Book events everywhere
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- September
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Ah fall is here with the cooler temperatures and falling leaves (at my house it is falling acorns). It’s also the time of lots of book events in the Lower Hudson Valley.
Get out your calendars:
Oct. 3 at 6 p.m. Harley Night at Warner Library, 121 N. Broadway, Tarrytown. An unusual fundraising evening featuring new and vintage bikes out front, a beer tasting of Captain Lawrence brews served by the women’s Suburbia Roller Derby Team, a full “Roadside Food” dinner by Culinary Institute of America graduate Michael Shanker, travel & motorcycle themed silent auction, readings from TheMotorcycle Diaries and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Temporary Tattoo station, and a showing of the 1953 Marlon Brando film, The Wild One, introduced by David Schwartz, director of the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. $50 per person.
Oct. 4 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Big Book Sale at the Mahopac Public Library, 668 Route 6, Mahopac. Paperbacks are 50 cents each or three for $1; hardcover books are $1 each. If it rains the sale will be held from noon to 4:30 p.. in the third floor community room, otherwise it is in the midst of the very popular Greater Mahopac Chamber street fair at routes 6 and 6N.
Oct. 5 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. A reading and introduction to Gogyohka Poetry by Peter Fiore at the Katonah Village Library. Fiore will read from his new chapbook, “Text Messages.” Gogyohka is a new form of Japanese short poetry. The idea was developed by taking the traditional form of Tanka poetry which is written in five lines. Each line represents one phrase and by liberating its structure, creating a freer form of verse. This program is for adults and is free.
Oct. 6: 7 p.m. Manhattanville College’s Master of Arts in Writing Program’s Meet the Writers Fall 2009 Series will feature readings by National Book Award winner, poet Mark Doty on Oct. 6 and Pulitzer Prize winner-author Elizabeth Strout, Nov. 3 at 7:00 pm. A reception, Q& A and book signing are included in each program. Readings are free and open to the public at Manhattanville’s College Reid Castle, 2900 Purchase St., Purchase.
Oct. 7 (and Oct. 14) at 7 p.m. Bill Bongiorno, co-author of Building Customer Relationships Through Public Relations and president of Blue Chip Public Relations, a South Salem-based agency that helps global financial companies grow through global media campaigns and strategic communications, will speak twice at the North Castle Public Library, 19 Whippoorwill Road East in Armonk. His topics include getting the word out, media and the press kits, and social networking.
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Here’s another: Oct. 4 at 6 p.m. at the Katonah Museum of Art in Katonah, N.Y., the launch reading of the newest book from Toadlily Press, BY WAY OF. Join poets and editors of the press for a reading, followed by a book signing and reception and check out the final hours of the Museum’s fabulous exhibition, Dress Codes: Clothing as Metaphor. The reading is free and open to the public.
Thanks Pamela for adding another neat event. Book by Book has written about Toadlily Press and I bet it will be a good event. Send pictures to share….
Here’s another: Oct. 4 at 6 p.m. at the Katonah Museum of Art in Katonah, N.Y., the launch reading of the newest book from Toadlily Press, BY WAY OF. Join poets and editors of the press for a reading, followed by a book signing and reception and check out the final hours of the Museum’s fabulous exhibition, Dress Codes: Clothing as Metaphor. The reading is free and open to the public.