Category Archive: Literary Sites/Events

This Year’s Book Fairs & Festivals

How much did you love the book fair in elementary school? Luckily, there are many grown-up versions of this, admittedly involving more tweed and fewer feather pens. Both the Québec International Book Fair… Read More

Upcoming readings by completely amazing fiction writer Steven Millhauser

Steven Millhauser is one of my favorite writers. His work fits solidly within the realm of fabulism, by turns lush, enchanting, elegant, chromatic, nostalgic, obsessive, dazzling, surreal, uncanny, bizarre. Although his novels and… Read More

The Spoils of the Book Fair

If you were at the fair yesterday, you would have seen old postcards and trading cards, manuscripts and maps, posters and prints, ephemera of all sorts, and of course lots and lots of… Read More

Don’t Miss: Albany’s 37th Annual Antiquarian Book & Ephemera Fair

The 37th Annual Antiquarian Book & Ephemera Fair, presented by the Albany Institute of History & Art, will be held at the Washington Avenue Armory at 195 Washington Avenue in Albany on Sunday,… Read More

The Mount and the Restoration of Edith Wharton’s Library

I recently spent a day at The Mount, which was once the estate and gardens of Edith Wharton, prolific twentieth-century writer of The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, and Ethan Frome,… Read More

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