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  Recreational Vehicles on Fire

  by Jane Ormerod

  Three Rooms Press

  $15.00 List Price

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  Monday, June 6

  Jane Ormerod on tour for the book "Recreational Vehicles on Fire"

  Born on the south coast of England and now living in New York City, Jane Ormerod is the author of "Recreational Vehicles on Fire" (Three Rooms Press, 2009), "11 Films" (Modern Metrics, 2008,) and the spoken word CD "Nashville Invades Manhattan." She performs extensively throughout the United States…

  Born on the south coast of England and now living in New York City, Jane Ormerod is the author of "Recreational Vehicles on Fire" (Three Rooms Press, 2009), "11 Films" (Modern Metrics, 2008,) and the spoken word CD "Nashville Invades Manhattan." She performs extensively throughout the United States and Europe, and is a founding editor at Uphook Press. "

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  NY Public Library (Jefferson Branch)

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• Apr 25, 2019

  6:00pm-7:30pm

  Xu Xi and Randon Billings Noble - Author Reading

  XU XI 許素細 is the author of five novels, eight collections of short fiction and essays, one memoir and editor of four anthologies of Hong Kong writing in English. Her newest book is This Fish is Fowl: Essays of Being (American Lives Series - Univ. Nebraska, March 1, 2019). Other recent titles include…

  XU XI 許素細 is the author of five novels, eight collections of short fiction and essays, one memoir and editor of four anthologies of Hong Kong writing in English. Her newest book is This Fish is Fowl: Essays of Being (American Lives Series - Univ. Nebraska, March 1, 2019). Other recent titles include the novel That Man In Our Lives (C&R 2016), a memoir Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy For A City (Penguin, 2017) and Insignificance: Hong Kong Stories (Signal 8 2018).
  
  Noble's full-length essay collection Be with Me Always was published by the University of Nebraska Press in March 2019 and her lyric essay chapbook Devotional was published by Red Bird in 2017. Individual essays have appeared in the Modern Love column of The New York Times, The Massachusetts Review, Brevity, Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, and elsewhere. Noble lives in the District of Columbia, where she is the Founding Editor of After the Art.

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  NYU Bookstore

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  726 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
  

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  Thursday, April 25

  7:00pm

  Lions' Den: Susie Linfield (PRINCE STREET)

  Lions' Den: Susie Linfield (PRINCE STREET)

  McNally Jackson Books

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  52 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012
  212-274-1160

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• Thursday, April 25

  7:00pm

  LIVE from the NYPL: Justin Vivian Bond and Friends: Stonewall 50 Cabaret

  The Library’s exhibition Love & Resistance: Stonewall 50 comes to life in a night of song, comedy, and burlesque.

  The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

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  5th Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018
  
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  A Place for Us:

  A Novel

  by Fatima Farheen Mirza

  SJP for Hogarth

  $17.00 List Price

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  Thursday, April 25

  7:30pm

  Fatima Farheen Mirza on A Place for Us

  The first novel from Sarah Jessica Parker’s new imprint, SJP for Hogarth—and a finalist for One Book, One New York—"A Place for Us" is a deeply moving and resonant story of love, identity, and belonging. As an Indian wedding gathers a family back together, parents Rafiq and Layla must reckon with …

  The first novel from Sarah Jessica Parker’s new imprint, SJP for Hogarth—and a finalist for One Book, One New York—"A Place for Us" is a deeply moving and resonant story of love, identity, and belonging.
  
  As an Indian wedding gathers a family back together, parents Rafiq and Layla must reckon with the choices their children have made. There is Hadia: their headstrong, eldest daughter, whose marriage is a match of love and not tradition. Huda, the middle child, determined to follow in her sister’s footsteps. And lastly, their estranged son, Amar, who returns to the family fold for the first time in three years to take his place as brother of the bride. What secrets and betrayals have caused this close-knit family to fracture? Can Amar find his way back to the people who know and love him best?
  
  "A Place for Us" takes us back to the beginning of this family’s life: from the bonds that bring them together, to the differences that pull them apart. All the joy and struggle of family life is here, from Rafiq and Layla’s own arrival in America from India, to the years in which their children—each in their own way—tread between two cultures, seeking to find their place in the world, as well as a path home.
  
  An instant New York Times Best Seller, "A Place for Us", now out in paperback, is a book for our times: an astonishingly tender-hearted novel of identity and belonging, and a resonant portrait of what it means to be an American family today. It announces Fatima Farheen Mirza as a major new literary talent.
  
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  Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library, Dweck Center

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  10 Grand Army Plaza, New York, NY 11238
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  Thursday, April 25

  7:30pm

  Letters In Ink with calligrapher Rajiv Surendra (GOODS FOR THE STUDY)

  When was the last time you sent someone a handwritten letter? Join us for an evening celebrating the quiet pleasure of communicating with pen and paper as you write a missive to someone you care about. Please bring along your recipient’s mailing address, as Rajiv will be addressing envelopes with …

  When was the last time you sent someone a handwritten letter? Join us for an evening celebrating the quiet pleasure of communicating with pen and paper as you write a missive to someone you care about. Please bring along your recipient’s mailing address, as Rajiv will be addressing envelopes with calligraphy at the end of the evening.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Friday, April 26

  7:00pm

  PEN OUT LOUD: VIET THANH NGUYEN AND MAAZA MENGISTE

  Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer) and author Maaza Mengiste (Beneath the Lion’s Gaze) discuss the critically acclaimed anthology The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives. Edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen and featuring an essay by Maaza Mengiste, The Displaced collects…

  Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer) and author Maaza Mengiste (Beneath the Lion’s Gaze) discuss the critically acclaimed anthology The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives. Edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen and featuring an essay by Maaza Mengiste, The Displaced collects the work of 17 refugee writers, painting intimate narratives of their everyday lives and reckoning with the largest refugee crisis in history, and the increasingly hostile conditions refugees face.
  
  Buy a $15 ticket to attend this event. Please note that payment is required for all online event orders at the time of checkout. The event will be located in the Strand's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at our store at 828 Broadway at 12th Street.
  
  Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam in 1971. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, he and his family fled to the United States. The author of three books including The Sympathizer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a recently published story collection, The Refugees, Nguyen is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles.
  
  Maaza Mengiste‘s debut novel, Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, was selected by The Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African books and named one of the best books of 2010 by Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, and other publications. A recipient of a 2018 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, she is also a Fulbright Scholar, a Puterbaugh Fellow, and a runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Her work can be found in The New Yorker, New York Review of Books, Granta, The Guardian, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and BBC, among other places. She was a writer on the documentary projects, Girl Rising and The Invisible City: Kakuma. Her second novel, The Shadow King, will be published in late 2019.

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  Strand Book Store

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  828 Broadway, New York, NY 10003-4805
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  Saturday, April 27

  4:00pm

  Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Project Prizewinners (PRINCE STREET)

  Each year the Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Project commemorates poet-activist Lexi Rudnitsky (1972-2005) by holding two book contests to memorialize Lexi and to promote the type of meaningful poetry in which she so spiritedly believed. The winners are published by Persea Books. Join us as we welcome today's…

  Each year the Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Project commemorates poet-activist Lexi Rudnitsky (1972-2005) by holding two book contests to memorialize Lexi and to promote the type of meaningful poetry in which she so spiritedly believed. The winners are published by Persea Books. Join us as we welcome today's extraordinary readers and prizewinners.
  
  Karen Donovan is the author of two books of poetry, Fugitive Red and Your Enzymes Are Calling the Ancients, winner of the 2015 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
  
  Mitchell L. H. Douglas is the author of three books of poetry, including, dying in the scarecrow’s arms, /blak/ /al-fə bet/, winner of the 2011 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award, and Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem. He is a cofounder of the Affrilachian Poets and Associate Professor of English at IUPUI.
  
  Cynthia Marie Hoffman is the author of three books of poetry, including Call Me When You Want to Talk About the Tombstones, and Sightseer, winner of the 2010 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
  
  Susannah Nevison is the author of two books of poetry, Lethal Theater and Teratology, which won the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. She teaches at Sweet Briar College in southwestern Virginia.
  
  Valencia Robin’s first book of poetry, Ridiculous Light, won the 2018 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. She is a visual artist as well as a poet, and currently living in Charlottesville, Virginia.
  
  Gary Young is the author of, most recently, That’s What I Thought, which won the 2017 Lexi Rudnitky Editor’s Choice Award. He is a past recipient of the Shelley Memorial Medal and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. A printmaker, his art is represented in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Getty Center for the Arts.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  The Very Hungry Caterpillar:

  50th Anniversary Golden Edition

  by Eric Carle

  Philomel Books

  $22.99 List Price

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  Sunday, April 28

  11:00am

  The Very Hungry Caterpillar 50th Birthday Party

  This program will take place in the Grand Lobby. Be part of The Very Hungry Caterpillar's 50th birthday celebration and nationwide tour! Listen to Eric Carle's beloved children's book at this very special story time, participate in fun crafts and other activities and take photos with The Very Hungry…

  This program will take place in the Grand Lobby.
  
  Be part of The Very Hungry Caterpillar's 50th birthday celebration and nationwide tour! Listen to Eric Carle's beloved children's book at this very special story time, participate in fun crafts and other activities and take photos with The Very Hungry Caterpillar and his cool car.
  
  Eric Carle is acclaimed and beloved as the creator of brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed picture books for very young children. His best-known work, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has eaten its way into the hearts of millions of children all over the world and has been translated into more than 25 languages and sold over 12 million copies. Since The Very Hungry Caterpillar was published in 1969, Eric Carle has illustrated more than 60 books, many bestsellers, most of which he also wrote.
  
  Books will be available for purchase at the event from Books Are Magic!

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  Brooklyn Public Library, Central Branch

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  10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238-5675
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  Sunday, April 28

  6:00pm

  Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: David L. Eng, Shinhee Han and Ben Kafka (PRINCE STREET)

  In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y. Combining critical race theory with…

  In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y. Combining critical race theory with several strands of psychoanalytic thought and clinical practice, they develop the concepts of racial melancholia and racial dissociation to investigate changing processes of loss associated with immigration, displacement, diaspora, and assimilation. These case studies of first- and second-generation Asian Americans deal with a range of difficulties, from depression, suicide, and the politics of coming out to broader issues of the model minority stereotype, transnational adoption, parachute children, colorblind discourses in the United States, and the rise of Asia under globalization. Throughout, Eng and Han link psychoanalysis to larger structural and historical phenomena, illuminating how the study of psychic processes of individuals can inform investigations of race, sexuality, and immigration while creating a more sustained conversation about the social lives of Asian Americans and Asians in the diaspora.
  
  David L. Eng is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Eng is author of The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy (Duke, 2010) and Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America (Duke, 2001). He is co-editor with David Kazanjian of Loss: The Politics of Mourning (California, 2003) and with Alice Y. Hom of Q & A: Queer in Asian America (Temple, 1998). In 2016, Eng was elected an honorary member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York City.
  
  Shinhee Han, PhD, is a psychotherapist at the New School as well as in private practice in New York City. In addition, she is an adjunct professor in the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University, where she teaches courses on Asian Americans, race, and psychoanalysis. Dr. Han is a founding member of the Asian Women Giving Circle, a philanthropic organization in New York City that funds Asian of women artists creating social activism and change. Previously, she worked in counseling and psychological services at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Barnard College, and Columbia University. Born in Seoul, Korea, she immigrated to Minnesota with her family at age 13.
  
  Ben Kafka is a psychoanalyst, cultural historian, and critic. He teaches at NYU and sees patients in private practice.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Sunday, April 28

  7:00pm

  Message from the Library with Sonia Sanchez

  Sonia Sanchez, renowned writer poet, professor and activist delivers a library-commissioned speech addressing today’s most critical issues in our local and global communities. Following the lecture, audience members will be invited to reflect, argue, debate and discuss the issues presented in Sanchez’s…

  Sonia Sanchez, renowned writer poet, professor and activist delivers a library-commissioned speech addressing today’s most critical issues in our local and global communities. Following the lecture, audience members will be invited to reflect, argue, debate and discuss the issues presented in Sanchez’s remarks in breakout conversations moderated by noted writers and intellectuals.
  
  Message from the Library is made possible through support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
  
  RSVPs strongly recommended.

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  Brooklyn Public Library, Central Branch

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  10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238-5675
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  Apr 28, 2019

  6:00pm-8:00pm

  First Person Plural Reading Series in Harlem

  First Person Plural Reading Series in Harlem: Join us on April 28th at Silvana for what promises to be a very special night featuring writers and exceptional literary citizens Chaya Bhuvaneswar, Jericho Brown, Veronica Liu, Holly Masturzo, Willie Perdomo, and Alexandra Watson. Brown and Perdomo will…

  First Person Plural Reading Series in Harlem: Join us on April 28th at Silvana for what promises to be a very special night featuring writers and exceptional literary citizens Chaya Bhuvaneswar, Jericho Brown, Veronica Liu, Holly Masturzo, Willie Perdomo, and Alexandra Watson. Brown and Perdomo will be celebrating the release of their new books of poems The Tradition and The Crazy Bunch respectively. Word Up Books is our official bookseller for the night. Plan to be with us Sunday, April 28th at Silvana in Harlem from 6:00pm-8:00pm. 300 W 116th St (SW corner of 116th and Frederick Douglass Blvd). The First Person Plural Reading Series is hosted by Stacy Parker Le Melle. Admission is free! There will be cake! Please RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/first-person-plural-reading-series-featuring-chaya-bhuvaneswar-jericho-brown-veronica-liu-holly-tickets-58615205658

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  The Shrine Bar

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  2271 Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard, New York, NY 10030
  

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• Monday, April 29

  6:30pm

  Mid-Sentence | T. Fleischmann and Kate Zambreno

  Writers Fleischmann and Zambreno discuss writing the body, the essay, gender, community, and more.

  The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

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  5th Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018
  
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  Monday, April 29

  8:00pm

  Paris Review Poets

  The Poetry Center continues its long-running collaboration with The Paris Review with a reading by poets featured in the magazine this year.

  92nd Street Y

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  1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10128
  212-415-5500

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  Monday, April 29

  8:00pm

  Paris Review Poets

  The Poetry Center continues its long-running collaboration with The Paris Review with a reading by poets featured in the magazine this year.

  92Y Tribeca

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  200 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10013
  212-601-1000

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• Apr 29, 2019

  7:00pm-9:00pm

  "Emilie Kempin-Spyri": Film Screening and Talk by Rahel Grunder

  Deutsches Haus at NYU, in partnership with the Consulate General of Switzerland New York and SALA (Swiss American Lawyers Association), presents a screening of the Swiss documentary Emilie Kempin-Spyri. Rahel Grunder, the film's director, will be present and speak about her film and the life of Emilie…

  Deutsches Haus at NYU, in partnership with the Consulate General of Switzerland New York and SALA (Swiss American Lawyers Association), presents a screening of the Swiss documentary Emilie Kempin-Spyri. Rahel Grunder, the film's director, will be present and speak about her film and the life of Emilie Kempin-Spyri.
  
  About the film:
  
  Emilie Kempin-Spyri. Written and directed by Rahel Grunder. Switzerland, 2015, 52. min, in German with English subtitles.
  
  Emilie Kempin-Spyri was the first female Doctor of Law in Europe. As a woman, however, she was not admitted to the bar, nor allowed to lecture at university. Emilie found a way out of her dissatisfying situation with a courageous journey into the unknown: In 1888, she emigrated with her husband and their three children to New York. With the help of influential women, she founded the first Woman's Law Class, which then was integrated into the law school at NYU. Her tireless efforts paid off, and Emilie was even allowed to lecture men. After only three years though, Emilie left to be with her family. Her husband, not able to acclimate to the foreign city, had returned to Switzerland with the children a year earlier. Emilie was finally allowed to work as a private lecturer at Zurich university, but her fight to be admitted to the bar remained unsuccessful again. She emigrated to Berlin and drafted articles on family law for the German Civil Code. Without stable social relationships, separated from her husband, and in an economically precarious situation, Kempin-Spyri suffered a breakdown in 1897. She was initially treated in a sanatorium in Berlin. In 1901 she tragically died at the age of 48 in a mental institution in Switzerland.
  
  About the filmmaker:
  
  Rahel Grunder creates authentic, sensitive, and female-driven stories as a writer and director in both fictional and documentary films. Her documentary Emilie Kempin-Spyri about Europe's first female lawyer received high critical and public acclaim. The TV comedy Daddyhunt was broadcast during prime time on the biggest Swiss network. Rahel's first short Happy Tobikomaki screened at the World of Women Film Festival in Australia, the Moscow Short Film Festival, and the Tucson Slow Food Film Festival. Her documentary Swimmers of Hope won the audience award at the Science et Cité Cinéma festival in Switzerland, and her documentary Farm Women the audience award at the Regard Bleu festival. Originally from Zurich, Rahel Grunder moved to Los Angeles in 2010 and graduated from the American Film Institute (AFI) in 2012. Rahel Grunder has an academic background in anthropology, film history, and art history. She’s an avid dancer, and a hiking, running, and cycling enthusiast. She teaches documentary filmmaking at University of Zurich, and is a mentor for the Munich Screenplay Workshop.
  
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  Events at Deutsches Haus are free of charge. If you would like to attend this event, please send us an email to deutscheshaus.rsvp@nyu.edu. Space at Deutsches Haus is limited, please arrive ten minutes prior to the event. Thank you!

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  Deutsches Haus at NYU

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  42 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003
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• Tuesday, April 30

  6:30pm

  All That You Leave Behind: Erin Lee Carr with Ta-Nehisi Coates

  The documentary filmmaker remembers her father, legendary journalist David Carr, in a moving new memoir.

  The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

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  Tuesday, April 30

  7:00pm

  Double Take Reading Series: Promise

  At apexart's Double Take reading series, poets, novelists, editors, and artists are invited to create and share an original work in response to a single, open-ended prompt, in this instance: Promise. As a result, apexart audiences experience a one-of-a-kind evening of stories and reflections. …

  At apexart's Double Take reading series, poets, novelists, editors, and artists are invited to create and share an original work in response to a single, open-ended prompt, in this instance: Promise. As a result, apexart audiences experience a one-of-a-kind evening of stories and reflections.
  
  Featuring contributions from:
  
  Heather Chaplin
  
  Lonely Christopher
  
  Jibade-Khalil Huffman
  
  Organized by Albert Mobilio.
  
  This event is free and open to the public. RSVP encouraged.
  
  Refreshments and light snacks will be provided.

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  apexart

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  291 Church Street, New York, NY 10013
  

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  Tuesday, April 30

  7:00pm

  What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Michele Filgate with Leslie Jamison, Melissa Febos, and Dani Shapiro (PRINCE STREET)

  Fifteen brilliant writers explore what we don’t talk to our mothers about, and how it affects us, for better or for worse. As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize what she was actually trying to …

  Fifteen brilliant writers explore what we don’t talk to our mothers about, and how it affects us, for better or for worse.
  
  As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize what she was actually trying to write: how this affected her relationship with her mother. When it was finally published, the essay went viral, shared on social media by Anne Lamott, Rebecca Solnit, and many others. The outpouring of responses gave Filgate an idea, and the resulting anthology offers a candid look at our relationships with our mothers.
  
  While some of the writers in this book are estranged from their mothers, others are extremely close. Leslie Jamison writes about trying to discover who her seemingly perfect mother was before ever becoming a mom. In Cathi Hanauer’s hilarious piece, she finally gets a chance to have a conversation with her mother that isn’t interrupted by her domineering (but lovable) father. André Aciman writes about what it was like to have a deaf mother. Melissa Febos uses mythology as a lens to look at her close-knit relationship with her psychotherapist mother. And Julianna Baggott talks about having a mom who tells her everything.
  
  As Filgate writes, “Our mothers are our first homes, and that’s why we’re always trying to return to them.” There’s relief in breaking the silence. Acknowledging what we couldn’t say for so long is one way to heal our relationships with others and, perhaps most important, with ourselves. Contributors include Cathi Hanauer, Melissa Febos, Alexander Chee, Dylan Landis, Bernice L. McFadden, Julianna Baggott, Lynn Steger Strong, Kiese Laymon, Carmen Maria Machado, André Aciman, Sari Botton, Nayomi Munaweera, Brandon Taylor, and Leslie Jamison.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Tuesday, April 30

  7:30pm

  Camonghne Felix: Build Yourself a Boat

  “Camonghne Felix is a brilliant writer, thinker, imaginer, builder—a young leader who shifts and opens the possibilities for a more just, better lit world, with each step, each word, each question.” —Kathy Engel This is about what grows through the wreckage. This is an anthem of survival and a look…

  “Camonghne Felix is a brilliant writer, thinker, imaginer, builder—a young leader who shifts and opens the possibilities for a more just, better lit world, with each step, each word, each question.” —Kathy Engel
  
  This is about what grows through the wreckage. This is an anthem of survival and a look at what might come after. A view of what floats and what, ultimately, sustains.
  
  Build Yourself a Boat redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory.
  
  Camonghne Felix, M.A. is a poet, a writer, speaker, & political strategist living in New York City. She received an M.A. in Arts Politics from NYU, an MFA from Bard College, & has received Fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo & Poets House. Her first full-length collection of poems, Build Yourself a Boat, was a 2017 University of Wisconsin Press Brittingham & Pollak Prize finalist, a 2017 Fordham University Poets Out Loud semi-finalist, & is forthcoming from Haymarket Books in 2019. The author of the chapbook Yolk, she was recently listed by Black Youth Project as a "Black Girl From the Future You Should Know." Felix's work has been published in BuzzFeed, Poetry Magazine,Apogee, The Offing, the Academy of American Poets website, & more. She's also been featured in New York Women's Foundation Magazine, Brooklyn Poets, Politico, Teen Vogue digital, Huffington Post & more.

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  Books Are Magic

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  255 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
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  May 1, 2019

  6:30pm-7:30pm

  Shakespeare in Living Color: Race and Performance Now

  In an evening of performance, director José Esquea generates fresh dramatic tensions in key Shakespeare scenes by introducing questions of race. Formerly director and artistic director of Teatro LATEA, Esquea has directed multicultural productions of Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth 2029, Romeo and Juliet,…

  In an evening of performance, director José Esquea generates fresh dramatic tensions in key Shakespeare scenes by introducing questions of race. Formerly director and artistic director of Teatro LATEA, Esquea has directed multicultural productions of Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth 2029, Romeo and Juliet, and King Lear. The evening’s performance will be followed by a conversation with the director and Shakespeare scholars Tanya Pollard, professor of English at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, and Miles Grier, assistant professor of English at Queens College.
  
  Presented with the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program.

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  The Graduate Center Public Programs (CUNY)

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  365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
  212-817-7182

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• Wednesday, May 1

  6:30pm

  What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape: Sohaila Abdulali with Chiké Frankie Edozien

  A survivor, writer, counselor, and activist offers an honest examination of sexual assault, and the process of recovering joy.

  The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

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  Wednesday, May 1

  7:00pm

  All in the Family: A Sibling Reading with Maureen Pilkington and Kevin Pilkington

  Maureen Pilkington will read short fiction from her collection, This Side of Water: Stories, and Kevin Pilkington will be reading from his latest collection of poetry, Where You Want to Be: New and Selected Poems. In This Side of Water: Stories, Maureen Pilkington’s bright debut collection, precise…

  Maureen Pilkington will read short fiction from her collection, This Side of Water: Stories, and Kevin Pilkington will be reading from his latest collection of poetry, Where You Want to Be: New and Selected Poems.
  
  In This Side of Water: Stories, Maureen Pilkington’s bright debut collection, precise and vivid language delivers flawed characters to their moments of reckoning. A married woman goes to the cemetery to resurrect her father; a young girl at a beach club witnesses her parents’ infidelity; an icy New Year’s Eve leads a devoted husband to violent clarity; a teenager spies on her mother and a Catholic priest; a Russian “dancer” visits her American husband and plays a dangerous game. In these sixteen stories, the backdrop of water—the Long Island Sound, the sulfur polluted Monangahela River, a koi pond, a basin of holy water, a tear in a boy’s eye—provides a salve for these characters, ferrying them to personal ports of resolution.
  
  "These are brave stories. Pilkington seems willing to go anywhere she needs to for a story, and fully inhabit any character.This Side of Water is a wide-ranging and darkly beautiful collection of stories."

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  McNally Jackson Books

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• Thursday, May 2

  7:00pm

  LIVE from the NYPL: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Stony the Road

  Between emancipation and the civil rights era, a war of ideas and imagery helped to sow the seeds of the structural racism that endures in this country to this day.

  Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

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  Thursday, May 2

  7:00pm

  STEVE ISRAEL: BIG GUNS

  When Chicago’s Mayor Michael Rodriguez starts a national campaign to ban handguns from America’s cities, towns, and villages, Otis Cogsworth, the wealthy chairman and CEO of Cogsworth International Arms worries about the effects on his company. In response he and lobbyist Sunny McCarthy convince an…

  When Chicago’s Mayor Michael Rodriguez starts a national campaign to ban handguns from America’s cities, towns, and villages, Otis Cogsworth, the wealthy chairman and CEO of Cogsworth International Arms worries about the effects on his company. In response he and lobbyist Sunny McCarthy convince an Arkansas congressman to introduce federal legislation mandating that every American must own a firearm. Events soon escalate.
  
  Asabogue’s Mayor Lois Leibowitz passes an ordinance to ban guns in the town—right in Otis Cogsworth’s backyard. Otis retaliates by orchestrating a recall election against Lois and Jack Steele, a rich town resident, runs against her. Even though the election is for the mayor of a village on Long Island, Steele brings in the big guns of American politics to defeat Lois: political consultants, Super PACs, and celebrities. Soon, thousands of pro-gun and anti-gun partisans descend on Asabogue, along with an assortment of heavily armed rightwing militias and the national news media. Bucolic Asabogue becomes a tinderbox. Meanwhile, Washington politicians in both parties are caught between a mighty gun lobby whose support they need for reelection and the absurdity of requiring that every American with waivers for children under age four carry a gun. What ensues is a discomfiting, hilarious indictment of the state of American politics.
  
  Former Long Island Congressman, Steve Israel has firsthand knowledge of the cynicism and corruption at the heart of our political system. Big Guns will make you laugh, will make you angry, and will make you think as you flip the pages faster and faster to find out what happens next.
  
  Join us as Rep. Steve Israel shares his book.

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  Strand Book Store

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  Hybrida:

  Poems

  by Tina Chang

  W. W. Norton & Company

  $26.95 List Price

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  Deaf Republic:

  Poems

  by Ilya Kaminsky

  Graywolf Press

  $16.00 List Price

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  The Octopus Museum:

  Poems

  by Brenda Shaughnessy

  Knopf

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  Thursday, May 2

  7:30pm

  Poets Tina Chang, Ilya Kaminsky & Brenda Shaughnessy

  Copresented with Brooklyn Poets as a Brooklyn Poets Reading Series event: three poets on their new books. A timely, stirring, and confident examination of mixed-race identity, violence, and history skillfully rendered through the lens of motherhood. In "Hybrida," Tina Chang confronts the complexities…

  Copresented with Brooklyn Poets as a Brooklyn Poets Reading Series event: three poets on their new books.
  
  A timely, stirring, and confident examination of mixed-race identity, violence, and history skillfully rendered through the lens of motherhood. In "Hybrida," Tina Chang confronts the complexities of raising a mixed-race child during an era of upheaval in the United States. She ruminates on the relationship between her son’s blackness and his safety, exploring the dangers of childhood in a post-Trayvon Martin era by invoking racialized roles in fairy tales. Meditating on the lives of Michael Brown, Leiby Kletzky, and Noemi Álvarez Quillay—lost at the hands of individuals entrusted to protect them—Chang creates hybrid poetic forms that mirror her investigation of racial tensions. "Hybrida" is a twenty-first-century tale that is equal parts a mother’s love and her fury, an ambitious and revelatory exploration of identity.
  
  "Deaf Republic" opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear—all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple, Alfonso and Sonya, expecting a child; the brash Momma Galya, instigating the insurgency from her puppet theater; and Galya’s girls, heroically teaching signs by day and by night luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea—Ilya Kaminsky’s long-awaited "Deaf Republic" confronts our time’s vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.
  
  Informed by Brenda Shaughnessy’s craft as a poet and her worst fears as a mother, the poems in "The Octopus Museum" blaze forth from her pen: in these pages, we see that what was once a generalized fear for our children (car accidents, falling from a tree) is now hyper-reasonable, specific, and multiple: school shootings, nuclear attack, loss of health care, a polluted planet. As Shaughnessy conjures our potential future, she movingly (and often with humor) envisions an age where cephalopods might rule over humankind, a fate she suggests we may just deserve after destroying their oceans. These heartbreaking, terrified poems are the battle cry of a woman who is fighting for the survival of the world she loves, and a stirring exhibition of who we are as a civilization.
  
  RSVPs strongly recommended.

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  Thursday, May 2

  7:30pm

  Erika Swyler: Light From Other Stars w/ Maris Kreizman

  Erika Swyler: Light From Other Stars w/ Maris Kreizman Thursday May 02 | 7:30PM - 8:30PM Eleven-year-old Nedda Papas is obsessed with becoming an astronaut. In 1986 in Easter, a small Florida Space Coast town, her dreams seem almost within reach—if she can just grow up fast enough. Theo, the scientist…

  Erika Swyler: Light From Other Stars w/ Maris Kreizman
  
  Thursday May 02 | 7:30PM - 8:30PM
  
  Eleven-year-old Nedda Papas is obsessed with becoming an astronaut. In 1986 in Easter, a small Florida Space Coast town, her dreams seem almost within reach—if she can just grow up fast enough. Theo, the scientist father she idolizes, is consumed by his own obsessions. Laid off from his job at NASA and still reeling from the loss of Nedda’s newborn brother several years before, Theo turns to the dangerous dream of extending his living daughter's childhood just a little longer. The result is an invention that alters the fabric of time.
  
  Amidst the chaos that erupts, Nedda must confront her father and his secrets, the ramifications of which will irrevocably change her life, her community, and the entire world. But she finds an unexpected ally in Betheen, the mother she’s never quite understood, who surprises Nedda by seeing her more clearly than anyone else.
  
  Decades later, Nedda has achieved her long-held dream, and as she floats in antigravity, far from earth, she and her crewmates face a serious crisis. Nedda may hold the key to the solution, if she can come to terms with her past and the future that awaits her.
  
  Erika Swyler’s writing has appeared in Catapult Story, VIDA, The New York Times, and elsewhere. Her bestselling first novel, The Book of Speculation, was one of BuzzFeed’s 24 Best Fiction Books of 2015, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. She lives on Long Island, NY, with her husband and a mischievous rabbit.
  
  Maris Kreizman has hosted readings and moderated literary panels at various bookstores, conferences, and festivals across the country. She is the creator of Slaughterhouse 90210, a blog and book (Flatiron Books, 2015) that celebrates the intersection of literature and pop culture. A former book editor (Free Press/S&S) and former editorial director of Book of the Month, she is also an essayist and critic whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the LA Times, Vanity Fair, BuzzFeed, Publishers Weekly, The Ringer, The Toast, The Hairpin, The Cut, Vulture, Glamour, Esquire, GQ, OUT Magazine, and more.

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  Books Are Magic

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• May 3, 2019

  6:00pm-7:30pm

  "Intimate Ties": An Evening with P. Wortsman, K. Holzermayr Rosenfield, T. Lewis, and F. Naqvi

  Deutsches Haus at NYU and Archipelago Books present the book launch of Robert Musil’s Intimate Ties (“Vereinigungen”), and a conversation among the acclaimed author and translator of Intimate Ties, Peter Wortsman; the literary scholar and translator Kathrin Holzermeyr-Rosenfield; Fatima Naqvi, …

  Deutsches Haus at NYU and Archipelago Books present the book launch of Robert Musil’s Intimate Ties (“Vereinigungen”), and a conversation among the acclaimed author and translator of Intimate Ties, Peter Wortsman; the literary scholar and translator Kathrin Holzermeyr-Rosenfield; Fatima Naqvi, professor of German and Film Studies at Rutgers University; and moderated by the writer and translator Tess Lewis.
  
  About the book:
  
  First published in 1911, Intimate Ties (Vereinigungen) is Robert Musil’s second book, consisting of two novellas, “The Culmination of Love” and “The Temptation of Silent Veronica.” Each revolves around a woman in the throes of her sexual and romantic woes, as their memories of the past return to influence their present desires. Musil tracks the psyche of his protagonists in a blurring of impressions that is reflected in his experimental prose. Intimate Ties offers the reader an early glimpse of the high modernist style Musil would perfect in his magnum opus The Man Without Qualities.
  
  About the panelists:
  
  The author of an Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY)-winning travel memoir, Ghost Dance in Berlin, two stage plays produced in the U.S. and abroad, and four books of fiction, including, most recently, Stimme und Atem/Out of Breath, Out of Mind, a bilingual German-English collection of his stories originally written in German, forthcoming in October 2019 from PalmArt Press in Berlin, Peter Wortsman has translated numerous works from German, including Posthumous Papers of a Living Author, by Robert Musil, Konundrum, Selected Prose of Franz Kafka, both from Archipelago Books, and Tales of the German Imagination, an anthology he also compiled and edited, for Penguin Classics. He was a Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in 2010.
  
  Kathrin Holzermayr Rosenfield was born in Salzburg, Austria, and studied in Vienna, Salzburg, and Paris. Her thesis on French medieval literature and historical anthropology (under Jacques Le Goff) was published in Munich by Fink Verlag in 1984 and was translated into Portuguese in 1985. She started her career in Brazil in 1984 as a psychoanalyst, then joined the faculty of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, where she is a tenured Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Literature. Her work focuses on the connections between philosophy, literature, and the arts. She has been an active member of the National Center for Research since 1984 and was elected to the Academia Rio-Grandense de Letras in Porto Alegre. Her translation of Robert Musil’s Uniões (Vereinigungen) was published by Editora Perspectiva, São Paulo, 2018. She has published two books on Hölderlin’s Sophocles translations: Oedipus Rex. The Story of a Palace Intrigue, 2012; and Antigone. Sophocles’ Art, Hölderlin’s Insights, both published in the U.S. (Davies Group, Aurora/Colorado, 2010), and translated into French, Portuguese, and German. Her publications approach a great number of authors and languages, from the Brazilian João Guimarães Rosa to the South-African J. M. Coetzee, from J. C. Simon to Hegel, Kleist and Goethe.
  
  Tess Lewis is a writer and translator from French and German. Her translations include works by Peter Handke, Walter Benjamin, Maja Haderlap, Philippe Jaccottet, and Christine Angot. Her awards include the 2016 ACFNY Translation Prize, the 2017 PEN Translation Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is co-chair of the PEN Translation Committee and an Advisory Editor for The Hudson Review. In 2014 and 2015, Tess Lewis curated Festival Neue Literatur, New York City’s annual festival of German-language literature in English.
  
  Fatima Naqvi is professor of German and Film Studies at Rutgers University, where she has taught since 2000. Professor Naqvi’s research interests include the intersection of architecture and literature; the theorization of interdisciplinarity; ecological films; Austrian authors and filmmakers of the 20th and 21st centuries; and affect studies. She has written books on the perception of victimhood in Western European culture between 1968 and the new millennium (The Literary and Cultural Rhetoric of Victimhood, Palgrave 2007); the films of Michael Haneke (Trügerische Vertrautheit, Synema 2010; The White Ribbon, Camden House, forthcoming 2019; Michael Haneke: Interviews, University Press of Mississippi, forthcoming 2019); and the intersection of architecture and educational discourse in the works of Thomas Bernhard (How We Learn Where We Live; Northwestern 2016). One current research project focuses on the topic of “fremdschämen”—the sense of shame for another—in contemporary media culture (special attention is devoted to the works of Ulrich Seidl, Erwin Wurm, and Elfriede Jelinek). A second project delves into the problem of generosity and environmental consciousness in recent documentary films. Professor Naqvi teaches courses on Vienna 1900; Robert Musil and His Age; the German novel of the post-1945 period; literature and architecture; modernism; and film (“From Haunted Screen to Hyperreality,” “Screening German Histories,” ”Our Threatened Planet: Documentary Films and Ecocriticism,” “Weimar Cinema.”)
  
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  Events at Deutsches Haus are free of charge. If you would like to attend this event, please send us an email to deutscheshaus.rsvp@nyu.edu. Space at Deutsches Haus is limited, please arrive ten minutes prior to the event. Thank you!
  
  "Intimate Ties": An Evening with P. Wortsman, K. Holzermayr Rosenfield, T. Lewis, and F. Naqvi is a DAAD-sponsored event.

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  Deutsches Haus at NYU

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  Sunday, May 5

  11:00am

  On Tolstoy's Letters with Andrew Donskov

  “I can’t read [your letters] without tears. For me every word is significant. I read them over and over,” Leo Tolstoy wrote to his wife Sofia Tolstaya in July 1871. In Tolstoy and Tolstaya: A Portrait of a Life in Letters, editor Andrew Donskov presents a selection of the couple’s letters—most newly…

  “I can’t read [your letters] without tears. For me every word is significant. I read them over and over,” Leo Tolstoy wrote to his wife Sofia Tolstaya in July 1871.
  
  In Tolstoy and Tolstaya: A Portrait of a Life in Letters, editor Andrew Donskov presents a selection of the couple’s letters—most newly translated into English—that offers unique insights into the minds of two fascinating, deep-thinking individuals over the 48-year period of their conjugal life, allowing readers to penetrate their family life and observe, as in a generation-spanning chronicle, a variety of scenes of Russian society, from rural peasants to lords and ladies.

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  92nd Street Y

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  Sunday, May 5

  11:00am

  On Tolstoy's Letters with Andrew Donskov

  “I can’t read [your letters] without tears. For me every word is significant. I read them over and over,” Leo Tolstoy wrote to his wife Sofia Tolstaya in July 1871. In Tolstoy and Tolstaya: A Portrait of a Life in Letters, editor Andrew Donskov presents a selection of the couple’s letters—most newly…

  “I can’t read [your letters] without tears. For me every word is significant. I read them over and over,” Leo Tolstoy wrote to his wife Sofia Tolstaya in July 1871.
  
  In Tolstoy and Tolstaya: A Portrait of a Life in Letters, editor Andrew Donskov presents a selection of the couple’s letters—most newly translated into English—that offers unique insights into the minds of two fascinating, deep-thinking individuals over the 48-year period of their conjugal life, allowing readers to penetrate their family life and observe, as in a generation-spanning chronicle, a variety of scenes of Russian society, from rural peasants to lords and ladies.

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  92Y Tribeca

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  Sunday, May 5

  6:00pm

  Sol LeWitt: Lary Bloom with Pablo Helguera and Karen Gunderson (PRINCE STREET)

  Sol LeWitt (1928-2007), one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, upended traditional practices of how art is made and marketed. A key figure in minimalism and conceptualism, he proclaimed that the work of the mind is much more important than that of the hand. For his site-specific…

  Sol LeWitt (1928-2007), one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, upended traditional practices of how art is made and marketed. A key figure in minimalism and conceptualism, he proclaimed that the work of the mind is much more important than that of the hand. For his site-specific work—wall drawings and sculpture in dozens of countries—he created the idea and basic plan and then hired young artists to install the pieces. Though typically enormous and intricate, the physical works held no value. The worth was in the pieces of paper that certified and described them. LeWitt championed and financially supported colleagues, including women artists brushed aside by the bullies of a male-dominated profession. Yet the man himself has remained an enigma, as he refused to participate in the culture of celebrity. Lary Bloom's book draws on personal recollections of LeWitt, whom he knew in the last years of the artist's life, as well as LeWitt's letters and papers and over one hundred original interviews with his friends and colleagues, including Chuck Close, Ingrid Sischy, Philip Glass, Adrian Piper, Jan Dibbets, and Carl Andre. This absorbing chronicle brings new information to our understanding of this important artist, linking the extraordinary arc of his life to his iconic work.
  
  Lary Bloom is the author or coauthor of ten books, including the biography, Sol LeWitt: A Life of Ideas, to be published in April by Wesleyan University Press, and The Writer Within, Letters from Nuremberg (with Christopher J. Dodd), The Ignorant Maestro (with Itay Talgam), and The Test of Our Times (with Tom Ridge). He teaches memoir in Yale’s summer program.
  
  Pablo Helguera is an artist, performer, author, and Director of Adult and Academic Programs at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
  
  Karen Gunderson is an artist who has been the subject of numerous one-person shows throughout the United States and in Madrid, Spain and Sophia, Bulgaria. Gunderson has received many honors and awards, most notably a Lorenzo Magnifico Prize in Painting at the 2001 Florence Biennale, Italy.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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• May 6, 2019

  6:00pm-8:00pm

  Bauhaus in Balance - Exercises in Body and Mind Calibration

  Deutsches Haus at NYU, in collaboration with the German Consulate General in New York, Bauhaus Stiftung Dessau, and Bundeskulturstiftung, presents a conversation among Torsten Blume, Jenny Brockmann, Jeanette Redensek, and Ursula Staudinger, which will be moderated by Meghan Forbes. In discussing …

  Deutsches Haus at NYU, in collaboration with the German Consulate General in New York, Bauhaus Stiftung Dessau, and Bundeskulturstiftung, presents a conversation among Torsten Blume, Jenny Brockmann, Jeanette Redensek, and Ursula Staudinger, which will be moderated by Meghan Forbes.
  
  In discussing what the fascinating material experiments and body exercises conducted at the early Bauhaus in Weimar tell us about the utopian desire for equilibrium and balance, this conversation will unravel how these experiments correspond to contemporary studies on body exercises and body movement which alter the perception of the outside world, i.e. studies on how body exercises influence brain processes and how this can benefit physical and psychological health of elderly people.
  
  This event takes place three days before the opening reception of the exhibition "Bauhaus in Balance" (May 10-June 27, 2019), on May 9, 6pm, at the German Consulate General in New York, 871 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017
  
  About the speakers:
  
  Torsten Blume works as a research associate, artist, and choreographer at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. The overall theme of his research work and artistic exploration is the historic Bauhaus stage workshop. Since 2017, he is directing the project “Bauhaus Open Stage – Performative Architectonics.” It is laid out as a series of related projects in cooperation with international universities, to re-address the Bauhaus stage workshop in contemporary performative studies as a specific pedagogy for architectural, design, and art education.
  
  Ursula M. Staudinger is a German psychologist and aging researcher. She is Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Professor of Psychology at the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center at Columbia University. Between 2013 and 2017 she was the founding director of the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center and President of the affiliated International Longevity Center USA. Ursula M. Staudinger is known for her work on the positive plasticity of aging (cognition, personality) as well as her research on resilience and on wisdom. Recently she has conducted groundbreaking studies to better understand the cumulative effects of work on cognitive aging.
  
  Jenny Brockmann is a German artist and researcher. She studied Fine Art at Berlin University of the Arts, where she was a master student of Rebecca Horn. She also received a diploma in Architecture from the Technical University Berlin. Her sculptures and installations, which range from the organic to the philosophical, have been shown in numerous venues all over the world, including e.g. at The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel; Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, USA, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, and Viborg Kunsthal, Denmark.
  
  Jeannette Redensek is director of the Josef Albers catalogue raisonné, a project of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. Her essays on Albers’ materials and techniques have appeared in publications of the Kunstmuseum Bern; Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter Oslo; Fundación Juan March Madrid; and Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts Taiwan. She was a fellow in the Berlin Program at the Freie Universität Berlin and holds a doctorate in architecture and urbanism from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
  
  Meghan Forbes (moderator) is the C-MAP fellow for Central and Eastern Europe at The Museum of Modern Art and a visiting scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU. Meghan has a Phd from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has received numerous grants and fellowships to support her work on the textual and visual iterations of transnational Central European avant-gardes between the two world wars, including a Fulbright award to conduct research in Berlin, Germany in 2014-2015. Meghan Forbes is the sole editor of International Perspectives on Publishing Platforms: Image, Object, Text (Routledge, 2019).
  
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  Events at Deutsches Haus are free of charge. If you would like to attend this event, please send us an email to deutscheshaus.rsvp@nyu.edu. Space at Deutsches Haus is limited, please arrive ten minutes prior to the event. Thank you!
  
  "Bauhaus in Balance - Exercises in Body and Mind Calibration" is a DAAD-sponsored event.

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  Monday, May 6

  7:00pm

  MO WELCH + CECILY STRONG: HOW TO DIE ALONE

  There’s an entire industry built on the idea of helping people to push hard and succeed in love, work, fitness, and finances. But what about those people who would so much rather stay home and eat pizza with the cat while binge-watching Netflix? Who’s telling them that it’s OK to be a couch potato?…

  There’s an entire industry built on the idea of helping people to push hard and succeed in love, work, fitness, and finances. But what about those people who would so much rather stay home and eat pizza with the cat while binge-watching Netflix? Who’s telling them that it’s OK to be a couch potato?
  
  Blair, that’s who. The creation of cartoonist and stand-up comic Mo Welch, Blair is the awkward, self-deprecating, totally relatable anti-heroine who already has 65,000 followers on Instagram and an animated show on TBS Digital. Now Blair is the face, the voice, and the attitude of How to Die Alone, the perfect self-help book for not helping yourself—and a funny, irreverent gift for millennials struggling to “adult.”
  
  Forget winning friends and influencing people—here’s advice on how to win the Worst Friend Award instead, including: Always be late, never offer to drive (anywhere), and treat your friend’s kitchen like an open bar. Plus the ins and outs of terrible dates, permission to eat cookies instead of going to the gym, and how to treat your job like the inconvenience that it is. It’s the genuinely funny, tongue-in-cheek guide to just saying no.
  
  Join us as Mo Welch shares her hilarious guide with SNL star Cecily Strong!
  
  Mo Welch is a stand-up comedian and cartoonist. She appeared on CONAN in January of 2018. Her 10-part animated series BLAIR debuted on TBS Digital in January 2018. She starred in Foul Ball on CBS, Hulu’s Coming To The Stage, and appears in season two of Amazon’s Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street and season two of Life in Pieces on CBS. She has worked as a writer for Nickelodeon, TBS, and CBS. Mo runs a live talk show called The Mo Show at The Virgil on the third Tuesday of the month. Previous guests include Rachel Bloom, Cecily Strong, Tom Wilson, Rich Fulcher, and that guy that walks around Hollywood dressed as Jesus. The Chicago Reader called her “Hysterically Brilliant” and Splitsider calls her “impossibly cool”. Along with her comics, she was featured on BuzzFeed, The A.V. Club, Serial Optimist, and is a regular comics contributor to Hello Giggles and BuzzFeed.

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  Tuesday, May 7

  7:00pm

  Album and Bouquet: Mariana Valencia

  Mariana Valencia’s solo performance ALBUM assembles song, text, and dance into a multifaceted album that draws from choreographic methodology, personal narrative, herstorical and intergenerational kinship, and popular culture. The first title in Wendy’s Subway’s Document Series, ALBUM expands on …

  Mariana Valencia’s solo performance ALBUM assembles song, text, and dance into a multifaceted album that draws from choreographic methodology, personal narrative, herstorical and intergenerational kinship, and popular culture. The first title in Wendy’s Subway’s Document Series, ALBUM expands on Valencia’s performance to include her spoken script in its entirety alongside choreographic descriptions and new annotations, original song lyrics, diagrams, drawings, and visual representation. Navigating childhood memory, mourning, framily, and vampires through factual, humorous, and grave observations, Valencia archives and performs a self herstory as an album in image and song.
  
  BOUQUET (3 Hole Press, 2019)
  
  Bouquet is a borderless form of memoir. Living between choreography, autobiography and poetry, Valencia reckons with individualism in her everyday life as a dancer as she moves across the United States, Mexico, the Balkans and into the geography of her past.
  
  Mariana Valencia is a Brooklyn based dance artist. She has held residencies nationally and internationally and her work has been presented In New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland, OR and the Balkans. Valencia is a Bessie Award recipient for Outstanding Breakthrough Choreographer (2018), a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award to Artists grant recipient (2018), a Jerome Travel and Study Grant fellow (2014-15), a Yellow House Fund of the Tides Foundation grant recipient (2010-13) and a Movement Research GPS/Global Practice Sharing artist (2016/17).
  
  Wendy’s Subway is a non-profit library, writing space, and independent publisher based in Brooklyn. The Document Series highlights the work of performance- and dance-makers in printed form. http://www.wendyssubway.com
  
  3 Hole Press is a small press for performance works in printed formats. We publish titles that expand our understanding of being together. 3holepress.org

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  Tuesday, May 7

  7:00pm

  ANI DIFRANCO AT THE NEW SCHOOL WITH CECILE RICHARDS

  In her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of music, feminism, political activism, storytelling, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, and much more into an inspiring whole. In these …

  In her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of music, feminism, political activism, storytelling, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, and much more into an inspiring whole. In these frank, honest, passionate, and often funny pages is the tale of one woman's eventful and radical journey to the age of thirty. Ani's coming of age story is defined by her ethos of fierce independence—from being an emancipated minor sleeping in a Buffalo bus station, to unwaveringly building a career through appearances at small clubs and festivals, to releasing her first album at the age of 18, to consciously rejecting the mainstream recording industry and creating her own label, Righteous Babe Records.
  
  Join us at The New School's Tishman Auditorium as Ani DiFranco launches her new memoir in conversation with Cecile Richards! There are a few different ticket options, so select the ticket bundle that best suits you! The options are:
  
  -A $20 Admission only ticket, with no book included.
  
  -A $35 Admission ticket which includes a signed copy of No Walls and the Recurring Dream.
  
  Tishman Auditorium is located at 63 5th Ave, New York, NY 10003. This program is organized by the Stand Book Store in collaboration with the Executive Dean's Office at the Schools of Public Engagement and Eugene Lang College at The New School. This event is part of The New School's Centennial celebration which highlights the extraordinary alumni who have passed through their doors, including Ani DiFranco. Learn more at newschool.edu/100, and listen to Ani DiFranco's narration of our Centennial Video• #100YearsNew

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  Warlight (Vintage International)

  by Michael Ondaatje

  Vintage

  $16.95 List Price

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  Tuesday, May 7

  7:30pm

  Michael Ondaatje discusses Warlight

  Copresented with Greenlight Books: From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of "The English Patient": a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are…

  Copresented with Greenlight Books: From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of "The English Patient": a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement.
  
  In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself—shadowed and luminous at once—we read the story of fourteen-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified service during the war, all of whom seem, in some way, determined now to protect, and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? And what does it mean when the siblings' mother returns after months of silence without their father, explaining nothing, excusing nothing? A dozen years later, Nathaniel begins to uncover all that he didn't know and understand in that time, and it is this journey—through facts, recollection, and imagination—that he narrates in this masterwork from one of the great writers of our time.
  
  The event is free, though registration is required. Please note that only registered attendees are guaranteed a seat. If you purchase books through the Eventbrite page or at the event, the author will sign them following the talk. Depending on actual attendance at the event, we will accommodate as many walk-ins as possible.

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  Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library, Dweck Center

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  Tuesday, May 7

  7:30pm

  SASHA ALSBERG + LINDSAY CUMMINGS: NEXUS

  With her crew captured and her ship a smoldering ruin, notorious mercenary Androma Racella is no longer the powerful Bloody Baroness, but a fugitive on the run. And with most of the galaxy now trapped under the mind control of the bloodthirsty Queen Nor, not even the farthest reaches of Mirabel can…

  With her crew captured and her ship a smoldering ruin, notorious mercenary Androma Racella is no longer the powerful Bloody Baroness, but a fugitive on the run. And with most of the galaxy now trapped under the mind control of the bloodthirsty Queen Nor, not even the farthest reaches of Mirabel can offer safety for the queen’s most-hated adversary.
  
  But Andi will risk anything, even her precious freedom, to save her crew. So when she finds herself stranded with bounty hunter Dextro Arez on the unforgiving ice planet of Solera, Andi seeks out the mysterious Arachnid, the one person who seems to be fighting back against the vicious queen…and uncovers the true, devastating reason for Nor’s takeover.
  
  Back on Andi’s home planet of Arcardius, Nor’s actions have made Mirabel vulnerable to invasion from an outside force. Now allying with her mortal enemy may be the only way for the Bloody Baroness to save the galaxy—even if that alliance demands the most wrenching sacrifice of all.

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  Strand Book Store

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