March 2010

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February 28th in New York
WORD running group
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March 1st in New York
Justin Taylor
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March 2nd in New York
Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World by Claire Harman
T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party: A Play Reading
Marianne Hirsch - Ghosts of Home
Daisy Martinez Daisy: Morning, Noon and Night
ANTONINO D’AMBROSIO – A HEARTBEAT AND A GUITAR: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears A Heartbeat and a Guitar by Antonino D'Ambrosio: Book Cover
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March 3rd in New York
Kelly Corrigan: Lift
The Story Prize Award Night
"What It Feels Like for a Girl"
Slate Politcal Gab Fest
KRISTA TIPPETT in conversation with Paul Holdengraber
SIMON VAN BOOY – THE SECRET LIVES OF PEOPLE IN LOVE
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March 4th in New York
How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon by David R. Roediger
David Kirby Animal Factory
Victoria Patterson
PETER HEDGES – THE HEIGHTS
The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson
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March 5th in New York
A Fortunate Age: A Novel by Joanna Smith Rakoff
HELEN SIMONSON – MAJOR PETTIGREW’S LAST STAND
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March 6th in New York
Clifford the Big Red Dog
Clifford the Big Red Dog
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March 8th in New York
Suzan-Lori Parks
FRANKLIN PARK READING SERIES — First Anniversary Bash
How to Escape from a Leper Colony: A Novella and Stories by Tiphanie Yanique
Rockin' the Bronx
The Heights
The Postmistress
Harriet Levin and Toni Mergetime Levi
Rockin' the Bronx
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March 9th in New York
Ugly Duckling Presse at Dixon Place
David Shields
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March 10th in New York
Enrique Enriquez THE JEAN DODAL TAROT
Whip Smart: A Memoir by Melissa Febos
Sonya Chung
RICHARD HOLMES in conversation with Paul Holdengraber
Reading with Billy Collins, David Allen Sibley
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March 11th in New York
Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy by Melissa Milgrom
The Tattooed Lady with Amelia Klem Osterud
Culture Is Our Weapon: Making Music and Changing Lives in Rio de Janeiro by Patrick Neate, Damian Platt, and Caetano Veloso
35 Things Your Teen Won't Tell You So I Will
THE BROOKLYN WRITERS SPACE READING SERIES
Continental Philosophy and American Culture: Semiotext(e) between Theory, Art, and Politics – A Celebration
Eat, Drink and Be Literary
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March 12th in New York
Reading: Heather Christle and Andrew Dieck
LEARNING FROM THE ABSURD: A Conversation with William Kentridge
SAM LIPSYTE – THE ASK
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March 13th in New York
YA Not? with Carrie Ryan
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March 14th in New York
A Celebration of Haitian Culture: Benefit for Earthquake Relief
Pink Princess Cupcakes
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March 15th in New York
Talk Series: Steve Evans on The Poetics of the Phonotext: Timbre, Text, and Technology in Recorded Poetry
Julie Des Jardins and Claudia Dreifus: The Madame Curie Complex
Reading the Plays of Wendy Wasserstein by Jan Balakian
Elif Batuman
John Roberts, Kiran Chetry & John Avlon discuss Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America
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March 16th in New York
Pratt Area Community Council presents Gabriel Thompson, author of Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won't Do
Howard Mosher WALKING TO GATLINBURG
The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
How They Met and Other Stories by David Levithan
Sam Lipsyte in conversation with Lorin Stein
Balancing Acts: A Novel by Zoe Fishman
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March 17th in New York
Reading: Rae Armantrout & Norman Fischer
86th and Lex Reading Group
Freedom for Sale: Why the World Is Trading Democracy for Security by John Kampfner
Terry Castle
The Husbands and Wives Club: A Year in the Life of a Couples Therapy Group by Laurie Abraham
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March 18th in New York
Steamboat: A Literary Humor Series Hosted by Bob Powers and Jason Reich
Malcolm Gladwell and David Gran in Conversation with Bill Goldstein
The Irresistible Henry House: A Novel by Lisa Grunwald
Face It: What Women Really Feel as Their Looks Change
Conversations on Creativity: Christian Hawkey
RANDY SUSAN MEYERS – THE MURDERER’S DAUGHTERS
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March 19th in New York
Tin House Indie Press Night
Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It by Lynne M. Thomas and Tara O'Shea
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March 20th in New York
Redstockings, Riot Grrls, and Right Now: Three Generations of Feminism in Conversation
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March 21st in New York
Ira Robbins
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March 22nd in New York
The Critic’s Voice: First Reads with James Wood
Form Free Form – Steve Benson, Carla Harryman, Jon Raskin Quartet & Konrad Steiner
Blogger/Author Pairings: Victor Lavalle reads and discusses Big Machine with Maud Newton
Tim O'Brien
In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives (Spectre) by Greg Albo, Sam Gindin, and Leo Panitch
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March 23rd in New York
The Circle with Laura Day
Paolo Giordano
The Circle with Laura Day
Hold Love Strong: A Novel by Matthew Aaron Goodman
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March 24th in New York
Reading: Janet Hamill & Margaret Randall
Words and Music with Rick Moody and Wesley Stace (John Wesley Harding)
Eight White Nights: A Novel by Andre Aciman
Reading: CALYX’s Talented Feminist Writers With Elena Lelia Radulescu, Kirsten Skrinde, and Denise Rue
Tiphanie Yanique
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March 25th in New York
New York Foundation for the Arts Night: Pursuing a Career in the Arts
Rare Books Seminar for Volunteers and Customers
City Kid New York: The Ultimate Guide for NYC Parents with kids ages 4-12 by Alison Lowenstein
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March 26th in New York
A Similar But Different Quality Magazine Reading
Easy for You: Stories by Shannan Rouss
Reading and Conversation with Valerio Massimo Manfredi
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March 27th in New York
Discussion: Marcelline Block “Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship”
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March 28th in New York
Re:Imagining Change: How to Use Story-based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the World by Doyle Canning and Patrick Reinsborough
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March 29th in New York
A Celebration of The Threepenny Review
The Gathering by Anne Enright
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March 30th in New York
Hugh Raffles
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March 31st in New York
Simon Van Booy
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April 1st in New York
Jennifer Gilmore reads from Something Red
Sheep Meadow Press Poets - Stephanos Papadopoulos and Christopher Bakken
Becoming Jane Eyre: A Novel (Penguin Original) by Sheila Kohler in conversation with Philip Lopate
STRAND FAMILY HOUR EVENT with Artie Bennett and The Butt Book
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April 3rd in New York
Black Nature: 4 Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
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Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever:
Stories (P.S.)
by Justin Taylor
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Monday, March 1
7:00pm
Justin Taylor
Author of Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever (Harper Perennial, $13.99)
McNally Jackson Books
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Jane's Fame:
How Jane Austen Conquered the World
by Claire Harman
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Tuesday, March 2
7:00pm
Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World by Claire Harman
Mention Jane Austen and you’ll likely incite a slew of fervent opinions from anyone within earshot. Regarded as a brilliant social satirist by scholars, Austen also enjoys the sort of popular affection usually reserved for girl-next-door movie stars, leading to the paradox of an academically revered…

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Mention Jane Austen and you’ll likely incite a slew of fervent opinions from anyone within earshot. Regarded as a brilliant social satirist by scholars, Austen also enjoys the sort of popular affection usually reserved for girl-next-door movie stars, leading to the paradox of an academically revered author who has served as the inspiration for chick lit (The Jane Austen Book Club) and modern blockbusters (Becoming Jane). Almost two hundred years after her death, Austen remains a hot topic, and the current flare in the cultural zeitgeist echoes the continuous revival of her works, from the time of original publication through the twentieth century. In Jane’s Fame, Claire Harman gives us the complete biography—of both the author and her lasting cultural influence—making this essential reading for anyone interested in Austen’s life, works, and remarkably potent fame.

About the Author

Claire Harman is the author of Sylvia Townsend Warner, which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize; Fanny Burney, which was short-listed for the Whitbread Prize, and the critically acclaimed Robert Louis Stevenson. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2006, Harman teaches at the universities of Manchester and Oxford in England and Columbia University in New York City.

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192 Books
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The Cocktail Party
by T. S. Eliot
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Tuesday, March 2
7:00pm
T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party: A Play Reading
Actors from The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) read selections from their upcoming production of T.S. Eliot's play The Cocktail Party.
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Ghosts of Home:
The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory
by Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer
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Tuesday, March 2
7:00pm
Marianne Hirsch - Ghosts of Home
In modern-day Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there is an invisible city. Known as Czernowitz, the "Vienna of the East" under the Habsburg empire, this vibrant Jewish-German Eastern European culture vanished after World War II—yet an idealized version lives on, suspended in the memories…

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In modern-day Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there is an invisible city. Known as Czernowitz, the "Vienna of the East" under the Habsburg empire, this vibrant Jewish-German Eastern European culture vanished after World War II—yet an idealized version lives on, suspended in the memories of its dispersed people and passed down to their children like a precious and haunted heirloom. In this original blend of history and communal memoir, Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer chronicle the city's survival in personal, familial, and cultural memory. They find evidence of a cosmopolitan culture of nostalgic lore—but also of oppression, shattered promises, and shadows of the Holocaust in Romania. Hirsch and Spitzer present the first historical account of Jewish Czernowitz in the English language and offer a profound analysis of memory's echo across generations.

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Book Culture
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Tuesday, March 2
7:00pm
Daisy Martinez Daisy: Morning, Noon and Night
Daisy shares memories of her familys trips, the people they met, and the food they ate through a series of recipes and travelogues; her enthusiasm and infectious passion for food leaping from every page. She literally brings readers into the heart of her kitchen as she prepares meals that are enjoyed…

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Daisy shares memories of her familys trips, the people they met, and the food they ate through a series of recipes and travelogues; her enthusiasm and infectious passion for food leaping from every page. She literally brings readers into the heart of her kitchen as she prepares meals that are enjoyed all over Latin America.

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Borders Books & Music
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A Heartbeat and a Guitar:
Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears
by Antonino D'Ambrosio
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Tuesday, March 2
7:00pm
ANTONINO D’AMBROSIO – A HEARTBEAT AND A GUITAR: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears A Heartbeat and a Guitar by Antonino D'Ambrosio: Book Cover
“This book is a truly fascinating journey, charting the historical and social context of a courageous musical statement by one of our greatest rebel voices. It has since been locked away in the ‘denial drawer’ (aren’t First Nations people just an extinct species, systematically exterminated…

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“This book is a truly fascinating journey, charting the historical and social context of a courageous musical statement by one of our greatest rebel voices. It has since been locked away in the ‘denial drawer’ (aren’t First Nations people just an extinct species, systematically exterminated by European ‘progress’?), but D’Ambrosio admirably shines his investigative lantern into every darkened corner, finally offering some greatly appreciated illumination.” — Jim Jarmusch, filmmaker

“Antonino D’Ambrosio’s book on the making of Johnny Cash’s album “Bitter Tears” is much more than the story behind those extraordinary songs. It is a rich history, not only of Johnny Cash’s life, but of the Indian struggle for justice, which inspired Peter La Farge to write the song ‘The Ballad of Ira Hayes’ and Cash to sing it. The book is full of fascinating character sketches of the great folk singers of the Sixties, and their part in the social movements of that exciting era. I believe D’Ambrosio has made an important contribution to the cultural history of our time.” – Howard Zinn

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BookCourt
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163 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
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The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson:
A Novel
by Jerome Charyn
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Thursday, March 4
6:30pm
The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson
Jerome Charyn will be part of a panel discussion at New York University. He will also be signing his new book THE SECRET LIFE OF EMILY DICKINSON, an astonishing novel that removes Emily Dickinson's own mysterious mask and reveals the passions and heartbreak of America's greatest poet. …

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Jerome Charyn will be part of a panel discussion at New York University. He will also be signing his new book THE SECRET LIFE OF EMILY DICKINSON, an astonishing novel that removes Emily Dickinson's own mysterious mask and reveals the passions and heartbreak of America's greatest poet.

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Fales Library & Special Collections
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Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, Third Floor, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012
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How Race Survived US History:
From the American Revolution to the Present
by David R. Roediger
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Thursday, March 4
7:00pm
How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon by David R. Roediger
An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by the foremost historian of race and labor. In this absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, David R. Roediger explores how the idea of race was created and recreated from the 1600's to the present day. From the late seventeenth…

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An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by the foremost historian of race and labor.

In this absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, David R. Roediger explores how the idea of race was created and recreated from the 1600's to the present day. From the late seventeenth century - the era in which DuBois located the emergence of "whiteness" - through the American revolution and the emancipatory Civil War, to the civil rights movement and the emergence of the American empire, How Race Survived US History reveals how race did far more than persist as an exception in a progressive national history. Roediger examines how race intersected all that was dynamic and progressive in US history, from democracy and economic development to migration and globalization.

Exploring the evidence that the USA will become a majority "nonwhite" nation in the next fifty years, this masterful account shows how race remains at the heart of American life in the twenty-first century.

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About the Author

David R. Roediger is Kendrick C. Babcock Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of, among other books, The Wages of Whiteness, Working Towards Whiteness, and How Race Survived US History.

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Bluestockings Books
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172 Allen Street, New York, NY 10002
212-777-6028
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Thursday, March 4
7:00pm
David Kirby Animal Factory
Swine Flu. Bird flu. E-Coli. Illness in humans and animals, degradation of our natural resources, and the crippling of small farms and communitiescan all be traced back to large-scale factory farms. ANIMAL FACTORY is a dramatic exposé of factory farms and the devastating impact they have on human…

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Swine Flu. Bird flu. E-Coli. Illness in humans and animals, degradation of our natural resources, and the crippling of small farms and communitiescan all be traced back to large-scale factory farms. ANIMAL FACTORY is a dramatic exposé of factory farms and the devastating impact they have on human health, the environment, and the economy by New York Times bestselling author David Kirby.

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Borders Books & Music
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Drift:
Stories
by Victoria Patterson
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Thursday, March 4
7:00pm
Victoria Patterson
Thursday we're inviting one of the most acclaimed short story writers of the past year in to read for us. As you saw above, she's a nominee for this year's Story Prize, and her collection is a powerful example of why short stories remain such a vital, even necessary, literary form. Patterson's …

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Thursday we're inviting one of the most acclaimed short story writers of the past year in to read for us. As you saw above, she's a nominee for this year's Story Prize, and her collection is a powerful example of why short stories remain such a vital, even necessary, literary form.

Patterson's Drift collects thirteen linked stories about the lives of individuals in one small town, about their dark lusts and the facades they build to hide them. Imagine a much angrier Winesburg Ohio. She also has a forthcoming novel (which unfortunately we can't get our hands on just yet) and teaches writing for UCLA.

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McNally Jackson Books
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52 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012
212-274-1160
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The Heights
by Peter Hedges
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Thursday, March 4
7:00pm
PETER HEDGES – THE HEIGHTS
Tim Welch is a popular history teacher at the Montague Academy, an exclusive private school in Brooklyn Heights. As he says, “I was an odd-looking, gawky kid but I like to think my rocky start forced me to develop empathy, kindness, and a tendency to be enthusiastic. All of this, I’m now convinced,…

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Tim Welch is a popular history teacher at the Montague Academy, an exclusive private school in Brooklyn Heights. As he says, “I was an odd-looking, gawky kid but I like to think my rocky start forced me to develop empathy, kindness, and a tendency to be enthusiastic. All of this, I’m now convinced, helped in my quest to be worthy of Kate Oliver.” Now, Kate is not inherently ordinary. But she aspires to be. She stays home with their two young sons in a modest apartment trying desperately to become the parent she never had. They are seemingly the last middle-class family in the Heights, whose world is turned upside down by Anna Brody, the new neighbor who moves into the most expensive brownstone in Brooklyn, sending the local society into a tailspin.

Anna is not only beautiful and wealthy; she’s also mysterious. And for reasons Kate doesn’t quite understand, even as all the Range Rover- driving moms jockey for invitations into Anna’s circle, Anna sets her sights on Kate and Tim and brings them into her world.

Like Tom Perrotta, Peter Hedges has a keen eye for the surprising truths of daily life. The Heights is at once light of touch and packed with emotion and depth of character.

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BookCourt
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163 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
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Clifford the Big Red Dog
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Saturday, March 6
11:00am
Clifford the Big Red Dog
Please join us for a special event as Clifford the Big Red Dog joins us for Storytime and to meet the kids. Parents bring your cameras!
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Clifford the Big Red Dog
$3.99 List Price
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Saturday, March 6
11:00am
Clifford the Big Red Dog
Please join us for a special event as Clifford the Big Red Dog joins us for Storytime and to meet the kids. Parents bring your cameras!
Mysterious Bookshop
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58 Warren Street, New York, NY 10007
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The Heights
by Peter Hedges
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Monday, March 8
7:00pm
The Heights
Screenwriter and director Peter Hedges (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Pieces of April) reads from The Heights, his novel about troubled souls in an idyllic Brooklyn neighborhood.
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1972 Broadway, New York, NY 10023-5903
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The Postmistress
by Sarah Blake
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Monday, March 8
7:00pm
The Postmistress
In her debut novel, Sarah Blake takes readers between small town America and war-torn Europe in 1940, weaving together the stories of three women bonded by the war.
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150 East 86th Street, New York, NY 10028-2105
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Rockin' the Bronx
by Larry Kirwan
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Monday, March 8
7:00pm
Rockin' the Bronx
Please join Larry Kirwan, of Black 47 fame, as he reads from his latest novel, Rockin' the Bronx.
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Monday, March 8
7:00pm
Harriet Levin and Toni Mergetime Levi
Watching Mother Disappear is a lyrical collection illuminating emotional and psychological subtleties. The long, deeply personal title poem speaks to the emotional and psychological complexities of caring for a parent suffering from Alzheimer's. The collection continues with poems that explore other…

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Watching Mother Disappear is a lyrical collection illuminating emotional and psychological subtleties. The long, deeply personal title poem speaks to the emotional and psychological complexities of caring for a parent suffering from Alzheimer's. The collection continues with poems that explore other relationships and experiences, engage in flights of fancy, and meditate on finite time and the precariousness of the world we now inhabit.

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McNally Jackson Books
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52 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012
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Rockin' the Bronx
by Larry Kirwan
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Monday, March 8
7:00pm
Rockin' the Bronx
Please join Larry Kirwan, of Black 47 fame, as he reads from his latest novel, Rockin' the Bronx.
Mysterious Bookshop
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58 Warren Street, New York, NY 10007
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How to Escape from a Leper Colony:
A Novella and Stories
by Tiphanie Yanique
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Monday, March 8
7:30pm
How to Escape from a Leper Colony: A Novella and Stories by Tiphanie Yanique
An enthralling debut collection from a singular Caribbean voice For a leper, many things are impossible, and many other things are easily done. Babalao Chuck said he could fly to the other side of the island and peek at the nuns bathing. And when a man with no hands claims that he can fly, you …

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An enthralling debut collection from a singular Caribbean voice

For a leper, many things are impossible, and many other things are easily done. Babalao Chuck said he could fly to the other side of the island and peek at the nuns bathing. And when a man with no hands claims that he can fly, you listen.

The inhabitants of an island walk into the sea. A man passes a jail cell’s window, shouldering a wooden cross. And in the international shop of coffins, a story repeats itself, pointing toward an inevitable tragedy. If the facts of these stories are sometimes fantastical, the situations they describe are complex and all too real.

Lyrical, lush, and haunting, the prose shimmers in this nuanced debut, set mostly in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Part oral history, part postcolonial narrative, How to Escape from a Leper Colony is ultimately a loving portrait of a wholly unique place. Like Gabriel García Márquez, Edwidge Danticat, and Maryse Condé before her, Tiphanie Yanique has crafted a book that is heartbreaking, hilarious, magical, and mesmerizing. An unforgettable collection.

About the Author

Tihpanie Yanique is from St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. An assistant professor at Drew University, she lives in Brooklyn, New York, and St. Thomas with her partner, Moses Djeli.

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Greenlight Bookstore
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365 Days / 365 Plays
by Suzan-Lori Parks
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Monday, March 8
8:00pm
Suzan-Lori Parks
In 2007, Suzan-Lori Parks’s 365 Plays/365 Days was produced simultaneously in more than 700 theatres worldwide. Her play Topdog/Underdog won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002. Recently, she was awarded a three-year term as master writer at The Public Theatre. Parks is “one of our greatest artists,” …

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In 2007, Suzan-Lori Parks’s 365 Plays/365 Days was produced simultaneously in more than 700 theatres worldwide. Her play Topdog/Underdog won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002. Recently, she was awarded a three-year term as master writer at The Public Theatre. Parks is “one of our greatest artists,” said Oskar Eustis, artistic director of The Public. About her novel, Getting Mother’s Body, Richard Russo wrote, “Her characters don’t so much talk to us as sing, full-throated, of their joys and miseries.”

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92nd Street Y
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1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10128
212-415-5500
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Mar 8, 2010
8:00pm-10:00pm
FRANKLIN PARK READING SERIES — First Anniversary Bash
Please join us as we celebrate the first anniversary of the Franklin Park Reading Series with a wide range of voices and a staggering amount of talent. STEPHEN ELLIOTT (The Adderall Diaries, Happy Baby), will be joined by VICTOR LAVALLE (Big Machine, Slapboxing with Jesus), MATTHUE ROTH (Yom Kippur…

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Please join us as we celebrate the first anniversary of the Franklin Park Reading Series with a wide range of voices and a staggering amount of talent.

STEPHEN ELLIOTT (The Adderall Diaries, Happy Baby), will be joined by VICTOR LAVALLE (Big Machine, Slapboxing with Jesus), MATTHUE ROTH (Yom Kippur a Go-Go, Losers) and MAURA KELLY (Marie Claire dating blogger)

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Franklin Park Bar and Beer Garden
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Reality Hunger:
A Manifesto
by David Shields
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Tuesday, March 9
7:00pm
David Shields
An open call for new literary and other art forms to match the complexities of the twenty-first century. Reality TV dominates broadband. YouTube and Facebook dominate the web. In Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, his landmark new book, David Shields (author of the New York Times best seller The Thing …

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An open call for new literary and other art forms to match the complexities of the twenty-first century.

Reality TV dominates broadband. YouTube and Facebook dominate the web. In Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, his landmark new book, David Shields (author of the New York Times best seller The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead) argues that our culture is obsessed with “reality” precisely because we experience hardly any.

Most artistic movements are attempts to figure out a way to smuggle more of what the artist thinks is reality into the work of art. So, too, every artistic movement or moment needs a credo, from Horace’s Ars Poetica to Lars von Trier’s “Vow of Chastity.” Shields has written the ars poetica for a burgeoning group of interrelated but unconnected artists in a variety of forms and media who, living in an unbearably manufactured and artificial world, are striving to stay open to the possibility of randomness, accident, serendipity, spontaneity; actively courting reader/listener/viewer participation, artistic risk, emotional urgency; breaking larger and larger chunks of “reality” into their work; and, above all, seeking to erase any distinction between fiction and nonfiction.

The questions Reality Hunger explores—the bending of form and genre, the lure and blur of the real—play out constantly all around us. Think of the now endless controversy surrounding the provenance and authenticity of the “real”: A Million Little Pieces, the Obama “Hope” poster, the sequel to The Catcher in the Rye, Robert Capa’s “The Falling Soldier” photograph, the boy who wasn’t in the balloon. Reality Hunger is a rigorous and radical attempt to reframe how we think about “truthiness,” literary license, quotation, appropriation.

Drawing on myriad sources, Shields takes an audacious stance on issues that are being fought over now and will be fought over far into the future. People will either love or hate this book. Its converts will see it as a rallying cry; its detractors will view it as an occasion for defending the status quo. It is certain to be one of the most controversial and talked-about books of the year.

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Tuesday, March 9
7:30pm
Ugly Duckling Presse at Dixon Place
Ugly Duckling Presse presents an evening featuring three poets with new titles for spring 2010 at Dixon Place. Kostas Anagnopoulos, Moving Blanket Kevin Varrone, g-point almanac: passyunk lost Karen Weiser, To Light Out This is a seated event and space is limited. Admission: $6 at the box office …

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Ugly Duckling Presse presents an evening featuring three poets with new titles for spring 2010 at Dixon Place.

Kostas Anagnopoulos, Moving Blanket

Kevin Varrone, g-point almanac: passyunk lost

Karen Weiser, To Light Out

This is a seated event and space is limited. Admission: $6 at the box office or advanced tickets online

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Thursday, March 11
6:30pm
Continental Philosophy and American Culture: Semiotext(e) between Theory, Art, and Politics – A Celebration
The 2010 Fales Lecture will celebrate the acquisition of the Sylvere Lotringer Papers and Semiotext(e) Archive. Panelists: Sylvere Lotringer, co-founder of Semiotext(e), professor emeritus, Columbia University. Bruce Benderson, writer and critic. Gregg Bordowitz, Associate Professor, Film, Video,…

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The 2010 Fales Lecture will celebrate the acquisition of the Sylvere Lotringer Papers and Semiotext(e) Archive.

Panelists:

Sylvere Lotringer, co-founder of Semiotext(e), professor emeritus, Columbia University.

Bruce Benderson, writer and critic.

Gregg Bordowitz, Associate Professor, Film, Video, and New Media, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Tim Griffin, Editor, Artforum.

Avital Ronell, Professor of German, Comparative Literature, and English at NYU.

Emily Apter, Professor of Comparative Literature and French at NYU, (moderator).

Denis Hollier, Chair, and Professor of French Literature at NYU, (respondent).

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The Ask:
A Novel
by Sam Lipsyte
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Thursday, March 11
6:30pm
Eat, Drink and Be Literary
Part of Eat, Drink & Be Literary Thu, Mar 11 at 6:30pm Doors open at 6pm Moderated by Daniel Menaker "Sam Lipsyte’s sentences burn with the reckless and gaudy flame of homemade pyrotechnics, arcing up and up beyond the backyards, carports, tract homes, ailing parents, and disenchanted children…

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Part of Eat, Drink & Be Literary

Thu, Mar 11 at 6:30pm

Doors open at 6pm

Moderated by Daniel Menaker

"Sam Lipsyte’s sentences burn with the reckless and gaudy flame of homemade pyrotechnics, arcing up and up beyond the backyards, carports, tract homes, ailing parents, and disenchanted children of boilerplate suburbia to the far horizon of the literary landscape . . . Redemption takes only one form—language—and in that, Lipsyte summons grace and beauty from the strangest places in the human subdivision." —BOMB Magazine

"If you're excited about what you’ve written, and compelled to keep writing, that's a good sign. If what you’ve written scares you, even better. It’s like having a secret lover or a brand new drug habit." —Sam Lipsyte

Called “rowdy, shocking, and lyrical” by The New Yorker and known for his “turbocharged language” (Bookforum) and penchant for black humor, Sam Lipsyte is a critically acclaimed humorist and satirist. He is the author of four books including the novel Home Land (2005), a New York Times Notable Book for 2005 and winner of the Believer Book Award; and most recently The Ask (2010 release), a disturbing yet hilarious novel about the seedy side of fundraising. Lipsyte teaches at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and is a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow.

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Culture Is Our Weapon:
Making Music and Changing Lives in Rio de Janeiro
by Patrick Neate and Damian Platt
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Thursday, March 11
7:00pm
Culture Is Our Weapon: Making Music and Changing Lives in Rio de Janeiro by Patrick Neate, Damian Platt, and Caetano Veloso
Reading: Damian Platt “Culture Is Our Weapon” An inspiring mission to rescue young people from drugs and violence with music. At a time when interest in Brazilian culture has reached an all-time high, and the stories of one person's ability to improve the lives of others has captured so many …

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Reading: Damian Platt “Culture Is Our Weapon”

An inspiring mission to rescue young people from drugs and violence with music.

At a time when interest in Brazilian culture has reached an all-time high, and the stories of one person's ability to improve the lives of others has captured so many hearts, this unique book takes readers to the frontlines of a battle raging over control of the nation's poorest areas. Culture Is Our Weapon tells the story of Grupo Cultural AfroReggae, a Rio-based organization employing music and an appreciation for black culture to inspire residents of the favelas, or shantytowns, to resist the drugs that are ruining their neighborhoods. This is an inspiring look at an artistic explosion and the best and worst of Brazilian society.

About the Author

Patrick Neate is the author of the National Book Critics Circle Award winner Where You're At, as well as four novels.

Damian Platt lives in Rio de Janeiro and works with AfroReggae.

Caetano Veloso is a musician, writer, and political activist.

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35 Things Your Teen Won't Tell You, So I Will (Good Things to Know)
by Ellen Pober Rittberg
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Thursday, March 11
7:00pm
35 Things Your Teen Won't Tell You So I Will
Award-winning journalist and mom Ellen Pober Rittberg will be here to offer insight to parents looking to build a positive relationship with their teenager. She will be signing copies of her book, 35 Things Your Teen Won't Tell You, So I Will.
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Thursday, March 11
7:00pm
THE BROOKLYN WRITERS SPACE READING SERIES
THIS MONTH’S READING FEATURES:

MARIAN FONTANA

NINA HERZOG

SARAH LANGAN

STACY MORRISON
BookCourt
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Still Life:
Adventures in Taxidermy
by Melissa Milgrom
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Thursday, March 11
7:30pm
Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy by Melissa Milgrom
Journalist Melissa Milgrom spent five years investigating the world of taxidermy and came away with a profound respect for this controversial occupation. She met taxidermists from around the world, attended the world championships in NJ, and even took a try at stuffing her very own squirrel, and she…

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Journalist Melissa Milgrom spent five years investigating the world of taxidermy and came away with a profound respect for this controversial occupation. She met taxidermists from around the world, attended the world championships in NJ, and even took a try at stuffing her very own squirrel, and she chronicles the results in Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy. Tonight at Greenlight, Melissa Milgrom talks with another Brooklyn taxidermist, Melissa Dixson, about the book and their shared obsession - they may even compare squirrels.

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The Tattooed Lady:
A History
by Amelia Klem Osterud
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Thursday, March 11
7:30pm
The Tattooed Lady with Amelia Klem Osterud
Reading and discussion with Amelia Klem Osterud, a tattooed academic librarian from Wisconsin.She has a master's degree in history from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and writes and lectures on the subject. This is her first book. Visit her author blog at www.tattooedladyhistory.vox.com Living…

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Reading and discussion with Amelia Klem Osterud, a tattooed academic librarian from Wisconsin.She has a master's degree in history from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and writes and lectures on the subject. This is her first book. Visit her author blog at www.tattooedladyhistory.vox.com

Living in a time when it was scandalous even to show a bit of ankle, a small number of courageous women covered their bodies in tattoos and traveled the country, performing nearly nude on carnival stages. These gutsy women spun amazing stories for captive audiences about abductions and forced tattooing at the hands of savages, but little has been shared of their real lives. Though they spawned a cultural movement—almost a quarter of Americans now have tattoos—these women have largely faded into history.

The first book of its kind, The Tattooed Lady uncovers the true stories behind these women, bringing them out of the sideshow realm and into their working class realities. Combining thorough research with more than a hundred historical photos, this social history explores tattoo origins, women's history, and circus lore. A fascinating read, The Tattooed Lady pays tribute to a group of unique and amazing women whose legacy lives on.

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Word
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The Dead-Tossed Waves (Forest of Hands and Teeth, Book 2)
by Carrie Ryan
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Saturday, March 13
3:00pm
YA Not? with Carrie Ryan
Carrie will read from and discuss her new book, THE DEAD TOSSED WAVES.
Word
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Nemesis:
A Novel (Harry Hole)
by Jo Nesbo
translation by Don Bartlett
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Wednesday, March 17
7:00pm
86th and Lex Reading Group
The Upper East Side Reading Group reconvenes at the new Barnes & Noble (150 East 86th Street) for their monthly book discussions. This month's selection is Nemesis by Jo Nesbo.
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Freedom for Sale:
Why the World Is Trading Democracy for Security
by John Kampfner
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Wednesday, March 17
7:00pm
Freedom for Sale: Why the World Is Trading Democracy for Security by John Kampfner
Democratic liberalism v. authoritarianism – the ideological divide that defined the twentieth century. But when the cold war ended, “the end of history” was proclaimed. Soon the fire of freedom would burn worldwide, the experts said. And where markets were freed, human rights would inevitably…

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Democratic liberalism v. authoritarianism – the ideological divide that defined the twentieth century. But when the cold war ended, “the end of history” was proclaimed. Soon the fire of freedom would burn worldwide, the experts said. And where markets were freed, human rights would inevitably follow.

Or not. In the last twenty years, nations including India, Russia, China and the United Arab Emirates have disproved the idea that capitalism and democracy are inextricably linked. Emerging middle classes have proven themselves all too willing to sacrifice certain democratic rights – including free speech, an open media, and free elections – in exchange for prosperity. But they are not alone. We are all doing it. Alarmingly, Western democracy has adopted some of the attributes of that authoritarianism.

Combining boots on the ground reporting with incisive analysis, award-winning journalist John Kampfner describes this alarming trend – one which has only been exacerbated by the global economic meltdown – and what citizens must do to counter it.

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Book Culture
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The Professor and Other Writings
by Terry Castle
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Wednesday, March 17
7:00pm
Terry Castle
From one of America's most brilliant critics and cultural commentators comes a long-awaited collection of penetrating autobiographical essays and a riveting short memoir, novelistic in style and ambition, about the pathos, comedy, and devastation of early love. Stanford professor and longtime …

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From one of America's most brilliant critics and cultural commentators comes a long-awaited collection of penetrating autobiographical essays and a riveting short memoir, novelistic in style and ambition, about the pathos, comedy, and devastation of early love.

Stanford professor and longtime contributor to the London Review of Books, the Atlantic, the New Republic, Slate, and other publications, Terry Castle is widely admired for the wit, panache, intellectual breadth, and emotional honesty of her writings on life, literature, and art. Now, at long last, she has collected some of the more personal of her recent essays in a single volume. Several pieces here are already acknowledged classics: "Desperately Seeking Susan," the celebrated account she wrote in 2005 of her droll and somewhat bittersweet friendship with Susan Sontag; "My Heroin Christmas," a darkly humorous examination of addiction, her family and stepsiblings, and the late, great jazz saxophonist Art Pepper; and the picaresque "Travels with My Mother," a rollicking travelogue that brings together Castle's complicated relationship with her mother, lesbianism, art, and the difficult yet transcendent work of the painter Agnes Martin.

At the center of the collection, however, is the title work, published here for the first time: a candid and wrenching exploration of Castle's relationship, during her graduate school years, with a female professor. At once hilarious and rueful, it is a pitch-perfect recollection of the fiascos of youth: how we come to own (or disown) our sexuality; how we understand (or don't) the emotional needs and wishes of others; how the ordeals of desire can prompt a lifelong search for self-understanding.

In this account of a sentimental education, as in all the essays in The Professor and Other Writings, Terry Castle reveals herself as a truly remarkable writer: utterly distinctive, wise, frank, and fearless.

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The Husbands and Wives Club:
A Year in the Life of a Couples Therapy Group
by Laurie Abraham
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Wednesday, March 17
7:00pm
The Husbands and Wives Club: A Year in the Life of a Couples Therapy Group by Laurie Abraham
A PAGE-TURNING GLIMPSE INTO FIVE MARRIAGES AND THE FIGHT TO SAVE THEM For more than a year, journalist Laurie Abraham sat in with five troubled couples as they underwent the searing process of group marriage therapy. Published as The New York Times Magazine's cover story "Can This Marriage Be Saved?"…

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A PAGE-TURNING GLIMPSE INTO FIVE MARRIAGES AND THE FIGHT TO SAVE THEM

For more than a year, journalist Laurie Abraham sat in with five troubled couples as they underwent the searing process of group marriage therapy. Published as The New York Times Magazine's cover story "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" the resulting article generated intense reader response and received the Award for Excellence in Journalism from the American Psychoanalytic Association. Though the article allowed Abraham to focus on only one couple, this book, which grew out of it and the reaction it inspired, tells the moving, fascinating story of all five.

The couples: Can Leigh and Aaron find the intimacy their marriage lacks; will Bella and Joe resolve the imbalance of power that threatens to topple their marriage; are Sue Ellen and Mark as ideal as they seem; what happened to Rachael that Michael cannot acknowledge; and do Marie and Clem, with the help of therapist Judith Coch - , come back from the brink of divorce?

With the dexterity of a novelist, Abraham recounts the travails, triumphs, and reversals that beset the five couples. They work with their therapist—and each other—to find out whether they can rediscover the satisfaction in marriage that they once had. At times wrenching, at times inspiring, the sessions bring out the long-hidden resentments, misunderstandings, unmet desires, and unspoken needs that bedevil any imperiled couple. At the same time, these encounters provide road maps to reconciliation and revival that can be used by anyone in a relationship. Along the way, the author draws on her explorations of literature and

Freudian theory, modern science, and today's cutting-edge research to decode the patterns and habits that suggest whether a troubled marriage will survive or die. Both an important look at the state of marital dysfunction and a reaffirmation of the enduring bonds of love, The Husbands and Wives Club is an extraordinary year in the life of the American marriage.

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Versed (Wesleyan Poetry)
by Rae Armantrout
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Wednesday, March 17
8:00pm
Reading: Rae Armantrout & Norman Fischer
Rae Armantrout was a National Book Awards finalist for her most recent book, Versed, published by Wesleyan in 2009. Next Life (Wesleyan, 2007), was chosen as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2007 by The New York Times. Other recent books include Collected Prose (Singing Horse, 2007), Up to Speed (…

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Rae Armantrout was a National Book Awards finalist for her most recent book, Versed, published by Wesleyan in 2009. Next Life (Wesleyan, 2007), was chosen as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2007 by The New York Times. Other recent books include Collected Prose (Singing Horse, 2007), Up to Speed (Wesleyan, 2004), The Pretext (Green Integer, 2001), and Veil: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2001). Her poems have been included in anthologies such as American Hybrid (Norton, 2009), Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (1993), American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Language Meets the Lyric Tradition, (Wesleyan, 2002), The Oxford Book of American Poetry (Oxford, 2006) and The Best American Poetry of 1988, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007 and 2008. Armantrout received an award in poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2007 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008. She is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at the University of California, San Diego.

Norman Fischer is a zen priest. He is a former abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center, and the founder and teacher for the Everyday Zen Foundation. A graduate of the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, where he studied with Ted Berrigan and Anselm Hollo, and made the acquaintance of many poets, including Alice Notley and Bob Perelman, he has been active in the poetry universe since the late 1970’s. His works tend to involve various experiments with language as well an effort to evoke the zen way of looking at and being in the world. Charles Bernstein has written of his work, “incandescently tranquil, his poems neither confront nor confirm, preferring to give company along the way.” His zen comrade and poetic daddy, Philip Whalen, compared his work to “a Baccarat crystal paperweight, a smooth clear ball of glass containing intricate designs in many brilliant colors.” The latest of his many collections is Questions/Places/Voices/Seasons from Singing Horse press (2009).

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What the Dog Saw:
And Other Adventures
by Malcolm Gladwell
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The Devil and Sherlock Holmes:
Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession
by David Grann
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Thursday, March 18
7:00pm
Malcolm Gladwell and David Gran in Conversation with Bill Goldstein
Bill Goldstein moderates a discussion with Malcolm Gladwell, author of What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, and David Gran, author of The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession.
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The Irresistible Henry House:
A Novel
by Lisa Grunwald
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Thursday, March 18
7:00pm
The Irresistible Henry House: A Novel by Lisa Grunwald
It is the middle of the twentieth century, and in a home economics program at a prominent university, real babies are being used to teach mothering skills to young women. For a young man raised in these unlikely circumstances, finding real love and learning to trust will prove to be the work of a …

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It is the middle of the twentieth century, and in a home economics program at a prominent university, real babies are being used to teach mothering skills to young women. For a young man raised in these unlikely circumstances, finding real love and learning to trust will prove to be the work of a lifetime. In this captivating novel, bestselling author Lisa Grunwald gives us the sweeping tale of an irresistible hero and the many women who love him.

From his earliest days as a “practice baby” through his adult adventures in 1960s New York City, Disney’s Burbank studios, and the delirious world of the Beatles’ London, Henry remains handsome, charming, universally adored—and never entirely accessible to the many women he conquers but can never entirely trust.

Filled with unforgettable characters, settings, and action, The Irresistible Henry House portrays the cultural tumult of the mid-twentieth century even as it explores the inner tumult of a young man trying to transcend a damaged childhood. For it is not until Henry House comes face-to-face with the real truths of his past that he finds a chance for real love.

About the Author:

Lisa Grunwald is the author of the novels Whatever Makes You Happy, New Year’s Eve, The Theory of Everything, and Summer. Along with her husband, BusinessWeek editor in chief Stephen J. Adler, she edited the bestselling anthologies Women’s Letters and Letters of the Century. Grunwald is a former contributing editor to Life and a former features editor of Esquire.

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Face It:
What Women Really Feel as Their Looks Change
by Vivian Diller Ph.D. and Jill Muir-Sukenick Ph.D.
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Thursday, March 18
7:00pm
Face It: What Women Really Feel as Their Looks Change
Is 50 the New 15? In their new book, two models turned psychoanalysts offer a six-step process for women who want to look and feel great at any age. Editor Michele Willens interviews authors Vivian Diller and Jill Muir-Sukenick.
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Citizen Of
by Christian Hawkey
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Thursday, March 18
7:00pm
Conversations on Creativity: Christian Hawkey
Christian Hawkey constructs a visionary world rich with fantastic imagery. In blurring the line of reality versus imagination, this turbulent dreamscape calls into question the frightening and surprising nature of the actual world.

In conversation with Glenn Kurtz
McNally Jackson Books
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The Murderer's Daughters
by Randy Susan Meyers
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Thursday, March 18
7:00pm
RANDY SUSAN MEYERS – THE MURDERER’S DAUGHTERS
A beautifully written, compulsively readable debut that deals with the aftermath of a shocking act of violence that leaves two young sisters with nothing but each other—in the tradition of White Oleander, this haunting novel is a testament to the power of family and the ties that bind us together,…

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A beautifully written, compulsively readable debut that deals with the aftermath of a shocking act of violence that leaves two young sisters with nothing but each other—in the tradition of White Oleander, this haunting novel is a testament to the power of family and the ties that bind us together, even as they threaten to tear us apart

Mama was “no macaroni-necklace-wearing kind of mother.” She was a lipstick and perfume-wearing mother, a flirt whose estranged husband still hungered for her. After Mama threw him out, she warned the girls to never let Daddy in the house, an admonition that tears at ten-year-old Lulu whenever she thinks about the day she opened the door for her drunken father, and watched as he killed her mother, stabbed her five-year-old sister Merry and tried to take his own life.

Effectively orphaned by their mother’s death and father’s imprisonment, Lulu and Merry, unwanted by family members and abandoned to a terrifying group home, spend their young lives carrying more than just the visible scars from the tragedy. Even as their plan to be taken in by a well-to-do foster family succeeds, they come to learn they’ll never really belong anywhere or to anyone—that all they have to hold onto is each other.

As they grow into women, Lulu holds fast to her anger, denies her father’s existence and forces Merry into a web of lies about his death that eventually ensnares her own husband and daughters. Merry, certain their safety rests on placating her needy father, dutifully visits him, seeking his approval and love at the expense of her own relationships. As they strive to carve lives of their own, thespecter of their father, unrepentant and manipulative even from behind bars, haunts them. And when they learn he’s about to be paroled, the house of cards they’ve built their lives on teeters on the brink of collapse.

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I Don't Care About Your Band:
What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated
by Julie Klausner
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The Underminer:
The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life
by Mike Albo and Virginia Heffernan
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Thursday, March 18
7:30pm
Steamboat: A Literary Humor Series Hosted by Bob Powers and Jason Reich
Featuring Julie Klausner, author of I Don't Care About Your Band: What I Learned From Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters, Felons and Other Guys I've Dated Mike Albo, author of The Underminder: Or, The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life On the third Thursday…

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Featuring Julie Klausner, author of I Don't Care About Your Band: What I Learned From Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters, Felons and Other Guys I've Dated

Mike Albo, author of The Underminder: Or, The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life

On the third Thursday of every month, join Bob Powers (author of Happy Cruelty Day) and Jason Reich (former writer for "The Daily Show"), as they welcome the city's best humor writers for a night of wine-addled text-based hilarity. Julie Klausner's memoir of her horrific dating life, I Don't Care About Your Band, sheds light on the humiliations we endure to find love - and the lessons that can be culled from the wreckage. Mike Albo's The Underminder channels the hilarious and mysterious evil everyone has encountered—the toxic best friend who slowly and relentlessly dismantles the life of a nameless victim. Klausner and Albo join Powers, Reich, and other funny people culled from New York's best (or most available) talent for March's edition of Steamboat - stay tuned for additions to the lineup.

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Greenlight Bookstore
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Mar 20, 2010
2:00pm-4:00pm
Redstockings, Riot Grrls, and Right Now: Three Generations of Feminism in Conversation
Redstockings, Riot Grrls, and Right Now: Three Generations of Feminism in Conversation—hosted by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards (with Alix Kates Shulman , Farai Chideya, and Marisa Meltzer)
Brooklyn Museum
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Sunday, March 21
7:00pm
Ira Robbins
Ira Robbins reads from "Kick It Till It Breaks: A Belated Novel of the 1960's" In Kick It Till It Breaks: A Belated Novel of the 1960’s, Ira Robbins performs as literary lepidopterist as he pins a roving cast of radicals, wannabes, double agents, academics, and guileless bumblers to the specimen…

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Ira Robbins reads from "Kick It Till It Breaks: A Belated Novel of the 1960's"

In Kick It Till It Breaks: A Belated Novel of the 1960’s, Ira Robbins performs as literary lepidopterist as he pins a roving cast of radicals, wannabes, double agents, academics, and guileless bumblers to the specimen board of his novel, letting the reader examine each in turn. This approach, a finely honed magnification, allows us to see every little flaw and failure in the characters—a clever choice, considering Robbins is sharply limning the role of the individual within the sprawling hue and cry of 1960’s activism

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Freebird Books & Goods
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The Circle:
How the Power of a Single Wish Can Change Your Life
by Laura Day
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Tuesday, March 23
7:00pm
The Circle with Laura Day
Please join Laura Day as she hosts The Circle, an introduction to healing, intuition and unconscious re-patterning that will change your life.
Barnes & Noble
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The Solitude of Prime Numbers:
A Novel
by Paolo Giordano
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Tuesday, March 23
7:00pm
Paolo Giordano
In conversation with editor and publisher Pam Dorman Paolo Gioradano's debut novel has sold over a million copies around the world and earned him Italy's premier literary prize, the Premio Strega. Now, finally, we've earned our taste of his celebrated book here in the states. The Solitude of Prime…

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In conversation with editor and publisher Pam Dorman

Paolo Gioradano's debut novel has sold over a million copies around the world and earned him Italy's premier literary prize, the Premio Strega. Now, finally, we've earned our taste of his celebrated book here in the states. The Solitude of Prime Numbers is a book of striking beauty and disturbing content, including anorexia, cutting, loneliness and guilt. It's a coming-of-age story in the most awkward and lovely tradition, and its two protagonists are destined to win hearts here just as easily as they have abroad.

Giordano is a young author - only 27 - and his acclaim is all the more impressive given that he's a physicist by trade. He'll be here in conversation with his editor and now head of her own eponymous imprint, Pamela Dorman.

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McNally Jackson Books
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The Circle:
How the Power of a Single Wish Can Change Your Life
by Laura Day
$15.00 List Price
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Tuesday, March 23
7:00pm
The Circle with Laura Day
Please join Laura Day as she hosts The Circle, an introduction to healing, intuition and unconscious re-patterning that will change your life.
Mysterious Bookshop
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Hold Love Strong:
A Novel
by Matthew Aaron Goodman
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Tuesday, March 23
7:00pm
Hold Love Strong: A Novel by Matthew Aaron Goodman
In this poignant tale of self-discovery, a young man struggles to survive the New York City housing projects in the face of familial, communal, and personal devastation. Born to a thirteen-year-old in the bathroom of his family's small apartment, Abraham Sing leton enters a world laden with the …

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In this poignant tale of self-discovery, a young man struggles to survive the New York City housing projects in the face of familial, communal, and personal devastation.

Born to a thirteen-year-old in the bathroom of his family's small apartment, Abraham Sing leton enters a world laden with the obstacles inherent in an impoverished community. In spite of the crack epidemic and the HIV crisis that ravage their neighborhood, the Singleton family — cousins, an uncle, an aunt, Abraham, and his mother — is held together by Abraham's heroic grandmother, whose deep faith and stoic nature have always given them a sense of wholeness and hope. But when the family goes through several harrowing losses, not even his grandmother may be strong enough to lead them through.

At the center of this story is Abraham, the youngest of the Singletons. Deeply intuitive and cerebral, he is determined to thrive in a place that has destroyed the dreams of those around him. College means opportunity, yet it also means leaving behind those he loves. Abraham's journey into adulthood will break his heart but ultimately offer the possibility of redemption.

In this haunting, lyrical, and evocative novel, Matthew Goodman composes a paean to the power of family and belonging in the African-American community. Hold Love Strong is a spellbinding coming-of-age tale about love, hope, and the will to survive, and a stunning universal story about the incredible capacity of the human spirit.

About the Author

Matthew Goodman earned a B.A. degree in literature from Brandeis University and an MFA from Emerson College. He has been a student of writing at the 92nd Street Y, Breadloaf Writer's Conference, and the Vermont Studio Center, and has taught and worked in inner-city communities for years. Working hand-in-hand with formerly incarcerated men and women, he created The Leadership Alliance, a community empowerment project that unites community leaders and volunteer partners. He lives with his wife in Brooklyn, New York.

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BookCourt
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Eight White Nights:
A Novel
by Andre Aciman
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Wednesday, March 24
7:00pm
Eight White Nights: A Novel by Andre Aciman
A LUSHLY ROMANTIC NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Eight White Nights is an unforgettable journey through that enchanted terrain where passion and fear and the sheer craving to ask for love and to show love can forever alter who we are. A man in his late twenties goes to a large Christmas…

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A LUSHLY ROMANTIC NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF CALL ME BY YOUR NAME

Eight White Nights is an unforgettable journey through that enchanted terrain where passion and fear and the sheer craving to ask for love and to show love can forever alter who we are. A man in his late twenties goes to a large Christmas party in Manhattan where a woman introduces herself with three words: “I am Clara.” Over the following seven days, they meet every evening at the same cinema. Overwhelmed yet cautious, he treads softly and won’t hazard a move. The tension between them builds gradually, marked by ambivalence, hope, and distrust. As André Aciman explores their emotions with uncompromising accuracy and sensuous prose, they move both closer together and farther apart, culminating on New Year’s Eve in a final scene charged with magic and the promise of renewal.

Call Me by Your Name, Aciman’s debut novel, established him as one of the finest writers of our time, an expert at the most sultry depictions of longing and desire. As The Washington Post Book World wrote, “The beauty of Aciman’s writing and the purity of his passions should place this extraordinary first novel within the canon of great romantic love stories for everyone.”

Aciman’s piercing and romantic new novel is a brilliant performance from a master prose stylist.

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Wednesday, March 24
7:00pm
Reading: CALYX’s Talented Feminist Writers With Elena Lelia Radulescu, Kirsten Skrinde, and Denise Rue
Come out and hear from some of the recent contributors to “CALYX”, including Elena Lelia Radulescu reading from “The Inheritance of Dreams” and Kirsten Skrinde reading from “What to Do When Your Best Friend Commits Suicide.” Now celebrating its thirty-third year of publishing, “CALYX…

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Come out and hear from some of the recent contributors to “CALYX”, including Elena Lelia Radulescu reading from “The Inheritance of Dreams” and Kirsten Skrinde reading from “What to Do When Your Best Friend Commits Suicide.” Now celebrating its thirty-third year of publishing, “CALYX” is America’s foremost feminist literary journal, first publishing the likes of Julia Alvarez, Paula Gunn Allen, and Barbara Kingsolver.

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Bluestockings Books
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How to Escape from a Leper Colony:
A Novella and Stories
by Tiphanie Yanique
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Wednesday, March 24
7:00pm
Tiphanie Yanique
The effects of colonialism throb in Yanique's vivid debut collection. The chilling title story is set in 1939, when the Trinidadian island of Chacachacare was still used as a leper colony; the narrator, a 14-year-old orphan with leprosy, befriends a curious boy her age, Lazaro, whose mother was …

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The effects of colonialism throb in Yanique's vivid debut collection. The chilling title story is set in 1939, when the Trinidadian island of Chacachacare was still used as a leper colony; the narrator, a 14-year-old orphan with leprosy, befriends a curious boy her age, Lazaro, whose mother was murdered there when he was a baby, and whose troubled relationship with the nuns leads him to a terrible retribution. The Bridge Stories are elucidating snapshots of islanders struggling to carve out lives for themselves on St. Thomas and elsewhere amid an exploitative tourist economy. Yanique frequently dips into rich, fanciful vernacular, such as in Street Man, a beautiful, sad glimpse at a doomed love affair between a college student and a St. Croix local. In the affecting novella, International Shop of Coffins, Yanique depicts characters of mixed African/Creole/Indian descent torn between the white and island worlds in all their complexity and conflictedness. A smattering of dark humor leavens the tense narratives as Yanique penetrates the perils and pleasures of lives lived outside resort walls.

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McNally Jackson Books
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Wednesday, March 24
7:30pm
Words and Music with Rick Moody and Wesley Stace (John Wesley Harding)
Brooklyn artists Rick Moody and Wesley Stace (aka John Wesley Harding) both have the rare distinction of being recognized for their talents as writers and as musicians. Rick Moody is the author of The Ice Storm, The Diviners, Demonology, The Black Veil, and other novels and nonfiction works, and has…

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Brooklyn artists Rick Moody and Wesley Stace (aka John Wesley Harding) both have the rare distinction of being recognized for their talents as writers and as musicians. Rick Moody is the author of The Ice Storm, The Diviners, Demonology, The Black Veil, and other novels and nonfiction works, and has performed with the Wingdale Community Singers and One Ring Zero. Wesley Stace is the author of the novels Misfortune and By George, and as John Wesley Harding has released 15 albums and performed with Iggy Pop and Bruce Springsteen. For this special evening at Greenlight, Rick and John plan to read from new unpublished work. They'll also play together as the band Authros, described by Rick as "really just the two of us and an acoustic guitar.

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Greenlight Bookstore
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Body of Water
by Janet Hamill
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Wednesday, March 24
8:00pm
Reading: Janet Hamill & Margaret Randall
Janet Hamill is the author of five books of poetry: Troublante (Oliphant Press), The Temple (Telephone Books), Nostalgia of the Infinite (Ocean View Books), Lost Ceilings (Telephone Books); and her most recent collection, Body of Water, published by Bowery Books, and nominated for the Poetry Society…

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Janet Hamill is the author of five books of poetry: Troublante (Oliphant Press), The Temple (Telephone Books), Nostalgia of the Infinite (Ocean View Books), Lost Ceilings (Telephone Books); and her most recent collection, Body of Water, published by Bowery Books, and nominated for the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Prize. She has released two CD’s of spoken word and music in collaboration with the band Moving Star. Flying Nowhere (Yes No Maybe Records, 2000) was produced by Lenny Kaye and executive-produced by Bob Holman; the CD featured cameo performances by Lenny Kaye and Patti Smith. Genie of the Alphabet (Not Records 2005) featured cameos by Lenny Kaye, Patti Smith, Bob Holman and David Amram.

Margaret Randall lived for almost a quarter century in Latin America: Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua. When she returned to the United States, in 1984, the Immigration and Naturalization Service ordered her deported because of opinions expressed in some of her books. With the help of many writers and others, she won her case in 1989. During the 1960s, out of Mexico City, Randall and Mexican poet Sergio Mondragon published the influential bi-lingual poetry journal El Corno Emplumado / The Plumed Horn. She has also done a great deal of translation from the Spanish, making such Latin American poets as Roque Dalton, Otto Rene Castillo, and others available to an English readership. Among Randall’s most recent books of poetry are Where They Left You For Dead (BookWorks), Stones Witness (The University of Arizona Press), and Their Backs To The Sea (Wings Press). My Town will be published by Wings in 2010. Randall lives with her partner, Barbara Byers, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from where she travels widely to read and speak.

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The Poetry Project
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The Artist's Guide:
How to Make a Living Doing What You Love
by Jackie Battenfield
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Thursday, March 25
7:00pm
New York Foundation for the Arts Night: Pursuing a Career in the Arts
Those pursuing a career in the arts will want to check out his event with panel participants Jackie Battenfield, Heather Darcy Bhandari and Jonathan Melber. Produced in conjunction with the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA).
Barnes & Noble
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Thursday, March 25
7:00pm
Rare Books Seminar for Volunteers and Customers
Nancy Cooper recently celebrated her tenth anniversary as an employee of the Housing Works Bookstore Café, where she is the resident rare-book expert. Join her for an overview on identifying rare books, understanding why they are collectible, researching them and learning about modern first editions.…

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Nancy Cooper recently celebrated her tenth anniversary as an employee of the Housing Works Bookstore Café, where she is the resident rare-book expert. Join her for an overview on identifying rare books, understanding why they are collectible, researching them and learning about modern first editions.

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Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
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City Kid New York:
The Ultimate Guide for NYC Parents with kids ages 4-12
by Alison Lowenstein
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Thursday, March 25
7:00pm
City Kid New York: The Ultimate Guide for NYC Parents with kids ages 4-12 by Alison Lowenstein
The ultimate guide for New York City moms, with the best kid activities, savvy advice, and family-friendly resources. City Baby has been the essential go-to guide for New York City parents from pregnancy to preschool for more than ten years. City Kid follows suit with indispensable advice and resources…

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The ultimate guide for New York City moms, with the best kid activities, savvy advice, and family-friendly resources. City Baby has been the essential go-to guide for New York City parents from pregnancy to preschool for more than ten years. City Kid follows suit with indispensable advice and resources for raising a tot, ages 4 through 12, in the Big Apple. Alison Lowenstein, a native New Yorker, author, and mom fills us in on all of the best resources for urban parents. City Kid New York covers diverse and essential kid topics such as after-school activities; fun family dining and entertainment options throughout the five boroughs; local weekend excursions for families; tips on throwing birthday parties for all ages; and where to get the best toys, clothes, books, and more in the shopping capital of the world. From fishing through the Go Fish program in Battery Park to performing stand-up at Gotham Comedy Club, the city is not just for adults anymore. Also included are community service projects for kids, DIY tips for setting up kid bedrooms in those tiny New York apartments, and kid-centric tours of museums, sports arenas, and gardens. City Kid New York breaks down all the city has to offer by subject, and features a City Kid Yellow Pages of excellent web resources and helpful organizations to prepare your child for all the big city has to offer.

About the Author

Alison Lowenstein is the author of City Baby Brooklyn: The Ultimate Guide for Pregnancy through Preschool and City Weekends: The Greatest Escapes and Weekend Getaways in and Around NYC. She has written for The New York Daily News, Newsday, Time Out New York Kids, New York Family Magazine, Babble.com, among many other publications and websites. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their two school-aged children.

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BookCourt
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Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Postwar Cinema
by Marcelline Block
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Saturday, March 27
7:00pm
Discussion: Marcelline Block “Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship”
Come of a panel discussion about the book “Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Postwar Cinema,” a scholarly collection of essays on feminist film theory and contemporary post-feminist media studies. Joining editor Marcelline Block on the panel will be: Izabela Kalinowska, Jeremi …

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Come of a panel discussion about the book “Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Postwar Cinema,” a scholarly collection of essays on feminist film theory and contemporary post-feminist media studies. Joining editor Marcelline Block on the panel will be: Izabela Kalinowska, Jeremi Szaniawski, Lisa DeTora, Noelle Rouxel-Cubberly, Amy Woodworth, and Elizabeth Gruber.

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Bluestockings Books
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Re:Imagining Change:
How to Use Story-based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the World
by Doyle Canning and Patrick Reinsborough
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Sunday, March 28
7:00pm
Re:Imagining Change: How to Use Story-based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the World by Doyle Canning and Patrick Reinsborough
An inspirational inside look at the trailblazing methodology developed by the nonprofit strategy and training organization, smartMeme, this unique exploration provides progressive activists with the tools to get stories into the media, build successful campaigns, and connect with other organizations…

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An inspirational inside look at the trailblazing methodology developed by the nonprofit strategy and training organization, smartMeme, this unique exploration provides progressive activists with the tools to get stories into the media, build successful campaigns, and connect with other organizations the world over. Providing resources, theories, hands-on tools, and illuminating case studies for the next generation of activists, this resource shows how culture, media, memes, and narrative intertwine with social-change strategies and offers practical methods to amplify progressive causes in popular culture. A summation of the smartMeme approach, this study in memetics provides practical exercises to augment movements for justice, ecological sanity, and transformative social change.

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Bluestockings Books
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Insectopedia
by Hugh Raffles
$29.95 List Price
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Tuesday, March 30
7:00pm
Hugh Raffles
Hugh Raffles, author of The Insectopedia (Knopf, $29.95)
McNally Jackson Books
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52 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012
212-274-1160
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The Secret Lives of People in Love:
Stories (P.S.)
by Simon Van Booy
$13.99 List Price
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Wednesday, March 31
7:00pm
Simon Van Booy
Simon Van Booy, author of The Secret Lives of People in Love (Harper Perennial, $13.99)
McNally Jackson Books
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The Butt Book
by Artie Bennett
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Thursday, April 1
3:30pm
STRAND FAMILY HOUR EVENT with Artie Bennett and The Butt Book
For children of all ages and their caregivers... Artie Bennett will read from his "good-natured hymn of praise to rear ends in all their variety" (The Horn Book). Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz says "This book... filled with with such whimsical, lighthearted language and charming …

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For children of all ages and their caregivers...

Artie Bennett will read from his "good-natured hymn of praise to rear ends in all their variety" (The Horn Book).

Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz says "This book... filled with with such whimsical, lighthearted language and charming illustrations... is fun for fun's sake... and that's what reading should always be about!"

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Strand Book Store
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Hotel Dieu
by Stephanos Papadopoulos
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Goat Funeral:
Poems
by Christopher Bakken
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Thursday, April 1
7:00pm
Sheep Meadow Press Poets - Stephanos Papadopoulos and Christopher Bakken
Founded in 1977, Sheep Meadow is a non-profit press dedicated to poetry, poets, and books of particular interest to poets. Sheep Meadow is attracted to poets of great merit who for one reason or another have been turned away from commercial publishers. Unobtrusively but decisively, Stephanos …

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Founded in 1977, Sheep Meadow is a non-profit press dedicated to poetry, poets, and books of particular interest to poets. Sheep Meadow is attracted to poets of great merit who for one reason or another have been turned away from commercial publishers.

Unobtrusively but decisively, Stephanos Papadopoulos’ work is informed by various cultures: American, Greek, ancient and modern, French and English as distinguished from American. He follows other poets, but mostly he follows his heart. In his poetry the melancholy of the modern finds its beauty in loss itself. Papadopoulos catches this beauty in poem after poem, while his poetry swims for joy in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Aegean. This beautiful contradiction makes Hôtel Dieu a great pleasure to read and reread.

"When Virginia Woolf went to Greece in 1906, she felt that 'all lumps in the earth here are but so much dust heaped negligently over some well-ordered temple or statue beneath.' Identical treasure is inherent in the heroic soil for Christopher Bakken; this poet is nurtured by lithic yield: 'Here I believe in stone, existence in the flesh...' And with all the power of a burial that is yet a parturition, his book reads as a kind of tephromancy, a divination by ashes: 'Since the earth is god I am not dust but god.' It is not 'questions of travel,' or even the effects of an affinity these luminous poems afford, but a lasting procession. There is no 'after Greece,' nothing subsequent: the dust and what is beneath it are present forever in the poet's mouth." - Richard Howard

Stephanos Papadopoulos, a Greek-American poet and translator, was born in North Carolina in 1976 and was raised in Paris and Athens. Educated in the US and Edinburgh, Scotland, he holds a degree in classical archaeology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His work has been published in periodicals such as the Yale Review, Poetry Review, Stand Magazine, The New Republic and many others.

Christopher Bakken's first book, After Greece, won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry in 2001. Bakken is also co-translator of The Lions’ Gate: Selected Poems of Titos Patrikios (2006). He received an M.F.A. from the Writing Seminars of Columbia University and a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing at University of Houston.

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Book Culture
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Becoming Jane Eyre:
A Novel
by Sheila Kohler
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Thursday, April 1
7:00pm
Becoming Jane Eyre: A Novel (Penguin Original) by Sheila Kohler in conversation with Philip Lopate
A beautifully imagined tale of the Bronte sisters and the writing of Jane Eyre. The year is 1846. In a cold parsonage on the gloomy Yorkshire moors, a family seems cursed with disaster. A mother and two children dead. A father sick, without fortune, and hardened by the loss of his two most beloved…

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A beautifully imagined tale of the Bronte sisters and the writing of Jane Eyre.

The year is 1846. In a cold parsonage on the gloomy Yorkshire moors, a family seems cursed with disaster. A mother and two children dead. A father sick, without fortune, and hardened by the loss of his two most beloved family members. A son destroyed by alcohol and opiates. And three strong, intelligent young women, reduced to poverty and spinsterhood, with nothing to save them from their fate. Nothing, that is, except their remarkable literary talent.

So unfolds the story of the Brontë sisters. At its center are Charlotte and the writing of Jane Eyre. Delicately unraveling the connections between one of fiction's most indelible heroines and the remarkable woman who created her, Sheila Kohler's Becoming Jane Eyre will appeal to fans of historical fiction and, of course, the millions of readers who adore Jane Eyre.

About the Author

Sheila Kohler is the author of nine previous works of fiction, including Cracks, which is now a movie starring Eva Green. Her work has been included in the Best American Short Stories, and she has won two O'Henry Prizes, an Open Fiction Award, a Willa Cather Prize, and a Smart Family Foundation Prize.

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BookCourt
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Something Red:
A Novel
by Jennifer Gilmore
$25.00 List Price
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Apr 1, 2010
7:30pm-8:30pm
Jennifer Gilmore reads from Something Red
Brooklyn author Jennifer Gilmore’s first novel, Golden Country, was named a New York Times Notable Book and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. Her new novel Something Red puts a twist on the traditionally male-dominated arenas of politics and espionage with the story of the tumultuous …

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Brooklyn author Jennifer Gilmore’s first novel, Golden Country, was named a New York Times Notable Book and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. Her new novel Something Red puts a twist on the traditionally male-dominated arenas of politics and espionage with the story of the tumultuous Goldstein family, living in Washington D.C in 1980. Jennifer is the former publicity director at Harcourt and a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine and the New York Times Book Review; join us for the launch party for her brand-new novel.

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Greenlight Bookstore
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Madeline
by Ludwig Bemelmans
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Saturday, April 3
11:00am
Madeline
This morning, none other than Madeline joins us to visit with the children. There will also be a special Madeline Storytime, so parents, please bring your camera!
Barnes & Noble
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Madeline
by Ludwig Bemelmans
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Saturday, April 3
11:00am
Madeline
This morning, none other than Madeline joins us to visit with the children. There will also be a special Madeline Storytime, so parents, please bring your camera!
Mysterious Bookshop
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58 Warren Street, New York, NY 10007
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Black Nature:
Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
by Camille T. Dungy
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Apr 3, 2010
2:30pm-5:00pm
Black Nature: 4 Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
Contributors to the landmark anthology "Black Nature: Four Centuries

of African American Nature Poetry" gather for conversation and readings.
Poets House
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10 River Terrace, New York, NY 10282
212-431-7920
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HAMMER!:
Making Movies Out of Sex and Life
by Barbara Hammer
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Monday, April 5
7:00pm
Extreme Actions: Barbara Hammer and Elizabeth Streb in Conversation
Filmmaker Barbara Hammer, (""Hammer!"") an inspiration to queer, feminist and avant-garde artists, discusses memoir writing with Elizabeth Streb (""Streb: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero""), dubbed the Evel Knievel of dance.
Barnes & Noble
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Monday, April 5
7:00pm
The Fiction Feed 2
The Fiction Feed 2 is a follow up to last fall’s reading and raucous debate about fiction and technology organized by literary website Joyland. This installment features author and Joyland co-founder Brian Joseph Davis, Cursor’s Richard Nash, and blogger and author Jim Hanas. The event is free.…

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The Fiction Feed 2 is a follow up to last fall’s reading and raucous debate about fiction and technology organized by literary website Joyland. This installment features author and Joyland co-founder Brian Joseph Davis, Cursor’s Richard Nash, and blogger and author Jim Hanas.

The event is free.

Brian Joseph Davis is the author of I, Tania, a novel that SLATE called “The book of your fever dreams.” His music and radio productions have been acclaimed by Wired, Pitchfork, Salon, and LA Weekly. Davis is co-founder of Joyland, which the CBC called “the go-to spot for readers seeking the best in short fiction.” His new book of short fiction, Ronald Reagan My Father is out April 1.

Jim Hanas is the author of Cassingle: Five Stories (2009) and Single: Two Stories (2006), two e-book collections of short stories that previously appeared in McSweeney's, Fence, One Story, the Land-Grant College Review, Bridge, Twelve Stories, and elsewhere. His non-fiction and humor pieces have appeared in Slate, Radar, Print, the New York Daily News, and the New York Post. He also helps out with Adult Education, a "useless lecture series."

Richard Nash ran Soft Skull Press, now an imprint of Counterpoint, from 2001 to 2007 and ran the imprint on behalf of Counterpoint until early 2009. He’s developing a start-up called Cursor, a portfolio of niche social publishing communities, one of which will be called Red Lemonade.

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How to Wreck a Nice Beach (Melville House Publishing)
by Dave Tompkins
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Monday, April 5
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DAVE TOMPKINS – HOW TO WRECK A NICE BEACH: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop
This is the story of how a military device became the robot voice of hip-hop and pop music. Though the vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, was designed to guard phones from eavesdroppers, it expanded beyond its original purpose and has since become widely used as a voice-altering tool for musicians.…

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This is the story of how a military device became the robot voice of hip-hop and pop music. Though the vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, was designed to guard phones from eavesdroppers, it expanded beyond its original purpose and has since become widely used as a voice-altering tool for musicians. It has served both the Pentagon and the roller rink, a double agent of pop and espionage.

In How to Wreck a Nice Beach—from a mis-hearing of the vocoder-rendered phrase “how to recognize speech”—music journalist Dave Tompkins traces the history of electronic voices from Nazi research labs to Stalin’s gulags, from the 1939 World’s Fair to Hiroshima, from Manhattan nightclubs to the Muppets.

The result is an amazing chronicle of postwar music and culture, filled with unexpected and surprising encounters. We see the vocoder brush up against FDR, Solzhenitsyn, Stanley Kubrick, Stevie Wonder, JFK, Eisenhower, Neil Young, Kanye West, the Cylons, Walt Disney, Henry Kissinger, and Winston Churchill, who boomed, when vocoderized on V-E Day, “We must go off!” And now the device is a cell phone standard, allowing your voice to sound human.

From T-Mobile to T-Pain, How to Wreck a Nice Beach is a riveting saga of technology and culture, illuminating the work of some of music’s most provocative innovators.

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