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April 25th in New York
Poets of the Calabash Festival
El Monstruo: Dread and Redemption in Mexico City by John Ross
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April 26th in New York
Terrance Hayes and Natasha Trethewey
Blogger/Author Pairings: Sarah Pekkanen talks with Christina Oppold
Tribeca Talks: Pen to Paper: Authors at the Helm
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April 27th in New York
The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 by Evan Thomas
Ilustrado: A Novel by Miguel Syjuco
2010 PEN Literary Gala
The Whole Island: 6 Decades of Cuban Poetry
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April 28th in New York
PEN Festival: Readings from Around the Globe: Opening Night Extravaganza
American Subversive by David Goodwillie
Ten Minutes from Home: A Memoir by Beth Greenfield
PEN Festival: Philippe Djian: Life, Literature, and Betty Blue
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April 29th in New York
PEN Festival: Face-to-Face: Confronting the Torturers: A PEN Freedom to Write Event
PEN Festival - New Plays from the Arab World: Forum
An Evening with Christopher Payne Presented in Conjunction with the New York Foundation for the Arts
Stuart Lutz in Conversation with Ziegfeld Follies Girl, Doris Eaton Travis
Event Icon Stuart Lutz in Conversation with Ziegfeld Follies Girl, Doris Eaton Travis
PEN Festival: "A Gathering of Voices"
PEN Festival: An Around the World Reading
PATTI SMITH in conversation with Paul Holdengraber
Nox: From Box to Book with Anne Carson
BUST Magazine's Spoken Word Extravaganza
PEN Festival - Literary Magazines: Here and Abroad, Now and in the Future
PEN Festival - “I Come from There”: Damage
PEN Festival: Kidnapped! Daniele Mastrogiacomo in Conversation with Federico Rampini
PEN Festival: "That’s Not What I Meant!"
PEN Festival - “I Come from There”: Withdrawal / The House
Writing, Speaking, Dreaming: Authors Talk About Languages: Special Program for High School Students
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April 30th in New York
PEN Festival: Translation Slam
PEN Festival - I Come From There: Forum
PEN Festival: The Great Fire—Shirley Hazzard in Conversation with Richard Ford
PEN Festival - A New World of Yesterday: Stefan Zweig’s Utopian Nostalgia
O Fallen Angel by Kate Zambreno
PEN Festival: The Big Poetry Reading
PEN Festival - “I Come from There”: 603
Writing Inside, Writing Outside
PEN Festival - Peter Schneider in Conversation with John Wray
David Almond and Sofi Oksanen in Conversation with Rakesh Satyal
PEN Festival - Heaven and Earth
“I Come from There”: Egyptian Products
PEN Festival - Quim Monzó in Conversation with Robert Coover
PEN Festival - Short Stories: Past, Present, and Future
PEN Festival - Conversation with Jonathan Galassi
Utopia and Dystopia: Geographies of the Possible
PEN Festival: "Blogs, Twitter, the Kindle: The Future of Reading"
PEN Festival - This Critical Moment: The Journey—A National Book Critics Circle Conversation
Incognito: Writers and their Aliases
PEN Festival: The Future of Journalism
PEN Festival: The Poetry of Edward Hopper
PEN Festival - Garden Readings
PEN Festival: Face Off! Overcoming Barriers
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May 1st in New York
The Fourth Annual PEN Cabaret
The 2010 PEN/O. Henry Prize Story Celebration
PEN Festival - The Essay
Anne Frank: The Diary, the Girl, and the Publishing Phenomenon
PEN Festival: Javier Cercas in Conversation with Amanda Vaill
PEN Festival - War
Toni Morrison and Marlene van Niekerk in Conversation with Anthony Appiah
PEN Festival: Translation Master Class with Edith Grossman
PEN Festival: Ilustrado
Socialism and Social Democracy Today
Patti Smith and Jonathan Lethem in Conversation
PEN Festival: "Of Roots, Clichés and the Imagination: Where Do We Write From?"
PEN Festival - New European Fiction
PEN Festival - War and the Novel
Olivia!
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May 2nd in New York
Sherman Alexie: The Fifth Annual Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture
World Nomads Lebanon Alexandre Najjar
PEN Festival: "Black Sheep & Exploding Turbans"
PEN Festival - Ariel Dorfman in Conversation with Gabriel Sanders
PEN Festival - Atiq Rahimi in Conversation with Lila Azam Zanganeh
PEN Festival - The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Mohsin Hamid in Conversation with Akhil Sharma
World Nomads Lebanon: Rawi Hage
Taming the Gods: A Conversation with Ian Buruma and Andrew Delbanco
PEN Festival - The Master of Apocalypse With László Krasznahorkai and Colm Tóibín
PEN Festival - Roddy Doyle in Conversation with Colum McCann
PEN Festival - Two Worlds
PEN Festival - A Life in Film With Melvin Van Peebles and Greg Tate
PEN Festival - The Slap: A Conversation with Colm Toíbín and Christos Tsiolkas
PEN Festival - Iran: A Conversation with Maziar Bahari and The Daily Show’s Jason Jones
World Nomads Lebanon: Elias Kohoury
PEN Festival - Ben Okri in Conversation with Vanity Fair’s Anderson Tepper
PEN Festival: The Writer as Activist
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May 3rd in New York
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture by Thomas Chatterton Williams
Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
World Nomads Lebanon Meet the Writer... en français ! Alexandre Najjar
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May 5th in New York
American Taliban: A Novel by Pearl Abraham
Close Observation: The Poetics of Flora & Fauna
Wilson by Dan Clowes
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May 6th in New York
The Beauty Quotient Formula
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
Jayne Anne Phillips
The Strand and the Cooper Union Office of Continuing Ed. and Public Programs present Chuck Palahniuk
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May 7th in New York
Glorious
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May 10th in New York
Franklin Park Reading Series with Dani Shapiro and David Goodwillie
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May 11th in New York
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent
WAR by Sebastian Junger
Edward Said: The Charisma of Criticism by H. Aram Veeser
PHILIP PULLMAN in conversation with Paul Holdengraber
Praises & Offenses: Women Poets from the Dominican Republic
Sharon Lerner
TED MOONEY – THE SAME RIVER TWICE
James Guida, Howard Altmann, and Tom Healy
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May 12th in New York
Chip Kidd discusses Art in Time: Unknown Comic Book Adventures, 1940-1980 with Dan Nadel
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May 13th in New York
My Empire of Dirt: How One Man Turned His Big-City Backyard into a Farm by Manny Howard
Evgenia Citkowitz in conversation with Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Yves Smith - ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism
Andrew Moore & Philip Levine Detroit Disassembled
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May 14th in New York
THE THING Quarterly: Starlee Kine, David Lipsky, David Rees, and Arthur Jones Read and Cut Onions
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May 15th in New York
A NOOK Accessory Event with Chris Young
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May 16th in New York
David Goodwillie & Steve Stern
CATHLEEN DAVIT BELL – LITTLE BLOG ON THE PRARIE
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May 17th in New York
The Singer's Gun by Emily St. John Mandel
Sydney Schanberg in Conversation with Charles Kaiser: Beyond the Killing Fields
Jack Rakove - Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America
The Slate Culture Gabfest – Live
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May 18th in New York
Sharon Lerner's The War on Moms with Holly Morris & the Moms Book Club
Paul Farley (author of THE ATLANTIC TUNNEL) in conversation with Paul Muldoon
Reading: James Greer “The Failure” With Maggie Estep and Joseph Mattson
Language of the Neighborhood
ARTHUR PHILLIPS & SARAH BLAKE
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May 19th in New York
Annie Cohen-Solal LEO AND HIS CIRCLE
The Promise: President Obama, Year One by Jonathan Alter
Reading: Keri Walsh “The Letters of Sylvia Beach”
Word for Word Author: Darryl Strawberry
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May 20th in New York
The Circle with Laura Day
Reading: Rynn Berry “Becoming Raw”
Sweethearts of Rhythm
JOSH WEIL & ALYSSA KNICKERBOCKER
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May 21st in New York
Mary Ellen Carroll: MEC
Making Books Sing: Crazy Hair Day
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May 22nd in New York
Higher Education
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May 23rd in New York
Teddy Wayne & Jonathan Woods & Josh Weil
Nature Girl by Jane Kelley
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May 24th in New York
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Taleb
39 Clues Summer Reading Panel Discussion
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May 25th in New York
Marilyn Minter and Gregory R. Miller in Conversation
T.J. STILES – THE FIRST TYCOON
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May 26th in New York
Peep Show by Joshua Braff
Reading: Stefanie Iris Weiss “Eco-Sex”
The Advanced Genius Theory: Are They Out of Their Minds or Ahead of Their Time? by Jason Hartley and Chuck Klosterman
Word for Word Author: Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project
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May 27th in New York
The Same River Twice by Ted Mooney
An Evening with Philip Lopate Presented in Conjunction with the New York Foundation for the Arts
Ryan A. Conklin's An Angel from Hell: Real Life on the Front Lines
Elements & Energies
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May 29th in New York
Robert Hass & Brenda Hillman in the Great Outdoors
An Ethics Occurs at the Edge / of What We Know

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Olivia
by Ian Falconer
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Saturday, May 1
11:00am
Olivia!
Olivia joins us today for a very special Storytime visit. Parents, bring your cameras!
Barnes & Noble
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May 1, 2010
12:30pm-2:30pm
PEN Festival - War and the Novel
With Bernardo Atxaga, Filip Florian, Assaf Gavron, and Atiq Rahimi; moderated by Susan Kuklin Filip Florian’s novel Little Fingers imagines the discovery of a mass grave in a small town. Atiq Rahimi’s The Patience Stone depicts a woman who must nurse her husband while besieged by violence in …

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With Bernardo Atxaga, Filip Florian, Assaf Gavron, and Atiq Rahimi; moderated by Susan Kuklin

Filip Florian’s novel Little Fingers imagines the discovery of a mass grave in a small town. Atiq Rahimi’s The Patience Stone depicts a woman who must nurse her husband while besieged by violence in Afghanistan. In CrocAttack, Assaf Gavron invents a reluctant media celebrity, famous because he did not die in a terrorist attack. And Bernardo Atxaga, in The Accordionist’s Son, has revisited the Spanish Civil War and examined its long repercussions. Why have novelists so long been drawn to the subject of war? And how do writers engage with this fraught and complicated subject? Join novelists from Afghanistan, Spain, Romania, and Israel as they discuss these and many other questions.

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Scandinavia House
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58 Park Avenue (@ 38th Street), NYC, New York, NY 10016
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Just Kids
by Patti Smith
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May 1, 2010
1:00pm-2:00pm
Patti Smith and Jonathan Lethem in Conversation
Don’t miss this conversation with two New York icons. Patti Smith burst on to the New York punk scene with her 1975 seminal album Horses. A bright flame in music for more than three-decades, she has influenced the likes of REM, The Smiths, and Garbage. She is an acclaimed visual artist and poet, …

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Don’t miss this conversation with two New York icons. Patti Smith burst on to the New York punk scene with her 1975 seminal album Horses. A bright flame in music for more than three-decades, she has influenced the likes of REM, The Smiths, and Garbage. She is an acclaimed visual artist and poet, and recipient of a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Ministry of Culture. Recently she released a memoir, Just Kids, about her friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Jonathan Lethem’s National Book Critics Circle award-winning novel Motherless Brooklyn, about a detective with Tourette syndrome, had The New York Times crown him as “something of a hipster celebrity.” He’s also the author of The Fortress of Solitude and, most recently, Chronic City. Together they talk about Just Kids and some of their shared passions along the way – the visual arts, literature (of course) and their love for the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño.

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Cooper Union
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30 Cooper Sq, New York, NY 10003-7120
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May 1, 2010
1:00pm-2:30pm
PEN Festival: "Of Roots, Clichés and the Imagination: Where Do We Write From?"
With Rodrigo Fresán, Alberto Ruy-Sánchez, Martin Solares, and Miguel Syjuco; moderated by Natasha Wimmer Spanish-language writers are often grouped together by American critics as part of a single tradition. But as these writers prove, there are many traditions at work in Spanish writing—and, …

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With Rodrigo Fresán, Alberto Ruy-Sánchez, Martin Solares, and Miguel Syjuco; moderated by Natasha Wimmer

Spanish-language writers are often grouped together by American critics as part of a single tradition. But as these writers prove, there are many traditions at work in Spanish writing—and, what’s more, writers are free to choose among these traditions, and even to invent their own. Join Rodrigo Fresán from Argentina, Martín Solares and Alberto Ruy-Sánchez from Mexico, and Miguel Syjuco from the Philippines for a conversation about the mixed and surprising roots of writing, the clichés so often attached to Spanish-language writers, and the borderless force of the imagination. The conversation will be moderated by Natasha Wimmer, award-winning translator of Roberto Bolaño among others.

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Instituto Cervantes
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May 1, 2010
1:00pm-3:00pm
PEN Festival - New European Fiction
With Naja Marie Aidt, Aleksandar Hemon, valter hugo mãe, Colum McCann, and Jean-Philippe Toussaint To celebrate the launch of the highly acclaimed new anthology series Best European Fiction, editor Aleksandar Hemon leads two back-to-back programs of reading and discussion. Continuing their recent…

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With Naja Marie Aidt, Aleksandar Hemon, valter hugo mãe, Colum McCann, and Jean-Philippe Toussaint

To celebrate the launch of the highly acclaimed new anthology series Best European Fiction, editor Aleksandar Hemon leads two back-to-back programs of reading and discussion.

Continuing their recent conversation in the pages of The Believer, Best European Fiction series editor Aleksandar Hemon will speak with Colum McCann, who will be writing the preface for next year’s anthology, about the current state of fiction in Europe and their own sense as Europeans about what European fiction now has to offer American and world readers. Three contributors to the inaugural volume, from Belgium, Portugal, and Denmark, will read from their work and discuss with Hemon exciting things happening right now in the literature of their countries.

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Le Poisson Rouge
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May 1, 2010
2:30pm-4:00pm
Socialism and Social Democracy Today
Sheri Berman, Robin Blackburn, Michael Kazin, and Michael Walzer will hold on a panel discussion on Socialism and Social Democracy on Saturday, May 1st at 2:30 p.m. at Judson Assembly Hall, 239 Thompson St, New York, NY (A/B/C/D/E/F/V to W. 4th or the 1 to Christopher St.). This event is free and …

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Sheri Berman, Robin Blackburn, Michael Kazin, and Michael Walzer will hold on a panel discussion on Socialism and Social Democracy on Saturday, May 1st at 2:30 p.m. at Judson Assembly Hall, 239 Thompson St, New York, NY (A/B/C/D/E/F/V to W. 4th or the 1 to Christopher St.).

This event is free and open to the public, so please bring your friends

RSVP or question: 212-316-3120 or editors@dissentmagazine.org

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New York University
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Agaat
by Marlene Van Niekerk
translation by Michiel Heyns
$19.95 List Price
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May 1, 2010
3:00pm-4:00pm
Toni Morrison and Marlene van Niekerk in Conversation with Anthony Appiah
Marlene van Niekerk is best known for her novel Triomf, a darkly comic and controversial depiction of post-apartheid South Africa, written in her native Afrikaans. Of her latest novel, Agaat, Toni Morrison has said, “I was immediately mesmerized.… Its beauty matches its depth and her achievement…

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Marlene van Niekerk is best known for her novel Triomf, a darkly comic and controversial depiction of post-apartheid South Africa, written in her native Afrikaans. Of her latest novel, Agaat, Toni Morrison has said, “I was immediately mesmerized.… Its beauty matches its depth and her achievement is as brilliant as it is haunting.” On this special occasion, the Nobel Prize-winning author of such novels as Beloved, Sula, Song of Solomon, and most recently A Mercy, talks with her South African colleague about politics, language, literature, and more. K. Anthony Appiah, PEN American Center president and the author of Cosmopolitanism and many other books, conducts the conversation between these eminent and engaged writers.

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Cooper Union
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Ilustrado:
A Novel
by Miguel Syjuco
$26.00 List Price
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May 1, 2010
3:00pm-4:00pm
PEN Festival: Ilustrado
With Nicholas Jose and Miguel Syjuco The 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize panel of judges said Philippine-born Miguel Syjuco’s novel Ilustrado was “brilliantly conceived, and stylishly executed,” and congratulated the book’s coverage with seemingly effortless skill of a large historical period.…

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With Nicholas Jose and Miguel Syjuco

The 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize panel of judges said Philippine-born Miguel Syjuco’s novel Ilustrado was “brilliantly conceived, and stylishly executed,” and congratulated the book’s coverage with seemingly effortless skill of a large historical period. They also commented, “it is ceaselessly entertaining, frequently raunchy, and effervescent with humor.” Today he joins his former teacher at Adelaide University, Nicholas Jose, who now heads the Australian Studies Department at Harvard, to talk about fatherhood, regret, revolution, and the mysteries of lives lived and abandoned.

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Instituto Cervantes
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11–215 East 49th Street, New York, NY 10017
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May 1, 2010
3:00pm-5:00pm
PEN Festival: Translation Master Class with Edith Grossman
Renowned translator of Latin American and Spanish writers and poets both contemporary and classic, and author of the recent essay collection, Why Translation Matters?, Edith Grossman conducts a special two-hour workshop. Translators will have the opportunity to work with one of the country’s most…

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Renowned translator of Latin American and Spanish writers and poets both contemporary and classic, and author of the recent essay collection, Why Translation Matters?, Edith Grossman conducts a special two-hour workshop. Translators will have the opportunity to work with one of the country’s most experienced and respected translators on honing their craft and refining their editing techniques. This special intensive workshop is for experienced translators and will have only 15 participants, so book early!

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Instituto Cervantes
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May 1, 2010
3:30pm-5:00pm
PEN Festival - War
With Deborah Amos, Philip Gourevitch, Arnon Grunberg, Sebastian Junger, Daniele Mastrogiacomo, and Sarah Montague; introduced by Steven Isenberg, executive director, PEN American Center War writing is an act of witness. It seeks to bring from the battlefront a way of connecting readers to an experience…

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With Deborah Amos, Philip Gourevitch, Arnon Grunberg, Sebastian Junger, Daniele Mastrogiacomo, and Sarah Montague; introduced by Steven Isenberg, executive director, PEN American Center

War writing is an act of witness. It seeks to bring from the battlefront a way of connecting readers to an experience said to defy the power of words. Join these extraordinary journalists, who put themselves on the front line so we can know the terrible truths behind the headlines, for a discussion about the difficulties reporting the devastating facts of war. Deborah Amos is an award-winning correspondent who reported on the Gulf War in 1991, and more recently, Iraq for NPR. Philip Gourevitch has reported on the genocide in Rwanda, and Arnon Grunberg has made numerous trips to Iraq from where he has recently returned. The Humvee Sebastian Junger was riding in was hit by a land mine when he was in Afghanistan working on his forthcoming book War and the award-winning documentary Restrepo, and Daniele Mastrogiacomo’s ordeal of being kidnapped and held hostage is every journalist’s worst nightmare.

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Le Poisson Rouge
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158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012
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Anne Frank:
The Book, The Life, The Afterlife
by Francine Prose
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May 1, 2010
4:30pm-6:00pm
Anne Frank: The Diary, the Girl, and the Publishing Phenomenon
With Ernie Colón, Sid Jacobson, and Francine Prose; moderated by Judith Thurman of The New Yorker Francine Prose’s Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife delves into the life of the 15-year-old girl to reveal an even more complex picture than her extraordinary Diary showed. By looking at…

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With Ernie Colón, Sid Jacobson, and Francine Prose; moderated by Judith Thurman of The New Yorker

Francine Prose’s Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife delves into the life of the 15-year-old girl to reveal an even more complex picture than her extraordinary Diary showed. By looking at the book and its eventual publication, we discover new truths about its author, the book’s impact, and its importance. Ernie Colón and Sid Jacobson, perhaps best known for The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation, have come together again to present Anne Frank in a new graphic book about her life which will be released later this year. Both books and their authors required detailed research in close collaboration with the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. Don’t miss this fascinating exploration of one of the world’s most read books and its incredible 15-year-old author, led by author and New Yorker staff writer Judith Thurman.

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Cooper Union
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Soldiers of Salamis:
A Novel
by Javier Cercas
translation by Anne McLean
$14.95 List Price
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May 1, 2010
4:30pm-5:30pm
PEN Festival: Javier Cercas in Conversation with Amanda Vaill
With Javier Cercas and Amanda Vaill Javier Cercas, one of Spain’s most celebrated authors, wrote his novel, Soldiers of Salamis, about an incident from the Spanish Civil War. The book was made into a movie and was hailed by Boyd Tonkin as “a classic novel … about the filtration of war’s …

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With Javier Cercas and Amanda Vaill

Javier Cercas, one of Spain’s most celebrated authors, wrote his novel, Soldiers of Salamis, about an incident from the Spanish Civil War. The book was made into a movie and was hailed by Boyd Tonkin as “a classic novel … about the filtration of war’s tragedies through memory and myth.” His most recent book, Anatomía de un Instante, is a chilling reconstruction of the 1981 attempt by army insurgents to bring fascism back to democratic Spain. He’ll speak with Amanda Vaill, whose biography, Everybody Was So Young, was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and who is at work on a book about three couples whose lives intersected during the Spanish Civil War. Join them for a conversation about that war, its enduring aftermath, the role of fiction in rendering the complexity of the past, and much more.

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Instituto Cervantes
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May 1, 2010
5:30pm-6:30pm
PEN Festival - The Essay
With Quim Monzó, Peter Schneider, and Jean-Philippe Toussaint; moderated by Susan Harris, editorial director, Words Without Borders Almost all modern essays are written in prose, but works in verse such as Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Criticism and An Essay on Man contribute to the form’s rich…

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With Quim Monzó, Peter Schneider, and Jean-Philippe Toussaint; moderated by Susan Harris, editorial director, Words Without Borders

Almost all modern essays are written in prose, but works in verse such as Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Criticism and An Essay on Man contribute to the form’s rich history. Brevity is often a defining principle, but the opposite holds true as well, with examples such as John Locke’s voluminous An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. These writers, all of them accomplished essayists, discuss the form—its great history, its restraints, freedoms, and challenges.

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Scandinavia House
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58 Park Avenue (@ 38th Street), NYC, New York, NY 10016
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May 1, 2010
6:00pm-8:00pm
The 2010 PEN/O. Henry Prize Story Celebration
With Rob Spillman, Hannah Tinti, Maribeth Batcha, Yiyun Li, and other special guests Join PEN and Anchor Books for a celebratory evening of short fiction and cocktails in honor of the recipients of the 2010 PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories and of the jurors Junot Díaz, Yiyun Li, and Paula Fox. Featuring…

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With Rob Spillman, Hannah Tinti, Maribeth Batcha, Yiyun Li, and other special guests

Join PEN and Anchor Books for a celebratory evening of short fiction and cocktails in honor of the recipients of the 2010 PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories and of the jurors Junot Díaz, Yiyun Li, and Paula Fox. Featuring series editor Laura Furman and special guest appearances from past and present O. Henry winners. Hosted by PEN World Voices Festival and Anchor Books’ Rob Spillman, editor of Tin House Magazine; Hannah Tinti and Maribeth Batcha, editor and publisher of One Story; Martha Cooley, novelist and associate professor at Adelphi University.

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Idlewild Books
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12 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011
212-414-8888
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May 1, 2010
8:00pm-10:00pm
The Fourth Annual PEN Cabaret
With Irakli Kakabadze, Natalie Merchant, Ben Okri, Ariel Dorfman and special guests; emceed by Rakesh Satyal A perennial highlight of the Festival, the PEN Cabaret returns this year to the heart of the West Village. Come hear Natalie Merchant perform songs from her new album, Leave Your Sleep (…

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With Irakli Kakabadze, Natalie Merchant, Ben Okri, Ariel Dorfman and special guests; emceed by Rakesh Satyal

A perennial highlight of the Festival, the PEN Cabaret returns this year to the heart of the West Village. Come hear Natalie Merchant perform songs from her new album, Leave Your Sleep (Nonesuch), featuring musical interpretations of classic poetry from Ogden Nash, Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others. Also joining us direct from London is Booker Prize–winning novelist Ben Okri, and Georgian novelist, poet, and performance artist Irakli Kakabadze. Prepare to be white-knuckled as Ariel Dorfman reads from his very spooky cyber ghost story. Stay tuned for special-guest announcements—the global stars are aligning now. Emceed by Rakesh Satyal, editor, author, and jazz singer extraordinaire.

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Le Poisson Rouge
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Tell-All
by Chuck Palahniuk
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May 6, 2010
6:00pm-7:30pm
The Strand and the Cooper Union Office of Continuing Ed. and Public Programs present Chuck Palahniuk
This is Chuck Palahniuk's first and only NYC appearance for his latest novel, Tell-All. Tickets are $30. Ticket includes a signed copy of Tell-All. The event is located at The Great Hall at Cooper Union at 7 East 7th Street (on Third Avenue). Tickets are only available at the Strand Book Store or…

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This is Chuck Palahniuk's first and only NYC appearance for his latest novel, Tell-All.

Tickets are $30. Ticket includes a signed copy of Tell-All.

The event is located at The Great Hall at Cooper Union at 7 East 7th Street (on Third Avenue).

Tickets are only available at the Strand Book Store or here: http://www.strandbooks.com/app/www/p/booklist/?listid=strandevent

The Great Hall doors will open at 5:15pm on Thursday, May 6.

Online buyers: there is no ticket. Your name will automatically be added to a door list. Bring your ID and give the name of the person who purchased the ticket to the Strand Staff at the Great Hall.

Those who purchase a ticket at the Strand Book Store: please bring the paper ticket & receipt to the Great Hall.

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Strand Book Store
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Lark and Termite
by Jayne Anne Phillips
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Thursday, May 6
6:30pm
Jayne Anne Phillips
Known for both her moving short stories and poetic novels, Jayne Anne Phillips’ work explores American history, culture, and language. Her first collection of short stories Black Tickets (1979) won the prestigious Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, and has since become a classic of the genre. …

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Known for both her moving short stories and poetic novels, Jayne Anne Phillips’ work explores American history, culture, and language. Her first collection of short stories Black Tickets (1979) won the prestigious Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, and has since become a classic of the genre. Her newest work Lark and Termite (2009), “a moving exploration of familial love,” (The New York Times) has garnered high praise and critical acclaim. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and a Bunting Fellowship.

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Brooklyn Academy of Music
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The Other Wes Moore:
One Name, Two Fates
by Wes Moore
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Thursday, May 6
7:00pm
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
Two kids with the same name were born blocks apart in the same decaying city within a year of each other. One grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Here is the story of two boys and the journey…

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Two kids with the same name were born blocks apart in the same decaying city within a year of each other. One grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Here is the story of two boys and the journey of a generation.

In December 2000, the Baltimore Sun ran a small piece about Wes Moore, a local student who had just received a Rhodes Scholarship. The same paper also ran a huge story about four young men who had allegedly killed a police officer in a spectacularly botched armed robbery. The police were still hunting for two of the suspects who had gone on the lam, a pair of brothers. One was named Wes Moore.

Wes just couldn’t shake off the unsettling coincidence, or the inkling that the two shared much more than space in the same newspaper. After following the story of the robbery, the manhunt, and the trial to its conclusion, he wrote a letter to the other Wes, now a convicted murderer serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. His letter tentatively asked the questions that had been haunting him: Who are you? How did this happen?

That letter led to a correspondence and relationship that have lasted for several years. Over dozens of letters and prison visits, Wes discovered that the other Wes had had a life not unlike his own: Both had grown up in similar neighborhoods and had had difficult childhoods, both were fatherless, both were in and out of school; they’d hung out on similar corners with similar crews, and both had run into trouble with the police. At each stage of their young lives they had come across similar moments of decision, yet their choices would lead them to astonishingly different destinies.

Told in alternating dramatic narratives that take readers from heart-wrenching losses to moments of surprising redemption, The Other Wes Moore tells the story of a generation of boys trying to find their way in a hostile world.

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Barnes & Noble
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The Beauty Quotient Formula:
How to Find Your Own Beauty Quotient to Look Your Best - No Matter What Your Age
by Robert Tornambe M.D. F.A.C.S
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Thursday, May 6
7:00pm
The Beauty Quotient Formula
Join Robert Tornambe, M.D., as he shares his no-fail method for looking and feeling more beautiful.
Barnes & Noble
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Glorious
by Bernice L. McFadden
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Friday, May 7
7:00pm
Glorious
Please join award-winning novelist author Bernice L. McFadden as she reads from her highly anticipated new historical novel, Glorious.
Barnes & Noble
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May 10, 2010
8:00pm-10:00pm
Franklin Park Reading Series with Dani Shapiro and David Goodwillie
This will be a night for "Radicals, Seekers and Believers." In Devotion, her latest memoir, Dani Shapiro recounts her midlife spiritual odyssey. David Goodwillie reveals the chilling world of underground militants in his new novel American Subversive. Storyteller Elicia Berger shares tales of her …

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This will be a night for "Radicals, Seekers and Believers." In Devotion, her latest memoir, Dani Shapiro recounts her midlife spiritual odyssey. David Goodwillie reveals the chilling world of underground militants in his new novel American Subversive. Storyteller Elicia Berger shares tales of her mixed heritage and memoirist Heather Kristin depicts her gritty urban childhood with a Christian fundamentalist mother.

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Franklin Park Bar and Beer Garden
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WAR
by Sebastian Junger
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Tuesday, May 11
7:00pm
WAR by Sebastian Junger
In his breakout bestseller, The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger created "a wild ride that brilliantly captures the awesome power of the raging sea and the often futile attempts of humans to withstand it" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, Junger turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality…

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In his breakout bestseller, The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger created "a wild ride that brilliantly captures the awesome power of the raging sea and the often futile attempts of humans to withstand it" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, Junger turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat—the fear, the honor, and the trust among men in an extreme situation whose survival depends on their absolute commitment to one another. His on-the-ground account follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. Through the experiences of these young men at war, he shows what it means to fight, to serve, and to face down mortal danger on a daily basis.

About the Author:

Sebastian Junger is the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Storm and A Death in Belmont. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and has been awarded a National Magazine Award and an SAIS Novartis Prize for journalism. He lives in New York City.

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Last Call:
The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
by Daniel Okrent
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Tuesday, May 11
7:00pm
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent
Last Call is a narrative history of Prohibition. It explains how Prohibition happened, what life under it was like, and what it did to the country. About the Author: Daniel Okrent was the first public editor of The New York Times, editor-at-large of Time, Inc., and managing editor of Life magazine.…

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Last Call is a narrative history of Prohibition. It explains how Prohibition happened, what life under it was like, and what it did to the country.

About the Author:

Daniel Okrent was the first public editor of The New York Times, editor-at-large of Time, Inc., and managing editor of Life magazine. He worked in book publishing as an editor at Knopf and Viking, and was editor-in-chief of general books at Harcourt Brace. He was also a featured commentator on Ken Burns's PBS series, Baseball, and is author of four books, one of which, Great Fortune, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in history. Okrent was also a fellow at the Shorenstein Center at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, where he remains an Associate. He lives in Manhattan and on Cape Cod with his wife, poet Rebecca Okrent. They have two children.

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Edward Said:
The Charisma of Criticism
by H. Aram Veeser
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Tuesday, May 11
7:00pm
Edward Said: The Charisma of Criticism by H. Aram Veeser
In this provocative insider's portrait, H. Aram Veeser solves the riddle of iconic public intellectual Edward Said. His outsized power and influence, the insouciant contradictions, the splendid manner and the musical voice, the maddening unpredictability, all went into the mix. The result was charisma,…

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In this provocative insider's portrait, H. Aram Veeser solves the riddle of iconic public intellectual Edward Said. His outsized power and influence, the insouciant contradictions, the splendid manner and the musical voice, the maddening unpredictability, all went into the mix. The result was charisma, and this book is no less than a user's guide to it

Drawing upon personal experience—the author knew Said for 35 years—and using never-before-published interviews, debate transcripts, and photographs, this book offers the most comprehensive picture of Said now available. Said finessed his own self-contradictions, and in all arenas—even his taste for Savile Row fashion—he fought for personality, originality, and the marvelous against anonymity, routine, and impersonal method. Splitting his loyalty between literature and politics, gentility and Gaza, the Intifadah and the PLO, class privilege and anarchic revolution, Said built charisma out of wire-tight tensions, improvisations, and gambles. In pithy, simple, and engaging words, the secret of Said's magic unfolds. By showing how one intellectual made his way in the world, the book gives a passionate, informed, and critically balanced reading of Said's life, thought, and politics.

H. Aram Veeser is Associate Professor of English at The City College of New York. He is co-author of Painting Between the Lines (2001), and editor of The New Historicism (1989), The New Historicism Reader (1994), Confessions of the Critics (1996), and The Stanley Fish Reader (1999). He has written for The Nation and various academic quarterlies, including The Journal of Armenian Studies, Ararat, and Armenian Forum. He has held fellowships at the University of Utah Humanities Center and the Harvard University Center for Literary and Cultural Studies.

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Book Culture
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The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
by Philip Pullman
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Tuesday, May 11
7:00pm
PHILIP PULLMAN in conversation with Paul Holdengraber
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Celeste Bartos Forum May 11, 2010 7:00 PM EDT $25 General Admission, $15 library donors, seniors + students with valid ID Challenging the events of the gospels in his latest book, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, Philip Pullman puts forward a compelling…

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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Celeste Bartos Forum

May 11, 2010 7:00 PM EDT

$25 General Admission, $15 library donors, seniors + students with valid ID

Challenging the events of the gospels in his latest book, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, Philip Pullman puts forward a compelling and plausible version of the life of Jesus. The story Pullman tells comes out of the tension within the dual nature of Jesus Christ. Parts of it read like a novel, parts like history, and parts like a fairy tale; it is a story about how stories become stories.

Philip Pullman was born in Norwich, England, in 1946. His awards include the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. Pullman's acclaimed trilogy, His Dark Materials has been published in thirty-nine languages.

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New York Public Library (Main Branch)
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The War on Moms:
On Life in a Family-Unfriendly Nation
by Sharon Lerner
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Tuesday, May 11
7:00pm
Sharon Lerner
Join us as Sharon Lerner discusses and signs her first book, The War on Moms, an in-depth look at the "mommy wars" debate. Lerner argues that a mother's real "enemy" is not other women, but a nationwide indifference to the cultural and economic realities facing parents and families in the United …

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Join us as Sharon Lerner discusses and signs her first book, The War on Moms, an in-depth look at the "mommy wars" debate. Lerner argues that a mother's real "enemy" is not other women, but a nationwide indifference to the cultural and economic realities facing parents and families in the United States today.

This event is first come, first served. Please arrive early.

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Three Lives & Company
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The Same River Twice
by Ted Mooney
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Tuesday, May 11
7:00pm
TED MOONEY – THE SAME RIVER TWICE
When Odile Mével, a French clothing designer, agrees to smuggle ceremonial May Day banners out of the former Soviet Union, she thinks she’s trading a few days’ inconvenience for a quick thirty thousand francs. Yet when she returns home to Paris to deliver the contraband to Turner, the American…

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When Odile Mével, a French clothing designer, agrees to smuggle ceremonial May Day banners out of the former Soviet Union, she thinks she’s trading a few days’ inconvenience for a quick thirty thousand francs. Yet when she returns home to Paris to deliver the contraband to Turner, the American art expert behind this scheme, her fellow courier (previously a stranger) has disappeared, her apartment is ransacked for no discernible reason, and she has already set in motion a chain of events that will put those closest to her in jeopardy.

Odile’s American husband, Max, has no inkling of her clandestine moonlighting. An independent filmmaker whose recent taste of commercial success has left him at a crossroads in his career, he by chance makes a surreal discovery: unauthorized copies of his first film, with a technically expert, and completely different, ending. Baffled as to who would have either the motive or the means to commit such intellectual piracy, he investigates this fraud and soon runs up against the Russian mafia and, possibly, a human-trafficking operation. At the same time, he is becoming ever more preoccupied by his next artistic project: filming the actual lives of people intimate to him and Odile, a Dutchman and his American girlfriend who are meticulously restoring their century-old houseboat on the Seine—an endeavor that has fervent meaning for both Max and his subjects. And as if this weren’t excitement enough, he begins to suspect that Odile is having an affair.

Marital deceptions deepen and multiply even as the details of Odile’s and Max’s escapades appear ever more connected. The couple must now confront exactly what they are willing to do for the sake of their marriage and, indeed, their lives. Meanwhile, Turner, too, has a great many irons in the fire, which suddenly threatens to burn out of control.

Hugely atmospheric, perceptively written, and grippingly suspenseful, The Same River Twice is a page-turner that also poses questions of existential importance. What is the nature of inevitability? What agency do we have over our destinies? And is a different ending ever possible?

About the Author

Ted Mooney is the author of Easy Travel to Other Planets, Traffic and Laughter, and Singing into the Piano. His fiction has appeared in Esquire, Granta, and The New American Review, and he has received grants from the Guggenheim and the Ingram Merrill foundations. He lives in New York City.

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BookCourt
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Marbles
by James Guida
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In This House
by Howard Altmann
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What the Right Hand Knows (Stahlecker Series Selection)
by Tom Healy
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Tuesday, May 11
7:00pm
James Guida, Howard Altmann, and Tom Healy
Please join us for an evening of aphorisms, poetry, and wine with James Guida, Howard Altmann and Tom Healy. Each will read from their latest work. James Guida was born in Philadelphia in 1978, and grew up in Australia. He is the author of Marbles, a book of short prose, and has written for a …

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Please join us for an evening of aphorisms, poetry, and wine with James Guida, Howard Altmann and Tom Healy. Each will read from their latest work.

James Guida was born in Philadelphia in 1978, and grew up in Australia. He is the author of Marbles, a book of short prose, and has written for a variety of publications, among them Agni, Raritan, and The Yale Review. He lives in New York.

Howard Altmann lives in New York City but he was born and raised in Montreal. He received his MBA from Stanford University and worked as senior vice president of a real estate investment company. Poems from his latest book, In This House, have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, and Open City.

Tom Healy lives in New York and Miami. His poems and essays have appeared in BOMB, The Paris Review, Salmagundi, Tin House, The Yale Review, and other journals. He studied at Harvard and Columbia. His latest book is the poetry collection What the Right Hand Knows.

Turtle Point Press was founded in 1990 by Jonathan Rabinowitz. From its very beginning Rabinowitz has been committed to rediscovering forgotten literary fiction and to publishing contemporary fiction and poetry by writers whose work is both unique and irresistibly readable. Turtle Point’s books are known for their superior literary content and for the elegance of their design and typesetting.

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Melville House Bookstore
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Praises & Offenses:
Three Women Poets from the Dominican Republic (Lannan Translations Selection Series)
by Aida Cartagena Portalatin and Angela Hernandez Nunez
translation by Judith Kerman
$16.00 List Price
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May 11, 2010
7:00pm-9:00pm
Praises & Offenses: Women Poets from the Dominican Republic
Dominican poets Ylonka Nacidit-Perdomo and Angela Hernández Núñez are joined by their English-language translator, Judith Kerman, and scholar Linda M. Rodriguez Guglielmoni for conversation and a reading from the anthology "Praises & Offenses."
Poets House
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Art in Time:
Unknown Comic Book Adventures, 1940-1980
by Dan Nadel
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May 12, 2010
7:00pm-8:00pm
Chip Kidd discusses Art in Time: Unknown Comic Book Adventures, 1940-1980 with Dan Nadel
In this engaging and smart volume, Nadel focuses on the lesser-known comic works by celebrated icons of the industry, like H.G. Peter (the artist behind Wonder Woman), John Stanley (the writer and artist for Little Lulu), Harry Lucey (one of the artists behind Archie), Jesse Marsh (the artist for …

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In this engaging and smart volume, Nadel focuses on the lesser-known comic works by celebrated icons of the industry, like H.G. Peter (the artist behind Wonder Woman), John Stanley (the writer and artist for Little Lulu), Harry Lucey (one of the artists behind Archie), Jesse Marsh (the artist for Tarzan), and Bill Everett (best know for his characters Sub Mariner and Dr. Strange). Chip Kidd will join Dan Nadel on the Strand Stage.

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Strand Book Store
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Ether:
Seven Stories and a Novella
by Evgenia Citkowitz
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Thursday, May 13
7:00pm
Evgenia Citkowitz in conversation with Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Evegenia Citkowitz will read and discuss her debut collection, Ether, with Michael Lindsay-Hogg.
192 Books
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192 Tenth Avenue, New York, NY 10011
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ECONned:
How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism
by Yves Smith
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Thursday, May 13
7:00pm
Yves Smith - ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism
Why are we in such a financial mess today? There are lots of proximate causes: over-leverage, global imbalances, bad financial technology that lead to widespread underestimation of risk. But these are all symptoms. Until we isolate and tackle fundamental causes, we will fail to extirpate the disease.…

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Why are we in such a financial mess today? There are lots of proximate causes: over-leverage, global imbalances, bad financial technology that lead to widespread underestimation of risk.

But these are all symptoms. Until we isolate and tackle fundamental causes, we will fail to extirpate the disease. ECONned is the first book to examine the unquestioned role of economists as policy-makers, and how they helped create an unmitigated economic disaster.

Here, Yves Smith looks at how economists in key policy positions put doctrine before hard evidence, ignoring the deteriorating conditions and rising dangers that eventually led them, and us, off the cliff and into financial meltdown. Intelligently written for the layman, Smith takes us on a terrifying investigation of the financial realm over the last twenty-five years of misrepresentations, naive interpretations of economic conditions, rationalizations of bad outcomes, and rejection of clear signs of growing instability.

In ECONned, author Yves Smith reveals:

—why the measures taken by the Obama Administration are mere palliatives and are unlikely to pave the way for a solid recovery

—how economists have come to play a profoundly anti-democratic role in policy

—how financial models and concepts that were discredited more than thirty years ago are still widely used by banks, regulators, and investors

—how management and employees of major financial firms looted them, enriching themselves and leaving the mess to taxpayers

—how financial regulation enabled predatory behavior by Wall Street towards investors

—how economics has no theory of financial systems, yet economists fearlessly prescribe how to manage them

Yves Smith is creator of the influential blog, Naked Capitalism, a top ranked economics and finance blog with over 250,000 unique visitors each month. Smith has been working in and around the financial services industry since 1980 as an investment banker, management consultant, and corporate finance advisor. Smith has appeared, on CNBC, CNN, and FOX Business News, and has written over 40 articles in venues such as The New York Times, Slate, and the Christian Science Monitor. She lives in Manhattan.

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Book Culture
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My Empire of Dirt:
How One Man Turned His Big-City Backyard into a Farm
by Manny Howard
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Thursday, May 13
7:30pm
My Empire of Dirt: How One Man Turned His Big-City Backyard into a Farm by Manny Howard
For seven months, Manny Howard—a lifelong urbanite—woke up every morning and ventured into his eight-hundred-square-foot backyard to maintain the first farm in Flatbush, Brooklyn, in generations. His goal was simple: to subsist on what he could produce on this farm, and only this farm, for at …

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For seven months, Manny Howard—a lifelong urbanite—woke up every morning and ventured into his eight-hundred-square-foot backyard to maintain the first farm in Flatbush, Brooklyn, in generations. His goal was simple: to subsist on what he could produce on this farm, and only this farm, for at least a month. The project came at a time in Manny’s life when he most needed it—even if his family, and especially his wife, seemingly did not. But a farmer’s life, he discovered—after a string of catastrophes, including a tornado, countless animal deaths (natural, accidental, and inflicted), and even a severed finger—is not an easy one. And it can be just as hard on those he shares it with.

Manny’s James Beard Foundation Award–winning New York magazine cover story—the impetus for this project—began as an assessment of the locavore movement. We now think more about what we eat than ever before, buying organic for our health and local for the environment, often making those decisions into political statements in the process. My Empire of Dirt is a ground-level examination—trenchant, touching, and outrageous—of the cultural reflex to control one of the most elemental aspects of our lives: feeding ourselves.

Unlike most foodies with a farm fetish, Manny didn’t put on overalls with much of a philosophy in mind, save a healthy dose of skepticism about some of the more doctrinaire tendencies of locavores. He did not set out to grow all of his own food because he thought it was the right thing to do or because he thought the rest of us should do the same. Rather, he did it because he was just crazy enough to want to find out how hard it would actually be to take on a challenge based on a radical interpretation of a trendy (if well-meaning) idea and see if he could rise to the occasion.

A chronicle of the experiment that took slow-food to the extreme, My Empire of Dirt tells the story of one man’s struggle against environmental, familial, and agricultural chaos, and in the process asks us to consider what it really takes (and what it really means) to produce our own food. It’s one thing to know the farmer, it turns out—it’s another thing entirely to be the farmer. For most of us, farming is about food. For the farmer, and his family, it’s about work.

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Greenlight Bookstore
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Andrew Moore:
Detroit Disassembled
by Andrew Moore and Philip Levine
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May 13, 2010
7:00pm-8:00pm
Andrew Moore & Philip Levine Detroit Disassembled
No longer the Motor City of boom-time industry, the city of Detroit has fallen into an incredible state of dilapidation since the decline of the American auto industry after the Second World War. Today, whole sections of the city resemble a war zone, its once-spectacular architectural grandeur reduced…

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No longer the Motor City of boom-time industry, the city of Detroit has fallen into an incredible state of dilapidation since the decline of the American auto industry after the Second World War. Today, whole sections of the city resemble a war zone, its once-spectacular architectural grandeur reduced to vacant ruins. In Detroit Disassembled, photographer Andrew Moore records a territory in which the ordinary flow of time-or the forward march of the assembly line-appears to have been thrown spectacularly into reverse. Photographer Andrew Moore will be joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Levine who wrote an essay for the book.

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Strand Book Store
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Friday, May 14
7:00pm
THE THING Quarterly: Starlee Kine, David Lipsky, David Rees, and Arthur Jones Read and Cut Onions
Join Starlee Kine and friends for the release of issue 10 of THE THING Quarterly by Starlee Kine. Starlee’s issue of THE THING is a bamboo cutting board designed only for onion cutting. The issue is about haunted household objects that remain after lovers have broken up. It includes text that has…

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Join Starlee Kine and friends for the release of issue 10 of THE THING Quarterly by Starlee Kine. Starlee’s issue of THE THING is a bamboo cutting board designed only for onion cutting. The issue is about haunted household objects that remain after lovers have broken up. It includes text that has been seared into the surface of the cutting board, a locker poster of a crying McNulty from The Wire (illustrated by Arthur Jones), and a set of Crying Instructions. Starlee and guests David Lipsky, David Rees, and Arthur Jones who will also offer some cooking demonstrations and readings.

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Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
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Barnes and Noble NOOK ebook reader
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Saturday, May 15
1:00pm
A NOOK Accessory Event with Chris Young
Join artist Chris Young at the NOOK counter as he personalizes his exclusive line of NOOK cases.
Barnes & Noble
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Union Square, 33 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003
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The Circle:
How the Power of a Single Wish Can Change Your Life
by Laura Day
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Thursday, May 20
7:00pm
The Circle with Laura Day
Please join Laura Day as she hosts The Circle, an introduction to healing, intuition and unconscious repatterning that will change your life.
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Becoming Raw:
The Essential Guide to Raw Vegan Diets
by Brenda Davis and Vesanto Melina
$24.95 List Price
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Thursday, May 20
7:00pm
Reading: Rynn Berry “Becoming Raw”
A smiling Mona Lisa is made raw by a gaily, gayly vegan Leonardo da Vinci. Please join Rynn Berry and Cristina Abreu-Suzuki for a playlet and discussion of the history of the raw food movement in America. Berry is the author of six books on food, including: “Becoming Raw,” “The Vegan Guide to…

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A smiling Mona Lisa is made raw by a gaily, gayly vegan Leonardo da Vinci. Please join Rynn Berry and Cristina Abreu-Suzuki for a playlet and discussion of the history of the raw food movement in America. Berry is the author of six books on food, including: “Becoming Raw,” “The Vegan Guide to New York City,” and “Famous Vegetarians.” Cristina Abreu-Suzuki is a math professor, a tri-athlete and fruitarian.

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The New Valley
by Josh Weil
$22.00 List Price
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Thursday, May 20
7:00pm
JOSH WEIL & ALYSSA KNICKERBOCKER
The New Valley: The linked novellas that comprise Josh Weil’s masterful debut bring us into America’s remote, unforgiving backcountry, and delicately unveil the private worlds of three very different men as they confront love, loss, and their own personal demons. Set in the hardscrabble hill …

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The New Valley:

The linked novellas that comprise Josh Weil’s masterful debut bring us into America’s remote, unforgiving backcountry, and delicately unveil the private worlds of three very different men as they confront love, loss, and their own personal demons.

Set in the hardscrabble hill country between West Virginia and Virginia, The New Valley is populated by characters striving to forge new lives in the absence of those they have loved. Told in three varied and distinct voices—from a soft-spoken beef farmer struggling to hold himself together after his dad’s suicide; to a health-obsessed single father desperate to control his reckless, overweight daughter; to a mildly retarded man who falls for a married woman intent on using him in a scheme that wounds them both—each novella is a vivid examination of Weil’s uniquely romanticized relationships. As the men struggle against grief, solitude, and fixation, their desperation leads them all to commit acts that bring both ruin and salvation.

Reminiscent of Bobbie Ann Mason, Annie Proulx, and Kent Haruf in its deeply American tone, The New Valley is a tender exploration of resilience, isolation, and the consuming ache for human connection. Weil’s empathetic, meticulous prose makes this is a debut of inescapable power.

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BookCourt
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Sweethearts of Rhythm
by Marilyn Nelson
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May 20, 2010
7:00pm-9:00pm
Sweethearts of Rhythm
Acclaimed poet Marilyn Nelson and artist Jerry Pinkney, winner of the 2010 Caldecott Medal, discuss their collaborative book, "Sweethearts of Rhythm", which profiles the all-female, interracial band of the 1940s.
Poets House
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Crazy Hair Day
by Barney Saltzberg
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Friday, May 21
4:00pm
Making Books Sing: Crazy Hair Day
Please join us as Making Books Sing presents a performance based on Barney Saltzberg's book, Crazy Hair Day. It's a special event you won't want to miss!
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Mary Ellen Carroll:
MEC
by Jonathan Flatley and Hamza Walker
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Friday, May 21
6:00pm
Mary Ellen Carroll: MEC
Despite an oeuvre spanning more than twenty years and a disavowal of any signature style, Mary Ellen Carroll has throughout her career been investigating a single, fundamental question: what is a work of art? The resulting multifarious, provocative and often wry outpouring in architecture, writing,…

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Despite an oeuvre spanning more than twenty years and a disavowal of any signature style, Mary Ellen Carroll has throughout her career been investigating a single, fundamental question: what is a work of art? The resulting multifarious, provocative and often wry outpouring in architecture, writing, performance, photography, filmmaking, printmaking, sculpture and painting has been collected into this book, the conceptual artist’s long-awaited first monograph.

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192 Books
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Higher Education:
On Life, Landing a Job, and Everything Else They Didn't Teach You in College
by Kenneth Jedding
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Saturday, May 22
5:00pm
Higher Education
Life coach Kenneth Jeddings addresses the issues and concerns that college graduates are faced with today. His book is a perfect gift for the graduate!
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Marilyn Minter
by Johanna Burton and Matthew Higgs
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May 25, 2010
7:00pm-8:00pm
Marilyn Minter and Gregory R. Miller in Conversation
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Strand Book Store
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The First Tycoon:
The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Vintage)
by T.J. Stiles
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Tuesday, May 25
7:00pm
T.J. STILES – THE FIRST TYCOON
In this groundbreaking biography, T.J. Stiles tells the dramatic story of Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt, the combative man and American icon who, through his genius and force of will, did more than perhaps any other individual to create modern capitalism. Meticulously researched and elegantly…

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In this groundbreaking biography, T.J. Stiles tells the dramatic story of Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt, the combative man and American icon who, through his genius and force of will, did more than perhaps any other individual to create modern capitalism. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, The First Tycoon describes an improbable life, from Vanderbilt’s humble birth during the presidency of George Washington to his death as one of the richest men in American history. In between we see how the Commodore helped to launch the transportation revolution, propel the Gold Rush, reshape Manhattan, and invent the modern corporation. Epic in its scope and success, the life of Vanderbilt is also the story of the rise of America itself.

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The Same River Twice
by Ted Mooney
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Thursday, May 27
7:00pm
The Same River Twice by Ted Mooney
When Odile Mével, a French clothing designer, agrees to smuggle ceremonial May Day banners out of the former Soviet Union, she thinks she’s trading a few days’ inconvenience for a quick thirty thousand francs. Yet when she returns home to Paris to deliver the contraband to Turner, the American…

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When Odile Mével, a French clothing designer, agrees to smuggle ceremonial May Day banners out of the former Soviet Union, she thinks she’s trading a few days’ inconvenience for a quick thirty thousand francs. Yet when she returns home to Paris to deliver the contraband to Turner, the American art expert behind this scheme, her fellow courier (previously a stranger) has disappeared, her apartment is ransacked for no discernible reason, and she has already set in motion a chain of events that will put those closest to her in jeopardy. Hugely atmospheric, perceptively written, and grippingly suspenseful, The Same River Twice is a page-turner that also poses questions of existential importance.

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192 Books
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Notes on Sontag (Writers on Writers)
by Phillip Lopate
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Thursday, May 27
7:00pm
An Evening with Philip Lopate Presented in Conjunction with the New York Foundation for the Arts
Phillip Lopate, a professor at Hofstra University in New York City, is an essayist, editor, poet, and novelist. Please join us as he discusses his two recent works, At the End of the Day and Notes on Sontag.
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An Angel From Hell
by Ryan A. Conklin
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Thursday, May 27
7:00pm
Ryan A. Conklin's An Angel from Hell: Real Life on the Front Lines
Ryan A. Conklin, a star of MTV's Real World Brooklyn, talks about An Angel from Hell, his brutally honest memoir that follows his service in Iraq and his involvement with the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.
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The Apple Trees at Olema:
New and Selected Poems
by Robert Hass
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Practical Water (Wesleyan Poetry)
by Brenda Hillman
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May 27, 2010
7:00pm-9:00pm
Elements & Energies
Robert Hass, former U.S. Poet Laureate and author of "The Apple Trees at Olema", and Brenda Hillman, author of "Practical Water", among other books, share their experiences of activism and writing in response to the natural world.
Poets House
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Practical Water (Wesleyan Poetry)
by Brenda Hillman
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May 29, 2010
1:00pm-3:00pm
An Ethics Occurs at the Edge / of What We Know
Author of Practical Water, among other poetry books, Brenda Hillman discusses poetry and activism, writing about the elements and ecopoetics, and the writing process in relation to political commitment and spiritual ideas.
Poets House
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The Apple Trees at Olema:
New and Selected Poems
by Robert Hass
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Practical Water (Wesleyan Poetry)
by Brenda Hillman
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May 29, 2010
4:00pm-5:30pm
Robert Hass & Brenda Hillman in the Great Outdoors
Former US Poet Laureate Robert Hass (The Apple Trees at Olema) and lauded experimental-lyric poet Brenda Hillman (Practical Water) read in Poets House’s outdoor courtyard in the new South Teardrop Park.
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Leaving Rock Harbor:
A Novel
by Rebecca Chace
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Wednesday, June 2
7:00pm
Leaving Rock Harbor: A Novel by Rebecca Chace
On the eve of World War I, fourteen-year-old Frankie Ross and her parents leave their simple life in Poughkeepsie to seek a new beginning in the booming city of Rock Harbor, Massachusetts. Frankie’s father finds work in a bustling cotton mill, but erupting labor strikes threaten to dismantle the …

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On the eve of World War I, fourteen-year-old Frankie Ross and her parents leave their simple life in Poughkeepsie to seek a new beginning in the booming city of Rock Harbor, Massachusetts. Frankie’s father finds work in a bustling cotton mill, but erupting labor strikes threaten to dismantle the town’s socioeconomic structure. Frankie soon befriends two charismatic young men—Winslow Curtis, privileged son of the town’s most powerful politician, and Joe Barros, a Portuguese mill worker who becomes a union organizer—forming a tender yet bittersweet love triangle that will have an impact on all three throughout their lives. An unforgettable coming-of-age story and a luminous portrayal of a dramatic era of American history, Rebecca Chace’s Leaving Rock Harbor takes readers into the heart of a New England mill town in the early twentieth century.

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Day out of Days:
Stories
by Sam Shepard
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Thursday, June 3
6:30pm
Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard’s most recent book is the short story collection Day Out of Days. He is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of more than 45 plays along with several fiction collections, an Oscar-nominated actor (The Right Stuff, 1984), and a noted film director. Shepard’s plays, eleven of which have …

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Sam Shepard’s most recent book is the short story collection Day Out of Days. He is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of more than 45 plays along with several fiction collections, an Oscar-nominated actor (The Right Stuff, 1984), and a noted film director. Shepard’s plays, eleven of which have won Obie Awards, include The God of Hell, Buried Child, The Late Henry Moss, Simpatico, Curse of the Starving Class, True West, Fool for Love, and A Lie of the Mind, which won a New York Drama Desk Award. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Shepard received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy in 1992, and in 1994, he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame. He lives in New York and Kentucky.

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God Is Not Great:
How Religion Poisons Everything
by Christopher Hitchens
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Friday, June 4
7:00pm
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS in conversation with Paul Holdengraber
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Celeste Bartos Forum June 4, 2010 7:00 PM EDT $25 General Admission, $15 library donors, seniors + students with valid ID English-born and American by adoption, bohemian, all atheist and partly Jewish, Christopher Hitchens has held to a consistent thread of principle…

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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Celeste Bartos Forum

June 4, 2010 7:00 PM EDT

$25 General Admission, $15 library donors, seniors + students with valid ID

English-born and American by adoption, bohemian, all atheist and partly Jewish, Christopher Hitchens has held to a consistent thread of principle whether opposing war in Vietnam or supporting intervention in Iraq. As a foreign correspondent in some of the world’s nastiest places, a lecturer and teacher and an esteemed literary critic, Hitchens manifests a style that is ironic, witty, and tough-minded while his contradictions contain multitudes.

Christopher Hitchens was born in Portsmouth, England and worked in Britain as book reviewer for the Times, and chief foreign correspondent for the Daily Express. After emigrating to the United States in 1981, he wrote the “Minority Report” column for The Nation. Since 1992, he has been columnist and contributing editor at Vanity Fair and, at different times, Washington editor and columnist for Harper’s magazine, American columnist and correspondent for the Spectator, the New Statesman, the Times Literary Supplement, Sunday Today, and the Sunday Correspondent. Hitchens writes regularly for the Atlantic Monthly and Slate, and is the author of God is Not Great, Letters to a Young Contrarian and Why Orwell Matters.

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Frederick (Spanish language) (Spanish Edition)
by Leo Lionni
translation by Teresa Mlawer
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Saturday, June 5
12:00pm
Frederick Storytime
Please join bookseller Mary for a special storytime reading of Frederick by Leo Leonni. For ages 4 to 8.
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