Northshire Bookstore Upcoming Events: Russell Banks, William Kennedy, Arianna Huffington

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Russell Banks, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, will discuss his new novel, “Foregone,” in a Northshire Live event, 7 p.m. on Friday, March 5. 

Book blurb: “Foregone” is famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Fife, now in his late seventies, is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his mythologized life.

Tickets are required and the event will be presented Live on Zoom. For more information, go to: northshire.com. 

Northshire Bookstore Saratoga is open 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. daily, and is located on Broadway in Saratoga Springs. 

Upcoming literary events include: Richard Alther in conversation with William Kennedy on Thursday, March 11, and a virtual event featuring Arianna Huffington on April 1.