Sci-Fi book club
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Dark Fiction book club
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Mystery book club
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COMICS club
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Stanza Salon - Salon of HORRORS
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COMICS LAUNCH PARTY
Stanza is on a mission to help young people keep their love of books alive. We want them to view bookshops as magical realms, where they can lose themselves in worlds, create worlds of their own, and find community among other readers and creators.
This summer, Stanza hosted 13 young creators at the Summer COMICS Intensive. Over the course of one week, they went from zero to finished comic. They learned character, plot, conflict, visual storytelling, inking, and color. They even had a special visit from a pro comics creator.
Now, we’re combining their work into one comics anthology and putting it out in the world. This event is a launch party to celebrate these young creators, view their work, and of course, get your hands on their all new comics!
Proceeds from the sale of this comic will benefit a local organization. We did the same with our 2025 Beacon Literary Scene Anthology.
Whether you have kids or not, join us Oct 3 at the Howland Cultural Center to discover and support the next generation of comics creators.
Literature book club
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Jeannie Zusy workshop
Join author and playwright Jeannie Zusy for this five-session generative writing workshop. In this safe space, you are encouraged to tell your unique story, be it fiction or memoir, to complete a short piece or find an approach to committing to a longer one. Here we will practice trusting the flow, leading with heart, being open to surprises, and embracing a sense of play. We will also take seriously the commitment to crafting, editing, and completing your piece. Each session will include guided writing exercises, opportunities to share, and suggested take-home assignments. The workshop culminates with a celebration and option to read your original piece publicly at Stanza Books!
Oct 7, 14, November 4, 11, 18, 7-9PM and a public reading December 2, 7PM.
Jeannie Zusy
Jeannie Zusy’s novel THE FREDERICK SISTERS ARE LIVING THE DREAM was published by Simon & Schuster/Atria Books. She’s been published by McSweeney’s, Smith and Kraus Best Plays, The Today Show, Purple Clover, and others. Recently, she developed and performed her full-length solo play TURKISH DELIGHT at The Barrow Group in NYC. Her award-winning screenplay LADIES ROOM LA was produced by Pegasus Films. Her plays and musicals have been produced and workshopped by Hit House Creative, Playwrights Horizons, Hudson Stage, Cape Cod Theater Project, The Flock Theater Company, Croton Children’s Theater, and more, with one a runner-up for The O’Neill Theater Festival. In October, her play IF ONLY will be presented at the Newburgh Fringe Festival, directed by Hamp Fluker of Fable & Sow.
stanza LIVE - DEAD POETS EDITION
Show up about 7.
Dress as a dead writer and read one of the dead writer’s works.
Best costume as judged by the audience wins a Stanza gift card for $25.
FREE
Fantasy book club
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Jeannie Zusy workshop
Join author and playwright Jeannie Zusy for this five-session generative writing workshop. In this safe space, you are encouraged to tell your unique story, be it fiction or memoir, to complete a short piece or find an approach to committing to a longer one. Here we will practice trusting the flow, leading with heart, being open to surprises, and embracing a sense of play. We will also take seriously the commitment to crafting, editing, and completing your piece. Each session will include guided writing exercises, opportunities to share, and suggested take-home assignments. The workshop culminates with a celebration and option to read your original piece publicly at Stanza Books!
Oct 7, 14, November 4, 11, 18, 7-9PM and a public reading December 2, 7PM.
Jeannie Zusy
Jeannie Zusy’s novel THE FREDERICK SISTERS ARE LIVING THE DREAM was published by Simon & Schuster/Atria Books. She’s been published by McSweeney’s, Smith and Kraus Best Plays, The Today Show, Purple Clover, and others. Recently, she developed and performed her full-length solo play TURKISH DELIGHT at The Barrow Group in NYC. Her award-winning screenplay LADIES ROOM LA was produced by Pegasus Films. Her plays and musicals have been produced and workshopped by Hit House Creative, Playwrights Horizons, Hudson Stage, Cape Cod Theater Project, The Flock Theater Company, Croton Children’s Theater, and more, with one a runner-up for The O’Neill Theater Festival. In October, her play IF ONLY will be presented at the Newburgh Fringe Festival, directed by Hamp Fluker of Fable & Sow.
In Comparison
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Literature book club
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Jeannie Zusy workshop
Join author and playwright Jeannie Zusy for this five-session generative writing workshop. In this safe space, you are encouraged to tell your unique story, be it fiction or memoir, to complete a short piece or find an approach to committing to a longer one. Here we will practice trusting the flow, leading with heart, being open to surprises, and embracing a sense of play. We will also take seriously the commitment to crafting, editing, and completing your piece. Each session will include guided writing exercises, opportunities to share, and suggested take-home assignments. The workshop culminates with a celebration and option to read your original piece publicly at Stanza Books!
Oct 7, 14, November 4, 11, 18, 7-9PM and a public reading December 2, 7PM.
Jeannie Zusy
Jeannie Zusy’s novel THE FREDERICK SISTERS ARE LIVING THE DREAM was published by Simon & Schuster/Atria Books. She’s been published by McSweeney’s, Smith and Kraus Best Plays, The Today Show, Purple Clover, and others. Recently, she developed and performed her full-length solo play TURKISH DELIGHT at The Barrow Group in NYC. Her award-winning screenplay LADIES ROOM LA was produced by Pegasus Films. Her plays and musicals have been produced and workshopped by Hit House Creative, Playwrights Horizons, Hudson Stage, Cape Cod Theater Project, The Flock Theater Company, Croton Children’s Theater, and more, with one a runner-up for The O’Neill Theater Festival. In October, her play IF ONLY will be presented at the Newburgh Fringe Festival, directed by Hamp Fluker of Fable & Sow.
Jeannie Zusy workshop
Join author and playwright Jeannie Zusy for this five-session generative writing workshop. In this safe space, you are encouraged to tell your unique story, be it fiction or memoir, to complete a short piece or find an approach to committing to a longer one. Here we will practice trusting the flow, leading with heart, being open to surprises, and embracing a sense of play. We will also take seriously the commitment to crafting, editing, and completing your piece. Each session will include guided writing exercises, opportunities to share, and suggested take-home assignments. The workshop culminates with a celebration and option to read your original piece publicly at Stanza Books!
Oct 7, 14, November 4, 11, 18, 7-9PM and a public reading December 2, 7PM.
Jeannie Zusy
Jeannie Zusy’s novel THE FREDERICK SISTERS ARE LIVING THE DREAM was published by Simon & Schuster/Atria Books. She’s been published by McSweeney’s, Smith and Kraus Best Plays, The Today Show, Purple Clover, and others. Recently, she developed and performed her full-length solo play TURKISH DELIGHT at The Barrow Group in NYC. Her award-winning screenplay LADIES ROOM LA was produced by Pegasus Films. Her plays and musicals have been produced and workshopped by Hit House Creative, Playwrights Horizons, Hudson Stage, Cape Cod Theater Project, The Flock Theater Company, Croton Children’s Theater, and more, with one a runner-up for The O’Neill Theater Festival. In October, her play IF ONLY will be presented at the Newburgh Fringe Festival, directed by Hamp Fluker of Fable & Sow.
Jeannie Zusy workshop
Join author and playwright Jeannie Zusy for this five-session generative writing workshop. In this safe space, you are encouraged to tell your unique story, be it fiction or memoir, to complete a short piece or find an approach to committing to a longer one. Here we will practice trusting the flow, leading with heart, being open to surprises, and embracing a sense of play. We will also take seriously the commitment to crafting, editing, and completing your piece. Each session will include guided writing exercises, opportunities to share, and suggested take-home assignments. The workshop culminates with a celebration and option to read your original piece publicly at Stanza Books!
Oct 7, 14, November 4, 11, 18, 7-9PM and a public reading December 2, 7PM.
Jeannie Zusy
Jeannie Zusy’s novel THE FREDERICK SISTERS ARE LIVING THE DREAM was published by Simon & Schuster/Atria Books. She’s been published by McSweeney’s, Smith and Kraus Best Plays, The Today Show, Purple Clover, and others. Recently, she developed and performed her full-length solo play TURKISH DELIGHT at The Barrow Group in NYC. Her award-winning screenplay LADIES ROOM LA was produced by Pegasus Films. Her plays and musicals have been produced and workshopped by Hit House Creative, Playwrights Horizons, Hudson Stage, Cape Cod Theater Project, The Flock Theater Company, Croton Children’s Theater, and more, with one a runner-up for The O’Neill Theater Festival. In October, her play IF ONLY will be presented at the Newburgh Fringe Festival, directed by Hamp Fluker of Fable & Sow.
Literature book club
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Stanza Salon - KOBUK THE DESTROYER
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Alex Davies
I’m a journalist and author born and raised in New York, and I tell stories about the people, technologies, and ideas shaping the future. I’ve reported for and led editorial teams at Wired, The Athletic, and Business Insider, covering everything from autonomous vehicles and electric aviation to Formula 1 and the engineers behind the systems we rely on every day.
My debut book Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car (Simon & Schuster, 2021), is an award-winning inside account of the self-driving industry. My forthcoming book, Kobuk the Destroyer: And Other Tales from the Wild, Unseen World of Test Engineering (W.W. Norton, 2026), explores the hidden world of product testing and the people pushing machines, medicines, and models to their limits to keep the world safe.
I now work at Amazon, where I lead feature storytelling through deeply reported, narrative features about the people, inventions, and ideas shaping the company’s future.
I graduated cum laude from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where I studied history and French. After years in newsrooms across the country, I now live in New York’s Hudson Valley with my husband, daughter, and dog.
Davey Alba
I’m a technology reporter for Bloomberg, based in New York City. I cover Big Tech and its power in all its forms.
Most recently, I was a reporter for The New York Times, where I covered online disinformation and its global harms. Before that, I was a senior reporter at BuzzFeed News, where I wrote about artificial intelligence and tech’s invasive effects on people and communities. And a few years ago, I worked as a reporter for WIRED in Silicon Valley.
In 2019 I won a Livingston Award for excellence in international reporting for my piece, “How Duterte Used Facebook To Fuel the Philippine Drug War.” I also won a 2019 Mirror Award in the special topic category, Best Story on Journalism in Peril, for the same feature. In 2020, I and several of my Times colleagues won an honorable mention at the SABEW Awards for our stories exploring the information ecosystem’s growing dark side. In 2022, I and my Bloomberg colleagues won an Online Journalism Award and a Deadline Club Award for our reporting on the post-Roe information crisis, and we were Sigma Award and SABEW finalists in the investigations category.
I’ve spoken publicly about my work at Oxford University during the Blavatnik School of Government’s “Challenges of Government” 2018 Conference, and at the University of Florida, where I was the Science Journalist in Residence for Spring 2019.
I studied science writing at Columbia University, and grew up in Manila, Philippines. Today I live in Brooklyn, New York, with my two cats, Laser Beam and Vivienne.
Fantasy book club
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Literature book club
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COMICS club
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Dark Fiction book club
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Sci-Fi book club
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Fantasy book club
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Literature book club
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COMICS club
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Paul Tremblay Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep
Book launch!
This event is ticketed: $5.
Your $5 comes off the price of Paul’s latest book purchased at the event. If you come and grab the book at Stanza ahead of time, just email us and we’ll reserve you a spot for free!
Seating is limited, so get a ticket NOW!
Friendly reminder, no outside books allowed at Stanza events.
Mystery book club
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Sci-Fi book club
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Fantasy book club
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Literature Book Club
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COMICS club
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Dark Fiction book club
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A Stanza Salon: Loving Arrangements
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“Less rows of chairs, more community gathering”
One of the things I love most in Sci-Fi and Fantasy is the opportunity to completely reimagine how we live. In Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312, children are raised in community creches. In What We Are Seeking - one of my favorite books of the year - Cameron Reed throws together representatives of almost every kind of relationship, and minutely examines the results.
This salon, we’ll host editor Nan Bauer-Maglin. Nan is professor emerita at the City University of New York and the editor or coeditor of nine previous collections, including Gray Love: Stories About Dating and New Relationships After 60. Nan just edited a book of stories about modern love.
This salon will have be like a chill party. We’ll hang and chat over snacks.
Then, Nan will introduce the book, why she assembled it, and what it means to her.
The book is divided into three sections. So, we’ll read passages from each section and provide prompts based on each reading. These are meant as inspiration for conversations. You’ll go back to the party, and hopefully these prompts will inspire you to have some great conversations.
I’d love you to bring your curiosity, and your own experiences and stories. We’ll create a couple prompts based on topics in the book, to help kick off discussion. I want as many of you to share as Nan does.
This is an event for all of us.
-Mark
Storytime with Hobie the Bear!
Hobie the bear is different from the other cubs. He moves differently; he plays differently; he even eats differently. And when his friends want to try new things, he does too, but he wonders: can he do them? There is only one way to find out.
A sweet story about inclusivity, perseverance, and love, Hobie the Bear aims to highlight those who have physical disabilities, celebrating their efforts and those of the parents who support them.
Join author Meghan Arcuri for a special storytime! Meghan will read and lead the kids in activities!
Meghan Arcuri
Meghan Arcuri writes for both children and adults. Her children's books include Milk the Cat (Yap Jr.) and Hobie the Bear (Lawley Publishing). Her work for adults can be found in various anthologies, including Borderlands 7 and Chiral Mad 3.
She is a Bram Stoker Award®-nominated author and served as the Vice President of the Horror Writers Association for over four years, earning the Richard Laymon President’s Award in 2022.
She lives with her family in New York’s Hudson Valley. More about Meghan and her work can be found atmeghanarcuri.com, or on Instagram (@meghanarcurimoran) and Facebook.
Directing Comics Scenes
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Comics aren’t movies…but they kind of are.
Every panel is a choice about what the reader sees, when they see it, and how it feels.
This workshop is about learning how comic artists “direct” a scene using panels, framing, angles, pacing, and visual focus.
We’ve already seen some of you intuiting these concepts in previous workshops. Now, we’ll help you articulate what you already feel as you work.
The artist controls:
What the reader notices
How powerful a moment feels
The tension of the scene
Sci-Fi book club
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Kids Comic Cluib
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This club is for middle-grade comics lovers. Each month, we’ll discuss a current book. Come grab the book, give it a read, then come ready to talk about it. But that’s not all! After the book discussion, we’ll open the floor to all of you! Share what you’re working on. Share a graphic novel you love. Free-draw. Hang and talk comics with new friends!
Fantasy book club
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A Stanza Salon: The Long Game
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“Less rows of chairs, more community gathering”
This Salon is $5. And your $5 entry comes off the price of any visiting authors’ books you purchase at an event.
And of course, if you buy your book at Stanza ahead of time, you’re in! :)
The gripping account of the U.S. men’s national soccer team’s winding saga from obscurity to the global stage as they stand on the brink of a seminal World Cup in 2026
For almost half a century, the U.S. men’s national team existed on the fringes of world soccer—out of sight, out of mind, and, more often than not, out of the World Cup. Between 1950 and 1990, the program toiled in irrelevance, a collection of part-timers playing before empty bleachers.
Then, things began to shift, and today’s U.S. men’s team is loaded with young and pedigreed talent, expected to make its mark at the 2026 World Cup. The story of this team’s rise to prominence is a dramatic journey, with setbacks, buffoonery, misunderstandings, glory, and a wide, eccentric, talented cast of characters. With unprecedented access to former and current national team players, coaches, and administrators, Schaerlaeckens traces the sport’s evolution in the U.S.—from its outsider status to its modern foothold—and the challenges that have shaped the men’s national team along the way. From systemic obstacles in youth development to an American sports culture that expects instant dominance, he explores why success has been elusive, and why that might finally be changing.
With insight, wit, and razor-sharp storytelling, The Long Game is an unforgettable look at the past, present, and uncertain future of American soccer— and the team that could redefine it all.
Leander Schaerlaeckens
Leander Schaerlaeckens is a long-time soccer writer and has worked for ESPN, FOX Sports, and Yahoo Sports, among others, covering the United States men’s national team at three World Cups. He currently writes about soccer for The Guardian, ESPN and The Ringer. He teaches journalism and sports communication at Marist University. Born in the Netherlands and raised in Belgium, he went to college in London and Washington, D.C. He lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with his wife, son, and their mutt/squirrel-murderer, Eleanor Roosevelt
Seth Rosenthal
Seth Rosenthal is a producer at Secret Base, a sports documentary studio. He's written about sports for SB Nation, New York Magazine, and probably other places, but it was a long time ago.
Mystery book club
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Stanza COMICS CLUB
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Dark Fiction book club
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In Comparison
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Greek Myths for Character Building
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When I wrote my first novel, HEKATE’S RETURN, I spent months researching ancient cultures. This research gave me a solid foundation for social structures, magic systems, and gods and monsters. It gave me a well of inspiration I returned to over and over, and helped me create a grounded and believable fantasy world.
This workshop is for middle-grade comics creators and fiction writers both! It’s a fun way to learn some new stuff, and find inspiration in real world research. You can create a super hero, a villain or monster, or any character you want to write about.
We’ll provide research materials, creative materials, and character sheets. You bring your imagination and be ready to have fun!
-Mark
Sci-Fi book club
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