Join us for a Local Author Showcase!

We’ve invited the authors of three new books to Rough Draft Bar & Books for a meet and greet event. Each author will have their own space to greet customers. Visitors to Rough Draft are encouraged to engage with the authors, learn about the books, and take home a signed copy if they wish, and of course sample some of Rough Draft’s delicious drinks and snacks!

This month’s featured authors are:

Gary Bohan, author of Sharkey ~ "The incredible, true story of the twentieth century's greatest performing sea lion and the man who trained him." Gary hails from Kingston, New York, where Sharkey was trained, and is the great-grandson of Sharkey's trainer, Mark Huling

Allynson Levy and Scott Serrano of the Hortus Arboretum are the authors of Cold-Hardy Fruits and Nuts: 50 Easy-to-Grow Plants for the Organic Home Garden or Landscape. “This is the book for growers looking to expand their range of perennial and tree crops…You will be inspired!” - Ben Raskin, author of The Woodchip Handbook.

Dennis Rush, author of What Are The Rich Doing Tonight? “I read through these poems with pleasure. They're witty poems, often moving and deeply real, with a clear music of understanding that seems to me quite original. There is never a moment of obscurity. The language seals the deal again and again, as in Picking Berries, where in the final stanza I smiled in agreement, thinking of this collection as a whole, with the poems as blackberries: I wish I had another bowl. Dennis Rush offers a feast here.” Enjoy!--Jay Parini