East End Ink

Today we present WSHU Radio commentator David Bouchier with a talk on the serious side of humor writing recorded at Canios Books Sag Harbor in December 2018.   Listen here: David Bouchier's published work includes: An Unexpected Life: A Memoir and Lucky Man: A Life in Essays   More information is available at davidbouchier.com More from David Bouchier on East End Ink here  David Bouchier’s commentaries on contemporary life are heard on WSHU Public Radio  

Chandler Saint talks about the Venture Smith Project and his book Making Freedom: The Extraordinary Life of Venture Smith* at Canios Books Sag Harbor - introduced by Canios' Maryann Calindrille Listen here:  Recorded at Canios Books, Sag Harbor February 17, 2019 * Making Freedom: The Extraordinary Life of Venture Smith   by Chandler B. Saint and George A. Krimsky with James O. Horton published by Garnet Books February, 2009  

We present portions of a community reading of the work Afro-American writers conducted at the John Jermaine Library in Sag Harbor in February 2019. It was jointly sponsored by the Library and Canios Cultural Café. The readers are:   Rev. Kimberly Johnson, Nancy Myers, Bill Chaleff , Rev. Eda Lorello, Ursala Hegi, Bobbie Cohen, Daria Wishnia, and Gordon Gagliano. They read the work of: Washan Shire (Somali poet), Nicky Grimes, Venture Smith, Everett Hoagland, Audre Lorde,  Daria Wishnia, Bryan Stevenson, and Mohamed Ali. LISTEN HERE: Also:  Chandler Saint talks about the Venture Smith Project and his book about the colonial era freed slave Making Freedom: The Extraordinary Life of Venture Smith at Canios Books Sag Harbor  Introduced by Canios' Maryann Calendrille. listen here