The Hudson Valley Book Club

As of this date December 14, 2005, the Hudson Valley Book Club has 162 members living in Dutchess, Ulster, Columbia and Sullivan Counties.

The members contact each other by phone and e-mail and meet once a month in Kingston .. For meeting info call  us  at  917  673-0301.

Currently the Hudson Valley Book Club is reading;

The Last Voyage of Columbus / by Martin Dugard published by Little Brown.

This is an extraordinary adventure story with details unknown to most about the Admirals 4 voyages to the New World. This book should resurrect the reputation of Columbus, a bold and courageous explorer who recently has been attacked by the pygmies of ' political correctness' 

Other books we will be reading will be;

The Darwin Conspiracy/ Darnton   Publisher Knopf.  Here is Darwin, the man himself and they way life was in his time. Darnton elegantly blends the power of fact and the insights of fiction to explore the mysteries attached to the life and work of Charles Darwin.

 Captured  /  edited by  Clayton Patterson   Seven Stories Press

Captured is the story of the Lower East Side's radical underground film movement in the words of the people who created it. Over 100 people discuss its origins and its demise. Among them are  Jonas Mekas, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Smith, Jim Jarmusch, Taylor Mead and on and on. The big story was the origins of ' Pull My Daisy'  Robert Frank, Jack Kerouac, Alfred Leslie, Larry Rivers and Ginsberg, a project considered to be the true progenitor of indie film.

In January the Book Club will be reading Joan Didion's  ' The Year of Magical Thinking' winner of the National Book Award

FEBRUARY....We are planning to read Christopher Marlowe  by Honan  / details to be announced

MARCH ...   OUR READING FOR THIS MONTH WILL BE  ' ACCIDENTAL GENIUS ; How John Cassavetes Invented the American Idependent Film  by Marshall Fine  / Miramax Book  ( An imprint of Hyperion NY )

APRIL ......we will read  BARNEY ROSS  by Douglas Century published by Nextbook  Schocken New York. A son of the Chicago slums who rises/falls and risies again...The great Barney Ross.