THREE NEW & FORTHCOMING BOOKS OF LOCAL INTEREST:
- The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving, Ambassador, Biographer, New York Politico, and Acclaimed American Storyteller, by Andrew Burstein, about the first American to make his living as a writer, who gave us the legend of Sleepy Hollow, and his name to Irvington. Good reading for those who've visited Irving's Hudson River home, Sunnyside.
- Nine Ways to Cross: Midstream Reflections on Swimming and Getting There from Here by Akiko Busch, a meditative memoir about nine swims across eight of America's great rivers — including the Hudson (twice). To be published in July.
- The House the Rockefellers Built: A Tale of Money, Taste and Power n Twentieth-Century America by Robert Dalzell and Lee Baldwin Dalzell, a social history of Kykuit, the former Rockefeller family estate that's now open to visitors. To be published in August.