THE MADNESS AND GENIUS OF DR. PERRY BAIRD
Mimi Baird’s He Wanted the Moon relates her father’s descent into madness and her rediscovery of the father she barely knew. In the New York Times, Dr. Abigail Zuger wrote: “The book is autobiography,...
View ArticleEXPLORING ISSUES OF RACE, FOOD, FARMING
Natasha Bowens has spent the past five years gathering stories from Black, Native American, Asian and Latina farmers and food activists who are revolutionizing the food system and preserving cultural...
View ArticleADVENTURES IN THE OCTOPUS’S GARDEN
Imagine an octopus embracing you with tentacles containing thousands of powerful white suckers, looking you directly in the eye, and turning color flushed with emotion. That’s what Sy Montgomery...
View ArticleHOW TO LIVE LONGER: SEPARATING FACT FROM MYTH
Bill Gifford is the author of national bestseller Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (or Die Trying), a personal investigation into the science of aging. During a 25-year journalism career, he has...
View ArticleFACING THE UPCOMING RETIREMENT CRISIS
Half of today’s working age households are at risk of being unable to maintain their current standard of living when they retire, as responsibility for retirement has shifted from government and...
View ArticleA SOCIAL CRITIC IN THE STYLE OF THOREAU
Peter Forbes and Helen Whybrow Bill Coperthwaite was a homesteader, educator and social critic in the lineage of Henry David Thoreau and Scott Nearing. A new book, A Man Apart: Bill Coperthwaite’s...
View ArticleFood in Literature: A Sunday Coffee Talk
Recipes are more than instructions for how to make a dish. They are culture-keepers and culture-makers, both recording memories and fostering new ones. Melissa A. Goldthwaite’s Books That Cook: The...
View ArticleJoseph Mazur
photo by Sarah LavigneJoseph Mazur is the author of Fluke: The Math and Myth of Coincidence, an examination of the inevitability of the sublime and the unexpected. It is a book that appeals to anyone...
View ArticleMary Holland
Naturalist, nature photographer, environmental educator and author Mary Holland resides in Hartland, Vermont. She has worked for the Massachusetts Audubon Society, the Vermont Institute of Natural...
View ArticleRolf Diamant and Nora Mitchell
Rolf Diamant and Nora Mitchell, residents of Woodstock, have enjoyed multifaceted careers working with national parks across the United States and abroad. They are co-editors and co-authors of A...
View ArticleBess O’Brien and Gary Lee Miller
Founded in 2013 by Bess O’Brien and Gary Lee Miller, Writers for Recovery provides free writing workshops, public readings, and print and online publication for people recovering from or affected by...
View ArticleLisa Rogak
Lisa Rogak is the New York Times bestselling author of over 40 books. An independent journalist with over three decades of experience, she’s written about everything from high tech and cats to food...
View ArticleJackson W. Shultz
What happens when the gender with which you identify doesn’t match your sex? How does it feel to transcend gender roles and rules? Jackson Wright Shultz’s Trans/Portraits: Voices from Transgender...
View ArticleAnastacia Marx de Salcedo
One day, by looking closely at something completely ordinary, Anastacia Marx de Salcedo stumbled upon the deep involvement of the American army in our food system. That realization led to three years...
View ArticleRobin Gaby Fisher
Robin Gaby Fisher is a Pulitzer Prize winner and two time feature writing finalist and New York Times bestselling author of seven non-fiction books, including After the Fire: A True Story of...
View ArticleRichard Blanco
In the keynote presentation at Bookstock 2016, Richard Blanco will reflect via poetry, prose and personal anecdote on his own Cuban heritage, Latin American migration, and what connects us all across...
View ArticleJane Tylus
Hailed by Times Higher Education as an “elegant and captivatingly interdisciplinary book,” Siena, City of Secrets is an engaging and practical guide for tourists and armchair travelers alike. A city...
View ArticleSean Prentiss
Sean Prentiss is the author of the memoir, Finding Abbey: a Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave, which won the 2015 National Outdoor Book Award for History/Biography. The book was also...
View ArticleJay Bragdon
Jay Bragdon, author of Companies That Mimic Life, is a seasoned investment manager and a pioneer in the emerging field of corporate bio-mimicry. His book explains why companies that lead in this new...
View ArticleBruce Hartman
You Don’t Need a Barn Anymore! Bruce Hartman owned The Allegory Book Shop in Woodstock in the 1980s before moving on to other pursuits. One of his goals was to start a small publishing company. He...
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