Upcoming Events
During 2024-2025, we were honored to welcome, among many others:
Louise Penny, Heather Cox Richardson, Ellen Baker, Shannon Bowring, Rich Cohen, Brock Clarke, Ron Curie, Paul Doiron, Tess Gerritsen, Jessica Berger Gross, Ann Hood, Lily King, Christina Baker Kline, Michael Koryta, Sam Sifton, Tony Scott, Catherine Newman, Thomas Ricks, Lewis Robinson, Richard Russo, Elizabeth Strout, Simon Van Booy, Chris Van Dusen, and Martin Walker.
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Free Event & Book Signing
Two Authors in Conversation: Cassandra Neyenesch & Jessica Berger Gross
WHEN:Thursday, July 16 at 7 pm
WHERE: Left Bank Books
Cassandra celebrates her debut novel, A Little Bit Bad, with her friend and fellow novelist (Hazel Says No), Jessica Berger Gross and discusses the creative process and her path to publication.
A Little Bit Bad has been called “a feisty true-crime obsessive’s erotic awakening” and “a compulsively readable novel about a San Diego housewife whose love affair with her neighbor’s roofer is interrupted by a murder.” Cassandra’s witty, original, fresh novel craftily interweaves the story of the affair with the period after the murder, ending with a titillating twist.
Cassandra is a Brooklyn-based writer, activist, and curator. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Brooklyn Rail, HuffPost, Public Books, and The International Herald Tribune.
Jessica’s novel, which debuted to widespread acclaim last year, has just been released in paperback. Alice Elliot Dark, author of Fellowship Point, wrote: Hazel Says No pulled me in from the first witty page… I am astonished that this is [a] first novel—it’s great, skillful, and funny.
Free Event & Book Signing
Marilyn Rockefeller & Susan Conley
WHEN: Wednesday, July 22 at 7pm
WHERE: Left Bank Books
Join us for a special conversation between two well-known Maine writers, Marilyn Rockefeller and Susan Conley to celebrate the release of Marilyn’s new collection of essays, Time is the Substance.
“I’m writing at the age of eighty-four, with a mind that thinks I’m still in my sixties and body that says, ‘Are you kidding?’” So begins Marilyn’s collection of essays in which she reflects on the people, places, and animals who have shaped her fully lived life.
Time is the Substance is also a celebration of what growing old with grace can feel like. Her book pays close attention to the stillness and beauty of the natural world, and her stories go back in time to see how we grow into ourselves and become the people we are.
Joining Marilyn is Susan Conley, the award-winning author of five critically acclaimed books, including the best-selling novel Landslide (2021), a New York Times “Editor’s Choice,” a TODAY Show “Best Summer Read,” and a New York Times Paperback Row Pick for best “Six New Paperbacks.”
Free Event & Book Signing
Julia Cooke, Starry and Restless: Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World
WHEN:Tuesday , July 28 at 7pm
WHERE: Left Bank Books
In Starry and Restless, Julia Cooke has written a triple biography that illuminates the lives and legacies of three trailblazing women reporters who changed the face of journalism: Martha Gellhorn stowed away in the bathroom of a Red Cross hospital boat to report from Omaha Beach on D-Day. Emily "Mickey" Hahn published pieces for The New Yorker covering the wartime life of a modern Chinese family. Rebecca West interviewed the sister of Franz Ferdinand's would-be assassin and covered the Nuremberg trials.
Julia follows these women's progress as they report from Yugoslavia on the brink of WWII to Hong Kong at its outbreak, from the shot-marked streets of the Spanish Civil War to McCarthy-era Mexico, from Congo to Cuba, to the American South and beyond.
In their lifetimes, Cooke's subjects were major public figures—the authors of bestselling books, celebrated contributors to major national magazines, targets of near-continuous criticism, gossip, and scrutiny. Join us to hear fascinating behind-the-scenes details about how Cooke became interested in these women and how her book came about.
Julia is the author of Come Fly the World, a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist, and her essays have appeared in Salon, The Threepenny Review, Smithsonian, and Tin House among other publications. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and lives in Woodstock, Vermont.
Free Event: Talk & Book Signing
CARA BENSON in conversation with KATHRYN MILES
WHEN: August 4 at 7pm
WHERE: Left Bank Books
An Armsfull of Birds: A Personal Field Guide to Love, Loss, and Commitment is a climate memoir about developing deeply held commitments to ourselves, to those we love, and ultimately to the ailing natural world. Cara is the perfect guide for this journey. As an addict, she crawled through subway tunnels and partnered with an abusive man. When she came face to face with her own death, she chose life. Her journey of survival led her into recovery and ultimately to Jon, the man with whom she cultivated a relationship as a lifetime partner.
When Cara lost Jon to suicide and retreated into her grief, she also retreated into the woods of upstate New York where she found more grief in her observation of the effects of climate change. She came to realize that the lessons she learned from loving Jon could be applied to her relationship with the non-human world. Her daily life became a sort of field guide for how to
live with a deep and abiding commitment to the future of the planet.
Cara’s writing has been published in The New York Times, Boston Review, Sierra Magazine, and selected for Best American Poetry. She wrote a series on walking in the woods for the Best American Poetry website and taught poetry in a New York prison for eight years.
Joining Cara in conversation is Kathryn Miles, journalist and author most recently of Trailed: One Woman’ s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders.
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We are deeply grateful to the hundreds of authors — of local, national and international acclaim — who have taken time to visit our bookshop, meet our faithful customers, speak about their work, and sign their books.
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