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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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  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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  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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• 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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  Tuesday, April 24

  6:00pm

  God Save Texas: Lawrence Wright

  God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America. It is a red state in the heart of Trumpland that hasn't elected a Democrat to a statewide office in more than twenty years; but it is also a state in which minorities already form a majority (including the largest number of…

  God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America. It is a red state in the heart of Trumpland that hasn't elected a Democrat to a statewide office in more than twenty years; but it is also a state in which minorities already form a majority (including the largest number of Muslims). The cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation. Oil is still king but Texas now leads California in technology exports. The Texas economic model of low taxes and minimal regulation has produced extraordinary growth but also striking income disparities. Texas looks a lot like the America that Donald Trump wants to create. And Wright's profound portrait of the state not only reflects our country back as it is, but as it was and as it might be.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Tuesday, April 24

  7:00pm

  Four Barnard Alumnae Writers

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz is the author of twenty-four books, three short story collections, three essay collections, two books of poetry, and three translations from Italian. Among them are the novels Rough Strife (nominated for a National Book Award) and Leaving Brooklyn (nominated for a PEN/Faulkner…

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz is the author of twenty-four books, three short story collections, three essay collections, two books of poetry, and three translations from Italian. Among them are the novels Rough Strife (nominated for a National Book Award) and Leaving Brooklyn (nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award in fiction), and the memoirs Ruined by Reading and Not Now, Voyager. She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA in fiction and translation, and the New York State Foundation for the Arts. She teaches at the Bennington Writing Seminars and Columbia University's School of the Arts, and has taught in many other places both in the US and abroad. Schwartz lives in New York City.
  
  Sigrid Nunez is the author of the novels Salvation City, The Last of Her Kind, A Feather on the Breath of God, For Rouenna, and most recently, The Friend. She has been the recipient of several awards including a Whiting Writers' Award, the Rome Prize in Literature, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship. She lives in New York City.
  
  Susan Daitch is the author of five works of fiction, and her work was the subject of an issue of "The Review of Contemporary Fiction" along with David Foster Wallace and William Vollman. She has been the recipient of two Vogelstein awards, research grants from NYU, CUNY, was awarded a 2012 Fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation of the Arts. Her novel, L.C., won an NEA Heritage Award and was a Lannan Foundation Selection. She lives in Brooklyn with her son and teaches at Hunter College.
  
  B. G. Firmani is a graduate of Barnard College and holds an MFA from Brown. Her short fiction has been published in BOMB Magazine, The Kenyon Review, and Bellevue Literary Review. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship and has been a resident at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. She lives in New York City.

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  Book Culture

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  Tuesday, April 24

  7:00pm

  John Scalzi: Head On

  John Scalzi's latest thrilling sci-fi tale takes us to the not too distant future, where scores of ravenous fans come form far and wide to indulge in the latest sports sensation: Hilketa. A game of high octane excitement and devastating violence, Hilketa involves the dismemberment of the opponent's…

  John Scalzi's latest thrilling sci-fi tale takes us to the not too distant future, where scores of ravenous fans come form far and wide to indulge in the latest sports sensation: Hilketa. A game of high octane excitement and devastating violence, Hilketa involves the dismemberment of the opponent's cybernetic bodies in order to pillage their actual human head and run it through the goal as the figurative "ball". It's the perfect cocktail, delivering the ultra-violence that the audience craves, while keeping all of the players safe as disembodied yet sentient heads.

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  Strand Book Store

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  Tuesday, April 24

  7:00pm

  Christine Lahti + Michael Moore

  Over the years, actor and director Christine Lahti has embodied iconic roles in Chicago Hope, Running on Empty, Housekeeping, And Justice for All, Swing Shift, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, God of Carnage, and The Blacklist. Now she’s turning her talent to the literary world. In this collection…

  Over the years, actor and director Christine Lahti has embodied iconic roles in Chicago Hope, Running on Empty, Housekeeping, And Justice for All, Swing Shift, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, God of Carnage, and The Blacklist. Now she’s turning her talent to the literary world.
  
  In this collection of affecting essays, Lahti examines her life, from her childhood, to her start as an actor and activist, and her life as a middle-aged woman in Hollywood today. Her witty and humble writing captures moments in her life, revealing her struggle against her need for perfection, fighting to maintain her integrity as a feminist and as a person.

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  Strand Book Store

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  Tuesday, April 24

  7:30pm

  Lynne Tillman with Lucy Ives and Andrew Durbin

  Award-winning, iconic author and cultural critic Lynne Tillman presents the hotly-anticipated Men and Apparitions, her first novel in 12 years. Why do human beings feel the need to create, remake, and keep images from and of everything? How are we supposed to live amid this glut of images? Men and …

  Award-winning, iconic author and cultural critic Lynne Tillman presents the hotly-anticipated Men and Apparitions, her first novel in 12 years. Why do human beings feel the need to create, remake, and keep images from and of everything? How are we supposed to live amid this glut of images? Men and Apparitions takes on a central question of our time through the wild musings and eventful life of Ezekiel Hooper Stark, cultural anthropologist, ethnographer, specialist in family photographs. Kaleidoscopic and encyclopedic, madcap and wry, Men and Apparitions showcases Lynne Tillman not only as a brilliantly original novelist but as one of our most prominent thinkers on visual art and culture today. Tillman presents her work with a conversation with novelists Lucy Ives (Impossible Views of the World) and Andrew Durbin (Mature Themes).

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  Greenlight Bookstore

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  686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
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  Days in the History of Silence

  by Merethe Lindstrom

  Other Press

  $14.95 List Price

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  Apr 24, 2018

  6:00pm-7:00pm

  Nordic Book Club: Days in the History of Silence by Merethe Lindstrøm

  This month we’re reading Days in the History of Silence by Merethe Lindstrøm. Beneath the surface of a happy marriage, a couple hides painful facts about their own respective histories, from one another as well as from their children. As memories resurface and take on new weight, what are the …

  This month we’re reading Days in the History of Silence by Merethe Lindstrøm. Beneath the surface of a happy marriage, a couple hides painful facts about their own respective histories, from one another as well as from their children. As memories resurface and take on new weight, what are the consequences of mistaking silence for peace?

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  Scandinavia House

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  58 Park Avenue (@ 38th Street), NYC, New York, NY 10016
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  Wednesday, April 25

  7:00pm

  Dani Shapiro on Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage

  The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love. Hourglass is an inquiry into…

  The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love.
  
  Hourglass is an inquiry into how marriage is transformed by time—abraded, strengthened, shaped in miraculous and sometimes terrifying ways by accident and experience. With courage and relentless honesty, Dani Shapiro opens the door to her house, her marriage, and her heart, and invites us to witness her own marital reckoning—a reckoning in which she confronts both the life she dreamed of and the life she made, and struggles to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become.
  
  What are the forces that shape our most elemental bonds? How do we make lifelong commitments in the face of identities that are continuously shifting, and commit ourselves for all time when the self is so often in flux? What happens to love in the face of the unexpected, in the face of disappointment and compromise—how do we wrest beauty from imperfection, find grace in the ordinary, desire what we have rather than what we lack? Drawing on literature, poetry, philosophy, and theology, Shapiro writes gloriously of the joys and challenges of matrimonial life, in a luminous narrative that unfurls with urgent immediacy and sharp intelligence. Artful, intensely emotional work from one of our finest writers.

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  Book Culture

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  Wednesday, April 25

  7:00pm

  The Girl Who Smiled Beads: Clemantine Wamariya

  Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. In 1994, she and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, fled the Rwandan massacre and spent the next …

  Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. In 1994, she and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, fled the Rwandan massacre and spent the next six years migrating through seven African countries, searching for safety—perpetually hungry, imprisoned and abused, enduring and escaping refugee camps, finding unexpected kindness, witnessing inhuman cruelty. They did not know whether their parents were dead or alive.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Look Alive Out There:

  Essays

  by Sloane Crosley

  MCD

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  Wednesday, April 25

  7:30pm

  Thalia Book Club: Sloane Crosley, "Look Alive Out There"

  Essayist and author Sloane Crosley will be joined by award-winning writer Zadie Smith ("Swing Time") in a conversation on Crosley's newest essay collection, "Look Alive Out There." "Look Alive Out There" is a hilarious and poignant essay collection, full of the trademark hilarity, wit, and charm …

  Essayist and author Sloane Crosley will be joined by award-winning writer Zadie Smith ("Swing Time") in a conversation on Crosley's newest essay collection, "Look Alive Out There."
  
  "Look Alive Out There" is a hilarious and poignant essay collection, full of the trademark hilarity, wit, and charm readers will recognize from Crosley's novel "The Clasp" and bestselling collection "I Was Told There'd Be Cake."

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  Symphony Space

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  Wednesday, April 25

  7:30pm

  Patricia Fara with Clara Moskowitz

  Patricia Fara presents A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War In conversation with Clara Moskowitz Patricia Fara, author of Science: A Four Thousand Year History and professor at Cambridge University, presents her latest book on the forgotten suffragists of World War I who…

  Patricia Fara presents A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War
  
  In conversation with Clara Moskowitz
  
  Patricia Fara, author of Science: A Four Thousand Year History and professor at Cambridge University, presents her latest book on the forgotten suffragists of World War I who bravely changed women's roles in the war and paved the way for today's female scientists. In A Lab of One’s Own, Fara reveals the untold stories of the many extraordinary but forgotten female scientists, doctors, and engineers in World War One Britain and the taste of independence, freedom and excitement they experienced during the war years. Fara examines how the bravery of these pioneers, temporarily allowed into a closed world before the door slammed shut again, paved the way for women in science today. Fara presents her work in conversation with Clara Moskowitz, editor of Scientific American Magazine, followed by a signing and Q&A.

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  Greenlight Bookstore

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  Apr 26, 2018

  6:30pm-7:30pm

  Gregory Pardlo and Vievee Francis: Race and Labor in Poetry and Memoir

  On the publication of Pulitzer Prize–winner Gregory Pardlo’s Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America, he joins fellow poet Vievee Francis for a reading and conversation on race and labor. The first prose book by Pardlo, a Ph.D. candidate in English at the GC, focuses on his father’s…

  On the publication of Pulitzer Prize–winner Gregory Pardlo’s Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America, he joins fellow poet Vievee Francis for a reading and conversation on race and labor. The first prose book by Pardlo, a Ph.D. candidate in English at the GC, focuses on his father’s loss of his job in the Air Traffic Controller’s Strike of 1981 and the emotional impact on the family. Francis’ poetry collections include the award-winning Horse in the Dark and Forest Primeval.
  
  
  Presented with the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean.
  
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  The Graduate Center Public Programs (CUNY)

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  Thursday, April 26

  7:00pm

  Amy Wallen on When We Were Ghouls

  When Amy E. Wallen's southern, blue-collar, peripatetic family was transferred from Ely, Nevada, to Lagos, Nigeria, she had just turned seven. From Nevada to Nigeria and on to Peru, Bolivia, and Oklahoma, the family wandered the world, living in a state of constant upheaval. When We Were Ghoulsfollows…

  When Amy E. Wallen's southern, blue-collar, peripatetic family was transferred from Ely, Nevada, to Lagos, Nigeria, she had just turned seven. From Nevada to Nigeria and on to Peru, Bolivia, and Oklahoma, the family wandered the world, living in a state of constant upheaval. When We Were Ghoulsfollows Wallen's recollections of her family who, like ghosts, came and went and slipped through her fingers, rendering her memories unclear. Were they a family of grave robbers, as her memory of the pillaging of a pre-Incan grave site indicates? Are they, as the author's mother posits, "hideous people?" Or is Wallen's memory out of focus?
  
  In this quick-paced and riveting narrative, Wallen exorcizes these haunted memories to clarify the nature of her family and, by extension, her own character. Plumbing the slipperiness of memory and confronting what it means to be a "good" human, When We Were Ghouls links the fear of loss and mortality to childhood ideas of permanence. It is a story about family, surely, but it is also a representation of how a combination of innocence and denial can cause us to neglect our most precious earthly treasures: not just our children but the artifacts of humanity and humanity itself.
  
  Amy E. Wallen is associate director at the New York State Writers Institute and teaches creative writing at the University of California, San Diego Extension. Her first novel, Moon Pies and Movie Stars, was a Los Angeles Times bestseller.

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  Book Culture

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  Thursday, April 26

  7:00pm

  To Throw Away Unopened: Viv Albertine with Joanna Scutts

  At the launch party for her memoir Clothes Music Boys in 2014, Viv Albertine received the news her mother was dying. She left the party immediately and spent a few final hours with a woman who had been an enormous presence and force in her life. In the weeks that followed, Viv was left with the task…

  At the launch party for her memoir Clothes Music Boys in 2014, Viv Albertine received the news her mother was dying. She left the party immediately and spent a few final hours with a woman who had been an enormous presence and force in her life. In the weeks that followed, Viv was left with the task of sorting through her mother's affairs. In that process she came across one fatally curious item: a bag labelled "To throw away unopened." This auspicious moment lies at the heart of Viv Albertine's second book, part memoir, part manifesto, part polemic in which she touches on sex, ageing, feminism (in all its guises) and other conundrums that characterize the 21st century life. It is a bold and unapologetic follow-up to a book which became a sensation by a musician and writer who sits at the heart of the counter-cultural landscape today as a celebrated and feted figure.
  
  Songwriter and musician Viv Albertine was the guitarist in cult female punk band The Slits. She was a key player in British counter-culture before her career in TV and film Directing. Her first solo album The Vermilion Border was released in 2012, and her memoir, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys was a Sunday Times, Mojo, Rough Trade, and NME Book of the Year in 2014.
  
  Joanna Scutts is a literary critic, cultural historian, and author of The Extra Woman (Liveright, 2017).

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Thursday, April 26

  7:00pm

  Stacey Abrams: Minority Leader

  t’s commonly regarded that networking, persistence, and hard work are the ingredients necessary to advance in the world, but for people like Stacey Abrams it takes more than that to make it. Stacey put in the time, rising from humble beginnings and getting through Yale Law School, spending years in…

  t’s commonly regarded that networking, persistence, and hard work are the ingredients necessary to advance in the world, but for people like Stacey Abrams it takes more than that to make it. Stacey put in the time, rising from humble beginnings and getting through Yale Law School, spending years in C-suite businesses, before becoming the first woman to lead a political party in the Georgia General Assembly and the first African American to lead in the House of Representatives. She has succeeded in a world that, until recently, was largely the territory of white men.

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  Strand Book Store

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  Apr 27, 2018

  6:30pm-6:30pm

  Jimmy Carter in the White House: A Talk with Biographer Stuart E. Eizenstat

  Stuart E. Eizenstat was there with Jimmy Carter from his political rise in Georgia through his four years as president, serving as Carter’s chief domestic policy advisor. His new book, "President Carter: The White House Years," gives an insider’s look at the achievements and missteps of an …

  Stuart E. Eizenstat was there with Jimmy Carter from his political rise in Georgia through his four years as president, serving as Carter’s chief domestic policy advisor. His new book, "President Carter: The White House Years," gives an insider’s look at the achievements and missteps of an often-misunderstood presidency. Eizenstat joins in conversation with Kai Bird, executive director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography, who is also writing a biography of Carter.
  
  
  
  Presented with the Leon Levy Center for Biography.
  
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  Friday, April 27

  7:00pm

  ALICE BOLIN: DEAD GIRLS

  In this debut essay collection Alice Bolin addresses one of America's cultural obsessions: dead women in media. From the essays of Joan Didion and James Baldwin to Twin Peaks, Britney Spears, and Serial, Alice studies what it is about these stories that people enjoy. She expertly blends the personal…

  In this debut essay collection Alice Bolin addresses one of America's cultural obsessions: dead women in media. From the essays of Joan Didion and James Baldwin to Twin Peaks, Britney Spears, and Serial, Alice studies what it is about these stories that people enjoy. She expertly blends the personal and political, highlighting the widespread fixation with women who are abused, killed, and disenfranchised, and whose bodies are often reduced props to bolster men’s stories. Smart and thoughtful, Alice's investigation searches for the meaning behind this cultural phenomena, and her own role as a consumer and creator.
  
  Alice's Dead Girls starts by exploring the trope of dead women in fiction, and ends by interrogating the more complex dilemma of living women – both the persistent injustices they suffer and the oppression that white women help perpetrate.

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  Strand Book Store

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  Flying Jenny

  by Theasa Tuohy

  Kaylie Jones Books

  $15.95 List Price

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  Apr 28, 2018

  3:00pm-5:00pm

  Theasa Tuohy Launches FLYING JENNY

  Join Akashic Books and Kaylie Jones Books in the Willa Cather Community Room at the historic Jefferson Market Library as we launch Theasa Tuohy's latest novel, FLYING JENNY! Refreshments will be provided.

  Jefferson Market Library

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  Saturday, April 28

  7:00pm

  The Politics of Borders: Matthew Longo

  Borders sit at the center of global politics. Yet they are too often understood as thin lines, as they appear on maps, rather than as political institutions in their own right. This book takes a detailed look at the evolution of border security in the United States after 9/11. Far from the walls and…

  Borders sit at the center of global politics. Yet they are too often understood as thin lines, as they appear on maps, rather than as political institutions in their own right. This book takes a detailed look at the evolution of border security in the United States after 9/11. Far from the walls and fences that dominate the news, it reveals borders to be thick, multi-faceted and binational institutions that have evolved greatly in recent decades. The book contributes to debates within political science on sovereignty, citizenship, cosmopolitanism, human rights and global justice. In particular, the new politics of borders reveal a sovereignty that is not waning, but changing, expanding beyond the state carapace and engaging certain logics of empire.
  
  Matthew Longo is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Leiden University. He received his PhD with distinction from Yale University in 2014 and was awarded the Leo Strauss Award for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in Political Philosophy, given by the American Political Science Association. In addition to his book, The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11 (Cambridge University Press, 2018), his writing has appeared in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, L.A. Times and Christian Science Monitor and been featured in the Washington Post and on NPR.

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  Sunday, April 29

  6:00pm

  Launching Leila Sales's If You Don't Have Anything Nice To Say

  In this timely and discussable young adult novel, a well-respected high school girl becomes the object of public Internet shaming after writing an offensive tweet that goes viral. This provocative and relevant young adult novel is about Winter, a one-time National Spelling Bee Champ with a bright …

  In this timely and discussable young adult novel, a well-respected high school girl becomes the object of public Internet shaming after writing an offensive tweet that goes viral.
  
  This provocative and relevant young adult novel is about Winter, a one-time National Spelling Bee Champ with a bright future ahead of her. That all changes after she haphazardly writes an offensive tweet that she thought was a harmless joke. What unfolds is a barrage of Internet shaming and rejection from her community and closest friends. Winter seeks to redeem herself but first must come to terms with what she wrote and understand why there was so much backlash.
  
  Written with Leila Sale's trademark humor and keen eye for observation, If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say deftly explores issues of microaggressions, culpability, and the boundaries of forgiveness.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Apr 30, 2018

  6:30pm-6:30pm

  How NYC Became America's Cultural Capital

  Morris Dickstein, author of "Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression" and distinguished professor emeritus at the GC, speaks with four scholars who explore how and why New York City became a national and global citadel for the arts in the 20th century. How have painters, …

  Morris Dickstein, author of "Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression" and distinguished professor emeritus at the GC, speaks with four scholars who explore how and why New York City became a national and global citadel for the arts in the 20th century. How have painters, filmmakers, writers, and others shaped the world's view of Gotham? Featuring: Julia L. Foulkes ("A Place for Us: West Side Story and New York"), Fran Leadon ("Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles"), Christoph Lindner ("Imagining New York City: Literature, Urbanism, and the Visual Arts, 1890-1940"), and Robert A. Slayton ("Beauty in the City: The Ashcan School").
  
  
  Presented with the Gotham Center for NYC History.
  
  Free; reservations required.

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  The Graduate Center Public Programs (CUNY)

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  Apr 30, 2018

  6:30pm-6:30pm

  How NYC Became America's Cultural Capital

  Morris Dickstein, author of "Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression" and distinguished professor emeritus at the GC, speaks with four scholars who explore how and why New York City became a national and global citadel for the arts in the 20th century. How have painters, …

  Morris Dickstein, author of "Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression" and distinguished professor emeritus at the GC, speaks with four scholars who explore how and why New York City became a national and global citadel for the arts in the 20th century. How have painters, filmmakers, writers, and others shaped the world's view of Gotham? Featuring: Julia L. Foulkes ("A Place for Us: West Side Story and New York"), Fran Leadon ("Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles"), Christoph Lindner ("Imagining New York City: Literature, Urbanism, and the Visual Arts, 1890-1940"), and Robert A. Slayton ("Beauty in the City: The Ashcan School").
  
  
  Presented with the Gotham Center for NYC History.
  
  Free; reservations required.

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  The Graduate Center Public Programs (CUNY)

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  Cruel Is the Night

  by Karo Hamalainen

  translation by Owen Witesman

  Soho Crime

  $25.95 List Price

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  Apr 30, 2018

  7:00pm-8:00pm

  Cruel Is The Night- Book Talk With Karo Hämäläinen

  Join us for a book talk with prizewinning Finnish author Karo Hämäläinen on his English-language debut, Cruel Is The Night.
  
  Translator Owen F. Witesman joins us for the book talk. Following the discussion, copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.

  Scandinavia House

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  6:30pm

  Roasted: The History of Coffee in NYCRoasted: The History of Coffee in NYC

  From Arbuckle Coffee to Brooklyn Roasting Company, coffee has been at the center of Brooklyn life for well over a century. Join historian Steven Jaffe; coffee impresario and owner of Gillies Coffee Company (which was founded in 1840) Donald Schoenholt; Brooklyn Roasting Company’s Jim Munson; and Erin…

  From Arbuckle Coffee to Brooklyn Roasting Company, coffee has been at the center of Brooklyn life for well over a century. Join historian Steven Jaffe; coffee impresario and owner of Gillies Coffee Company (which was founded in 1840) Donald Schoenholt; Brooklyn Roasting Company’s Jim Munson; and Erin Meister, author of New York City Coffee: A Caffeinated History, for a conversation about the love affair that wakes us up every morning

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  Brooklyn Historical Society

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  Monday, April 30

  7:00pm

  Matt Waggoner on Unhoused

  Unhoused: Adorno and the Problem of Dwelling is the first book-length study of Theodor Adorno as a philosopher of housing. Treating his own experience of exile as emblematic of late modern life, Adorno observed that twentieth-century dwelling had been rendered “impossible” by nativism, by the …

  Unhoused: Adorno and the Problem of Dwelling is the first book-length study of Theodor Adorno as a philosopher of housing. Treating his own experience of exile as emblematic of late modern life, Adorno observed that twentieth-century dwelling had been rendered “impossible” by nativism, by the decimations of war, and, in the postwar period, by housing’s increasingly thorough assimilation into private property. Adorno’s position on the meaning and prospects for adequate dwelling—a concept he never wrote about systematically but nevertheless returned to frequently—was not that some invulnerable state of home or dwelling should be revived. Rather, Adorno believed that the only responsible approach to housing was to cultivate an ethic of displacement, to learn “how not to be at home in one’s home.”
  
  Unhoused tracks four figurations of troubled dwelling in Adorno’s texts—homelessness, no man’s lands, the nature theater, and the ironic property relation—and reads them as timely interventions and challenges for today’s architecture, housing, and senses of belonging. Entangled as we are in juridical and financial frameworks that adhere to a very different logic, these figurations ask what it means to organize, design, build, and cohabit in ways that enliven non-exclusive relations to ourselves, others, objects, and place.
  
  Matt Waggoner is professor of philosophy and humanities at Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, Connecticut. A graduate of the Program in History of Consciousness at University of California, Santa Cruz, his articles appear in journals of cultural and critical theory such as Telos, Theory and Event, New Formations, Constellations, Critical Horizons, and others.

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  Book Culture

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  Monday, April 30

  7:00pm

  Charles Salzberg on Second Story Man

  Is a serial criminal good at his job? Are the detectives who hunt him determined to win? How different are these three calculating personalities or is the only thing that sets them apart whether they operate inside or outside of the law? In Charles Salzberg's critically-acclaimed literary thriller…

  Is a serial criminal good at his job? Are the detectives who hunt him determined to win? How different are these three calculating personalities or is the only thing that sets them apart whether they operate inside or outside of the law?
  
  In Charles Salzberg's critically-acclaimed literary thriller Devil in the Hole, detective Charlie Floyd was obsessed with catching an abominable murderer. Now not-so comfortably settled into being recently retired, he is abruptly drawn back into the game by Cuban-born Miami police detective Manny Perez, who is on a mission to catch a notoriously elusive thief. Knowing how attached Floyd can become to a suspect, Perez is going to enjoy watching him work in Salzberg's new crime novel, SECOND STORY MAN.
  
  Charles Salzberg is a novelist, journalist, and acclaimed writing instructor. He is the author of the Henry Swann detective series, including Swann’s Last Song which was nominated for a Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel and Devil in the Hole, which was named one of the best crime novels of 2013 by Suspense magazine. He has taught writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Hunter College, the Writer’s Voice, and the New York Writers Workshop, where he is a Founding Member. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, Esquire, New York Magazine, and GQ. He lives in New York City.

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  Book Culture

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  Monday, April 30

  7:00pm

  A Wilder Time: William E. Glassley

  A veteran geologist recounts time spent studying Greenland's remarkable landscape during a series of six expeditions. Whether William Glassley is writing about the magnitude of the landscape, the silence that permeates each day, mirages, lichen, falcons, gulls, ptarmigan, fish, ice, or tidal currents,…

  A veteran geologist recounts time spent studying Greenland's remarkable landscape during a series of six expeditions. Whether William Glassley is writing about the magnitude of the landscape, the silence that permeates each day, mirages, lichen, falcons, gulls, ptarmigan, fish, ice, or tidal currents, his descriptions capture the majesty of the area. Just as captivating are Glassley's detailed explanations of the complex geologic processes that formed this incredible environment. He conveys the significance of shear zones, straight belts, "root" zones, and the feeling of standing in the middle of a molten rock chamber formed 65 million years ago 10 miles below the surface of the Earth. The author's final thoughts regarding the preservation of wilderness are especially poignant within our current turbulent environmental, political, and cultural arenas. "With infinite hubris," he writes, "the modern world is imposing the consequences of its industrial avarice on lifestyles it knows nothing of. The moral bankruptcy of the rationalizations for the destruction of wilderness and the people who live in harmony with it is staggering." A superb tool for a better understanding of the natural world and why real science matters.
  
  "Very few people have spent as much time as William E. Glassley in such deep wilderness. So it would behoove us to pay attention even if he had not brought back such a fascinating, lovely, and useful set of observations. This is a remarkable book." —Bill McKibben
  
  William E. Glassley is a geologist at the University of California, Davis, and an emeritus researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark, focusing on the evolution of continents and the processes that energize them. He is the author of over seventy research articles and a textbook on geothermal energy. A Wilder Time is his first book for a general audience. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Monday, April 30

  7:00pm

  Nomi Prins: Collusion

  The 2008 financial crisis started a chain reaction that boosted the influence of central bankers and caused a massive shift in the world order. Central banks and institutions are overstepping the boundaries of their mandates and directing the flow of money without any restrictions. Meanwhile, the …

  The 2008 financial crisis started a chain reaction that boosted the influence of central bankers and caused a massive shift in the world order. Central banks and institutions are overstepping the boundaries of their mandates and directing the flow of money without any restrictions. Meanwhile, the cozy relationship between private and central banking ensures boundless manipulation with government support.

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  Strand Book Store

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  Tuesday, May 1

  7:00pm

  Motherhood: Sheila Heti

  Motherhood: Sheila Heti In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman becomes a mother, treating the most consequential decision of early adulthood with the candor, originality, and humor that have won Heti international acclaim and made How Should A Person Be? required…

  Motherhood: Sheila Heti
  
  In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman becomes a mother, treating the most consequential decision of early adulthood with the candor, originality, and humor that have won Heti international acclaim and made How Should A Person Be? required reading for a generation.
  
  In her late thirties, when her friends are asking when they will become mothers, the narrator of Heti's intimate and urgent novel considers whether she will do so at all. In a narrative spanning several years, casting among the influence of her peers, partner, and her duties to her forbearers, she struggles to make a wise and moral choice.After seeking guidance from philosophy, her body, mysticism, and chance, she discovers her answer much closer to home.
  
  Sheila Heti is the author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction, including How Should a Person Be? which was a New York Times Notable Book and was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker. She is co-editor of the New York Times bestseller Women in Clothes, and is the former Interviews Editor for The Believer magazine. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The London Review of Books, The Paris Review, McSweeney's, Harper's, and n+1.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Tuesday, May 1

  7:00pm

  H JON BENJAMIN: FAILURE IS AN OPTION

  H. Jon Benjamin is widely considered a comedy show success, but he'd like to remind everyone that as great as success can be, failure is also an option. And maybe the best option. Breaking down one's natural ability to succeed is not an easy task, but also not an impossible one. Society as we know…

  H. Jon Benjamin is widely considered a comedy show success, but he'd like to remind everyone that as great as success can be, failure is also an option. And maybe the best option.
  
  Breaking down one's natural ability to succeed is not an easy task, but also not an impossible one. Society as we know it is, unfortunately, opposes failure. If failure became more accepted it would make the world a different place, a kinder, gentler place, where gardens are overgrown and most people stay home with their pets. A vision of failure, but also a vision of freedom.
  
  With stories, examples of artistic and literary failure, and a powerful can't-do attitude, Failure Is an Option is the book the world doesn't need right now but will get regardless.
  
  H. Jon Benjamin is an actor, voice actor and stand-up comedian, best known for voicing characters, including Sterling Archer in Archer, Bob Belcher in Bob’s Burgers, Dr. Katz in Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, Coach McGuirk and Jason in Home Movies, and a can of mixed vegetable in the film Wet Hot American Summer.

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  Strand Book Store

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  Tuesday, May 1

  7:30pm

  Joana Avillez + Molly Young in the 2nd floor art department

  There are few cities that can compare with New York City; it’s an almost magical place teeming with life and overflowing with stories. Writers and illustrators have worked for centuries to capture the city in some form. D C-T! (“The City!”) is Molly Young and Joana Avillez’s own ode to NYC and homage…

  There are few cities that can compare with New York City; it’s an almost magical place teeming with life and overflowing with stories. Writers and illustrators have worked for centuries to capture the city in some form. D C-T! (“The City!”) is Molly Young and Joana Avillez’s own ode to NYC and homage to beloved illustrator William Steig.

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  Strand Book Store

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  Tuesday, May 1

  7:30pm

  Dev Aujla

  Dev Aujla presents 50 Ways to Get a Job: An Unconventional Guide to Finding Work on Your Terms Greenlight neighbor and CEO of recruiting firm Catalog Dev Aujla builds on years of experience to present a discussion and workshop that pulls back the curtain on work, career, and the ever-fluctuating …

  Dev Aujla presents 50 Ways to Get a Job: An Unconventional Guide to Finding Work on Your Terms
  
  Greenlight neighbor and CEO of recruiting firm Catalog Dev Aujla builds on years of experience to present a discussion and workshop that pulls back the curtain on work, career, and the ever-fluctuating and ever-maddening job market. Aujla’s new book, 50 Ways to Get a Job, based on his popular website of the same name, offers practical, tangible steps to finding (and getting) the right job. Filled with anecdotes and advice from professionals ranging from a wilderness guide to an architect, it includes quick-step exercises that helps one avoid the common pitfalls of navigating a modern career. Aujla presents his new book, and discusses his tried-and-tested methods, personalized for individual job seekers, at tonight’s event.

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  Greenlight Bookstore

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  A World to Win:

  The Life and Thought of Karl Marx

  by Sven-Eric Liedman

  Verso

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  May 1, 2018

  7:00pm-8:00pm

  The Life And Works Of Karl Marx, Book Talk With Sven-Eric Liedman

  Sven-Eric Liedman joins us to discuss his new book, A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx, published on the 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth. In this essential new biography — the first to give equal weight to both the work and life of Karl Marx — Liedman expertly navigates the imposing,…

  Sven-Eric Liedman joins us to discuss his new book, A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx, published on the 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth. In this essential new biography — the first to give equal weight to both the work and life of Karl Marx — Liedman expertly navigates the imposing, complex personality of his subject through the turbulent passages of global history. A World to Win follows Marx through childhood and student days, a difficult and sometimes tragic family life, his far-sighted journalism, and his enduring friendship and intellectual partnership with Friedrich Engels.

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  Scandinavia House

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  Wednesday, May 2

  7:00pm

  Amy Poeppel on Limelight

  In a smart and funny new novel by the author of the critically acclaimed, "big-hearted, charming" (The Washington Post) Small Admissions, a family's move to New York City brings surprises and humor as their lives merge with the captivating world of Broadway. Allison Brinkley—wife, mother, and former…

  In a smart and funny new novel by the author of the critically acclaimed, "big-hearted, charming" (The Washington Post) Small Admissions, a family's move to New York City brings surprises and humor as their lives merge with the captivating world of Broadway.
  
  Allison Brinkley—wife, mother, and former unflappable optimist—discovers that a carefully weighed decision to pack up and move her family from suburban Dallas to the glittery chaos of Manhattan may have been more complicated than she and her husband initially thought.
  
  Allison learns that New York is unruly and bewildering, defying the notions she developed from romantic movies and a memorable childhood visit. After a humiliating call from the principal's office and the loss of the job she was counting on, Allison begins to accept that New York may not suit her after all.
  
  When Allison has a fender-bender, witnessed by a flock of mothers at her son's new school, she is led to the penthouse apartment of a luxurious Central Park West building and encounters a spoiled, hungover, unsupervised teenager who looks familiar. It doesn't take long to recognize him as Carter Reid—a famous pop star who has been cast in a new Broadway musical. Through this brush with stardom, Allison embraces a unique and unexpected opportunity that helps her find her way in the heart of Manhattan.
  
  In a book that delivers laughs, warmth, and delightful wish fulfillment, Poeppel dives into celebrity culture and modern motherhood with her trademark "quick-witted and razor-sharp" (Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Maybe in Another Life) style.

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  Book Culture

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  Wednesday, May 2

  7:00pm

  The Garbage Times: Sam Pink with Jonny Diamond

  From the freezing alleys of Chicago to the dew-blanketed bayou of Florida. From bouncing drunks and cleaning up puke to biking through the swamp laughing at peacocks. Freeze to thaw. Filth and broken glass and black water backed up in showers; lizards and Girl Scouts and themed birthday parties. A …

  From the freezing alleys of Chicago to the dew-blanketed bayou of Florida. From bouncing drunks and cleaning up puke to biking through the swamp laughing at peacocks. Freeze to thaw. Filth and broken glass and black water backed up in showers; lizards and Girl Scouts and themed birthday parties. A baby rat freed from the bottom of a dumpster becomes a white ibis wandering the wet driveway after a storm. Goodbye, hello, goodbye. It was the garbage times; it was time for something else. A tale of two tales, connected by a mysterious sunlit portal.
  
  “I love the pulse of Sam Pink’s sentences, the way they can hold the gorgeous and the grisly and the hilarious all at the same time. The Garbage Times/White Ibis thrilled me and messed me up, left me feeling a little dazed and a lot changed.”
  
  —Laura van den Berg
  
  "Sam Pink is the most important writer in America. This isn't hyperbole. In a world of literary Bing Crosbys, Sam Pink is our Little Richard. The Garbage Times/White Ibis is the voice of the new writing underground."
  
  —Scott McClanahan
  
  Sam Pink’s books include Witch Piss, Rontel, Hurt Others, The No Hellos Diet, and Person. His writing has been published widely in print and on the internet, and translated into other languages. He lives near Tampa, Florida, and sells paintings from instagram.com/sampinkart.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Wednesday, May 2

  7:30pm

  JENNIFER ZEYNAB JOUKHADAR: THE MAP OF SALT AND STARS ON 2

  A beautiful and heart-rending tale, The Map of Salt and Stars follows the lives of two young women from Syria who undergo very similar geographical journeys, albeit 800 years apart. After tragedy befalls her immediate family, Nour, her sisters and their cartographer mother emigrate back to Syria to…

  A beautiful and heart-rending tale, The Map of Salt and Stars follows the lives of two young women from Syria who undergo very similar geographical journeys, albeit 800 years apart. After tragedy befalls her immediate family, Nour, her sisters and their cartographer mother emigrate back to Syria to stay closer to the rest of the family. Unfortunately, the country that Nour's mother once knew is changing rapidly. Shelling and violence eventually force their hand, and they embark on a journey across numerous countries in the Middle East and North Africa in hopes of reaching safety.
  
  Meanwhile, 800 years in the past, 16 year old Riwaya seeks to help support her impoverished and widowed mother by disguising as a boy and becoming a cartographer's apprentice. Her master, al-Idrisi has been commissioned by Sicily's King Roger II to draft a map of the world. Together, they too journey across North Africa and the Middle East, encountering strange creatures, danger, and individuals who have been immortalized in history. As the two young women travel their mirrored paths, readers are immersed in the rich and diverse cultures of the regions.

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  Strand Book Store

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  The Ministry of Utmost Happiness:

  A novel

  by Arundhati Roy

  Knopf

  $28.95 List Price

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  Wednesday, May 2

  7:30pm

  Arundhati Roy presents "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness"

  BPL Presents is proud to partner with Greenlight Books to host Arundhati Roy for the paperback launch of her bestselling and award-winning novel "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness." A dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of "The God of Small Things." "The Ministry…

  BPL Presents is proud to partner with Greenlight Books to host Arundhati Roy for the paperback launch of her bestselling and award-winning novel "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness."
  
  A dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of "The God of Small Things." "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness" takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent—from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond, where war is peace and peace is war.
  
  It is an aching love story and a decisive remonstration, a story told in a whisper, in a shout, through unsentimental tears and sometimes with a bitter laugh. Each of its characters is indelibly, tenderly rendered. Its heroes are people who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued, patched together by acts of love—and by hope.
  
  Each $19 ticket includes admission to the event, as well as a paperback copy of "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness;" books are distributed at the event. Roy will sign books following the discussion.

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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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