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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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  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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  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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  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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  Days in the History of Silence

  by Merethe Lindstrom

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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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  Saturday, December 15

  12:00pm

  What the Dickens? Ninth Annual "A Christmas Carol" Marathon Reading

  Join dozens of terrific writers and performers for a reading of Charles Dickens’s holiday classic, "A Christmas Carol". Drop in early and often to catch a selection of performers, or linger through the afternoon for the whole, spirited tale. All books and merchandise are 10% off, and the cafe will …

  Join dozens of terrific writers and performers for a reading of Charles Dickens’s holiday classic, "A Christmas Carol". Drop in early and often to catch a selection of performers, or linger through the afternoon for the whole, spirited tale. All books and merchandise are 10% off, and the cafe will be stocked with seasonal specials. Finish your Christmas shopping with unique literary finds, have some festive treats from our cafe with a hot cocoa or a glass of mulled wine, and enjoy!
  
  Festivities will kick off at 12PM with Christmas caroling from members of the New York City Master Chorale. The reading of "A Christmas Carol" will begin at 1PM and end at approximately 4:30PM.
  
  This year we have some veteran Dickensians, as well as plenty of new faces, including:
  
  Megan Abbott
  
  Scott Adsit
  
  Mike Albo
  
  Jami Attenberg
  
  Sandra Bauleo
  
  Tara Isabella Burton
  
  Alexander Chee
  
  Vinson Cunningham
  
  Maria Dahvana Headley
  
  Marcy Dermansky
  
  Jo Firestone
  
  Angela Flournoy
  
  Alice Gregory
  
  Jill Hennessy
  
  Suki Kim
  
  Maris Kreizman
  
  Victor LaValle
  
  Min Jin Lee
  
  Lisa Lucas
  
  Noreen Malone
  
  Leon Neyfakh
  
  Max Read
  
  Rosie Schaap
  
  Elissa Schappell
  
  Rob Spillman
  
  J. Courtney Sullivan
  
  Sarah Weinman
  
  & more!

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  Sunday, December 16

  11:00am

  On Translating the Bible with Sarah Ruden

  What was the Bible really like to its early readers?

  92nd Street Y

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  Sunday, December 16

  11:00am

  On Translating the Bible with Sarah Ruden

  What was the Bible really like to its early readers? In The Face of Water, Sarah Ruden, celebrated translator of Classical Greek and Roman literature (Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, Virgil’s Aeneid, The Golden Ass of Apuleius) engages with scripture, reconstructing the intense poetic and dramatic effects…

  What was the Bible really like to its early readers?
  
  In The Face of Water, Sarah Ruden, celebrated translator of Classical Greek and Roman literature (Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, Virgil’s Aeneid, The Golden Ass of Apuleius) engages with scripture, reconstructing the intense poetic and dramatic effects and the fascinating historical context of the original Hebrew and Greek texts. “There is no call to action here: just a deep reveling in the words of scripture that we know more thinly than we’d like,” wrote James C. Howell.

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  Monday, December 17

  8:00pm

  Esmeralda Santiago

  In its second collaboration with Latino USA, the Peabody Award-winning public radio program and podcast, the Poetry Center presents an evening with Esmeralda Santiago, whose beloved memoir When I Was Puerto Rican, a coming-of-age tale of American migration that has drawn comparison to A Tree Grows …

  In its second collaboration with Latino USA, the Peabody Award-winning public radio program and podcast, the Poetry Center presents an evening with Esmeralda Santiago, whose beloved memoir When I Was Puerto Rican, a coming-of-age tale of American migration that has drawn comparison to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Call It Sleep, celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2018.

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  Monday, December 17

  8:00pm

  Esmeralda Santiago

  In its second collaboration with Latino USA, the Peabody Award-winning public radio program and podcast, the Poetry Center presents an evening with Esmeralda Santiago, whose beloved memoir When I Was Puerto Rican, a coming-of-age tale of American migration that has drawn comparison to A Tree Grows …

  In its second collaboration with Latino USA, the Peabody Award-winning public radio program and podcast, the Poetry Center presents an evening with Esmeralda Santiago, whose beloved memoir When I Was Puerto Rican, a coming-of-age tale of American migration that has drawn comparison to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Call It Sleep, celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2018.

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  Tuesday, December 18

  7:00pm

  The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon

  Dexter Gordon the icon is the Dexter beloved and celebrated on albums, on film and in jazz lore—even in a street named for him in Copenhagen. But this image of the cool jazzman fails to come to terms with the multidimensional man full of humor and wisdom, a figure who struggled to reconcile being …

  Dexter Gordon the icon is the Dexter beloved and celebrated on albums, on film and in jazz lore—even in a street named for him in Copenhagen. But this image of the cool jazzman fails to come to terms with the multidimensional man full of humor and wisdom, a figure who struggled to reconcile being both a creative outsider who broke the rules and a comforting insider who was a son, father, husband, and world citizen. Join Dexter’s widow, Maxine Gordon, as she attempts to fill in the gaps created by our misperceptions as well as the gaps left by Dexter himself.

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  Thursday, December 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.
  
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  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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  Friday, December 28

  7:00pm

  Invasions: Calvin Gimpelevich and Friends (PRINCE STREET)

  A body-swapping personal trainer and her trans girlfriend turn to a life of crime. A man mourning his dead lover becomes trapped in the mind of the leader of a bathhouse raid. A trans man, recovering from top surgery paid for with a stolen credit card, finds strange connection and condemnation among…

  A body-swapping personal trainer and her trans girlfriend turn to a life of crime. A man mourning his dead lover becomes trapped in the mind of the leader of a bathhouse raid. A trans man, recovering from top surgery paid for with a stolen credit card, finds strange connection and condemnation among his fellow patients. The fifteen stories in this debut fiction collection from author Calvin Gimpelevich move in the borderlands between realism and surrealism, investigating gender, class, relationships, and the powers we still hold within spaces of powerlessness. They articulate the invasions we commit, the invitations we receive to cross over into another person's world.
  
  "Invasions blew my mind. Flipping between speculative worlds deeply rooted in realness and emotion and more familiar landscapes that tip on the edges of personal apocalypses, Gimpelevich's writing is strong and sure, taking us places we really haven't been. I'm hooked.” —Michelle Tea
  
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  Friday, January 4

  12:00pm

  Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy Doug Ecklund and Ian Alteveer

  Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy Doug Ecklund and Ian Alteveer For the last 50 years, artists have explored the hidden operations of power and the symbiotic suspicion between the government and its citizens that haunts Western democracies. Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy, on…

  Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy
  
  Doug Ecklund and Ian Alteveer
  
  For the last 50 years, artists have explored the hidden operations of power and the symbiotic suspicion between the government and its citizens that haunts Western democracies.
  
  Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy, on display at The Met Breuer through January 6, 2019, is the first major exhibition to tackle this perennially provocative topic. It traces the simultaneous development of two kinds of art about conspiracy.
  
  Curators Doug Ecklund and Ian Alteveer explore this art ranging from painting and sculpture to photography, video, and installation art, from 1969 to 2016, presenting an alternate history of postwar and contemporary art that is also an archaeology of our troubled times.

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  Tuesday, January 8

  7:00pm

  RENIQUA ALLEN: IT WAS ALL A DREAM

  In It Was All a Dream, Reniqua Allen tells the stories of Black millennials searching for a better future in spite of racist policies that have closed off traditional versions of success. Many watched their parents and grandparents play by the rules, only to sink deeper and deeper into debt. They …

  In It Was All a Dream, Reniqua Allen tells the stories of Black millennials searching for a better future in spite of racist policies that have closed off traditional versions of success. Many watched their parents and grandparents play by the rules, only to sink deeper and deeper into debt. They witnessed their elders fight to escape cycles of oppression for more promising prospects, largely to no avail. Today, in this post-Obama era, they face a critical turning point.
  
  Interweaving her own experience with those of young Black Americans in cities and towns from New York to Los Angeles and Bluefield, West Virginia to Chicago, Allen shares surprising stories of hope and ingenuity. Instead of accepting downward mobility, Black millennials are flipping the script and rejecting White America's standards. Whether it means moving away from cities and heading South, hustling in the entertainment industry, challenging ideas about gender and sexuality, or building activist networks, they are determined to forge their own path.
  
  Compassionate and deeply reported, It Was All a Dream is a celebration of a generation's doggedness against all odds, as they fight for a country in which their dreams can become a reality.

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  Wednesday, January 9

  12:00pm

  The American News Media: How It Got This Way

  Everyone seems to have an opinion about what the U.S. news media does wrong or (occasionally) right. But few understand how journalists adopted the values that have guided their coverage for decades. Journalism professor and historian Matthew Pressman shows how the upheaval of the 1960s and 70s gave…

  Everyone seems to have an opinion about what the U.S. news media does wrong or (occasionally) right.
  
  But few understand how journalists adopted the values that have guided their coverage for decades. Journalism professor and historian Matthew Pressman shows how the upheaval of the 1960s and 70s gave birth to the kind of press we take for granted today: a press that interprets the news, challenges the powerful, caters to its audience, and adheres to a set of liberal values.

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  Wednesday, January 9

  7:00pm

  JORAM PIATIGORSKY: THE SPEED OF DARK

  The Speed of Dark (Adelaide Books) reveals how the author – his mother the baroness Jacqueline de Rothschild, and his father the world-renowned cellist Gregor Piatigorsky – broke the chain of his lineage of art, music and banking to establish an important career in science. As he strayed from the …

  The Speed of Dark (Adelaide Books) reveals how the author – his mother the baroness Jacqueline de Rothschild, and his father the world-renowned cellist Gregor Piatigorsky – broke the chain of his lineage of art, music and banking to establish an important career in science. As he strayed from the well-trodden scientific path to examine the eyes of jellyfish and other little-studied species, Joram learned that science, like music, has many poetic aspects. In this contemplative memoir, we learn that science and art are two sides to one coin. Keeping our mind open to such paradoxes and possibilities, we are invited to ponder seemingly absurd questions that may someday have answers, such as: “what about the speed of dark?”
  
  Join us in the Rare Book Room as Joram reads from his memoir, and his nephew, cellist Evan Drachman, head of The Piatigorsky Foundation in Manhattan, will perform.
  
  Joram Piatigorsky, the first American citizen in his family, was born in Elizabethtown, New York, five months after his French mother and Russian father escaped Europe the day France declared war on Nazi Germany in 1939. During his 50-year career in science, he established the Laboratory of Molecular and Developmental Biology at the National Eye Institute, published some 300 scientific articles, authored Gene Sharing and Evolution summarizing his research, lectured worldwide, received numerous research awards, including the prestigious Helen Keller Prize for vision research, served on a number of scientific editorial, advisory and funding panels, and trained a generation of scientists. An emeritus scientist at the National Eye Institute since 2009, he writes a blog on his website (joramp.com), has published a series of personal essays and a novel, Jellyfish Have Eyes. He is on the Board of Directors of The Writer’s Center in Bethesda and an avid collector of Inuit art. He can be contacted at joram@joramp.com.
  
  Cellist Evan Drachman, Founder and Artistic Director of The Piatigorsky Foundation, has combined musical talent with artistic vision to create a rich and varied career. Mr. Drachman spends much of his time performing recitals, concerti and chamber music in the United States and abroad. As Artistic Director of The Piatigorsky Foundation, he has become one of this country’s most respected authorities on the presentation of live classical music to diverse audiences. The Foundation’s mission is to make live classical music a part of the fabric of everyday life for underserved communities throughout the United States. The organization is named for Mr. Drachman’s grandfather, cellist Gregor Piatigorsky.
  
  Admission Options: This event is free to attend. Please RSVP online. The event will be located in the Strand's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at our store at 828 Broadway at 12th Street.

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  Thursday, January 10

  7:00pm

  Matt Zoller Seitz + Alan Sepinwall: The Sopranos Sessions

  On January 10, 1999, a mobster walked into a psychiatrist’s office and changed TV history. By shattering preconceptions about the kinds of stories the medium should tell, The Sopranos launched our current age of prestige television, paving the way for such giants as Mad Men, The Wire, Breaking Bad,…

  On January 10, 1999, a mobster walked into a psychiatrist’s office and changed TV history. By shattering preconceptions about the kinds of stories the medium should tell, The Sopranos launched our current age of prestige television, paving the way for such giants as Mad Men, The Wire, Breaking Bad, and Game of Thrones. As TV critics for Tony Soprano’s hometown paper, New Jersey’s The Star-Ledger, Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz were among the first to write about the series before it became a cultural phenomenon.
  
  To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the show’s debut, Sepinwall and Seitz have reunited to produce The Sopranos Sessions, a collection of recaps, conversations, and critical essays covering every episode. Featuring a series of new long-form interviews with series creator David Chase, as well as selections from the authors’ archival writing on the series, The Sopranos Sessions explores the show’s artistry, themes, and legacy, examining its portrayal of Italian Americans, its graphic depictions of violence, and its deep connections to other cinematic and television classics.
  
  Join us in the Rare Book Room as Matt and Alan discuss, share, and sign their latest book

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  Thursday, January 10

  7:30pm

  Lili Anolik: Hollywood's Eve

  Thursday January 10 | 7:30PM - 8:30PM Under-known and under-read during her career, Eve Babitz has recently experienced a breakthrough. Now in her mid-seventies, she’s on the cusp of literary stardom and recognition as an essential—as the essential—LA writer. Her prose achieves that American ideal:…

  Thursday January 10 | 7:30PM - 8:30PM
  
  Under-known and under-read during her career, Eve Babitz has recently experienced a breakthrough. Now in her mid-seventies, she’s on the cusp of literary stardom and recognition as an essential—as the essential—LA writer. Her prose achieves that American ideal: art that stays loose, maintains its cool, and is so sheerly enjoyable as to be mistaken for simple entertainment.
  
  For Babitz, life was slow days, fast company until a freak fire in the 90s turned her into a recluse, living in a condo in West Hollywood, where Lili Anolik tracked her down in 2012. Anolik’s elegant and provocative new book is equal parts biography and detective story. It is also on dangerously intimate terms with its subject: artist, writer, muse, and one-woman zeitgeist, Eve Babitz.
  
  Lili Anolik is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Her work has also appeared in Harper’s, Esquire, and The Believer. She is the author of Hollywood's Eve and lives in New York City with her husband and two small sons.

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  Books Are Magic

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  Friday, January 11

  7:30pm

  Laura Sims: Looker

  In this taut and thrilling debut, an unraveling woman, unhappily childless and recently separated, becomes fixated on her neighbor—the beautiful, famous actress. The unnamed narrator can’t help noticing with wry irony that, though she and the actress live just a few doors apart, they are separated …

  In this taut and thrilling debut, an unraveling woman, unhappily childless and recently separated, becomes fixated on her neighbor—the beautiful, famous actress. The unnamed narrator can’t help noticing with wry irony that, though she and the actress live just a few doors apart, they are separated by a chasm of professional success and personal fulfillment. The actress, a celebrity with her face on the side of every bus, shares a gleaming brownstone with her handsome husband and their three adorable children, while the narrator, working in a dead-end job, lives in a run-down, three-story walk-up with her ex-husband’s cat.
  
  When an interaction with the actress at the annual block party takes a disastrous turn, what began as an innocent preoccupation spirals quickly, and lethally, into a frightening and irretrievable madness. Darkly witty and searingly sharp, Looker is enormously entertaining—part tightly coiled Hitchcockian thriller and part send-up of life in the Instagram-ready city. Driven by a fresh and fearlessly original voice, this slender novel packs a powerful punch.
  
  Laura Sims is the author of Looker, a novel; four books of poetry, most recently Staying Alive; and the editor of Fare Forward: Letters from David Markson. She lives outside of New York City with her family.
  
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  Monday, January 14

  7:00pm

  KRISTEN ROUPENIAN: YOU KNOW YOU WANT THIS

  You Know You Want This brilliantly explores the ways in which women are horrifying as much as it captures the horrors that are done to them. Among its pages are a couple who becomes obsessed with their friend hearing them have sex, then seeing them have sex…until they can’t have sex without him; a …

  You Know You Want This brilliantly explores the ways in which women are horrifying as much as it captures the horrors that are done to them. Among its pages are a couple who becomes obsessed with their friend hearing them have sex, then seeing them have sex…until they can’t have sex without him; a ten-year-old whose birthday party takes a sinister turn when she wishes for “something mean”; a woman who finds a book of spells half hidden at the library and summons her heart’s desire: a nameless, naked man; and a self-proclaimed “biter” who dreams of sneaking up behind and sinking her teeth into a green-eyed, long-haired, pink-cheeked coworker.
  
  Spanning a range of genres and topics—from the mundane to the murderous and supernatural—these are stories about sex and punishment, guilt and anger, the pleasure and terror of inflicting and experiencing pain. These stories fascinate and repel, revolt and arouse, scare and delight in equal measure. And, as a collection, they point a finger at you, daring you to feel uncomfortable—or worse, understood—as if to say, “You want this, right? You know you want this.”
  
  Join us as Kristen celebrated the launch of her first short story collection!

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  Tuesday, January 15

  7:00pm

  Columbus: Ian Port on The Birth of Loud

  Join us at Book Culture on Columbus as Ian S. Port discusses his first book, The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivarly That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll,on Tuesday, January 15th at 7pm! A riveting saga in the history of rock ‘n’ roll: the decades-long rivalry between the two men who…

  Join us at Book Culture on Columbus as Ian S. Port discusses his first book, The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivarly That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll,on Tuesday, January 15th at 7pm!
  
  A riveting saga in the history of rock ‘n’ roll: the decades-long rivalry between the two men who innovated the electric guitar’s amplified sound—Leo Fender and Les Paul—and their intense competition to convince rock stars like the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton to play the instruments they built.
  
  In the years after World War II, music was evolving from big-band jazz into the primordial elements of rock ’n’ roll—and these louder styles demanded revolutionary instruments. When Leo Fender’s tiny firm marketed the first solid-body electric guitar, the Esquire, musicians immediately saw its appeal. Not to be out-maneuvered, Gibson, the largest guitar manufacturer, raced to build a competitive product. The company designed an “axe” that would make Fender’s Esquire look cheap and convinced Les Paul—whose endorsement Leo Fender had sought—to put his name on it. Thus was born the guitar world’s most heated rivalry: Gibson versus Fender, Les versus Leo.
  
  While Fender was a quiet, half-blind, self-taught radio repairman from rural Orange County, Paul was a brilliant but egomaniacal pop star and guitarist who spent years toying with new musical technologies. Their contest turned into an arms race as the most inventive musicians of the 1950s and 1960s—including bluesman Muddy Waters, rocker Buddy Holly, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton—adopted one maker’s guitar or another. By the time Jimi Hendrix played “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Woodstock in 1969 on his Fender Stratocaster, it was clear that electric instruments—Fender or Gibson—had launched music into a radical new age, empowering artists with a vibrancy and volume never before attainable.
  
  Ian S. Port is an award-winning writer and music critic whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Village Voice, The Threepenny Review, and The Believer, among others. He is also the former music editor of the San Francisco Weekly. A California native and lifelong guitar player, he now lives in New York with his wife, Lindsay. The Birth of Loud is his first book.

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  Tuesday, January 15

  7:00pm

  LESLIE JAMISON: THE RECOVERING

  With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck itself.…

  With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck itself. Leslie Jamison deftly excavates the stories we tell about addiction—both her own and others'—and examines what we want these stories to do and what happens when they fail us. All the while, she offers a fascinating look at the larger history of the recovery movement, and at the complicated bearing that race and class have on our understanding of who is criminal and who is ill.
  
  At the heart of the book is Jamison's ongoing conversation with literary and artistic geniuses whose lives and works were shaped by alcoholism and substance dependence, including John Berryman, Jean Rhys, Billie Holiday, Raymond Carver, Denis Johnson, and David Foster Wallace, as well as brilliant lesser-known figures such as George Cain, lost to obscurity but newly illuminated here. Through its unvarnished relation of Jamison's own ordeals, The Recovering also becomes a book about a different kind of dependency: the way our desires can make us all, as she puts it, "broken spigots of need." It's about the particular loneliness of the human experience-the craving for love that both devours us and shapes who we are.
  
  For her striking language and piercing observations, Jamison has been compared to such iconic writers as Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, yet her utterly singular voice also offers something new. With enormous empathy and wisdom, Jamison has given us nothing less than the story of addiction and recovery in America writ large, a definitive and revelatory account that will resonate for years to come.
  
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  Wednesday, January 16

  7:00pm

  Columbus: John Fried on The Martin Chronicles

  A powerful and heartfelt novel that follows one boy as he grows up in 1980s Manhattan, bringing the magic of first experiences and the brutal truth of hard lessons to life on the page. In sixth grade, eleven-year-old Martin Kelso's world starts to change. Girls get under his skin in ways he never …

  A powerful and heartfelt novel that follows one boy as he grows up in 1980s Manhattan, bringing the magic of first experiences and the brutal truth of hard lessons to life on the page.
  
  In sixth grade, eleven-year-old Martin Kelso's world starts to change. Girls get under his skin in ways he never noticed before. Even his cousin Evie, who taught him the right way to eat pizza and how to catch tadpoles, has grown wild, unpredictable, and mysterious. Mugger was once just a game played by Marty and his friends, but now real muggers are targeting them on their way to school. Marty used to feel secure in his own skin; but as he grows up and life changes too quickly around him, it becomes increasingly difficult for him to choose right over wrong-or to even tell the difference between the two.
  
  This moving debut perfectly captures the intense emotion, humor, and earnestness of young adulthood as Marty ages from eleven to seventeen and navigates a series of life-changing firsts: first kiss, first enemy, first loss, and ultimately, his first awareness that the world is not as simple or safe a place as he had once imagined.
  
  John Fried teaches creative writing at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He received his MFA from Warren Wilson College's Program for Writers. His short fiction has appeared in numerous journals, including The Gettysburg Review, North American Review, and Columbia: A Journal of Arts and Literature. Prior to teaching, he was a magazine writer and editor in New York, and his work appeared in various publications, including The New Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, New York, Time, and Real Simple.

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  Thursday, January 17

  7:00pm

  On Elie Wiesel: An Extraordinary Life and Legacy in Writings, Reflections, Photographs

  Join Moment Magazine Editor-in-Chief Nadine Epstein for an inspirational discussion about her new book about Elie Wiesel and a multimedia presentation about his life and legacy. She’ll share wonderful stories about him from some of his closet friends and colleagues plus his son Elisha. You’ll come …

  Join Moment Magazine Editor-in-Chief Nadine Epstein for an inspirational discussion about her new book about Elie Wiesel and a multimedia presentation about his life and legacy. She’ll share wonderful stories about him from some of his closet friends and colleagues plus his son Elisha. You’ll come away with a deeper understanding of the multi-faceted legacy of this great humanitarian.
  
  In her new book on Wiesel, Epstein brings together reflections from friends, colleagues, and others who knew him—including Elisha, Michael Berenbaum, Wolf Blitzer, Father Patrick Desbois, Ben Kingsley, Ronald S. Lauder, Bernard Henri-Levi, Kati Marton, Itzhak Perlman, Natan Sharansky, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Oprah Winfrey, and Ruth Wisse. With the foreword by British Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks and the afterword by Ted Koppel, the book includes a visual history of his life, and some of his speeches, lively conversations with teenagers about Night, and discussion questions.

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  Tuesday, January 22

  3:00pm

  Columbus: Lynda Cohen Loigman on The Wartime Sisters

  01/22/2019 - 3:00pm Join us at Book Culture on Columbus as Lynda Cogen Loigman celebrates the release of his new novel, The Wartime Sisters, on Tuesday, January 22nd at 7pm! Bestselling author Fiona Davis will be joining Lynda in conversation. For fans of Lilac Girls, the next powerful novel from …

  01/22/2019 - 3:00pm
  
  Join us at Book Culture on Columbus as Lynda Cogen Loigman celebrates the release of his new novel, The Wartime Sisters, on Tuesday, January 22nd at 7pm! Bestselling author Fiona Davis will be joining Lynda in conversation.
  
  For fans of Lilac Girls, the next powerful novel from the author of Goodreads Choice Awards semifinalist The Two-Family House about two sisters working in a WWII armory, each with a deep secret.
  
  Two estranged sisters, raised in Brooklyn and each burdened with her own shocking secret, are reunited at the Springfield Armory in the early days of WWII. While one sister lives in relative ease on the bucolic Armory campus as an officer’s wife, the other arrives as a war widow and takes a position in the Armory factories as a “soldier of production.” Resentment festers between the two, and secrets are shattered when a mysterious figure from the past reemerges in their lives.
  
  Lynda Cohen Loigman grew up in Longmeadow, MA. She received a B.A. in English and American Literature from Harvard College and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. She is now a student of the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, and lives with her husband and two children in Chappaqua, NY. The Two-Family House is her first novel.

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  Wednesday, January 23

  7:00pm

  A Stranger's Journey: A Conversation About Race, Identity, and Narrative

  David Henry Hwang and Gish Jen with David Mura

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  Wednesday, January 23

  7:00pm

  Spawning Generations: A Queerspawn Anthology

  Join us in celebrating queerspawn and the families/communities that raised them. Moving beyond “The Kids are Alright,” the contributors in this volume break away from the pressures to be perfect and the demand to be well-adjusted. Spanning 6 decades, 3 continents and 5 countries, these are queerspawn…

  Join us in celebrating queerspawn and the families/communities that raised them. Moving beyond “The Kids are Alright,” the contributors in this volume break away from the pressures to be perfect and the demand to be well-adjusted. Spanning 6 decades, 3 continents and 5 countries, these are queerspawn stories told on their own terms.

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  Wednesday, January 23

  7:30pm

  SELECTED SHORTS: JAMES THURBER’S WORLD WITH SPECIAL GUEST ROZ CHAST

  2019 has been declared “The Year of Thurber” in honor of the great humorist’s 125th birthday. Special guests, including Roz Chast, introduce an evening of stories and art from the vast collection of this masterful storyteller, author of such comic classics as “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” and “…

  2019 has been declared “The Year of Thurber” in honor of the great humorist’s 125th birthday. Special guests, including Roz Chast, introduce an evening of stories and art from the vast collection of this masterful storyteller, author of such comic classics as “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” and “The Catbird Seat,” as well as the beloved fantasy The 13 Clocks.
  
  Selected Shorts is produced by Symphony Space and broadcast on more than 150 stations around the country. The Selected Shorts podcast consistently ranks as one of the most popular podcasts on iTunes. The series began in 1985 and enjoys sold-out performances to this day. Selected Shorts was conceived with a simple premise: take great stories by well-known and emerging writers and have them performed by terrific actors of stage and screen. Featuring stories around a lively theme, the favorite works of a guest author, or a special collaboration, each Selected Shorts event is a unique night of literature in performance.
  
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  Wednesday, January 23

  7:30pm

  Stephanie Land: Maid

  While the gap between upper middle-class Americans and the working poor widens, grueling low-wage domestic and service work—primarily done by women—fuels the economic success of the wealthy. Stephanie Land worked for years as a maid, pulling long hours while struggling as a single mom to keep a roof…

  While the gap between upper middle-class Americans and the working poor widens, grueling low-wage domestic and service work—primarily done by women—fuels the economic success of the wealthy. Stephanie Land worked for years as a maid, pulling long hours while struggling as a single mom to keep a roof over her daughter's head. In Maid, she reveals the dark truth of what it takes to survive and thrive in today's inequitable society.
  
  While she worked hard to scratch her way out of poverty as a single parent, scrubbing the toilets of the wealthy, navigating domestic labor jobs, higher education, assisted housing, and a tangled web of government assistance, Stephanie wrote. She wrote the true stories that weren't being told. The stories of overworked and underpaid Americans.
  
  Written in honest, heart-rending prose and with great insight, Maid explores the underbelly of upper-middle class America and the reality of what it's like to be in service to them. "I'd become a nameless ghost," Stephanie writes. With this book, she gives voice to the "servant" worker, those who fight daily to scramble and scrape by for their own lives and the lives of their children.
  
  Stephanie Land is a journalist whose work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Vox, Salon, and many other outlets. She focuses on social and economic justice as a writing fellow through both the Center for Community Change and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
  
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  Thursday, January 24

  7:30pm

  Juliet Lapidos: Talent

  In this wickedly funny debut, a young graduate student writing about-and desperately searching for-inspiration stumbles upon it in the unlikeliest of places. Anna Brisker is a twenty-nine-year-old graduate student in English at Collegiate University who can't seem to finish her dissertation. Her …

  In this wickedly funny debut, a young graduate student writing about-and desperately searching for-inspiration stumbles upon it in the unlikeliest of places.
  
  Anna Brisker is a twenty-nine-year-old graduate student in English at Collegiate University who can't seem to finish her dissertation. Her project: an intellectual history of inspiration. As Anna's adviser is quick to remind her, time is running out. She needs the perfect case study to anchor her thesis-and she needs it now. Amid this mounting pressure, Anna strikes up a tenuous friendship with the niece of the famous author Frederick Langley. Freddy wrote three successful books as a young man, then published exactly nothing for the rest of his wayward, hermetic life. Critics believe Freddy suffered from an acute case of writer's block, but his niece tells Anna that there's more to the story: When he died, he was at work on something new.
  
  Fascination with Freddy blooms into obsession, and Anna is drawn irrevocably into the criminal machinations of his sole living heir. A modern twist on the Parable of the Talents, Lapidos's debut is a many-layered labyrinth of possible truths that reveal at each turn the danger of interpreting another person's intentions-literary or otherwise.
  
  Juliet Lapidos is a senior editor at The Atlantic. Previously she worked at the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and Slate. She received her B.A. in Comparative Literature from Yale University and her MPhil in English Literature from Cambridge University, which she attended on a Gates Scholarship.
  
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  Friday, January 25

  7:00pm

  The Writers Studio Reading Series Presents: A Celebration of Turtle Point Press

  The Writers Studio Reading Series Presents: A Celebration of Turtle Point Press and its Publication of Strange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage by Grace Schulman. This event will include readings from the Turtle Point Press Writers Katharine Coles, Joseph Keckler, Edward J. Delaney, David Trinidad,…

  The Writers Studio Reading Series Presents: A Celebration of Turtle Point Press and its Publication of Strange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage by Grace Schulman. This event will include readings from the Turtle Point Press Writers Katharine Coles, Joseph Keckler, Edward J. Delaney, David Trinidad, and Grace Schulman.
  
  Join us in the Rare Book Room as these writers share their work.
  
  More about Strange Paradise: Grace Schulman is an award-winning poet and the author of seven collections of poems. She has had long posts as Poetry Editor of the Nation magazine, Director of the Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y, and Distinguished Professor at CUNY’s Baruch College, where she still teaches. But her love for her scientist husband and her care for him through his long illness proved to be among her greatest inspirations. It called forth her deepest grief at his loss.

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  Sunday, January 27

  11:00am

  On Irish Literary Fathers with Colm Tóibín

  From Colm Tóibín, author of the novels The Master and Brooklyn, comes Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, an illuminating, intimate study of Irish culture, history and literature told through the lives and work of three men—William Wilde, John Butler Yeats and John Stanislaus Joyce—and the complicated …

  From Colm Tóibín, author of the novels The Master and Brooklyn, comes Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, an illuminating, intimate study of Irish culture, history and literature told through the lives and work of three men—William Wilde, John Butler Yeats and John Stanislaus Joyce—and the complicated relationships they had with their complicated sons.

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  Monday, January 28

  7:30pm

  Daisy Johnson: Everything Under w/ Lauren Groff

  The dictionary doesn’t contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a private language of their own invention. Her mother disappeared when Gretel was a teen, abandoning her …

  The dictionary doesn’t contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a private language of their own invention. Her mother disappeared when Gretel was a teen, abandoning her to foster care, and Gretel has tried to move on, spending her days updating dictionary entries.
  
  One phone call from her mother is all it takes for the past to come rushing back. To find her, Gretel will have to recover buried memories of her final, fateful winter on the canals. A runaway boy had found community and shelter with them, and all three were haunted by their past and stalked by an ominous creature lurking in the canal: the bonak. Everything and nothing at once, the bonak was Gretel’s name for the thing she feared most. And now that she’s searching for her mother, she’ll have to face it.
  
  In this electrifying reinterpretation of a classical myth, Daisy Johnson explores questions of fate and free will, gender fluidity, and fractured family relationships. Everything Under—a debut novel whose surreal, watery landscape will resonate with fans of Fen—is a daring, moving story that will leave you unsettled and unstrung.
  
  Daisy Johnson is the author of the short-story collection Fen. She is the winner of the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize, the A. M. Heath Prize, and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. She lives in Oxford, England, by the river.
  
  Lauren Groff is the New York Times bestselling author of three novels, The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, and Fates and Furies, and the celebrated short story collection Delicate Edible Birds. She has won the PEN/O. Henry Award, and been a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, along with several Best American Short Stories anthologies, and she was named one of Granta's 2017 Best Young American Novelists. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, with her husband and sons.
  
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  Wednesday, January 30

  7:30pm

  THALIA BOOK CLUB: TESSA HADLEY, LATE IN THE DAY

  The acclaimed British novelist and short story master who "recruits admires with each book" (Hilary Mantel) discusses her latest novel. Ingeniously moving between past and present, Late in Day exposes how, beneath the seemingly dependable arrangements we make for our lives, lie infinite alternate …

  The acclaimed British novelist and short story master who "recruits admires with each book" (Hilary Mantel) discusses her latest novel. Ingeniously moving between past and present, Late in Day exposes how, beneath the seemingly dependable arrangements we make for our lives, lie infinite alternate configurations. Only New York City appearance!
  
  At the Thalia Book Club, readers and writers meet for intimate conversations about compelling new books and favorite classics in fiction, essay, biography and more. Evenings include an actor performing an excerpt, an interview, a conversation with the audience, and a book signing on stage following the event.
  
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  Thursday, January 31

  7:30pm

  A Celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin

  Fellow writers pay tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, who passed away in January 2018. “She was able to reimagine many concepts we take to be natural, shared, and unalterable—gender, utopia, creation, war, family, the city, the country—and reveal the all-too-human constructions at their center,” wrote …

  Fellow writers pay tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, who passed away in January 2018. “She was able to reimagine many concepts we take to be natural, shared, and unalterable—gender, utopia, creation, war, family, the city, the country—and reveal the all-too-human constructions at their center,” wrote Zadie Smith. “That these gifts—more common to philosophers and scientists—should have appeared in a writer was wonder enough. But on top of that there were her sentences, as elegant and beautiful as any written in the twentieth century.”

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  Thursday, January 31

  7:30pm

  A Celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin

  Fellow writers pay tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, who passed away in January 2018. “She was able to reimagine many concepts we take to be natural, shared, and unalterable—gender, utopia, creation, war, family, the city, the country—and reveal the all-too-human constructions at their center,” wrote …

  Fellow writers pay tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, who passed away in January 2018. “She was able to reimagine many concepts we take to be natural, shared, and unalterable—gender, utopia, creation, war, family, the city, the country—and reveal the all-too-human constructions at their center,” wrote Zadie Smith. “That these gifts—more common to philosophers and scientists—should have appeared in a writer was wonder enough. But on top of that there were her sentences, as elegant and beautiful as any written in the twentieth century.”

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  Thursday, January 31

  7:30pm

  Dana Czapnik: The Falconer w/ Kaitlyn Greenidge

  Told in vibrant, quicksilver prose, The Falconer is a “wholly original coming-of-age story” (Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists), providing a snapshot of the city and America through the eyes of the children of the baby boomers grappling with privilege and the fading…

  Told in vibrant, quicksilver prose, The Falconer is a “wholly original coming-of-age story” (Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists), providing a snapshot of the city and America through the eyes of the children of the baby boomers grappling with privilege and the fading of radical hopes. New York Times bestselling author Claire Messud calls The Falconer an “exhilarating debut,” adding that “Dana Czapnik’s frank heroine has a voice, and a perspective, you won’t soon forget.”
  
  Dana Czapnik is a 2018 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction from The New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2017, she was awarded an Emerging Writers Fellowship from the Center for Fiction. Czapnik earned her MFA at Hunter College where she was recognized with a Hertog Fellowship. She’s spent most of her career on the editorial side of professional sports including stints at ESPN the Magazine, the United States Tennis Association and the Arena Football League. A native New Yorker, she lives in Manhattan with her husband and son.
  
  Kaitlyn Greenidge was born in Boston and received her MFA from Hunter College. Her debut novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman, was one of the New York Times Critics' Top 10 Books of 2016. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Elle.com, Buzzfeed, Transition Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Believer, American Short Fiction, and other places. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Community Council’s Workspace Program, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and a 2017 Whiting Award in Fiction. She is a contributing editor for LENNY Letter and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
  
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  Monday, February 4

  8:00pm

  Ruth Padel & A.E. Stallings

  Ruth Padel’s new collection of poems is Emerald. “Her voice has an astonishing resonance,” wrote Colm Tóibín. “An exquisite image-maker who can work wonders with the great tradition of line and stanza.” A.E. Stallings’s new book of poetry is Like. “Her scrupulous intelligence never serves her better…

  Ruth Padel’s new collection of poems is Emerald. “Her voice has an astonishing resonance,” wrote Colm Tóibín. “An exquisite image-maker who can work wonders with the great tradition of line and stanza.” A.E. Stallings’s new book of poetry is Like. “Her scrupulous intelligence never serves her better than in her powerfully understated approach to myth,” wrote Adam Kirsch. “And her poems about love, sex, and heartbreak have that rare combination of emotion and reason, sweetness and sourness, that used to be called worldly-wise.”

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  Monday, February 4

  8:00pm

  Ruth Padel & A.E. Stallings

  Ruth Padel’s new collection of poems is Emerald. “Her voice has an astonishing resonance,” wrote Colm Tóibín. “An exquisite image-maker who can work wonders with the great tradition of line and stanza.” A.E. Stallings’s new book of poetry is Like. “Her scrupulous intelligence never serves her better…

  Ruth Padel’s new collection of poems is Emerald. “Her voice has an astonishing resonance,” wrote Colm Tóibín. “An exquisite image-maker who can work wonders with the great tradition of line and stanza.” A.E. Stallings’s new book of poetry is Like. “Her scrupulous intelligence never serves her better than in her powerfully understated approach to myth,” wrote Adam Kirsch. “And her poems about love, sex, and heartbreak have that rare combination of emotion and reason, sweetness and sourness, that used to be called worldly-wise.”

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  Tuesday, February 5

  7:30pm

  Black Leopard, Red Wolf

  In the stunning first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child. Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious…

  In the stunning first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child.
  
  Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard.
  
  Drawing from African history and mythology and his own rich imagination, Marlon James has written a novel unlike anything that's come before it: a saga of breathtaking adventure that's also an ambitious, involving read. Defying categorization and full of unforgettable characters, Black Leopard, Red Wolf is both surprising and profound as it explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, and our need to understand them both.
  
  Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970. His novel A Brief History of Seven Killings won the 2015 Man Booker Prize. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for fiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction, and the Minnesota Book Award. James is also the author of The Book of Night Women, which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction and an NAACP Image Award. His first novel, John Crow’s Devil, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. James divides his time between Minnesota and New York.
  
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