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February 26th
An Evening with Melville House Authors: Lars Iyer et.al
Jean Strouse and Colm Toíbín on Alice James
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February 27th
“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
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
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
Ellen Ullman In Conversation with Maud Newton
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March 4th
DISCUSSION
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March 5th
Coffee-Colored People (By the Score)
Coffee-Colored People (By The Score) with Allan deSouza
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March 6th
Kathryn Harrison, Enchantments
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March 7th
Nathan Englander — What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories
National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalists’ Reading Wednesday, March 7th 6 pm
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March 9th
Patrick Dewitt
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March 10th
The Dickens Fellowship
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March 12th
Larry Closs: Beatitude: A Novel
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March 14th
Kristen Johnston — Guts: The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster
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March 15th
Megan Mayhew Bergman: Birds of a Lesser Paradise
Edward Mullany, Paula Bomer, Melissa Broder and John Dermot Woods
Eat, Drink, & Be Literary with Teju Cole
Megan Mayhew Bergman — Birds of a Lesser Paradise
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March 16th
Mike Doughty: Book of Drugs
The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties
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March 18th
Sunday Night Fiction Reading Series
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March 20th
Hari Kunzru in conversation with James Surowiecki
Heidi Julavits: The Vanishers
CORAL GLYNN by Peter Cameron
Largehearted Lit: Coney Island Novels with Tara Altebrando and Haley Tanner
Linda Greenhouse: The U.S. Supreme Court - A Very Short Introduction
Tim Green
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March 21st
86th and Lex Reading Group
Evening of Witness
Lauren Groff and Megan Mayhew Bergman
Rick Moody: On Celestial Music
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March 22nd
Jeanette Winterson, author of Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Louis Begley: Schmidt Steps Back
Joshua Foer — Moonwalking With Einstein
Joshua Foer: Moonwalking with Einstein
WORD and The Millions present Hari Kunzru
On Freedom With Violence
On Freedom With Violence
Cripples, Idiots, Lepers, and Freaks: Extraordinary Bodies / Extraordinary Minds
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March 23rd
Cripples, Idiots, Lepers, and Freaks: Extraordinary Bodies / Extraordinary Minds
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March 25th
In Conversation: Alexander Hemon & Nicole Krauss
Black Clock: with Rick Moody, Anthony Miller, Geoffrey O’Brien, Kyra Simone, Lynne Tillman and Steve Erickson
Mixer Turns Five
The Nets of Modernism: James, Woolf, Joyce, Freud
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March 26th
Brian Turner and Kevin Young
Joshua Knelman — Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives Through the Secret World of Stolen Art
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March 27th
Wild In The Streets: TNI Vol. 2 Release Film Screening and Panel
Steve Erickson — These Dreams of You
In Conversation: Christopher Byrd & Steve Erickson
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March 28th
The Salon: Food, Love, & Life
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March 29th
New York Foundation for the Arts Presents Katori Hall
Ellen Ullman in conversation with Laura Miller
Tupelo Hassman: Girlchild
The Vagaries of Love with Louise Doughty and Jill Dawson
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March 30th
Friday Night Book Group
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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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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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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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Friday, March 9
7:00pm
Patrick Dewitt
Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die, and hired guns Eli and Charlie Sisters will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm's goldmining claim …

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Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die, and hired guns Eli and Charlie Sisters will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm's goldmining claim outside Sacramento, Eli begins to question what he does for a living—and whom he does it for.

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BookCourt
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Oliver Twist (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Charles Dickens
$6.95 List Price
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Saturday, March 10
1:00pm
The Dickens Fellowship
Members of The Dickens Fellowship seek to keep the memory and study of Charles Dickens alive in NYC. The Fellowship will discuss Oliver Twist. This event is open to the public.
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Beatitude
by Larry Closs
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Monday, March 12
7:00pm
Larry Closs: Beatitude: A Novel
Larry Closs reads from and signs copies of Beatitude, a debut novel set in the 1990s that explores the varieties of love and is inspired by the intense camaraderie of The Beats.
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Wednesday, March 14
3:45pm
Kristen Johnston — Guts: The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster
Kristen Johnston reading from

Guts: The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster
BookCourt
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Sunday, March 18
7:00pm
Sunday Night Fiction Reading Series
Adam Wilson reads from his novel, FLATSCREEN; Joseph Mattson, Beth Lisick & Rose Bunch read from The SPEED CHRONICLES. Adam Wilson is the editor of the Faster Times. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Paris Review, and Bookforum, among other publications. “With all the books being…

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Adam Wilson reads from his novel, FLATSCREEN; Joseph Mattson, Beth Lisick & Rose Bunch read from The SPEED CHRONICLES.

Adam Wilson is the editor of the Faster Times. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Paris Review, and Bookforum, among other publications. “With all the books being released by young, debut authors, it’s difficult to know who to read, and who to skip. Adam Wilson’s novel Flatscreen makes the choice easy; from the first paragraph, it’s clear that Wilson knows what he’s doing. The opening pages are proof that his well-crafted words will make you alternately laugh and cringe, commanding your attention.”

THE SPEED CHRONICLES collects 14 new short stories about the drug speed by Sherman Alexie, William T. Vollmann, Jerry Stahl, Megan Abbott, Beth Lisick, Jess Walter, Scott Phillips, James Greer, James Franco, Tao Lin, Joseph Mattson, Natalie Diaz, Kenji Jasper, and Rose Bunch.The New York Journal of Books: “All told, The Speed Chronicles deserves great praise for the audacity of the topic, the depth of the discussion, the diversity of its voices, and plain, old, good storytelling.”  

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KGB Bar
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85 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003
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Pinch Hit
by Tim Green
$16.99 List Price
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Tuesday, March 20
10:30am
Tim Green
Former Atlanta Falcons linebacker and bestselling author Tim Green takes our stage to present his latest young reader novel, Pinch Hit.
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Tuesday, March 20
6:30pm
Linda Greenhouse: The U.S. Supreme Court - A Very Short Introduction
Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter Linda Greenhouse draws on her deep knowledge of the court's history and of its written and unwritten rules to show readers how the Supreme Court really works at The Cooper Union on Tuesday, March 20 at 6:30 PM. In The U.S. Supreme Court - A Very Short Introduction, …

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Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter Linda Greenhouse draws on her deep knowledge of the court's history and of its written and unwritten rules to show readers how the Supreme Court really works at The Cooper Union on Tuesday, March 20 at 6:30 PM. In The U.S. Supreme Court - A Very Short Introduction, Greenhouse offers a fascinating institutional biography of a place and its people—men and women who exercise great power but whose names and faces are unrecognized by many Americans and whose work often appears cloaked in mystery.

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The Great Hall
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The Cooper Union, 7 East 7th St., New York, NY 10003
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Gods Without Men
by Hari Kunzru
$26.95 List Price
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Tuesday, March 20
7:00pm
Hari Kunzru in conversation with James Surowiecki
David Mitchell says Gods Without Men is "a beautifully written echo chamber of a novel." And The Independent says "This really is Kunzru’s great American novel." We can't recommend this book highly enough. Hari Kunzru will be in conversation with James Surowiecki, staff writer for The New Yorker …

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David Mitchell says Gods Without Men is "a beautifully written echo chamber of a novel." And The Independent says "This really is Kunzru’s great American novel." We can't recommend this book highly enough. Hari Kunzru will be in conversation with James Surowiecki, staff writer for The New Yorker and writer of The Financial Page in the magazine.

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McNally Jackson Books
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Tuesday, March 20
7:00pm
Heidi Julavits: The Vanishers
From the acclaimed novelist and The Believer editor Heidi Julavits, a wildly imaginative and emotionally intense novel about mothers, daughters, and the psychic damage women can inflict on one another. Julavits will read from her new book The Vanishers and will discuss her writing. Is the bond …

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From the acclaimed novelist and The Believer editor Heidi Julavits, a wildly imaginative and emotionally intense novel about mothers, daughters, and the psychic damage women can inflict on one another. Julavits will read from her new book The Vanishers and will discuss her writing.

Is the bond between mother and daughter unbreakable, even by death?

Julia Severn is a student at an elite institute for psychics. Her mentor, the legendary Madame Ackermann, afflicted by jealousy, refuses to pass the torch to her young disciple. Instead, she subjects Julia to the humiliation of reliving her mother's suicide when Julia was an infant. As the two lock horns, and Julia gains power, Madame Ackermann launches a desperate psychic attack that leaves Julia the victim of a crippling ailment.

Julia retreats to a faceless job in Manhattan. But others have noted Julia's emerging gifts, and soon she's recruited to track down an elusive missing person—a controversial artist who might have a connection to her mother. As Julia sifts through ghosts and astral clues, everything she thought she knew of her mother is called into question, and she discovers that her ability to know the minds of others—including her own—goes far deeper than she ever imagined.

As powerful and gripping as all of Julavits's acclaimed novels, The Vanishers is a stunning meditation on grief, female rivalry, and the furious power of a daughter's love.

Heidi Julavits is the author of two previous novels, The Mineral Palace and The Effect of Living Backwards, as well as a collaborative book, Hotel Andromeda, with the artist Jenny Gage. She is a founding editor of The Believer, and her writings have appeared in Esquire, Time, The New York Times, McSweeney's among other places. She lives in Manhattan and Maine.

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The Center for Fiction
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17 East 47th Street, New York, NY, New York, NY 10017
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Coral Glynn:
A Novel
by Peter Cameron
$24.00 List Price
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Tuesday, March 20
7:00pm
CORAL GLYNN by Peter Cameron
Please join us for an evening with Peter Cameron as we celebrate the publication of his most recent novel. Set in Hart House, a countryside manor in 1950s England, Coral Glynn follows the lives and loves of a cast of troubled characters who discover how quickly need and desire can blossom into love,…

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Please join us for an evening with Peter Cameron as we celebrate the publication of his most recent novel.

Set in Hart House, a countryside manor in 1950s England, Coral Glynn follows the lives and loves of a

cast of troubled characters who discover how quickly need and desire can blossom into love, and just as

quickly transform into something less categorical.

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Three Lives & Company
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154 West 10th Street, New York, NY 10014
212-741-2069
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Dreamland Social Club
by Tara Altebrando
$16.99 List Price
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Tuesday, March 20
7:00pm
Largehearted Lit: Coney Island Novels with Tara Altebrando and Haley Tanner
Largehearted Lit unites authors and musicians in a monthly celebration of storytelling. This month, authors Tara Altebrando (Dreamland Social Club) and Haley Tanner (Vaclav and Lena) will read from their novels, both of which feature Coney Island as a backdrop, and talk about music’s role in their…

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Largehearted Lit unites authors and musicians in a monthly celebration of storytelling. This month, authors Tara Altebrando (Dreamland Social Club) and Haley Tanner (Vaclav and Lena) will read from their novels, both of which feature Coney Island as a backdrop, and talk about music’s role in their writing. They’ll be joined by a musical guest, who will play a few songs and tell a literary anecdote or two. Facebook RSVP appreciated.

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Word
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126 Franklin Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222
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March 22 - March 23, 2012
Cripples, Idiots, Lepers, and Freaks: Extraordinary Bodies / Extraordinary Minds
Could disability be, as Susan Wendell writes, “valued for itself, or for the different knowledge, perspective, and experience of life” it gives rise to? This conference seeks to continue—and to expand—conversations about the cultural meanings and possibilities of impairment, as well as the…

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Could disability be, as Susan Wendell writes, “valued for itself, or for the different knowledge, perspective, and experience of life” it gives rise to? This conference seeks to continue—and to expand—conversations about the cultural meanings and possibilities of impairment, as well as the ways that the disabled body becomes a locus for uneasy collaborations and tensions between the social and the scientific. What critical and theoretical perspectives can be brought to bear on human variations that are, or have been, subject to medical authority or understood as requiring intervention?

On March 22, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Emory University) will give the keynote address, 'Why Disability? or, Who Should and Should Not Inhabit the World?' Against the eugenic commonplace that assumes that the world would be a better place if disability could be eliminated, Professor Garland-Thomson will consider why, from an array of philosophical perspectives, disability is something we might want to conserve. Jasbir Puar (Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers Univeristy) will serve as respondent.

For more information, please see: http://centerforthehumanities.org/events/all-events

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CUNY Graduate Center (Center for the Humanities)
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Thursday, March 22
6:30pm
On Freedom With Violence
How do we understand the relationship between freedom, violence and the state in neoliberal times? Who is seen to be in need of protection from what forms of violence? And, how does institutionalized violence become legitimated? In his new book, Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality and the U.S. …

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How do we understand the relationship between freedom, violence and the state in neoliberal times? Who is seen to be in need of protection from what forms of violence? And, how does institutionalized violence become legitimated? In his new book, Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality and the U.S. State, Chandan Reddy (English, University of Washington) proposes a new paradigm to understand the relationship between race, sexuality, and citizenship. His work emerges from the critical contradiction at the core of modernity: the nation-state both claims to provide freedom from violence as well as depends on its systematic use of violence against people determined to be non-normative and irrational. Join him for a conversation with local organizers working on issues of institutionalized violence in queer communities of color.

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CUNY Graduate Center
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Thursday, March 22
6:30pm
On Freedom With Violence
How do we understand the relationship between freedom, violence and the state in neoliberal times? Who is seen to be in need of protection from what forms of violence? And, how does institutionalized violence become legitimated? In his new book, Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality and the U.S. …

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How do we understand the relationship between freedom, violence and the state in neoliberal times? Who is seen to be in need of protection from what forms of violence? And, how does institutionalized violence become legitimated? In his new book, Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality and the U.S. State, Chandan Reddy (English, University of Washington) proposes a new paradigm to understand the relationship between race, sexuality, and citizenship. His work emerges from the critical contradiction at the core of modernity: the nation-state both claims to provide freedom from violence as well as depends on its systematic use of violence against people determined to be non-normative and irrational. Join him for a conversation with local organizers working on issues of institutionalized violence in queer communities of color.

For more information, please see: http://centerforthehumanities.org/events/all-events

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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
by Jeanette Winterson
$25.00 List Price
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Thursday, March 22
7:00pm
Jeanette Winterson, author of Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Publishers Weekly gave Jeanette Winterson's new book a starred review, and said "Raw . . . A highly unusual, scrupulously honest, and endearing memoir." Jeanette Winterson's bold and revelatory novels have earned her widespread acclaim, establishing her as a major figure in literature today. She …

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Publishers Weekly gave Jeanette Winterson's new book a starred review, and said "Raw . . . A highly unusual, scrupulously honest, and endearing memoir."

Jeanette Winterson's bold and revelatory novels have earned her widespread acclaim, establishing her as a major figure in literature today. She has written some of the most admired books of the past few decades, including her internationally best-selling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents.

Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging-for love, identity, home, and a mother.

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Schmidt Steps Back
by Louis Begley
$25.95 List Price
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Thursday, March 22
7:00pm
Louis Begley: Schmidt Steps Back
Schmidt Steps Back is the most emotionally nuanced installment of the drama that began with the acclaimed About Schmidt. Here is Louis Begley’s finest novel yet.

RSVP required.
The Center for Fiction
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Thursday, March 22
7:00pm
Joshua Foer — Moonwalking With Einstein
MOONWALKING WITH EINSTEIN recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his memory under the tutelage of top "mental athletes.” Foer (the youngest of the three Foer brothers) draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of remembering, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's …

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MOONWALKING WITH EINSTEIN recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his memory under the tutelage of top "mental athletes.” Foer (the youngest of the three Foer brothers) draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of remembering, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human memory. From the United States Memory Championship to deep within the author's own mind, Foer explores the fascinating ways in which our brains are wired to remember, or forget, the vast array of information and experiences that make up life. An instant bestseller that is poised to become a classic, MOONWALKING is an electrifying work of journalism that reminds us that, in every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories.

Author Bio:

Joshua Foer was born in Washington, DC in 1982 and lives in New Haven, CT with his wife Dinah. His writing has appeared in National Geographic, Esquire, Slate, Outside, the New York Times, and other publications. He is the co-founder of the Atlas Obscura, an online guide to the world’s wonders and curiosities. He is also the co-founder of the design competition, Sukkah City. Moonwalking with Einstein is his first book.

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Moonwalking with Einstein:
The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
by Joshua Foer
$16.00 List Price
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Thursday, March 22
7:00pm
Joshua Foer: Moonwalking with Einstein
MOONWALKING WITH EINSTEIN recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his memory under the tutelage of top "mental athletes.” Foer (the youngest of the three Foer brothers) draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of remembering, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's …

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MOONWALKING WITH EINSTEIN recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his memory under the tutelage of top "mental athletes.” Foer (the youngest of the three Foer brothers) draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of remembering, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human memory. From the United States Memory Championship to deep within the author's own mind, Foer explores the fascinating ways in which our brains are wired to remember, or forget, the vast array of information and experiences that make up life. An instant bestseller that is poised to become a classic, MOONWALKING is an electrifying work of journalism that reminds us that, in every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories.

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Brooklyn Book Court
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Gods Without Men
by Hari Kunzru
$26.95 List Price
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Thursday, March 22
7:00pm
WORD and The Millions present Hari Kunzru
Meet the author of the novel that has taken WORD by storm! As you know, every once in awhile our entire store gets way too excited about a new book; this spring, we are all completely obsessed with Kunzru and Gods Without Men, and cannot wait to share our obsession with you. It asks all the big …

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Meet the author of the novel that has taken WORD by storm! As you know, every once in awhile our entire store gets way too excited about a new book; this spring, we are all completely obsessed with Kunzru and Gods Without Men, and cannot wait to share our obsession with you. It asks all the big questions — Are we alone in the universe? Does life have meaning? What are we all doing with our lives, anyway? —while also providing characters that range from sympathetic to hateful, a plot that is stuffed with action, drama, and humor, and some of the best writing we've had the pleasure to read. Co-sponsored by The Millions —special interview coming soon! Facebook RSVP appreciated.

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Sunday, March 25
11:00am
The Nets of Modernism: James, Woolf, Joyce, Freud
Maud Ellmann’s new book examines how these four modernist masters confront the entangled nature of the self. She is also author of a biography of Elizabeth Bowen and The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing & Imprisonment.

Tickets available for $35.
92nd Street Y
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Black Clock Issue 14
$17.00 List Price
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Sunday, March 25
4:30pm
Black Clock: with Rick Moody, Anthony Miller, Geoffrey O’Brien, Kyra Simone, Lynne Tillman and Steve Erickson
A celebration of the literary journal Black Clock—with contributors Rick Moody, Anthony Miller, Geoffrey O’Brien, Kyra Simone, Lynne Tillman, and writer and editor Steve Erickson.
McNally Jackson Books
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52 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012
212-274-1160
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Sunday, March 25
7:00pm
In Conversation: Alexander Hemon & Nicole Krauss
Best European Fiction editor Aleksandar Hemon and author Nicole Krauss (who wrote the preface for 2012's volume) will hold a conversation about literature, translation, and the goals of the Best European Fiction series.
Brooklyn Book Court
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163 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
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Mar 25, 2012
2:00pm-5:00pm
Mixer Turns Five
Mixer reading and music series will celebrate its five year anniversary/bday this month, Sunday, 3/25 from 2:00 to 5:00 at Cakeshop. Celebrate Mixer’s five year birthdayversary with an all-star lineup. Readings by Elana Bell, Richard Hell, Elissa Schappell, Rob Sheffield, Colson Whitehead, and …

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Mixer reading and music series will celebrate its five year anniversary/bday this month, Sunday, 3/25 from 2:00 to 5:00 at Cakeshop.

Celebrate Mixer’s five year birthdayversary with an all-star lineup. Readings by Elana Bell, Richard Hell, Elissa Schappell, Rob Sheffield, Colson Whitehead, and Tiphanie Yanique. Music by Rifle Recoil. Along with your hosts, Melissa Febos and Rebecca Keith

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Cakeshop
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Tuesday, March 27
7:00pm
Wild In The Streets: TNI Vol. 2 Release Film Screening and Panel
Join The New Inquiry at The Kitchen to celebrate the release of our second issue: Youth. We're pleased to present one of the buried gems of late 60's youth-power exploitation cinema, Wild in The Streets. Over four decades before "The 99%," rock star and later president Max Frost told America's youth…

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Join The New Inquiry at The Kitchen to celebrate the release of our second issue: Youth. We're pleased to present one of the buried gems of late 60's youth-power exploitation cinema, Wild in The Streets. Over four decades before "The 99%," rock star and later president Max Frost told America's youth they were "The 52%" - a majority that should act like it. In the run up to Occupy Wall Street's declared May 1 general strike, we've assembled a panel to discuss the film, pop music, and revolutionary politics featuring:

Cosmo Bjorkenheim, a New York based controversial-film maker and anthropophobe.

Sara Marcus, a freelance writer, poet, and musician. She is the author of Girls to The Front: The True Story of The Riot Grrrl Revolution.

Greil Marcus, a legendary rock critic and author of Lipstick Traces, Mystery Train, The Shape of Things to Come, and most recently, The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years.

Andrew O'Hehir, the head film critic for Salon.com.

Laurie Penny is a UK columnist and activist, and the author of Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism and Penny Red.

and moderated by TNI editor Malcolm Harris.

Hope to see all of you there! But capacity is limited and seating is first-come, so you might want to show up a bit early.

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The Kitchen
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These Dreams of You
by Steve Erickson
$16.00 List Price
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Tuesday, March 27
7:00pm
Steve Erickson — These Dreams of You
One November night in a canyon outside L.A., Zan Nordhoc—a failed novelist turned pirate-radio DJ—sits before the television with his small, adopted black daughter, watching the election of his country's first black president. In the nova of this historic moment, with an economic recession …

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One November night in a canyon outside L.A., Zan Nordhoc—a failed novelist turned pirate-radio DJ—sits before the television with his small, adopted black daughter, watching the election of his country's first black president. In the nova of this historic moment, with an economic recession threatening their home, Zan, his wife and their son set out to solve the enigma of a little girl whose body is a radio, broadcasting a future rhythm & blues that circles the sphere of time. Scattered across two continents, the family meets a mysterious stranger with a secret who sends the story spiraling forty years into the past, from '60s London to '70s Berlin, from the ground zero of civilization to a New World mid-air in its leap of imagination.

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Steve Erickson is the author of nine novels and two books about American politics and popular culture that have been published in ten languages. His work has appeared in publications such as Esquire, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times Magazine. He currently is the film critic for Los Angeles Magazine and the editor of the literary journal Black Clock, which is published by the California Institute of the Arts where he teaches. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the American Academy of Arts and Letters award in literature.

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BookCourt
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Black Clock Issue 14
$17.00 List Price
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Tuesday, March 27
7:00pm
In Conversation: Christopher Byrd & Steve Erickson
One November night in a canyon outside L.A., Zan Nordhoc—a failed novelist turned pirate-radio DJ—sits before the television with his small, adopted black daughter, watching the election of his country's first black president. In the nova of this historic moment, with an economic recession …

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One November night in a canyon outside L.A., Zan Nordhoc—a failed novelist turned pirate-radio DJ—sits before the television with his small, adopted black daughter, watching the election of his country's first black president. In the nova of this historic moment, with an economic recession threatening their home, Zan, his wife and their son set out to solve the enigma of a little girl whose body is a radio, broadcasting a future rhythm & blues that circles the sphere of time. Scattered across two continents, the family meets a mysterious stranger with a secret who sends the story spiraling forty years into the past, from '60s London to '70s Berlin, from the ground zero of civilization to a New World mid-air in its leap of imagination.

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Brooklyn Book Court
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Wednesday, March 28
7:00pm
The Salon: Food, Love, & Life
This month we'll be feeding the hungry muse. Join us for a wide-ranging conversation on food and memory, the art of writing about food, food in literature, 'cooking' with words and more. Featuring Julie Powell (Julie & Julia, Cleaving), Rachel Wharton (Edible Manhattan & Edible Brooklyn) Michelle …

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This month we'll be feeding the hungry muse. Join us for a wide-ranging conversation on food and memory, the art of writing about food, food in literature, 'cooking' with words and more. Featuring Julie Powell (Julie & Julia, Cleaving), Rachel Wharton (Edible Manhattan & Edible Brooklyn) Michelle Maisto (The Gastronomy of Marriage) and Melissa Vaughan (Author, The New Brooklyn Cookbook)

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Brooklyn Book Court
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You Deserve Nothing:
A Novel
by Alexander Maksik
$15.00 List Price
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Friday, March 30
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 You Deserve Nothing by Alexander Maksik. Group meetings are open to the public.
Barnes & Noble
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Banzai Babe Ruth:
Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan
by Robert K. Fitts
$34.95 List Price
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Monday, April 2
7:00pm
Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination During the 1934 Tour of Japan
Baseball scholar Rob Fitts tells the fascinating story of American baseball stars making a goodwill trip to Japan as the storm clouds of war gathered in the mid-'30s.
Barnes & Noble
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Enchantments:
A Novel
by Kathryn Harrison
$27.00 List Price
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Monday, April 2
8:00pm
Kathryn Harrison and Lionel Shriver
Kathryn Harrison’s new novel is Enchantments. “She is one of the most compelling writers I know,” wrote Elizabeth Berg. “A true artist whose formidable talent is matched by her courage.” Lionel Shriver’s new novel is The New Republic. Her work is “tough, complicated, brilliant,” …

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Kathryn Harrison’s new novel is Enchantments.

“She is one of the most compelling writers I know,” wrote Elizabeth Berg. “A true artist whose formidable talent is matched by her courage.”

Lionel Shriver’s new novel is The New Republic. Her work is “tough, complicated, brilliant,” wrote Ruth Franklin. “Shriver isn’t the kind of writer who lets her themes bubble up opaquely; she seizes them and interrogates them for all they’re worth. … [It’s] exhilarating to be in the presence of a writer who exercises her intelligence so vigorously.”

Tickets from $19; $10 for those 35 and other.

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92nd Street Y
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Apr 3, 2012
6:30pm-8:30pm
AMY WALDMAN: SUBMISSION
In Submission, her first novel, journalist Amy Waldman examines the effect of an architectural competition for a 9/11 memorial when the anonymous winner turns out to be a Muslim architect. Ms. Waldman presents a striking portrait of a fractured city striving to make itself whole at The Cooper Union…

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In Submission, her first novel, journalist Amy Waldman examines the effect of an architectural competition for a 9/11 memorial when the anonymous winner turns out to be a Muslim architect. Ms. Waldman presents a striking portrait of a fractured city striving to make itself whole at The Cooper Union –The Rose Auditorium on Tuesday, April 3 at 6:30 PM.

Amy Waldman was a reporter for The New York Times who covered the aftermath of 9/11 during her tenure. She was also a national correspondent for the Atlantic. Her fiction has appeared in the Boston Review and the Atlantic, and was anthologized in The Best American Non-Required Reading 2010.

Located in The Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, at 41 Cooper Square (on Third Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets)

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The Great Hall
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Dark Shadows:
Return to Collinwood
by Kathryn Leigh Scott and Jim Pierson
$24.95 List Price
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Tuesday, April 3
7:00pm
Dark Shadows: Return to Collinwood
Kathryn Leigh Scott, star of the 1960s cult-favorite Dark Shadows, presents an in-depth look at five decades of the classic Gothic horror soap opera.
Barnes & Noble
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Tuesday, April 3
7:00pm
Poem. Body. Planet. Need.
Juliana Spahr, tc tolbert How can we, as poets, take care of ourselves, our creative work, and the larger planetary body on which we depend? Juliana Spahr and tc tolbert read from new work and discuss. This event is part of the 2011-2012 Belladonna* Material Lives season which calls attention to …

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Juliana Spahr, tc tolbert

How can we, as poets, take care of ourselves, our creative work, and the larger planetary body on which we depend? Juliana Spahr and tc tolbert read from new work and discuss. This event is part of the 2011-2012 Belladonna* Material Lives season which calls attention to the material life of the artist, as person, who, in addition to being creator/conspirator to a body of work, possesses a physical body, and real financial, medical and social needs. Bring questions and desire. Curated by Cara Benson.

Juliana Spahr is the author of Well Then There Now (Black Sparrow Press, 2011); This Connection of Everyone with Lungs (University of California Press, 2005); Fuck You—Aloha—I Love You(Wesleyan University Press, 2001); and Response (Sun & Moon Press, 1996), winner of the National Poetry Series Award.

TC Tolbert is a genderqueer, feminist poet and teacher committed to social justice. S/he is a member of Movement Salon, a compositional improvisation group in Tucson, and is the Interview Curator forTrickhouse, an online multi-genre publication. TC’s chapbook, territories of folding, was recently published by Kore Press. His manuscript, Gephyromania, is forthcoming from Ahsahta Press. His poems can be found in Volt, The Pinch, Drunken Boat, Shampoo, A Trunk of Delirium, jubilat, andEOAGH. S/he is the creator of Made for Flight, a youth empowerment project that utilizes creative writing and kite building to commemorate murdered transgender people and dismantle homophobia and transphobia.

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Dixon Place Theater
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161 Chrystie Street, New York, NY 10002
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One Hundred Names for Love:
A Memoir
by Diane Ackerman
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Thursday, April 5
7:00pm
Diane Ackerman in conversation with Dava Sobel
“Once upon a time,” Ackerman writes, “in the Land of Before, Paul had so many pet names for me I was a one-woman zoo.” But when Paul — Ackerman’s husband, the novelist Paul West — suffers a stroke, he is rendered wordless, reduced to a single meaningless syllable, unable to speak or …

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“Once upon a time,” Ackerman writes, “in the Land of Before, Paul had so many pet names for me I was a one-woman zoo.” But when Paul — Ackerman’s husband, the novelist Paul West — suffers a stroke, he is rendered wordless, reduced to a single meaningless syllable, unable to speak or write. Ackerman tells the story of his — their — recovery in One Hundred Names for Love. She’ll be talking to science writer Dava Sobel.

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McNally Jackson Books
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Thursday, April 5
8:15pm
The Critic’s Voice: Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson's new collection of essays is When I Was a Child I Read Books. (Sold out) “Above all, there is the precision and lyrical power of her language,” wrote James Wood. “And the way it embodies a struggle—the fight with words, the contemporary writer’s fight with the history…

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Marilynne Robinson's new collection of essays is When I Was a Child I Read Books.

(Sold out)

“Above all, there is the precision and lyrical power of her language,” wrote James Wood. “And the way it embodies a struggle—the fight with words, the contemporary writer’s fight with the history of words and the presence of literary tradition, the fight to use the best words to describe both the visible and the invisible world.”

Tickets available for $19.

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92nd Street Y
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Thursday, April 5
8:15pm
The Critic's Voice: Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson's new collection of essays is When I Was Young I Read Books. “Above all, there is the precision and lyrical power of her language,” wrote James Wood. “And the way it embodies a struggle—the fight with words, the contemporary writer’s fight with the history of words and…

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Marilynne Robinson's new collection of essays is When I Was Young I Read Books.

“Above all, there is the precision and lyrical power of her language,” wrote James Wood. “And the way it embodies a struggle—the fight with words, the contemporary writer’s fight with the history of words and the presence of literary tradition, the fight to use the best words to describe both the visible and the invisible world.”

Tickets available for $19.

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Unterberg Poetry Center
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92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10128
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Thursday, April 5
9:00pm
The Reading of Dante's Inferno
Midway on our life’s journey, I found myself

In dark woods, the right road lost

The annual reading of key selections from the Inferno by Dante Alighieri will take place on the evening of Maundy Thursday.

Join Us

Maundy Thursday

April 5, 9:00pm
Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine
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1047 Amersterdam Avenue (at W. 112 St.), New York, NY 10025
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