From Christopher D. Ringwald’s A DAY APART press release:
Ringwald is a journalist (and a former Times Union reporter) and educator based as a visiting scholar at The Sage Colleges in Albany, NY. A DAY APART has been hailed by Asma Gull Hassan as “a solemn, brilliant call to multi-faith commonalities and by Solomon Schimmel as “illuminating and inspiring.”
(Oxford University Press, Jan. 2007; Aly Mostel, publicist, 212 726-6111)
Roundtable with author and families portrayed in A Day Apart. Wednesday, January 17. 5:30 pm potluck, 7 pm discussion. Catholic Worker House, 45 Trinity Place, Albany, NY 12207. Contact Fred Boehrer, 518 292-1727.
“Reading, done properly, is every bit as tough as writing,” says one of my favorite novelists, Zadie Smith (“White Teeth” and “On Beauty”), in an extended essay in a recent 
I’m sure the entire Capital Region and beyond will join me in saying happy birthday to William Kenndy — and many more!
Sara Dallas, the director of the Southern Adirondack Library System has been generous enough to share with the Books Blog the most circulated items from the libraries in the Southern Adirondack Library System (34 libraries in Saratoga, Hamilton, Warren and Washington counties) and the Mohawk Valley Library System (14 libraries in Schenectady, Fulton, Montgomery and Schoharie counties), which share an online database. The following are the most circulated items.
