About the Event: Peter Fortunato will read from and sign copies of his new poetry collection World Headquarters. Peter Fortunato has published several other poetry collections, the novel, Carnevale (from Fomite Press) and a memoir, Desert Wind: My Life in Qatar. About the Book: The three sections of World Headquarters resonate with and reinforce the interconnectedness among the local and ... Read More

As a part of the United in Kindness Event Series and Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Advocacy Center Center of Tompkins County is hosting an all-ages story hour!

About the Event: We are Local Poets for Harris, a group of writers who want to inspire fellow citizens to support the joyful, compassionate, and just vision the Harris and Walz team have for our country. We will have an open mic for local writers to share three minutes of poems related to the importance of standing up for democracy, ... Read More

About the Event: Join us to celebrate the release of Janna Barkin’s new book A Grand Love: Stories for Grandparents of Transgender Grandchildren. About the Book: A Grand Love is a book of personal stories and observations from the perspectives of the author, grandparents of transgender grandchildren, and transgender people themselves. Transgender people have never been more visible in our ... Read More

About the Event: Across genres, styles, and forms, feminism is alive and well in contemporary literature. Aggeliki Pelekidis's Unlucky Mel (Cornell University Press, 2024) is a humorous and moving feminist campus novel and Aida Zilelian's All the Ways We Lied (Keylight Books, 2024) is a heartfelt family saga focused on four sisters. Please join us for a lively reading and conversation about their stories and publishing ... Read More

Looking for a ghostly October game night? Embrace the Halloween season and join us in playing a macabre game of Mysterium! We have a wide variety of board games you can choose from to help you decompress. $5 suggested donation.

Join Buffalo Street Books for a conversation with Jennifer Kabat and Chris Holmes. They will be discussing Kabat's debut memoir for a special live recording of the Burned By Books podcast.

Celebrate James Baldwin with us and take home a free copy of a Baldwin book, donated by Beacon Press! Funds raised support Buffalo Street Books as it transitions to a nonprofit model. Our conversation will be led by: Mwalimu Kofi Acree, Director for the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library and Curator of Africana Collections for the Division of Rare and ... Read More

Susanna Cupido is excited to celebrate the launch of her debut novel, Window of Tolerance. Please join her at Buffalo Street Books for a short reading and Q&A period.

Join Buffalo Street Books in exploring exceptional works of climate fiction! We'll use a different book each month as a jumping-off point for talking about our collective climate future. If you can't read each month's book cover-to-cover, that's okay--but the more you read, the more meaningful the conversation. Led by aspiring climate writer Wendy Skinner, with guest poets and writers. ... Read More