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Local Author Showcase: February (MOVED TO 2/20/24 DUE TO WEATHER)

  • Rough Draft Bar & Books 82 John Street Kingston, NY, 12401 United States (map)

Please join us for an evening highlighting three local authors and their published works. Each author will have a table for meet-and-greets, book signings, and conversations with friends, family, fans, and potential new readers. This month's event features Jeff Golden, Tom Newton, and Brent Robison.

Fans are welcome to bring books from home to have signed or to purchase books here. Refreshments and beverages are also available for purchase throughout the event. Please, no outside food or drink.

About the authors:

Jeff Golden has been teaching and writing for over thirty years, most recently at Vassar College. He was a Fulbright Scholar in sustainable development and has headed several nonprofits promoting social justice and sustainability. A native of Idaho, he resides in New York, with his children, the river, and the stars. Reclaiming the Sacred draws on the work of thousands of scientists, poets, activists, and more to explore what science reveals about the things that most nourish human well-being, and the dire consequences of the vast materialism in the US today, particularly the global climate disaster. And then it takes us on a journey of reclaiming the sacredness of ourselves and this gorgeous world

Tom Newton lives in Woodstock, New York with his wife and daughter. His novella Warfilm was published by Bloomsbury in 2015. His short story collection Seven Cries of Delight was published by Recital Publishing in 2019 and won the Dactyl Award for literary fiction in 2019 and Voyages to Nowhere was published by Recital Publishing in 2021. He is the co-host of The Strange Recital, a podcast about fiction that questions the nature of reality. In Voyages to Nowhere, Tom Newton makes boundless imaginative leaps across mid-twentieth century European history. The two novellas, each set in a unique psychogeographical landscape, share a shattered dystopian vision, wherein time and space are dazzlingly transposed.

Brent Robison’s fiction has won the Literal Latte Short Short Award, the Chronogram Short Fiction Contest, a Fiction Fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts, and a Pushcart Prize nomination. His story collection and two novels are available from booksellers. He co-hosts The Strange Recital, a podcast about fiction that questions the nature of reality. A Book with No Author is an obsessive search for the mystery author and becomes a hall of mirrors.

Earlier Event: February 15
Trivia with DJ Maxwell
Later Event: February 23
Pablo Shine Latin Jazz Trio