Dragon Press

Dragon Press Bookstore in Westport, NY Open weekends in Fall 2011

Our Fall 2011 hours are Saturdays & Sundays 1 - 5 PM.

Michael Swanwick, F. Brett Cox, & Jeanne Beckwith at Dragon Press Bookstore October 8th & 9th

Michael Swanwick
F. Brett Cox
Jeanne Beckwith

Dragon Press Bookstore
10 Champlain Avenue, Westport, New York
October 8th & 9th, 2011

Saturday, Oct 8th

2pm: Reception & meet the authors Michael Swanwick, Jeanne Beckwith, F. Brett Cox, including a short but fascinating dramatic presentation of Michael Swanwick’s Cigar-Box Faust

3pm: Introduction and Michael Swanwick reading

4pm: Discussion with Brett Cox, Kathryn Cramer, Michael Swanwick

5-8pm: Dinner break

8pm: Reception in honor of out of town guests.
Sunday, October 9th

1pm: Discussion with Michael Swanwick & David G. Hartwell, followed by Michael Swanwick signing

2pm: Jeanne Beckwith reading from her play that won first prize for Best Full Length Script in the Redd Tale Theatre Company’s 2011 sci-fi festival

3pm: F. Brett Cox reading

4pm: Reception with authors.


Michael Swanwick (michaelswanwick.com) is one of the most interesting and unpredictable writers in science fiction today. He is the author of eight novels and five major collections of short fiction. Swanwick lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Marianne Porter.

F. Brett Cox is a writer and teacher. He is the Chair of the Department of English and Communications at Norwich University in Northfield, VT.

Jeanne Beckwith (jeannebeckwith.com) is a award-winning playwright who for the past few years has worked with Lost Nation Theater in Montpelier, Vermont. She teaches at Norwich University in Northfield, VT.

Dragon Press Bookstore (www.dragonpress.com) is located 4 miles east of the Northway (I-87) of exit 31. Amtrak service to Westport, New York is available from Albany and Montreal; there is one train a day.

There are overnight accomodations available (see website for links), October 8-9 is the height of the fall foliage season, and in addition the Boquet Valley Studio Tour is Friday, Saturday, & Sunday, 10AM to 6PM, featuring Edward Cornell, Kevin Raines, Alison Weld, and others, and well worth it. There are even other bookstores in the area, even one in walking distance.

For more information, email kathryn.cramer@gmail.com or call 518-962-2346.

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Illustration by Jason Van Hollander

 

Dragon Press store in Westport, NY now open by chance and appointment

The Dragon Press store, at 10 Champlain Avenue in Westport, NY at the intersection of 9N and Rt. 22 in the Adirondack Park on upstate new York is open by chance and appointment. Email Kathryn Cramer at kathryn.cramer@gmail.com for an appointment or more information.

We will be open limited hours in the summer of 2011. Hours to be announced. Call 518-962-2346 for details in the meantime.

Some books from our stock are available for sale online via L.W.Currey of Elizabethtwon, NY.

The mailing address for Dragon Press remains PO Box 78, Pleasantville, NY 10570.

Dragon Press Store: Coming in 2009

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