Village Square Bookstore

Read the following excerpt from Ann Hutton's interview with Woodstock author Abigail Thomas, author of Thinking About Memoir. The entire article will appear in May's Guide magazine. Thomas will be speaking and signing books at the Village Square Bookstore (formerly the Catskill Mountain Foundation Bookstore) on Saturday, May 17, 2 PM. The event is free and open to the public.

"I ask [author Abigail] Thomas: Who are we, to assume that we have something important enough to impart by writing about ourselves? Few of us are famous, few have been exceptionally adventurous, and fewer still have saved lives or invented a modern convenience or done anything at all noteworthy. Why would anyone care to read about my broken Dansk coffee pot purchase? Her answer is emphatic: "We are who we are! Why are we here if it doesn't matter? That's that cosmic depression feeling: 'What does it all mean?' I don't go there. I went there once, and I came back. I don't have the 'meaninglessness of it all' thing going, because it's all so interesting! So much to observe and listen to! [Some of it is] horrifying, ghastly. It's in the details, where you are right this minute." The hairline-crack details.

Location
Hunter Village Square, Main St/Rte. 23A, Hunter, NY

Hours
Sunday, Monday, Thursday, Friday 10-5
Saturday 10-6
Closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Summer hours start Memorial Day Weekend

Phone
518 263 2050