Big news of course is the Authors Guild Foundation’s W.I.T. Festival coming to town this coming weekend.
More about that in a minute, but first we’re slipping in a reading of our own Tuesday night September 23rd, hosting one of our very own, poet Billie Chernicoff, along with fellow Bard alumnus fiction writer Lindsay Hill at 6 pm.
Billie’s latest book, Minor Secrets, is published by Black Square Editions, and I remember the almost frenzy-like response from some of the author’s Berkshire friends: ‘Get me a copy’, Hey, can you save me 2 copies please’, etc etc., when it first came out.
Reading and re-reading some of the poems today remind me once again of the sheer enjoyment of words on a page. Billie and Larry moved over to New York State some eight or nine years ago, but just this past month have moved across the line back into Berkshire so this event is a kind of homecoming for the poet. She also worked here at The Bookstore, which makes the homecoming all the more poignant.
Billie will be joined tomorrow night by Lindsay Hill, currently on a national tour for his new novel Tidal Lock, published by our long-time friend McPherson & Co.
Publisher Bruce McPerson and I go back over 50 years of working together. You all know The Bookstore’s slogan “Serving the Community Since Last Tuesday”. McPherson’s slogan, more to the point, is “Great Books for Great Readers.” That’s Billie, that’s Lindsay, and that’s you!
Please come and join us Tuesday September 23rd at 6 pm for Billie Chernicoff and Lindsay Hill.
Next up: W.I.T.
Back in what seems now like pre-history, while Covid-19 was still raging, the Authors Guild Foundation approached us here in Lenox with an idea of hosting a program of writers discussing important and relevant issues in the contemporary life.
Now in its fourth year, we remain committed to the annual W.I. T. (Words, Ideas, Thinkers) Festival, which begins Thursday Sept 25 with a conversation between Masha Gessen and Michael Roth, “The Future is Not Ordained” and goes thru the weekend, Sunday, Sept 28 with Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde and Marilynne Robinson, “to make inroads on the vast terrain of what cannot be said.”
Here’s the full lineup.
This town, Lenox and this county Berkshire, have always been a place where words, ideas and thinkers find a home. Now in these, our perilous days, our need to sustain is even greater.
We are immensely proud of our friends, and of our friendship, our partnership with the Authors Guild Foundation. Call or write to us if you have any questions. We hope to see you at one or more of the programs.
Thanks for reading,
Matt
413 637 3390 or
matt@bookstoreinlenox.com
