“A psychedelic ambience that resurrects the spirits of Syd Barrett and Steve Marriott at their most playful.”
–The Wire

“He has ritten a vast succession of wonderful songs.”
–The Guardian

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LAURA MARRIS
is a writer and translator. Her writing has appeared in The Yale Review, The Paris Review Daily, The New York Times, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. Her first essay collection, The Age of Loneliness, was published in August.

EMMA COPLEY EISENBERG
is the author of the nationally bestselling novel Housemates and the narrative nonfiction book The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia, which was named a New York Times Notable Book.

LAURIE STONE
is the author of six books, most recently Streaming Now, Postcards from the Thing that is Happening, longlisted for a PEN Award. She writes the literary Substack publication Everything is Personal, with over 11,000 subscribers

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Books are available for purchase and signing.

Created and Hosted by Andrea Kleine.

This event is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

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Melissa Petro
is a journalist whose writing has been featured in The Washington Post, Allure, Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone, Good Housekeeping, The Guardian, InStyle, and many other national publications. She was a finalist for the PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize, and she holds a bachelor in Women’s Studies from Antioch and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from The New School. She lives with her husband and two young children in Upstate New York.

Lyn Slater, Ph.D.
is a writer, activist, social worker, former professor and serial reinventer. Throughout her 47-year career as a social worker she has creatively accessed performance, storytelling, photography, fashion, social media and the internet in the service of her advocacy work. In 2014, when she started a fashion blog at the age of 61, she instigated a change in how older persons were represented in the media as well as challenged stereotypes about what it means to be an older adult. At the height of her success, she walked away when her project became more about consumerism than culture change. She shares her experience in her memoir, How to Be Old. Today Lyn writes a Substack newsletter, How to Be Old, and a column in her local newspaper that seeks to engage residents of all ages in the project of making their city an age-friendly, inclusive and sustainable community.

Sari Botton‘s memoir in essays, And You May Find Yourself…Confessions of a Late-Blooming Gen-X Weirdo, was chosen by Poets & Writers magazine for the 2022 edition of its annual “5 Over 50” feature. An essay from it received notable mention in The Best American Essays 2023, edited by Vivian Gornick. For five years, she was the Essays Editor at Longreads. She edited the bestselling anthologies Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York and Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York. She publishes Oldster Magazine, Memoir Land, and Adventures in Journalism. She was the Writer in Residence in the creative writing department at SUNY New Paltz for Spring, 2023.MORE