Join us for the June installment of Volume Reading & Music Series!
Volume happens on the second Saturday of every month. We feature an hour of exceptional prose and poetry readings, followed by a killer DJ set to warm up the room. Buy a book, get it signed, meet your favorite writer, bust a move and/or stare at the floor awkwardly! We provide the soundtrack.
This event is always free. Save your $$ for books and beer!
It all happens in an absolute dream of a bookstore, The Spotty Dog Books and Ale–with an amazing selection of books along with a great bar and dreamy ambiance.
Time to brag about our June lineup:
JULIE METZ is the author of The New York Times bestselling memoir Perfection, which was a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection and is currently being developed for television. She has written on a wide variety of women’s issues for publications including The New York Times, Salon, Dame, Glamour, Redbook, and Huffington Post. She was a recent guest on Cheryl Strayed’s “Dear Sugar” podcast. She has contributed to the anthologies The Moment, edited by Larry Smith of Six Word Memoirs, and the recently published The House that Made Me. Julie lives and writes here in Hudson.
Read more at:
http://www.juliemetz.com
BENJAMIN HALE is the author of the novel The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore (Twelve, 2011) and the collection The Fat Artist and Other Stories (Simon & Schuster, 2016). He has received the Bard Fiction Prize, a Michener-Copernicus Award, and nominations for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. His writing (both fiction and nonfiction) has appeared, among other places, in Conjunctions, Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Dissent and The LA Review of Books Quarterly, and has been anthologized in Best American Science and Nature Writing. He is a senior editor of Conjunctions, teaches at Bard College, and lives in a small town in New York’s Hudson Valley.
http://www.benjamin-hale.com
MARY LOU BUSCHI was nominated for Best New Poets 2014 and was a finalist for Best of The Net Anthology, 2014. She received the Apospecimen Award from A Cappella Zoo for noteworthy contribution. Mary Lou has received fellowships from The Santa Fe Writer’s Conference, Vermont Studio Center, and The New York City Teaching Fellows. Her work has appeared in many literary magazines such as Indiana Review, Rhino, FIELD, and Willow Springs. Ukiyo-e, her second chapbook, was published by Dancing Girl Press (2014). Mary Lou’s full-length collection, Awful Baby, was published this year through Red Paint Hill. Tight Wire is due out June 2016 through Dancing Girl press. Mary Lou holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College and a Master of Science in Urban Education from Mercy College. She has taught creative writing in the SPS division of New York University. Currently, Mary Lou is a special education teacher in the Bronx. She lives in Piermont, New
York with Jeff (husband) and Nate (French Bulldog).
Followed by DJ Stephen Bluhm, with books available for sale and signing.
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