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Gail Godwin's new memoir is 'The Art of Becoming a Citizen: A Memoir'

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Hudson Valley Shakespeare previews their 2026 summer season happening at the Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center

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6/26/26 Panel

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Leah Rowan reimagines the film 'Psycho' in the book 'Marion'

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Journalist Caroline Hallemann's debut book is 'The Kennedys and the Windsors: The Story of Two Dynasties, One Born, One Made'

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6/25/26 Panel

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Cory Doctorow's new book 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI' takes an in-depth look at AI and the effects

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Brad Gooch's new book is "Good Morning Moon: A Snapshot of an American Family'

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6/24/26 Panel

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Book Picks - Open-Door Bookstore

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Ancram Center for the Arts gives a preview of their 2026 season

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6/23/26 Panel

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Art and Cultural Historian Thomas Laqueur's new book is 'The Dog's Gaze: A Visual History'

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Artistic Director Gideon Lester gives a preview of Bard SummerScape 2026

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6/22/26 Panel

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The Stéphane Wrembel Quartet will be at the Indigo Room at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on 6/26

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A preview of the 49th Saratoga Jazz Festival

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6/18/26 Panel

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Journalist Anthony Mason launches new series 'Alchemy' that dives into musicians and artists' creative process

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In Memoriam - Robert Thurman

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6/17/26 Panel

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Book Picks - The Bookstore in Lenox and Odyssey Bookshop

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In 'Been There, Done That,' Greg Jackson reflects on similar themes in early and modern U.S.

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6/16/26 Panel

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Acapella phenomenon Straight No Chaser will be at the Mahaiwe on 6/20 for their 'Straight No Chaser Beach Bash Tour'

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The Arch Stanton Quartet presents 'Exploring the Sheltering Sky: The Music and Words of Paul Bowles' at the Albany Institute of History & Art on 6/19

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6/15/26 Panel

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Elizabeth Preston's new book 'The Creatures' Guide to Caring' showcases how animals teach humans we were born to care

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David Baerwald's new book 'The Fire Agent' is based on his grandfather's astonishing story

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6/12/26 Panel

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Farmland Forever brings together Argyle Brewing Company and the Agricultural Stewardship Association for their annual event on 6/14

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Chester Theater Company's 2026 Summer Season

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6/11/26 Panel

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6/9/26 Panel

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6/8/26 Panel

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6/5/26 Panel

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6/4/26 Panel

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6/3/26 Panel

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6/2/26 Panel

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6/1/26 Panel

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The Roundtable Live from BIFF: A farewell for the producer of The Roundtable Sarah LaDuke

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The Roundtable Live from BIFF: Academy Award-Winning director and producer Barbara Kopple will have a screening and talk about the award-winning documentary 'Harlan County USA'

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The Roundtable Live at BIFF: The world premiere of 'The Choice' will screen on 5/30

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The Roundtable Live from BIFF: BIFF's Partnership with Transatlantic Rising Stars Project and EU filmmakers Tea talk on 5/30

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The Roundtable Live from BIFF: Conversation with Honoree and Award-Winning actor Karen Allen and actor and director Peter Riegert

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The Roundtable Live from BIFF: An overview of the 20th Berkshire International Film Festival

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Tig Notaro's 'Out of Nowhere' tour at The Egg 6/4

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Ellen Meeropol's new book is 'Sometimes an Island: A Mosaic Novel of Family Ties, Climate Upheaval, and Resilience'

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5/28/26 Panel

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Alison Larkin's 'Grief ... a Comedy' comes home to be the first ever comedy special taped at The Mahaiwe

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'The Land and Its People' - David Sedaris' latest - points his wry pen at the indignities of aging

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5/27/26 Panel

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In 'Alan Opts Out' by Courtney Maum looks at social striving and says "Actually - can we not?"

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U.S. Senator Chris Murphy's new book lays out how the pursuit of profit has undermined American virtue

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5/26/26 Panel

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Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review - Episode 268

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Martha Banta shares the Adirondack Theatre Festival's 2026 Summer Season

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5/22/26 Panel

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Musicians of Ma'alwyck presents 'Under Four Flags' on 5/26 - 5/30

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5/21/26 Panel

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Berkshire International Film Festival celebrates 20 years

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5/20/26 Panel

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Book Picks - Battenkill Books and Chatham Bookstore

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New book from Temple University Press explores public opinion on abortion

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5/19/26 Panel

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Fatimah Gilliam's new book is 'Race Rules: What Your Black Friend Won't Tell You'

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5/18/26 Panel

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Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review - Episode 267

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CulinaryArts@SPAC - 'Heartland Masala' with Jyoti Mukharji and Auyon Mukharji

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Former FBI Director and best-selling author James Comey

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5/15/26 Panel

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Sharon Playhouse announces their 2026 season

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Artistic Director Vallejo Gantner tells more about PS21's 2026 season

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Jacob's Pillow presents their 2026 Dance Festival starting 6/20 - 8/30

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5/14/26 Panel

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Grassland Bird Trust tells more about their mission and 2026 Raptor Fest

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5/13/26 Panel

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Book Picks - The Book House, Marketblock Books, and Oblong Books

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Sunny Randall returns in 'Booked'

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True-crime page-turner 'The Family Man' by James Lasdun

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5/12/26 Panel

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CulinaryArts@SPAC - Braided Heritage with Dr. Jessica B. Harris

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Danielle Crittenden's new memoir is 'Dispatches from Grief: A Mother's Journey Through the Unthinkable'

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5/11/26 Panel

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Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review - Episode 266

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Mark Frost will be at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum on 5/13 to discuss his new book 'The Yankee Sphinx: An FDR Novel'

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Gemma Correll takes readers on her journey through 'Anxietyland'

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5/8/26 Panel

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Music journalist Erin Osmon's new book is 'Won’t Back Down: Heartland Rock and the Fight for America'

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Sepideh Moafi on off-Broadway play 'New Born' and the unexplored potential in SWANA women's stories

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5/7/26 Panel

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Steve Sheinkin and Jon Chad will be in conversation at Northshire Bookstore on 5/18 to talk about Steve's new book 'Diamond Fever!'

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Lev Mandel's new book 'Money is Weird' shares how to build a better relationship with money

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5/6/26 Panel

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Book Picks - Northshire Bookstore and The Bookstore in Lenox

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The Berkshire Concert Choir presents 'Questions and Answers: American Echoes' on 5/9 and 5/10

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5/5/26 Panel

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The Roundtable Live from Frederic Church’s OLANA: Spotty Dog Books and Ale

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The Roundtable Live from Frederic Church’s OLANA: ‘Drawn by the River’ by Moira Fitzgibbons

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The Roundtable Live from Frederic Church’s OLANA: New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation and Scenic Hudson

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The Roundtable Live from Frederic Church’s OLANA: ‘Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America’ by Victoria Johnson

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The Roundtable Live from Frederic Church’s OLANA: President of the Olana Partnership Sean Sawyer and Consulting Senior Curator Dr. Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser

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Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review - Episode 265

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Award-winning journalist Peter Canellos' new book is 'Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement'

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Albany Pro Musica and Orchestra Pro Musica present 'This Luminous Earth' at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall

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5/1/26 Panel

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Wallace Norman's 'Songs Mostly of the Theatre: A Stroll Down a Dusty Musical Road' at Phoenicia Playhouse 5/1-5/3

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4/30/26 Panel

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WAM Theatre presents 'Rooted' - a play about sisterhood, cults, and botany

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A cunning and gutsy Riff Raff is the latest great performance from Broadway's Amber Gray

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4/29/26 Panel

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Book Picks - Rough Draft Bar & Books and Open Door Bookstore

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NYT writer Noam Scheiber's new book about the economic unmooring of the educated

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4/28/26 Panel

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Capital Region Language Center: Language Lessons and May Events

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Yiddish on Display with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett at The Yiddish Book Center on 5/3

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4/27/26 Panel

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Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review - Episode 264

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Bob Spitz's highly anticipated 'The Rolling Stones: The Biography' gives some satisfaction

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National Poetry Month: 'Startlement' -- new and selected poems by Ada Limón

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4/24/26 Panel

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The Writers Resist Revival is back at Bearsville Theater on 4/26

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Cecily Strong: 'What Happened Was..." off-Broadway, 'All Out,' and upcoming project with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mary Bronstein, and Apple Studios

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Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda, Antonio Sánchez are BEATrio - tonight at Troy Music Hall

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4/23/26 Panel

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Yaddo: This summer and beyond

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The Alexis P. Suter Band's has a new album out and will be playing at Meadow Blues on 4/25 and The Falcon on 5/9

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4/22/26 Panel

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Book Picks - The Golden Notebook and Merritt Bookstore

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Jim Windolf's new book is 'Where the Music Had to Go: How Bob Dylan and the Beatles Changed Each Other and the World'

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4/21/26 Panel

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Gavin McMahon's new book is 'Story Business: Why Stories Rule the World and How They Can Reinvent Your Business'

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The 45th annual 'Take Back the Night' rally is taking place on 4/23

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4/20/26 Panel

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Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review - Episode 263

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WAMC On the Road: Communities in Conversation, 'Does Music Matter?'

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4/17/26 Panel

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"Frog: And Other Essays" by Anne Fadiman

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Anthems for the stifled voice and a melody for the river - new projects from Emily Pinkerton and Sam Torres

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4/16/26 Panel

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Eileen Flanagan at Northshire Bookstore 4/15 with 'Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth is Saving Us From Our Illusion of Separation'

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Garrick Ohlsson plays Rachmaninoff with The Albany Symphony 4/18 and 4/19

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4/15/26 Panel

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Book Picks - Northshire Bookstore and Odyssey Bookshop

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4/14/26 Panel

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2026 Season Announcement: New York Stage & Film presents productions at Marist University and The Bardavon

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Ruth Franklin's new biography is 'The Many Lives of Anne Frank'

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4/13/26 Panel

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Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review - Episode 262

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Speaking music fluently with producer and multi-instrumentalist Josh Kaufman

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Dr. Ellen Braaten's new book is "The Motivation Mindset Workbook: Helping Teens and Tweens Discover What They Love to Do"

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4/10/26 Panel

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National Poetry Month with Poet Laureates of Saratoga County Jay Rogoff and Ulster County Mike Jurkovic

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Ceramics are having a moment at The Tang

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4/9/26 Panel

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'The Diversity Principle: The Story of the Transformative Idea' by David Oppenheimer

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Genevieve Wheeler Brown at the Albany Institute of History and Art on 4/12

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4/8/26 Panel

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"Seascraper" by Benjamin Wood

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Book Picks - Oblong Books

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4/7/26 Panel

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Leslie Knope and a forgotten hope: 'Parks and Rec' by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong out on 4/7

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Yann Martel's new book 'Son of Nobody' provides a dual narrative surrounding the Trojan War

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Battenkill Books will host Robert Brigham for his new memoir 'This Is a True War Story' on 4/9

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4/6/26 Panel

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Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review - Episode 261

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SUNY New Paltz Davenport Artist-In-Residence Amina Claudine Myers to play solo piano concert on 4/7

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Nick Offerman's tour 'Big Woodchuck: An Evening of Comedy with Woodworking and Bookish Mirth' is coming to the Palace Theatre on 4/11

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First Friday with Metroland Now's Erin Harkes

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4/3/26 Panel

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Time travel and tonal brilliance meet on Gabriel Kahane's 'Elevator Songs' - a Roomful of Teeth songbook set in a cosmic hotel

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Ryan Gingeras' new novel is 'Mafia: A Global History'

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4/2/26 Panel

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4/1/26 Panel

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Book Picks - Battenkill Books

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The Justice Center of Rensselaer County presents its fourth annual Robert Doherty Memorial Lecture with Douglas Blackmon on 4/2

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3/31/26 Panel

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3/30/26 Panel

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Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review - Episode 260

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"Selected Letters of John Updike" by James Schiff

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Blackwing Music presents Todd Caldwell's 'Show Pony' - release party at Red Lion Inn 3/28

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3/27/26 Panel

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The Lost Radio Rounders present 'America 250: Songs & Stories'

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Mimi Nichter's new memoir is 'Hostage: A Memoir of Terrorism, Trauma, and Resilience’

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3/26/26 Panel

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Oral History of a 20th Century Life: 94 year-old multicultural artist Sita Gomez fled Hitler and Castro to get to Hudson - via NYC

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3/25/26 Panel

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Book Picks - Chatham Bookstore and The Bookstore in Lenox

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Tom Junod's new memoir on masculinity brings him to NYSWI on 4/7

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3/24/26 Panel

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3/23/26 Panel

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Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review - Episode 259

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National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi calls ‘great replacement theory’ the world’s most dangerous idea

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2026 Hudson Valley Puppetry Festival

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3/20/26 Panel

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Lindy West's new memoir 'Adult Braces' takes you on her journey of rediscovering herself

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Mark Oppenheimer at Odyssey Bookshop 3/24 to share from 'Judy Blume: A Life'

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3/19/26 Panel

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Book Picks - Golden Notebook and Open Door Bookstore

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Tim Matheson's new memoir is 'Damn Glad to Meet You: My Seven Decades in the Hollywood Trenches'

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3/18/26 Panel

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Emma Donoghue - The Paris Express

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Melissa Auf der Maur unearths her experiences of our last analog decade in new memoir 'Even the Good Girls Will Cry'

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3/17/26 Panel

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3/16/26 Panel

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Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review - Episode 258

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Nelson Dellis will have a talk and book signing at Northshire Bookstore on 3/18 for his new book 'Everyday Genius'

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Sunny days and sad songs - Vines in residence at Studio 9

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Election@Bard and Let NY Vote Coalition Youth Working Group support proposed Student Voter Empowerment Act

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3/13/26 Panel

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2026 Oscar talk with Thelma Adams

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New York State Maple Weekends on tap at the end of March

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3/12/26 Panel

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'Technologies of Relation' at MASS MoCA

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Malgosia Turzanska is nominated for an Academy Award for her costume design in the film 'Hamnet'