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The new book - "Let’s Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World" is a blend of reportage and personal narrative that explores the untold history of women’s exercise culture by author and award winning journalist Danielle Friedman.

“Trump’s next coup has already begun.” That’s the headline of a December cover story in The Atlantic magazine written by journalist Barton Gellman. Gellman is spending this semester as the James Ottaway Visiting Professor of Journalism at SUNY New Paltz.

Drawing upon twenty-five years of experience representing Black youth in Washington, D.C.’s juvenile courts, Kristin Henning confronts America’s irrational, manufactured fears of these young people and makes a powerfully compelling case that the crisis in racist American policing begins with its relationship to Black children. Her book is "The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth."

Elizabeth Clark discusses Seeds Under Nuclear Winter: An Earth Opera.

Dr. Samantha Montano discusses her new book "Disasterology: Dispatches from The Frontlines of The Climate Crisis."

The Berkshire Theatre Festival Production of Nina Simone: Four Women imagines a conversation, often through music, between Simone and three African-American women.In the aftermath of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963, Nina Simone rocked the nation with “Four Women,” her tribute in song to the four young girls lost in the tragedy.The production at the Unicorn Theatre runs through September 5th. To tell us more we welcome Music Director Dante Harrel, actor Felicia Curry who is playing Nina Simone, and actor Darlesia Cearcy who is playing Aunt Sarah.

Presidential Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco has become the first visiting artist at the SPAC School of the Arts (SOTA) -- a multidisciplinary school dedicated to dance, music, and theatre, with additional offerings in literary arts, visual arts, and media arts – in addition to serving as a mentor for the 2022 Adirondack Trust Company Festival of Young Artists.

The term “home economics” may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists, and businesspeople. And it has something to teach us today.

Leading voice in the climate movement Paul Hawken has a new book entitled "Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation." It weaves justice, climate, biodiversity, equity, and human dignity into a seamless tapestry of action, policy, and transformation.

The 4th annual Albany Book Festival is taking place this Saturday, presented by the New York State Writers Institute at the University at Albany. Readers, writers, editors, publishers and booksellers once again will meet in celebration of literature.For a full preview, we welcome Writers Institute Director, Paul Grondahl.