Bibliophantics
June 15 - 21
With its magical park in the woods, Mildred’s Lane is enough on its own — but this week, the whole town of Narrowsburg joins in the celebration during BIBLIOPHANTICS!
At Mildred’s Lane, the days are perfect for reading and writing in the landscape, the pond is ripe for swimming, and the local farms are bringing in their early organics.
IN TOWN:
The Mildred Complex(ity) Project Space is installed with J. Morgan Puett’s THE LIVED BOOK project, open Thursday through Sunday afternoons.
At the TMC ANNEX — down the block, through the Mews, up the stairs to the courtyard rear entrance:
• An installation of art and clothing in the TMC ANNEX, ready to add to your collections
• Wednesday READINGS at 6:00pm, with refreshments, to be announced
• Thursday READINGS at 6:00pm, featuring Asti Hustvedt and Jill Goldman, with refreshments
THE WEEKEND IN TOWN:
One Grand Books’ Narrowsburg Deep Water Literary Festival — Friday, June 19 through Sunday, June 21
Featuring One Grand Books’ Narrowsburg Deep Water Literary Festival / Asti Hustvedt, Alastair Gordon, and Others to be announced including the festival participants that weekend, June 19-21. The session blurs into The Narrowsburg Deep Water Literary Festival by One Grand Books, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance (DVAA), and other organizations. If you enjoy reading and writing, meet other book lovers during this session of festivities. You will have free and open access to all Deep Water Literary Festival programming and events during your stay. Watch for postings from us and One Grand Books for a list of the events and creative practitioners performing during the week, some of which will be hosted at MLINC-NY and ML-PA.
‘Provoked by the death of her brother-in-law, the novelist Paul Auster, author Asti Hustvedt (Medical Muses: Hysteria in 19th-Century Paris) explores what it means to “get lost” in a book. She frames reading as a kind of mediumship—a state in which the reader becomes a site of possession, a host for the author’s consciousness. Drawing on the figures of the medium and the hysteric, Hustvedt’s talk argues that the act of reading is not merely a cognitive process for decoding inert signs on the page, but a kind of séance: a weird and complex collaboration between the living and the dead.’
Watch for postings from us and One Grand Books for a list of the events. @deepwaterliteraryfestival / www.deepwaterfestival.com
BOOK YOUR WEEKEND STAY
BOOK YOUR WEEKEND STAY AT MILDRED’S LANE!
June 19 – 21
Featuring One Grand Books’ Narrowsburg Deep Water Literary Festival / Asti Hustvedt, Alastair Gordon, Nina Burleigh, and Others to be announced including the festival participants that weekend, June 19-21. If you enjoy reading and writing, meet other book lovers during this session of festivities. You will have free and open access to all Deep Water Literary Festival programming and events during your stay.
The main lodge house in the meadow offers accommodations: installed rooms filled with art collections and curiosities. The library is an extraordinary experience — a stone fireplace, wide- ranging fiction and nonfiction, and hundreds of volumes about the artists who have gathered there over the years. The Kitchen Laboratory is loaded with a whimsical array of equipment, inspiring you to craft your own Digestion Choreography.
• All site access included
• Breakfast included
• Become a Member to receive discounts and perks
Please inquire before booking to confirm availability: complexity@mildredslane.org
