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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
  718-230-2100

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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
  212-274-1160

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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
  212-817-7000

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  Sep 19 - 20, 2018

  JLF at New York

  Teamwork Arts, producers of the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival, bring to New York an iconic event featuring internationally acclaimed authors and thinkers. JLF at New York runs from September 19-20 with a range of provocative panels and debates to discuss the issues that shape our thoughts and …

  Teamwork Arts, producers of the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival, bring to New York an iconic event featuring internationally acclaimed authors and thinkers. JLF at New York runs from September 19-20 with a range of provocative panels and debates to discuss the issues that shape our thoughts and perspectives at the Asia Society.
  
  JLF at New York will be held in association with Asia Society and Museum, an educational organization dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among peoples, leaders and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context, and the Consulate General of India.This event is in partnership with the South Asia Institute at Columbia University.
  
  Along with the festival directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, confirmed speakers include Navtej Sarna, Ambassador of India to the United States, cardiologist and New York Times bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar, surgeon and story-teller Sharad Paul, Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, debut novelist Preti Taneja, and politician and bestselling author Shashi Tharoor.
  
  Now in its second season in New York City, JLF at New York makes its debut at the Asia Society this year.

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  Asia Society

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  725 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021
  

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  Thursday, September 20

  12:00pm

  How Judaism Became an American Religion

  Steven R. Weisman joins Roger Cohen in conversation and discusses how Judaism redefined itself in America in the 18th and 19th centuries — the personalities that fought each other and shaped its evolution and, importantly, the force of the American dynamic that prevailed over an ancient religion. …

  Steven R. Weisman joins Roger Cohen in conversation and discusses how Judaism redefined itself in America in the 18th and 19th centuries — the personalities that fought each other and shaped its evolution and, importantly, the force of the American dynamic that prevailed over an ancient religion.
  
  A book signing follows the event.
  
  Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 12 pm
  
  Tickets from $29
  
  Classroom

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  92Y Tribeca

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

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  Thursday, September 20

  7:00pm

  Edmund White & Michael Carroll A Reading and Conversation

  The Unpunished Vice By Edmund White (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018) A new memoir from acclaimed author Edmund White about his life as a reader. Literary icon Edmund White made his name through his writing but remembers his life through the books he has read. For White, each momentous occasion came …

  The Unpunished Vice
  
  By Edmund White
  
  (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018)
  
  A new memoir from acclaimed author Edmund White about his life as a reader.
  
  Literary icon Edmund White made his name through his writing but remembers his life through the books he has read. For White, each momentous occasion came with a book to match: Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, which opened up the seemingly closed world of homosexuality while he was at boarding school in Michigan; the Ezra Pound poems adored by a lover he followed to New York; the biography of Stephen Crane that inspired one of White’s novels. But it wasn’t until heart surgery in 2014, when he temporarily lost his desire to read, that White realized the key role that reading played in his life: forming his tastes, shaping his memories, and amusing him through the best and worst life had to offer.
  
  Blending memoir and literary criticism, The Unpunished Vice is a compendium of all the ways reading has shaped White’s life and work. His larger-than-life presence on the literary scene lends itself to fascinating, intimate insights into the lives of some of the world’s best-loved cultural figures. With characteristic wit and candor, he recalls reading Henry James to Peggy Guggenheim in her private gondola in Venice and phone calls at eight o’clock in the morning to Vladimir Nabokov–who once said that White was his favorite American writer.
  
  Featuring writing that has appeared in the New York Review of Books and the Paris Review, among others, The Unpunished Vice is a wickedly smart and insightful account of a life in literature.

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  192 Books

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  192 10th Avenue at 21st Street, New York, NY 10011
  

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  Thursday, September 20

  7:00pm

  The Moth StorySLAM

  10 stories, 3 teams of judges, 1 winner. $10 online and at the door (+ credit card fee). This event always sells out. Tickets are on sale 1 week before the show at 3PM EDT, at themoth.org/events. Please note - Moth StorySLAM ticketing policy: ALL NYC StorySLAM tickets are available for online, …

  10 stories, 3 teams of judges, 1 winner. $10 online and at the door (+ credit card fee). This event always sells out. Tickets are on sale 1 week before the show at 3PM EDT, at themoth.org/events.
  
  Please note - Moth StorySLAM ticketing policy:
  
  ALL NYC StorySLAM tickets are available for online, pre-event purchase. Tickets go live 1 week before the show at 3pm EDT, unless otherwise noted.
  
  Limited seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
  
  In addition to online sales, a limited number of tickets to this SLAM will be sold at the door - first come, first-served!
  
  Please plan to arrive early and join the line outside the bookstore, south toward Prince Street.
  
  This event always sells out. Standing in line does not guarantee entry. We do our absolute best to monitor the line and let people know if they might be past our capacity.
  
  Housing Works does not sell any pre-sale tickets to this event.
  
  WAITLIST
  
  Waitlist goes up 6:30pm, day-of-show (in person only).
  
  Names will be taken at 6:30pm. Names can only be taken in person. It will be announced at 7:25PM if anyone can be accommodated.If chosen, tickets are $10 CASH.
  
  Waitlist customers must form a line outside the building north towards Lafayette. Please do not stand in front of the building

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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, September 20

  7:30pm

  Jen Doll: Unclaimed Baggage w/ MJ Franklin

  Doris—a lone liberal in a conservative small town—has mostly kept to herself since the terrible waterslide incident a few years ago. Nell had to leave behind her best friends, perfect life, and too-good-to-be-true boyfriend in Chicago to move to Alabama. Grant was the star quarterback and epitome of…

  Doris—a lone liberal in a conservative small town—has mostly kept to herself since the terrible waterslide incident a few years ago. Nell had to leave behind her best friends, perfect life, and too-good-to-be-true boyfriend in Chicago to move to Alabama. Grant was the star quarterback and epitome of "Mr. Popular" whose drinking problem has all but destroyed his life. What do these three have in common? A summer job working in a store called Unclaimed Baggage cataloging and selling other people's lost luggage. Together they find that through friendship, they can unpack some of their own emotional baggage and move on into the future.
  
  Jen Doll is the author of the debut young adult novel, Unclaimed Baggage. She's written for The Atlantic, Elle, Esquire, Glamour, GQ, New York Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Vice, The Village Voice, The Week, and many other publications. She grew up in Alabama and lives in Brooklyn.
  
  MJ Franklin is a Brooklyn-based journalist and book nerd. He is currently a social editor at The New York Times. Previously he worked at Mashable as an assistant editor and host of the MashReads podcast, an audio book club that about the books you should know and authors you should be obsessed with. Find him on Twitter and talk to him about what books you're loving at @heyitsfranklin

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  Books Are Magic

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  255 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
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  Thursday, September 20

  7:30pm

  Liana Finck with Roz Chast

  Acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck's new book Passing for Human is a visually arresting graphic memoir about a young artist struggling against what’s expected of her as a woman, and learning to accept her true self. Finck goes in search of that thing she has lost—her shadow, she calls it, …

  Acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck's new book Passing for Human is a visually arresting graphic memoir about a young artist struggling against what’s expected of her as a woman, and learning to accept her true self. Finck goes in search of that thing she has lost—her shadow, she calls it, but one might also think of it as the “otherness” or “strangeness” that has defined her since birth, that part of her that has always made her feel as though she is living in exile from the world. Melancholy and funny, personal and surreal, Passing for Human is a profound exploration of identity by one of the most talented young comic artists working today. Finck discusses her work with fellow New Yorker cartoonist and graphic novelist Roz Chast at Greenlight.

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  Greenlight Bookstore

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  686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
  718-246-0200

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  Sep 20, 2018

  6:30pm-7:30pm

  Kathryn Edin: The Tenuous Ties of Working-Class Men

  What can explain the decline in labor force participation among U.S. working-class men, as well as their rising rates of suicide and overdose? Kathryn Edin, co-author of $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, examines issues playing a decisive role in our national discussion. Through the…

  What can explain the decline in labor force participation among U.S. working-class men, as well as their rising rates of suicide and overdose? Kathryn Edin, co-author of $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, examines issues playing a decisive role in our national discussion. Through the use of ethnographic and demographic data, she looks at the increasingly tenuous ties of the working class to work, family, and religion, plus white men’s perceptions that they have fewer prospects than their fathers did. Edin, a professor at Princeton University, gives the Second Annual Lee Rainwater Lecture.
  
  Presented with the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality.
  
  Free; registration required.

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  The Graduate Center Public Programs (CUNY)

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

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  Pure:

  Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

  by Linda Kay Klein

  Touchstone

  $26.00 List Price

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  Sep 20, 2018

  6:30pm-8:00pm

  Growing Up Evangelical: A Woman's First-Hand Account

  In Pure, an insider’s account of the culture of purity imposed on young women raised in the evangelical Christian faith, Linda Kay Klein unmasks the traumatic fear-mongering that she endured as an adolescent. Writing Pure led her to congregations across the nation. She discusses her journey, bridging…

  In Pure, an insider’s account of the culture of purity imposed on young women raised in the evangelical Christian faith, Linda Kay Klein unmasks the traumatic fear-mongering that she endured as an adolescent. Writing Pure led her to congregations across the nation. She discusses her journey, bridging the church’s sexual shaming with wider societal subjugations of women, in this conversation with former New York Times “On Religion” columnist Samuel Freedman.
  
  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
  718-222-4111

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  Sep 20, 2018

  7:00pm-8:00pm

  Immigration and American Greatness: Andrew Tisch and Mary Skafidas, Book Signing and Conversation with Deborah Norville

  America’s story is the story of immigrants. JOURNEYS: An American Story, a new book of essays curated by Andrew Tisch and Mary Skafidas, illuminates how the dreams and determination of immigrants have enriched New York and the nation. Its 72 personal and sometimes surprising narratives reinforce …

  America’s story is the story of immigrants. JOURNEYS: An American Story, a new book of essays curated by Andrew Tisch and Mary Skafidas, illuminates how the dreams and determination of immigrants have enriched New York and the nation. Its 72 personal and sometimes surprising narratives reinforce the humanity from around the world propelling American greatness. News anchor and essayist Deborah Norville will join Mr. Tisch and Ms. Skafidas to share their families’ stories and others that inspired this powerful collection.

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  Barnes & Noble

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  150 East 86th Street, New York, NY 10028-2105
  

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  Sep 20, 2018

  7:00pm-8:30pm

  Kenneth Gross with Rikki Ducornet, On Dolls

  Join Kenneth Gross and Rikki Ducornet at Community Bookstore for a discussion of On Dolls, a collection edited and introduced by Gross that includes writings by Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Elizabeth Bishop, Marina Warner, and others, that explore the seriousness of play and …

  Join Kenneth Gross and Rikki Ducornet at Community Bookstore for a discussion of On Dolls, a collection edited and introduced by Gross that includes writings by Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Elizabeth Bishop, Marina Warner, and others, that explore the seriousness of play and the mysteries of inanimate life. On Dolls is published by Notting Hill Editions and available from NYRB in North America. Visit Community Bookstore's website for more information.

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  Community Bookstore

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  143 7th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215
  

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• Sep 21, 2018

  6:00pm-8:00pm

  The Extreme Gone Mainstream?: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany and the U.S.

  Deutsches Haus at NYU and the University of Cologne New York Office present a talk by Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Professor of Education and Sociology at the American University in Washington, DC, and former fellow of the Morphomata International Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Cologne,…

  Deutsches Haus at NYU and the University of Cologne New York Office present a talk by Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Professor of Education and Sociology at the American University in Washington, DC, and former fellow of the Morphomata International Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Cologne, about her recent book The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far-Right Youth Culture in Germany (Princeton University Press, 2018). Welcoming remarks will be delivered by Consul Heiko Schwarz, Head of the Political Department of the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York. The talk will be followed by a conversation between Cynthia Miller-Idriss and Hanjo Berressem, Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Cologne, and DAAD Visiting Scholar at Deutsches Haus at NYU in September and October.
  
  About the book:
  
  The past decade has witnessed a steady increase in far right politics, social movements, and extremist violence in Europe. Scholars and policymakers have struggled to understand the causes and dynamics that have made the far right so appealing to so many people—in other words, that have made the extreme more mainstream. In this book, Cynthia Miller-Idriss examines how extremist ideologies have entered mainstream German culture through commercialized products and clothing laced with extremist, anti-Semitic, racist, and nationalist coded symbols and references.
  
  Drawing on a unique digital archive of thousands of historical and contemporary images, as well as scores of interviews with young people and their teachers in two German vocational schools with histories of extremist youth presence, Miller-Idriss shows how this commercialization is part of a radical transformation happening today in German far right youth subculture. She describes how these young people have gravitated away from the singular, hard-edged skinhead style in favor of sophisticated and fashionable commercial brands that deploy coded extremist symbols. Virtually indistinguishable in style from other popular clothing, the new brands desensitize far right consumers to extremist ideas and dehumanize victims.
  
  Required reading for anyone concerned about the global resurgence of the far right, The Extreme Gone Mainstream reveals how style and aesthetic representation serve as one gateway into extremist scenes and subcultures by helping to strengthen racist and nationalist identification and by acting as conduits of resistance to mainstream society.
  
  About the speakers:
  
  Cynthia Miller-Idriss is Professor of Education and Sociology at the American University in Washington, DC, and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR). Her primary research focuses on the cultural dimensions of radical and extreme right youth subcultures and school-based responses to radical and extreme youth engagement. Her most recent book is The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany. Miller-Idriss writes frequently for mainstream audiences on issues of youth radicalization, nationalism, education, and parenting, most recently for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Salon, and Fortune. In 2013-2014, she worked on The Extreme Gone Mainstream as part of her fellowship at the Morphomata International Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Cologne.
  
  Hanjo Berressem studied English Literature and Art History at the University of Aachen. During his studies, he received DAAD scholarships to spend a year at the University of Michigan and a year at Brown University. After finishing his Ph. D. thesis on the work of Thomas Pynchon in 1989, he began work on his Habilitation, which was funded by a DFG research grant. In 1994, he spent a year at the University of Berkeley. After finishing his Habilitation in 1996, he taught American Literature and Culture at the Universities of Bielefeld (1996–1998), Hannover (1998–2000), and Cologne, where he is currently teaching. In 2002, he was ‘Visiting Scholar’ at the University of California (UCLA). He is Speaker of the Zentrum für Medienwissenschaften and a member of the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School at the University of Cologne. His academic interests include contemporary American fiction (in particular the work of Thomas Pynchon, William Gibson, and Bret Easton Ellis), Media Studies, as well as the work of Michel Serres and Gilles Deleuze. He has recently finished two ‘complementary’ book manuscripts, one on Gilles Deleuze (Crystal Philosophy), the other on the notion of ‘Eigenvalue’ (Crystal Science). Professor Berressem will be a DAAD Visiting Scholar at Deutsches Haus at NYU in September and October.
  
  About the University of Cologne
  
  The University of Cologne was founded in 1388. It is one of the leading German research universities, offering an exceptionally diverse subject base. Key Profile Areas conduct internationally competitive research on highly topical scientific, technological and social issues, such as aging-associated diseases, behavioral economic engineering and social cognition, plant science, quantum matter and materials, and socio-economic, cultural and political transformations in the Global South. The University of Cologne is one of the 11 German Universities of Excellence. The University of Cologne’s New York Office cultivates relations with North American partner universities, organizes delegation visits, and serves as first point of contact for faculty, students, and other partners in the United States and Canada. It co-organizes the annual UoC summer school in New York, reaches out to German and international alumni, and offers researchers from the UoC platforms opportunities to network, present their scientific results, and initiate new collaborations in North America.
  
  Attendance information:
  
  Events at Deutsches Haus are free and open to the public. 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 Extreme Gone Mainstream?: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany and the U.S." is a DAAD-supported event. Additional support provided by the German Consulate General in New York.

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  Deutsches Haus at NYU

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  42 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003
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  Friday, September 21

  7:00pm

  TIME, DESIRE, AND ACTION: RAMAYANA AND THE COSMIC GAME

  The Epic Ramayana is a beautiful and heartbreaking tale of the adventures of Prince Rama and his beloved princess Sita. Considered the first poetic work in Sanskrit, its literary, philosophical and aesthetic brilliance inspired poets, artists, and readers for two thousand years and continues to do …

  The Epic Ramayana is a beautiful and heartbreaking tale of the adventures of Prince Rama and his beloved princess Sita. Considered the first poetic work in Sanskrit, its literary, philosophical and aesthetic brilliance inspired poets, artists, and readers for two thousand years and continues to do so even today. We invite you to join us for an introductory lecture on the Ramayana, accompanied by two young artists to create an immersive experience inspired by the myth.
  
  During the Olio, Adluri will explore the epic’s manipulation of time, narration, desire and action to demonstrate the fragility and paramount importance to ethical action. A vocal performance of a traditional classical composition by Bandlamudi and a contemporary composition and performance by Clemente helps us appreciate the universality, beauty and versatility of the story of the hero Rama.
  
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  Vishwa Adluri teaches Philosophy and Religion at Hunter College NY. He specializes in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Ancient Indian Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, and Myth.

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  Strand Book Store

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  Friday, September 21

  7:30pm

  Lisa Hanawalt: Coyote Doggirl

  Celebrate the raucous and fierce Western by the BoJack Horseman producer/production designer and award-winning cartoonist, Lisa Hanawalt. Coyote is a dreamer and a drama queen, brazen and brave, faithful yet fiercely independent. A gifted equestrian, she’s half dog, half coyote, and all power. With…

  Celebrate the raucous and fierce Western by the BoJack Horseman producer/production designer and award-winning cartoonist, Lisa Hanawalt.
  
  Coyote is a dreamer and a drama queen, brazen and brave, faithful yet fiercely independent. A gifted equestrian, she’s half dog, half coyote, and all power. With the help of her trusty steed, Red, there’s not much that’s too big for her to bite off, chew up, and spit out right into your face, if you deserve it. But when Coyote and Red find themselves on the run from a trio of vengeful bad dogs, get clobbered by arrows, and are tragically separated, our protagonist is left fighting for her life and longing for her displaced best friend. Taken in by a wolf clan, Coyote may be wounded, but it’s not long before she’s back on the open road to track down Red and tackle the dogs who wronged her.
  
  An homage to and a lampoon of Westerns like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Lisa Hanawalt’s Coyote Doggirl is a self-aware, playful subversion of tropes. We see a journey in understanding and misunderstanding, adopting and co-opting. The story of these flawed, anthropomorphized characters is nothing if not relentlessly hilarious and heartbreakingly human. Told in Hanawalt’s technicolor absurdist style, Coyote Doggirl is not just a send-up of the Western genre but a deeply personal story told by an enormously talented cartoonist.
  
  Lisa Hanawalt draws illustrations and funnies for places like The New York Times, Hazlitt, McSweeneys, Chronicle Books, and Vanity Fair and she writes and draws a quarterly food column for Lucky Peach, for which she won a James Beard Award in 2014. She currently lives in Los Angeles, CA, and is the character designer for and co-producer of the Netflix original series, Bojack Horseman.
  
  This event is free!

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  Books Are Magic

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  Saturday, September 22

  7:00pm

  To Hell in a Handbasket: The Southern Poets’ Protest

  To Hell in a Handbasket: The Southern Poets’ Protest, is a poetry reading by Feedback Poetry Collective founders Shane Dedman and Hannah Neal followed by a check-in about the current state of the South, including being queer in Georgia, Occupy ICE protests, living in an abstinence-only state, and …

  To Hell in a Handbasket: The Southern Poets’ Protest, is a poetry reading by Feedback Poetry Collective founders Shane Dedman and Hannah Neal followed by a check-in about the current state of the South, including being queer in Georgia, Occupy ICE protests, living in an abstinence-only state, and the changing shape of a southern queer mecca. Like two farts sitting on a porch, we seek to provide a place of complaint rather than compliance. The tea has never been sweeter

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  Bluestockings Books

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• Sep 24, 2018

  6:30pm-8:30pm

  Westworld’s Shakespeare: A Case for Serial Reading

  The Department of German at NYU and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a talk by Professor Elisabeth Bronfen who will speak on "Westworld's Shakespeare: A Case for Serial Reading." Event information: Westworld, a postmodern splice between artificial intelligence fantasy and the classic Western, quotes …

  The Department of German at NYU and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a talk by Professor Elisabeth Bronfen who will speak on "Westworld's Shakespeare: A Case for Serial Reading."
  
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  Westworld, a postmodern splice between artificial intelligence fantasy and the classic Western, quotes no text more often than Shakespeare's plays. This lecture explores how the serial return of these citations reflects on the seriality of this prestige television show, itself conceived as a complex narrative loop. At the same time, this lecture also looks at how rereading Shakespeare's plays through the lens of this subsequent recycling might change our understanding of these plays.
  
  About the speaker:
  
  Elisabeth Bronfen is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Zurich and, since 2007, Global Distinguished Professor at New York University. She did her PhD at the University of Munich, on literary space in the work of Dorothy M. Richardson’s novel Pilgrimage, as well as her habilitation, five years later, on representations of femininity and death. A specialist in the 19th and 20th century literature she has also written articles in the area of gender studies, psychoanalysis, film, cultural theory, and visual culture. Current research projects include: Serial Shakespeare; Mad Men and the American Cultural Imaginary; Seriality and twenty-first century DVD-novels; the gender of political sovereignty; and a monograph on Shakespeare's theater.
  
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  Events at Deutsches Haus at NYU are free nd open to the public. If you would like to attend this event, please send us an email to deutscheshaus.rsvp@nyu.edu. Space at Deutsches Haus at NYU is limited, please arrive ten minutes prior to the event. Thank you!
  
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  Deutsches Haus at NYU

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  Sep 24, 2018

  6:30pm-7:30pm

  Claire Tomalin: A Life of My Own

  As one of the best biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin has written about great authors—including Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, and Mary Wollstonecraft—to huge success. Now she turns to look at her own life in an enthralling memoir, following from her wartime childhood in …

  As one of the best biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin has written about great authors—including Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, and Mary Wollstonecraft—to huge success. Now she turns to look at her own life in an enthralling memoir, following from her wartime childhood in London, to her marriage to journalist Nicholas Tomalin (who was killed on assignment), through her own brilliant literary career. She speaks about her new book with Kai Bird, executive director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography.
  
  Presented with the Leon Levy Center for Biography.
  
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  The Graduate Center Public Programs (CUNY)

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• Monday, September 24

  6:30pm

  Amateur: Thomas Page McBee with Amanda Hess

  In the memoir Amateur, a trans man learns how to hit and get hit back, absorb the mores of male locker room camaraderie, and confront the limitations and strength of his own body. While training for a charity boxing match at Madison Square Garden, Thomas Page McBee gains insight into the stereotypes…

  In the memoir Amateur, a trans man learns how to hit and get hit back, absorb the mores of male locker room camaraderie, and confront the limitations and strength of his own body. While training for a charity boxing match at Madison Square Garden, Thomas Page McBee gains insight into the stereotypes and shifting realities of modern masculinity.
  
  McBee, the author of the Lambda award-winning memoir Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness, and Becoming a Man, will be joined in conversation by Amanda Hess, a critic-at-large for the New York Times. She writes about internet culture, gender, and society for the Arts section and The New York Times Magazine.

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  The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

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  Monday, September 24

  7:00pm

  DATO MAGRADZE: FOOTPRINTS ON WATER

  Featuring work from throughout his illustrious career, Footprints on Water marks the United States debut of Dato Magradze, who has earned international acclaim, including the Europe International Medal from Pope Benedict XVI, for his collection "Salve"; the Golden Feather from the International …

  Featuring work from throughout his illustrious career, Footprints on Water marks the United States debut of Dato Magradze, who has earned international acclaim, including the Europe International Medal from Pope Benedict XVI, for his collection "Salve"; the Golden Feather from the International Federation of Journalists in 2005, for his text for the Georgian national anthem; and an international medal from the Academy of Culture of Verona, for his work promoting free speech. From the striking minimalism of "Caravan" to the genre-transcending epic of "Giacomo Ponti," this collection not only explores but transgresses the formal boundaries of poetics.
  
  Join us in the Rare Book Room as Dato discusses his work.
  
  Dato (David) Magradze was born in 1962; in 1984 he graduated from Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Philology. He has published several collections of poems, including Marula (1987), Nikala (2002), Salve (2004), Nafexurebi cyalze (The Steps on the Water) (2011), and Giacomo Ponti (2011). His books have been translated into Armenian, English, German, Italian, Russian, and Turkish.
  
  Between 1984 and 1992, he worked for various magazines and then as editor of the literary magazine Tsiskari. From 1992 to 1995, he was the Minister of Culture of Georgia and has served as a Member of the Georgian Parliament. From 1991 until 2010, he was the Director of Georgian PEN.
  
  He has won many awards including, in 2005, the Golden Feather from the International Federation of Journalists for his text for the Georgian National Anthem. In 2008, he received the Europe International Medal from Pope Benedict XVI for his collection Salve. In 2009, the Academy of Culture of Verona awarded Dato Magradze and Anton Mazreku (an Albanian poet) an international medal, for their work promoting freedom of speech.

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  Strand Book Store

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  Monday, September 24

  7:00pm

  NYRB Book Club: In The Freud Archives

  Books Are Magic is proud to host the (NYRB) Books Are Magic Book Club, a book club that discusses a different book by a female author in the New York Review Books catalog every other month. This month we are discussing In the Freud Archives by Janet Malcolm. In the Freud Archives tells the story …

  Books Are Magic is proud to host the (NYRB) Books Are Magic Book Club, a book club that discusses a different book by a female author in the New York Review Books catalog every other month.
  
  This month we are discussing In the Freud Archives by Janet Malcolm.
  
  In the Freud Archives tells the story of an unlikely encounter among three men: K. R. Eissler, the venerable doyen of psychoanalysis; Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, a flamboyant, restless forty-two-year-old Sanskrit scholar turned psychoanalyst turned virulent anti-Freudian; and Peter Swales, a mischievous thirty-five-year-old former assistant to the Rolling Stones and self-taught Freud scholar. At the center of their Oedipal drama are the Sigmund Freud Archives—founded, headed, and jealously guarded by Eissler—whose sealed treasure gleams and beckons to the community of Freud scholarship as if it were the Rhine gold.
  
  Janet Malcolm's fascinating book first appeared some twenty years ago, when it was immediately recognized as a rare and remarkable work of nonfiction. A story of infatuation and disappointment, betrayal and revenge, In the Freud Archives is essentially a comedy. But the powerful presence of Freud himself and the harsh bracing air of his ideas about unconscious life hover over the narrative and give it a tragic dimension.
  
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  Books Are Magic

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  Monday, September 24

  7:30pm

  VIBC: TARA ISABELLA BURTON: SOCIAL CREATURE

  For readers of Gillian Flynn and Donna Tartt, a dark, propulsive and addictive debut thriller, splashed with all the glitz and glitter of New York City. They go through both bottles of champagne right there on the High Line, with nothing but the stars over them... They drink and Lavinia tells Louise…

  For readers of Gillian Flynn and Donna Tartt, a dark, propulsive and addictive debut thriller, splashed with all the glitz and glitter of New York City.
  
  They go through both bottles of champagne right there on the High Line, with nothing but the stars over them... They drink and Lavinia tells Louise about all the places they will go together, when they finish their stories, when they are both great writers-to Paris and to Rome and to Trieste...
  
  Lavinia will never go. She is going to die soon.
  
  Louise has nothing. Lavinia has everything. After a chance encounter, the two spiral into an intimate, intense, and possibly toxic friendship. A Talented Mr. Ripley for the digital age, this seductive story takes a classic tale of obsession and makes it irresistibly new.
  
  Join us for another edition of Vulture Insiders Book Club with Boris Kachka and author Tara Isabella Burton, theologian turned thriller writer.
  
  Admission Options: This event is free to attend. Copies of Social Creature will be available for purchase at the event. The event will be located in the Strand's 2nd floor Art Department at our store at 828 Broadway at 12th Street.

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  Strand Book Store

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• Monday, September 24

  7:30pm

  Generation Citizen

  Greenlight’s quarterly Civic Engagement Series hosts nonprofit groups working in social justice, community organizing, and the arts, with the goal of providing tools for community involvement and support to those doing necessary work in our culture. Twenty percent of all book sales at the store on …

  Greenlight’s quarterly Civic Engagement Series hosts nonprofit groups working in social justice, community organizing, and the arts, with the goal of providing tools for community involvement and support to those doing necessary work in our culture. Twenty percent of all book sales at the store on the entire day of the event will be donated to the featured organization, and an option for direct donation will be available at the event. For September, Greenlight hosts Generation Citizen, which works to ensure that every student in the Unites States receives an effective Action Civics education, which provides them with the knowledge and skills necessary to participate in our democracy as active citizens. Check back for details about this interactive community event.

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  Greenlight Bookstore Lefferts

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  Sep 25, 2018

  6:30pm-7:30pm

  Governor Jerry Brown in Conversation with Author Miriam Pawel: The Browns of California

  Governor Jerry Brown will be on stage to discuss his life and family saga with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Miriam Pawel, author of The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty That Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation. The story begins with Brown's great-grandfather, Prussian immigrant August…

  Governor Jerry Brown will be on stage to discuss his life and family saga with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Miriam Pawel, author of The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty That Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation. The story begins with Brown's great-grandfather, Prussian immigrant August Schuckman, who crossed the Plains in 1852 and settled on a northern California ranch. Over a century later, Jerry Brown reclaimed the family homestead and became the youngest governor in modern times—then returned three decades later as the oldest. Governor Brown and Pawel will join in a discussion with Kai Bird, executive director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography.
  
  Presented with the Leon Levy Center for Biography.
  
  Free; registration required.

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  The Graduate Center Public Programs (CUNY)

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  Upending the Ivory Tower:

  Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League

  by Stefan M. Bradley

  NYU Press

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  Sep 25, 2018

  6:30pm-8:00pm

  Book Talk: Upending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League

  Go inside the story of the pioneering black students, staff, and faculty members that reshaped the hallowed halls of Ivy League institutions of higher learning. Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Loyola Marymount University, Stefan Bradley, shares the history of how the Black …

  Go inside the story of the pioneering black students, staff, and faculty members that reshaped the hallowed halls of Ivy League institutions of higher learning. Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Loyola Marymount University, Stefan Bradley, shares the history of how the Black Power movement took hold in university halls, forever changing curricula, narratives, and opportunities for black empowerment through education.
  
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  Brooklyn Historical Society

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  Tuesday, September 25

  7:00pm

  112th: Adam Kirsch on Lionel Trilling

  Join us at Book Culture on 112th as Adam Kirsch discusses Life in Culture: Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling on Tuesday, September 25th at 7pm. A great critic’s quarrels with himself and others, as revealed in his correspondence In the mid-twentieth century, Lionel Trilling was America’s most …

  Join us at Book Culture on 112th as Adam Kirsch discusses Life in Culture: Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling on Tuesday, September 25th at 7pm.
  
  A great critic’s quarrels with himself and others, as revealed in his correspondence
  
  In the mid-twentieth century, Lionel Trilling was America’s most respected literary critic. His powerful and subtle essays inspired readers to think about how literature shapes our politics, our culture, and our selves. His 1950 collection, The Liberal Imagination, sold more than 100,000 copies, epitomizing a time that has been called the age of criticism.
  
  To his New York intellectual peers, Trilling could seem reserved and circumspect. But in his selected letters, Trilling is revealed in all his variousness and complexity. We witness his ardent courtship of Diana Trilling, who would become an eminent intellectual in her own right; his alternately affectionate and contentious rapport with former students such as Allen Ginsberg and Norman Podhoretz; the complicated politics of Partisan Review and other fabled magazines of the period; and Trilling’s relationships with other leading writers of the period, including Saul Bellow, Edmund Wilson, and Norman Mailer.
  
  In Life in Culture, edited by Adam Kirsch, Trilling’s letters add up to an intimate portrait of a great critic, and of America’s intellectual journey from the political passions of the 1930s to the cultural conflicts of the 1960s and beyond.

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  Book Culture

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  Tuesday, September 25

  7:00pm

  Columbus: Dawn Raffel on The Strange Case of Dr. Couney

  The extraordinary tale of how a mysterious immigrant "doctor" became the revolutionary innovator of saving premature babies—by placing them in incubators in World's Fair side shows and on Coney Island and Atlantic City. What kind of doctor puts his patients on display? As Dawn Raffel artfully …

  The extraordinary tale of how a mysterious immigrant "doctor" became the revolutionary innovator of saving premature babies—by placing them in incubators in World's Fair side shows and on Coney Island and Atlantic City.
  
  What kind of doctor puts his patients on display?
  
  As Dawn Raffel artfully recounts, Dr. Couney figured out he could use incubators and careful nursing to keep previously doomed infants alive, and at the same time make good money displaying these babies alongside sword swallowers, bearded ladies, and burlesque shows. How this turn-of-the-twentieth-century migr became the savior to families with premature infants, known then as "weaklings"—while ignoring the scorn of the medical establishment and fighting the climate of eugenics—is one of the most astounding stories of modern medicine. And as readers will find, Dr. Couney, for all his opportunistic entrepreneurial gusto, is a surprisingly appealing character, someone who genuinely cared for the well-being of his tiny patients. But he had something to hide.
  
  Drawing on historical documents, original reportage, and interviews with surviving patients, acclaimed journalist and magazine editor Dawn Raffel tells the marvelously eccentric story of Couney's mysterious carnival career, his larger-than-life personality, and his unprecedented success as the savior of tiny babies.

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  Book Culture

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  Tuesday, September 25

  7:00pm

  Launch: State Tectonics by Malka Older

  Join us for the launch of State Tectonics, the concluding book in Malka Older's Centenel Cycle from Tor.com

  Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

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  Tuesday, September 25

  7:00pm

  MTA SUBWAY READS PRESENTS: SAYU BHOJWANI'S PEOPLE LIKE US

  Political scientist Sayu Bhojwani is challenging the established status quo of the white, male, christian and rich political system. In her latest book People Like Us, Sayu offers case studies of politicians and activists who don't fit the established American political bill, be they people of color…

  Political scientist Sayu Bhojwani is challenging the established status quo of the white, male, christian and rich political system. In her latest book People Like Us, Sayu offers case studies of politicians and activists who don't fit the established American political bill, be they people of color or immigrants, fighting the system to create a better world for all. Sayu simultaneously shines a strong spotlight on the roadblocks that quell many people's chances of affecting robust change in governmental representation. This event is presented by the MTA Subway Reads Campaign in partnership with Strand Book Store. Come meet the author and join the conversation!
  
  Join us in the Rare Book Room for an exclusive early presentation of Sayu Bhojwani's new book People Like Us. This event is free and open to the public!

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  Strand Book Store

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  Tuesday, September 25

  7:00pm

  Ben Fountain: Beautiful Country Burn Again w/ Malcolm Gladwell

  In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, The New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the current American existential crisis. Beautiful Country Burn Again is a searing indictment of how we came to this point, and …

  In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, The New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the current American existential crisis. Beautiful Country Burn Again is a searing indictment of how we came to this point, and where we may be headed.
  
  Twice before in its history, the United States has been faced with a crisis so severe it was forced to reinvent itself in order to survive: first, the struggle over slavery, culminating in the Civil War, and the second, the Great Depression, which led to President Roosevelt’s New Deal and the establishment of America as a social-democratic state. In this sequence of essays that excavate the past while laying bare the political upheaval of 2016, Ben Fountain argues that the United States may be facing a third existential crisis, one that will require a “burning” of the old order as America attempts to remake itself.
  
  Charting the early days of the Iowa Caucus to the crystalizing moments of the Democratic and Republican national conventions and culminating in the aftershocks of the weeks following election night, Fountain probes deeply into history, illuminating the forces and watershed moments of the past that mirror the present, from Richard Nixon’s southern strategy, to our weaponized conception of American exceptionalism, to the cult of celebrity that gave rise to Donald Trump. In an urgent and deeply incisive voice, Ben Fountain has fused history and the present day to paint a startling portrait of the state of our nation.
  
  Ben Fountain was born in Chapel Hill and grew up in the tobacco country of eastern North Carolina. A former practicing attorney, he is the author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction, and the novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award and a finalist for the National Book Award. His series of essays published in The Guardian on the 2016 U.S. presidential election was subsequently nominated by the editors of The Guardian for the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary. He lives in Dallas, Texas.
  
  Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1996. He is the author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw and David and Goliath. Prior to joining The New Yorker, he was a reporter at the Washington Post. Gladwell was born in England and grew up in rural Ontario. He lives in New York.
  
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  Books Are Magic

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  Tuesday, September 25

  7:30pm

  Kate Atkinson with Megan Abbott

  Author of Life after Life and A God in Ruins, Kate Atkinson talks with fellow novelist Megan Abbott about Transcription, her intricate new thriller about a female spy making her way through one of history’s darkest periods. “She is a marvel,” wrote Gillian Flynn. “There aren't enough breathless …

  Author of Life after Life and A God in Ruins, Kate Atkinson talks with fellow novelist Megan Abbott about Transcription, her intricate new thriller about a female spy making her way through one of history’s darkest periods. “She is a marvel,” wrote Gillian Flynn. “There aren't enough breathless adjectives to describe her work: dazzling, witty, moving, joyful, mournful, profound. Wildly inventive, deeply felt. Hilarious. Humane.”
  
  Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 7:30 pm
  
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  Kaufmann Concert Hall

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  92nd Street Y

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  Tuesday, September 25

  7:30pm

  Matwaala: South Asian Diaspora Poetry

  Matwaala poets will read feminist themed poems to showcase the different facts of our gendered lives in South Asia and in the U.S.

  Bluestockings Books

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  Tuesday, September 25

  7:30pm

  Elliot Ackerman: Waiting for Eden & Lea Carpenter: Red, White, Blu

  Join us for a conversation between Elliot Ackerman and Lea Carpenter, discussing their respective new novels, Waiting for Eden, and Red, White, Blue. Ackerman’s Waiting For Eden is a breathtakingly spare and shattering new novel that traces the intersection of three star-crossed lives. Eden Malcom…

  Join us for a conversation between Elliot Ackerman and Lea Carpenter, discussing their respective new novels, Waiting for Eden, and Red, White, Blue.
  
  Ackerman’s Waiting For Eden is a breathtakingly spare and shattering new novel that traces the intersection of three star-crossed lives. Eden Malcom lies in a bed, unable to move or to speak, imprisoned in his own mind. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his hospital room. He has never met their young daughter, and he will never again see the friend and fellow soldier who didn't make it back home—and who narrates the novel. But on Christmas, the one day Mary is not at his bedside, Eden's reordered consciousness comes flickering alive. As he finds a way to communicate, troubling truths about his marriage and his life before the war come to the surface. Is Eden the same man he once was: a husband, a friend, a father-to-be? A piercingly insightful meditation on loyalty and betrayal, love and fear, Waiting for Eden is a tour de force of profound humanity.
  
  Carpenter’s Red, White, Blue is a dark and subtly crafted novel that traces the intertwined fates of a CIA case officer and a young woman who is forced to confront her dead father's secret past—at once a gripping, immersive tale of duplicity and espionage, and a moving story of love and loyalty. Anna is the beloved only child of the charismatic Noel, a New York City banker—and a mother who abandoned her. When Noel dies in a mysterious skiing accident in Switzerland, Anna, consumed by grief, grows increasingly distant from her husband. While on her honeymoon in France, Anna meets an enigmatic stranger. Soon, everything Anna knows about her father is called into question, launching her into a desperate search for truth. Smart and suspenseful, Red, White, Blue plunges us into the inner workings of the CIA, a China Ops gone wrong, and the consequences of a collision between personal ties and professional commitment.
  
  Elliot Ackerman is the author of the novels Dark at the Crossing, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and Green on Blue. His writings have appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The New York Times Magazine, among other publications, and his stories have been included in The Best American Short Stories. He is both a former White House Fellow and Marine, and served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart. He divides his time between New York City and Washington, D.C.
  
  Lea Carpenter graduated from Princeton and has an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was valedictorian. She is a Contributing Editor at Esquire and has written the screenplay for Mile 22, a film about CIA’s Special Activities Division, directed by Peter Berg and starring Mark Wahlberg and John Malkovich, coming out in July. Her debut novel, Eleven Days, is in development for television with Lucy Donnelly (Grey Gardens) and Gideon Raff (Homeland). She lives in New York.
  
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  Books Are Magic

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  Tuesday, September 25

  8:00pm

  Science Talks with Claudia Dreifus Eric R. Kandel

  Where does consciousness come from? How does the physical matter of the brain produce our sense of self? No one understands the mysteries of the mind better than Nobel Prize-winning Columbia University neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel. And in his pathbreaking new book, The Disordered Mind: What Unusual…

  Where does consciousness come from? How does the physical matter of the brain produce our sense of self?
  
  No one understands the mysteries of the mind better than Nobel Prize-winning Columbia University neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel. And in his pathbreaking new book, The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves, he shows how the neural disruptions behind difficult diseases like autism, depression and addiction can also shed invaluable light on the processes of the brain. Join Kandel and renowned New York Times science writer Claudia Dreifus for an eye-opening conversation on the fascinating science of thought, feeling and memory.

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  92nd Street Y

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  Tuesday, September 25

  9:30pm

  Screening of “The Other Munch” with filmmakers Emil and Joachim Trier, and extended discussion with Karl Ove Knausgaard

  This engrossing documentary follows the much-acclaimed Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard as he is invited to guest-curate an exhibition of paintings by Edvard Munch at Oslo’s Munch Museum. Co-director Joachim Trier appears onscreen alongside Knausgaard as they visit several key locations from the…

  This engrossing documentary follows the much-acclaimed Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard as he is invited to guest-curate an exhibition of paintings by Edvard Munch at Oslo’s Munch Museum. Co-director Joachim Trier appears onscreen alongside Knausgaard as they visit several key locations from the celebrated painter’s life, searching for insights into his imagination and vision as they discuss his vastly influential oeuvre, his themes and obsessions, his approach to rendering everyday things and strongly emotional scenes alike. Knausgaard’s interpretation of Munch proves to be captivatingly unorthodox, and the Trier brothers thrillingly seek to connect his thoughts about the painter to his own literary project, yielding a double portrait of two of Norway’s most essential artists.

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  Film Society of Lincoln Center

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• Wednesday, September 26

  6:30pm

  The Last 100 Days: David B. Woolner with Jonathan Alter

  Even as FDR's health declined, his final days in office were spent on major projects: the establishment of the United Nations, the reinvigoration of the New Deal, and the possibility of a Jewish homeland. Drawing on new evidence, David B. Woolner illustrates how, up until the very end, FDR attempted…

  Even as FDR's health declined, his final days in office were spent on major projects: the establishment of the United Nations, the reinvigoration of the New Deal, and the possibility of a Jewish homeland. Drawing on new evidence, David B. Woolner illustrates how, up until the very end, FDR attempted to shape domestic and foreign policy to ensure a future of peace and prosperity.
  
  David B. Woolner, Senior Fellow and Resident Historian of the Roosevelt Institute, Professor of History at Marist College, and Senior Fellow of the Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College, will be joined in conversation by Jonathan Alter, journalist, television producer, documentary filmmaker, and author of The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope.

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  The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

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  5th Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018
  
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  Wednesday, September 26

  7:00pm

  Being Human in the Age of the Machine

  As we make use of algorithms to automate important decisions in crime, healthcare, relationships and money, our increasing reliance raises questions about what we want our lives to look like. Should we entrust ourselves to driverless cars? Are machines capable of producing great works of art? What…

  As we make use of algorithms to automate important decisions in crime, healthcare, relationships and money, our increasing reliance raises questions about what we want our lives to look like.
  
  Should we entrust ourselves to driverless cars? Are machines capable of producing great works of art? What matters more, helping doctors with diagnosis or preserving privacy? And can we control what happens to our data? Join mathematician Hannah Fry as she lifts the lid on the inner workings of the algorithms that are shaping our lives.
  
  Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 7 pm
  
  Tickets from $29

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• 

  Wednesday, September 26

  7:00pm

  Being Human in the Age of the Machine. Hannah Fry

  As we make use of algorithms to automate important decisions in crime, healthcare, relationships and money, our increasing reliance raises questions about what we want our lives to look like. Should we entrust ourselves to driverless cars? Are machines capable of producing great works of art? What…

  As we make use of algorithms to automate important decisions in crime, healthcare, relationships and money, our increasing reliance raises questions about what we want our lives to look like.
  
  Should we entrust ourselves to driverless cars? Are machines capable of producing great works of art? What matters more, helping doctors with diagnosis or preserving privacy? And can we control what happens to our data? Join mathematician Hannah Fry as she lifts the lid on the inner workings of the algorithms that are shaping our lives.
  
  A book signing follows the event.

  MORE ABOUT THIS EVENT

  92nd Street Y

  • more at 92nd street y

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

  • show map