Jan/Feb 2013

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January 7th
Christopher Lawford With Patrick Kennedy — Recover to Live
Novelists Susanna Moore & Edmund White in Conversation
Ben Marcus Author of The Flame Alphabet
Maria Konnikova author of Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
Juliann Garey reads from her debut Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See
Literary BFFs: Stephanie LaCava and Christopher Bollen
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January 8th
Stuart Nadler in conversation with Jason Diamond, introduced by Emma Straub
Friends Discussing Fiction
Love is a Canoe: Ben Schrank in conversation with Sarah Crichton
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January 9th
First Person Plural Reading Series
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January 10th
George Saunders presents Tenth of December
http://www.housingworks.org/events/detail/next-ones-on-me-a-reading-celebrating-the-paperback-launch-of-drinking-with/
The Archie Comic Team Talk About The History and Popularity of the Classic Series
Ben Schrank Author of Love Is a Canoe: A Novel
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January 11th
An Evening With Two Great Short Story Writers: Deborah Eisenberg and George Saunders
Marosa di Giorgio's Diadem: Selected Poems, a translation by Adam Giannelli. Bilingual English-Spanish
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January 13th
Issue #54 Winter Reading with Tin House Authors
Diana Kuan Author of The Chinese Takeout Cookbook: Quick and Easy Dishes to Prepare at Home
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January 14th
Monday Night Reading Group
The Bird That Swallowed Its Cage: Walter Murch and Lawrence Weschler
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January 15th
Chris Cahill Author of The Drug of Choice
Anna Goldfarb presents Clearly I Didn't Think This Through
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January 16th
... Models, modes, possibilities, and then there is education
Lonely Planet's Better Than Fiction: True Tales From Great Fiction Writers
86th and Lex Reading Group
Wandering and Pondering: Andre Aciman and Teju Cole
Adnan Yildiz: Audience, Time, and Space
The Transparent Element: Structural Glass Design and Application
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January 17th
Susan Bernofsky on Robert Walser’s Microscripts
Ayana Mathis in Conversation With Chris Adrian: The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
Poet, Playwright, Memoirist Nick Flynn Discusses His New Book, The Reenactments
Camera Club Talk: Susan Lipper
Andrew Solomon Author of Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon
Art and Crisis: A Panel Discussion
Beyond Zuccotti Park: Privatization of Public Assets and Public Space
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January 18th
Launch Party for Conjunctions: 59, Colloquy
Judith Bernstein and Paul McCarthy in Conversation
The Making of Americans: Marathon Reading
Sacrifice Fly with Tim O'Mara
The Center For Book Arts Winter Contemporary Exhibitions
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January 19th
A Proposition by Mac Wellman
The New Jim Crow Forum
The Edgeless School: Designing for Learning in the Digital Age
The Center For Book Arts Winter Contemporary Exhibitions
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January 20th
Reif Larsen, Cole Swensen, Paul Legault, and Ariana Reines
A Proposition by Mac Wellman
The Center For Book Arts Winter Contemporary Exhibitions
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January 21st
The Center For Book Arts Winter Contemporary Exhibitions
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January 22nd
Art Talk with Richard Kostelanatz
Springsteen Night with Marc Dolan and Caryn Rose
Deconstructivist Architecture: Retrospecitve Views and Actuality
The Insurgents: With Fred Kaplan and David Plotz
The Center For Book Arts Winter Contemporary Exhibitions
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January 23rd
Selected Shorts: Junot Diaz & Karen Russell
On Biography and David Foster Wallace: D.T. Max and Rachel Syme
THE TROUBLE IS THE BANKS Reading and Discussion
New Directions for Clarice Lispector
Does It Need to Be Called Art?
Adam McEwen and Donna De Salvo on Sinister Pop
Kate Zambreno and Lisa Cohen: On Writing, Women and Modernism
Eat, Drink & Be Literary with Martin Amis
Entrepreneurial Journalism: Noah Rosenberg
Borders and Identities: Toward a Global Dialogue
She Matters: Memoirist Susanna Sonnenberg Fearlessly Examines Her Female Friendships
The Center For Book Arts Winter Contemporary Exhibitions
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January 24th
Critical Fiction, Experimental Biography and Autobiography: Barbara Browning, Matias Viegener, and Kate Zambreno
The Ruin of Exchange: John Miller with Alexander Alberro, Bob Nickas and Nic Guagnini
Anthology by Clifford Owens
Steve Gudeman on Measure for Measure: What's Fair?
Political Advertisement 1952-2012: Antoni Muntadas and Marshall Reese
Literary Partners Program: Book Launch for Far from the Centers of Ambition
The Center For Book Arts Winter Contemporary Exhibitions
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January 25th
Friday Night Book Group
The Center For Book Arts Winter Contemporary Exhibitions
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January 26th
Reading: Annemarie Monahan “Three”
Curator’s Perspective: Koyo Kouoh
The Center For Book Arts Winter Contemporary Exhibitions
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January 27th
An Evening with St. Petersburg Review
Haim Steinbach: Show and Tell 46 Artists and 46 Objects
Robert Milder on Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Center For Book Arts Winter Contemporary Exhibitions
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January 28th
From Poetry to Ad Revenue: Warhol and the Magazine Business
Reading: Damon Ferrell Marbut “Awake in the Mad World”
On Joy Division: Peter Hook with Brandon Stosuy
Ian Svenonius, presented by Vol. 1 Brooklyn and Akashic Books
The Center For Book Arts Winter Contemporary Exhibitions
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January 29th
PEN at the Fiction Addiction Reading Series
On Searching for Zion: Emily Raboteau and Jessica Moore
Launch Party for Granta 122: BETRAYAL
"Whose ON THE ROAD is it anyway?" A panel with Joyce Johnson
John Irving
Peter Hook of Joy Division and Sasha Frere-Jones
Peter Hook of Joy Division Talks About His New Book with Sasha Frere-Jones
Benjamin Lorr & William J. Broad
Benjamin Lorr & William J. Broad
Benjamin Lorr & William J. Broad
Drinking with Men: Rosie Schaap
Amy Wilentz reads from Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti
The Center For Book Arts Winter Contemporary Exhibitions
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January 30th
Drink & Draw
Writing a Novel With Blockbuster Potential
This Chair Rocks: How Ageism Warps Our View of Long Lives - Ashton Applewhite
Granta: Storytelling: A Conversation on Truth and Betrayal
Granta Storytelling: A Conversation on Truth and Betrayal
Young Feminist Activism Today
Mad Women: The Other Side of Life on Madison Avenue in the '60s and Beyond
Gary Simmons & Thelma Golden for GARY SIMMONS: PARADISE (Damiani, 2012)
Susan Cain Discusses Her Much Talked About Book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking
The Center For Book Arts Winter Contemporary Exhibitions
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January 31st
The Marcel Network: How One French Couple Saved 527 Children from the Holocaust
Tectonic Acts of Desire and Doubt
Amy McNamara Author of Lovely, Dark and Deep
Lecture: Joyce Johnson on THE VOICE IS ALL: THE LONELY VICTORY OF JACK KEROUAC
Surfacing Solutions: Using Oral History to Find New Solutions to Intimate Violence
Renee Marton, Rice: The Immigrant Grain
The Center For Book Arts Winter Contemporary Exhibitions
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February 1st
Digital Representation and Fabrication
Lauren Goodlad: The Way We Historicize Now
The Center For Book Arts Winter Contemporary Exhibitions
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February 2nd
The Center For Book Arts Winter Contemporary Exhibitions
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February 3rd
Carla Kaplan's Miss Anne in Harlem
Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840-1920
The Center For Book Arts Winter Contemporary Exhibitions
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February 4th
BEING JEWISH, BECOMING JEWISH: a conversation with Carlo Ginzburg
Market Menagerie: Health and Development in Late Industrial States
Emancipation: James Oakes & Sean Wilentz in Conversation
David Diao on Barnett Newman
Should Critics be Harsh? With Ruth Franklin, Daniel Mendelsohn, Troy Patterson
The Center For Book Arts Winter Contemporary Exhibitions
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February 5th
Celebrating 50 Years of The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books: 50 Years
NASSIM TALEB & DANIEL KAHNEMAN
Teddy Wayne Discusses His New Novel with Writer Kate Bolick
The Center For Book Arts Winter Contemporary Exhibitions
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February 6th
The Atlas Review: Issue 1 Launch Party with Poetry, Fiction, and Music
I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen
Eat, Drink & Be Literary with Colson Whitehead
The Center For Book Arts Winter Contemporary Exhibitions
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February 7th
Pussy Riot!: A Punk Prayer for Freedom
The Center For Book Arts Winter Contemporary Exhibitions
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February 8th
Stuart Nadler in conversation with Jason Diamond, introduced by Emma Straub
Nassim Taleb Discussing/Signing His New Title: Antifragile Things That Gain From Disorder
The Center For Book Arts Winter Contemporary Exhibitions
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February 9th
The International Crime Book Group: Murder in the Marais
The Center For Book Arts Winter Contemporary Exhibitions

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Wednesday, January 9
7:00am
First Person Plural Reading Series
Featuring novelists Stacey D'Erasmo and Michael Thomas, poet and artist Monica Ong, with opening and closing sets by DJ Lady DM starting at 6:45 pm.
The Shrine Bar
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2271 Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard, New York, NY 10030
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Drinking with Men:
A Memoir
by Rosie Schaap
Riverhead Hardcover
$26.95 List Price
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Thursday, January 10
7:00pm
http://www.housingworks.org/events/detail/next-ones-on-me-a-reading-celebrating-the-paperback-launch-of-drinking-with/
Celebrate the paperback release of Rosie Schaap's memoir Drinking with Men with bar-themed stories and poems from: WYN COOPER (Postcards from the Interior, Chaos Is the New Calm) JEFF GORDINIER (X Saves the World, Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage) BLAISE ALLYSEN KEARSLEY (The "How I Learned" …
Celebrate the paperback release of Rosie Schaap's memoir Drinking with Men with bar-themed stories and poems from:

WYN COOPER (Postcards from the Interior, Chaos Is the New Calm)

JEFF GORDINIER (X Saves the World, Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage)

BLAISE ALLYSEN KEARSLEY (The "How I Learned" series)

KATHERINE LANPHER (Leap Year)

JILL MCDONOUGH: (Where You Live, Habeas Corpus)

DAVID WONDRICH (Punch, Imbibe!)

Rosie Schaap has always loved bars. Starting with her misspent youth in the bar car of a regional railroad, where at age fifteen she told commuters' fortunes in exchange for beer, and continuing today as she slings cocktails at a neighborhood joint in Brooklyn, Schaap has learned her way around both sides of a bar and come to realize how powerful the fellowship among bar patrons can be.

Drinking alongside artists and expats, ironworkers and soccer fanatics, Schaap finds that bars offer of a safe haven, a respite, a place to feel most like herself. In rich, colorful prose, she brings to life these sometimes seedy, but warm and wonderful rooms. Drinking With Men is a love letter to the bars, pubs and taverns that have been Schaap's refuge, and a celebration of the uniquely civilizing source of community that is bar culture at its best.
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Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
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126 Crosby Street, New York, NY 10012
212-334-3324
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Thursday, January 10
7:00pm
The Archie Comic Team Talk About The History and Popularity of the Classic Series
If you were a fan of Archie Comics as a kid, are a fan now, or are just a general comic book lover, you’ll enjoy this evening in the Rare Book Room. Victor Gorelick, the Editor-in-Chief of Archie Comics, along with Dan Parent and Fernando Ruiz, writers/cartoonists of the strip, and Craig Yoe, a comic…
If you were a fan of Archie Comics as a kid, are a fan now, or are just a general comic book lover, you’ll enjoy this evening in the Rare Book Room. Victor Gorelick, the Editor-in-Chief of Archie Comics, along with Dan Parent and Fernando Ruiz, writers/cartoonists of the strip, and Craig Yoe, a comic book historian and archivist, will talk in depth about the popularity, longevity and influence that the Archie Comic strip has had on popular culture.
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Strand Book Store
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828 Broadway, New York, NY 10003-4805
212-473-1452
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Love Is a Canoe:
A Novel
by Ben Schrank
Sarah Crichton Books
$26.00 List Price
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Thursday, January 10
7:00pm
Ben Schrank Author of Love Is a Canoe: A Novel
About Love Is a Canoe: Peter Herman is something of a folk hero. Marriage Is a Canoe, his legendary, decades-old book on love and relationships, has won the hearts of hopeful romantics and desperate cynics alike. He and his beloved wife lived a relatively peaceful life in upstate New York. But now…
About Love Is a Canoe:

Peter Herman is something of a folk hero. Marriage Is a Canoe, his legendary, decades-old book on love and relationships, has won the hearts of hopeful romantics and desperate cynics alike. He and his beloved wife lived a relatively peaceful life in upstate New York. But now it’s 2010, and Peter’s wife has just died. Completely lost, he passes the time with a woman he admires but doesn’t love—and he begins to look back through the pages of his book and question homilies such as:

A good marriage is a canoe—it needs care and isn’t meant to hold too much—no more than two adults and a few kids.

It’s advice he has famously doled out for decades. But what is it worth?

Then Peter receives a call from Stella Petrovic, an ambitious young editor who wants to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Marriage Is a Canoe with a contest for struggling couples. The prize? An afternoon with Peter and a chance to save their relationship.

The contest ensnares its creator in the largely opaque politics of her publishing house while it introduces the reader to couples in various states of distress, including a shy thirtysomething Brooklynite and her charismatic and entrepreneurial husband, who may just be a bit too charismatic for the good of their marriage. There’s the middle-aged publisher whose imposing manner has managed to impose loneliness on her for longer than she cares to admit. And then there is Peter, who must discover what he meant when he wrote Marriage Is a Canoe if he is going to help the contest’s winners and find a way to love again.

In Love Is a Canoe, Ben Schrank delivers a smart, funny, romantic, and hugely satisfying novel about the fragility of marriage and the difficulty of repairing the damage when well-intentioned people forget how to be good to each other.

Author Bio:

Ben Schrank is president and publisher of Razorbill, a Penguin imprint that is home to many award-winning and New York Times–bestselling books for children and young adults. Ben is also the author of the novels Consent and Miracle Man. He wrote “Ben’s Life,” a monthly column for Seventeen magazine, in the 1990s. He grew up in Brooklyn, where he lives with his wife and son.
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BookCourt
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163 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
718-875-3677
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Tenth of December:
Stories
by George Saunders
Random House
$26.00 List Price
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Thursday, January 10
7:30pm
George Saunders presents Tenth of December
The first story collection in six years from MacArthur “Genius” Grant winner George Saunders is cause for celebration, and Greenlight is proud to host the book launch event for Tenth of December – which is also the first selection of the Greenlight First Editions Club. The stories in this new collection…
The first story collection in six years from MacArthur “Genius” Grant winner George Saunders is cause for celebration, and Greenlight is proud to host the book launch event for Tenth of December – which is also the first selection of the Greenlight First Editions Club. The stories in this new collection are infused with Saunders’s signature blend of exuberant prose, deep humanity, and stylistic innovation. Taking on the big themes (class, sex, love, loss, work, despair, war), Saunders’ stories here are concerned with what makes us good, and what makes us human. Saunders reads and discusses his work tonight and signs copies of Tenth of December.

Please note: Customers who purchase Saunders' new novel Tenth of December from Greenlight will be given a pass with a group number indicating his/her place in the post-event signing line. Passes will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Customers without passes (did not buy their copy from Greenlight) and those with large quantities of books will be asked to wait at the end of the signing line.
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Greenlight Bookstore
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686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
718-246-0200
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New York

An Extraordinary Theory of Objects:

A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris

by Stephanie LaCava

Harper

$23.99 List Price

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Lightning People

by Christopher Bollen

Soft Skull Press

$15.95 List Price

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Monday, January 7

7:00am

Monday, January 7

6:00pm

Recover to Live:

Kick Any Habit, Manage Any Addiction: Your Self-Treatment Guide to Alcohol, Drugs, Eating Disorders, Gambling, Hoarding, Smoking, Sex, and Porn

by Christopher Kennedy Lawford

BenBella Books

$26.95 List Price

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Monday, January 7

7:00pm

The Flame Alphabet (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Ben Marcus

Vintage

$15.00 List Price

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Monday, January 7

7:00pm

Mastermind:

How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

by Maria Konnikova

Viking Adult

$26.95 List Price

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Monday, January 7

7:00pm

The Life of Objects

by Susanna Moore

Knopf

$25.00 List Price

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Jan 7, 2013

7:00pm-8:00pm

Love Is a Canoe:

A Novel

by Ben Schrank

Sarah Crichton Books

$26.00 List Price

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Tuesday, January 8

7:00am

Defending Jacob:

A Novel

by William Landay

Dell

$7.99 List Price

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Tuesday, January 8

6:30pm

Wise Men:

A Novel

by Stuart Nadler

Reagan Arthur Books

$25.99 List Price

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