BIBLIOPHANTICS June 15 through 21

BIBLIOPHANTICS June 15-21, 2026

Featuring One Grand Books’ Narrowsburg Deep Water Literary Festival / Asti Hustvedt and Others to be announced 

Mildred’s Lane has several libraries. We will explore and rearrange where needed. The most recent library is in The newly installed Department of Inter-stitch-iaries on site, housing the Living Archive of Mildred’s Lane. The session blurs into The Narrowsburg Deep Water Literary Festival by One Grand Books, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance (DVAA), and other organizations. If you enjoy reading and writing, meet other book lovers during this session of festivities. You will have free and open access to all Deep Water Literary Festival programming and events during your stay. Watch for postings from us and One Grand Books for a list of the events and creative practitioners performing during the week, some of which will be hosted at MLINC-NY and ML-PA. ‘Provoked by the death of her brother-in-law, the novelist Paul Auster, author Asti Hustvedt (Medical Muses: Hysteria in 19thCentury Paris) explores what it means to “get lost” in a book. She frames reading as a kind of mediumship—a state in which the reader becomes a site of possession, a host for the author’s consciousness. Drawing on the figures of the medium and the hysteric, Hustvedt’s talk argues that the act of reading is not merely a cognitive process for decoding inert signs on the page, but a kind of séance: a weird and complex collaboration between the living and the dead.’