The Hound Books

06/01/2026

Add us to your weekend plans. Open Thursday-Monday; that’s five days a week.🐶🐶

05/24/2026

You are invited!

We are hosting many events at The Hound Books this summer.

Join us for our first conversation with author Bethany Ball on June 11th and mark your calendars for all the others.

Free tickets (RSVPs) and more information about each event available on our Eventbrite page and blog.

You can also email us at [email protected] for more information or to reserve your space.

Bethany Ball is the author of the acclaimed novels What To Do About the Solomons and The Pessimists, both published by Grove Atlantic.

Born and raised in Detroit, Bethany has lived in New York for over 20 years. She received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence and was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and the Jewish Book Council debut fiction prize. Her work has been featured and reviewed in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Detroit Free Press, Jewish Book Council, Electric Literature, Zyzzyva and has work forthcoming from Sewanee Press, Northwest Review, and Lilith Magazine. She is currently at work a new novel set in the Motor City.

Feeling stressed and anxious? Want to live a happier life?

The Stoics were working on exactly that problem two thousand years ago—and what they actually taught is stranger, sharper, and far more useful than the grin-and-bear-it, feel-nothing version that probably comes to mind.

Join us to welcome former lecturer Sonya Wurster for a lively, interactive evening on Stoicism: why almost everything you think you know about it is wrong, what it really says about living well, and why it speaks so directly to modern life.

Along the way we'll meet the Stoics' great rivals, the Epicureans—the contrast throws into sharp relief what makes the Stoics distinctive. Take a quick quiz to find out which camp you'd have joined, and maybe leave with a few ideas genuinely worth trying.

Check out our event on Thursday, Jun 11, 2026.

Check out our event on Thursday, Jun 25, 2026.

Click here for event details from The Hound Books!

05/18/2026

Consider adding The Hound on your Catskills itinerary Memorial Day weekend. We’ll be here Thursday-Monday with new releases, vintage finds and bestseller obsessions.

05/16/2026

Maisie is security all weekend. We’re ready for all types of babysitting duty.

05/16/2026

This is a list if there ever was a list of powerful writers we like to recommend over and over again. Something for everyone at the store this weekend.

Come say hi to .thehound 🐶🐶

05/15/2026

Local artists David Sandlin, Evie McKenna, Elizabeth Ennis, Joni Wehrli, and Carolyn Sheehan are part of ’s Open Studio tour this weekend!

If you stop by, please say hi from us and don’t be offended if Stella doesn’t say hi back! 🐶🐶
If you’re out and . If you’re out and about in the greater Hudson Valley, there are more than 200 other artists showing their work this weekend.

05/05/2026

This Thursday: Join us at 6 pm for Peter Pan in the Catskills and other Historical Essays of the Catskill Mountains

You won't want to miss this one!

Join us for an engaging talk with Bill Birns, the editor of Peter Pan in the Catskills and other Historical Essays, this Thursday, May 7, 2026 at 6:00 PM.
The event takes place at the Roscoe Branch of the Livingston Manor-Roscoe Library at 85 Highland Avenue, Roscoe, NY so we have plenty of space!

Please RSVP through our Eventbrite event page so we can plan accordingly. As always, feel free to bring your own copy for the booksigning and reach out to us at [email protected] if you have any questions.

Check out our event on Thursday, May 7, 2026.

Click here for event details from The Hound Books!

05/05/2026

Poetry Night was something special. We filled the shop with rare and vintage editions — Kunitz, Lowell, Ginsberg, LeRoi Jones, Ondaatje, Marge Piercy, Ferlinghetti, Muriel Spark, and more — and spent the evening with people who actually care about these poets.

A few highlights from the table:

The Testing-Tree by Stanley Kunitz, Atlantic–Little, Brown, first paperback edition — one of the most quietly devastating poetry collections of the American 20th century. Kunitz writing about memory, loss, and survival with that particular ferocity he never lost, even at 95.

Robert Lowell’s Life Studies — the book that broke open confessional poetry and changed American verse permanently. LeRoi Jones’ The Dead Lecturer — published in 1964, the year before he became Amiri Baraka, raw and electric. Galway Kinnell’s The Book of Nightmares — a single long poem in ten sections, one of the great sustained acts of American imagination. Michael Ondaatje’s Handwriting — yes, that Ondaatje, long before most people knew him as a poet first.
Some are already listed on the website. More coming soon. DM us for pricing and a private sale if you can’t wait.

05/04/2026

We hosted a magical poetry reading at The Hound last Thursday, on the last day of National Poetry Month. Thank you to readers .simonmathis and for sharing your poems with us. Thank you also to those who joined us for this intimate affair, hopefully the first of many poetry nights . .thehound said she really liked it and would like to make it a regular thing.