Reading, Signing, and Q & A: W.B. Belcher Presents Lay Down Your Weary Tune

Local author William Belcher's debut novel has received early praise from Publisher's Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal. Set along the Batten Kill, Lay Down Your Weary Tune is about a ghostwriter for a reclusive, mercurial folk music icon. Caffe Lena, Saratoga Springs, and Washington County are all players in the story, which Matthew Quick (New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook) calls a heartening, timeless, and stirring song for the perfectly broken. Beautifully thrownback. Openhanded. True. Belcher, who serves as The Hyde's director of external affairs, will read a few passages and discuss the book's local connections. A signing will follow in the Rotunda Gallery.