Lamar Herrin Book Launch

Author Lamar Herrin will read from his new novel, Pure Products, at 2:00pm on Saturday, October 4, 2025 in the BorgWarner meeting room at the Tompkins County Public Library (TCPL) to benefit the Library through the TCPL Foundation.

Published by Cayuga Lake Books, Pure Products is set in a West Virginia town on a river so polluted by the local chemical factory that a group of workers conspire to blow up it up.  Herrin’s many works of fiction include Fractures, an ecology-themed novel set in upstate New York, The Lies Boys Tell, a novel excerpted in The New Yorker, and Romancing Spain, a memoir of courting his wife fifty years ago.  He has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Paris Review Prize for his first novel, The Rio Loja Ringmaster.  For many years, the author headed the Creative Writing Program 

at Cornell University where he and his family have lived since 1970.

The event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase with a donation to the Tompkins County Public Library Foundation. 

For more information, contact Edward Hower at edwardhower@gmail.com.