David Goodwillie is the guest for a new literary salon series launching in Ellenville on Saturday, March 2.

Goodwillie will read from his work, answer questions, and describe his picaresque journey in New York’s literary world.

David Goodwillie is the author of the novel American Subversive, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and the memoir Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time.

Goodwillie has written for the New York Times, New York Magazine, Newsweek, and Popular Science among other publications. 

He has also been drafted to play professional baseball, worked as a private investigator, and was an expert at Sotheby’s auction house. A graduate of Kenyon College, he lives in Brooklyn.

Culture Reporter Valerie Mansi spoke to Goodwillie.