Cayuga Lake Books

05/12/2023

Video of Joanna Green, Salamanders in Winter book launch, 12.3.23, Buffalo Street Books, Ithaca, NY.

Buffalo Street Books in Ithaca recently hosted the launch of my debut collection of poems, “Salamanders in Winter.” In this recording you'll hear an introduc...

18/10/2023

Cayuga Lake Books proudly announces the publication of Antonio Di Renzo's brilliant, "Pasquinades: Essays from Rome's Famous Talking Statue." Join us at the book launch, reading, and signing, 3:00 PM Saturday, October 28 in the BorgWarner Community Meeting Room at the Tompkins County Public Library (101 East Green Street, Ithaca, NY 14850).

02/10/2023

Barbara Regenspan, author of THE CHESSMASTER’S DAUGHTER, will read at Autumn Leaves bookstore, Ithaca, Tuesday October 3, 5 pm.

04/04/2023

Just published! Buy it online at
https://www.amazon.com/Desert-Wind-My-Life-Qatar/dp/1681114941

Ask for it at your local bookstore!

Desert Wind: My Life in Qatar

24/03/2023

Coming in April. Meanwhile, read the interview with me:

Desert Wind: My Life in Qatar—Peter Fortunato’s memoir—is due to be published by Cayuga Lake Books in spring 2023. In the following interview with intern Gretchen Buchmann, he responds to some que…

17/02/2023

You're invited: 12 noon, 2.25.23 Tompkins Library for the book launch and celebration of alsion Lurie's posthumously published YA novel, THE CAT AGENThttps://www.tcpl.org/event/cat-agent-alison-lurie-book-event.

28/10/2022

18/10/2022

Cayuga Lake Books is excited to announce our newest project, "The Cat Agent." This children’s story was the last completed manuscript by award-winning author, Alison Lurie.

Tom, a “twice-born” tabby cat, is recruited to be a cat-agent by Dr. Nancy, a veterinarian who notices Tom’s extraordinary observational skills. With the help of Lennie and Sophia, two other cat-agents, Tom goes on special missions, helping other animals and catching humans who are up to no good.

"The Cat Agent" is the perfect book for both children and adults who love a little mystery and all kinds of animals—especially cats. Follow us for updates on the release of "The Cat Agent"!

09/10/2022

"But Ithaca was romance and walking in a landscape I’d never imagined living in” - Gail Holst-Warhaft in her essay "Ithaca."

Read other pieces reminiscent of Ithaca in "From the Finger Lakes: A Memoir Anthology."

Get the book! FROM THE FINGER LAKES: A MEMOIR ANTHOLOGY is available in Ithaca at Odyssey Bookstore and at Buffalo Street Books. Or you can order it from Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Finger-Lakes-Memoir-Anthology/dp/1681114402/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1665084549&sr=1-1

15/07/2022

Jack Hopper will share his poetry with us on July 16th!

Join us at the Tompkins County Public Library on Saturday at 3:00 to hear prose and poems by six contributors to "From the Finger Lakes: A Memoir Anthology! Light refreshments provided.

Jack Hopper is one of the founding editors of Cayuga Lake Books. He has four published poetry collections, most recently Rafting the Medusa: Poems 2013-2018. He served as poet laureate for Tompkins County for two terms and continues to edit scholarly texts as well as fiction.

14/07/2022

Stephen Paling will read his poetry contributions to the Memoir Anthology this Saturday!

Join Cayuga Lake Books in the Borg Warner Room at the Tompkins County Public Library at 3:00 on Saturday July 16th! Light refreshments provided.

Stephen Paling is the author of Rooms in Old Houses from Cayuga Lake Books, which is available through local bookstores and Amazon. His poems have appeared widely in literary magazines, including Piedmont Literary Review and Plains Poetry Journal. After moving and traveling widely across the United States, he settled in Ithaca in 2014.

13/07/2022

Anthony Di Renzo will read "Anna and Tenn" as part of our Saturday reading!
Join us at the Tompkins County Public Library on July 16th at 3:00 to hear prose and poems by six contributors to "From the Finger Lakes: A Memoir Anthology! Light refreshments provided.

Anthony Di Renzo, a fugitive from advertising, teaches writing at Ithaca College. His books include "Bitter Greens: Essays of Food, Politics, and History form the Imperial Kitchen" and "Tinacria: A Tale of Bourbon Sicily" and "Dead Reckoning: Transatlantic Passages on Europe and America," which was co-authored with Andrei Guruianu. He lives in Ithaca, An Old World man in a New Age town.

12/07/2022

Carolyn Clark will share her poems that appear in the Memoir Anthology at our reading Saturday July 16th!

Join us at the Tompkins County Public Library next Saturday at 3:00 to hear prose and poems by six contributors to "From the Finger Lakes: A Memoir Anthology! Light refreshments provided.

Carolyn Clark, PhD, Pushcart Nominee 2020 is a writing coach steeped in Classics (Cornell, Brown, JHU).Now back in FLX, she enjoys writing woodlands lyric poetry and finding mythology everywhere. Her poems live both collectively (Cayuga Lake Books 2017, Kelsay Books 2019, Finishing Line Press 2013, 2018) and in various poetry journals. https://www.writer.org/connect/consultants/ or pw.org/directory/writers/carolyn_clark

11/07/2022

Ingrid Arnesen will share her poetry with us on July 16th!

Join us at the Tompkins County Public Library next Saturday at 3:00 to hear prose and poems by six contributors to "From the Finger Lakes: A Memoir Anthology! Light refreshments provided.

Ingrid Arnesen first came to Ithaca in 1972 as a Cornell undergraduate, where she studied under A.R. Ammons. Apart from later teaching English to International students at Cornell for nearly 30 years, she has worked in the Middle East, Scandinavia, and the Far East, and continues to return to the miraculous terrain of Ithaca and its surroundings. Her poems have been published in the Times Monitor, the Cornell Daily Sun and The Bookpress.

10/07/2022

Mara Alper will read "The Cave" from the Memoir Anthology.

Join us at the Tompkins County Public Library, July 16th, 3:00 pm, to hear Mara and 5 other contributors!

Mara Alper worked as a professional freelance writer in NYC for 15 years in journalism, advertising, speech writing and screenwriting for major corporations and educational publishers. Her creative non-fiction is published in Science to Sage, Christian Science Monitor, Grateful Living, Deep Kyoto, Inside Mexico, Writers Radio/Canada, Painted Parrot and most recently in Cayuga Lake Books. Mara's artists fellowships include creative writing residencies at the MacDowell Colony (2x), Yaddo, Millay Colony and a Poets & Writers Workshop grant. Her creative non-fiction and poetry writing continue in two writing groups, the Thursday Writers in Ithaca, and Writing From the Body in Vancouver, BC via Zoom.

09/07/2022

Join us for a reading from the Memoir Anthology! 
Saturday July 16, 3:00 – 4:30 at the Tompkins County Public Library
Featured
readers: Mara Alper, Ingrid Arnesen, Carolyn Clark, Anthony DiRenzo, Laura Glenn, and Stephen Paling.
Details here: 
https://www.tcpl.org/event/memoir-reading

07/07/2022

Join us for a reading from the Memoir Anthology! 
Saturday July 16, 3:00 – 4:30 at the Tompkins County Public Library
Feature readers: Mara Alper, Ingrid Arnesen, Carolyn Clark, Anthony DiRenzo, Laura Glenn, and Stephen Paling.
Details here: 
https://www.tcpl.org/event/memoir-reading