Tag: Poughkeepsie

A bar in the rapidly gentrifying city of Kingston, New York has an elicit secret: there's a guy in the back giving handjobs.

After deciding not to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge, seventeen-year old Craig Gilner checks himself into Six North, a psychiatric ward, where he will face and navigate his mental health with the help of the unlikeliest group of people he’s ever met.

Four young girls are forced to take a communication workshop in the hopes of avoiding juvie. As they play games and learn about themselves with the help of teaching artists, one of the girls is approached by the local gang leader to prove herself or lose her home

The long-standing chair of a fine arts department finds her commitment to traditional aesthetic and artistic values challenged when she must award three students a prestigious cash prize for a piece of contemporary artwork.

Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.

It is Right to Rebel! tells the story of Jiang Qing, who was Mao Zedong's wife for thirty-eight years and eventually one of the most powerful women in the Communist world.

Medea, the infamous anti-hero of Greek mythology, is one of the most complex women ever written: sorceress, exile, foreigner, wife, and mother. Her betrayal by Jason and the brutal revenge that followed, her story has echoed through centuries as a tale of passion and fury.

David Sedaris is one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. He is a master of satire and one of today’s most observant writers. Beloved for his personal essays and short stories, David Sedaris is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Barrel Fever, Holidays on Ice, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, and Calypso.