Back-to-back author events coming up this weekend, and beyond.
First up, Sunday July 21 at 4 pm, Ruth and Elissa Bass.
Then, Monday July 22 at 5:30 pm Carol Goodman Kaufman
and Gerald Elias,
The Bass family name rings loud and clear and true here in Berkshire County. Ruthie’s late husband Milton was entertainment editor at The Berkshire Eagle for years and years. He was the first guy I’d go to when we had an event here at The Bookstore. I still think of him whenever I write a press release
(do they even call it that anymore?).
And I still read Ruthie’s column in the paper every week, though they keep moving it around from page to page. She’s the keenest local observer I know, also a novelist whose work I’ve compared to Willa Cather’s, and now she’s turned herself into a thriller writer!
I couldn’t be happier! Here’s what fellow author Judith Viorst has to say about
“The Triangle: A Tale of Love and Death”:
From dialogue to courtroom scenes to her portrait of the good, the bad, and the ugly, Bass holds us snugly in the palm of her hand. Read it! Enjoy it! Ask for more!”
Daughter Elissa Bass didn’t stray far from the family tree herself! “Happy Hour” is her first novel (after a career in, what else, journalism!) and it’s a hoot! I mean, how many first-time novelists do you know who write their first novel about menopause? And after who knows how many columns her mom has written about family vacations on Cape Cod, it’s a real treat to hear her daughter’s take on that setting.
I am honored and pleased to present Ruthie and Elissa Bass here at The Bookstore, this coming Sunday afternoon July 21st at 4 pm.
And that’s not all!
Two more locals, in a summer of many, many non-locals. Again, I am pleased and honored to host Pittsfield’s own Carol Goodman Kaufman and Gerald Elias, formerly of the BSO but now firmly entrenched as much a Berkshire native as one could be.
They’ll be here the very next night, Monday July 22nd at 5:30 pm. We want to see you here too!
We’ve known Carol before as a children’s book author, but this new one of hers,
The First Murder, is, how shall I say – completely different. Check out this blurb: “The Medical Examiner ruled her death was an accident. He was dead wrong.”
Gerry Elias, on the other hand, has been writing murder mysteries for several years now. His latest, Murder at the Royal Albert is the eighth in his Daniel Jacobus series, and it feels so good to have this sleuth, former violinist, now blind and ever so curmudgeonly, back on the job. Mahler had it easy just writing his symphonies, compared to what Jacobus has to deal with: Murder at the Royal Albert Hall!
Please join us to celebrate these authors and their wonderful novels! Bass and Bass Sunday at 4, Kaufman and Elias Monday at 5:30.
As always, thanks for reading.
Matt
