Join Buffalo Street Books and zinemaker A.C. Howard for a reading from A Future, a short story and zine focused on trans* community organizing and community care. A.C., the Portland based writer and freshman community organizer, will lead a discussion on taking matters into your own hands, relational organizing, and transforming fear into speculative fiction.

"In This Together," explores how we can harness our social networks to make a real impact fighting the climate crisis. Against notions of the lone environmental crusader, Marianne E. Krasny shows us the power of "network climate action"—the idea that our own ordinary acts can influence and inspire those close to us. Through this spread of climate-conscious practices, our individual ... Read More

Join Brighit May, local food and drink vendors, and the Buffalo Street Books community for an evening of tarot reading, wine, and treats. Entry is free and all access tickets for a 10-minute tarot reading are $20. Tickets for this event can be purchased here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tarot-and-tasting-with-brighit-may-tickets-640720461147

In her new poetry collection, Armed to the Teeth, Ellen Hirning Schmidt faces life's perils courageously, and being armed with the powers of family, the natural world, and a strong heart full of love, emerges victorious. Readers of this book will take heart from its victories. The poet says this about the focus of her book: "I created the poems ... Read More

Carolyn Clark gets better with each book, each poem. Where else could we get woodlands, strawberries, free range blue eggs, in a world populated by Artemis, Eurydice, Apollo, and horses. To create the beauty and mystery of classic myths within the natural world is to be inside and outside of the imagination, a rare read. Cobwebs, woodchucks, compost, Covid, stars—poems ... Read More

Tim Carter's REMAINS is "the work of a lifetime," exploring the life and death of the poet's mother using photos, paintings, and letters, as well as years of interviews with friends and family who remember her. Bianca Stone says " is the most loving homage to a lost poet I've ever read." REMAINS is Tim Carter's first book of poetry, ... Read More

Join Aaron H. Arm at Buffalo Street Books for the launch of his debut novel The Artifice of Eternity. There will be a Q&A and signing after the reading. The Artifice of Eternity is a ruminative sci-fi novel that follows humanity’s attempt to escape Earth’s existential conflicts. 4,000 likeminded colonists reboot civilization on a habitable planet, and yet, even 13 ... Read More

On this month's First Friday, we will be hosting our bi-monthly Makers' Market at Buffalo Street Books. Come in for crafts, tastings, and to meet some of the incredible local artists we are lucky to have in our community. Artists and vendors include Brighit May and Oracle Chocolates.

About the Book This sharp and original debut collection captures precisely that time of life when so many young women are caught in between, preoccupied by nostalgia for past relationships—with friends, roommates, siblings—while trying to move forward into an uncertain future. In “That Is Shocking,” a college student relates a darkly funny story of romantic humiliation, one that skirts the ... Read More

Join us at Buffalo Street Books as we welcome our very own Kate Doyle back to Ithaca and discuss her new collection of stories, I Meant it Once. This sharp and original debut collection captures precisely that time of life when so many young women are caught in between, preoccupied by nostalgia for past relationships—with friends, roommates, siblings—while trying to ... Read More