Feb 2012

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January 30th in New York
The Bridge: Jonathan Cohen, translator from the Spanish
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January 31st in New York
Adam Johnson—THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON
MARK STRAND – ALMOST INVISIBLE
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February 1st in New York
Susanne Kippenberger MARTIN KIPPENBERGER: THE ARTIST AND HIS FAMILIES
Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma
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February 2nd in New York
Susan Bernofsky's Reading of BERLIN STORIES by Robert Walser
Shalom Auslander in conversation with Jessa Crispin
An Evening of Poetry with Billy Collins, Horoscopes for the Dead
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February 3rd in New York
THE TENDER HOUR OF TWILIGHT, by Richard Seaver
Andre Dubus III in conversation with John Burnham Schwartz
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February 5th in New York
Carter Sickels & Stephen Stark
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February 6th in New York
DAN CHAON – STAY AWAKE
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February 7th in New York
Clay Shirky and Eric Klinenberg in conversation
Téa Obreht reads from THE TIGER'S WIFE
Poetry Reading with Martha Rhodes, James Tolan, Stephanie Brown, and Marcia Pelletiere
FREE Mischief & Mayhem Reading Series w/ Kaylie Jones , Thaddeus Rutkowski and host Katie Halper
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February 8th in New York
Susan Howe & Roberto Tejada
Adam Gopnik's Winter
Josh Bazell, Wild Thing, with Malcolm Jones
Selected Shorts: Roz Chast Presents What I Hate from A To Z
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February 9th in New York
Pico Iyer and Rebecca Solnit
Nathan Englander—What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories with novelist Colum McCann
Granta Release Party
Bernice L. McFadden: Gathering of Waters
Bernice L. McFadden: Gathering of Waters
NYU Steinhardt/Blue Note Jazz Series: Al Kooper in Conversation with Dave Schroeder
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February 10th in New York
ROBERT KANIGEL – ON AN IRISH ISLAND
Author's Talk with Louis Hyman
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February 11th in New York
Reading: Kevin Rashid Johnson’s “Defying the Tomb” Featuring John “Mac” Gaskins
Reinventing the Past
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February 12th in New York
Writing on the Margins: Literature between Cultures
Frühschoppen Literary Brunch
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February 13th in New York
Susan Cain—Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking with George Prochnik, author of In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise
Reading: Jose Maria Sison’s “Selected Writings” With BAYAN-USA
The EVEN CLEVELAND BOOK CLUB discusses Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
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February 14th in New York
The Moth StorySLAM. Theme: Love Hurts
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February 15th in New York
Brandon Downing & Aaron Kunin
FENCE Winter Issue reading
86th and Lex Reading Group
A conversation on Black Cool with Rebecca Walker, Margo Jefferson, and Miles Marshall Lewis
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February 16th in New York
Wayne Koestenbaum THE ANATOMY OF HARPO MARX
Stewart O'Nan in conversation with Edward Champion
BOOKFORUM presents: WASTED YOUTH
Milton Glaser
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February 17th in New York
Charlotte Silver—Charlotte Au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood
Edmund White JACK HOLMES AND HIS FRIEND
Global Economy: Crisis Without End
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February 20th in New York
The St. Mark's Bookshop Reading Series: Megan Boyle, Brandon Scott Gorrell, Giancarlo DiTrapano, Spencer Madsen, Marie Calloway, Tao Lin
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February 21st in New York
Edmund White - JACK HOLMES AND HIS FRIEND
ADAM WILSON – FLATSCREEN
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February 22nd in New York
On Biography: Stacy Schiff in conversation with Rachel Syme
Selected Shorts: An Evening With One Story Magazine
Deborah Eisenberg & Wallace Shawn read from An Ermine in Czernopol (NYC)
Women Without Men
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February 23rd in New York
Patrick McGrath, Leigh Stein & Sarah Schulman Celebrate 12th Street Online Magazine
Toby Lester in conversation with Robert Krulwich of RadioLab
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February 24th in New York
Friday Night Book Group
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February 25th in New York
Tom McCarthy's MEN IN SPACE
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February 26th in New York
An Evening with Melville House Authors: Lars Iyer et.al
Jean Strouse and Colm Toíbín on Alice James
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February 27th in New York
“Our America”: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Ilan Stavans
Eleanor Henderson in conversation with Taylor Antrim
Lizzie Hutton—She'd Waited Millenia
American Creative Writers on Class
Freedom to Occupy? Reclaiming Space and Reinventing Protest
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February 28th in New York
Ask Me About...Madame Bovary
Richard Mason, History of a Pleasure SeekerRichard Mason, History of a Pleasure Seeker
SARAH MANGUSO – THE GUARDIANS
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February 29th in New York
Behind the Curtain: A Magazine Roundtable
The Role of the Critic
Panel discussion Daniel Banks, reg e. gaines, Eboni Hogan, and others to be announced, on the book: Say Word! Voices from Hip Hop Theater
Michelle Haimoff - These Days Are Ours
Turnstyle Reading Series: Ben Lerner and Michelle Valladares
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March 1st in New York
Ellen Ullman In Conversation with Maud Newton
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Thursday, February 2
7:00am
An Evening of Poetry with Billy Collins, Horoscopes for the Dead
We are pleased to present a special event featuring one of the most widely read poets of our time, Billy Collins—author, most recently, of the book Horoscopes for the Dead, a smart, lyrical, funny and touching collection from America’s most popular poet. Billy Collins’ poetry collections …

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We are pleased to present a special event featuring one of the most widely read poets of our time, Billy Collins—author, most recently, of the book Horoscopes for the Dead, a smart, lyrical, funny and touching collection from America’s most popular poet.

Billy Collins’ poetry collections include, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, Picnic, Lightning, Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New & Selected Poems, Nine Horses, and The Trouble With Poetry and Other Poems. He is editor of two anthologies of contemporary poetry: Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry and 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day. Among his honors are fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In October 2004, Collins was selected as the inaugural recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Mark Twain Award for humor in poetry. Collins has been a writer-in-residence at Sarah Lawrence College and served as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College, City University of New York, where he has taught for the past 30 years. In June 2001, Billy Collins was appointed United States Poet Laureate (2001-2003). In January 2004, he was named New York State Poet Laureate 2004-06.

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Thursday, February 2
7:00pm
Susan Bernofsky's Reading of BERLIN STORIES by Robert Walser
BERLIN STORIES by Robert Walser In 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl, already an important stage-set designer, and immediately threw himself into the vibrant social and cultural life of the city. Berlin Stories collects his alternately …

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BERLIN STORIES by Robert Walser

In 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl, already an important stage-set designer, and immediately threw himself into the vibrant social and cultural life of the city. Berlin Stories collects his alternately celebratory, droll, and satirical observations on every aspect of the bustling German capital, from its theaters, cabarets, painters’ galleries, and literary salons, to the metropolitan street, markets, the Tiergarten, rapid-service restaurants, and the electric tram. Originally appearing in literary magazines as well as the feuilleton sections of newspapers, the early stories are characterized by a joyous urgency and the generosity of an unconventional guide. Later pieces take the form of more personal reflections on the writing process, memories, and character studies. All are full of counter-intuitive images and vignettes of startling clarity, showcasing a unique talent for whom no detail was trivial, at grips with a city diving headlong into modernity.

Award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky reads the English translation of one of her favorite subjects, Robert Walser. Bernofsky is the translator of six books by Robert Walser and is currently working on a biography of the late Swiss author.

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192 Books
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Thursday, February 2
7:00pm
Shalom Auslander in conversation with Jessa Crispin
Man Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson says “Shalom Auslander writes like some contemporary comedic Jeremiah, thundering warnings of disaster and retribution. What makes him so terrifyingly funny is that he isn't joking.” The acclaimed author of Foreskin's Lament and Beware of God will talk …

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Man Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson says “Shalom Auslander writes like some contemporary comedic Jeremiah, thundering warnings of disaster and retribution. What makes him so terrifyingly funny is that he isn't joking.” The acclaimed author of Foreskin's Lament and Beware of God will talk about his first novel with Jessa Crispin, editor and founder of Bookslut.com.

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Friday, February 3
7:00pm
THE TENDER HOUR OF TWILIGHT, by Richard Seaver
Join us for an evening of tribute to legendary editor, translator and publisher, Richard Seaver. Richard Seaver was at the center of literary life in 1950s Paris, establishing the magazine Merlin, and publishing Eugene Ionesco and Jean Genet. He championed Samuel Beckett in an essay that got the …

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Join us for an evening of tribute to legendary editor, translator and publisher, Richard Seaver.

Richard Seaver was at the center of literary life in 1950s Paris, establishing the magazine Merlin, and publishing Eugene Ionesco and Jean Genet. He championed Samuel Beckett in an essay that got the attention of Barney Rosset, the editor of Grove Press, which helped bring Beckett to American audiences. It also got Seaver a job at Grove. The book follows Seaver from Paris to New York when, as a top editor at Grove Press in the 1960s, he went on to publish books with content that challenged censorship laws— including William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn Son; and the French erotic novel The Story of O, written under a pseudonym. Seaver died in 2009 and The Tender Hour of Twilight is his memoir, condensed by his wife from 900 pages of notes he wrote over the course of his life.

“It was Seaver who manned the barricades so that the rest of us could read. He was also, as anyone who reads The Tender Hour of Twilight will discover, quite a formidable writer himself.”—Jane Kramer

“This book reminds us how much Dick Seaver is missed, and lucky we—publishers, writers, readers, literature itself—were to have had him in our lives. The Tender Hour of Twilight is as fascinating, as insightful, and as generous as the man himself.”—Daniel Okrent

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192 Books
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Friday, February 3
7:00pm
Andre Dubus III in conversation with John Burnham Schwartz
Townie: A Memoir, by Andre Dubus III I've never read a better or more serious meditation on violence, its sources, consequences, and, especially, its terrifying pleasures, than "Townie." It's a brutal and, yes, thrilling memoir that sheds real light on the creative process of two of our best writers,…

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Townie: A Memoir, by Andre Dubus III

I've never read a better or more serious meditation on violence, its sources, consequences, and, especially, its terrifying pleasures, than "Townie." It's a brutal and, yes, thrilling memoir that sheds real light on the creative process of two of our best writers, Andre Dubus III and his famous, much revered father. You'll never read the work of either man in quite the same way afterward. You may not view the world in quite the same way either.—Richard Russo, author of "Empire Falls."

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McNally Jackson Books
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Feb 5, 2012
7:00pm-9:00pm
Carter Sickels & Stephen Stark
Carter Sickels reads from his novel: The Evening Hour - “[The Evening Hour] is grounded in rich storytelling.” – Publishers Weekly “First-time novelist Sickels paints Cole’s experience with an unflinching hand.” – Library Journal “Intensely lyrical… Sickels has great insight …

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Carter Sickels reads from his novel: The Evening Hour

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“[The Evening Hour] is grounded in rich storytelling.” – Publishers Weekly

“First-time novelist Sickels paints Cole’s experience with an unflinching hand.” – Library Journal

“Intensely lyrical… Sickels has great insight into the emotional life of West Virginians, and he refreshingly presents them as fully realized characters rather than as clichés or stereotypes.” – Kirkus

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Stephen Stark reads from his novel: The Final Appearance of America’s Favorite Girl Next Door

Brilliant, Sexy, Edgy Page-Turner With a Twist

It’s been nearly 20 years since Stephen Stark earned critical acclaim from Bret Lott, Andrea Barrett, and Larry Brown for his New York Times Book Review Notable Book Second Son. Now he’s back with a literary thrill ride, The Final Appearance of America’s Favorite Girl Next Door, from Shelf Media Group.

The genre-bending The Final Appearance of America’s Favorite Girl Next Door is a wholly original and unputdownable book that’s like no novel you’ve read.

About the Series: KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction

The KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction showcases the finest in contemporary fiction from new and emerging writers.

Suzanne Dottino/fiction curator, suzanne@kgbbar.com

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Monday, February 6
7:00pm
DAN CHAON – STAY AWAKE
Stay Awake, by Dan Chaon Before the critically acclaimed novels Await Your Reply and You Remind Me of Me, Dan Chaon made a name for himself as a renowned writer of dazzling short stories. Now, in Stay Awake, Chaon returns to that form for the first time since his masterly Among the Missing, a finalist…

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Stay Awake, by Dan Chaon

Before the critically acclaimed novels Await Your Reply and You Remind Me of Me, Dan Chaon made a name for himself as a renowned writer of dazzling short stories. Now, in Stay Awake, Chaon returns to that form for the first time since his masterly Among the Missing, a finalist for the National Book Award.

In these haunting, suspenseful stories, lost, fragile, searching characters wander between ordinary life and a psychological shadowland. They have experienced intense love or loss, grief or loneliness, displacement or disconnection—and find themselves in unexpected, dire, and sometimes unfathomable situations.

A father’s life is upended by his son’s night terrors—and disturbing memories of the first wife and child he abandoned; a foster child receives a call from the past and begins to remember his birth mother, whose actions were unthinkable; a divorced woman experiences her own dark version of “empty-nest syndrome”; a young widower is unnerved by the sudden, inexplicable appearances of messages and notes—on dollar bills, inside a magazine, stapled to the side of a tree; and a college dropout begins to suspect that there’s something off, something sinister, in his late parents’ house.

Dan Chaon’s stories feature scattered families, unfulfilled dreamers, anxious souls. They exist in a twilight realm—in a place by the window late at night when the streets are empty and the world appears to be quiet. But you are up, unable to sleep. So you stay awake.

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BookCourt
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163 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
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Tuesday, February 7
6:00pm
FREE Mischief & Mayhem Reading Series w/ Kaylie Jones , Thaddeus Rutkowski and host Katie Halper
This is a general admission event in The Gallery at LPR. Mischief and Mayhem is a publishing collective, not a publishing company. Our goals are to nurture and promote distinctive authorial voices, especially those that fall outside of commercially acceptable notions of literature, and to do everything…

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This is a general admission event in The Gallery at LPR.

Mischief and Mayhem is a publishing collective, not a publishing company. Our goals are to nurture and promote distinctive authorial voices, especially those that fall outside of commercially acceptable notions of literature, and to do everything we can to bring those writers to the largest possible audience.

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Le Poisson Rouge
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Tuesday, February 7
6:30pm
Poetry Reading with Martha Rhodes, James Tolan, Stephanie Brown, and Marcia Pelletiere
Martha Rhodes is a poet, editor, teacher, and the author of four collections of poetry:At the Gate, Perfect Disappearance, Mother Quiet, and The Beds. James Tolan is author of the chapbooks Red Walls and Whiskey and the Rake of Mourning. >> Learn More Stephanie Brown is the author of two collections…

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Martha Rhodes is a poet, editor, teacher, and the author of four collections of poetry:At the Gate, Perfect Disappearance, Mother Quiet, and The Beds.

James Tolan is author of the chapbooks Red Walls and Whiskey and the Rake of Mourning. >> Learn More

Stephanie Brown is the author of two collections of poetry, Domestic Interior and Allegory of the Supermarket.

Marcia Pelletiere is a poet, musician, and multimedia artist. Miracle with Roasted Hens is her first poetry collection.

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NYU Book Center
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Tuesday, February 7
7:00pm
Clay Shirky and Eric Klinenberg in conversation
We're more wired together digitally today than at any time in our history, in a great throbbing social-media hive. At the same time, a far greater percentage of us are living alone than at any time in our history. What's the connection between these two phenomena? Where do the trend lines take us …

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We're more wired together digitally today than at any time in our history, in a great throbbing social-media hive. At the same time, a far greater percentage of us are living alone than at any time in our history. What's the connection between these two phenomena? Where do the trend lines take us from here? The Penguin Press presents celebrated public intellectual Eric Klinenberg, author of the forthcoming Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Along, and Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, coming together to discuss what it all means and where we're all heading.

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192 Books
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Tuesday, February 7
7:00pm
Téa Obreht reads from THE TIGER'S WIFE
St. Mark's Bookshop & The Huffington Post present: In a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy of The Jungle Book and the …

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St. Mark's Bookshop & The Huffington Post present:

In a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy of The Jungle Book and the stories he told her of his encounters over the years with “the deathless man.” But most extraordinary of all is the story her grandfather never told her—the legend of the tiger’s wife.Téa Obreht was born in Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia in 1985 and has lived in the United States since the age of twelve. Her writing has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's, and The Guardian, and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. She has been named by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best American fiction writers under forty and included in the National Book Foundation's list of 5 Under 35. Téa Obreht lives in New York.

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St. Mark's Bookshop
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Wednesday, February 8
7:00pm
Adam Gopnik's Winter
The author delivers highlights from his renowned 2011 CBC Massey Lectures. A stunning, beautiful meditation buoyed by Gopnik’s trademark gentle wit, the five Winter lectures offer an enchanting homage to an idea of a season and a captivating journey through the modern imagination. Gopnik will …

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The author delivers highlights from his renowned 2011 CBC Massey Lectures.

A stunning, beautiful meditation buoyed by Gopnik’s trademark gentle wit, the five Winter lectures offer an enchanting homage to an idea of a season and a captivating journey through the modern imagination.

Gopnik will deliver highlights from the lectures (available in book form as Winter) and engage in a Q & A with the audience. The program will be followed by a book signing with the author.

Tickets: $15

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92Y Tribeca
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Wednesday, February 8
7:00pm
Josh Bazell, Wild Thing, with Malcolm Jones
Former mob hit man Dr. Brnwa is on the case, and on the run, in this electrifying sequel to Josh Bazell’s bestselling novel, Beat the Reaper. It's difficult to find work as a doctor when using your real name will get you killed—so difficult, that when a reclusive billionaire offers Dr. Peter …

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Former mob hit man Dr. Brnwa is on the case, and on the run, in this electrifying sequel to Josh Bazell’s bestselling novel, Beat the Reaper. It's difficult to find work as a doctor when using your real name will get you killed—so difficult, that when a reclusive billionaire offers Dr. Peter Brown, aka Pietro Brnwa, a job accompanying a sexy but self-destructive paleontologist on the world's worst field assignment, Brown has no choice but to say yes. Facing new and old monsters alike, Dr. Brnwa's story continues in this darkly funny and lightning-paced follow up to Bazell's thrilling debut.

Josh Bazell holds a B.A. in writing from Brown University and an M.D. from Columbia. He lives in New York City.

Malcolm Jones writes about books, music, and photography for The Daily Beast and Newsweek. He is the author of a memoir, Little Boy Blues, and collaborated with the songwriter and composer Van Dyke Parks and the illustrator Barry Moser on Jump!, a retelling of Brer Rabbit stories.

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Wednesday, February 8
7:00pm
Selected Shorts: Roz Chast Presents What I Hate from A To Z
Welcome to the world of the wacky and endearing New Yorker cartoonist and stories about her most favorite least favorite things. Chast shows appealingly gloomy cartoons from her new book, What I Hate from A to Z, and introduces stories read by Jerry Stiller (Seinfeld), Anne Meara (Sex and the City),…

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Welcome to the world of the wacky and endearing New Yorker cartoonist and stories about her most favorite least favorite things. Chast shows appealingly gloomy cartoons from her new book, What I Hate from A to Z, and introduces stories read by Jerry Stiller (Seinfeld), Anne Meara (Sex and the City), and Stephen Lang (Avatar) that feature her favorite combo — humor and dread — by gothic humorist Shirley Jackson, dark comic genius Bruce Jay Friedman.

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Symphony Space
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Wednesday, February 8
8:00pm
Susan Howe & Roberto Tejada
Author of more than a dozen books of poetry and literary criticism, Susan Howe’s recently published a collection of poems, Souls of the Labadie Tract (New Directions, 2007). That This, a collection of work published by New Directions (that includes “Frolic Architecture”) in 2010 recently won …

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Author of more than a dozen books of poetry and literary criticism, Susan Howe’s recently published a collection of poems, Souls of the Labadie Tract (New Directions, 2007). That This, a collection of work published by New Directions (that includes “Frolic Architecture”) in 2010 recently won the Bollingen Prize. Roberto Tejada is the author of Mirrors for Gold (Krupskaya, 2006), Exposition Park (Wesleyan, 2010), and Full Foreground (University of Arizona, 2012).

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The Poetry Project
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Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards
by Al Kooper
$19.99 List Price
For more info visit:
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Thursday, February 9
4:00pm
NYU Steinhardt/Blue Note Jazz Series: Al Kooper in Conversation with Dave Schroeder
Songwriter, producer, musician and founding member of Blood, Sweat and Tears, Al Kooper joins our series host Dave Schroeder for an in-depth interview. Afterward Mr. Kooper will sign his CDs and book.
Barnes & Noble
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Thursday, February 9
7:00pm
Granta Release Party
Be it a wrong turn, a bad relationship, a debilitating illness or a war, every action creates a reaction, every move is followed by another move. How do we get out of what we've gotten ourselves into? Granta 118 zooms in close on the phenomenon of the exit strategy. With readings by featured writers…

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Be it a wrong turn, a bad relationship, a debilitating illness or a war, every action creates a reaction, every move is followed by another move. How do we get out of what we've gotten ourselves into? Granta 118 zooms in close on the phenomenon of the exit strategy.

With readings by featured writers Judy Chicurel, Vanessa Manko, and Susan Minot as well as a conversation with Granta assistant editor Patrick Ryan, 192 Books hosts the launch of Granta 118: Exit Strategies.

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Thursday, February 9
7:00pm
Bernice L. McFadden: Gathering of Waters
“In her new novel, Gathering of Waters, Bernice McFadden brings her own special vision to the unfortunate story of Emmett Till and his murder in Money, Mississippi. This moving and magical novel, which traces the generations leading up to and away from that horrible night in 1955, drew me in …

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“In her new novel, Gathering of Waters, Bernice McFadden brings her own special vision to the unfortunate story of Emmett Till and his murder in Money, Mississippi. This moving and magical novel, which traces the generations leading up to and away from that horrible night in 1955, drew me in immediately and swept me along through its richly imagined world. I couldn’t stop reading, caught up as I was in that enticing place between truth and fantasy, the here-and-now and the what-was, the living and the dead, the ugliness and the beauty, the hatred and the love. What a rich chorus of voices Bernice McFadden has fashioned from this place called Money.”

—Lee Martin, author of Break the Skin and The Bright Forever

Told from the point of view of the town of Money, Mississippi, Bernice L. McFadden's new novel Gathering of Waters retells the tragic story of Emmett Till. At this event, the author will read and talk about her new novel.

Bernice L. McFadden is the author of seven critically acclaimed novels including the classic Sugar and Glorious, which was featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, selected as the debut title for the One Book, One Harlem program, and was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award. She is a two-time Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist, as well as the recipient of two fiction honor awards from the BCALA. Her sophomore novel, The Warmest December, was praised by Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison as “searing and expertly imagined.” McFadden lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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The Center for Fiction
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Thursday, February 9
7:00pm
Bernice L. McFadden: Gathering of Waters
“In her new novel, Gathering of Waters, Bernice McFadden brings her own special vision to the unfortunate story of Emmett Till and his murder in Money, Mississippi. This moving and magical novel, which traces the generations leading up to and away from that horrible night in 1955, drew me in …

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“In her new novel, Gathering of Waters, Bernice McFadden brings her own special vision to the unfortunate story of Emmett Till and his murder in Money, Mississippi. This moving and magical novel, which traces the generations leading up to and away from that horrible night in 1955, drew me in immediately and swept me along through its richly imagined world. I couldn’t stop reading, caught up as I was in that enticing place between truth and fantasy, the here-and-now and the what-was, the living and the dead, the ugliness and the beauty, the hatred and the love. What a rich chorus of voices Bernice McFadden has fashioned from this place called Money.”

—Lee Martin, author of Break the Skin and The Bright Forever

Told from the point of view of the town of Money, Mississippi, Benice L. McFadden's new novel Gathering of Waters retells the tragic story of Emmett Till. At this event, the author will read and talk about her new novel.

Bernice L. McFadden is the author of seven critically acclaimed novels including the classic Sugar and Glorious, which was featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, selected as the debut title for the One Book, One Harlem program, and was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award. She is a two-time Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist, as well as the recipient of two fiction honor awards from the BCALA. Her sophomore novel, The Warmest December, was praised by Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison as “searing and expertly imagined.” McFadden lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Thursday, February 9
7:30pm
Nathan Englander—What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories with novelist Colum McCann
Critically-acclaimed Brooklyn based author Nathan Englander will discuss his story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank with friend and fellow novelist Colum McCann, author of the National Book Award-winning Let the Great World Spin. These eight new stories display a gifted …

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Critically-acclaimed Brooklyn based author Nathan Englander will discuss his story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank with friend and fellow novelist Colum McCann, author of the National Book Award-winning Let the Great World Spin. These eight new stories display a gifted young author grappling with the great questions of modern life, written with a command of language and imagination that place Englander at the very forefront of contemporary American fiction. The title story, inspired by Raymond Carver’s masterpiece, is a provocative portrait of two marriages in which the Holocaust is played out as a devastating parlor game. In the outlandishly dark “Camp Sundown” vigilante justice is undertaken by a group of geriatric campers in a bucolic summer enclave. “Free Fruit for Young Widows” is a small, sharp study in evil, lovingly told by a father to a son. Beautiful and courageous, funny and achingly sad, Englander’s work is a revelation.

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Greenlight Bookstore
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Thursday, February 9
8:00pm
Pico Iyer and Rebecca Solnit
Pico Iyer’s new book—on hauntedness, fathers and Graham Greene—is The Man Within My Head. He is “a writer like no other,” wrote Jan Morris. “His particular gifts of thoughtfulness, perception and descriptive power, allied by now with profound experience, reach new levels of grace.” …

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Pico Iyer’s new book—on hauntedness, fathers and Graham Greene—is The Man Within My Head.

He is “a writer like no other,” wrote Jan Morris. “His particular gifts of thoughtfulness, perception and descriptive power, allied by now with profound experience, reach new levels of grace.”

Rebecca Solnit’s books include River of Shadows, A Field Guide to Getting Lost and A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster. Her “extraordinary mind seizes hold of an unexpected topic and renders it with such confidence, subtlety and grace that one finds it hard to remember what things looked like before,” wrote The New York Times.

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92nd Street Y
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Friday, February 10
6:30pm
Author's Talk with Louis Hyman
In BORROW: The American Way of Debt—How Personal Credit Created the American Middle Class and Almost Bankrupted the Nation, economist Louis Hyman delivers an accessible and informed history on the rise of personal borrowing in the United States, demonstrating that today’s problems are not as new…

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In BORROW: The American Way of Debt—How Personal Credit Created the American Middle Class and Almost Bankrupted the Nation, economist Louis Hyman delivers an accessible and informed history on the rise of personal borrowing in the United States, demonstrating that today’s problems are not as new as we think. Hyman describes the evolution of personal loans, finding that our borrowing patterns are similar to our grandparents, but higher basic expenses, stagnating wages and increased economic competition from abroad have made it harder to repay our debts.

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Friday, February 10
7:00pm
ROBERT KANIGEL – ON AN IRISH ISLAND
On an Irish Island, by Robert Kanigel On an Irish Island is a love letter to a vanished way of life, in which Robert Kanigel, the highly praised author of The Man Who Knew Infinity and The One Best Way, tells the story of the Great Blasket, a wildly beautiful island off the west coast of Ireland, …

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On an Irish Island, by Robert Kanigel

On an Irish Island is a love letter to a vanished way of life, in which Robert Kanigel, the highly praised author of The Man Who Knew Infinity and The One Best Way, tells the story of the Great Blasket, a wildly beautiful island off the west coast of Ireland, renowned during the early twentieth century for the rich communal life of its residents and the unadulterated Irish they spoke. With the Irish language vanishing all through the rest of Ireland, the Great Blasket became a magnet for scholars and writers drawn there during the Gaelic renaissance—and the scene for a memorable clash of cultures between modern life and an older, sometimes sweeter world slipping away.

Kanigel introduces us to the playwright John Millington Synge, some of whose characters in The Playboy of the Western World, were inspired by his time on the island; Carl Marstrander, a Norwegian linguist who gave his place on Norway’s Olympic team for a summer on the Blasket; Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, a Celtic studies scholar fresh from the Sorbonne; and central to the story, George Thomson, a British classicist whose involvement with the island and its people we follow from his first visit as a twenty-year-old to the end of his life.

On the island, they met a colorful coterie of men and women with whom they formed lifelong and life-changing friendships. There’s Tomás O’Crohan, a stoic fisherman, one of the few islanders who could read and write Irish, who tutored many of the incomers in the language’s formidable intricacies and became the Blasket’s first published writer; Maurice O’Sullivan, a good-natured prankster and teller of stories, whose memoir, Twenty Years A-Growing, became an Irish classic; and Peig Sayers, whose endless repertoire of earthy tales left listeners spellbound.

As we get to know these men and women, we become immersed in the vivid culture of the islanders, their hard lives of fishing and farming matched by their love of singing, dancing, and talk. Yet, sadly, we watch them leave the island, the village becoming uninhabited by 1953. The story of the Great Blasket is one of struggle—between the call of modernity and the tug of Ireland’s ancient ways, between the promise of emigration and the peculiar warmth of island life amid its physical isolation. But ultimately it is a tribute to the strength and beauty of a people who, tucked away from the rest of civilization, kept alive a nation’s past, and to the newcomers and islanders alike who brought the island’s remarkable story to the larger world.

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BookCourt
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Saturday, February 11
6:00pm
Reinventing the Past
Chris Adrian, Catalin Dorian Florescu, Inka Parei and Linda Stift in conversation with Daniel Kehlmann Literature is often a delving into the past, made all but involuntary because the past has returned to haunt the present. Whether the history in question is familial, political or ancient, traces…

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Chris Adrian, Catalin Dorian Florescu, Inka Parei and Linda Stift in conversation with Daniel Kehlmann

Literature is often a delving into the past, made all but involuntary because the past has returned to haunt the present. Whether the history in question is familial, political or ancient, traces of old trauma can cast the present in a new light. This panel explores the different ways in which the past can be put to work in the name of storytelling.

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powerHouse Arena
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Saturday, February 11
7:00pm
Reading: Kevin Rashid Johnson’s “Defying the Tomb” Featuring John “Mac” Gaskins
Soledad Brother-esque, “Defying the Tomb: Selected Prison Writings and Art of Kevin Rashid Johnson” is a collection of letters between revolutionary New Afrikan prisoner Johnson and a fellow prisoner, Outlaw, as well as essays written by Johnson discussing Marxism and Maoism, the Five-Percenters,…

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Soledad Brother-esque, “Defying the Tomb: Selected Prison Writings and Art of Kevin Rashid Johnson” is a collection of letters between revolutionary New Afrikan prisoner Johnson and a fellow prisoner, Outlaw, as well as essays written by Johnson discussing Marxism and Maoism, the Five-Percenters, Dialectical Materialism, Dead Prez, Capitalism, Racism, Imperialism, Class Struggle, and more. Johnson’s book will be read by John “Mac” Gaskins was in a neighboring cell with Johnson, and was recently released from the tombs of Wallins Ridge State Prison in southwest Virginia. Original artwork produced by Johnson will be displayed.

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Sunday, February 12
12:00pm
Frühschoppen Literary Brunch
The six German-language authors of Festival Neue Literatur: Larissa Boehning, Monica Cantieni, Catalin Dorian Florescu, Inka Parei, Linda Stift and Erwin Uhrmann, give a sampling from their work, providing a taste of new writing from Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Enjoy traditional German fare.…

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The six German-language authors of Festival Neue Literatur: Larissa Boehning, Monica Cantieni, Catalin Dorian Florescu, Inka Parei, Linda Stift and Erwin Uhrmann, give a sampling from their work, providing a taste of new writing from Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Enjoy traditional German fare. RSVP to: deutscheshaus.rsvp@nyu.edu

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Sunday, February 12
6:00pm
Writing on the Margins: Literature between Cultures
Francisco Goldman, Monica Cantieni, Larissa Boehning and Erwin Uhrmann in conversation with Liesl Schillinger As in the United States, the literary scene in Europe is currently abuzz with hybridity and border crossings that explore the lives of characters who move between different cultural and …

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Francisco Goldman, Monica Cantieni, Larissa Boehning and Erwin Uhrmann in conversation with Liesl Schillinger

As in the United States, the literary scene in Europe is currently abuzz with hybridity and border crossings that explore the lives of characters who move between different cultural and ethnic worlds. There as here questions of power and authenticity are not far behind as these authors explore the sometimes explosive conditions that arise when cultures intersect and, yes, sometimes clash.

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Monday, February 13
7:00pm
Reading: Jose Maria Sison’s “Selected Writings” With BAYAN-USA
As the Chairperson of the International League of Peoples Struggles, Jose Maria Sison is a well-respected figure amongst national and social liberation movements. A poet, author, teacher, lecturer, and political refugee for over 24 years, Sison is also a figure in the 43-year old Philippine revolution.…

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As the Chairperson of the International League of Peoples Struggles, Jose Maria Sison is a well-respected figure amongst national and social liberation movements. A poet, author, teacher, lecturer, and political refugee for over 24 years, Sison is also a figure in the 43-year old Philippine revolution. Join BAYAN-USA, an information bureau for the national democratic movement of the Philippines and a campaign center for anti-imperialist Filipinos in the U.S., for the NYC launch of Sison’s “Selected Writings” on imperialism, socialism, and revolution– perhaps more relevant under today’s economic crisis than ever before.

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Monday, February 13
7:00pm
The EVEN CLEVELAND BOOK CLUB discusses Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
‘If there’s no meaning in it,” said the King, “that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn’t try to find any. And yet I don’t know,” he went on, spreading the verses out on his knee, and looking at them with one eye; “I seem to see some meaning in them after all …” Jam …

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‘If there’s no meaning in it,” said the King, “that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn’t try to find any. And yet I don’t know,” he went on, spreading the verses out on his knee, and looking at them with one eye; “I seem to see some meaning in them after all …”

Jam tart will be served.

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Community Bookstore
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Monday, February 13
7:30pm
Susan Cain—Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking with George Prochnik, author of In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise
Author and leading authority on introversion and shyness Susan Cain discusses her new book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking with George Prochnik, author of In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise. At least one-third of the people we know …

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Author and leading authority on introversion and shyness Susan Cain discusses her new book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking with George Prochnik, author of In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise. At least one-third of the people we know are introverts.They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet," it is to introverts that we owe many of the great contributions to society—from van Gogh’s sunflowers to the invention of the personal computer. Passionately argued, impressively researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet shows how dramatically we undervalue introverts, and how much we lose in doing so. This extraordinary book has the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how introverts see themselves.

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Greenlight Bookstore
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Tuesday, February 14
7:00pm
The Moth StorySLAM. Theme: Love Hurts
10 stories, 3 teams of judges, 1 winner. $8 at the door. This event always sells out. Limited seating. Please arrive early.
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
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Wednesday, February 15
7:00pm
FENCE Winter Issue reading
FENCE and 192 Books celebrate the launch of FENCE magazine's winter issue. With readings by Deborah Eisenberg, Latasha N. Nevada Diggs, Anthony Madrid, and Ish Klein.
192 Books
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The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
by Heidi W. Durrow
$13.95 List Price
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Wednesday, February 15
7:00pm
86th and Lex Reading Group
The Upper East Side Reading Group reconvenes for their monthly book discussion. This month's selection is The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow.
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Wednesday, February 15
7:00pm
A conversation on Black Cool with Rebecca Walker, Margo Jefferson, and Miles Marshall Lewis
Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness, by Rebecca Walker Black Cool explores the ineffable state and aesthetic of Black Cool. From the effortless reserve of Miles Davis in khakis on an early album cover, to the shock of resistance in black women's fashion from Angela Davis to Rihanna, to …

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Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness, by Rebecca Walker

Black Cool explores the ineffable state and aesthetic of Black Cool. From the effortless reserve of Miles Davis in khakis on an early album cover, to the shock of resistance in black women's fashion from Angela Davis to Rihanna, to the cadence of poets as diverse as Staceyann Chin and Audre Lorde, Black Cool looks at the roots of Black Cool and attempts to name elements of the phenomena that have emerged to shape the global expectation of cool itself. Rebecca Walker, editor of the anthology, will be joined by Margo Jefferson and Miles Marshall Lewis, contributors to the book.

Rebecca Walker is the author of the memoirs Black, White and Jewish and Baby Love and the editor of the anthologies To Be Real, What Makes a Man, and One Big Happy Family. Her writing has appeared in Bookforum, The Washington Post Book World, Newsweek, Glamour, Vibe, and Interview among other publications.

Margo Jefferson is a New York–based cultural critic. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 and published On Michael Jackson in 2006. She’s written and performed two theater pieces and is working on a second book. She teaches writing at Columbia University and Eugene Lang College. Looking back, she feels she has spent too much time being a Good Negro Girl and not enough being a Willful Negro Eccentric.

Miles Marshall Lewis has been an editor at Vibe, XXL, and BET and written for the Huffington Post, Salon, Essence, the Believer, and many other publications. He is the author of the novel Irrésistible; a biography on Sly and the Family Stone, called There’s a Riot Goin’ On; and Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don’t Have Bruises, a collection of essays. He lives in Manhattan. Instead of the more predictable Coltrane, Lewis named his youngest son Kalel, after Superman, the last son of Krypton. MML blogs at his site, www. furthermucker.com.

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McNally Jackson Books
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Wednesday, February 15
8:00pm
Brandon Downing & Aaron Kunin
Brandon Downing is a writer and visual artist originally from California. His books of poetry include The Shirt Weapon (Germ Monographs, 2002) and Dark Brandon (Faux Press, 2005); a monograph of his literary collages from 1996-2008, Lake Antiquity, was released by Fence Books in late 2009. A long …

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Brandon Downing is a writer and visual artist originally from California. His books of poetry include The Shirt Weapon (Germ Monographs, 2002) and Dark Brandon (Faux Press, 2005); a monograph of his literary collages from 1996-2008, Lake Antiquity, was released by Fence Books in late 2009. A long poem, AT ME, is just out from Octopus Books, while his next collection, Mellow Actions, will be published by Fence in 2012. In 2007 he released a feature-length collection of collaged digital shorts, Dark Brandon: Eternal Classics, with a 2nd volume forthcoming next year. You can see some at www.youtube.com/user/bdown68, along with his photographic and other work at www.brandondowning.org.

Aaron Kunin is the author of The Sore Throat and Other Poems (Fence Books, 2010). His other books, also from Fence, include a poetry collection, Folding Ruler Star (2005), and a novel, The Mandarin (2008). Grace Period, a collection of aphorisms, sketches, and fragments, is forthcoming. He lives in Los Angeles.

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The Poetry Project
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Thursday, February 16
6:00pm
Milton Glaser
Graphic design legend Milton Glaser comes to The powerHouse Arena for an exclusive discussion and signing of his new book In Search of the Miraculous. About In Search of the Miraculous: Milton Glaser is perhaps the most celebrated graphic designer in the world. As a young man, he read a phrase that…

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Graphic design legend Milton Glaser comes to The powerHouse Arena for an exclusive discussion and signing of his new book In Search of the Miraculous.

About In Search of the Miraculous:

Milton Glaser is perhaps the most celebrated graphic designer in the world. As a young man, he read a phrase that stayed with him through his life: "In Search of the Miraculous." One could say that all human experience is a miracle—memory, color, taste, Vermeer, stars, watermelon, etc. For those like Glaser, the act of making things that move the mind is perhaps the deepest aspiration towards the miraculous. In this volume, he has chosen work, largely created by him over the last five years, to demonstrate how one concept leads to another. Through fascinating juxtapositions, readers will gain insights into Glaser's oeuvre, journeying with him as he discovers that seemingly new designs frequently come out of provocative ideas taken from the distant past.

About Milton Glaser:

Milton Glaser has had one-man shows at the Museum of Modern Art and the Georges Pompidou Center. In 2004, he was selected for the lifetime achievement award of the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. In 2010, he was awarded a National Medal of Arts by Barack Obama. His books include Graphic Design, Art is Work, and Drawing is Thinking, all published by Overlook.

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Thursday, February 16
6:30pm
BOOKFORUM presents: WASTED YOUTH
BOOKFORUM presents: WASTED YOUTH February 16, 2012 6.30 PM @ the NEW MUSEUM Sky Room -235 Bowery, NYC THIS IS A PRIVATE EVENT AND REQUIRES AN RSVP. For more information, please email wastedyouth@bookforum.com Wasted Youth will feature readings by: Kerry Howley, whose story “Pretty Citadel” …

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BOOKFORUM presents:

WASTED YOUTH

February 16, 2012

6.30 PM

@ the NEW MUSEUM

Sky Room -235 Bowery, NYC

THIS IS A PRIVATE EVENT AND REQUIRES AN RSVP. For more information, please email wastedyouth@bookforum.com

Wasted Youth will feature readings by:

Kerry Howley, whose story “Pretty Citadel” was featured in a recent issue of The Paris Review, and whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine and BOOKFORUM;

Rhonda Lieberman, an artist and contributing editor of ARTFORUM magazine, and whose essays have also appeared in The Village Voice and BOOKFORUM;

Ben Marcus, author of Notable American Women (2002) and the recently published novel The Flame Alphabet (2012), and whose writing Jonathan Safran Foer has called “daring, mind-bending, and heartbreaking”;

Dale Peck, author of Now It’s Time to Say Goodbye (1998), which Michiko Kakutani, of the New York Times called a “thoroughly original and persuasive work of art,” and the literary thriller Body Surfing (2009);

and Adam Wilson, author of the upcoming novel Flatscreen (2012), which Sam Lipsyte calls “one of the most hilarious and commanding debuts I’ve read.”

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New Museum of Contemporary Art
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Thursday, February 16
7:00pm
Wayne Koestenbaum THE ANATOMY OF HARPO MARX
Critically-acclaimed Wayne Koestenbaum, poet and cultural critic extraordinaire, reads from his latest, The Anatomy of Harpo Marx, a detailed play-by-play account of Harpo Marx’s physical movements as captured on screen. Koestenbaum celebrates the astonishing range of Harpo’s body—its kinks, …

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Critically-acclaimed Wayne Koestenbaum, poet and cultural critic extraordinaire, reads from his latest, The Anatomy of Harpo Marx, a detailed play-by-play account of Harpo Marx’s physical movements as captured on screen. Koestenbaum celebrates the astonishing range of Harpo’s body—its kinks, sexual multiplicities, somnolence, Jewishness, “cute” pathos, and more. In a virtuosic performance, Koestenbaum’s text moves gracefully from insightful analysis to cultural critique to autobiographical musing, and provides Harpo with a host of odd bedfellows, including Walter Benjamin and Barbra Streisand.

“Wayne Koestenbaum is our Roland Barthes, updated, remastered, cleared for the pressure zone of American mythologies. Delicate and brave, discerning and outrageous, the meditations organized around the other Marx track unconscious byways and the remarkable turns of a highly personal investment. Startlingly original, Koestenbaum provides critical understanding with poetic acuity and breathtaking disclosure."—Avital Ronell, author of The Test Drive - Publisher's Weekly.

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192 Books
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Thursday, February 16
7:00pm
Stewart O'Nan in conversation with Edward Champion
The Odds: A Love Story, by Stewart O'Nan In the new novel from the author of Last Night at the Lobster, a middle-age couple goes all in for love at a Niagara Falls casino Stewart O'Nan's thirteenth novel is another wildly original, bittersweet gem like his celebrated Last Night at the Lobster. …

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The Odds: A Love Story, by Stewart O'Nan

In the new novel from the author of Last Night at the Lobster, a middle-age couple goes all in for love at a Niagara Falls casino

Stewart O'Nan's thirteenth novel is another wildly original, bittersweet gem like his celebrated Last Night at the Lobster. Valentine's weekend, Art and Marion Fowler flee their Cleveland suburb for Niagara Falls, desperate to recoup their losses. Jobless, with their home approaching foreclosure and their marriage on the brink of collapse, Art and Marion liquidate their savings account and book a bridal suite at the Falls' ritziest casino for a second honeymoon. While they sightsee like tourists during the day, at night they risk it all at the roulette wheel to fix their finances-and save their marriage. A tender yet honest exploration of faith, forgiveness and last chances, The Odds is a reminder that love, like life, is always a gamble.

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Friday, February 17
6:00pm
Global Economy: Crisis Without End
A panel discussion co-sponsored by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Review of Books, and the Fritt Ord Foundation of Oslo. Introduced by Thomas P. Campbell, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art With panelists Paul Krugman Edmund Phelps Jeffrey D. Sachs George Soros Chair: Robert…

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A panel discussion co-sponsored by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Review of Books, and the Fritt Ord Foundation of Oslo.

Introduced by Thomas P. Campbell, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

With panelists

Paul Krugman

Edmund Phelps

Jeffrey D. Sachs

George Soros

Chair: Robert Silvers

*Winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics

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Friday, February 17
7:00pm
Edmund White JACK HOLMES AND HIS FRIEND
Jack Holmes and His Friend, Edmund White’s first work of fiction in almost five years, chronicles the turbulent friendship between two men, one gay and one straight, over the course of two decades. Jack Holmes and Will Wright arrive in New York in the calm before the storm of the 1960s. But their…

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Jack Holmes and His Friend, Edmund White’s first work of fiction in almost five years, chronicles the turbulent friendship between two men, one gay and one straight, over the course of two decades. Jack Holmes and Will Wright arrive in New York in the calm before the storm of the 1960s. But their friendship is complicated: Jack is also in love with Will. Troubled by his subversive longings, Jack sees a psychiatrist and dates a few women, while also pursuing short-lived liaisons with other men. In the two decades of their friendship, from the first stirrings of gay liberation through the catastrophe of AIDS, Jack remains devoted to Will. And as Will embraces his heterosexual sensuality, nearly destroying his marriage, the two men share a newfound libertinism in a city that is itself embracing its freedom.

Moving among beautifully delineated characters in a variety of social milieus, Edmund White brings narrative daring and an exquisite sense of life's submerged drama to this masterful exploration of friendship, sexuality, and sensibility during a watershed moment in history.

“Edmund White has written an incredibly moving novel, and the range of the book, the indelible characters, the intelligence, the fresh prose, are no surprise from such a master. But still there is something wonderful about White’s approach, as though he has opened a previously unseen window in the room he has occupied for years, and now it is flooded with even more light. "- Sam Lipsyte

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192 Books
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Friday, February 17
7:30pm
Charlotte Silver—Charlotte Au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood
Charlotte Silver presents her new memoir, Charlotte Au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood Wine and chocolate tasting to follow New York City-based author Charlotte Silver comes to Greenlight to present her new memoir, Charlotte Au Chocolat: Memoirs of a Restaurant Girlhood. Like Eloise …

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Charlotte Silver presents her new memoir, Charlotte Au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood

Wine and chocolate tasting to follow

New York City-based author Charlotte Silver comes to Greenlight to present her new memoir, Charlotte Au Chocolat: Memoirs of a Restaurant Girlhood. Like Eloise growing up in the Plaza Hotel, Charlotte Silver grew up in her mother's restaurant. Located in Harvard Square, Upstairs at the Pudding was a confection of pink linen tablecloths and twinkling chandeliers, a decadent backdrop for childhood. Over dinners of foie gras and Dover sole, always served with a Shirley Temple, Charlotte kept company with a rotating cast of eccentric staff members. After dinner, in her frilly party dress, she often caught a nap under the bar until closing time. Her one constant was her glamorous, indomitable mother, nicknamed "Patton in Pumps," a wasp-waisted woman in cocktail dress and stilettos who shouldered the burden of raising a family and running a kitchen. Infectious, charming, and at times wistful, Charlotte au Chocolat is a celebration of the magic of a beautiful presentation and the virtues of good manners, as well as a loving tribute to the author's mother, a woman who always showed her best face to the world. Wine and chocolate tasting will follow the reading.

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Greenlight Bookstore
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Monday, February 20
7:00pm
The St. Mark's Bookshop Reading Series: Megan Boyle, Brandon Scott Gorrell, Giancarlo DiTrapano, Spencer Madsen, Marie Calloway, Tao Lin
This Muumuu House reading will feature: Megan Boyle author of SELECTED UNPUBLISHED BLOG POSTS OF A MEXICAN PANDA EXPRESS EMPLOYEE. Brandon Scott Gorrell author of DURING MY NERVOUS BREAKDOWN I WANT TO HAVE A BIOGRAPHER PRESENT. Giancarlo DiTrapano, contributor, SELECTIONS FROM GIANCARLO DITRAPANO'S…

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This Muumuu House reading will feature:

Megan Boyle author of SELECTED UNPUBLISHED BLOG POSTS OF A MEXICAN PANDA EXPRESS EMPLOYEE.

Brandon Scott Gorrell author of DURING MY NERVOUS BREAKDOWN I WANT TO HAVE A BIOGRAPHER PRESENT.

Giancarlo DiTrapano, contributor, SELECTIONS FROM GIANCARLO DITRAPANO'S TWITTER BY GIANCARLO DITRAPANO, EDITED BY BLAKE BUTLER and publisher of NY Tyrant.

Spencer Madsen, contributor, SELECTIONS FROM SPENCER MADSEN'S TWITTER BY SPENCER MADSEN, EDITED BY ELAINE SUN.

Marie Calloway author of ADRIEN BRODY.

Tao Lin's third novel will be published by Vintage in 2013. His previous books are the poetry-collection YOU ARE A LITTLE BIT HAPPIER THAN I AM (2006); the story-collection BED (2007); the novel EEEEE EEE EEEE (2007); the poetry-collection COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY (2008); the novella SHOPLIFTING FROM AMERICAN APPAREL (2009), which was available at Urban Outfitters; the novel RICHARD YATES (2010).

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Tuesday, February 21
7:00pm
Edmund White - JACK HOLMES AND HIS FRIEND
Join us as Edmund White reads from and signs copies of his latest novel, Jack Holmes & His Friend, which critics have called "brilliant, moving, and hilarious." A beautifully sculpted exploration of sexuality and sensibility, deftly told by White, the novel follows the friendship of Jack and Will, …

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Join us as Edmund White reads from and signs copies of his latest novel, Jack Holmes & His Friend,

which critics have called "brilliant, moving, and hilarious." A beautifully sculpted exploration of sexuality

and sensibility, deftly told by White, the novel follows the friendship of Jack and Will, two friends

who move to New York in the early 1960s.

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Three Lives & Company
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Tuesday, February 21
7:00pm
ADAM WILSON – FLATSCREEN
Flatscreen, by Adam Wilson Flatscreen tells the story of Eli Schwartz as he endures the loss of his home, the indifference of his parents, the success of his older brother, and the cruel and frequent dismissal of the opposite sex. He is a loser par excellence—pasty, soft, and high—who struggles…

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Flatscreen, by Adam Wilson

Flatscreen tells the story of Eli Schwartz as he endures the loss of his home, the indifference of his parents, the success of his older brother, and the cruel and frequent dismissal of the opposite sex. He is a loser par excellence—pasty, soft, and high—who struggles to become a new person in a world where nothing is new.

Into this scene of apathy rolls Seymour J. Kahn. Former star of the small screen and current paraplegic sex addict, Kahn has purchased Eli’s old family home. The two begin a dangerous friendship, one that distracts from their circumstances but speeds their descent into utter debasement and, inevitably, YouTube stardom.

By story’s end, through unlikely acts of courage and kindness, roles will be reversed, reputations resurrected, and charges (hopefully) dropped. Adam Wilson writes mischief that moves the heart, and Flatscreen marks the wondrous debut of a truth-telling comic voice.

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Wednesday, February 22
6:00pm
Women Without Men
Film Screening and Conversation with Shahrnush Parsipur and Shirin Neshat
CUNY Graduate Center (Center for the Humanities)
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Wednesday, February 22
7:00pm
On Biography: Stacy Schiff in conversation with Rachel Syme
On Biography is a conversation and reading series devoted to the craft of biography. Host Rachel Syme will speak to leaders and emerging stars of the biography world, discussing the thrills and challenges of writing about a life. This series will explore the ethics of reading personal letters and …

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On Biography is a conversation and reading series devoted to the craft of biography. Host Rachel Syme will speak to leaders and emerging stars of the biography world, discussing the thrills and challenges of writing about a life. This series will explore the ethics of reading personal letters and diaries, the controversies that come with writing someone else's story, and the excitement of uncovering a treasure in the archives. Rachel will talk with Stacy Schiff.

Stacy Schiff is the author of Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupéry, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, winner of the George Washington Book Prize, the Ambassador Award in American Studies, and the Gilbert Chinard Prize of the Institut Français d'Amérique. All three were New York Times Notable Books; the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the Chicago Tribune, and The Economist also named A Great Improvisation a Best Book of the Year. The biographies have been published in a host of foreign editions. Her latest book is Cleopatra, a New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year. Schiff has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and was a Director’s Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She was awarded a 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Schiff has written for The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe, among other publications. She lives in New York City.

Rachel Syme is the former Books Editor for National Public Radio and a current NPR contributor and contributing culture editor for TIME Magazine. She is currently writing a biography of the love affair between Hollywood gossip columnist Sheilah Graham and author F. Scott Fitzgerald for Random House. She has read so many biographies that she often feels like she is living a hundred other lives in addition to her own.

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Wednesday, February 22
7:00pm
Selected Shorts: An Evening With One Story Magazine
Come celebrate 10 years of One Story, the unique, award-winning literary magazine that publishes one short story at a time. Co-founders Maribeth Batcha and Selected Shorts literary commentator Hannah Tinti will be joined by contributors Tom Barbash, L.Annette Binder, Seth Fried and Jim Shepard, who…

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Come celebrate 10 years of One Story, the unique, award-winning literary magazine that publishes one short story at a time. Co-founders Maribeth Batcha and Selected Shorts literary commentator Hannah Tinti will be joined by contributors Tom Barbash, L.Annette Binder, Seth Fried and Jim Shepard, who will introduce their stories. The stories will be performed by Tom Cavanagh (Royal Pains, Ed) and others. All ticket holders will receive a free issue of the magazine!

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An Ermine in Czernopol (New York Review Books Classics)
by Gregor von Rezzori
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Wednesday, February 22
7:00pm
Deborah Eisenberg & Wallace Shawn read from An Ermine in Czernopol (NYC)
Hosted by The Center for Fiction, Deborah Eisenberg and Wallace Shawn will read excerpts of Gregor von Rezzori’s masterpiece of post-war literature An Ermine in Czernopol (translated by Philip Boehm). An Ermine in Czernopol is a story that takes place just after World War I, centering on the …

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Hosted by The Center for Fiction, Deborah Eisenberg and Wallace Shawn will read excerpts of Gregor von Rezzori’s masterpiece of post-war literature An Ermine in Czernopol (translated by Philip Boehm).

An Ermine in Czernopol is a story that takes place just after World War I, centering on the tragicomic fate of Tildy, an erstwhile officer in the army of the now-defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire, determined to defend the virtue of his cheating sister-in-law at any cost.

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Trauma (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Patrick McGrath
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Thursday, February 23
7:00pm
Patrick McGrath, Leigh Stein & Sarah Schulman Celebrate 12th Street Online Magazine
Charlie Weir grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in a supremely dysfunctional family: his father absenting himself, his mother battling depressive illness, his brother fighting him for whatever comfort remained. So no wonder he studied psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, eventually establishing a …

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Charlie Weir grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in a supremely dysfunctional family: his father absenting himself, his mother battling depressive illness, his brother fighting him for whatever comfort remained. So no wonder he studied psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, eventually establishing a practice back in New York just as the first brutalized veterans of Vietnam started returning home with a world of hurt. Agnes, the sister of one of these men, soon became his wife, though her brother's death ended their marriage just as surely, stranding their daughter in between them and leaving Charlie to endure alone as his city fell further into a stupor of violence and mayhem. Then, years later, things begin to happen. His mother's death brings Agnes back into his life at last, and Walt, his brother, introduces him to a woman who first enlivens and then endangers everything Charlie hoped might restore his dwindling faith in himself, his calling, and his future. This novel is like watching a ghastly accident in slow motion, with an expert voice over made by one of its participants. "Physician, heal thyself" is an expression that comes increasingly to mind as events spiral madly out of control and this story races, heedlessly and heart-strong, toward its shocking conclusion. It encapsulates the themes — family, passion, madness — that by now have become synonymous with Patrick McGrath.

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Thursday, February 23
7:00pm
Toby Lester in conversation with Robert Krulwich of RadioLab
Da Vinci's Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image, by Toby Lester EVERYONE KNOWSTHE IMAGE. NO ONE KNOWS ITS STORY. This is the story of Vitruvian Man: Leonardo da Vinci’s famous drawing of a man in a circle and a square. Deployed today to celebrate subjects…

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Da Vinci's Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image, by Toby Lester

EVERYONE KNOWSTHE IMAGE. NO ONE KNOWS ITS STORY. This is the story of Vitruvian Man: Leonardo da Vinci’s famous drawing of a man in a circle and a square. Deployed today to celebrate subjects as various as the nature of genius, the beauty of the human form, and the universality of the human spirit, the figure appears on everything from coffee cups and T-shirts to book covers and corporate logos. In short, it has become the world’s most famous cultural icon, yet almost nobody knows anything about it. Leonardo didn’t summon Vitruvian Man out of thin air. He was playing with the idea, set down by the Roman architect Vitruvius, that the human body could be made to fit inside a circle, long associated with the divine, and a square, related to the earthly and secular. To place a man inside those shapes was therefore to imply that the human body was the world in miniature. This idea, known as the theory of the microcosm, was the engine that had powered Western religious and scientific thought for centuries, and Leonardo hitched himself to it in no uncertain terms. Yet starting in the 1480s he set out to do something unprecedented. If the design of the body truly did reflect that of the cosmos, he reasoned, then by studying its proportions and anatomy more thoroughly than had ever been done before—by peering deep into both body and soul—he might broaden the scope of his art to include the broadest of metaphysical horizons. He might, in other words, obtain an almost godlike perspective on the makeup of the world as a whole. Vitruvian Man gives that exhilarating idea visual expression. In telling its story, Toby Lester weaves together a century-spanning saga of people and ideas. Assembled here is an eclectic cast of fascinating characters: the architect Vitruvius; the emperor Caesar Augustus and his “body of empire”; early Christian and Muslim thinkers; the visionary mystic Hildegard of Bingen; the book-hunter Poggio Bracciolini; the famous dome-builder Filippo Brunelleschi; Renaissance anatomists, architects, art theorists, doctors, and military engineers; and, of course, in the starring role, Leonardo himself—whose ghost Lester resurrects in the surprisingly unfamiliar context of his own times. Da Vinci’s Ghost is written with the same narrative flair and intellectual sweep as Lester’s award-winning first book, the “almost unbearably thrilling” (Simon Winchester) Fourth Part of the World. Like Vitruvian Man itself, the book captures a pivotal time in the history of Western thought when the Middle Ages was giving way to the Renaissance, when art and science and philosophy all seemed to be converging as one, and when it seemed just possible, at least to Leonardo da Vinci, that a single human being might embody—and even understand—the nature of everything.

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Friday, February 24
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 Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm. Group meetings are open to the public.
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Saturday, February 25
7:00pm
Tom McCarthy's MEN IN SPACE
The first novel written by Booker finalist Tom McCarthy—acclaimed author of Remainder and C— Men in Space is set in a Central Europe rapidly disintegrating after the fall of Communism. It follows an oddball cast of characters—dissolute bohemians, political refugees, a football referee, a …

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The first novel written by Booker finalist Tom McCarthy—acclaimed author of Remainder and C— Men in Space is set in a Central Europe rapidly disintegrating after the fall of Communism. It follows an oddball cast of characters—dissolute bohemians, political refugees, a football referee, a disorientated police agent, and a stranded astronaut—as they chase a stolen painting from Sofia to Prague and onward. The icon’s melancholy orbit is reflected in the various characters’ ellipses and near misses as they career vertiginously through all kinds of space: physical, political, emotional and metaphysical. What emerges is a vision of humanity adrift in history, and a world in a state of disintegration.

“McCarthy is fast revealing himself as a master craftsman who is steering the contemporary novel towards exciting territories."- The Observer (London)

“I think it means rather to shake the novel out of its present complacency. It clears away a little of the dead wood, offering a glimpse of an alternate road down which the novel might, with difficulty, travel forward... one of the great English novels of the past ten years."- Zadie Smith on Remainder in The New York Review of Books

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192 Books
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Monday, February 27
6:00pm
Freedom to Occupy? Reclaiming Space and Reinventing Protest
The Occupy Movement, originating at Wall Street, but spreading rapidly across the country and the globe, represents an important moment in the history of political protest. It captured public imagination and shifted the terrain of political discourse. This panel brings together scholars and activists…

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The Occupy Movement, originating at Wall Street, but spreading rapidly across the country and the globe, represents an important moment in the history of political protest. It captured public imagination and shifted the terrain of political discourse. This panel brings together scholars and activists to discuss the strategies of the Occupy Movement to reclaim space, interrogate contemporary economic policy, rally the “99%” and rethink the meaning of democracy. The speakers will examine how the Occupy Movement may or may not be a lens to explore freedom as a democratic, anti-capitalist, nonhierarchical, feminist, and anti-racist practice. With Radhika Balakrishnan, Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers;Helena Ribeiro, English, The Graduate Center, CUNY; and Ken Wark, Culture and Media, The New School. Moderated byMoustafa Bayoumi, English, Brooklyn College.

Co-sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Seminar in the Humanities

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CUNY Graduate Center (Center for the Humanities)
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Monday, February 27
7:00pm
Eleanor Henderson in conversation with Taylor Antrim
Ten Thousand Saints, by Eleanor Henderson “Eleanor Henderson is in possession of an enormous talent which she has matched up with skill, ambition, and a fierce imagination. The resulting novel, Ten Thousand Saints, is the best thing I’ve read in a long time.” —Ann Patchett, bestselling …

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Ten Thousand Saints, by Eleanor Henderson

“Eleanor Henderson is in possession of an enormous talent which she has matched up with skill, ambition, and a fierce imagination. The resulting novel, Ten Thousand Saints, is the best thing I’ve read in a long time.”

—Ann Patchett, bestselling author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder

A sweeping, multigenerational drama, set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City during the late 1980s, Ten Thousand Saints triumphantly heralds the arrival a remarkable new writer. Eleanor Henderson makes a truly stunning debut with a novel that is part coming of age, part coming to terms, immediately joining the ranks of The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud and Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude. Adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the young—and old—are all major elements in this heart-aching tale of the son of diehard hippies and his strange odyssey through the extremes of late 20th century youth culture.

About the author...

Eleanor Henderson earned her MFA from the University of Virginia in 2005. Her story "The Farms" was selected by Alice Sebold for The Best American Short Stories 2009. Henderson's fiction has also appeared in Agni, North American Review, Ninth Letter, and Columbia, among other publications. Her nonfiction has appeared in Poets & Writers, where she was a contributing editor, and Virginia Quarterly Review, where she was the chair of the fiction board. An assistant professor at Ithaca College, she lives in Ithaca, New York.

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Monday, February 27
7:00pm
Lizzie Hutton—She'd Waited Millenia
On the Docket: Reading Audience Q&A Book Signing Author Bio: Raised in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, Lizzie Hutton is a poet now also pursuing her PhD at the University of Michigan. Her poetry has appeared in the Yale Review, Harvard Review, Antioch Review and Interim, among other journals; she is a …

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On the Docket:

Reading

Audience Q&A

Book Signing

Author Bio:

Raised in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, Lizzie Hutton is a poet now also pursuing her PhD at the University of Michigan. Her poetry has appeared in the Yale Review, Harvard Review, Antioch Review and Interim, among other journals; she is a Pushcart nominee as well as the recipient of the Sycamore Review’s Wabash Prize, a Hopwood Award, and a Meader Family Award. She’d Waited Millennia is her first book.

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Monday, February 27
7:00pm
American Creative Writers on Class
Editor Shelly Reed presents a collection of writing on economic status, featuring readings by contributors Michele Carlo, Caitlin Foyle, Monica A. Hand, Sonya Huber, Emmy Hunter, Leslie Jamison, and Rebecca Keith. A portion the book's proceeds benefit the Robin Hood Foundation. About American Creative…

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Editor Shelly Reed presents a collection of writing on economic status, featuring readings by contributors Michele Carlo, Caitlin Foyle, Monica A. Hand, Sonya Huber, Emmy Hunter, Leslie Jamison, and Rebecca Keith. A portion the book's proceeds benefit the Robin Hood Foundation.

About American Creative Writers on Class:

At a time when economic inequality is on all of our minds, this collection focuses on intimate moments, personal relationships, and common daily experiences at the intersection of people of different economic status. Edited by long-time, anti-poverty advocate Shelly Reed, American Creative Writers on Class gives us some peaceful thoughts to help calm the ideological war in our minds.

Nonfiction and poetry contributors include: Oliver de la Paz, Rebecca Keith, Matthea Harvey, Colleen McKee, Carolyne Wright, Emmy Hunter, Dorianne Laux, Monica A. Hand, Michele Carlo, Leslie Jamison, Caitlin Doyle, Christina Olson, Laura McCullough, Theresa Rodopoulos, and Sonya Huber.

About the readers:

Michele Carlo is a writer/performer who has lived in four of the five boroughs of NYC and remembers when a slice of pizza cost fifty cents. She has been published in Mr. Beller's Neighborhood's Lost & Found: Stories From New York, Chicken Soup For The Latino Soul, and SMITH magazine, and has told her stories everywhere a person can tell stories in NYC—including the MOTH's GrandSlams and Mainstage, among many others. Her memoir Fish Out Of Agua: My Life on Neither Side of the (Subway) Tracks was published by Citadel Press in August 2010. www.michelecarlo.com.

Monica A. Hand is a poet and book artist who is investigating a nomadic lifestyle as a strategy for economic, political, spiritual and artistic survival. Her manuscript, "me and Nina," received a 2010 Kinereth Gensler Award from Alice James Books, and her poems have appeared in numerous publications including Naugatuck River Review, The Sow's Ear, Drunken Boat, and Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade. She holds an MFA in Poetry and Poetry in Translation from Drew University, and is a founding member of Poets for Ayiti.

Sonya Huber is the author of Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir and Opa Nobody, a hybrid work about her German socialist grandfather and her own labor activism. She has also written The Backwards Research Guide for Writers: Using Your Life for Reflection, Connection, and Inspiration, and is working on a big, unwieldy project about social class. She teaches creative writing at Fairfield University and in the Low-Residency MFA program at Ashland.

Emmy Hunter's poetry has been published in many literary journals, including Fence, American Poetry Review, Witness, and languageandculture.net. A chapbook of her poetry and prose titled No View of the Boat was published by Linear Arts Press. She has been a semi-finalist for the Walt Whitman Award and the Center for Book Arts Chapbook Prize, and has had residencies at Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. She teaches creative writing at Hunter College.

Leslie Jamison is the author of the novel, The Gin Closet, as well as stories and essays that have appeared in places like A Public Space, The Believer, The L Magazine, Bellevue Review, Salt Hill, and Tin House. She's worked as a baker, an innkeeper, a juice barista, and a medical actor. She's currently a PhD candidate in American Literature at Yale University. You can find her at www.lesliejamison.com.

Rebecca Keith's poems and other writing have appeared in Best New Poets (2009), The Laurel Review, The Rumpus, The Awl, BOMBlog, Dossier, Storyscape, The Millions, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, was a semi-finalist for the 2010 "Discovery"/Boston Review poetry contest, and has received honors from the Atlantic Monthly and BOMB Magazine. A native of downtown New York, Rebecca is a founder, curator, and host of Mixer Reading and Music series. She also sings and plays guitar and keyboards in the Roulettes and Butchers & Bakers.

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Monday, February 27
8:15pm
“Our America”: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Ilan Stavans
A conversation with two of our most esteemed editor-scholars on the relationship between African American and Latino literature. “The urgent duty of our America is to show herself as she is, one in soul and intent, rapidly overcoming the crushing weight of her past,” wrote José Martí, in his…

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A conversation with two of our most esteemed editor-scholars on the relationship between African American and Latino literature.

“The urgent duty of our America is to show herself as she is, one in soul and intent, rapidly overcoming the crushing weight of her past,” wrote José Martí, in his essay “Our America.” Among many other projects, Henry Louis Gates has overseen The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, while Ilan Stavans has served as general editor on The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature.

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Tuesday, February 28
7:00pm
Ask Me About...Madame Bovary
Know that classic novel you absolutely should have read by this point in your life? It's time to alleviate your nagging guilt with Ask Me About..., a Time Out New York and McNally Jackson event that's part book club, part lecture series, part show and part social occasion. In February we'll tackle …

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Know that classic novel you absolutely should have read by this point in your life? It's time to alleviate your nagging guilt with Ask Me About..., a Time Out New York and McNally Jackson event that's part book club, part lecture series, part show and part social occasion. In February we'll tackle Lydia Davis' translation of Madame Bovary. Hosted by TONY's Books editor Matthew Love, the free event is held downstairs at McNally Jackson. Writers and public figures who are passionate about the chosen classic will deliver introductory lectures. The crowd will be divided into groups for part of the evening, and given different aspects of the text to discuss. Actors will put on short, silly scenes which illustrate crucial moments of the plot; musicians and poets will present works based on the work in question. Once the presentations are over, participants will hang around, drink, talk about the book at length and offer suggestions for the next novel.  

RSVP to askmeaboutbookclub@gmail.com, pick up a copy of Madame Bovary, READ IT and then show up at McNally Jackson on 2/28 at 7pm.   We'll be selling copies of the new Lydia Davis translation of Madame Bovary at a ten percent discount.

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Tuesday, February 28
7:00pm
Richard Mason, History of a Pleasure SeekerRichard Mason, History of a Pleasure Seeker
History of a Pleasure Seeker is an opulent, romantic novel, written in the grand manner, set at the height of Europe's belle epoque, about a handsome young man in his mid-twenties—a golden boy who secures a position as a tutor in the household of one of the most prominent bourgeois families in …

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History of a Pleasure Seeker is an opulent, romantic novel, written in the grand manner, set at the height of Europe's belle epoque, about a handsome young man in his mid-twenties—a golden boy who secures a position as a tutor in the household of one of the most prominent bourgeois families in Amsterdam and his entry into a world of moneyed glamour and dangerous temptations. Piet Barol, blue-eyed, dark-haired, seductive and seductively charged, enters this magnificent world, and inexorably learns the hidden truths of this vastly rich, secretive family and, through the course of the novel, is profoundly transformed as his charm and sexual pull transform each of their lives. In the heady exhilaration of this new world, amid delights and temptations that Piet has only dreamed of, he discovers that some of the intimacies he has cultivated are dangerous liaisons indeed

Richard Mason was born in South Africa and lives in Glasgow. His first novel, The Drowning People, which the New York Times Book Review called “a literary sensation,” was published when he was twenty-one and still a student at Oxford. It sold more than a million copies in Germany alone and won Italy's Grinzane Cavour Prize for Best First Novel. He is also the author of the novel, Natural Elements, which The New Yorker called “a magnum opus.” In 1999, Mason started the Kay Mason Foundation, which awards scholarships to disadvantaged students in South Africa.

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The Guardians:
An Elegy
by Sarah Manguso
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Tuesday, February 28
7:00pm
SARAH MANGUSO – THE GUARDIANS
The Guardians, Sarah Manguso The Guardians opens with a story from the July 24, 2008, edition of the Riverdale Press that begins, “An unidentified white man was struck and instantly killed by a Metro-North train last night as it pulled into the station on West 254th Street.” Sarah Manguso writes:…

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The Guardians, Sarah Manguso

The Guardians opens with a story from the July 24, 2008, edition of the Riverdale Press that begins, “An unidentified white man was struck and instantly killed by a Metro-North train last night as it pulled into the station on West 254th Street.” Sarah Manguso writes: “The train’s engineer told the police that the man was alone and that he jumped. The police officers pulled the body from the track and found no identification. The train’s 425 passengers were transferred to another train and delayed about twenty minutes.”

The Guardians is an elegy for Manguso’s friend Harris, two years after he escaped from a psychiatric hospital and jumped under that train. The narrative contemplates with unrelenting clarity their crowded postcollege apartment, Manguso’s fellowship year in Rome, Harris’s death and the year that followed—the year of mourning and the year of Manguso’s marriage. As Harris is revealed both to the reader and to the narrator, the book becomes a monument to their intimacy and inability to express their love to each other properly, and to the reverberating effects of Harris’s presence in and absence from Manguso’s life. There is grief in the book but also humor, as Manguso marvels at the unexpected details that constitute a friendship. The Guardians explores the insufficiency of explanation and the necessity of the imagination in making sense of anything.

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Wednesday, February 29
6:00pm
Turnstyle Reading Series: Ben Lerner and Michelle Valladares
Writers and graduating students from the four MFA Programs in Creative Writing (City College, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, and Queens College) come together for readings of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction at The Graduate Center. They will be joined by poet and editor Ben Lerner (Brooklyn College),…

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Writers and graduating students from the four MFA Programs in Creative Writing (City College, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, and Queens College) come together for readings of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction at The Graduate Center. They will be joined by poet and editor Ben Lerner (Brooklyn College), author of, most recently, Mean Free Path (2010), and poet Michelle Valladares (City College), whose second book of poems The First Map of the New World is forthcoming from Curbstone Press.

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Wednesday, February 29
7:00pm
Behind the Curtain: A Magazine Roundtable
Join Ellah Allfrey, James Marcus and Deborah Treisman - editors from Granta, Harper's and The New Yorker - as they discuss how and why and what they publish. The proverbial slush pile; the writers they're loving; the ones that got away. Tonight they'll talk about what goes on behind the curtain. …

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Join Ellah Allfrey, James Marcus and Deborah Treisman - editors from Granta, Harper's and The New Yorker - as they discuss how and why and what they publish. The proverbial slush pile; the writers they're loving; the ones that got away. Tonight they'll talk about what goes on behind the curtain. Granta editor John Freeman will moderate.

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Wednesday, February 29
7:00pm
The Role of the Critic
Adam Kirsch, author, Why Trilling Matters, in conversation with Judith Shulevitz, author, The Sabbath World Kirsch and Shulevitz, two of today’s leading literary critics, discuss the legacy of Lionel Trilling and the evolving place of the critic in today’s intellectual world. For tickets call:…

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Adam Kirsch, author, Why Trilling Matters, in conversation with Judith Shulevitz, author, The Sabbath World

Kirsch and Shulevitz, two of today’s leading literary critics, discuss the legacy of Lionel Trilling and the evolving place of the critic in today’s intellectual world.

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$10, $5 members

Location: 36 Battery Place

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Wednesday, February 29
7:00pm
Panel discussion Daniel Banks, reg e. gaines, Eboni Hogan, and others to be announced, on the book: Say Word! Voices from Hip Hop Theater
The book, edited by Daniel Banks, collects eight works by contemporary playwrights Abiola Abrams, Zakiyyah Alexander, Chadwick Boseman, Kristoffer Diaz, Rha Goddess, Antoy Grant, Joe Hernandez-Kolski, Rickerby Hinds, and Ben Snyder. The book also includes a roundtable moderated by Holly Bass and …

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The book, edited by Daniel Banks, collects eight works by contemporary playwrights Abiola Abrams, Zakiyyah Alexander, Chadwick Boseman, Kristoffer Diaz, Rha Goddess, Antoy Grant, Joe Hernandez-Kolski, Rickerby Hinds, and Ben Snyder. The book also includes a roundtable moderated by Holly Bass and featuring Eisa Davis, Danny Hoch, Sarah Jones, and Will Power.

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Revolution Books
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146 W. 26th Street, New York, NY 10001
212-691-3345
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Wednesday, February 29
7:00pm
Michelle Haimoff - These Days Are Ours
Six months after September 11th, New Yorkers are instructed to get on with their lives despite the terror advisories, streets filled with 9/11 merchandise, and mail that may contain Anthrax. But for Hailey, still jobless after college and living in her family's Fifth Avenue penthouse, getting on …

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Six months after September 11th, New Yorkers are instructed to get on with their lives despite the terror advisories, streets filled with 9/11 merchandise, and mail that may contain Anthrax.

But for Hailey, still jobless after college and living in her family's Fifth Avenue penthouse, getting on with life means getting closer to Michael Brenner, the Princeton graduate and future human rights lawyer who seems to have it all. The city feels as if it's on the brink of apocalypse, and seeking out any sort of future seems pointless. So Hailey and her friends - Katie, already working at Morgan Stanley; Randy, a trust-fund kid who wears sweaters with holes in them; and Jess, confident of her future success regardless of her present inertia - stay out all night, dream up get rich quick schemes and aspire to greatness while questioning how much that greatness really matters.

But when Hailey meets Adrian, a transplanted Pennsylvanian and recent Brown graduate who doesn't belong to Hailey's privileged mileu, she begins to realize that her view of the world might not be the only one there is, and soon she is questioning everything she thought she knew.

Author Bio:

Michelle Haimoff is a writer and blogger whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, PsychologyToday.com and The Huffington Post. She is a founding member of NOW's Young Feminist Task Force and blogs about feminist issues at genfem.com

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BookCourt
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163 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
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Thursday, March 1
7:00pm
Ellen Ullman In Conversation with Maud Newton
The award-winning writer returns with a major, absorbing, atmospheric novel that takes on the most dramatic and profoundly personal subject matter. San Francisco in the 1970s. Free love has given way to radical feminism, psychedelic ecstasy to hard-edged gloom. The Zodiac Killer stalks the streets.…

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The award-winning writer returns with a major, absorbing, atmospheric novel that takes on the most dramatic and profoundly personal subject matter. San Francisco in the 1970s. Free love has given way to radical feminism, psychedelic ecstasy to hard-edged gloom. The Zodiac Killer stalks the streets. A disgraced professor takes an office in a downtown tower to plot his return. But the walls are thin and he’s distracted by voices from next door—his neighbor is a psychologist, and one of her patients dislikes the hum of the white-noise machine. And so he begins to hear about the patient’s troubles with her female lover, her conflicts with her adoptive, avowedly WASP family, and her quest to track down her birth mother. The professor is not just absorbed but enraptured. And the further he is pulled into the patient’s recounting of her dramas—and the most profound questions of her own identity—the more he needs the story to move forward. The patient’s questions about her birth family have led her to a Catholic charity that trafficked freshly baptized orphans out of Germany after World War II. But confronted with this new self— “I have no idea what it means to say ‘I’m a Jew’”—the patient finds her search stalled. Armed with the few details he’s gleaned, the professor takes up the quest and quickly finds the patient’s mother in records from a German displaced-persons camp. But he can’t let on that he’s been eavesdropping, so he mocks up a reply from an adoption agency the patient has contacted and drops it in the mail. Through the wall, he hears how his dear patient is energized by the news, and so is he. He unearths more clues and invests more and more in this secret, fraught, triangular relationship: himself, the patient, and her therapist, who is herself German. His research leads them deep into the history of displaced-persons camps, of postwar Zionism, and—most troubling of all—of the Nazi Lebensborn program. With ferocious intelligence and an enthralling, magnetic prose, Ellen Ullman weaves a dark and brilliant, intensely personal novel that feels as big and timeless as it is sharp and timely. It is an ambitious work that establishes her as a major writer.

Performer Bio(s):

Ellen Ullman is the author of a novel, The Bug, a New York Times Notable Book and runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award, and the cult classic memoir Close to the Machine, based on her experience as a rare female programmer in the early years of the personal computer era. Picador will reissue both books in March 2012, with new introductions by Mary Gaitskill and Jaron Lanier, respectively. Ullman lives in San Francisco.

Maud Newton is a writer and critic whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Bookforum, Narrative, the New York Times Book Review, the Paris Review Daily, Granta, the Los Angeles Times, the Awl, the Boston Globe, Barnes & Noble Review, and many other publications. She started blogging in May 2002.

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BookCourt
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163 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
718-875-3677
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Sunday, March 4
2:30pm
DISCUSSION
Writers Ben Marcus (The Flame Alphabet) and Joshua Cohen (Witz) in conversation As audiences anxiously await the release of The Hunger Games film, Marcus and Cohen, two prominent Jewish writers with a taste for the apocalyptic, explore how the Holocaust informs their recent works. $10, $7 …

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Writers Ben Marcus (The Flame Alphabet) and Joshua Cohen (Witz) in conversation

As audiences anxiously await the release of The Hunger Games film, Marcus and Cohen, two prominent Jewish writers with a taste for the apocalyptic, explore how the Holocaust informs their recent works.

$10, $7 students/seniors, $5 members

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Jewish Dystopias
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Edmond J. Safra Plaza | 36 Battery Place, New York, NY 10280
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Tuesday, March 6
7:00pm
Kathryn Harrison, Enchantments
Enchantments is a gorgeously written, enthralling novel set in the final days of Russia’s Romanov Empire, in St. Petersburg, 1917. After Rasputin’s body is pulled from the icy waters of the Neva River, his eighteen-year-old daughter, Masha, is sent to live at the imperial palace with Tsar Nikolay…

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Enchantments is a gorgeously written, enthralling novel set in the final days of Russia’s Romanov Empire, in St. Petersburg, 1917. After Rasputin’s body is pulled from the icy waters of the Neva River, his eighteen-year-old daughter, Masha, is sent to live at the imperial palace with Tsar Nikolay and his family—including the headstrong Prince Alyosha. Desperately hoping that Masha has inherited Rasputin’s miraculous healing powers, Tsarina Alexandra asks her to tend to Aloysha, who suffers from hemophilia, a blood disease that keeps the boy confined to his sickbed, lest a simple scrape or bump prove fatal. Two months after Masha arrives at the palace, the tsar is forced to abdicate, and Bolsheviks place the royal family under house arrest. As Russia descends into civil war, Masha and Alyosha grieve the loss of their former lives, finding solace in each other’s company. To escape the confinement of the palace, they tell stories—some embellished and some entirely imagined—about Nikolay and Alexandra’s courtship, Rasputin’s many exploits, and the wild and wonderful country on the brink of an irrevocable transformation. In the worlds of their imagination, the weak become strong, legend becomes fact, and a future that will never come to pass feels close at hand. Mesmerizing, haunting, and told in Kathryn Harrison’s signature crystalline prose, Enchantments is a love story about two people who come together as everything around them is falling apart.

Kathryn Harrison is the author of the memoirs The Kiss and The Mother Knot. She is also author of the novels, Envy, The Seal Wife, The Binding Chair, Poison, Exposure, and Thicker Than Water; a travel memoir, The Road to Santiago; a biography, Saint Thérèse of Lisieux; and a collection of essays, Seeking Rapture. She lives in New York City.

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Strand Book Store
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828 Broadway, New York, NY 10003-4805
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Wednesday, February 1

7:00pm

Wednesday, February 1

7:00pm

Thursday, February 2

7:00am

An Evening of Poetry with Billy Collins, Horoscopes for the Dead

Thursday, February 2

7:00pm

Thursday, February 2

7:00pm

Friday, February 3

7:00pm

THE TENDER HOUR OF TWILIGHT, by Richard Seaver

Friday, February 3

7:00pm

Andre Dubus III in conversation with John Burnham Schwartz

Feb 5, 2012

7:00pm-9:00pm

Monday, February 6

7:00pm

Tuesday, February 7

6:00pm

FREE Mischief & Mayhem Reading Series w/ Kaylie Jones , Thaddeus Rutkowski and host Katie Halper

Tuesday, February 7

6:30pm

Poetry Reading with Martha Rhodes, James Tolan, Stephanie Brown, and Marcia Pelletiere

Tuesday, February 7

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Tuesday, February 7

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Wednesday, February 8