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  A Literary Bible:

  An Original Translation

  by David Rosenberg

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  Thursday, April 22

  6:30pm

  A LITERARY BIBLE: David Rosenberg Reads his Original Translation

  Thursday, April 22, 2010 6:30 p.m.
  
  
  Author David Rosenberg reads from and discusses his newest book, A Literary Bible: An Original Translation, which Harold Bloom recently judged to rival the King James Version.
  
  
  Reading and Q &A moderated by Robert Polito.

  Wollman Hall (The New School)

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  The Unnamed

  by Joshua Ferris

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  Thursday, April 22

  6:30pm

  Joshua Ferris

  Joshua Ferris’ first novel Then We Came to the End (2007) won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, and was a National Book Award finalist. Remarkable for its hilarious first-person plural account of the American workplace, it has been translated into 24 languages. Ferris'…

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  Joshua Ferris’ first novel Then We Came to the End (2007) won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, and was a National Book Award finalist. Remarkable for its hilarious first-person plural account of the American workplace, it has been translated into 24 languages. Ferris' new novel is called The Unnamed (2010 release). His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Best New American Voices, New Stories from the South, Prairie Schooner, and The Iowa Review.

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  Brooklyn Academy of Music

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  Pearl of China:

  A Novel

  by Anchee Min

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  Thursday, April 22

  7:00pm

  Pearl of China: A Novel by Anchee Min

  It is the end of the nineteenth century and China is riding on the crest of great change, but for nine-year-old Willow, the only child of a destitute family in the small southern town of Chin-kiang, nothing ever seems to change. Until the day she meets Pearl, the eldest daughter of a zealous American…

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  It is the end of the nineteenth century and China is riding on the crest of great change, but for nine-year-old Willow, the only child of a destitute family in the small southern town of Chin-kiang, nothing ever seems to change. Until the day she meets Pearl, the eldest daughter of a zealous American missionary.
  
  Pearl is head-strong, independent and fiercely intelligent, and will grow up to be Pearl S Buck, the Pulitzer- and Nobel Prize-winning writer and humanitarian activist, but for now all Willow knows is that she has never met anyone like her in all her life. From the start the two are thick as thieves, but when the Boxer Rebellion rocks the nation, Pearl's family is forced to leave China to flee religious persecution. As the twentieth century unfolds in all its turmoil, through right-wing military coups and Mao's Red Revolution, through bad marriages and broken dreams, the two girls cling to their lifelong friendship across the sea.
  
  In this ambitious and moving new novel, Anchee Min, acclaimed author of Empress Orchid and Red Azalea, brings to life a courageous and passionate woman who loved the country of her childhood and who has been hailed in China as a modern heroine.
  
  About the Author:
  
  Anchee Min was born in Shanghai in 1957. At seventeen she was sent to a labor collective, where a talent scout for Madame Mao's Shanghai Film Studio recruited her to work as a movie actress. She moved to the United States in 1984. Her memoir, Red Azalea, was an international bestseller, published in twenty countries.

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  The Sociopath Next Door

  by Martha Stout

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  Thursday, April 22

  7:00pm

  B& N Non-Fiction Reading Club

  A new book club for those with non-fiction interests holds its inaugural meeting at the community tables in the Cafe. This month's selection will be The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Versus the Rest of Us by Martha Stout. All are welcome!

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  Benny And Penny in The Big No-No (Toon Books)

  by Geoffrey Hayes

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  Thursday, April 22

  7:00pm

  Geoffrey Hayes with Francoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman

  Bestselling author Geoffrey Hayes has devoted his life to comics and children's literature. He is the author of three Benny and Penny TOON Books, including the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award-winning Benny and Penny in the Big No-No. The award is given to "the author of the most distinguished American …

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  Bestselling author Geoffrey Hayes has devoted his life to comics and children's literature. He is the author of three Benny and Penny TOON Books, including the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award-winning Benny and Penny in the Big No-No. The award is given to "the author of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers published in English in the U.S. during the preceding year." Francoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman will introduce Geoffrey, who will demonstrate how the popular (pulp) fiction of one generation becomes the literature of another and how comics are changing the way children learn to read.

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  Thursday, April 22

  7:00pm

  NATHALIE TROVATO & MAUD FRANKLIN – LE TAXI

  Cela pourrait être résumé en une phrase lapidaire : récit autobiographique d’un accident, or c’est bien plus. Ce texte est un objet brut, il parle tout autant de la renaissance du corps que du désir de vie et de la soif d’amour. C’est aussi une naissance à l’écriture, une forme de …

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  Cela pourrait être résumé en une phrase lapidaire : récit autobiographique d’un accident, or c’est bien plus. Ce texte est un objet brut, il parle tout autant de la renaissance du corps que du désir de vie et de la soif d’amour. C’est aussi une naissance à l’écriture, une forme de langue crue et directe au rythme soutenu à l’image de la vitalité qui habite son auteur. Tout est dans la forme et dans le ton, et les images de Nathalie Trovato s’associent à cette forme par la découpe des noirs et blancs de l’impression au lino.

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  BookCourt

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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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• Tuesday, February 7

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  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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  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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  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.
  
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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

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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.

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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, 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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  The Mercantile Library Center for Fiction

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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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  Rose Auditorium @ Cooper Union

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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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  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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• 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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  McNally Jackson Books

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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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  126 Crosby Street, New York, NY 10012
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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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  Thursday, February 16

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  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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  Thursday, February 16

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  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

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  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
  
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  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

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  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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  Tuesday, February 21

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  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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  Tuesday, February 21

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  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

  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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  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

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  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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  Sunday, February 26

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  Jean Strouse and Colm Toíbín on Alice James

  Upon the republication of Jean Strouse’s Alice James as a New York Review of Books Classic, she and Colm Tóibín discuss the life of William and Henry James’ younger sister. In this biography, Strouse herself has written a “Jamesian novel,” wrote John Leonard. Tóibín’s work on Henry …

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  Upon the republication of Jean Strouse’s Alice James as a New York Review of Books Classic, she and Colm Tóibín discuss the life of William and Henry James’ younger sister.
  
  In this biography, Strouse herself has written a “Jamesian novel,” wrote John Leonard. Tóibín’s work on Henry James includes the novel The Master and the essay collection All A Novelist Needs.

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  Feb 26, 2012

  7:00pm-9:00pm

  An Evening with Melville House Authors: Lars Iyer et.al

  LARS IYER and he’s coming to the U.S.to promote his 2nd novel, Dogma [2], which The Millions called one of the “most anticipated books of the year.” His first novel, Spurious, has been winning fans all over London. 3:AM Magazine just called it “The Best Novel of 2011” and it was the runner-up…

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  LARS IYER and he’s coming to the U.S.to promote his 2nd novel, Dogma [2], which The Millions called one of the “most anticipated books of the year.” His first novel, Spurious, has been winning fans all over London. 3:AM Magazine just called it “The Best Novel of 2011” and it was the runner-up in The Guardian’s Not-the-Booker Prize.
  
  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.
  
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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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