Sci-Fi book club
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Dark Fiction book club
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Calladita No More: My Latina Journey and the Lessons that Shaped Me - Hady Mendez
Calladita No More: My Latina Journey and the Lessons that Shaped Me
Calladita No More is a powerful collection of stories about the lived experiences of a Latina who dared to dream big—only to find that the world wasn’t built for her ambitions. Through the lens of familiar Latinx cultural sayings, or refranes, Hady Méndez shares the lessons she learned navigating identity, leadership, and belonging in a world fueled by bias, discrimination, racism, and sexism.
Each chapter holds a different refrán and lesson, blending personal storytelling with cultural reflection to spotlight hard-earned insights on empowerment, resilience, and reclaiming one’s voice. This is not a step-by-step guide. It is a deeply personal narrative—an offering of wisdom and encouragement to Latinas and Women of Color who are carving their own paths through systems that were never designed with them in mind.
Hady’s journey is a testament to what is possible when one learns to champion themselves, celebrate their successes, foster community, and prioritize self-care. Written with joy, clarity, and mucho orgullo, the book invites readers to reflect on the lessons they’ve learned and the insights they’ve gained.
This book is a call to remember who you are, where you come from, and the power you already hold. You are not alone on this journey. The wisdom and strength you desire are already within.
Hady Mendez
Hady Mendez is a NY-based bestselling author, Latina speaker, and ERG coach. She currently serves as the Director of Programs for Lean In Latinas. She is also the founder and CEO of Boldly Speaking LLC, a company that is transforming the professional experiences of underestimated professionals by providing them with the skills to rise andthrive in the corporate world or in whatever path they choose.
With a diverse career spanning over twenty-five years, Hady has served as head of equality for a major tech firm, held multiple customer-facing roles in high tech and financial services, served as a leader and advisor across various ERGs, dedicated two years to working with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women internationally, and served as Community School Director at an elementary school in the South Bronx.
Hady’s essays have been featured in Business Insider and #WeAllGrow Latina and her thought leadership has been leveraged by organizations such as Lean In Latinas, Power To Fly, Prospanica, and many others.
Hady is a Latinas in Tech Luminarias 2022 honoree, a Women of ALPFA 2023 Latinas to Watch, a 2024 LinkedIn Top Coaching & Mentoring Voice, and the recipient of HACE’s 2025 Mujer Maravilla Award.
in conversation with
Vanessa Schwippert
Founder of the Latina Writing Comunidad: Newsletter, virtual workshops, in-person events, and podcast episodes centering Latinas who are breaking barriers, embracing passions, and sharing their stories.
Why I Wrote Calladita No More
By Hady Méndez
There comes a time in life when you can’t help but reflect on the impact you’ve made and assess whether the outcomes align with your expectations.
That time came for me shortly after getting laid off in 2023. After losing my dream job as head of equality at a major tech firm, I had some thinking to do. Life was offering me an opportunity to keep going down the path I was on or hit the reset button.
I decided to hit reset.
First, I launched my business, Boldly Speaking, LLC. It is through this business that I help organizations create inclusive work environments where everyone can thrive. I also motivate and inspire underestimated professionals to own their power and stop waiting for permission to do so.
My mission eventually led me to create two LinkedIn Live series. One for Latinas. The other for Employee Resource Group leaders and professionals. The Latinas: Front & Center series is a passion project that has led to so much personal learning and growth. I’ve met incredible women who embody the spirit of “lifting as you rise” by the way they show up for each other and use their platforms to amplify other voices. What started as a way to shine a light on Latinas has become a source of inspiration and hope for the next generation.
Last year, I finally decided it was time to share my story in an effort to get other women to share theirs. And that’s how “Calladita No More” was born. It’s a compilation of the stories, lessons and people that shaped me. And an invitation for other mujeres to reflect on and honor the ones that shaped them.
We share our stories because they matter. Because representation matters. Because being brave and bold matters. Because no one is coming to save us, and so we must show up for ourselves.
This book is a love letter to Latinas, Women of Color, and the people that love us.
I trust that means you.
Spirit of Beacon Day
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Deborah Kapchan - Taking Leave
Taking Leave
At a time when divisiveness, xenophobia, and nationalism are surging, Duke University Press
releases Deborah Kapchan’s new memoir, Taking Leave. The story begins in Jerusalem just
weeks before the October 7th attacks as the author embarks on a pilgrimage to understand the
three faiths that have anchored her life—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Weaving in
meaningful experiences from New York, Paris, Casablanca, Abu Dhabi and beyond, Kapchan
explores lineages, identities, and the spaces in between.
Invoking the power of personal narrative to communicate across boundaries, Taking Leave
reveals Kapchan’s path to reconcile what history has deemed irreconcilable, sharing practical
ways to forgo tribalism and “either-or” paradigms to experience empathy and peaceful
coexistence.
A must-read for anyone interested in transcending borders, as well as scholars, students, and
professionals in the humanities, peacebuilding, and conflict resolution.
~ Praise for Taking Leave ~
“In this moving memoir Deborah Kapchan artfully unveils the connections among Judaism, Christianity,
and Islam. Stretching beyond Kapchan’s journey of personal and intellectual self-discovery, this
wonderful literary achievement brings us much-needed measures of inspired hope to our troubled times.”
~ Paul Stoller, author of Wisdom from the Edge: Writing Ethnography in Turbulent Times
“This book is a joy to read, speaking deeply and powerfully to a shared and fundamental human
experience by means of Deborah Kapchan’s unique vision and voice. I adore this touching and
remarkable book.” ~ Martin Shuster, author of How to Measure a World? A Philosophy of Judaism
Deborah Kapchan
DEBORAH KAPCHAN is an American writer, translator and ethnographer, specializing in
North Africa and its diaspora in Europe, professor emerita of performance studies at New York
University and former director of The Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies at the
University of Texas, Austin. Kapchan’s book, Poetic Justice: An Anthology of Contemporary
Moroccan Poetry was shortlisted for the American Literary Translators Association’s prize for
poetry in 2021, and her forthcoming memoir, Taking Leave, is the latest entry in
Duke’s Practices series.
in conversation with
Jackie Corley
In past lives, Jackie Corley was a reporter, a drone operator, and the publisher of Word Riot. In the current one, she's VP of Content for a radio company. Corley received an MFA from the Bennington College. Her fiction has appeared in BULL, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Redivider and Fourteen Hills, among others. She lives in the Hudson Valley but will always be a Jersey girl at heart.
Echoes of Rylomi launch party
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Lit book club
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Fantasy Book Club
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FEEL GOOD BOOK CLUB
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Rachen Harrison - PLAY NICE 2
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PLAY NICE
A woman must confront the demons of her past when she attempts to fix up her childhood home in this devilishly clever take on the haunted house novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Black Sheep and So Thirsty.
Clio Louise Barnes leads a picture-perfect life as a stylist and influencer, but beneath the glossy veneer she harbors a not-so glamorous secret: she grew up in a haunted house. Well, not haunted. Possessed. After Clio’s parents' messy divorce, her mother, Alex, moved Clio and her sisters into a house occupied by a demon. Or so Alex claimed. That’s not what Clio’s sisters remember or what the courts determined when they stripped her of custody after she went off the deep end. But Alex was insistent; she even wrote a book about her experience in the house.
After Alex’s sudden death, the supposedly possessed house passes to Clio and her sisters. Where her sisters see childhood trauma, Clio sees an opportunity for house flipping content. Only, as the home makeover process begins, Clio discovers there might be some truth to her mother’s claims. As memories resurface and Clio finally reads her mother’s book, a sinister presence in the house manifests, revealing ugly truths that threaten to shake Clio’s beautiful life to its very foundation.
Rachel Harrison
Rachel Harrison is the USA Today Bestselling author of SO THIRSTY, BLACK SHEEP, SUCH SHARP TEETH, CACKLE, and THE RETURN, which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. Her short fiction has appeared in Guernica, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, as an Audible Original, and in her debut story collection BAD DOLLS.
Dennis Mahoney
Dennis Mahoney is the author of Fellow Mortals, a Booklist Top Ten Debut; Bell Weather, an Indie Next pick; Ghostlove; and My Heart Is Full of Blood. He lives in Troy, NY, with his wife, son, and dog.
Rachen Harrison - PLAY NICE
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PLAY NICE
A woman must confront the demons of her past when she attempts to fix up her childhood home in this devilishly clever take on the haunted house novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Black Sheep and So Thirsty.
Clio Louise Barnes leads a picture-perfect life as a stylist and influencer, but beneath the glossy veneer she harbors a not-so glamorous secret: she grew up in a haunted house. Well, not haunted. Possessed. After Clio’s parents' messy divorce, her mother, Alex, moved Clio and her sisters into a house occupied by a demon. Or so Alex claimed. That’s not what Clio’s sisters remember or what the courts determined when they stripped her of custody after she went off the deep end. But Alex was insistent; she even wrote a book about her experience in the house.
After Alex’s sudden death, the supposedly possessed house passes to Clio and her sisters. Where her sisters see childhood trauma, Clio sees an opportunity for house flipping content. Only, as the home makeover process begins, Clio discovers there might be some truth to her mother’s claims. As memories resurface and Clio finally reads her mother’s book, a sinister presence in the house manifests, revealing ugly truths that threaten to shake Clio’s beautiful life to its very foundation.
Rachel Harrison
Rachel Harrison is the USA Today Bestselling author of SO THIRSTY, BLACK SHEEP, SUCH SHARP TEETH, CACKLE, and THE RETURN, which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. Her short fiction has appeared in Guernica, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, as an Audible Original, and in her debut story collection BAD DOLLS.
Dennis Mahoney
Dennis Mahoney is the author of Fellow Mortals, a Booklist Top Ten Debut; Bell Weather, an Indie Next pick; Ghostlove; and My Heart Is Full of Blood. He lives in Troy, NY, with his wife, son, and dog.
SOLD OUT - Lost and Found Beacon’s Black Community 1850-1930
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LOST and FOUND Beacon’s Black Community 1850-1930
The Current's Black history series, "Always Present, Never Seen," by Chip Rowe (2022), was excellent; but a hole in their historical narrative needed filling. The result was a researched account of we who were "always present," focusing on Beacon's Black community from 1850 to 1930. This accounting is bolstered by careful study of census records and supported by boyhood memories and observations. Boyhood memories and observations of Beacon’s West End and the village (company town) of Brockway that bookend the historical narrative of that earlier Black community.
Daniel W. Pruitt
Born in South Carolina, Daniel W. Pruitt spent much of his childhood growing up and learning in the greater Beacon, New York area. He attended schools in Brockway, Beacon, and Glenham before graduating from Beacon High School. Following graduation from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Dan undertook additional study to complete a second degree at The New School for Social Research in New York City. He is retired from professional undertakings with IBM and currently resides in Dunedin, Florida.
Leonard Sparks
Leonard Sparks has been reporting for The Current since 2020. The Peekskill resident holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Morgan State University and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland and previously covered Sullivan County and Newburgh for The Times Herald-Record in Middletown.
Fantasy book club
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Caroline Hagood GOBLIN MODE
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Mystery book club
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Dark Fiction book club
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Italianish - Danny Freeman
We’ll have a nosh from the book! We’ll sip some wine. We’ll chat and celebrate Danny, his new book, and our collective love of great food!
AND, Danny’s book comes out Tuesday, Aug 26, but Stanza will have them at this event EARLY!!! You, yes you, can get this book before everyone else!
Feel Good book club
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The Aviator and the Showman
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Laurie Gwen Shapiro
Laurie Gwen Shapiro is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist whose writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York, The Daily Beast, Lapham’s Quarterly, Slate, Aeon, The Forward, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her documentary film awards include an Independent Spirit Award for directing IFC’s Keep the River on Your Right, and an Emmy nomination for HBO’s Finishing Heaven. Shapiro is the 2021 winner of Best NYC Essay or Article from the GANYC Apple Awards, the 2021 winner of the Damn History Award for “The Improbable Journey of Dorothy Parker’s Ashes” for The New Yorker and gold medallion winner in the People Profiles category for the Silurian Press Club’s 77th annual Excellence in Journalism Awards. The Stowaway (Simon & Schuster) was her best selling first full-length work of nonfiction, and was an Indie next selection. Her next nonfiction book will be The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam and the Marriage that Made an American Icon, for Viking Books. She is an adjunct professor of journalism at The NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute in the graduate program.
Adam McKible
Adam McKible is Associate Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is the author of Circulating Jim Crow (2024) and The Space and Place of Modernism: The Russian Revolution, Little Magazines, and New York (2002). He edited and introduced Edward Christopher Williams’s When Washington Was in Vogue (2004), a previously lost novel of the Harlem Renaissance, and he co-edited the collection, Little Magazines and Modernism: New Approaches (2005).
STANZA Children's Book Festival
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SCI-FI book club
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Charlie Rauh and David Rothenberg
David and Charlie have played together for many years, and often combine reading and music in their performances.
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simply, patiently, quietly
(String Letter Publishing). Simply, Patiently, Quietly combines a songbook of original notated lullabies for solo guitar and choir with insightful prose on the exploration of intentional creativity and beautiful pen and ink artwork by Christina Rauh Fishburne. With a focus on appreciating the nuanced and the small over the fleeting and the distracting, this brief multidisciplinary offering is meant to engage readers wherever they may be. "An inspired and multi-faceted read on how to channel and access creativity of all sorts, and a great reminder to quiet the daily noise and get back to what matters."--Mary Halvorson, MacArthur Fellow and Guitarist/Composer
Charlie Rauh
Composer/author Charlie Rauh has been artist in residence for organizations including the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and Louisiana State University’s School of Veterinary Medicine. He is the author of “Simply, Patiently, Quietly” from String Letter Publishing - a combination of essays on creative approach, illustrations by Christina Rauh Fishburne, and a songbook of original compositions for solo guitar and choir. Rauh’s work has been featured in Ploughshares, Acoustic Guitar Magazine, and The Advocate. He has given artist talks for music and literature departments at institutions including Louisiana State University, University of Tennessee, and New Jersey institute of Technology.
David Rothenberg
Musician and philosopher David Rothenberg wrote Why Birds Sing, Bug Music, Survival of the Beautiful and many other books, published in at least eleven languages. He has more than forty recordings out, including One Dark Night I Left My Silent House which came out on ECM, and more recently Just Leave It All Behind and Lost Steps. He has performed or recorded with Pauline Oliveros, Peter Gabriel, Ray Phiri, Suzanne Vega, Scanner, Elliott Sharp, Umru, Iva Bittová, and the Karnataka College of Percussion. In 2024 he won a Grammy Award as part of For the Birds, in the category of Best Boxed Set. Whale Music and Secret Sounds of Ponds are his latest books. Nightingales In Berlin and Eastern Anthems are his latest films. Rothenberg is Distinguished Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Ecstasy author event
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ECSTASY
A deliciously dark horror reimagining of a Greek tragedy, by Ivy Pochoda, winner of the LA Times Book Prize.
Lena wants her life back. Her wealthy, controlling, humorless husband has just died, and now she contends with her controlling, humorless son, Drew. Lena lands in Naxos with her best friend in tow for the unveiling of her son's, pet project--the luxurious Agape Villas.
Years of marriage amongst the wealthy elite has whittled Lena's spirit into rope and sinew, smothered by tasteful cocktail dresses and unending small talk. On Naxos she yearns to rediscover her true nature, remember the exuberant dancer and party girl she once was, but Drew tightens his grip, keeping her cloistered inside the hotel, demanding that she fall in line.
Lena is intrigued by a group of women living in tents on the beach in front of the Agape. She can feel their drums at night, hear their seductive leader calling her to dance. Soon she'll find that an ancient God stirs on the beach, awakening dark desires of women across the island. The only questions left will be whether Lena will join them, and what it will cost her.
Ecstasy is a riveting, darkly poetic, one-sitting read about empowerment, desire, and what happens when women reject the roles set out for them.
Ivy Pochoda
Ivy Pochoda is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Wonder Valley, Visitation Street, These Women, and Sing Her Down which won the LA Times Book Prize. She won the 2018 Strand Critics Award for Best Novel and the Prix Page America in France, and has been a finalist for the the Edgar Award, among other awards. For many years, Ivy has led a creative writing workshop in Skid Row Los Angeles where she helped found Skid Row Zine. She is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California Riverside-Palm Desert low-residency MFA program. She lives in Los Angeles.
in conversation with
Elizabeth Crane
Elizabeth Crane is the author of the memoir This Story Will Change (Counterpoint, 2022) and six works of fiction, including the story collection Turf (Soft Skull, 2017) and the novel The History of Great Things (Harper Perennial, 2016). Her stories have been translated into several languages and appear in numerous publications, including Guernica, Catapult, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, Fairy Tale Review, Huffington Post, Chicago Reader, The Believer, and air/light, and the anthologies Love in the Time of Time’s Up (Tortoise, 2022), The Best of the Web (Dzanc, 2008 and 2010), and The Best Underground Fiction (Stolen Time, 2006). Her work is performed regularly as part of NPR’s Selected Shorts and has been adapted for film and stage, most notably with Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre. She teaches in the low-residency MFA program at UC Riverside–Palm Desert and is a recipient of the Chicago Public Library’s 21st Century Award.
Dark Fiction book club
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Feel Good book club
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Hazel was a Good Girl
Join Dr. Jerry C. Drake and Leza Cantoral for an in depth discussion about CLASH’S new book HAZEL WAS A GOOD GIRL. Then, stay and commune with Hazel herself!
After the reading and discussion with Dr. Jerry C. Drake, Francesca DeCapita will channel the spirit of Hazel Drew — a young woman whose mysterious murder in 1908 still echoes through the woods of Sand Lake, NY. As a psychic medium with over 10 years of practice, she will open herself to receive messages, impressions, and energy from Hazel’s spirit, with the goal of unearthing spiritual messages that may still linger in the veil between life and death.
Hazel’s energy deserves to be witnessed, not just as a mystery—but as a woman, a soul, and a story still unfolding.
Purchase of the book is your invitation to this special session.
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HAZEL WAS A GOOD GIRL
The tragic and mysterious death of Hazel Drew that inspired the cult hit TV show Twin Peaks, is finally solved by Dr. Jerry C. Drake.
The legend of Hazel Drew spread through stories of her ghost haunting the woods where her body was found. It was a hot summer day in July 1908 when the body of a young woman was found floating in a mill pond in Upstate New York. Hazel Irene Drew was murdered. Her death captured headlines across the nation and around the world, but after a whirlwind investigation lasting less than thirty days, the District Attorney abruptly closed the case.
Set against the backdrop of the Gilded Age, with clippings and photographs from local Troy and Albany newspapers from 1908, Dr. Jerry C. Drake parses out the facts from the legend through back alleys and dark mountain forests, in pursuit of Hazel Drew's killer, in this engaging, historical investigation of a tragic American story.
With firsthand accounts from locals dreaming of clues, tabloid journalists, railroad Robber Barons and political bosses, psychic investigators, and even a mysterious hypnotist, the tabloid sensation is debunked and the real woman is finally revealed. This is the definitive story of Hazel Drew, whose ghost can finally rest, knowing that her killer has been exposed.
Dr. Jerry C. Drake
Dr. Jerry C. Drake is a career civil servant, former professor of history, all-around amateur detective, with a wide-ranging educational background to include degrees in anthropology and United States history. This is his first foray into true crime. His short stories have appeared in CLASH Books anthologies; Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana Del Rey & Sylvia Plath and Walk Hand in Hand into Extinction: Stories Inspired by True Detective.
Leza Cantoral
Leza Cantoral is publisher/publicist at local Troy based press CLASH Books and author of Cartoons in the Suicide Forest and Trash Panda.
Francesca DeCapita
Francesca is a psychic medium, tarot reader, and spiritual life coach based in New York City. She helps people find clarity in love, career, and life purpose through grounded spiritual insight and energy work. Known for her no-fluff, intuitive approach, Francesca empowers clients to reconnect with their truth, shift their energy, and confidently move forward.