!
Film Synopsis:
While exploring her new home, a girl named Coraline (Dakota Fanning) discovers a secret door, behind which lies an alternate world that closely mirrors her own but, in many ways, is better. She rejoices in her discovery, until Other Mother (Teri Hatcher) and the rest of her parallel family try to keep her there forever. Coraline must use all her resources and bravery to make it back to her own family and life.
Directed by Henry Selick
PG ‧ 2009 ‧ Family/Horror ‧ 1h 55m
The Story Scream Horrorshow X is happening all October long at Story Screen Cinema in Hudson, NY. Check out all our awesome spooky screenings of old and new scary flicks this Halloween season. Tell all your spooky friends!
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Theater Info: Pumpkin Carving from 2-4 pm / Doors at 3:30 pm / Screening starts at 4:00 pm
Tickets are limited, so buy yours now!
Once you’ve completed your purchase, your name will be added to the admissions list. You can arrive at the theater once doors have opened to claim your ticket.
Author Seth Rogovoy and Filmmaker Stacy Cochran
A reading and discussion featuring Seth’s latest book, Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison. Free.
Within You Without You
How did the most reluctant member of the Fab Four put his mark on all of their music? This book helps listeners hear how George Harrison shaped the sound of The Beatles and how he carried that sound forward into his solo career
Within You Without You is a highly personal exploration of George Harrison’s essential contributions to the Beatles and his solo work, as well as his significant role as a Western proponent of Indian music and beliefs. Through close examination of his guitar playing in the Fab Four and his songwriting both in and out of the Beatles, author Seth Rogovoy demystifies the enigma of this most reluctant of rock stars.
Drawing upon the insights of the author–a rock critic and historian of over forty years standing–as well as those of expert observers including Beatles filmmaker Michael Lindsay-Hogg and English rock singer-songwriters Robyn Hitchcock and John Wesley Harding, among others, this book extensively examines George Harrison’s contributions to the musical world. Within You Without You will forever change the way readers hear the music of the Beatles and view Harrison’s role in the group, as well as enhancing appreciation of Harrison as a cultural figure above and beyond his work as a musician.
SETH ROGOVOY
is the author of Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison, Bob Dylan: Prophet Mystic Poet, and The Essential Klezmer: A Music Lover’s Guide to Jewish Roots and Soul Music. Seth has been a regular on-air contributor to WAMC Northeast Public Radio for 30+ years, and his Substack newsletter, Everything Is Broken, features short essays and reviews on cultural topics. Seth lives in Hudson, N.Y., with his wife, Linda Friedner, a media lawyer who works in book publishing.
STACY COCHRAN
is a screenwriter, director, and producer based in New York City. She made her feature debut with My New Gun (1992), which premiered in Director’s Fortnight at Cannes and earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Feature. Subsequent projects as writer/director include Boys (1996), starring Winona Ryder, Write When You Get Work (2018), and the half-hour film Richard Lester! (1998), about the director of Beatles movies including A Hard Day’s Night and Help!MORE
The Shining: Film Screening and Book Discussion
In partnership with Story Screen Movie Theater!
Watch The Shining in our local independent movie theater, and join us after the film for a discussion on both the original book and the film, hosted by The Spotty Dog. Want to be a part of the Book Club? Purchase your copy of the original book through The Spotty Dog and receive a free popcorn at the movie!
Film Synopsis:
Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) becomes winter caretaker at the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado, hoping to cure his writer’s block. He settles in along with his wife, Wendy (Shelley Duvall), and his son, Danny (Danny Lloyd), who is plagued by psychic premonitions. As Jack’s writing goes nowhere and Danny’s visions become more disturbing, Jack discovers the hotel’s dark secrets and begins to unravel into a homicidal maniac hell-bent on terrorizing his family.
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
R ‧ 1980 ‧ Horror/Mystery ‧ 2h 26m
The Story Scream Horrorshow X is happening all October long at Story Screen Cinema in Hudson, NY. Check out all our awesome spooky screenings of old and new scary flicks this Halloween season. Tell all your spooky friends!
Theater Info: Doors at 6:30 pm / Screening at 7:00 pm
Tickets are limited, so buy yours now!
Once you’ve completed your purchase, your name will be added to the admissions list. You can arrive at the theater once doors have opened to claim your ticket.
Clement Goldberg & Beth Lisick
Clement will be reading from and discussing their new novel New Mistakes. Free.
CLEMENT GOLDBERG is an award-winning Multidisciplinary Artist, Writer, Director and Animator who is non-binary trans and queer. They work across disciplines to create satirical yet hopeful projects that center collective grief rooted in climate crisis, cultural erasure and extinction. Their feature film project Let Me Let You Go was a Page International Screenwriting Award quarter-finalist and a Stowe Narrative Lab participant before receiving a 2022 Creative Capital Award. Let Me Let You Go is currently in Development with Electric Skin and Executive Producers Zackary Drucker, Silas Howard and Lilly Wachowski. Clement’s debut novel New Mistakes is forthcoming from DOPAMINE Press / Semiotext(e) September 2024.
Their work has been presented at REDCAT Theatre, The BROAD Museum, VORTEX Rep, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive and the Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Anthology Film Archives; CounterPulse, Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, SOMArts, Luggage Store Gallery, Artists Television Access, all in San Francisco; and over 50 international film and arts festivals including Frameline, Outfest, MIX NYC, Hamburg International Queer Film Festival and Cleveland International Film Festival. Goldberg created the stop motion animated web series The Deer Inbetween and joined Michelle Tea to produce the 20-filmmaker collaborative experimental feature Valencia. Valencia won Jury Awards for Best Experimental Feature at the Polari Film Festival and Best Narrative Feature at Chicago Reeling. Goldberg was awarded a San Francisco Arts Commission IAC grant in visual arts in 2017 and their project Our Future Ends was awarded a Creative Work Fund visual arts grant in collaborative partnership with CounterPulse in 2016. Clement received an MFA in Art Practice and a Graduate Certificate in New Media Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.
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BETH LISICK is a writer, actor, and the author of six books: the novel Edie on the Green Screen (7.13 Books), the memoir collection Yokohama Threeway and Other Small Shames (City Lights), the New York Times bestselling comic memoir Everybody Into the Pool (ReganBooks, Harper Collins), the gonzo self-help manifesto and national bestseller Helping Me Help Myself (William Morrow, Harper Collins), the story collection This Too Can Be Yours, and the performance poetry/story collection Monkey Girl (both on Manic D Press).
With a grant from the Creative Work Fund, she has collaborated on a chapbook series with the artists at Creativity Explored, a studio and gallery for artists with developmental disabilities in San Francisco. The collection is called Tell You What.
Her writing has appeared in anthologies including Best American Poetry, Santa Cruz Noir, Post-It Note Diaries, Yes Is The Answer, The Speed Chronicles, and the Outlaw Bible of American Literature, among many others.
In 2002, she created the Porchlight Storytelling Series with Arline Klatte, a San Francisco storytelling show that was monthly until 2013. Porchlight now does shows about five times a year and Arline and Beth also teach workshops.
She has spoken or performed at the Museum of Modern Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Hammer Museum, Shakespeare and Company, the Guggenheim Museum, Stanford University, Storymoja Hay Festival in Nairobi, Lollapalooza, the Lilith Fair, Brown University, and University of Arizona Poetry Center. She has been in residence at Rowland Writers Retreat, CESTA in Tabor, Czech Republic, and the RADAR Lab in Akumal Mexico.
Beth has conducted onstage interviews with writers and actors, including Dave Eggers, Mary Roach, Amy Sedaris, Elijah Wood, Evan Rachel Wood, Michael Nesmith, and Zoe Saldana, for City Arts and Lectures, Litquake, SF International Film Fest and the SF Sketchfest. She has performed as an opening act for Neil Young, Allen Ginsberg, Ruth Weiss, Lydia Lunch, Exene Cervenka, Anne Waldman, Mort Sahl, Tig Notaro, and Neil Hamburger.
Her acting credits include a featured role on the Amazon show Transparent, leading roles in Frazer Bradshaw’s Everything Strange and New, which won the FIPRESCI prize and screened at festivals including Sundance and Karlovy Vary; and three short films by Joey Izzo: I Was There Too (2017), My Daughter’s Boyfriend (2015) and Stepsister, which screened at San Francisco International and Cannes in 2013. And you can ask her about the weirdness of appearing as a background extra in nearly fifty films and TV shows. The jury box of Law & Order SVU? Of course. As an audio tour narrator, she has worked with MoMA, SF MoMA, The Met, The Smithsonian, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and ICA Miami.
Since 1999 she has been collaborating with writer/comedian Tara Jepsen on screenplays, stage and video projects. Their web series Rods and Cones was called one of the year’s ten best by Indiewire. They have performed at OUTsider Fest, Dixon Place, UCB Theatre, SF MOMA and screened their films at OUTfest, Frameline, and the Mix Film Festival of Sexual Diversity in Sao Paulo, Brasil.
She has a degree in American Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
That Time of Year
A quarterly-ish reading series around a theme. Tonight's theme: Animalia. Free.
CAT TYC
is an interdisciplinary writer/artist who has three chapbooks, AN ARCHITECTURAL SEANCE (dancing girl press & studio), CONSUMES ME (Belladonna* Collaborative) and I AM BECAUSE MY LITTLE DOG KNOWS ME (Blush Lit). Her recent writing has been published in Maggot Brain, The Recluse, Shock of the Femme, Touch the Donkey and FENCE. She has presented and performed at the Microscope Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, Brooklyn Museum, Hauser & Wirth, Kassel Fest, and the synthesis gallery in Berlin. Her first solo exhibition, SIGNIFICANT OTHERNESS, was presented at Tanja Grunert gallery in 2022. She has been granted residencies, fellowships, and support from Signal Culture, The Flaherty Seminar, Mass MOCA, and the Foundation of Contemporary Arts.
LAURA VAN DEN BERG
is the author of five works of fiction, including THE THIRD HOTEL (FSG, 2018), a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and I HOLD A WOLF BY THE EARS (FSG, 2020), which was one of Time Magazine’s 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and a literature fellowship from the NEA. Her new novel, STATE OF PARADISE (FSG), was published in July.
ANDREA KLEINE
is the author of the novels, CALF (Soft Skull Press, 2015), a Publishers’ Weekly Best Fiction Book of 2015; and EDEN (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, 2018), named one of “Summer’s Smartest and Most Innovative Thrillers” by Vanity Fair and a finalist for a Publishing Triangle Award in LGBTQ fiction. Her work includes fiction, essays, performances, and, most recently, films. She is a five-time MacDowell fellow and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellow. Her feature film, THE END IS NOT WHAT I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE, created in isolation during the pandemic, is now streaming.
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Books are available for purchase and signing.
Created and Hosted by Andrea Kleine.
This event is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
The Straps + Gary's Dream + Annie Blech and Neuter
3 Bands on a Summer Friday! $5-$10 Suggested Donation.
A night of rock, shoegaze, and experimental music.
The Straps (Hudson, NY) + Gary’s Dream (Catskill, NY) + Annie Blech and Neuter (New York, NY)MORE
Where's Waldo in Hudson!
For the month of July. Pick up a “Find Waldo Local in Hudson!” stamp card and get started! Free!
Where’s Waldo? In Hudson, of course! The iconic children’s book character in the red-and-white-striped shirt and black-rimmed specs is visiting twenty-five local businesses throughout our community throughout the month of July. Celebrating its eleventh anniversary, Find Waldo Local is a great summer vacation activity and a wonderful way to support local businesses, including Vasilows, Tradewinds, Steiners, Second Show and the Hudson Farmers Market.
The closing and awards party Saturday Aug 3rd at 11:30am!
Pop Tart
Dance Party with Pretty Woman and Rager. $8.
Pop Tart is a recurring night of dancing, club music, pop remixes, cups overflowing, joy abound. 8pm – ?MORE
Hudson Pride Event: POEM PLAY: A Monument to Lust, Loss & Love.
A 45-minute one-act play by Anderson Heinz. $5 Suggested Charitable Donation.
A portion of the evening’s proceeds will be donated to Hudson Valley LGBTQ + Community Center in Kingston, which also serves Columbia County.
Anderson John Heinz
is a playwright, screenwriter and poet. Anderson’s full length plays include BEFORE THE DEVIL MADE ME RUN, PAINTED BRICK, MY GUY IN THE SKY, RITA IN THAILAND and BABY ALLEN. This March, his play THE SUICIDES took home several top prizes at the 2024 Queens Short Play Festival. Anderson was a member of New York Stage and Film’s 2022-2023 Filmmakers’ Workshop, where he developed his television pilot SUBMERGED OBJECTS. He formerly served as Executive Assistant with Daryl Roth Productions and as Showrunners’ PA to Michelle and Robert King on their shows THE GOOD FIGHT and EVIL. Anderson was born in Mobile, Alabama and raised in Memphis, Tennnessee. He is the proud uncle of 15 nieces and nephews.
Author Event: Rachel Jameson Webster, Daniel Brock Johnson and Mary Lou Buschi
Three readings, followed by a DJ set! Free.
Mary Lou Buschi (She/Her)
is the author of 3 chapbooks and 3 full length poetry collections. Her 3rd book, BLUE PHYSICS was just published in February 2024 (Lily Poetry Review books). PADDOCK, her second book also published by LPR is a feminist play in poems. Her poems have appeared in literary journals such as Ploughshares, Glacier, Willow Springs, On the Seawall, among many others. Mary Lou is a graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and holds an MS in Urban Education from Mercy University. Currently, she is a special education teacher working with students on the spectrum.
Rachel Jamison Webster
has her MFA from Warren Wilson. She a professor of creative writing at Northwestern University and the author of four books of poetry in addition to the nonfiction. Benjamin Banneker and Us, which was chosen as a Best Book of 2023 by The New Yorker. Publisher’s Weekly hailed the book as “a stunning meditation on race, identity, and achievement.” Rachel has taught at Northwestern for the last 17 years. She has also developed writing workshops through the National Urban League, Ancestral Medicine, Chicago Public Schools and Gallery 37, and has received a Hewlett Fellowship for her implementation of diversity education in creative writing curriculum. Rachel’s essays, poems, and stories have been published in outlets including Poetry, Tin House, and the Yale Review.
Daniel Brock Johnson
is the author of Shadow Act: an Elegy for Journalist James Foley, published by McSweeney’s. Previously, Johnson published How to Catch a Falling Knife with Alice James Books. In 2019, the City of Boston commissioned Johnson to draft lines of poetry for the twin memorials commemorating the Boston Marathon bombings. Johnson’s poetry has been featured in outlets such as National Public Radio, PBS NewsHour, The Washington Post, and in a variety of publications including Best American Poetry, Tin House, and I Have My Own Song for It: Modern Poems of Ohio. Johnson has received awards from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Poetry Center of Chicago, Foreword Book Awards, and elsewhere. For nearly a decade, Johnson served as the founding executive director of 826 Boston. Currently, he works as the executive director of Mass Poetry. Learn more at www.danielbrockjohnson.com.MORE
Author Event: Laurie Stone and Michelle Tea In Conversation
With readings from SLUTS Anthology contributors Tom Cole, Carley Moore, Jeremy Atherton Lin, Cristy Road Carerra and Daviel Shy. Free.
Join us for conversation, readings and signing of the SLUTS anthology, edited by Michelle Tea.
SLUTS editor Michelle Tea formerly helmed the Sister Spit imprint at City Lights and the Amethyst Editions imprint at The Feminist Press; currently she is the publisher of DOPAMINE Books. Her most recent book is Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My In/Fertility; her essay and spell collection Modern Magic will be out this October. Tea is a Guggenheim fellow and the founder of Drag Queen Story Hour.
Laurie Stone is the author of six books, most recently Streaming Now: Postcards from the Thing That is Happening, which was long-listed for the PEN America Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. She writes a column for Oldster Magazine and the Everything Is Personal Substack.MORE
Author Event: Jennifer Kabat and Adrian Shirk
Reading from their latest work. Free.
Jennifer Kabat received an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for her criticism and has been published in BOMB and The Best American Essays. Her writing has also appeared in Granta, Frieze, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, The Believer, Virginia Quarterly Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Review, and The White Review. A finalist for the essay prize at Notting Hill Editions, she often collaborates with artists. She’s part of the core faculty in the Design Research MA at the School of Visual Arts. An apprentice herbalist, she lives in rural Upstate New York and serves on her volunteer fire department.
Adrian Shirk is the author of Heaven is a Place on Earth (Counterpoint, 2022), a personal odyssey of American utopian experiments, and And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy (Counterpoint, 2017), a hybrid-memoir exploring American women prophets and mystics, named an NPR ‘Best Book’ of 2017. She teaches in Pratt Institute’s BFA Creative Writing Program, and is an ensemble member of The Party Theater. She lives in the Catskill mountains in a house that, when it is marshalled into public-facing activities, is called The Mutual Aid Society.MORE
Pop Tart
Dance Party with Pretty Woman and Rager. $8.
Pop Tart is a night of dancing, club music, pop remixes, cups overflowing, joy abound. 8pm – ?MORE
Author Event: Lyn Slater!
in conversation with Eugene Rabkin. Free.
When Lyn Slater started her fashion blog, Accidental Icon, at age 61, she discovered that followers were flocking to her account for more than just her A-list style. They found in her an alternative model of older life: someone who defied the stereotypes, refused to become invisible, and showed that all women have the opportunity to be relevant and do something new at any stage of their lives. In her new memoir, Slater demonstrates that despite its unique challenges, being old is just like any new beginning—and can be the best and most invigorating of life’s phases.
LYN SLATER
is a cultural influencer, model, writer, content creator, and former professor. She started Accidental Icon in September of 2014 and has since garnered a loyal fan base of almost a million followers across platforms.
EUGENE RABKIN
was born in the USSR. At the age of fifteen he came to New York, where he still lives, to pursue the American dream.
It took ten years of soulless Wall St. existence for him to realize that the dream sucks. He said goodbye to all that and found his passion in writing about fashion and culture.
In 2006 he created an independent fashion media platform, StyleZeitgeist, which includes a magazine and a podcast devoted to looking at fashion and culture with a critical eye.
He has contributed articles to the New York Times, T Magazine China, Air Mail, the Business of Fashion, 032c, Highsnobiety, Vogue Russia, GQ Style Russia, Them magazine in Japan, and the Haaretz Daily Newspaper in Israel. He has also edited several books, Stone Island: Storia with Rizzoli and Deborah Turbeville: Comme des Garçons with IDEA, and have contributed to a few others. He has taught criticism and fashion writing at Parsons The New School for Design and has participated in fashion conferences around the world.
