Dutchess County residents, meet V. N. Alexander on Friday August 21 from 4:00- 5:00 PM signing copies of her latest novel, The Girlie Playhouse.  Special introduction by Kevin T. McEneaney.

Refreshments will be served.  Join us for this great end of summer event.

Listen to Alexander read the first chapter and answer questions on Woodstock’s own The Strange Recital.

What readers are saying about The Girlie Playhouse:

“A 21st century classic!”   “Beautifully written.”  “I devoured it.”  “I didn’t want it to end.”

V. N. Alexander, Ph.D., is a literary fiction novelist, writing about censored and controversial subjects with audacity, humor, and compassion. Her honors include the Washington Prize for Fiction for Smoking Hopes, Dallas Observer‘s “Best of 2003” for Naked Singularity, and the Literary Fiction Book Review award for Locus Amoenus, which was also a Dayton Literary Peace Prize nominee. Her latest is The Girlie Playhouse published by Heresy Press in 2026. Alexander is also a philosopher of science, author of The Biologist’s Mistress: Rethinking Self-Organization in Art, Literature and Nature. She is a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center alum, former Public Scholar for the New York Council for the Humanities, and was a 2020 Fulbright Scholar

Kevin T. McEneaney is the author of three books on American literature (Tom Wolfe’s America: Heroes, Pranksters & Fools, Russell Banks: In Search of Freedom, Hunter S. Thompson: Fear, Loathing, and the Birth of Gonzo) and two books of poetry, The Enclosed Garden and Longing, translated and published in French and dual-language Japanese. Some of his poems have been translated into Croatian, Ukrainian, and Russian, yet at present he remains banned in Russia. He is the author of ten chapbooks and over fifty encyclopedia articles in Encyclopedia Americana. He was awarded the Farrell Award for The Enclosed Garden (1991). Previous winners: AE (George Russell), W.B. Yeats, and Desmond Egan. His profile is in Marquise: Whose Who in America. He writes weekly reviews of classical music at themillbrookindependent.com