FESTIVAL OF BOOKS 2009
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Spencertown Academy Art Center’s fourth annual Festival of Books takes as its theme the joys and mysteries of books & reading in the 21st century. Over twenty outstanding writers of fiction, memoir, poetry, and journalism will read and discuss their work within a larger conversation about the evolving relationship of readers to the printed word in the digital age.
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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 2009
BOOK SALE
9:00am - 5:00pm
Over 10,000 new and gently used books in every genre on sale at very affordable prices. Inventory is continuously replenished, well-organized, and easy to browse.
"Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes the day happier." - Kathleen Norris
BOOK BREAKFAST WITH CLIFFORD
9:00am - Free
Join everyone’s favorite crimson canine, Clifford the Big Red Dog, as he returns to the Festival of Books to greet his young friends and share a kid-friendly breakfast, stories, and book related art projects. Curious George and Madeline will also be on-hand to greet young readers.
"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him."-Richard McKenna
A STORY IN PICTURES: KYRA TEIS
9:30am - Free
Kyra’s latest book is The Magic Flute a lavishly illustrated story based on the Mozart opera. Kyra demonstrates the special collage technique she used to illustrate her books.
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"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life." - W. Somerset Maugham
POETRY IN MOTION: TAYLOR MALI
10:30am - Free
Taylor Mali is one of the most well known poets to have emerged from the poetry slam movement. He is eloquent, accessible, passionate, and often downright hilarious. A program the whole family will enjoy.
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The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places
you'll go. - Dr. Seuss
DISTINGUISHED AUTHOR: FRANCINE PROSE
12:00pm - Free
In her bestselling book Reading Like a Writer Prose urges readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which literature is crafted. Prose is the author of twelve novels including her latest, Goldengrove.
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In conversation with Dave King
"Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson
DISTINGUISHED AUTHOR: LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ
2:00pm - Free
Lynne Sharon Schwartz is the author of 19 books, including fiction, nonfiction, memoir, essays, poetry, and translation. In her book Ruined by Reading, Schwartz, a passionate reader since the age of three, explores the magic of the act of reading.
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In conversation with Wesley Brown"To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare." - Yosida Kenko
THE POET'S VOICE: SHARON OLDS
4:00pm - Free
Former New York State Poet Laureate Sharon Olds has published nine volumes of poetry. She reads from her latest collection One Secret Thing, poems shot through with characteristic passion, imagination, and poetic power.
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Introduced by Elizabeth Diggs"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way? "-Emily Dickenson
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 13, 2009
12:00pm - 5:00pm
Choose from remaining inventory of gently used books at bargain prices. Purchase an empty shopping bag to fill with as many great books as it can hold. The price of the bags drops every hour, but alas so does the selection. A sale so good, you'll want to come back twice!12:00pm -12:59pm $5 a bag
1:00pm - 1:59pm $4 a bag
2:00pm - 2:59pm $3 a bag
3:00pm - 3:59pm $2 a bag
4:00pm - 4:59pm $1 a bag"When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before." - Clifton Fadiman
A TASTE OF HOME: LAURA PENSIERO
12:00pm - Free
The famed chef/owner of Gigi Trattoria in Rhinebeck, NY, Laura Pensiero celebrates the the farms, gardens, and artisans of the region in her latest cookbook, Hudson Valley Mediterranean.
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In conversation with Rural Intelligence Food Writer Paige Orloff
CALLING ALL FOODIES: IRENA CHALMERS
1:30pm - Free
Author of 100 cookbooks and food-related tomes, Irena Chalmers has sold an astounding 18-million books in her career. She shares her latest book, Food Jobs; 150 Great Jobs for Culinary Students, Career Changers and Food Lovers.
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In conversation with Chef David Robinson of Bezalel Gabels Fine Catering & Events"That’s the trouble with cookbooks, like sex education and nuclear physics they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears. " – Anthony Lane
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, by John Ashbery
a reading in six voices
3:00pm - Free
A staged reading of one of the defining poems of the 20th century, presented by six readers: Joan Arnold, Andrea Barnet, Jan Hanvik, James Occhino, Jim Paul, Annie Walwyn-Jones. Produced and directed by Jim Paul of the Ancram Opera House.
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"This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication." - Logan Pearsall Smith
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