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Since 1974 · Phone: 413-645-3256 · HOURS: Mon-Fri 10-6 · Sat 10-5 · Sun 11-4 (until New Years) · Contact Us That's right, we are in MASSACHUSETTS! |
Author and musician Lara Tupper will be at the store Saturday, August 21 from 2-4 pm.
Lara will read a brief excerpt from "Amphibians," her new book of short stories.
Additionally, Lara and her husband, Bobby Sweet, will play live music!
PARKING CONCERNS: Our lot is very small, but there are several overflow options nearby:
Lara Tupper is the author of three books: Amphibians, a story collection (Leapfrog Press; winner, Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize), Off Island, a novel inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin (Encircle), and A Thousand and One Nights, an autobiographical novel (Harcourt and Untreed Reads). She taught creative writing for many years at Rutgers University and now presents workshops in the Berkshires. She is also a jazz/folk performer who has traveled the world; her latest album is This Dance.
"From page one, AMPHIBIANS is the work of an extraordinary talent. How shrewd and compelling these stories are, as they range from Maine to New York to Japan to the Emirates and back. Their remarkable gift is to show us – wisely and sharply – the crucial contradictions of feeling in whatever unfolds, from passing encounters to long-held ties."– Joan Silber, PEN/Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of SECRETS OF HAPPINESS
"A compelling, wise and beautiful book. Each location feels prickly and alive, like it might lift off the page." – Ramona Ausubel, author of SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF EASE AND PLENTY, an NPR Best Book of the Year
"Mobility, adaptability and colorful changes are confronted by the girls and women in Lara Tupper's nimble interlinked collection, aptly titled AMPHIBIANS. Although each memorable story easily stands alone, to seek and recognize the deft connections intensifies the reading experience." - Terry Hong, SHELF AWARENESS
"If AMPHIBIANS is the first work by Tupper that readers pick up, it certainly won't be the last." - Annie Roach, YOU JUST HAVE TO READ THIS
"Tupper is akin to Barbara Kingsolver when it comes to stories."– Cynthia Brackett-Vincent, author of QUESTIONS ABOUT HOME
"Like a great journey, this collection will leave you changed." —Porter Fox author of NORTHLAN