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It is time to take our country back

This is now our time to protest.

Remembering Jonathan Baumbach

Jon was an old-fashioned guy. He didn’t have a cell phone… He never saw “The Sopranos.”

Annette Grant: A remembrance

She had worked at the New York Times, having been the editor of the Living section, then editor of the Weekend section and, finally, art editor of the Arts & Leisure section.

Virginia Annette Grant, 78, of Housatonic

Ms. Grant was a graduate of Brown University and had a distinguished career as an editor and writer for The New York Times.

Short Story: What’s Going On, What’s Coming Off

My wife insists that I am never at a loss for something to write. It is how I sustain my idleness. Her belief in my productivity is almost as good as my actually being productive.

Bits & Bytes: Holiday cooking safety tips; Writers Read; ‘The Gift Show;’ Last Waltz Live; Muddy Brook online auction

The online auction is the Muddy Brook Regional Elementary School PTA’s main fundraiser and supports a wide range of enrichment programming, including artist residency programs and field trips.

SHORT STORY: Shapeshifting 

The thing to remember, Josh, the single most important thing, Josh, is that there are no crazy people in madhouses.

SHORT STORY: The Reading

This is sixth story from Jonathan Baumbach’s forthcoming collection, “The Pavilion of Former Wives,” to be published by Danzig.

SHORT STORY: Travels with Wizard

So, feeling anything but grateful, carrying an overnight case in each hand, Leo lets himself into the motel room while Sara takes the puppy on the stretch leash, the two wandering into the distance like snow ghosts.

SHORT STORY: ‘The Story’

... so this sentence, which is the story, which embodies the story, cannot be allowed to, has to be held in abeyance as it acknowledges an implicit mortality wholly alien to the nature of perfection ...

Bits & Bytes: Harold Baumbach artwork; WAM Theatre’s ‘Holy Laughter;’ ‘Great Barrington on the Move;” Respiratory Care Fair; genealogy talk; German/Austrian Film Festival; FilmColumbia...

Lauren Clark hosts viewing of Harold Baumbach artwork Great Barrington – Join Lauren Clark Sunday, October, 25 from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. as she...

SHORT STORY: ‘Seattle’

"My mother always spoke highly of you,” she said. “That was until she stopped remembering who you were."

The Baumbachs: Three generations of creative life

This desperate need to create can at times feel more like a curse to artists and those around them. The human soul doesn’t mess around.

SHORT STORY: Acting Out

She had a hundred grievances against Jay, she had a litany of grievances — they often came to mind unbidden like the hypnogenic lyric of some ancient detergent commercial.

FICTION: ‘The Pavilion of Former Wives’

After he unlocked the door with the key offered him, he warily stepped into a room very much like the bedroom of the house he lived in with his most recent former wife.

Bits & Bytes: Pittsfield Ethnic Fair; American Boychoir in Stockbridge; SoCo Creamery ice cream social; Jonathan Baumbach book signing; new science center for Williams...

SoCo Creamery’s Old Fashioned Ice Cream Social will take place on Saturday, August 8 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. behind the Great Barrington Town Hall at 334 Main St.

At Baumbach Gallery, a great artist finds a home in Housatonic

It is entirely possible that Harold Baumbach’s work will finally receive the attention it deserves not merely because of his son Jonathan's efforts but because his grandson, Noah, has won precisely the sort of fame that he himself disdained.
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