My Bookish Friends 
A Literary Afternoon
Sunday, May 31 at 2 PM

Farm Arts Collective is launching a literary series in 2026 with book readings and signings by authors we admire and love.

Featuring book readings and conversation with Darcey Steinke, THIS IS THE DOOR & Bizzy Coy, PERSONAL SPACE. Moderated by Mimi McGurl.

Meet two authors who will read from their books that embody art, body, intellect, and spirit. An afternoon of readings, conversation, and food.

Local writer Bizzy Coy publishes humor writing and cartoons in The New Yorker. Her short fiction appears in Salamander, Pithead Chapel, Stone Canoe, Grand Journal, Litt Magazine and The Catskiller. Recent honors include a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, MacDowell residency and Fulbright scholarship. She holds an MA in creative writing from Dublin City University and has called Sullivan County home since 2013.

Personal Space by Bizzy Coy

A con artist juggling motherhood. A witch sick of doing all the chores. A first date that ends in disaster. A hilarious collection of 20 bite-sized stories, as first published by The New Yorker, McSweeney's and more. With illustrations by New Yorker cartoonist Lia Strasser and cover artwork and design by artist Catherine Chesters.

Darcey Steinke is a graduate of Goucher College and the University of Virginia, where she received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing. She has been both a Henry Hoyns and a Stegner Fellow, and a Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. She has taught at the New School, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York University, Princeton, and the American University of Paris. She lives with her husband in Brooklyn.

This Is the Door: The Body, Pain, and Faith by Darcey Steinke

This memoir explores the experience of physical and spiritual pain through personal narrative, research, and interviews, examining how suffering connects to faith, the body, and the self, drawing on her own struggles with chronic back pain and the experiences of others. The book blends history, philosophy, and pop culture to investigate pain's transformative power, featuring figures like Frida Kahlo and Kurt Cobain, and exploring locations like Lourdes.

No Reservation Required - Pay What You Can at the Door - Suggested Donation $10.