Seventeen one act and full length works by a new generation of gay and lesbian American playwrights that reflect the diversity of voices emerging in today's theater. Contributors include: • Victor Bumbalo • Claire Chafee • Constance Congdon • Keith Curran • Steven Dietz • Linda Eisenstein • The Five Lesbian Brothers • Eric Lane • Craig Lucas • Susan Miller • Cherríe Moraga • Ron Nyswaner • Joe Pintauro • Edwin Sánchez • Will Scheffer • Paula Vogel • Shay Youngblood

The Actor's Book of Gay and Lesbian Plays

Literature & Fiction

Shengold, Nina

Lane, Eric

Dramas & Plays

Penguin??Books

Clearcut

Literary

Anchor Books

On the eve of her sixtieth birthday, Nina Shengold embarks on a challenge: to walk the path surrounding the Catskills' glorious Ashokan Reservoir every day for a year, at all times of day and in all kinds of weather, trying to find something new every time. Armed with lively curiosity, infectious enthusiasm, and renewed stubbornness, she hits the path every day with all five senses wide open, searching for details that glint. As Shengold explores the secrets of this spectacular place, she rediscovers the glories of solitude and an expanded community, both human and animal. Step by step, her reservoir walks rekindle connections with family, strangers, and friends, with a landscape she grows to revere, and with a new sense of self. Like the writings of John Burroughs, Annie Dillard, and Barry Lopez, Shengold's reflections on her personal journey will resonate with outdoor enthusiasts and armchair hikers alike. Quietly transformative, Reservoir Year encourages readers to find their own ways to unplug and slow down, reconnecting with nature, reviving old passions and sparking some new ones along the path.

Reservoir Year: A Walker’s Book of Days (New York State Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Syracuse University Press

This unique anthology provides a wealth of material for actors and acting students, and a wonderful overview of the best recent plays for anyone interested in theatre. The more than 150 monologues cover a diverse range of subjects, and offer a variety of dramatic styles and moods. Each monologue is introduced with a short description of the plot, setting, and character type by the leading plauwrights of our time.  Featured dramatists include: Christopher Durang, Wendy Wasserstein, Lanford Wilson, Wallace Shawn, Tina Howe, Caryl Churchill, Athol Fugard, Beth Henley, Sam Shepard, David Henry Hwang, Harry Kondoleon, John Patrick Shanley, Larry Shue, Michael Weller, David Rabe, Marsha Norman, August Wilson, Albert Innaurato, Jules Feiffer, Harold Pinter, David Hare, Jose Rivera, Tom Stoppard, John Guare, David Mamet, Charles Fuller, William Matrosimone, Robert Patrick, Miguel Pinero

Actor's Book of Contemporary Stage Monologues

Teen & Young Adult

Bt Bound

The most famous love story of all time has been edited from Shakespeare s text for a cast of five, and with a running time of seventy-five minutes.

Romeo/Juliet

Shakespeare., William

Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated

Set in the gloriously rugged backwoods of the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s, Nina Shengold’s gripping debut novel follows three people in search of new lives deep into uncharted terrain of the body and heart.
 When rough-hewn loner Earley Ritter picks up a hitchhiker one rainy night, he can’t imagine how much it will change his life. A "shake-rat" who salvages cedar stumps left when loggers clearcut, Earley seems to have little in common with Reed Alton, a gifted Berkeley dropout. But when Earley meets Zan, the fiery and mysterious woman Reed has been following, erotic sparks fly in unexpected directions. Thrown together in the splendid isolation of the woods, with passions and tensions mounting, the unlikely trio achieves a fragile balance that–-like their idyllic patch of forest–-will be shattered by violence. At once a page-turning psychological drama and a colorful, wildly comic recreation of a lost time and place, Clearcutexplores the boundaries that divide us, and what it takes to cross them.

United States

Anchor

An intimate group portrait of contemporary Hudson Valley writers. “When you truly fall in love, whether with a person or a place, you make everything else fit around it. The last eight years of my life have been a love affair with this place.” ― Gwendolyn Bounds, author of The Little Chapel By the River For centuries, writers have drawn inspiration from the Hudson River and its surroundings. John Burroughs, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edith Wharton all lived and worked in the region immortalized by the Hudson River School of painters. In River of Words, author Nina Shengold and photographer Jennifer May explore the current crop of Hudson Valley writers, offering intimate portraits of seventy-six contemporary writers who live and work in this magnificent and storied region. Included in this rich collection of emerging and established novelists, memoirists, poets, journalists, and screenwriters are Pulitzer Prize–winners John Ashbery and the late Frank McCourt, bestselling memoirists Julie Powell and Susan Orlean, and distinguished emigres Chinua Achebe and Da Chen. What draws these writers together is not only their devotion to their art but their love and affection for the Hudson Valley. Through words and photographs, River of Words offers an inside perspective on the literary life, the craft of writing, and the pull of this distinctive American landscape.

River of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers (Excelsior Editions)

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press

SILVER MEDALIST - 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards in U.S. North-East - Best Regional Non-Fiction Category. Seventy-six writers reflect on the literary life, the craft of writing, and the beauty of the Hudson Valley. For centuries, writers have drawn inspiration from the Hudson River and its surroundings. John Burroughs, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edith Wharton all lived and worked in the region immortalized by the Hudson River School of painters. In River of Words, author Nina Shengold and photographer Jennifer May explore the current crop of Hudson Valley writers, offering intimate portraits of seventy-six contemporary writers who live and work in this magnificent and storied region. Included in this rich collection of emerging and established novelists, memoirists, poets, journalists, and screenwriters are Pulitzer Prize–winners John Ashbery and the late Frank McCourt, bestselling memoirists Julie Powell and Susan Orlean, and distinguished émigrés Chinua Achebe and Da Chen. What draws these writers together is not only their devotion to their art but their love and affection for the Hudson Valley. Through words and photographs, River of Words offers an inside perspective on the literary life, the craft of writing, and the pull of this distinctive American landscape.“…Shengold’s words speak to an examining, watchful eye, a love for her subjects as she weaves the lives of Hudson Valley writers into good old fashioned storytelling, while unveiling delectable tidbits on the writers’ lives and their beginnings … May’s stark yet lovely black and white photography tells the remaining story of each writer, seen in the moments that capture a pensive face, an exuberant jump, a stern but friendly glance.” — Tarrytown–Sleepy Hollow Patch“…an amazing cast of characters in a 269-page book … every word in River of Wordsmeans something and bears the mark of a skilled writer.” — Kingston Daily Freeman “…my vote for best gift book of the season, for anyone who loves the Hudson Valley, goes to River of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers by Nina Shengold, with photographs by Jennifer May … Let’s hope they plan a sequel.” — Ann La Farge, Hudson Valley News “Shengold’s concise essays (some are just a page long) get to the heart of each subject, conveying just enough detail so we know what makes him or her tick. And May’s elegant and revealing black-and-white portraits … provide a perfect counterpoint to the prose … a must-read.” — Hudson Valley Magazine “When you truly fall in love, whether with a person or a place, you make everything else fit around it. The last eight years of my life have been a love affair with this place.” — Gwendolyn Bounds, author of Little Chapel on the River: A Pub, a Town, and the Search for What Matters Most “May has assembled an astonishing collection of portraits. What’s particularly cool is that they are truly story-telling—they grab you and compel you to actually want to read the work of the writers she photographed—this is no small thing in a busy world saturated with imagery. This book gives us not only a revealing visual record of just how rich the Hudson Valley is in talent, but also a treasure map to a lifetime’s worth of great works.” — Doug Menuez, photographer

State University of New York Press

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