Literary and Author Events
Events
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Biography and Invention in the Novel, with Amitava Kumar, Aatish Taseer, and Ryan Chapman
Kingston Frog Alley Historic Green Space 21 Frog Alley, Kingston, NYHow does a writer represent the self across memoir, journalism, and fiction? How does contemporary fiction wrestle with questions of transnational identity, migration, and exile? Three Hudson Valley writers (Amitava Kumar, Aatish Taseer, and Ryan Chapman) will debate all this and more in the Louw-Bogardus Ruin. Supported by Arts Mid-Hudson and the New York Council […]
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Authors to Speak on “A Century Ago, Electric Trains Roamed the Hudson, Mohawk, & Susquehanna Valleys” at Empire State Railway Museum
Authors Wes Coates and John Ham will present a 90-minute presentation on their new collaboration titled “A Century Ago, Electric Trains Roamed the Hudson, Mohawk, & Susquehanna Valleys." The book tells the stories of the Albany Hudson Fast Line, the United Traction Company, which crisscrossed Albany and Troy; Schenectady Railways, Hudson Valley Railway, Fonda, Johnstown, […]
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Fright Night Reading
Museum Macabre (Rohmer Gallery) 84 Partition Street, SaugertiesShoutOut's annual Halloween, Fright Night Reading with poets Amanda Gulia and Philip Levine, prose writers Jan Alexander and Toby Barna, and featuring award-winning suspense writer Jode Millman, Poughkeepsie author of Hooker Avenue and The Empty Kayak, of the Queen City Crime Series. The evening will begin with announcements of the 2026-27 Susana Meyer Creative Arts […]