Book Launch: Tom Shachtman, A JERICHO’S COBBLE MISCELLANY

Join author Tom Shachtman in conversation for the launch of his new book, A JERICHO’S COBBLE MISCELLANY (April 2026, Madville Publishing), a genre-bending novel depicting a New England town through over 100 voices. Told via diaries, letters, and objects, it explores community, history, and tension.

This “miscellany” is a portrait of a fictional New England small town over the past several hundred years, celebratory and insightful, its stories recounted by more than a hundred voices, those of the living—white, Black, Native American, male, female, gay—and of the dead, and also of inanimate objects—a neglected upright piano, a bench along a nature trail—in poems, dialogues, roadside markers, tombstones, business brochures, newspaper articles, a playlet, diary entries, oral history transcripts, a stitched sampler, and even a nursery rhyme. Some tales are of quiet happiness, others of roiling passions, moral quandaries, tragedy and comedy; above all they speak to the centrality of community and continuity in our lives.