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  April 3 - May 15, 2014

  Touching Strangers, photographs by Richard Renaldi

  Richard Renaldi has been working on the Touching Strangers series since 2007, by approaching and asking complete strangers to physically interact while posing together for a portrait. This exhibition coincides with the launch of Renaldi’s book Touching Strangers and includes thirty-five photographs…

  Richard Renaldi has been working on the Touching Strangers series since 2007, by approaching and asking complete strangers to physically interact while posing together for a portrait. This exhibition coincides with the launch of Renaldi’s book Touching Strangers and includes thirty-five photographs from the series, curated by Ann Pallesen, director of Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle (where the exhibition will tour following its presentation at Aperture Gallery).

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  Aperture Gallery & Bookstore

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  547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, Between 10th and 11th Avenues, New York, NY 10001
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  Sunset Park:

  A Novel

  by Paul Auster

  Henry Holt and Co.

  $25.00 List Price

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  Wednesday, April 16

  2:00pm

  Contemporary Brooklyn Fiction: Sunset Park

  This event will take place in the Information Commons Lab. Author Tom LeClair leads a discussion of recent novels about contemporary Brooklyn. All the books are at least partly about immigrants who are changing the face and mind of Brooklyn. Today’s discussion is about Park Slope’s own Paul Auster…

  This event will take place in the Information Commons Lab.
  
  Author Tom LeClair leads a discussion of recent novels about contemporary Brooklyn. All the books are at least partly about immigrants who are changing the face and mind of Brooklyn. Today’s discussion is about Park Slope’s own Paul Auster and "Sunset Park", a novel about Americans who have come to a neighborhood not familiar to all Brooklynites. Although the books are chosen with sociology in mind, we will also be discussing psychology, anthropology, religion, economics, and any other discipline that will help us understand the insight and art of the novels.
  
  Tom LeClair is a writer, literary critic, and was the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati until 2009. He has been a regular book reviewer for the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post Book World, the Nation, the Barnes and Noble Review, the Daily Beast, and many other national publications. His works of criticism include "In the Loop: Don DeLillo and the Systems Novel" and "The Art of Excess: Mastery in Contemporary American Fiction". He is co-editor with Larry McCaffery of "Anything Can Happen", a collection of interviews the two co-editors did with contemporary American novelists. He is author of the novels, "Well-Founded Fear", "Passing On", "Passing Off", "Passing Through", and "The Liquidators".

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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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• Wednesday, April 16

  6:00pm

  Object Sculpture, 1960-1965 | Robert Morris, Julia Robinson, Jeffrey Weiss | An Artist Dialogue Series Event

  In conversation with Jeffrey Weiss and Julia Robinson, artist Robert Morris discusses various aspects of his practice, with an emphasis on the circumstances of art-making in New York during the 1960s and the themes – time, memory, language, medium, and process – addressed by his work at that time. …

  In conversation with Jeffrey Weiss and Julia Robinson, artist Robert Morris discusses various aspects of his practice, with an emphasis on the circumstances of art-making in New York during the 1960s and the themes – time, memory, language, medium, and process – addressed by his work at that time. This exchange coincides with the publication of Robert Morris: Object Sculptures, 1960-1965 (Castelli Gallery and Yale University Press), a systematic catalogue by Jeffrey Weiss (with Clare Davies), prepared in close collaboration with the artist and his gallery.

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  The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

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  Wednesday, April 16

  7:00pm

  The Alpha Woman Meets Her Match: How Today's Strong Women Can Find Love and Happiness Without Settling

  In The Alpha Woman Meets Her Match: How Today's Strong Women Can Find Love and Happiness Without Settling, therapist Dr. Sonya Rhodes guides readers to finding the right match without compromising.

  Barnes & Noble

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  1972 Broadway, New York, NY 10023-5903
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  The Empathy Exams:

  Essays

  by Leslie Jamison

  Graywolf Press

  $15.00 List Price

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  Wednesday, April 16

  7:00pm

  Leslie Jamison in Conversation with Michelle Orange

  Leslie Jamison's vast emotional intelligence and unusually close powers of perception are everywhere apparent in her new essay collection The Empathy Exams, an inquiry into her frequent, often self-denying, always complicated complicity with the suffering of others. The rigour, sincerity, and heart…

  Leslie Jamison's vast emotional intelligence and unusually close powers of perception are everywhere apparent in her new essay collection The Empathy Exams, an inquiry into her frequent, often self-denying, always complicated complicity with the suffering of others. The rigour, sincerity, and heart of these essays—which examine our desire to feel as deeply as they do our fear of feeling—gives them a thrilling and inclusive authority. With Michelle Orange, critic and author of This Is Running for your Life.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  52 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012
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• Apr 16, 2014

  6:00pm-7:30pm

  Capital in the Twenty-First Century

  The French economist Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics) will present a lecture on his new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. In this landmark book, Piketty argues that the main driver of inequality—the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth—threatens to…

  The French economist Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics) will present a lecture on his new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. In this landmark book, Piketty argues that the main driver of inequality—the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth—threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values. He calls for political action and policy intervention. Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University), Paul Krugman (Princeton University), and Steven Durlauf (University of Wisconsin–Madison) will comment. The event will be introduced and moderated by Janet Gornick and Branko Milanovic (Graduate Center, Luxembourg Income Study Center).

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  The Graduate Center CUNY

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  365 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10016
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  Tuesday, November 20

  7:00pm

  Forugh Farrokhzad's Captive: Ilka Scobie and Shahrzad Kamel (PRINCE STREET)

  Forugh Farrokhzad's "Captive" is a contemporary English translation of the iconic Persian poet's first collection, published in 1955 in Tehran. Rhombus Press publisher Shahrzad Kamel and editor IlkaScobie will provide a brief biography and an introduction and insights into this pioneering feminist …

  Forugh Farrokhzad's "Captive" is a contemporary English translation of the iconic Persian poet's first collection, published in 1955 in Tehran. Rhombus Press publisher Shahrzad Kamel and editor IlkaScobie will provide a brief biography and an introduction and insights into this pioneering feminist figure, who helped spearhead the Iranian avant garde.
  
  Selections of Farrokhzad's poetry will be read, revealing that her work, written sixty years ago, remains relevant and inspirational even today.
  
  Native New Yorker Ilka Scobie is a poet and art critic. Recent work appears in London Artlyst, Marie Claire Italia, and American Book Review. She has read poetry at the Bronx Museum, La Mama, Howl Gallery, Bowery Poetry and CCNY Poetry Festival. Her poetry appears in Urban Graffiti, Home Planet News, Resist Much/Obey Little and she is a deputy editor of Live Mag. It was a great privilege for her to work with Rhombus Press on "Captive".
  
  Shahrzad Kamel is a visual artist living in New York City. She also has an independent publishing project titled Rhombus Press. She has recently published an English translation of iconic Iranian poet ForughFarrokhzad’s first book, “Captive”. Her visual art has been exhibited at The Southeast Museum of Photography in Florida, the Art Institute of Atlanta, Watkins College of Art, Ab-Anbar Gallery in Tehran and Josée Bienvenu gallery in New York City. She completed her Masters in Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Tuesday, November 20

  7:00pm

  RALPH GIBSON: SELF-EXPOSURE

  Self-Exposure is the autobiography of celebrated American art photographer Ralph Gibson. With his 80th birthday on the horizon in January 2019 and a career spanning over 50 years, Gibson is at a point of reflection in his life and work and decided to put pen to paper. Writing in candid prose, Gibson…

  Self-Exposure is the autobiography of celebrated American art photographer Ralph Gibson. With his 80th birthday on the horizon in January 2019 and a career spanning over 50 years, Gibson is at a point of reflection in his life and work and decided to put pen to paper.
  
  Writing in candid prose, Gibson takes the reader through his life and career from his earliest memories of growing up in California (the son of a Hollywood director, Gibson's childhood is touched by the old glamour of the silver screen: the likes of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth make appearances) to his time in the navy and his continuous love affair with photography.
  
  Gibson's memories are filled with rich characters and period details. Often moving, the narratives of his at times troublesome childhood provide a rich background to the charismatic artist Gibson has become. Gibson covers a range of topics such as music, Catholicism, his wife, Mary Jane, and a long line of fellow artists and photographers such as Dorothea Lange and Robert Frank. His ruminations on his life so far display a deep, thoughtful understanding and self-awareness that make this book a fascinating read in itself as well as an illuminating companion to his work.
  
  What emerges is an insight into the mind of an incredible, highly decorated artist. Evocatively illustrated, Self-Exposure presents Gibson's life story alongside his photographic work. Designed and produced in close collaboration with Gibson, this large-format publication—as much a biography as it is an artist's book—is Gibson's most personal book to date.
  
  Join us as Ralph shares his latest work with fellow artist Laurie Anderson.

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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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  Tuesday, November 20

  7:30pm

  THALIA BOOK CLUB: LISA HALLIDAY, ASYMMETRY

  The 2017 Whiting Award winner joins us for the paperback publication of her unforgettable debut novel about love, luck, and the inextricability of life and art. The national bestseller weaves together two seemingly disparate stories of a young American editor in New York and an Iraqi-American man …

  The 2017 Whiting Award winner joins us for the paperback publication of her unforgettable debut novel about love, luck, and the inextricability of life and art. The national bestseller weaves together two seemingly disparate stories of a young American editor in New York and an Iraqi-American man who, on his way to visit his brother in Kurdistan, is detained by immigration officers.
  
  “A scorchingly intelligent first novel...Asymmetry will make you a better reader, a more active noticer. It hones your senses.” —Parul Seghal, The New York Times
  
  At the Thalia Book Club, readers and writers meet for intimate conversations about compelling new books and favorite classics in fiction, essay, biography and more. Evenings include an actor performing an excerpt, an interview, a conversation with the audience, and a book signing on stage following the event.
  
  Actors subject to change.

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  Symphony Space

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  2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, NY 10025
  

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  Wednesday, November 21

  7:00pm

  Heaven on Earth: T.J. Clark and Wendy Lesser (PRINCE STREET)

  The idea of heaven on earth haunts the human imagination. The day will come, say believers and non-believers alike, when the pain and confusion of mortal life will give way to a transfigured community. Or perhaps, even in advance of paradise, a beachhead will be established on earth by a chosen …

  The idea of heaven on earth haunts the human imagination. The day will come, say believers and non-believers alike, when the pain and confusion of mortal life will give way to a transfigured community. Or perhaps, even in advance of paradise, a beachhead will be established on earth by a chosen few. Such a vision of the world seems indelible. It has survived the worst that reality can do to it. Even politics, some reckon, has not escaped from the realm of the sacred: its dreams of the future still borrow their imagery from the prophets.
  
  The art historian T. J. Clark sets out to investigate, in Heaven on Earth, the very different ways painting has given form to the dream of God’s kingdom come. He goes back to the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, when such issues were life and death – to Giotto in Padua, Bruegel face to face with the horrors of religious war in the Netherlands, Poussin painting the Sacraments, Veronese exulting in the contradictions of Love. Was it to painting’s advantage, is Clark’s question, that in an age of enforced orthodoxy (threats of hellfire, real-life burnings at the stake) artists could reflect on the powers and limitations of religion without putting their thoughts into words?
  
  T. J. Clark is Professor Emeritus of Modern Art at University of California, Berkeley. He was born in Bristol, England in 1943, took a B.A. in Modern History at Cambridge, and a Ph.D. in Art History at the Courtauld Institute, University of London. He has taught at various places in Britain and the USA, and from 1988 to the present at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is now George C. and Helen N. Pardee Chair Emeritus. Clark is the author of a series of books on the social character and formal dynamics of modern art: The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France 1848-1851 (1973); Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution (1973); The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers (1984); and Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism (1999); as well as Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War (written with ‘Retort’, 2005); The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing (2006); and Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica (2013). In 2013 he co-authored (with Anne M. Wagner) Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life, a book accompanying an exhibition at Tate Britain. For the past several years he has written art criticism regularly for the London Review of Books. In 2017 Clark co-curated (with Anne Wagner) an exhibition at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Guernica: Pity and Terror: Picasso on the Path to Guernica.
  
  Wendy Lesser, the editor of The Threepenny Review, is the author of six books of nonfiction as well as a recent novel, The Pagoda in the Garden.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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• Saturday, November 24

  4:30pm

  Lonely Christopher, John Istona, Penny Arcade - Segue Reading Series

  The Segue Foundation hosts the experimental reading series Segue@Zinc, a continuation of the legendary series that has run continuously for 25 years. Please join us in celebrating the launch of Lonely Christopher's poetry collection, THE RESIGNATION! LONELY CHRISTOPHER is the author of the poetry…

  The Segue Foundation hosts the experimental reading series Segue@Zinc, a continuation of the legendary series that has run continuously for 25 years.
  
  Please join us in celebrating the launch of Lonely Christopher's poetry collection, THE RESIGNATION!
  
  LONELY CHRISTOPHER is the author of the poetry collections Death & Disaster Series and The Resignation, the short story collection The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse, and the novel THERE. His plays have been presented in Canada, China, and the United States. His film credits include several international shorts and the feature MOM, which he wrote and directed.
  
  JOHN ISTONA is a writer and performance artist currently based in Connecticut. A Bard graduate and former intern of Diamanda Galás, his work often incorporates extended vocal technique and focuses on themes of queer erotic transcendence.
  
  PENNY ARCADE aka Susana Ventura is an internationally respected performance artist, writer, poet, and theater maker. Her text based work investigates the outsider in society and the boundaries between theatre and performance. She has contributed to new art forms every decade for 50 years and occupies a unique position in the American avant-garde.
  
  Doors 4.30pm, Readings 5pm
  
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  The venue is located down one flight of stairs. Entrance is $5 (cash only), which goes to the readers.
  
  A B C D E F M to W4th St / Washington Sqr. Station
  
  http://www.seguefoundation.com/calendar.htm

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  Zinc Bar

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  82 W 3rd St, New York, NY 10012
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  Monday, November 26

  6:30pm

  Wild Milk: Sabrina Orah Mark with Amber Dermont

  Wild Milk is a spellbinding and dreamlike collection of short stories; an off-kilter series of otherworldly fairy tales about modernity, anxiety, and motherhood. Sabrina Orah Mark will discuss her first short story collection with Amber Dermont, author of the story collection Damage Control and the…

  Wild Milk is a spellbinding and dreamlike collection of short stories; an off-kilter series of otherworldly fairy tales about modernity, anxiety, and motherhood.
  
  Sabrina Orah Mark will discuss her first short story collection with Amber Dermont, author of the story collection Damage Control and the novel The Starboard Sea.

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  New York Public Library - Mid-Manhattan Library

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  476 Fifth Avenue, (enter at 42nd Street), New York, NY 10018
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  Monday, November 26

  7:00pm

  Why We Dream: Alice Robb (WILLIAMSBURG)

  While on a research trip in Peru, science journalist Alice Robb became hooked on lucid dreaming—the uncanny phenomenon in which a sleeping person can realize that they’re dreaming and even control the dreamed experience. Finding these forays both puzzling and exhilarating, Robb dug deeper into the …

  While on a research trip in Peru, science journalist Alice Robb became hooked on lucid dreaming—the uncanny phenomenon in which a sleeping person can realize that they’re dreaming and even control the dreamed experience. Finding these forays both puzzling and exhilarating, Robb dug deeper into the science of dreams at an extremely opportune moment: just as researchers began to understand why dreams exist. They aren’t just random events; they have clear purposes. They help us learn and even overcome psychic trauma.
  
  Robb draws on fresh and forgotten research, as well as her experience and that of other dream experts, to show why dreams are vital to our emotional and physical health. She explains how we can remember our dreams better—and why we should. She traces the intricate links between dreaming and creativity, and even offers advice on how we can relish the intense adventure of lucid dreaming for ourselves.
  
  Why We Dream is a clear-eyed, cutting-edge examination of the meaning and purpose of our nightly visions and a guide to changing our dream lives—and making our waking lives richer, healthier, and happier.
  
  Join Alice Robb for a conversation and a dream analysis group, featuring Melissa Dahl, Alex Stone, Hannah Gold, Jessica Gross, Gillian Brassil, and Deirdre Coyle.
  
  Alice Robb is a columnist for New York’s “Science of Us.” Formerly a staff writer at the New Republic, she has also written for the New Statesman, Foreign Policy, Elle, Vice, and others. She lives in Brooklyn.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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• Monday, November 26

  7:00pm

  John McPhee with Paul Holdengräber: Draft of a Lifetime

  In his seventh collection of essays, The Patch, master non-fiction writer John McPhee shares a montage of reflections, reminiscences, and pieces of various lengths that range from a visit to the Hershey chocolate factory to encounters with Oscar Hammerstein, Joan Baez, and Mount Denali. Calling on …

  In his seventh collection of essays, The Patch, master non-fiction writer John McPhee shares a montage of reflections, reminiscences, and pieces of various lengths that range from a visit to the Hershey chocolate factory to encounters with Oscar Hammerstein, Joan Baez, and Mount Denali. Calling on his signature devotion to structure, McPhee has winnowed this body of work to present a random assembly he calls an “album quilt,” a memoir as only he could write it. He will speak with Paul Holdengräber about the arc of his life and career.

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  The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

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  Frederick Douglass:

  Prophet of Freedom

  by David W. Blight

  Simon & Schuster

  $37.50 List Price

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  The War Before the War:

  Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War

  by Andrew Delbanco

  Penguin Press

  $30.00 List Price

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  Nov 26, 2018

  6:30pm-8:00pm

  Bank of America presents History Makers Frederick Douglass and Fugitive Slaves: David Blight in Conversation with Andrew Delbanco

  Yale historian and author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom David Blight sits down with Columbia University’s Andrew Delbanco, author of The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War. Join these celebrated thinkers for a …

  Yale historian and author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom David Blight sits down with Columbia University’s Andrew Delbanco, author of The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War. Join these celebrated thinkers for a conversation about abolition and a pivotal era in American history.
  
  For questions about this event or other inquiries, contact our Visitor Services desk at 718-222-4111, ext. 250.

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  Brooklyn Historical Society

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  128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
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• Nov 27, 2018

  6:00pm-8:00pm

  The State(s) We're In: A New Age of Transatlantic Relations - Migration and Art

  Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation on "Migration and Art" among Silvia Fehrmann, Director of the DAAD's Artists-in-Berlin Programme; the artist Andy Graydon; the photographer Stefan Falke; Nathalie Anglès, the director of Residency Unlimited; and the journalist and writer Claudia Steinberg.…

  Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation on "Migration and Art" among Silvia Fehrmann, Director of the DAAD's Artists-in-Berlin Programme; the artist Andy Graydon; the photographer Stefan Falke; Nathalie Anglès, the director of Residency Unlimited; and the journalist and writer Claudia Steinberg.
  
  About the panel:
  
  In the past two years, the issue of migration, borders, and walls has become ever more prevalent in the public discourse of both Europe and the United States. In the panel discussion "Migration and Art," acclaimed purveyors of culture who have voluntarily relocated will examine whether art transcends cultural and national boundaries, and reflect on how bringing their own talents and ideas into a different cultural context and initially foreign space has shaped their own artistic practice and general outlook.
  
  This discussion is part of "The State(s) We're In: A New Age of Transatlantic Relations," a series of six talks presented by Deutsches Haus at NYU that addresses an array of important topics that are currently intensely debated in both Germany and the United States, and are of political and sociopolitical relevance in both countries: threats to democracy; economic inequality and populism; migration and art; civil society and political engagement; climate change and activism; and educational policy and academic freedom.
  
  About the panelists:
  
  Nathalie Anglès is co- founder and Executive Director of Residency Unlimited (RU). Nathalie Anglès studied history and political science and is a graduate of École du MAGASIN international curatorial studies program in Grenoble, (CNAC - Le Magasin - Grenoble France). From 2000-2008, she worked at Location One as the Director of the International Residency Program. Before moving to New York in 2000, Nathalie worked in Paris at the Union Centrale des Arts Decoratifs (UCAD), Ecole des Beaux Arts (ENSBA), and the American Center Sotheby’s (London). In 2008, Nathalie received the title of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French government.
  
  German photographer Stefan Falke lives in New York City and works for international magazines, film studios, and corporate clients. He has published two books: “MOKO JUMBIES: The Dancing Spirits of Trinidad,” a photo essay about a stilt walking school in Trinidad, and “LA FRONTERA: Artists along the US – Mexican Border,” the result of an ongoing project for which he photographed over 200 artists who live and work on both sides of the 2000 miles long US-Mexico border. His work has been exhibited internationally in galleries, photo festivals, and museums.
  
  Silvia Fehrmann is a literary scholar, translator and cultural manager. In January 2018, she took on the role of head of the DAAD’s Artists-in-Berlin Programme, one of the world’s most renowned scholarship programmes for artists working in the visual arts, literature, music and film. Fehrmann was formerly the deputy director of the Berlin-based Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), which is a venue for contemporary arts and a forum for the public discourse. She is a spokesperson of the Rat für die Künste Berlin, an elected commission representing the Berlin´s cultural practitioners. She was born in Buenos Aires where she worked at the Goethe-Institut and taught at the university.
  
  Working in film and video, sound, performances, and installations, Andy Graydon tracks the wayward lives of forms in the world, from morphogenesis to translation to decay. Interested in natural and social ecologies, and the role of listening and the voice, Andy Graydon’s work engages structures of music such as scoring, improvisation, collective emergence, and community. Andy Graydon is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Maui, Hawai’i. His work has been presented internationally at the New Museum, Participant Inc, New York; Berlinische Galerie, Berlin; the Frye Art Museum, Seattle; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Mass.; Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawai’i; Wroclaw Media Arts Bienniale, Poland; and others. Graydon has been artist in residence at the MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire; NKD Norwegian Artists’ Center, Norway; and the Center for Computer Music, Brooklyn College. Graydon received his MFA in Radio, Television, and Film from Northwestern University.
  
  Claudia Steinberg left Cologne for New York in 1980, originally planning to stay for a year. Her decision to remain in New York was greatly influenced by her friendships and work relationships with German writers and artists who had fled Nazi Germany. When the wall between East and West Germany fell, longstanding political beliefs were put into question. In the last decade, Claudia Steinberg has developed a keen interest in the US/Mexican border — as a journalist she grew fascinated with the complex and untamable town of Tijuana, which became the subject of several articles. She writes for taz, Die Zeit, Vogue, Tank Magazine and The Fabulist, among other publications.
  
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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!
  
  "The State(s) We're In: A New Age of Transatlantic Relations. Migration and Art" is supported by the Transatlantic Program of the Federal Republic of Germany with funds from the European Recovery Program (ERP) of the Federal Ministry for Economy and Energy (BMWi). Additional support is provided by the DAAD.

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  Deutsches Haus at NYU

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• Nov 27, 2018

  6:00pm-7:30pm

  John Tauranac - Author Reading

  Discover the whos, whats, whys and hows of social history that make the city come alive. A sarcophagus sits in a public park Stones from the dungeon that imprisoned Joan of Arc support a statue of her A Star of David adorns a Baptist church A fire-breathing salamander decorates a firehouse A …

  Discover the whos, whats, whys and hows of social history that make the city come alive.
  
  A sarcophagus sits in a public park
  
  Stones from the dungeon that imprisoned Joan of Arc support a statue of her
  
  A Star of David adorns a Baptist church
  
  A fire-breathing salamander decorates a firehouse
  
  A stained-glass window relates an architect’s frustrations
  
  These are the details that guidebooks usually ignore and passersby ordinarily overlook. Curious readers will delight in revelations of history hidden in plain sight, alongside stunning photography of Manhattan’s overlooked treasures.
  
  John Tauranac writes on New York City’s social and architectural history. His books include the three editions of New York From the Air; The Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmark; and Elegant New York. His articles have appeared widely, including in The New York Times and The New York Observer. He created New York Magazine’s “Undercover Maps” of midtown and lower Manhattan, as well as the famous street atlas, Manhattan Block By Block. He was the creative director of the 1979 MTA subway map. Tauranac was named a Centennial Historian by the Mayor's Office, and he was awarded a Commendation for Design Excellence for the 1979 subway map. NYUSPS presented him with its award for teaching excellence.

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  NYU Bookstore

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  Nov 27, 2018

  7:00pm-9:00pm

  Book Launch: The Labyrinth by Saul Steinberg — Discussion w/ Liana Finck, Bill Kartalopoulos, Françoise Mouly, and Joel Smith

  Liana Finck, Bill Kartalopolous, Françoise Mouly, and Joel Smith will discuss the importance of Saul Steinberg’s The Labyrinth, first published in 1960 and now back in print from New York Review Books. In his books, Steinberg used drawing as a kind of thinking without words. More than a simple …

  Liana Finck, Bill Kartalopolous, Françoise Mouly, and Joel Smith will discuss the importance of Saul Steinberg’s The Labyrinth, first published in 1960 and now back in print from New York Review Books. In his books, Steinberg used drawing as a kind of thinking without words. More than a simple catalog or collection of artwork, the carefully arranged pages in The Labyrinth record a brilliant, constantly evolving imagination confronting modern life. It was published during the point in Steinberg’s career when he was starting to shift from commercial and magazine work to drawings for The New Yorker and gallery exhibitions and when his art took on a more intellectual tone.

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  powerHouse Arena

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  Nov 27 - 29, 2018

  New Literature from Europe Festival

  The New Literature from Europe Festival (NLEF) – New York City’s top European literary event – returns to the city for three days of conversations, panel discussions and performances (November 27-29, 2018). Now in its 14th installment, the festival will bring together leading and emerging voices from…

  The New Literature from Europe Festival (NLEF) – New York City’s top European literary event – returns to the city for three days of conversations, panel discussions and performances (November 27-29, 2018). Now in its 14th installment, the festival will bring together leading and emerging voices from 14 different countries with America’s foremost authors, journalists and translators to celebrate cultural diversity and heritage while addressing current challenges such as globalization and migration. Come hear important new voices in translation, discover new ones not yet known on this shore, and engage in a vital cross-cultural exchange for better understanding and kinship among cultures.

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  Instituto Cervantes

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  Tuesday, November 27

  6:30pm

  Resistance: The Populist Challenge to Democracy

  Paris-based international lawyer and political writer Laurent Cohen-Tanugi will present and discuss his new book, Resistance: The Populist Challenge to Democracy (Ed. de l’Observatoire, Paris, 2018). The discussion will tackle the topics of Brexit; Donald Trump’s election and the midterms in the …

  Paris-based international lawyer and political writer Laurent Cohen-Tanugi will present and discuss his new book, Resistance: The Populist Challenge to Democracy (Ed. de l’Observatoire, Paris, 2018).
  
  The discussion will tackle the topics of Brexit; Donald Trump’s election and the midterms in the United States; the demise of mainstream parties in the West and the rise of the extreme right in Europe; the “Macron phenomenon” in France; and how to counter the threat to democracy that is perceived by some.
  
  In partnership with the French American Foundation and Stanford New York Alumni.
  
  In English. Free and open to the public.

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  Albertine

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  Tuesday, November 27

  7:00pm

  112th: Surrealism with Margaret Carson and Mary Ann Caws

  Join us Tuesday, November 27th, at 7pm at Book Culture to celebrate the newly translated Letters, Dreams, and Other Writings by the Spanish Surrealist Remedios Varo. This will be a conversation with Margaret Carson, the translator, and Mary Ann Caws, editor of the new collection, The Milk Bowl of …

  Join us Tuesday, November 27th, at 7pm at Book Culture to celebrate the newly translated Letters, Dreams, and Other Writings by the Spanish Surrealist Remedios Varo. This will be a conversation with Margaret Carson, the translator, and Mary Ann Caws, editor of the new collection, The Milk Bowl of Feathers: Essential Surrealist Writings.
  
  about Letters, Dreams, and Other Writings:
  
  While the reputation of Remedios Varo (1908-63) the surrealist painter is now well established, Remedios Varo the writer has yet to be fully discovered. Her writings, which were never published during her life let alone translated into English, present something of a missing chapter and offer the same qualities to be found in her visual work: an engagement with mysticism and magic, a breakdown of the border between the everyday and the marvelous, a love of mischief and an ongoing meditation on the need for (and the trauma of) escape in all its forms.
  
  This volume brings together the painter's collected writings and includes an unpublished interview, letters to friends and acquaintances (as well as to people unknown), dream accounts, notes for unrealized projects, a project for a theater piece, whimsical recipes for controlled dreaming, exercises in surrealist automatic writing and prose poem commentaries on her paintings. It also includes her longest manuscript, the pseudoscientific, De Homo Rodans, an absurdist study of the wheeled predecessor to Homo sapiens (the skeleton of which Varo had built out of chicken bones). Ostensibly written by the invented anthropologist H likcio von Fuhr ngschmidt, Varo's text utilizes eccentric Latin and a tongue-in-cheek pompous discourse to explain the origins of the first umbrella and in what ways Myths are merely corrupted Myrtles.
  
  about The Milk Bowl of Feathers: Essential Surrealist Writings:
  
  Originating in 1916 with the avant-garde Dada movement at the famous Caf Voltaire in Zurich, surrealism aimed to unleash the powers of the creative act without thinking. Max Ernst, Andr Breton, Tristan Tzara, Paul luard, Philippe Soupault, and Louis Aragon created a movement that spread wildly to all corners of the globe, inspiring not only poetry but also artists like Joan Miro and Ren Magritte and cinematic works by Antonin Artaud, Luis Bunuel, and Salvador Dal . As the editor, Mary Ann Caws, says, "Essential to surrealist behavior is a constant state of openness, of readiness for whatever occurs, whatever marvelous object we might come across, manifesting itself against the already thought, the already lived."
  
  Here are the gems of this major, mind-bending aesthetic, political, and humane movement: writers as diverse as Aragon, Breton, Dal , Ren Char, Robert Desnos, Mina Loy, Paul Magritte, Alice Paalen, Gisele Prassinos, Man Ray, Kay Sage, and Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven are included here, providing a grand picture of this revolutionary movement that shocked the world.

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  Book Culture

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  Tuesday, November 27

  7:00pm

  What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape: Sohaila Abdulali with Tina Rosenberg (PRINCE STREET)

  Join us for the US launch of What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape, by Sohaila Abdulali. Writing from the viewpoint of a survivor, writer, daughter, mother, counselor and activist, Sohaila Abdulali looks at what we – women, men, trans people, politicians, teachers, writers, sex workers, feminists,…

  Join us for the US launch of What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape, by Sohaila Abdulali. Writing from the viewpoint of a survivor, writer, daughter, mother, counselor and activist, Sohaila Abdulali looks at what we – women, men, trans people, politicians, teachers, writers, sex workers, feminists, sages, mansplainers, victims and families – think about rape. She also explores what we don’t say.
  
  She asks pertinent questions: Is rape always a life-defining event? Does rape always symbolize something? Is rape worse than death? Is rape related to desire? Who gets raped? Is rape inevitable? Is one rape worse than the other? Who rapes? What is consent? How do you recover a sense of safety and joy? How do you raise sons? Who gets to judge?
  
  Drawing on her own experience, her research, her work with hundreds of survivors at a rape crisis center in Boston, and three decades of grappling with the issue as a feminist intellectual and writer, Sohaila examines the contemporary discourse about rape and rape culture, questioning our assumptions and asking how we want to raise the next generation. She interviews survivors whose moving personal stories of hard-won strength, humor, and wisdom collectively tell the larger story of how societies may begin to heal. The book is not a memoir but it is a thoroughly personal take on a painful subject.
  
  Sohaila Abdulali was born in Mumbai. She has a BA from Brandeis University in economics and sociology and an MA from Stanford University in communication. She is the author of two novels as well as children’s books and short stories. She lives in New York with her family.
  
  Tina Rosenberg is the author of Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America, and The Haunted Land: Facing Europe’s Ghosts After Communism, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. She was the first freelance journalist to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Tuesday, November 27

  7:30pm

  Amelia Bonow: Shout Your Abortion w/ Jessica Valenti

  Following the U.S. Congress's attempts to defund Planned Parenthood, the hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion became a viral conduit for abortion storytelling, receiving extensive media coverage and positioning real human experiences at the center of America's abortion debate for the very first time. This …

  Following the U.S. Congress's attempts to defund Planned Parenthood, the hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion became a viral conduit for abortion storytelling, receiving extensive media coverage and positioning real human experiences at the center of America's abortion debate for the very first time. This online momentum quickly launched a grassroots storytelling movement, inspiring countless individuals to share their stories in art, media, and community events and to create spaces for others to do the same.
  
  Shout Your Abortion is a collection of photos, essays, and creative work inspired by the movement of the same name, a template for building new communities of healing, and a call to action. Since the movement?s inception, people have shared stories and begun building community around these conversations in a range of ways: making art, hosting comedy shows, creating abortion-positive clothing, altering billboards, making zines, and hosting "thank you" letter-writing parties for their local abortion providers. This book documents some of these projects and illuminates the individuals who have breathed life into this movement, illustrating the profound liberatory and political power of defying shame and claiming sole authorship of our experiences.
  
  Amelia Bonow is the founding director of Shout Your Abortion, a nationwide movement working to create places for people to discuss their abortions in art, media, and at real life events all over the country. Bonow proudly serves on the Board of Directors of the Abortion Care Network and has been honored by numerous Planned Parenthood affiliates. Bonow is the coeditor of Shout Your Abortion’s eponymously named debut book.
  
  Jessica Valenti is the author of multiple books on feminism, politics and culture, most recently the New York Times bestselling memoir Sex Object. She is also the founder of Feministing.com. Her writing has appeared in publications like The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, and Ms. magazine. She is currently a columnist at The Guardian US. Jessica lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.
  
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  Books Are Magic

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• Nov 28, 2018

  6:00pm-7:30pm

  Manoshi Chitra Neogy - Author Reading

  Blood Words / A Warrior’s Walk is an epic work of fiction. It is about a woman of the elements; she encompasses everything in us and represents our most basic selves. She is complex and simple and is ready to live, love and learn at every moment. She is the lives and cries of two separate beings in…

  Blood Words / A Warrior’s Walk is an epic work of fiction. It is about a woman of the elements; she encompasses everything in us and represents our most basic selves. She is complex and simple and is ready to live, love and learn at every moment. She is the lives and cries of two separate beings in one- one bound in social structures and set molds, and the other following her inner guide and her intuitive eye. Blood Words reflects a notion of space and time as perceived through the eyes of a young Indian woman. Through her the nature of dualities inherent in each one of us is explored and interweaves the struggles and textures of two cultures experienced and lived in one individual. She is seen within both cultures and visual and emotional montages in both ambiances reflect the textures and struggles of a warrior woman, an individual, and an artist who follows her call and her luminosity. Manoshi Chitra Neogy is a filmmaker, director, poet, performer, and author of Blood Words/ A Warrior's Walk (IPMG, 2016). Neogy had produced several award-winning documentaries relating to self-expression, cultural issues, and art forms, which have aired around the world.

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  NYU Bookstore

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  Brooklyn Before:

  Photographs, 1971?1983

  Three Hills

  $34.95 List Price

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  Nov 28, 2018

  6:30pm-8:00pm

  Remembering the 70s and 80s: A Bygone Brooklyn

  The images captured in photographer Larry Racioppo’s new book, Brooklyn Before: Photographs, 1971-1983, tell the story of a gritty borough all but lost today. Racioppo is joined by two who remember: novelist and New York Daily News columnist Denis Hamill and journalist Tom Robbins of the Village …

  The images captured in photographer Larry Racioppo’s new book, Brooklyn Before: Photographs, 1971-1983, tell the story of a gritty borough all but lost today. Racioppo is joined by two who remember: novelist and New York Daily News columnist Denis Hamill and journalist Tom Robbins of the Village Voice and New York Daily News. Julia Van Haaften, founding curator of the New York Public Library’s photography collection, joins this conversation about a lost Brooklyn and the art of street photography.
  
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  Brooklyn Historical Society

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  Wednesday, November 28

  6:30pm

  Albertine Book Club on Germinal by Émile Zola

  Join us for a lively conversation on Germinal, a novel by Émile Zola, translated from the French by Roger Pearson (Penguin). Moderated by Sandrine Butteau, Director of Albertine, and Adam Hocker, Bookseller. Considered by André Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels written in the French language,…

  Join us for a lively conversation on Germinal, a novel by Émile Zola, translated from the French by Roger Pearson (Penguin). Moderated by Sandrine Butteau, Director of Albertine, and Adam Hocker, Bookseller.
  
  Considered by André Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels written in the French language, Émile Zola’s Germinal is a brutal depiction of the poverty and wretchedness of a mining community in northern France.
  
  The Albertine Book Club is free and open to Albertine members and students with a valid Student ID card. To become a member, visit http://www.albertine.com/membership/

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  Albertine

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  Wednesday, November 28

  7:00pm

  Muslims Unscripted: Blessings

  We're thrilled to welcome back this showcase of the incredible talents of Muslims in the Big Apple, hosted by the Islamic Center of NYU's Professionals Group (ICP). If the first four events are anything to go by, the evening promises to be filled with laughter, reflection and even a few tears as …

  We're thrilled to welcome back this showcase of the incredible talents of Muslims in the Big Apple, hosted by the Islamic Center of NYU's Professionals Group (ICP).
  
  If the first four events are anything to go by, the evening promises to be filled with laughter, reflection and even a few tears as performers bring the event's theme 'Blessings' to life through spoken word, comedy, song, and more!
  
  During these challenging times, we need to come together to celebrate who we are on our terms, beyond the headlines. Muslims Unscripted aims to do just that by creating a safe space to amplify diverse voices and experiences in our communities. You don't want to miss this event!
  
  More coming soon! Questions? Email contact icprofessionalsgroup@gmail.com or visit their website here.

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  Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

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  Wednesday, November 28

  7:00pm

  Freak Kingdom: Timothy Denevi, Jonny Diamond, and Margaret A. Harrell (WILLIAMSBURG)

  Hunter S. Thompson is often misremembered as a wise-cracking, drug-addled cartoon character. This book reclaims him for what he truly was: a fearless opponent of corruption and fascism, one who sacrificed his future well-being to fight against it, rewriting the rules of journalism and political satire…

  Hunter S. Thompson is often misremembered as a wise-cracking, drug-addled cartoon character. This book reclaims him for what he truly was: a fearless opponent of corruption and fascism, one who sacrificed his future well-being to fight against it, rewriting the rules of journalism and political satire in the process. This skillfully told and dramatic story shows how Thompson saw the danger of Richard Nixon early and embarked on a life-defining campaign to stop it. In his fevered effort to expose institutional injustice, Thompson pushed himself far beyond his natural limits, sustained by drugs, mania, and little else. For ten years, he cast aside his old ambitions, troubled his family, and likely hastened his own decline, along the way producing some of the best political writing in our history.
  
  This timely biography recalls a period of anger and derangement in American politics, and one writer with the guts to tell the truth.
  
  Timothy Denevi is the author of Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism (PublicAffairs, 2018) and Hyper: A Personal History of ADHD (Simon & Schuster, 2014). His essays on politics, sport, and religion have recently appeared in The Paris Review, New York Magazine, Salon, The Normal School, and Literary Hub, where he serves as the nonfiction editor. He received his MFA in nonfiction from the University of Iowa, and he's been awarded fellowships by the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Tim is an assistant professor at George Mason University and lives with his family near Washington, DC.
  
  Jonny Diamond is a writer and editor who splits his time between New York City and the Hudson Valley. His fiction and nonfiction has appeared in The Missouri Review, Geist, Hobart Pulp, Rolling Stone, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. He is currently working on a book-length object history of the axe, part investigation of its symbolism in America’s westward expansion, part interrogation of contemporary tropes of masculinity and wilderness. He has a seven-year-old son named Lucian, and is the editor-in-chief of LitHub.com.
  
  Margaret A. Harrell was Hunter Thompson’s “trusted copy editor”/Assistant Editor for Hell’s Angels—which launched his career—and a lifelong friend. She is the author of two memoirs that feature him: Keep This Quiet! My Relationship with Hunter S. Thompson, Milton Klonsky, and Jan Mensaert and Keep THIS Quiet Too!

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Wednesday, November 28

  7:00pm

  Between Two Worlds: Helen Schulman in conversation with Cheryl Pearl Sucher (PRINCE STREET)

  Since Cheryl Pearl Sucher married a New Zealander in 1999, she has been living between two worlds: the Greater New York City area and the Hawkes Bay of New Zealand, two places that are about as far apart on the planet as one can travel. Though she has often felt torn between her very different lives,…

  Since Cheryl Pearl Sucher married a New Zealander in 1999, she has been living between two worlds: the Greater New York City area and the Hawkes Bay of New Zealand, two places that are about as far apart on the planet as one can travel. Though she has often felt torn between her very different lives, she has also felt that her life experience and artistic vision has been enhanced by living as both an insider and an outsider in such different but extraordinary places. This interview series is born out her experience between these worlds, and as a published fiction writer, bookseller, journalist, memoirist and avocational musical traveler.
  
  In this edition, Cheryl talks to Helen Schulman about her new novel, Come With Me, a mind-bending novel set in Silicon Valley that challenges our modern constructs of attachment and love, purpose and fate. Amy Reed works part-time as a PR person for a tech start-up, run by her college roommate’s nineteen-year-old son, in Palo Alto, California. Donny is a baby genius, a junior at Stanford in his spare time. His play for fortune is an algorithm that may allow people access to their "multiverses"—all the planes on which their alternative life choices can be played out simultaneously—to see how the decisions they’ve made have shaped their lives. Donny wants Amy to be his guinea pig. And even as she questions Donny’s theories and motives, Amy finds herself unable to resist the lure of the road(s) not taken. Who would she be if she had made different choices, loved different people? Where would she be now Amy’s husband, Dan—an unemployed, perhaps unemployable, print journalist—accepts a dare of his own, accompanying a seductive, award-winning photographer named Maryam on a trip to Fukushima, the Japanese city devastated by tsunami and meltdown. Collaborating with Maryam, Dan feels a renewed sense of excitement and possibility he hasn’t felt with his wife in a long time. But when crisis hits at home, the extent of Dan’s betrayal is exposed and, as Amy contemplates alternative lives, the couple must confront whether the distances between them in the here and now are irreconcilable.
  
  Helen Schulman writes fiction, nonfiction, and screenplays. Her last novel, This Beautiful Life, was a New York Times bestseller. She is a Professor of Writing and Fiction Chair at the MFA program at The New School. She lives in New York City with her family.
  
  Cheryl Pearl Sucher is an award-winning journalist, essayist, reviewer and fiction writer who lives between Cranbury, New Jersey and the Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. Ka Hua E Wha: The Southernmost Jewish Community in the World, her contribution to Jewish Lives in New Zealand was published in 2012 by Random House NZ and she has been a frequent contributing book reviewer and feature writer for The NZ Sunday Star-Times and The NZ Listener. Her first novel, The Rescue of Memory, was published by Scribner so long ago she has forgotten the exact date and an excerpt from her second novel in progress, Lost Cities, was published in 2013 in Printer's Row, the Chicago Tribune's literary supplement. From July 2013 to April 2016 she was one of four presenter/interviewers for New Zealand Hawkes Bay Television's half hour interview program CHATROOM.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Wednesday, November 28

  7:30pm

  SELECTED SHORTS: RIVERHEAD BOOKS' 25TH ANNIVERSARY

  Throughout its history, Riverhead Books has consistently published cutting-edge literary works from bold, remarkable authors. In 2018, Riverhead celebrates its 25th anniversary, and we’re pulling out all the stops! Join award-winning authors Daniel Alarcón (The King Is Always Above the People), Lesley…

  Throughout its history, Riverhead Books has consistently published cutting-edge literary works from bold, remarkable authors. In 2018, Riverhead celebrates its 25th anniversary, and we’re pulling out all the stops! Join award-winning authors Daniel Alarcón (The King Is Always Above the People), Lesley Nneka Arimah (What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky), Lauren Groff (Florida), and James McBride (Five-Carat Soul) as they introduce readings from their recent collections and celebrate what it means to be a Riverhead author. Plus, two never-before-heard stories by R.O. Kwon (The Incendiaries) and Aja Gable (The Ensemble) written just for us!
  
  Selected Shorts is produced by Symphony Space and broadcast on more than 150 stations around the country. The Selected Shorts podcast consistently ranks as one of the most popular podcasts on iTunes. The series began in 1985 and enjoys sold-out performances to this day. Selected Shorts was conceived with a simple premise: take great stories by well-known and emerging writers and have them performed by terrific actors of stage and screen. Featuring stories around a lively theme, the favorite works of a guest author, or a special collaboration, each Selected Shorts event is a unique night of literature in performance.
  
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  The authors will be signing books on stage following the event.

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  Symphony Space

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• Nov 29, 2018

  6:00pm-7:30pm

  Chris Kibbler - Author Reading

  A contemporary satirical take on Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Schmuck the Buck introduces Larry, a young Jewish reindeer. He overcomes his awkward and sometimes painful youth to save Christmas. His tale of acceptance and inclusion is sure to warm the hearts of anyone who loves Christmas, Hanukkah,…

  A contemporary satirical take on Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Schmuck the Buck introduces Larry, a young Jewish reindeer. He overcomes his awkward and sometimes painful youth to save Christmas. His tale of acceptance and inclusion is sure to warm the hearts of anyone who loves Christmas, Hanukkah, or both. Sixty pages of vibrant illustrations bring his story to life.
  
  Meet Schmuck the Buck, just a regular caribou.
  
  He liked to eat grass and then chew and chew and chew.
  
  Yet he and his kin happened to be the sole
  
  Jewish reindeer living in the North Pole.
  
  Schmuck was bullied and treated the worst way,
  
  Until his brilliant plan saved one Christmas day.

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  NYU Bookstore

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  Nov 29, 2018

  6:30pm-7:30pm

  City of Science: Artificial Intelligence in Everyday Life

  The original vision of artificial intelligence was about automation of cognition, conjuring images of robots and superhuman computers. But today AI plays a crucial role in culture—for instance, in recommending music, videos, and potential “friends” on social media—influencing our behavior and …

  The original vision of artificial intelligence was about automation of cognition, conjuring images of robots and superhuman computers. But today AI plays a crucial role in culture—for instance, in recommending music, videos, and potential “friends” on social media—influencing our behavior and imagination. The integration of AI into the everyday lives of billions raises important questions about the future of culture, aesthetics, and taste. Lev Manovich, professor of computer science at The Graduate Center, and others discuss the impact of AI on culture.
  
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  The Graduate Center Public Programs (CUNY)

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  Vanishing New York:

  How a Great City Lost Its Soul

  by Jeremiah Moss

  Dey Street Books

  $28.99 List Price

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  Nov 29, 2018

  6:30pm-8:00pm

  Malls vs. Bodegas: Resisting the Suburbanization of the City

  While chain stores proliferate along neighborhood main streets, a simultaneous phenomenon of storefront vacancy threatens the character of NYC’s famously vibrant street life as landlords push out small business owners, holding out for higher-paying tenants. Join Center for an Urban Future Executive…

  While chain stores proliferate along neighborhood main streets, a simultaneous phenomenon of storefront vacancy threatens the character of NYC’s famously vibrant street life as landlords push out small business owners, holding out for higher-paying tenants. Join Center for an Urban Future Executive Director Jonathan Bowles, author of Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul Jeremiah Moss, and Director of Economic Policy at the Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development Lena Afridi for a conversation moderated by Vanity Fair contributing editor Paul Goldberger as they consider how to counteract the “mall-ification” of public space and commerce in NYC.
  
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  Brooklyn Historical Society

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  Thursday, November 29

  7:00pm

  112th: Crafting Presence with Nicole Wallack

  Join us at Book Culture on Thursday, November 29th at 7pm for a discussion of Nicole Wallack's Crafting Presence: The American Essay and the Future of Writing Studies. Essays are central to students’ and teachers’ development as thinkers in their fields. In Crafting Presence, Nicole B. Wallack …

  Join us at Book Culture on Thursday, November 29th at 7pm for a discussion of Nicole Wallack's Crafting Presence: The American Essay and the Future of Writing Studies.
  
  Essays are central to students’ and teachers’ development as thinkers in their fields. In Crafting Presence, Nicole B. Wallack develops an approach to teaching writing with the literary essay that holds promise for writing students, as well as for achieving a sense of common purpose currently lacking among professionals in composition, creative writing, and literature.
  
  Wallack analyzes examples drawn primarily from volumes of The Best American Essays to illuminate the most important quality of the essay as a literary form: the writer’s “presence.” She demonstrates how accounting for presence provides a flexible and rigorous heuristic for reading the contexts, formal elements, and purposes of essays. Such readings can help students learn writing principles, practices, and skills for crafting myriad presences rather than a single voice.
  
  Crafting Presence holds serious implications for writing pedagogy by providing new methods to help teachers and students become more insightful and confident readers and writers of essays. At a time when liberal arts education faces significant challenges, this important contribution to literary studies, composition, and creative writing shows how an essay-centered curriculum empowers students to show up in the world as public thinkers who must shape the “knowledge economy” of the twenty-first century.

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  Book Culture

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  Thursday, November 29

  7:00pm

  Modern Retellings: Tara Isabella Burton & Maria Dahvana Headley Modern Retellings: Tara Isabella Burton & Maria Dahvana Headley

  Tara Isabella Burton & Maria Dahvana Headley have both recently authored their own unique retellings of classic texts, originally told from masculine perspectives. Burton's Social Creature reimagines Patricia Highsmith's iconic psychological thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley from a woman's perspective…

  Tara Isabella Burton & Maria Dahvana Headley have both recently authored their own unique retellings of classic texts, originally told from masculine perspectives. Burton's Social Creature reimagines Patricia Highsmith's iconic psychological thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley from a woman's perspective for the digital age, while Headley's The Mere Wife gives a new, distinctly feminist life to the epic Beowulf, cited by some to be the oldest surviving long story in Old English.
  
  Join Burton & Headley for a fascinating discussion on why and how they took on these projects, and the significance of retelling classic texts from women's perspectives.
  
  Tara Isabella Burton has followed a female hermit into the remote Caucasus, gotten love amulets from Turkish Islamic shamans, andheld signs with the street preachers of Las Vegas. Her work on religion, culture, and place can be found at National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera, The Economist's 1843, Aeon, The BBC, The Atlantic, The American Interest, Salon, The New Statesman, The Telegraph, and more. Her fiction can or shall be found in Granta, Volume 1 Brooklyn, The New Yorker's Daily Shouts, Great Jones Street, Tor.com, PANK, Shimmer, and other places. She has received The Spectator's 2012 Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize and a 2016 Lowell Thomas Award. Her first novel, Social Creature, praised by The New York Times' Janet Maslin as "a wicked original with echoes of the greats", was published by Doubleday (US) and Bloomsbury/Raven (UK) in June 2018. It will be translated into nine more languages, including Italian, French, and Russian. She is also working on a non-fiction book about new religious and "replacement religion" movements, Strange Rites: Cults and Subcultures After the Death of God, to be published by Public Affairs in 2019. Tara recently completed a doctorate in theology as a Clarendon Scholar at Trinity College, Oxford. She is currently a staff writer on the religion beat at Vox.
  
  Maria Dahvana Headley is a #1 New York Times-bestselling author and editor. Her novels include Magonia, Aerie, and Queen of Kings, and she has also written a memoir, The Year of Yes. With Kat Howard, she is the author of The End of the Sentence, and with Neil Gaiman, she is co-editor of Unnatural Creatures. Her short stories have been shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards, and her work has been supported by the MacDowell Colony and by Arte Studio Ginestrelle, where the first draft of The Mere Wife was written. She was raised with a wolf and a pack of sled dogs in the high desert of rural Idaho, and now lives in Brooklyn.

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  Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

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  Thursday, November 29

  7:00pm

  New In French Translation: Jonathan Larson, Emma Ramadan, and Elizabeth Zuba (PRINCE STREET)

  Join us to celebrate three recent distinct translations from the French: Francis Ponge's Nioque of the Early-Spring, translated by Jonathan Larson; Ahmed Bouanani's The Shutters, translated by Emma Ramadan; and Anouck Durand's Eternal Friendship, translated by Elizabeth Zuba. Reading by Larson, …

  Join us to celebrate three recent distinct translations from the French: Francis Ponge's Nioque of the Early-Spring, translated by Jonathan Larson; Ahmed Bouanani's The Shutters, translated by Emma Ramadan; and Anouck Durand's Eternal Friendship, translated by Elizabeth Zuba. Reading by Larson, Ramadan, and Zuba will be followed by a conversation and Q & A.
  
  Jonathan Larson is a poet and translator living in Brooklyn. His translation of Francis Ponge's Nioque of the Early-Spring was published by The Song Cave who will also be publishing his translation of Friederike Mayröcker's Scardanelli.
  
  Emma Ramadan is a literary translator based in Providence RI, where she is also the co-owner of Riffraff bookstore and bar. She is the recipient of a Fulbright, an NEA Translation Fellowship, and a PEN/Heim grant for her work on the late Moroccan poet Ahmed Bouanani, and her translation of his poetry collection The Shutters was published by New Directions in June 2018. Other recent translations include Virginie Despentes's Pretty Things, Brice Matthieussent's Revenge of the Translator, and Anne Garréta's Not One Day and Sphinx.
  
  Elizabeth Zuba is a poet and translator. She is the author of Decoherent The Wing'ed (SplitLevel Texts, 2016) and May Double as a Whistle (Song Cave Press, 2015). Her many translations include Anouck Durand's Eternal Friendship (Siglio Press, 2017 French Voices Award) and Marcel Broodthaers's Pense-Bête (Granary Books). She is the editor of Not Nothing: Selected Writings by Ray Johnson 1954-1994 (Siglio Press, 2014) and translator and co-editor of Marcel Broodthaers: My Ogre Book Shadow Theater Midnight (Siglio Press, 2015).
  
  Co-presented by the Poetry Society of America, The French Embassy, McNally Jackson Books, Siglio, The Song Cave, and New Directions.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Thursday, November 29

  7:00pm

  N.K. JEMISIN: HOW LONG TILL BLACK FUTURE MONTH?

  N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption. In these stories, Jemisin…

  N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption.
  
  In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and drawing deft parallels in the fantasy realms of her imagination. Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. And in the Hugo award-nominated short story "The City Born Great," a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis's soul.

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  Strand Book Store

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  Thursday, November 29

  7:30pm

  Charles Bernstein: Near/Miss w/ Peter Straub

  Praised in recent years as a “calculating, improvisatory, essential poet” by Daisy Fried in the New York Times, and as “the foremost poet-critic of our time” by Craig Dworkin, Charles Bernstein is a leading voice in American poetry. Near/Miss, Bernstein’s first poetry collection in five years, is …

  Praised in recent years as a “calculating, improvisatory, essential poet” by Daisy Fried in the New York Times, and as “the foremost poet-critic of our time” by Craig Dworkin, Charles Bernstein is a leading voice in American poetry. Near/Miss, Bernstein’s first poetry collection in five years, is the apotheosis of his late style, thick with off-center rhythms, hilarious riffs, and verbal extravagance.
  
  Charles Bernstein is the author of Near/Miss (2018), Pitch of Poetry (Chicago, 2016), and Recalculating (Chicago, 2013). He is Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is co-director of PennSound. He is the recipient of the Janus Pannonius Grand Prize for Poetry and Münster Prize for poetry, as well a receiving Guggenheim, NEA, and NYSCA awards. Bernstein is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  
  Peter Straub is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of seventeen novels, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. They include Ghost Story, Koko, Mr. X, In the Night Room, and two collaborations with Stephen King, The Talisman and Black House. He has won the British Fantasy Award, eight Bram Stoker Awards, three International Horror Guild Awards, and ten World Fantasy Awards. In 2005, he was given the Horror Writers Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
  
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  Books Are Magic

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  Friday, November 30

  6:00pm

  Pessoa in New York Talk with writers João Nemi & Katia Gerlach, Poetry reading by the writer Ondjaki accompanied by pianist Renato Diz

  Kátia Bandeira de Mello-Gerlach, is a Brazilian fiction writer residing in New York City. Her first two books of short stories were published by Projeto Dulcinéia Catadora, an art collective, part of the Latin American cartonera movement. Disquiet International participant in June, 2016 with grant …

  Kátia Bandeira de Mello-Gerlach, is a Brazilian fiction writer residing in New York City. Her first two books of short stories were published by Projeto Dulcinéia Catadora, an art collective, part of the Latin American cartonera movement. Disquiet International participant in June, 2016 with grant by the Luso American Foundation, FLAD. 2017 Fellow at the New York Foundation for the Arts Program. Kátia contributes to literary journals in Brazil and Portugal, including pnetliteratura.pt, Jornal Rascunho (www.rascunho.com.br ) and Revista Philos. “Colisões Bestiais Particula(res)” (“Collisions in Particles, a Bestiary”) was published by Editora Oito e Meio in January 2015 and as “Colisiones Bestiales” in Spanish by Diaz Grey Editores @ McNally and Jackson, Soho, New York in March, 2016. Jogos (Ben)ditos e Folias (Mal)ditas (“Blessed Games, Cursed Follies”) was released by Editora Oito e Meio in 2017. In 2017, Bandeira participated in the organization of two anthologies “NosOtros” and “perdidas, histórias para crianças que não tem vez”, the latter in honor of children killed by stray bullets in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Bandeira is one of the few surrealist writers in Brazilian contemporary literature and has just returned from a literary residence at Centro Nacional de Cultura in Lisbon, Portugal
  
  Ondjaki was born in Luanda(Angola), in 1977. He writes prose, poetry, children's books, short stories, novels, drama and film scripts. He wrote the script of a documentary about his home town “Luanda”called“. Hope the pitanga cherries grow – tales of Luanda”(2006). Some of his books are translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, English and Chinese. Ondjaki won the José Saramago Award in 2013 (Portugal), with his book “Os transparentes”; the FNLIJ Award in 2011 in the category of “Literature in Portuguese Language”, with his book “Uma escuridão bonita” (Pallas, Brasil); the Litterature- Monde Award in 2016 in the category of "Non French Literature", with his book “Os transparentes” (France). www.kazukuta.com
  
  João Nemi has a Ph.D. in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages from the Graduate Center, CUNY. He teaches Portuguese language, and courses on Brazilian and Lusophone culture.
  
  His research focuses on queer theory, queer pedagogy, Brazilian culture and visual media. He has published articles on foreign language textbooks, the representation of effeminacy in Brazilian telenovelas, and activist, writer and literary critic Herbert Daniel. He is also a member of the research group GELiDis – Linguagens e Discursos nos Meios de Comunicação hosted by USP – Universidade de São Paulo. He has led workshops on LGBTQA+ inclusion at the Center for Teaching and Learning at Columbia University, at the Columbia Secondary School MSE, and in São Paulo, Brazil.
  
  João is also a published poet, who writes and performs as João Maria Cícero. His latest book Corpo(s) (2016) was published by Gisotri Editores in São Paulo, and he collaborated with a collective of Latin American writes for The US without us (Sangria Editores 2015), published in New York and Santiago, Chile and “ Tente Entender o que tento dizer. Poesia: HIV/ AIDS” organized by the poet Ramon Nunes Melo. His performances have happened in New York (2016) and São Paulo (2015, 2016 and 2017). He mantains his work open to all at www.joaomariacicero.com
  
  Renato Diz (Portugal) moved to NewYork City in 2011 to pursue a double Master Degree in Jazz and Classical performance at New York University, from which he graduated Summa Cum Laude. His main instructors are internationally - acclaimed jazz artists Ralph Alessi, Jean - Michel Pilc, Tony Moreno, Bruce Arnold and Andy Milne, and Marilyn Nonken in classical and post - modern repertoire. During this time he was awarded a NYU Scholarship for Outstanding Performance, Ella Fitzgerald Scholar ship and Leake & Watts Citizenship Award. Renato finds inspiration in many art forms and has composed, performed and recorded post - modern, experimental, new jazz, pop, heavy metal, and world music. In 2015 his project “I will play your soul” was selected to be featured at “IDEAS Festival” at the New Museum. Renato dedicates his life to creating music that transcends musical style to touch audiences with a sound that is puré and universal in message and meaning. As a performer Renato Diz has played at some of the most prestigious stages in the United States, South America and Europe both solo and as part of diverse artistic projects. www.renatodiz.com

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  Friday, November 30

  7:30pm

  Water Log, by Hugo Clemente. In conversation with Antonio Ochoa

  Water Log, by Hugo Clemente. Translated from the Spanish by Peter Kahn. Water Log is a book of trajectories: stories liquidly knit around the characters of an island that are trying to keep their sense of belonging through the practice of surf, love, sex and friendship. With a felt debt to Rock’n …

  Water Log, by Hugo Clemente. Translated from the Spanish by Peter Kahn.
  
  Water Log is a book of trajectories: stories liquidly knit around the characters of an island that are trying to keep
  
  their sense of belonging through the practice of surf, love, sex and friendship. With a felt debt to Rock’n Roll,
  
  Big Kahuna, Julio Cortázar, and the art of destructotherapy, Clemente’s Log is a rebellious splash of poetic images
  
  and sensations that will leave the reader happily refreshed and eroticized.
  
  Marta del Pozo, University of Massachusetts- Dartmouth
  
  Water Log is a love story and a travel narrative always in perfect tension between departure and arrival. It is a novel
  
  that begins anew with every story, and with the same sense of agility and dare of his character, it always comes back
  
  home to a place that is different and the same. Clemente’s character is the Robert Louis Stevenson who travels by
  
  donkey to show how the best part of a trip is how well it is told and in the process he reconstructs the familiar as
  
  new. A micronarrative in the tradition of Lydia Davis, this original and engaging novel makes each of these stories
  
  a bridge that connects land and sea, body and mind, and between each of them Clemente creates spaces for us to
  
  become the best readers we can be.
  
  Ernesto Livon-Grosman. Director of Latin American Studies
  
  (Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures) Boston College
  
  Hugo Clemente’s ebullient, entrancing, raw, linguistically sensuous Water Log is to be savored in the immediacy of
  
  every line. The strength of the language rivals that of the waves that denude an adventurous young man in search
  
  of life, love, and meaning. This well executed novel, which showcases the Spanish avant-garde, leaves the reader
  
  foaming at the mouth.
  
  Jorge Armenteros, author of The Roar of the River
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  With a degree as a social psychologist, Hugo Clemente has been teaching Spanish at several universities in Boston
  
  since 2015. He coordinated the Canarian School of Literary Creation (2013-2015), but also has worked as a therapist
  
  at a methadone program, a surf and snowboard instructor and as a Dj among others. He has been teaching Creative
  
  Writing Workshops in different Spanish cities as well as in New York, Boston and Stamsund (Norway). He was finalist
  
  at LuchaLibro (First Literary Improvisation Championship held in Spain, 2012) and has also participated in other
  
  collections of stories: PervertiDos (Editorial Traspiés, Granada, 2014), Ménades: an invitation to euphoria (La Piscina
  
  Editorial-Keroxen, Tenerife, 2015) and has scripted for theater and cinema. His last documentary, The Blinking Island
  
  (2016), has been selected in the official section in different festivals.
  
  Antonio Ochoa was born in Mexico City in 1974. He has published two books of poems in Spanish (pulsos and El toro de Hiroshima), and his poems have appeared in journals in Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Peru and the US. His essays have appeared in different academic and nonacademic journals. He is also edited the Selected Poems and Selected Essays of Eduardo Milán both published by Shearsman in England.

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  Friday, November 30

  7:30pm

  Susan Orlean: The Library Book w/ Susannah Cahalan, Ada Calhoun, and Karen Abbott

  Brimming with her signature wit, insight, compassion, and talent for deep research, The Library Book is Susan Orlean’s thrilling journey through the stacks that reveals how these beloved institutions provide much more than just books—and why they remain an essential part of the heart, mind, and soul…

  Brimming with her signature wit, insight, compassion, and talent for deep research, The Library Book is Susan Orlean’s thrilling journey through the stacks that reveals how these beloved institutions provide much more than just books—and why they remain an essential part of the heart, mind, and soul of our country. It is also a master journalist’s reminder that, perhaps especially in the digital era, they are more necessary than ever.
  
  Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She is the author of seven books, including Rin Tin Tin, Saturday Night, and The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Academy Award–winning film Adaptation. She lives with her family and her animals in upstate New York.
  
  She will be in conversation with the self-proclaimed "Sob Sisters," three renowned female reporters who regularly host conversations and readings.
  
  Susannah Cahalan is the author of the memoir Brain on Fire. She reports for the New York Post and her award-winning work has also been featured in The New York Times. She lives in Brooklyn.
  
  Ada Calhoun has written for the New York Times, New York magazine, and the New York Post. She is the author of Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give and St. Marks Is Dead, which was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a Boston Globe Best Book of the Year.
  
  Karen Abbott is the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City, American Rose and, most recently, Liar Temptress Soldier Spy, named one of the best books of 2014 by Library Journal, the Christian Science Monitor and Amazon. Her next book, a tale of murder and whiskey in the Jazz Age, will be published by Crown in fall 2019.
  
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  Monday, December 3

  6:30pm

  She Would Be King: Wayétu Moore with Isaac Fitzgerald

  In her debut novel, Wayétu Moore uses historical fact and magical realism to weave together an unforgettable retelling of the formation of Liberia, a West African colony of freed African-Americans looking for liberty. Moore will be joined in conversation by Isaac Fitzgerald, co-host of BuzzFeed's …

  In her debut novel, Wayétu Moore uses historical fact and magical realism to weave together an unforgettable retelling of the formation of Liberia, a West African colony of freed African-Americans looking for liberty.
  
  Moore will be joined in conversation by Isaac Fitzgerald, co-host of BuzzFeed's morning show AM to DM, as well as the author of the essay collection Dirtbag, Massachusetts.

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  New York Public Library - Mid-Manhattan Library

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