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  Tuesday, January 31

  7:00am

  MARK STRAND – ALMOST INVISIBLE

  From Pulitzer Prize–winner Mark Strand comes an exquisitely witty and poignant series of prose poems. Sometimes appearing as pure prose, sometimes as impure poetry, but always with Strand’s clarity and simplicity of style, they are like riddles, their answers vanishing just as they appear within…

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  From Pulitzer Prize–winner Mark Strand comes an exquisitely witty and poignant series of prose poems. Sometimes appearing as pure prose, sometimes as impure poetry, but always with Strand’s clarity and simplicity of style, they are like riddles, their answers vanishing just as they appear within reach. Fable, domestic satire, meditation, joke, and fantasy all come together in what is arguably the liveliest, most entertaining book that Strand has yet written.

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  Tuesday, January 31

  7:00pm

  Adam Johnson—THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON

  THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON by Adam Johnson An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master’s Son follows a young man’s journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. Pak Jun Do is the haunted son…

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  THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON by Adam Johnson
  
  An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master’s Son follows a young man’s journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea.
  
  Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother—a singer “stolen” to Pyongyang—and an influential father who runs Long Tomorrows, a work camp for orphans. There the boy is given his first taste of power, picking which orphans eat first and which will be lent out for manual labor. Recognized for his loyalty and keen instincts, Jun Do comes to the attention of superiors in the state, rises in the ranks, and starts on a road from which there will be no return.
  
  Considering himself “a humble citizen of the greatest nation in the world,” Jun Do becomes a professional kidnapper who must navigate the shifting rules, arbitrary violence, and baffling demands of his Korean overlords in order to stay alive. Driven to the absolute limit of what any human being could endure, he boldly takes on the treacherous role of rival to Kim Jong Il in an attempt to save the woman he loves, Sun Moon, a legendary actress “so pure, she didn’t know what starving people looked like.”
  
  Part breathless thriller, part story of innocence lost, part story of romantic love, The Orphan Master’s Son is also a riveting portrait of a world heretofore hidden from view: a North Korea rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, stolen moments of beauty, and love. A towering literary achievement, The Orphan Master’s Son ushers Adam Johnson into the small group of today’s greatest writers.

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  The Patron Saint of Liars

  by Ann Patchett

  $14.95 List Price

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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

  by Brian Evenson

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  Understories

  by Tim Horvath

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  The Uninnocent:

  Stories

  by Bradford Morrow

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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

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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.
  
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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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