Please join us Friday, September 30th between 5-9pm in the Frear Building to celebrate a decade in business. Enjoy snacks catered by local businesses, meet our authors from far and wide, and enter to win a basket of author’s essentials.
Chris Bohjalian is the author of 19 books, most of which were New York Times bestsellers. His work has been translated into over 30 languages and three times become movies.
His most recent novel, “The Guest Room,” a story of human trafficking, a marriage in crisis, and two remarkable women, was published earlier this year. (The paperback arrives October 25.)
Steven Millhauser, author of four novels and nine short fiction collections, received the Pulitzer Prize for his 1996 novel Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer, about a young entrepreneur in turn-of-the-century New York City. Kirkus Review called the book “A fascinating and provocative portrayal of America that hums with energy and wit.” His new book is the story collection Voices in the Night (2015), which the Boston Globe called “Masterful . . . intriguing and disturbingly intoxicating.”
Author Scott Christianson will discuss and sign copies of his book, Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War, about the Nalle rescue of 1860, at the Lansingburgh Historical Society, the Herman Melville House, 2 114th St. (and corner of 1st Avenue), Troy, NY, on May 15 at 7 PM. The event is open free to the public. (518)235-3501.