After decades of Arcadian Shop renting kayaks at its Lenox location and then bringing them and their renters to the beautiful Stockbridge Bowl to paddle, the state announced a new policy that rentals aren’t allowed to launch from its facility.
Profiling hundreds of titles and authors from 1945 to today with an emphasis on fiction published in the past two decades, “The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction” introduces the styles, trends, and genres of the world literature.
Bishop Gene Robinson is an advocate for full rights and marriage equality for gay, bisexual, and transgender people at the state, national and international levels.
The Bookstore has also been a place of comfort, in that special way good bookstores are, for people who want to step out of modern life’s constant buzzing.
The Holiday Shindy Saturday, December 12 and Sunday, December 13 is a handmade holiday sale featuring notable makers and creators from around the region.
Project Native has issued a Request For Proposals to encourage individuals, businesses, and not-for-profit organizations to submit offers to merge with it, purchase the farm, and/or embrace its educational programs.
This is a wonderful new book: innovative, in-depth, lucid in its examination of the details of both Cervantes’ and Flaubert’s lives, and important in its recognition of the need to compare what more often would be read separately as great French and Spanish literatures.
There is enough sadness for five families twice the size of theirs. Because that’s how life is, is what Thomas likes to remind us. Everything happens. One thing after another and then something else, and then another thing that overlaps with another. And you hope that you can live with it. Maybe even learn to like it.
The Bookstore in Lenox will host a reading of "Mapping Shangrila," with editor and Bard College at Simon's Rock instructor Chris Coggins, on Sunday, March 22, at 3 p.m. He will present a slide show of photos collected in his travels and investigations in the various lands discussed in the essays. A book signing will follow the event.
“I thought it was important to portray the subjects of this story primarily with old-fashioned black and white film, since this is a venerable relationship between the farms and these traditional breeds which is now being rekindled. Many of the portraits I was able to create have an antique feel and seem to speak through the centuries.”
-- Photographer Erik Hoffner, whose photo exhibit is now on view at Galerie Giroux in Great Barrington
