In-store Summer Book/Author events at Oblong Books (& Online/Off-site Events too). Click Here for Oblong’s Full Events Calendar and details on how to Register and or Purchase Book.
In conversation with Adelle Waldman.
By turns comical and heartbreaking, I Will Do Better is the remarkable journey of two defiant and wounded people, and their personal growth in the name of love.
Named one of the Best Books of Fall by Oprah Daily and People
When Charles Bock’s daughter Lily was six months old, his wife, Diana, was diagnosed with a complex form of leukemia. Two and half years later, when all treatments and therapies had been exhausted, Bock found himself a widower—devastated, drowning in medical bills, and saddled with a daunting responsibility. He had to nurture Lily, and, somehow, maybe even heal himself. This frank and tender memoir of parenting his infant daughter in the wake of of his wife’s untimely death is “bracingly honest [and] tender,” commented Publishers Weekly. “Single parents will find much to identify with in this warts-and-all account.”
Former Austinite and now a resident of the Hudson Valley, journalist Alex Hannaford gives a critical exploration of the transformation that has befallen one of America’s most beloved cities—which serves as a warning for what the homogenization of cities means for American urban identity. Read More
In conversation with Michelle Montalbano.
Just a few blocks from Montgomery Row. Free parking at Fairgrounds. The Northeast’s thriving sheep industry is showcased and celebrated each year in this famous festival that draws a multitude of visitors from across the country to our lovely village of Rhinebeck. Vendors can be found throughout the property, selling fiber and finished crafts. Your day will include fiber artists and crafts galore, amazing sheep herding demonstrations, frisbee dogs, and a petting zoo. The Fleece Sale, Breed Barn, Camelids & Cashmeres Barn, Equipment Auction, Leaping Llamas, and Fiber Competitions will offer visitors the chance to get up close and personal with the people and animals that make this event so special.
Thursday & Friday are workshops that are pre-registered for. And Sat & Sun is the actual event. More Info & Tickets
In this thrilling sequel to The Puzzle Master, the world’s greatest puzzle master has twenty-four hours to solve the most dangerous mystery of his life . . . or die trying, in “[this] breathlessly paced and nail-bitingly suspenseful” (Booklist) and hailed as “thrilling” by David Baldacci. Read More
Registration Requested. Free to register.
Danielle Trussoni is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Ancestor, Angelology, and Angelopolis, all New York Times Notable Books, and The Puzzle Master, which was chosen by The Washington Post as one of their Best Thrillers of 2023. Her memoir, Falling Through the Earth was selected by The New York Times as one of the Top Ten Books of the Year. Trussoni is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and winner of the Michener-Copernicus Society of America Fellowship, and her work has been translated into more than thirty languages.
Carol Goodman is the author of twenty-three novels, including The Widow’s House and The Night Visitor, which won the 2018 and 2020 Mary Higgins Clark Award. Her books have been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her family and teaches literature and writing at The New School and SUNY New Paltz.
In A Hudson Valley Reckoning, Debra Bruno tells the long-ignored story of slavery’s history in upstate New York in an absorbing chronicle that uncovers her Dutch ancestors’ slave-holding past and leads to a deep connection with the descendants of the enslaved people her family owned. More Info