Peter McCarty will sign copies of his newest picture book, Henry in Love.

Peter is the author and illustrator of T Is for Terrible, Little Bunny on the Move and Hondo and Fabian, for which he won a Caldecott Honor. He lives with his wife and two children in the Hudson Valley.

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Joshua Ferris, author of The Unnamed, and Jami Attenberg, author of The Melting Season, read from their new works.

Joshua Ferris's first novel, Then We Came to the End, has sold in 20 countries and was shortlisted for the National Book Award and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Granta, Tin House, New Stories From the South, Best New American Voices, The Guardian, The Iowa Review and Perairie Schoonr. He attended the University of Iowa and the University of California, Irvine. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.

Jami Attenberg has written about sex, technology, design, graphic novels,
books, television, and urban life for The New York Times, Jane,
Print, New York, Nylon, Radar, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, Salon,
Plenty, Nextbook, Time
Out NY, eWeek, and
others. Her fiction has been published by Nerve, Five Chapters, Smokelong Quarterly, 3: AM Magazine, and
Spork. She recently appeared in the anthologies Sex for America, Future Misbehavior, Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone, and Love Is a Four-Letter Word: True Stories of Breakups, Bad Relationships, and Broken Hearts.
Her debut collection of stories, Instant Love, was published by Crown/Shaye Areheart Books in June 2006. The Kept Man
was published by Riverhead Books in January 2008, and is now available
in paperback. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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The Oblong Book Group meets to discuss Netherland.

If you're interested in joining our book group, email Suzanna Hermans. 

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Diane Zahler will sign copies of The Thirteenth Princess from 12pm-2pm.

Diane Zahler is the author of a novel for middle-grade readers, The Thirteenth Princess (HarperCollins, 2010), which is based on the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale "The Twelve Dancing Princesses." She has also written two nonfiction books for high-school students, The Black Death and Than Shwe's Burma, both published by Lerner Books. She lives with her husband and dog in New York's Harlem Valley. 

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This event will take place at 3:00pm at Oblong Millerton and at 7:30pm at Oblong Rhinebeck. Both events are on Saturday, February 27. 

Ralph Nader joins us to discuss his new book "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!". 

For the past forty-five years Ralph Nader has challenged corporations, government agencies, and institutions to be more accountable to the public. In 1965, Unsafe at Any Speed changed the face of the automobile industry and made Ralph Nader a household name. As a result of his efforts, cars have more safety features. His lobbying and writing on the food industry insured that the food we buy is required to pass strict guidelines before reaching the consumer. One of his greatest achievements was the 1974 amendment to the Freedom of Information Act that gave increased public access to government documents. This brought freedom of press to a new level, resulting in increased access for journalists.

Ralph Nader has co-founded numerous public interest groups including Public Citizen, Critical Mass, Commercial Alert, and the Center for Study of Responsive Law. Nader today continues to be a relentless force for grassroots activism and democratic change in the United States.

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Please join us for a reading and signing with Joanna Smith Rakoff, author of A Fortunate Age and Justin Taylor, author of Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever.

About Joanna:

Rakoff's mesmerizing debut opens with a wedding and closes with a funeral. In between, the novel provides a pitch perfect portrait of the generation that came of age in the 1990s. If this smart, thoroughly absorbing novel recalls The Group, it also recalls the seminal work of Anne Beattie in the seventies and Jay McInerney in the eighties. Like them, Rakoff captures a certain time and place with heartbreaking clarity.
-- Booklist (starred)

Joanna Smith Rakoff has written for The New York Times, Time Out New York, The Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Vogue, O: The Oprah Magazine,
and other publications. She holds a B.A. from Oberlin College; an M.A.
from University College, London; and an M.F.A. from Columbia
University. She lives in New York with her husband and son.

About Justin:

“This spare, sharp book - Taylor’s debut collection - documents a deep
authority on the unavoidable confusion of being young, disaffected and
human … the most affecting stories in Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever
are as unpredictable as a careening drunk. They leave us with the heavy
residue of an unsettling strangeness, and a new voice that readers -
and writers, too - might be seeking out for decades to come.”

—
New York Times Book Review

Justin Taylor's fiction and nonfiction have been widely published in journals, magazines, and Web sites, including The Believer, The Nation, The New York Tyrant, the Brooklyn Rail, Flaunt, and NPR. A coeditor of The Agriculture Reader and a contributor to HTMLGIANT, Taylor lives in Brooklyn and is at work on his first novel.

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Please join us for a discussion with Jack Hayward and Gerri Hershey from The Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation. Their new book is Trust the Dog: Rebuilding Lives Through Teamwork with Man's Best Friend. Stop by for the event and meet a guide dog!

The Fidelco Guide dog Foundation
is New England’s only guide dog school and is dedicated to promoting increased
independence for men and women who are blind by providing them with the highest
quality German shepherd guide dogs possible. Fidelco’s “breed within a breed”
utilizes and enhances the German shepherd’s superior traits and adapts them for
correctly guiding human partners and keeping them safe. The organization
pioneered the In-community Placement program in the U.S.; which allows clients
to be trained to use their guide dogs in their own homes, workplaces, and
neighborhoods instead of traveling to a guide dog school for training. 

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