About the Event: Join author Amy Reading and former New Yorker staffer Emily Hopkins to discuss Katharine Sergeant White and the literary world she curated in her 36-year editorship of The New Yorker. White was the invisible hand behind an impressive cohort of writers and was especially sympathetic to women writers just getting their start. The discussion will include how ... Read More

About the Event: Authors Ivy Stevens and Tessa Permar will be in-store to read selections from their book, and some other third thing, as well as discuss their creative practice and the philosophy of their group. About the Book: These three authors met at the National Theater Institute in 2013. They started a writing group at the beginning of Covid ... Read More

Mystery and True Crime enthusiasts - join us for this exciting workshop with expert forensic pathologist, Mary Jumbelic! Mary will share her experiences along with the ins and outs of language, characters, and writing to provide authenticity to your work! About the Author: Mary Jumbelic, M.D. is an author from Central New York, and former chief medical examiner of Onondaga ... Read More

About the Event: Join us 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 ... Read More

The Ithaca is Books Festival exists to celebrate the authors, performers, and storytellers who illuminate our world and introduce us to new ones. Events will be hosted all over town including readings and conversations with Jonathan Letham, Steven Salvatore, and Debbie Urbanski. As part of the festival, the book fair will take place on The Commons on September 14th and ... Read More

Join author Bill Schutt in conversation with artist Patricia J. Wynne as they discuss Schutt's newest release "Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans. About the Author: Bill Schutt is a vertebrate zoologist and author of six nonfiction and fiction books, including Pump: A Natural History of the Heart and the New York Times Editor’s Choice, Cannibalism: ... Read More

Join author Bill Schutt in conversation with artist Patricia J. Wynne as they discuss Schutt's newest release "Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans."

About the Event: Author and biographer Gordon Sander will be in store to talk with artist, and subject of his book Rooms, JJ Manford. About the Book: When Gordon Sander ’72, BA ’73, began an artist residency at Risley Residential College in 2002, he was returning to familiar ground. The author, photographer, and journalist had come back to the Hill ... Read More

About the Event: Join us 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 ... Read More

About the Event: Join us for a very fun (and spooky) reading with author Damara Allen! About the Book: The legend of the Pied Piper meets Sal and Gabi Break the Universe with a touch of Coraline in this spooky and suspenseful middle grade adventure about a boy whose wish goes horribly wrong and his fight to reunite with his ... Read More