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  Apr 30, 2010

  10:00am-12:00pm

  PEN Festival: Face Off! Overcoming Barriers

  With David Almond, Alina Bronsky, Janne Teller, and Tommy Wieringa; moderated by Matt de la Peña It is often said that it is not the life that matters, but the courage one brings to it. Four acclaimed authors from the U.K., Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands, discuss how the characters in their…

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  With David Almond, Alina Bronsky, Janne Teller, and Tommy Wieringa; moderated by Matt de la Peña
  
  It is often said that it is not the life that matters, but the courage one brings to it. Four acclaimed authors from the U.K., Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands, discuss how the characters in their books summon the courage to overcome obstacles and live the kind of life they aspire to. Do writers get a kind of freedom, a way to problem solve issues from their own lives and even an opportunity to test their own mettle, through their characters? Matt De La Peña asks our guests to share how their characters face down obstacles, both internal and external, and what their work means to their own lives.

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  Apr 30, 2010

  12:30pm-2:00pm

  PEN Festival - Garden Readings

  Romanian author Filip Florian introduces us to strange saints, inept lovers, wanderers from old fairy tales, and local legends; Monique Proulx describes a unique landscape in her novel, Wildlives; and Marcel Möring’s In a Dark Wood explores the guilt, fear, and loss suffered by Europeans, and in…

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  Romanian author Filip Florian introduces us to strange saints, inept lovers, wanderers from old fairy tales, and local legends; Monique Proulx describes a unique landscape in her novel, Wildlives; and Marcel Möring’s In a Dark Wood explores the guilt, fear, and loss suffered by Europeans, and in particular the Jewish people, during and after the Holocaust. According to Jonathan Lethem, Rodrigo Fresán is “a kaleidoscopic, open-hearted, shamelessly polymathic storyteller, the kind who brings a blast of oxygen into the room.” Join us under the trees in the beautiful courtyard of Deutsches Haus for this special lunchtime reading with international guests of the Festival.

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  Apr 30, 2010

  1:00pm-2:30pm

  PEN Festival - This Critical Moment: The Journey—A National Book Critics Circle Conversation

  With Eric Banks, Jane Ciabattari, Rigoberto González, and Mary Ann Newman Have a conversation with leading literary critics about the work of some of the writers at this year’s Festival—including Sherman Alexie, Quim Monzó, Peter Schneider, Martin Solares, and Peter Stamm. Who are their …

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  With Eric Banks, Jane Ciabattari, Rigoberto González, and Mary Ann Newman
  
  Have a conversation with leading literary critics about the work of some of the writers at this year’s Festival—including Sherman Alexie, Quim Monzó, Peter Schneider, Martin Solares, and Peter Stamm. Who are their influences? How has their work been received, both here and abroad? Members of the National Book Critics Circle trace the journey these writers have traveled from publication to translation to critical attention.

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  Austrian Cultural Forum

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  Apr 30, 2010

  1:00pm-2:30pm

  PEN Festival: The Future of Journalism

  With Lewis Lapham, Joris Luyendijk, Martin Pollack, and Mary Anne Weaver International desks and bureaus—once the backbone of the news business—are closing around the world. Journalists in general are losing their jobs at a huge rate—yet degrees in journalism remain popular. Several respected…

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  With Lewis Lapham, Joris Luyendijk, Martin Pollack, and Mary Anne Weaver
  
  International desks and bureaus—once the backbone of the news business—are closing around the world. Journalists in general are losing their jobs at a huge rate—yet degrees in journalism remain popular. Several respected newspapers have turned off their printing presses, and those that remain are still struggling to make profitable use of the Internet. Join a distinguished group of editors and journalists for a discussion on the future of the news.

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  Apr 30, 2010

  1:00pm-2:00pm

  PEN Festival: The Poetry of Edward Hopper

  With Ernest Farrés and Edward Hirsch; moderated by Gail Levin The great American painter of solitude comes back to us brilliantly illuminated and transformed by the Catalan poet Ernest Farrés, whose recent Edward Hopper is a collection of poems based on Hopper’s paintings. New York poet Edward…

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  With Ernest Farrés and Edward Hirsch; moderated by Gail Levin
  
  The great American painter of solitude comes back to us brilliantly illuminated and transformed by the Catalan poet Ernest Farrés, whose recent Edward Hopper is a collection of poems based on Hopper’s paintings. New York poet Edward Hirsch, who has also written about Hopper, joins Farrés for a conversation about the power of Hopper’s imagery to invoke poetry.

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  Apr 30, 2010

  3:00pm-4:00pm

  PEN Festival - Conversation with Jonathan Galassi

  Jonathan Galassi became an editor in the trade division of Houghton Mifflin Company in 1973. He was a senior editor at Random House from 1981 to 1986, when he joined Farrar, Straus, and Giroux as vice-president and executive editor. He was named editor-in-chief of FSG in 1988, executive vice-president…

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  Jonathan Galassi became an editor in the trade division of Houghton Mifflin Company in 1973. He was a senior editor at Random House from 1981 to 1986, when he joined Farrar, Straus, and Giroux as vice-president and executive editor. He was named editor-in-chief of FSG in 1988, executive vice-president in 1993, publisher in 1999, and president of the firm in January 2002.
  
  Mr. Galassi has published two books of poems: Morning Run and North Street. He has also translated several volumes of the work of the Italian poet Eugenio Montale: The Second Life of Art: Selected Essays; Otherwise: Last and First Poems; Collected Poems: 1920-1954; and Posthumous Diary.

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  Apr 30, 2010

  3:00pm-4:30pm

  PEN Festival: "Blogs, Twitter, the Kindle: The Future of Reading"

  With Ben Okri, Thomas Pletzinger, Alberto Ruy-Sánchez, and Sergi Sokolovskiy; moderated by Ben Schrank Philip Roth recently said that reading novels would be a “cultic” activity in 25 years, adding that “the book can’t compete with the screen.” Do other writers share his pessimism? How …

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  With Ben Okri, Thomas Pletzinger, Alberto Ruy-Sánchez, and Sergi Sokolovskiy; moderated by Ben Schrank
  
  Philip Roth recently said that reading novels would be a “cultic” activity in 25 years, adding that “the book can’t compete with the screen.” Do other writers share his pessimism? How does the situation differ across cultures and continents—and are there lessons in those differences? These writers—some of whom Twitter and some who will not—come together for a conversation about the future of reading with Ben Schrank, president and publisher of Razorbill, an imprint at Penguin.

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  Gasoline

  by Quim Monzo

  translation by Mary Ann Newman

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  Apr 30, 2010

  3:30pm-4:30pm

  PEN Festival - Quim Monzó in Conversation with Robert Coover

  Catalan writer Quim Monzó draws on the rich tradition of surrealism to put a deliberately paranoid sense of menace in the mundane. He has translated Arthur Miller, J.D. Salinger, Dorothy Parker, Ray Bradbury, and the works of Robert Coover, who joins him today. Sit in on this special discussion …

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  Catalan writer Quim Monzó draws on the rich tradition of surrealism to put a deliberately paranoid sense of menace in the mundane. He has translated Arthur Miller, J.D. Salinger, Dorothy Parker, Ray Bradbury, and the works of Robert Coover, who joins him today. Sit in on this special discussion about Monzó’s new book, Gasoline, and the things these two acclaimed writers share—their lyrical, visionary imaginations, and fantastic senses of the absurd.

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  Apr 30, 2010

  3:30pm-5:00pm

  PEN Festival - Short Stories: Past, Present, and Future

  With Preston L. Allen, Alex Epstein, Aleksandar Hemon, Yiyun Li, and Martin Solares; moderated by Deborah Treisman What virtues and challenges are unique to the short story? How flexible is the form? And why is it that, even now—after Poe, Chekov, Hemingway, O’Connor, Nabokov, and Munro—the …

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  With Preston L. Allen, Alex Epstein, Aleksandar Hemon, Yiyun Li, and Martin Solares; moderated by Deborah Treisman
  
  What virtues and challenges are unique to the short story? How flexible is the form? And why is it that, even now—after Poe, Chekov, Hemingway, O’Connor, Nabokov, and Munro—the short story often gets less respect, in terms of prizes and critical esteem, than the novel? Join acclaimed practitioners of the form from Bosnia, Israel, China, Mexico, and the United States, for a conversation with The New Yorker fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, about the past, present, and future of the short story.

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  Apr 30, 2010

  4:30pm-6:00pm

  PEN Festival - Heaven and Earth

  With Karl O. Knausgaard, Joris Luyendijk, Monique Proulx, and Natalia Sannikova; moderated by Noreen Tomassi Writers have any number of tools up their sleeve—structure, genre, and language are among some of the many devices they can call upon. Whether to swoop through the celestial heavens on the…

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  With Karl O. Knausgaard, Joris Luyendijk, Monique Proulx, and Natalia Sannikova; moderated by Noreen Tomassi
  
  Writers have any number of tools up their sleeve—structure, genre, and language are among some of the many devices they can call upon. Whether to swoop through the celestial heavens on the rhythms of lyrical language or move through terra firma with accurate, hard-hitting depictions, is a decision writers make before they even put pen to paper. Norwegian novelist Karl Knausgaard whose latest book is all about myths and angels, and Quebec writer Monique Proulx, who uses nature as a character in her most recent novel, are joined by Natalia Sannikova from Russia and Dutch journalist Joris Luyendijk, who adds some heavy doses of realism from the world of reportage. They’ll be guided to heaven and back to earth by the executive director of the Center for Fiction, Noreen Tomassi.

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  Apr 30, 2010

  4:30pm-6:00pm

  “I Come from There”: Egyptian Products

  Egyptian Products by Laila Soliman from Egypt; translated by Khalid Laith
  
  Hadia is an independent woman in Cairo. Gasir is a painfully awkward lab assistant with attachment issues over his dead mother. Is he really her knight in shining armour?

  CUNY Graduate Center (Center for the Humanities)

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  Apr 30, 2010

  5:00pm-6:00pm

  David Almond and Sofi Oksanen in Conversation with Rakesh Satyal

  Young characters allow their creators to explore the world and its very grownup problems with a unique innocence and honesty. The characters from David Almond’s many award-winning books including Skellig and Sofi Oksanen’s Purge move through harrowing times, managing to survive and tell their …

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  Young characters allow their creators to explore the world and its very grownup problems with a unique innocence and honesty. The characters from David Almond’s many award-winning books including Skellig and Sofi Oksanen’s Purge move through harrowing times, managing to survive and tell their particular tales, growing from their woes along the way. What kind of freedom do these characters allow their authors? What challenges are there in writing them? Do child protagonists provide less, as much, or more wisdom than adults? Rakesh Satyal, author of the acclaimed novel Blue Boy, moderates a conversation about all this and more.

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  Lowboy:

  A Novel

  by John Wray

  $25.00 List Price

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  Apr 30, 2010

  5:30pm-6:30pm

  PEN Festival - Peter Schneider in Conversation with John Wray

  Award-winning German author Peter Schneider, who has published over 20 novels, screenplays, and volumes of journalistic essays since his first novel, Lenz, in 1973 will take part in an interview with author John Wray. Come listen as the authors compare notes on their literary maps and oeuvres, …

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  Award-winning German author Peter Schneider, who has published over 20 novels, screenplays, and volumes of journalistic essays since his first novel, Lenz, in 1973 will take part in an interview with author John Wray. Come listen as the authors compare notes on their literary maps and oeuvres, homelands real and imagined, and their common journeys as authors over the past few tumultuous decades.

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  Apr 30, 2010

  6:30pm-7:30pm

  PEN Festival: The Big Poetry Reading

  Come on a journey celebrating acclaimed poets from Denmark, the U.S., Portugal, and Russia. Sharing their work on stage tonight are Nordic poet, short-story, and recent screenplay writer Naja Marie Aidt; American author, screenwriter, and poet Barry Gifford; valter hugo mae from Portugal; and Russian…

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  Come on a journey celebrating acclaimed poets from Denmark, the U.S., Portugal, and Russia. Sharing their work on stage tonight are Nordic poet, short-story, and recent screenplay writer Naja Marie Aidt; American author, screenwriter, and poet Barry Gifford; valter hugo mae from Portugal; and Russian photographer, curator, and poet Pavel Nastin.

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  Apr 30, 2010

  6:30pm-8:00pm

  PEN Festival - “I Come from There”: 603

  603 by Imad Farajin from Palestine; translated by Hassan Abdulrazzak
  
  Four Palestinian men share a cramped prison cell listening to the buses come and go outside, wondering if the next one will take them home. A play about hope and waiting.

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  The Ancient Shore:

  Dispatches from Naples

  by Shirley Hazzard and Francis Steegmuller

  $13.00 List Price

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  Apr 30, 2010

  7:00pm-8:00pm

  PEN Festival: The Great Fire—Shirley Hazzard in Conversation with Richard Ford

  With Richard Ford and Shirley Hazzard, along with special guests for readings of Shirley Hazzard’s work Don’t miss this rare meeting of two modern-day masters of the grand themes—“time, love, the coming around of inexorable events … the acceleration and dislocation of modern life.” What…

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  With Richard Ford and Shirley Hazzard, along with special guests for readings of Shirley Hazzard’s work
  
  Don’t miss this rare meeting of two modern-day masters of the grand themes—“time, love, the coming around of inexorable events … the acceleration and dislocation of modern life.” What Australian novelist Shirley Hazzard once said about her own subject matter can also be said of Richard Ford’s, especially his epic Bascombe Trilogy (The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land). Ford is a great admirer of Hazzard’s work, and will serve as her interviewer for this very special evening. Author of such contemporary classics as The Transit of Venus and The Great Fire, Hazzard is “one of the greatest writers working in English today,” said Michael Cunningham. The evening will feature readings of Hazzard’s work by friends and admirers, including Annabel Davis-Goff and others.

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  Apr 30, 2010

  7:00pm-8:30pm

  PEN Festival - A New World of Yesterday: Stefan Zweig’s Utopian Nostalgia

  With Michael Hofmann, Paul Holdengräber, George Prochnik, and Klemens Renoldner; moderated by Jonathan Taylor Stefan Zweig, possibly the best-selling “serious” author of the first half of the 20th century, mined cultural history for lessons in civilization for a humanity plunging into barbarity.…

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  With Michael Hofmann, Paul Holdengräber, George Prochnik, and Klemens Renoldner; moderated by Jonathan Taylor
  
  Stefan Zweig, possibly the best-selling “serious” author of the first half of the 20th century, mined cultural history for lessons in civilization for a humanity plunging into barbarity. In his portraits of elite Europe, the approach of modernity is experienced with a view fixed on the disappearing past; meanwhile, the unfolding present drove him to the New World, and suicide in Brazil in 1942. Zweig, a perennial nominee for “rediscovery” as a great writer, has been praised as a keeper of the flame of humanism and dismissed as blindly apolitical.
  
  While Zweig’s nostalgic relationship to his World of Yesterday has become legendary, Klemens Renoldner, George Prochnik, Paul Holdengräber and Michael Hofmann will also look at the Austrian writer’s thoughts about the future during his final years in the Americas.

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  Apr 30, 2010

  8:00pm-9:30pm

  PEN Festival: Translation Slam

  Back for the third year running is the fast, fascinating, and fun Translation Slam. Borrowed from our friends in Montreal, and fine-tuned to a New York bent, the Translation Slam puts translators in the spotlight in a duel to the literary—not to say literal—death. Joining us for this tussle are…

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  Back for the third year running is the fast, fascinating, and fun Translation Slam. Borrowed from our friends in Montreal, and fine-tuned to a New York bent, the Translation Slam puts translators in the spotlight in a duel to the literary—not to say literal—death. Joining us for this tussle are Thomas Pletzinger from Germany and Martin Pollack from Austria, who will be translating Cathy Park Hong, and Assaf Gavron and Barbara Harshav, who will tackle the work of Alex Epstein in Hebrew.

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  Apr 30, 2010

  8:00pm-9:30pm

  PEN Festival - I Come From There: Forum

  A forum led by Laila Hourani (British Council), Elyse Dodgson, and April De Angelis (Royal Court) discussing the extraordinary journey of the three-year Arab Playwright Project that led from the first workshops in Damascus to the readings at Royal Court, and from the publishing of the plays in …

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  A forum led by Laila Hourani (British Council), Elyse Dodgson, and April De Angelis (Royal Court) discussing the extraordinary journey of the three-year Arab Playwright Project that led from the first workshops in Damascus to the readings at Royal Court, and from the publishing of the plays in London, to the
  
  presentations in New York. With Professor Marvin Carlson, CUNY.

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  Friday, April 30

  1:00pm

  Incognito: Writers and their Aliases

  With Bernardo Atxaga, Alina Bronsky, and Randa Jarrar; moderated by Arnon Grunberg Free and open to the public. No reservations. Co-sponsored by the Martin E. Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY People use aliases to hide their true identity—it’s a way to remain anonymous and out of the…

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  With Bernardo Atxaga, Alina Bronsky, and Randa Jarrar; moderated by Arnon Grunberg
  
  Free and open to the public. No reservations.
  
  Co-sponsored by the Martin E. Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY
  
  People use aliases to hide their true identity—it’s a way to remain anonymous and out of the spotlight. But in an age when being a celebrity is considered a goal in and of itself, why would an author want to mask his or her identity by writing under an alias? Alina Bronsky from Germany is not who she says she is. Bernardo Atxaga is also a nom de plume, while Randa Jarrar chose to write a fictional account of a life that very much resembles her own. Some of Arnon Grunberg’s books were written in the name of Marek van der Jagt. Together they will discuss identity and truth and might even reveal how they settled on their own particular pseudonym.

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  Friday, April 30

  3:00pm

  Utopia and Dystopia: Geographies of the Possible

  With Inga Kuznetsova, Jonathan Lethem, Eshkol Nevo, and Andrzej Stasiuk; moderated by Albert Mobilio Where do you want to live? There’s the best of all possible worlds. Or the worst. Plato’s Republic, or Orwell’s Oceania? Of course, such idealizations exist only in the imagination—the very…

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  With Inga Kuznetsova, Jonathan Lethem, Eshkol Nevo, and Andrzej Stasiuk; moderated by Albert Mobilio
  
  Where do you want to live? There’s the best of all possible worlds. Or the worst. Plato’s Republic, or Orwell’s Oceania? Of course, such idealizations exist only in the imagination—the very word utopia means “no place” in Greek. Not surprisingly, these unchartable locales inspire novelists. And we look to them to articulate our longing for a better world, as well as our dread of a worse one. These writers from Russia, the U.S., Israel, and Poland will consider these among many questions: can the novel—in this ironic age—still give voice to such strong feelings about societies? Are ideals themselves—whether uplifting or despairing—incompatible with the novelist’s inquisitive tack? And isn’t every utopia someone else’s dystopia?
  
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  Friday, April 30

  6:30pm

  Writing Inside, Writing Outside

  With Anthony Cardenales, Piper Kerman, and Adrian Nicole LeBlanc; moderated by Jackson Taylor Free and open to the public. No reservations. Co-sponsored by the Martin E. Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY, and the PEN Prison Writing Program To the average person, the daily life behind prison…

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  With Anthony Cardenales, Piper Kerman, and Adrian Nicole LeBlanc; moderated by Jackson Taylor
  
  Free and open to the public. No reservations.
  
  Co-sponsored by the Martin E. Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY, and the PEN Prison Writing Program
  
  To the average person, the daily life behind prison walls is an invisible world. Writing about the everyday experiences of life from inside this system closed to the general public comes with as many challenges as writing about the experience outside. Piper Kerman, who documented the thirteen months she spent in prison in Orange is the New Black, is joined by journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of the award-winning Random Family, which charts the lives of a community in the South Bronx, and by Anthony Cardenales, one of LeBlanc’s subjects. These three writers will discuss their work and how the polarities of documenting and living the prison experience affected their writing.

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  Beauty Talk & Monsters (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)

  by Masha Tupitsyn

  $14.95 List Price

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  Friday, April 30

  7:00pm

  O Fallen Angel by Kate Zambreno

  Hear Kate Zambreno read from her debut novel "O Fallen Angel," (Chiasmus Press) an American triptych and grotesque homage to "Mrs. Dalloway," along with Masha Tupitsyn ("Beauty Talk and Monsters") and Kim Rosenfield ("Good Morning Midnight").

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  The Patron Saint of Liars

  by Ann Patchett

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  Thursday, May 31

  6:30pm

  Eat, Drink, & Be Literary with Ann Patchett

  “Expect miracles when you read Ann Patchett’s fiction.” —The New York Times Book review Ann Patchett is the author of six novels, including the New York Times Notable Book The Patron Saint of Liars; The Magician’s Assistant; the Pen/Faulkner Award winner Bel Canto; Run; and, most recently,…

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  “Expect miracles when you read Ann Patchett’s fiction.” —The New York Times Book review
  
  Ann Patchett is the author of six novels, including the New York Times Notable Book The Patron Saint of Liars; The Magician’s Assistant; the Pen/Faulkner Award winner Bel Canto; Run; and, most recently, State of Wonder. She is also the author of the memoir Truth & Beauty, and has made numerous contributions to The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, The Atlantic, and others. A Guggenheim fellow, Patchett was the editor of The Best American Short Stories 2006. Patchett’s work has been translated into more than 30 languages.
  
  This event is part of Eat, Drink & Be Literary, a unique series for sophisticated writers, readers, and eaters, that brings major contemporary authors to BAMcafé for intimate dinners, entertaining readings, and engaging discussions.
  
  Tickets: $50 (includes dinner, wine, tax, and tip)

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  Sick from Freedom:

  African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction

  by Jim Downs

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  Thursday, May 31

  7:00pm

  Jim Downs With Annette Gordon-Reed: Sick From Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction

  In conversation with Pulitzer Prize winner Annette Gordon-Reed, history professor Jim Downs discusses his book Sick From Freedom, and how the mostly celebrated emancipation of slaves 150 years ago was also a devastating time for African Americans.

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  Windeye

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  Understories

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  The Uninnocent:

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  Thursday, May 31

  7:00pm

  "Laughter in the Dark: The Comedy of Noir" with Tim Horvath, Brian Evenson, and Bradford Morrow

  Bradford Morrow's stories have garnered him awards such as the O. Henry and Pushcart Prizes and have given him a devoted following. The Uninnocent is a collection of his finest, gothic tales. He's also the editor of Conjunctions. Jonathan Lethem says that "Brian Evenson is one of the treasures of …

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  Bradford Morrow's stories have garnered him awards such as the O. Henry and Pushcart Prizes and have given him a devoted following. The Uninnocent is a collection of his finest, gothic tales. He's also the editor of Conjunctions. Jonathan Lethem says that "Brian Evenson is one of the treasures of American story writing, a true successor both to the generation of Coover, Barthelme, Hawkes and Co., but also to Edgar Allan Poe." And Kate Christensen says of Tim Horvath's debut short story collection, Understories: “Tim Horvath is a fluid, inventive writer who deftly interweaves the palpably real and the pyrotechnically fantastic. At once playful, deeply moving, and sharply funny, Understories satisfies the mind, the heart, and the gut.”

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  Gillespie and I:

  A Novel

  by Jane Harris

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  Friday, June 1

  7:00pm

  Friday Night Book Group

  The Friday Night Book Group reconvenes in the Cafe for their monthly meeting. This month the group will discuss Gillespie and I by Jane Harris. Group meetings are open to the public.

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  The Chemistry of Tears

  by Peter Carey

  $26.00 List Price

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  Wednesday, June 6

  7:00pm

  Peter Carey

  ABOUT PETER CAREY'S THE CHEMISTRY OF TEARS London 2010: Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of the sudden death of her colleague and lover of thirteen years. As the mistress of a married man, she must struggle to keep the depth of her anguish to herself. The one other person…

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  ABOUT PETER CAREY'S THE CHEMISTRY OF TEARS
  
  London 2010: Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of the sudden death of her colleague and lover of thirteen years. As the mistress of a married man, she must struggle to keep the depth of her anguish to herself. The one other person who knows Catherine’s secret—her boss—arranges for her to be given a special project away from prying eyes in the museum’s Annexe. Usually controlled and rational, but now mad with grief, Cat herine reluctantly unpacks an extraordinary, eerie automaton that she has been charged with bringing back to life.
  
  As she begins to piece together the clockwork puzzle, she also uncovers a series of notebooks written by the mechanical creature’s original owner: a nineteenth-century English man, Henry Brandling, who traveled to Germany to commission it as a “magical amusement” for his consumptive son. But it is Catherine, nearly two hundred years later, who will find comfort and wonder in Henry’s story. And it is the automaton, in its beautiful, uncanny imitation of life, that will link two strangers confronted with the mysteries of creation, the miracle and catastrophe of human invention, and the body’s astonishing chemistry of love and feeling.

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  You've Got A Deal! The Biggest Lies of the Music Business

  by Jeffrey Weber

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  Wednesday, June 6

  7:00pm

  You've Got a Deal! The Biggest Lies of the Music Business

  Jeff Weber has been producing music for over 30 years, with over 180 projects to his credit, including multiple Grammys and Grammy nominations. You've Got a Deal is his lighthearted recollection of the music industry.

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  The Kid

  by Sapphire

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  Thursday, June 7

  6:30pm

  Eat, Drink, & Be Literary with Sapphire

  “unflinching in her exploration of ignorance and deprivation” —The Guardian Sapphire is a poet, novelist, and performer whose work explores the experience of poverty and struggle in black America. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Push, which won the Black Caucus of …

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  “unflinching in her exploration of ignorance and deprivation” —The Guardian
  
  Sapphire is a poet, novelist, and performer whose work explores the experience of poverty and struggle in black America. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Push, which won the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s First Novelist Award and was the basis of the Academy Award winning motion picture Precious. She is also the author of The Kid, the recently released companion novel to Push, as well as the poetry collections American Dreams and Black Wings & Blind Angels.
  
  This event is part of Eat, Drink & Be Literary, a unique series for sophisticated writers, readers, and eaters, that brings major contemporary authors to BAMcafé for intimate dinners, entertaining readings, and engaging discussions.
  
  Tickets: $50 (includes dinner, wine, tax, and tip)

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  The Pulpwood Queen's Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life

  by Kathy L. Patrick

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  Friday, June 8

  7:00pm

  The Pulpwood Queens Book Club

  As part of New York Book Week, we welcome the Pulpwood Queens Book Club featuring book club authors Kathy Patrick, Robert Leleux, Karen Abbott, Tina Sloan and Michael Morris! They will discuss their latest books and sign copies after the event.

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  C. P. Cavafy:

  Collected Poems

  by C.P. Cavafy

  translation by Daniel Mendelsohn

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  Saturday, June 9

  7:00pm

  Daniel Mendelsohn reads C.P. Cavafy

  ABOUT C.P. CAVAFY AND DANIEL MENDELSOHN No modern poet so vividly brought to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no writer dared break, with such taut energy, the early-twentieth-century taboos surrounding homoerotic desire; no poet before or since has so gracefully melded elegy…

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  ABOUT C.P. CAVAFY AND DANIEL MENDELSOHN
  
  No modern poet so vividly brought to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no writer dared break, with such taut energy, the early-twentieth-century taboos surrounding homoerotic desire; no poet before or since has so gracefully melded elegy and irony as the Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863–1933). Whether advising Odysseus on his return to Ithaca or confronting the poet with the ghosts of his youth, these verses brilliantly make the historical personal—and vice versa. To his profound exploration of longing and loneliness, fate and loss, memory and identity, Cavafy brings the historian’s assessing eye along with the poet’s compassionate heart.
  
  After more than a decade of work and study, Mendelsohn—a classicist who alone among Cavafy’s translators shares the poet’s deep intimacy with the ancient world—gives readers full access to the genius of Cavafy’s verse: the sensuous rhymes, rich assonances, and strong rhythms of the original Greek that have eluded previous translators.

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  James Joyce's Ulysses:

  A Study

  by Stuart Gilbert

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  Monday, June 11

  6:00pm

  Special Tribute to James Joyce With Pete Hamill and Malachy McCourt

  Please join authors and actors Pete Hamill, Malachy McCourt, Larry Kirwan, Jeffrey Frank, Aedin Moloney and others as they read from their favorite James Joyce masterpieces. It's a special event you won't want to miss!

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  The Stranger Within Sarah Stein (Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)

  by Thane Rosenbaum

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  Monday, June 11

  7:00pm

  Thane Rosenbaum — The Stranger Within Sarah Stein

  Thane Rosenbaum, the author of a number of adult novels, joins us for his new work of teen fiction, The Stranger Within Sarah Stein, a story that is part fairy tale and part tragedy of a young heroine dealing with her parents' divorce.

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  Love, Christopher Street:

  Reflections of New York City

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  Wednesday, June 13

  7:00pm

  Thomas Keith and Contributors — Love, Christopher Street

  Editor Thomas Keith is joined by his Love, Christopher Street contributors Brendan Fay, G. Winston James, Andrea Meyers and Ocean Vuong for readings of their personal stories that form their book's tapestry of gay life in New York City.

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  Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders

  by Samuel R. Delany

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  Monday, June 18

  7:00pm

  Samuel R. Delany With Kenneth James — Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders

  Prolific author Samuel Delany, whose works of science fiction and on sexual identity have won him numerous awards, reads from his new novel, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders, and discusses writing with literary scholar Kenneth James.

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  The Buddha in the Attic

  by Julie Otsuka

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  Wednesday, June 20

  7:00pm

  86th and Lex Reading Group

  The Upper East Side Reading Group reconvenes in our Cafe for their monthly book discussion. This month's selection is Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka.

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