Get a signed copy of Kimberly's book for your child, for a grown-up, or as a gift. Kimberly owns OneUniversal Media: an African-American, woman-owned company that promotes and represents positive engagement in intercultural understanding, awareness and various educational organizations, with InterCultural Connect Books as its publishing imprint.

Volume is a FREE reading & music series featuring prose, poetry and a short DJ set. Every second Saturday at 7:00 pm at The Spotty Dog. Books are available for purchase and signing. EMMA COPLEY EISENBERG Emma’s work has appeared in Granta, McSweeney's, VQR, Tin House, and The New Republic among other outlets, and has been recognized by the Millay Colony, the Elizabeth George Foundation, Lambda Literary, and Longreads' Best Crime Reporting. She lives in Philadelphia, where she co-directs Blue Stoop, a community hub for the literary arts. The Third Rainbow Girl is her first book. SUZANNE RANCOURT is a writer of Abenaki/Huron descent. Her first book, Billboard in the Clouds, received the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas First Book Award. Her second, murmurs at the gate, was published by Unsolicited Press in 2019. She is a USMC and Army Veteran, and her poetry and non-fiction have been published widely. LAURIE STONE the author of Everything is Personal: Notes on Now, and My Life as an Animal: Stories. She has published numerous stories in such publications as n + 1, Waxwing, Tin House, Evergreen Review, Fence, Open City, Threepenny Review, and Creative Nonfiction. Her next book will be Postcards from the Thing that is Happening, a collage of hybrid narratives. SHENA MCAULIFFE is the author of a novel The Good Echo. Her essay collection, Glass, Light, Electricity, is forthcoming in February 2020. Her stories and essays appear in Conjunctions, Copper Nickel, Gulf Coast, True Story, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She grew up in Wisconsin and Colorado, and now lives in Schenectady, New York. Followed by a set from special guest DJ. "Two Hudson writers seem to have found a new formula, turning the traditional reading into a party celebrating the best in new lit." --Jamie Larson, Rural Intelligence "Two 'dorks' pump up the Volume in Hudson, NY. Reclusive literati come out and play in a converted firehouse on the second Saturday of every month." --Benjamin Cassidy, The Berkshire Eagle www.facebook.com/volumehudson

Join us for The Spotty Dog Trivia Night. Since 2006, we've held this bi-weekly trivia event. Teams of up to four people compete against each other over four rounds of 15 questions, a worksheet of (usually) 20 questions, and four bonus questions. The winning team gets their bar tab on the house. Anyone can play. See you there!

Grabeland takes place in a country that no longer exists, in a culture rooted in soil and projections. The story tours the inner exiles of its characters as they test the limitations of their actual existence. Focusing on Germany and The United States, Grabeland dramatizes the formation of national identity and ultimately its dissolution through an accumulation of personal and collective experiences, anecdotes, accidents, propaganda, falsifications, histories, victimizations, inventions, dreams, and hopes. “I can think of no other visual artists who could synthesize their practice and emerge with a novel this good. They achieve what all art aims for—a pulse which keeps each page alive. This pulse creates a tension between the strange and the pure, between the compelling and the mundane—page-by-page it reminds me of Sebald. The few days I spent wandering its pages were precious.” – Nick Flynn This unique novel of visual ideas, Grabeland, imagines a literary, artful and art-inspired journey, a precise travelogue of sites and possible meanings. The obsession at the heart of Grabeland engaged me completely. – Lynne Tillman “Grabeland successfully merges descriptions of banal everyday activities, political and historical facts and fictions, Proustian reminiscences of the artists’ own childhood and the elements of a road trip novel into a dazzling read. eteam’s diary-like storytelling unravels complicated, sometimes unnerving and quite often hilarious oppositions of generations, cultures, political views and ways of living, in which urgency of art making and community building is a constant undertone.” – Zeljka Himbele

Join us for The Spotty Dog Trivia Night. Since 2006, we've held this bi-weekly trivia event. Teams of up to four people compete against each other over four rounds of 15 questions, a worksheet of (usually) 20 questions, and four bonus questions. The winning team gets their bar tab on the house. Anyone can play. See you there!

The Writers Studio Reading Series is a quarterly event at The Spotty Dog, where its instructors and students read from their work. The Writers Studio Hudson Valley welcomes students at all stages, from those who have only dreamed of writing fiction or poetry to those with MFAs hungry for additional serious, ongoing instruction. February features The Writers Studio Hudson Valley faculty Rebecca Gee and students: Sean Allison Jody Bolluyt Lacey Clarke Eva Deitch and Julie Means Kane