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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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  536 W 112th Street, New York, NY 10025
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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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  828 Broadway, New York, NY 10003-4805
  212-473-1452

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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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  828 Broadway, New York, NY 10003-4805
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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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  Timefulness:

  How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World

  by Marcia Bjornerud

  Princeton University Press

  $24.95 List Price

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  Oct 18, 2018

  7:00pm-9:30pm

  HOW THINKING LIKE A GEOLOGIST CAN HELP SAVE THE WORLD: A CONVERSATION

  In her new book 'Timefulness,' Marcia Bjornerud – professor of geology at Lawrence University and frequent contributor to The New Yorker's Elements blog – charts how geologists have developed a conception of time that encompasses the history of our planet beyond humanity's fractional place. Anthony…

  In her new book 'Timefulness,' Marcia Bjornerud – professor of geology at Lawrence University and frequent contributor to The New Yorker's Elements blog – charts how geologists have developed a conception of time that encompasses the history of our planet beyond humanity's fractional place. Anthony Lydgate – Marcia's former editor at The New Yorker, now Senior Editor at WIRED – joins her for a discussion of how wholesale adoption of this geologic understanding of time could be our salvation.

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  Bluestockings Books

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  How to Leave:

  Quitting the City and Coping with a New Reality

  by Erin Clune

  Bloomsbury Publishing

  $26.00 List Price

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  Oct 18, 2018

  7:00pm

  Book Launch: How to Leave by Erin Clune — in conversation w/ Sari Botton

  When Frank Sinatra and Alicia Keys said that if you could make it in New York, you could make it anywhere, they probably weren’t talking about the middle of nowhere or whatever suburb you used to make fun of. Because “making it” is really hard to do without world-class museums and gourmet food trucks.…

  When Frank Sinatra and Alicia Keys said that if you could make it in New York, you could make it anywhere, they probably weren’t talking about the middle of nowhere or whatever suburb you used to make fun of. Because “making it” is really hard to do without world-class museums and gourmet food trucks. Erin Clune regales readers with priceless stories of her own experiences leaving New York for her hometown in Wisconsin, and provides a jocular but useful guide—for anyone leaving, or thinking about leaving, their own personal mecca—to finding contentment while staying true to yourself in a place far, far away from The City.

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  powerHouse Arena

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  28 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
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  Thursday, October 18

  7:00pm

  The Moth StorySLAM

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

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

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  Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

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  126 Crosby Street, New York, NY 10012
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  Thursday, October 18

  7:00pm

  Silicon City: Cary McClelland with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro (WILLIAMSBURG)

  San Francisco is changing at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists, and known as the birthplace of the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the LGBTQ movement, in recent decades the Bay Area has been reshaped by Silicon Valley, the engine of the new American economy. The richer the region …

  San Francisco is changing at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists, and known as the birthplace of the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the LGBTQ movement, in recent decades the Bay Area has been reshaped by Silicon Valley, the engine of the new American economy. The richer the region gets, the more unequal and less diverse it becomes, and cracks in the city’s facade—rapid gentrification, an epidemic of evictions, rising crime, atrophied public institutions—have started to show.
  
  Inspired by Studs Terkel’s classic works of oral history, writer and filmmaker Cary McClelland spent several years interviewing people at the epicenter of the recent change, from venture capitalists and coders to politicians and protesters, from native sons and daughters to the city’s newest arrivals. The crisp and vivid stories of Silicon City’s diverse cast capture San Francisco as never before.
  
  The book opens with a longtime tour guide recounting the history of the original Gold Rush and observing how little the people of his city pay attention to its history; it ends on Fisherman’s Wharf, with the proprietor of an arcade game museum reminding us that even today’s technology will become relics of the past. In between we hear from people who have passed through Apple, Google, eBay, Intel, and the other big tech companies of our time. And we meet those who are experiencing the changes at the grassroots level: a homeless advocate in Haight-Ashbury, an Oakland rapper, a pawnbroker in the Mission, a man who helped dismantle and rebuild the Bay Bridge, and a woman who runs a tattoo parlor in the Castro.
  
  Silicon City masterfully weaves together a candid conversation across a divided community to create a dynamic portrait of a beloved city—and a cautionary tale for the entire country.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Thursday, October 18

  7:00pm

  Chalk: Joshua Rivkin (PRINCE STREET)

  Cy Twombly was a man obsessed with myth and history—including his own. Shuttling between his stunning homes in Italy and the United States, where he perfected his room-size canvases, he managed his public image carefully and rarely gave interviews. Upon first seeing Twombly’s remarkable paintings, …

  Cy Twombly was a man obsessed with myth and history—including his own. Shuttling between his stunning homes in Italy and the United States, where he perfected his room-size canvases, he managed his public image carefully and rarely gave interviews. Upon first seeing Twombly’s remarkable paintings, author Joshua Rivkin became obsessed himself with the mysterious artist, and began chasing every lead, big or small — anything that might illuminate who Twombly really was.
  
  Now, after unprecedented archival research and years of interviews, Rivkin has reconstructed Twombly’s life, from his time at the legendary Black Mountain College to his canonization in a 1979 Whitney retrospective; from his heady explorations of Rome in the 1950s with Robert Rauschenberg to the ongoing efforts to shape his legacy after his death.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Thursday, October 18

  7:30pm

  Meghan O'Gieblyn: Interior States w/ Nausicaa Renne

  A fresh, acute, and even profound collection that centers around two core issues of American identity: faith, in general and the specific forms Christianity takes in particular; and the challenges of living in the Midwest when culture is felt to be elsewhere. What does it mean to be a believing …

  A fresh, acute, and even profound collection that centers around two core issues of American identity: faith, in general and the specific forms Christianity takes in particular; and the challenges of living in the Midwest when culture is felt to be elsewhere.
  
  What does it mean to be a believing Christian and a Midwesterner in an increasingly secular America where the cultural capital is retreating to both coasts? The critic and essayist Meghan O'Gieblyn was born into an evangelical family, attended the famed Moody Bible Institute in Chicago for a time before she had a crisis of belief, and still lives in the Midwest, aka "Flyover Country." She writes of her "existential dizziness, a sense that the rest of the world is moving while you remain still," and that rich sense of ambivalence and internal division inform the fifteen superbly thoughtful and ironic essays in this collection.
  
  The subjects of these essays range from the rebranding (as it were) of Hell in contemporary Christian culture, a theme park devoted to the concept of intelligent design, the paradoxes of Christian Rock, Henry Ford's reconstructed pioneer town of Greenfield Village and its mixed messages, and the strange convergences of Christian eschatology and the digital so-called Singularity. Meghan O'Gieblyn stands in relation to her native Midwest as Joan Didion stands in relation to California - which is to say a whole-hearted lover, albeit one riven with ambivalence at the same time.
  
  Meghan O’Gieblyn is a writer who was raised and still lives in the Midwest. Her essays have appeared in Harper's Magazine, n+1, The Point, The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker, Best American Essays 2017, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. She received a B.A. in English from Loyola University, Chicago and an MFA in Fiction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin with her husband.
  
  Nausicaa Renner is digital editor of Columbia Journalism Review and a senior editor at n+1.

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  Books Are Magic

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  255 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
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  Friday, October 19

  7:00pm

  Katie Ford with Shane McCrae

  Join us at Book Culture on 112th for a poetry reading to celebrate Katie Ford's new collection of poetry, If You Have to Go on Friday, October 19th at 7pm! Katie will be joined in conversation by Shane McCrae. Katie Ford is the author of three previous poetry collections: Blood Lyrics, Colosseum, …

  Join us at Book Culture on 112th for a poetry reading to celebrate Katie Ford's new collection of poetry, If You Have to Go on Friday, October 19th at 7pm! Katie will be joined in conversation by Shane McCrae.
  
  Katie Ford is the author of three previous poetry collections: Blood Lyrics, Colosseum, and Deposition. The recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Levis Reading Prize, she teaches at the University of California, Riverside.
  
  Shane McCrae is the author of several books of poetry including In the Language of My Captor, The Animal Too Big to Kill, Mule, Forgiveness Forgiveness, and Blood.

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  Book Culture

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  536 W 112th Street, New York, NY 10025
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• Oct 20, 2018

  4:30pm-6:30pm

  Rae Armantrout + Ariel Goldberg

  RAE ARMANTROUt’s books include Versed, Itself, Partly: New and Selected Poems, and Entanglements, a chapbook of poetry in conversation with physics. Her new collection, Wobble, will be published by Wesleyan in September of 2018. Her work has appeared in many magazines, including Lana Turner, Poetry,…

  RAE ARMANTROUt’s books include Versed, Itself, Partly: New and Selected Poems, and Entanglements, a chapbook of poetry in conversation with physics. Her new collection, Wobble, will be published by Wesleyan in September of 2018. Her work has appeared in many magazines, including Lana Turner, Poetry, Bomb, The Nation, and The Brooklyn Rail.
  
  ARIEL GOLDBERG's publications include The Estrangement Principle (Nightboat Books, 2016) and The Photographer (Roof Books, 2015). They are working on two books of photography history, one factual, the other imaginary. Goldberg is currently the Zuckerman Fellow, Curator of Community Engagement at the Jewish History Museum in Tucson, Arizona.
  
  Doors 4.30pm, Readings 5pm
  
  Please arrive promptly
  
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  The venue is located down one flight of stairs. Entrance is $5 (cash only), which goes to the readers.
  
  A B C D E F M to W4th St / Washington Sqr. Station
  
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  Zinc Bar

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  Saturday, October 20

  7:00pm

  Global Discontents: David Barsamian (PRINCE STREET)

  Join us for a conversation with David Barsamian, longtime interlocutor and co-author of Noam Chomsky, and director of the award-winning and widely syndicated Alternative Radio. One of America's most tireless and wide-ranging investigative journalists, David Barsamian has altered the independent …

  Join us for a conversation with David Barsamian, longtime interlocutor and co-author of Noam Chomsky, and director of the award-winning and widely syndicated Alternative Radio.
  
  One of America's most tireless and wide-ranging investigative journalists, David Barsamian has altered the independent media landscape. His weekly radio program Alternative Radio is now in its 32nd season. His books with Noam Chomsky, Eqbal Ahmad, Howard Zinn, Tariq Ali, Richard Wolff, Arundhati Roy and Edward Said sell around the world. His new book with Noam Chomsky is Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy. He lectures on world affairs, imperialism, capitalism, propaganda, the media, the economic crisis and global rebellions.
  
  In 2017 the South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy presented him with their Lifetime Achievement Award. He has collaborated with the world-renowned Kronos Quartet in events in New York, London, Vienna, Boulder and elsewhere. David Barsamian is the winner of the Media Education Award, the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism, and the Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. The Institute for Alternative Journalism named him one of its Top Ten Media Heroes.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Saturday, October 20

  7:00pm

  Puzzle Evening with Will Shortz and Yoshi (WILLIAMSBURG)

  Join us for a puzzle workshop with Will Shortz, the crossword editor of The New York Times, and Yoshi, puzzle maker and vice president at Nikoli. Nikoli is a publisher based in Tokyo, Japan. It was founded in 1980 and published the first puzzle magazine in Japan. Since then, Nikoli has created more…

  Join us for a puzzle workshop with Will Shortz, the crossword editor of The New York Times, and Yoshi, puzzle maker and vice president at Nikoli. Nikoli is a publisher based in Tokyo, Japan. It was founded in 1980 and published the first puzzle magazine in Japan. Since then, Nikoli has created more than 300 types of logic puzzles. Many of Nikoli’s puzzles are handcrafted which makes the company the only kind like it in the world. Nikoli publishes more than 150 puzzle magazines and books in addition to providing puzzle supplies to more than 100 newspapers and magazines. The world craze Sudoku is named by Nikoli's founder, Maki Kaji.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Sunday, October 21

  11:00am

  On John Updike with Adam Gopnik

  Upon the publication of new editions of John Updike’s novels and poetry, Adam Gopnik discusses the life and work of a writer he has praised as “one of the greatest of all modern writers—and the first American since Henry James to get himself fully expressed. The precise, realist, encyclopedic appetite…

  Upon the publication of new editions of John Updike’s novels and poetry, Adam Gopnik discusses the life and work of a writer he has praised as “one of the greatest of all modern writers—and the first American since Henry James to get himself fully expressed. The precise, realist, encyclopedic appetite to get it all in and the exquisitist urge to make writing out of sensation rendered exactly were both alive in him. He was at once conjurer and chronicler.”

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  92nd Street Y

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  1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10128
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  Oct 22, 2018

  6:30pm-7:30pm

  We Met in Paris: Grace Frick and Her Life with Marguerite Yourcenar

  Joan E. Howard will discuss her intimate and scrupulously documented biography of translator Grace Frick and acclaimed author Marguerite Yourcenar. We Met in Paris: Grace Frick and her Life with Marguerite Yourcenar (University of Missouri Press) is both an intimate account and a thorough investigation…

  Joan E. Howard will discuss her intimate and scrupulously documented biography of translator Grace Frick and acclaimed author Marguerite Yourcenar.
  
  We Met in Paris: Grace Frick and her Life with Marguerite Yourcenar (University of Missouri Press) is both an intimate account and a thorough investigation of the relationship between famous French author of Mémoires d’Hadrien and the translator who introduced her to English-language readers in 1954. This enthralling portrait contains a great deal of information that will disrupt long-held beliefs about Yourcenar, and might even surprise some of her long-time fans.
  
  In English. Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary.

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  Albertine

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  Oct 22, 2018

  6:30pm-7:30pm

  Paul Berman: The Counterrevolution

  We have lived through a global liberal revolution—from the defeat of fascism and the rise of NATO, through the overthrow of dictatorships in 1989 and the Arab Spring. Now, argues Paul Berman, we have entered the age of counterrevolution. A critic-at-large for Tablet magazine, Berman will address the…

  We have lived through a global liberal revolution—from the defeat of fascism and the rise of NATO, through the overthrow of dictatorships in 1989 and the Arab Spring. Now, argues Paul Berman, we have entered the age of counterrevolution. A critic-at-large for Tablet magazine, Berman will address the current crisis of the liberal world order, drawing upon ideas from his book Terror and Liberalism (“one of the most challenging accounts of the post-9/11 world”—The New York Times). He has written for The New Republic, The New Yorker, and Slate.
  
  Presented with the Center for the Humanities.
  
  Free; registration required.

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  The Graduate Center Public Programs (CUNY)

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  365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
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• Monday, October 22

  6:30pm

  Mid-Sentence | Riddance: Shelley Jackson with Maria Dahvana Headley

  In her first novel in twelve years, Shelley Jackson travels to the border separating life and death and asks us to listen. When eleven-year old Jane Grandison receives an invitation to join the Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children, she thinks she has finally found a safe …

  In her first novel in twelve years, Shelley Jackson travels to the border separating life and death and asks us to listen.
  
  When eleven-year old Jane Grandison receives an invitation to join the Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children, she thinks she has finally found a safe place where she can learn to control her stutter. However, rather than rid the children of their speech impediments, Headmistress Sybil Jones, a dedicated pioneer of the field of necrophysics, considers their stutters “gifts” that can be used as a channel to access the other side of reality: the land of the dead.
  
  Riddance alternates between a detailed account of Jane’s life at the Vocational School and the transcript of the Headmistress’ final transmission from beyond, with readers following a journey of both the living and the dead. Joined by Maria Dahvana Headley, author of the novel The Mere Wife, Jackson will discuss the power of experimental writing and reinventing the traditional ghost story.
  
  Mid-Sentence presents a series of conversations with groundbreaking literary voices. Indie authors and cult favorites explore the intersections between literature and lived experience.

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  The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

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  Monday, October 22

  7:00pm

  Grabbing Pussy: Karen Finley (PRINCE STREET)

  Based on her widely praised performance piece Unicorn Gratitude Mystery, Karen Finley's Grabbing Pussy explores the Shakespearean dynamics that surface when libidos and loyalties clash in the public and private personas of Donald Trump, Hillary and Bill Clinton, Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner, and …

  Based on her widely praised performance piece Unicorn Gratitude Mystery, Karen Finley's Grabbing Pussy explores the Shakespearean dynamics that surface when libidos and loyalties clash in the public and private personas of Donald Trump, Hillary and Bill Clinton, Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner, and now Harvey Weinstein.
  
  Standing in the tradition of Allen Ginsberg's Howl, Finley's words jolt the reader into new insights about the ways the darkly private can drive the public realm in dizzying twists and turns. The aggression of intimacy, the disparity of gender, and the vital importance of hair are all encompassed in Finley's exhilarating canter.
  
  Karen Finley is a performance artist whose work has long provoked controversy and debate. She has performed at the Lincoln Center (NYC), the ICA (London), the Steppenwolf (Chicago), and the Bobino (Paris). Her art is widely collected, including by Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. She has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Obies, two Bessies, and a Ms. magazine Woman of the Year Award. Her previous books include Shock Treatment, Enough is Enough, Living It Up, A Different Kind Of Intimacy, George and Martha, and The Reality Shows. Finley is a professor in the department of Art and Public Policy at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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• Monday, October 22

  7:00pm

  Rebecca Solnit with Paul Holdengräber: The Language of Crises

  "The revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality." —Rebecca Solnit, The Guardian Called “the voice of resistance” by the New York Times, prolific essayist Rebecca Solnit visits LIVE to discuss her latest work, Call Them By Their True Names, a wide-ranging…

  "The revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality." —Rebecca Solnit, The Guardian
  
  Called “the voice of resistance” by the New York Times, prolific essayist Rebecca Solnit visits LIVE to discuss her latest work, Call Them By Their True Names, a wide-ranging collection in which she turns her attention to battles over meaning, place, language, and belonging—pillars that define the crises of our time. To change the world, Solnit argues, we must first change the story, the names and the words we use to describe it.

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  The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

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  Monday, October 22

  7:30pm

  Deborah Eisenberg & Gary Shteyngart

  Deborah Eisenberg’s new story collection is Your Duck is My Duck. “There aren’t many contemporary novels as shudderingly intimate and mordantly funny as her best stories,” wrote Ben Marcus. Gary Shteyngart’s new novel is Lake Success. “He holds up a mirror to American culture that is so accurate, …

  Deborah Eisenberg’s new story collection is Your Duck is My Duck. “There aren’t many contemporary novels as shudderingly intimate and mordantly funny as her best stories,” wrote Ben Marcus. Gary Shteyngart’s new novel is Lake Success. “He holds up a mirror to American culture that is so accurate, and so devastating, that it makes you want to break the mirror right over your own head,” wrote Elizabeth Gilbert. “And I mean this as a good thing.”

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  92nd Street Y

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

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  Monday, October 22

  7:30pm

  Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: Friday Black

  A piercingly raw debut story collection from a young writer with an explosive voice; a treacherously surreal, and, at times, heartbreakingly satirical look at what it’s like to be young and black in America. From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s writing will grab …

  A piercingly raw debut story collection from a young writer with an explosive voice; a treacherously surreal, and, at times, heartbreakingly satirical look at what it’s like to be young and black in America.
  
  From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s writing will grab you, haunt you, enrage and invigorate you. By placing ordinary characters in extraordinary situations, Adjei-Brenyah reveals the violence, injustice, and painful absurdities that black men and women contend with every day in this country.
  
  These stories tackle urgent instances of racism and cultural unrest, and explore the many ways we fight for humanity in an unforgiving world. In “The Finkelstein Five,” Adjei-Brenyah gives us an unforgettable reckoning of the brutal prejudice of our justice system. In “Zimmer Land,” we see a far-too-easy-to-believe imagining of racism as sport. And “Friday Black” and “How to Sell a Jacket as Told by Ice King” show the horrors of consumerism and the toll it takes on us all.
  
  Entirely fresh in its style and perspective, and sure to appeal to fans of Colson Whitehead, Marlon James, and George Saunders, Friday Black confronts readers with a complicated, insistent, wrenching chorus of emotions, the final note of which, remarkably, is hope.
  
  Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is from Spring Valley, New York. He graduated from SUNY Albany and went on to receive his MFA from Syracuse University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including Guernica, Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing, Printer’s Row, Gravel, and The Breakwater Review, where he was selected by ZZ Packer as the winner of the 2nd Annual Breakwater Review Fiction Contest. Friday Black is his first book.
  
  This event is free!

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  Books Are Magic

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  255 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
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• Oct 23, 2018

  6:00pm-8:00pm

  The Dash: A discussion with Slavoj Žižek, Rebecca Comay, and Frank Ruda

  The Department of German at NYU and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a discussion between Slavoj Žižek, Rebecca Comay, and Frank Ruda which will revolve around Comay and Ruda's book The Dash—The Other Side of Absolute Knowing. For more information about the event and the speakers please see: …

  The Department of German at NYU and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a discussion between Slavoj Žižek, Rebecca Comay, and Frank Ruda which will revolve around Comay and Ruda's book The Dash—The Other Side of Absolute Knowing.
  
  For more information about the event and the speakers please see:
  
  http://as.nyu.edu/deutscheshaus/cultural-program/events/fall-2018/a-dash-of-hegel—a-discussion-with-slavoj-iek—rebecca-comay—an.html

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  Deutsches Haus at NYU

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  42 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003
  212-998-8660

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• Oct 23, 2018

  6:00pm-7:30pm

  Gay Fiction - North Morgan - Author Reading

  In Into? North Morgan shines a coolly mesmerizing light on the modern generation of gay men that are living firmly outside the closet, freed from the shadow of AIDS and elevated by popular culture, but plagued by a new set of problems, insecurities and self-destructions. As the men of Into? swipe …

  In Into? North Morgan shines a coolly mesmerizing light on the modern generation of gay men that are living firmly outside the closet, freed from the shadow of AIDS and elevated by popular culture, but plagued by a new set of problems, insecurities and self-destructions. As the men of Into? swipe right from bed to bed, North Morgan spins a darkly hilarious, and shockingly perceptive story of excess and love that’s like nothing you’ve ever read.

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  NYU Bookstore

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  Oct 23, 2018

  7:00pm-8:30pm

  Double Take 26 | Laughter

  Organized by Albert Mobilio, Double Take is a unique reading series that asks poets, novelists, editors, and artists to respond to an open-ended prompt, in this instance: laughter.
  
  Featuring:
  
  Edwin Frank
  
  Joseph Salvatore
  
  Emily Skillings
  
  Perry Yung

  apexart

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• Tuesday, October 23

  6:30pm

  Hemingway’s Artifacts: Michael Katakis with Declan Kiely

  From pictures of running with the bulls in Spain to candid letters he wrote to his wives and his publishers, Ernest Hemingway: Artifacts From a Life, paints an intimate portrait of the literary titan as we’ve never seen him before. How did he look as a laughing child or young soldier? What did he …

  From pictures of running with the bulls in Spain to candid letters he wrote to his wives and his publishers, Ernest Hemingway: Artifacts From a Life, paints an intimate portrait of the literary titan as we’ve never seen him before.
  
  How did he look as a laughing child or young soldier? What did he say in his most intimate correspondence? Did the train tickets he held on his way from France to Spain, or across the American Midwest, transform him—what kind of notes, for future stories or otherwise, did he take on these journeys?
  
  Drawing on his compilation of 400 objects, author and manager of the Hemingway Estate, Michael Katakis, explores how the objects that shaped Hemingway’s day-to-day offer unprecedented insight to the lived experience of the man behind the legend. Katakis will speak about his discoveries with Declan Kieley, The New York Public Library’s Director of Special Collections and Exhibitions.

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  The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

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  Tuesday, October 23

  7:00pm

  Laura Esther Wolfson on For Single Mothers Who Work as Train Conductors

  Laura Esther Wolfson’s literary debut draws on years of immersion in the Russian and French languages; struggles to gain a basic understanding of Judaism, its history, and her place in it; and her search for a form to hold the stories that emerge from what she has lived, observed, overheard, and …

  Laura Esther Wolfson’s literary debut draws on years of immersion in the Russian and French languages; struggles to gain a basic understanding of Judaism, its history, and her place in it; and her search for a form to hold the stories that emerge from what she has lived, observed, overheard, and misremembered. For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors was the recipient of the 2017 Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction.
  
  In “Proust at Rush Hour,” when her lungs begin to collapse and fail, forcing her to give up an exciting and precarious existence as a globetrotting simultaneous interpreter, she seeks consolation by reading Proust in the original while commuting by subway to a desk job that requires no more than a minimal knowledge of French. In “For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors” she gives away her diaphragm and tubes of spermicidal jelly to a woman in the Soviet Union who, with two unwanted pregnancies behind her, needs them more than she does. “The Husband Method” has her translating a book on Russian obscenities and gulag slang during the dissolution of her marriage to the Russian-speaker who taught her much of what she knows about that language.
  
  In prose spangled with pathos and dusted with humor, Wolfson transports us to Paris, the Republic of Georgia, upstate New York, the Upper West Side, and the corridors of the United Nations, telling stories that skewer, transform, and inspire.

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  Book Culture

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  536 W 112th Street, New York, NY 10025
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  Tuesday, October 23

  7:00pm

  The Baltimore Book Of The Dead: Marion Winik with Michele Filgate (PRINCE STREET)

  When Cheryl Strayed was asked by The Boston Globe to name a book she finds herself recommending time and again, she chose The Glen Rock Book of the Dead. Now that beloved book has a sequel: The Baltimore Book of the Dead, another collection of portraits of the dead, their compressed narratives weaving…

  When Cheryl Strayed was asked by The Boston Globe to name a book she finds herself recommending time and again, she chose The Glen Rock Book of the Dead. Now that beloved book has a sequel: The Baltimore Book of the Dead, another collection of portraits of the dead, their compressed narratives weaving a unusual, richly populated memoir. Approaching mourning and memory with intimacy, humor, and an eye for the idiosyncratic, the story begins in the 1960s in Marion Winik’s native New Jersey, winds through Austin, Texas and rural Pennsylvania, and finally settles in her current home of Baltimore.
  
  Winik begins with a portrait of her mother, the Alpha, introducing locales and language around which other stories will orbit: the power of family, home, and love; the pain of loss and the tenderness of nostalgia; the backdrop of nature and public events. From there, she goes on to create a highly personal panorama of the last half century of American life. Joining the Alpha are the Man Who Could Take Off His Thumb, the Babydaddy, the Warrior Poetess, El Suegro, and the Thin White Duke, not to mention a miniature poodle and a goldfish.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Tuesday, October 23

  7:00pm

  MARIO SORRENTI: KATE

  This gorgeously produced book features intimate, never-before-published portraits of a young and undiscovered Kate Moss, taken in the early 1990s by her then-boyfriend, Italian photographer Mario Sorrenti. Seen by Calvin Klein, the photographs gave life to the famous Obsession campaign, which launched…

  This gorgeously produced book features intimate, never-before-published portraits of a young and undiscovered Kate Moss, taken in the early 1990s by her then-boyfriend, Italian photographer Mario Sorrenti. Seen by Calvin Klein, the photographs gave life to the famous Obsession campaign, which launched Moss to international superstardom.
  
  Sumptuously reproduced in tritone and presented in a cloth-covered clamshell box, Kate is a stunning photographic portfolio of one of contemporary culture's most iconic figures. It includes tipped-on images on the book and clamshell box's covers, plus an introductory essay by Sorrenti, which puts the work in its uniquely personal context.
  
  This book, which celebrates the dawn of two legendary careers, and the start of the highly influential aesthetic of 1990s fashion photography, is a must-have for Kate Moss's fans, for fashion devotees, and for lovers of traditional portraiture and fashion photography.
  
  Join us as Mario Sorrenti signs copies of his work, Kate.

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  Strand Book Store

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  828 Broadway, New York, NY 10003-4805
  212-473-1452

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  Tuesday, October 23

  7:00pm

  SARAH J. MAAS: KINGDOM OF ASH

  The #1 New York Times bestselling author discusses the unforgettable, dramatic conclusion in this highly anticipated finale of the Throne of Glass series. All tickets come with a pre-signed copy of Kingdom of Ash. A limited number of VIP tickets (SOLD OUT) include a meet and greet with Sarah J. Maas…

  The #1 New York Times bestselling author discusses the unforgettable, dramatic conclusion in this highly anticipated finale of the Throne of Glass series.
  
  All tickets come with a pre-signed copy of Kingdom of Ash. A limited number of VIP tickets (SOLD OUT) include a meet and greet with Sarah J. Maas following the event.
  
  Produced in cooperation with New York Comic Con and Barnes and Noble.
  
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  Note: Ticket prices cover venue and a copy of Kingdom of Ash. Proceeds from the event will be donated to First Book, a charity dedicated to providing equal access to quality education for children in America.
  
  *Since the holiday season will be near, each event will also feature a canned/dry food drive for donation to a local food bank. Any donation goes a long way!
  
  VIP Ticket: $60 (plus $5 fee) - SOLD OUT
  
  Limited to 50, includes:
  
  -Everything included with a standard ticket, PLUS:
  
  -Photo with Sarah J. Maas
  
  -Personalized, signed copy of Kingdom of Ash
  
  -Prime seating at the front of the theatre
  
  Standard Ticket: $40 (plus $5 fee)
  
  Includes:
  
  -Signed copy of Kingdom of Ash
  
  -Exclusive new Throne of Glass tote bag
  
  -Exclusive print featuring art by Charlie Bowater
  
  -Exclusive Kingdom of Ash Tour button
  
  Don’t miss any of the other fun activities! Each event will feature Sarah J. Maas trivia, a Kingdom of Ash photo booth, fan art gallery, Throne of Glass-themed temporary tattoos, and more!
  
  There will not be a book signing.

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  Symphony Space

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  Tuesday, October 23

  7:30pm

  Kelsey Miller: I'll Be There For You: The One About Friends

  Today, Friends is remembered as an icon of 90s comedy and the Must See TV years. But when the series debuted in 1994, no one anticipated the sensation it would become. From the first wave of Friends mania to the backlash and renaissance that followed, the show maintained an uncanny connection to its…

  Today, Friends is remembered as an icon of 90s comedy and the Must See TV years. But when the series debuted in 1994, no one anticipated the sensation it would become. From the first wave of Friends mania to the backlash and renaissance that followed, the show maintained an uncanny connection to its audience, who saw it both as a reflection of their own lives and an aspirational escape from reality. In the years since, Friends has evolved from prime-time megahit to nostalgic novelty, and finally, to certified classic.
  
  I’ll Be There for You is a deep dive into Friends history and lore, exploring all aspects of the show, from its unlikely origins to the societal conditions that amplified its success. Journalist and pop culture expert Kelsey Miller relives the show’s most powerful moments, sheds light on its sometimes dated and problematic elements, and examines the worldwide trends that Friends catalyzed. Taking readers behind the scenes, Miller traces the cast’s rise to fame and untangles the complex relationship between the actors and their characters. Weaving in revelatory interviews and personal stories, she investigates the role of celebrity media, world-changing events and the dawning of the digital age—all of which influenced both the series and its viewers.
  
  I’ll Be There for You is the definitive retrospective of Friends, not only for fans of the series, but for anyone who’s ever wondered what it is about this show—and television comedy—that resonates so powerfully.
  
  Kelsey Miller is a journalist and the author of Big Girl: How I Gave Up Dieting and Got a Life. Her work has been featured in Glamour, Allure, Teen Vogue, Salon, People, Good Housekeeping, Women's Health and other outlets. She is the founder of The Anti-Diet Project, one of Refinery29's most popular franchises, and was the recipient of the Project HEAL Social Impact Award. She lives in Brooklyn.

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  Books Are Magic

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  Oct 24, 2018

  7:00am-9:00pm

  Book Launch: Photographers on Photography by Henry Carroll

  Think you know photography? Think again. Through a carefully curated selection of quotes and images, this book reveals what matters most to the masters of photography. With accompanying text by Henry Carroll, author of the internationally bestselling Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs …

  Think you know photography? Think again. Through a carefully curated selection of quotes and images, this book reveals what matters most to the masters of photography. With accompanying text by Henry Carroll, author of the internationally bestselling Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs series, you’ll learn what photography actually means to the giants of the genres and how they developed their distinctive visual styles.

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  powerHouse Arena

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  28 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
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  Oct 24, 2018

  6:30pm-7:30pm

  A History of Couple-hood

  Author and psychoanalyst Éric Smadja will discuss the fundamental psychological and sociological charcateristics of contemporary couples with Princeton University professor Rubén Gallo, based on Smadja’s latest book, The Couple: A Pluridisciplinary Approach (Routledge). Our speakers will explore …

  Author and psychoanalyst Éric Smadja will discuss the fundamental psychological and sociological charcateristics of contemporary couples with Princeton University professor Rubén Gallo, based on Smadja’s latest book, The Couple: A Pluridisciplinary Approach (Routledge).
  
  Our speakers will explore and question the connection between the modern-day couple and contemporary societies, combining psychoanalytic and sociological approaches.
  
  In English. Free and open to the public.

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  Albertine

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  Oct 24, 2018

  6:30pm-7:30pm

  Snow by Orhan Pamuk: A Theatrical Adaptation and Conversation with the Author

  Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Orhan Pamuk called Snow “my first and last political novel.” Set in the small city of Kars in northeastern Turkey, it tells a story of violence and tension between political Islamists, soldiers, secularists, and Kurdish and Turkish nationalists. An international…

  Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Orhan Pamuk called Snow “my first and last political novel.” Set in the small city of Kars in northeastern Turkey, it tells a story of violence and tension between political Islamists, soldiers, secularists, and Kurdish and Turkish nationalists. An international sensation, the novel has been adapted for the stage in France by Blandine Savetier and Waddah Saab and translated by Taylor Gaines. After an American premiere staged reading, Pamuk joins in conversation with Frank Hentschker, executive director of the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center.
  
  
  Presented with the Martin E. Segal Theatre and Cultural Services of the French Embassy, New York, with the support of FACE Contemporary Theater.
  
  Free; registration required.

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  The Graduate Center Public Programs (CUNY)

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

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  Oct 24, 2018

  7:00pm-9:00pm

  Author Christopher Howard in Conversation with Artist Tery Fugate-Wilcox

  Join author Christopher Howard and artist Tery Fugate-Wilcox in celebrating the release of Howard’s new book, The Jean Freeman Gallery Does Not Exist (MIT Press, 2018). The book explores a 1970s Conceptual art project—consisting of advertisements for fictional shows by fictional artists in a fictional…

  Join author Christopher Howard and artist Tery Fugate-Wilcox in celebrating the release of Howard’s new book, The Jean Freeman Gallery Does Not Exist (MIT Press, 2018). The book explores a 1970s Conceptual art project—consisting of advertisements for fictional shows by fictional artists in a fictional gallery—that hoodwinked the New York art world. Howard and Fugate-Wilcox will discuss how the Jean Freeman Gallery evolved from the artist’s experiences in the art world after moving to New York in 1968, and how it influenced his sculptural practice throughout the 1970s.
  
  Howard and Fugate-Wilcox will be signing copies of the book.
  
  Christopher Howard is a critic, editor, and historian based in Astoria, New York. He earned an MA in art history at Hunter College and has written for Artforum, the Brooklyn Rail, Modern Painters, Art Papers, and more. Howard won an award from the Arts Writers Grant Program in 2014.
  
  Born in Michigan, Tery Fugate-Wilcox spent most of his career as an artist in Tribeca. His work has been shown at Dwan Gallery, James Yu Gallery, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, Fulcrum Gallery, and Robert Miller Gallery, as well as at 112 Greene Street, the MIT List Visual Arts Center, the Wadsworth Atheneum, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art, among others. Fugate-Wilcox now lives in Hudson, New York.

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  Spoonbill Studio

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• Wednesday, October 24

  6:30pm

  TR's Last War: David Pietrusza with Kevin Fitzpatrick

  On his death bed he reflected, “I promised myself that I would work up to the hilt until I was sixty, and I have done it. I have kept my promise...” Highlighting the 1916 presidential campaign, America’s entry into the Great War in 1917, his fury surrounding Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, and his own…

  On his death bed he reflected, “I promised myself that I would work up to the hilt until I was sixty, and I have done it. I have kept my promise...” Highlighting the 1916 presidential campaign, America’s entry into the Great War in 1917, his fury surrounding Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, and his own sons going off to fight, TR's Last War captures the state of American politics and paints a portrait of an indomitable spirit.
  
  Author David Pietrusza will be joined in conversation by Kevin Fitzpatrick, author of World War One New York: A Guide to the City’s Enduring Ties to the Great War.

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  The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

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  Wednesday, October 24

  7:00pm

  Alice Mattison on Conscience

  Please join us at Book Culture 112th on Wednesday, October 24th at 7pm for a reading and discussion on Alice Mattison's new novel, Conscience. Joining Alice in conversation will be Rebecca Chace. Acclaimed author Alice Mattison’s new novel explores the hard choices a young woman and her friends made…

  Please join us at Book Culture 112th on Wednesday, October 24th at 7pm for a reading and discussion on Alice Mattison's new novel, Conscience. Joining Alice in conversation will be Rebecca Chace.
  
  Acclaimed author Alice Mattison’s new novel explores the hard choices a young woman and her friends made decades earlier at the height of the Vietnam War.
  
  Decades ago in Brooklyn, three girls demonstrated against the Vietnam War, and each followed a distinct path into adulthood. Helen became a violent revolutionary. Val wrote a controversial book, Bright Morning of Pain, which was essentially a novelization of Helen’s all-too-short but vibrant life. And Olive became an editor and writer, now comfortably settled with her husband, Griff, in modern-day New Haven.
  
  When Olive is asked to write an essay about Val’s book, a work that attracts and repulses her in equal measure, doing so brings back to the forefront Olive and Griff’s tangled histories and their complicated reflections on that tumultuous time in their young lives. Things only become more fraught when Griff borrows Olive’s treasured first edition of the novel―and loses it. Then Griff’s quirky and audacious new colleague, Jean Argos, finds the book and begins reading it, setting off a series of events that will introduce new conflicts, tragedies, and friendships into the precarious balance of Olive and Griff’s once stable home.
  
  Conscience, the dazzling new novel from award-winning author Alice Mattison, paints the nuanced relationships between the palpable personalities of Olive, Griff, and Jean with her signature wit and precision. And as Mattison explores the ways in which women make a difference―for good or ill―in the world, she elegantly weaves together the past and the present, and the political and the personal.

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  Book Culture

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  Wednesday, October 24

  7:00pm

  Making Time for Making Music: Amy Nathan (WILLIAMSBURG)

  Are you a former music-maker who yearns to return to music, but aren't sure where to begin? Or are you a person who never played music as a child but you are now curious about trying? You're not alone. Many adults who used to play an instrument haven't touched it in years because either they can't …

  Are you a former music-maker who yearns to return to music, but aren't sure where to begin? Or are you a person who never played music as a child but you are now curious about trying? You're not alone. Many adults who used to play an instrument haven't touched it in years because either they can't find the time to practice, are afraid their skills are too rusty, or are unsure of what kind of group they could join. Others are afraid to sing or start playing an instrument because they received negative feedback from childhood experiences. Performing, practicing, and composing music may seem like unattainable goals with insurmountable obstacles for busy adults with non-musical careers.
  
  Making Time for Making Music can help adults find ways to make music part of their lives. The first book of its kind, it is filled with real-life success stories from more than 350 adults who manage to fit music-making into their jam-packed schedules. They polished rusty skills, found musical groups to join, and are having a great time. Their testimonies prove that you are never too old to learn to make music, and that there are numerous musical paths to explore. Featuring advice from dozens of music educators, health care professionals, and music researchers who point out that making music can even be good for your health as well as an extensive resource list of websites, organizations, and summer programs, this book offers inspiration and tried-and-true strategies for anyone who wishes to return to music-making or begin as an adult.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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• Wednesday, October 24

  7:00pm

  Susan Orlean with Paul Holdengräber: One for the Books

  In 1986, 400,000 books were consumed by flames in a fire that devastated the Los Angeles Public Library. More than 30 years later, with the source of the blaze still unknown, award-winning journalist Susan Orlean re-examines the unsolved mystery in The Library Book. Her quest to find the truth is …

  In 1986, 400,000 books were consumed by flames in a fire that devastated the Los Angeles Public Library. More than 30 years later, with the source of the blaze still unknown, award-winning journalist Susan Orlean re-examines the unsolved mystery in The Library Book. Her quest to find the truth is fueled by a life-long love of reading and a deep appreciation for the democratic institution of the library and its guardians who make books available to all. Orlean will speak with Paul Holdengräber about her discoveries as a journalist and as a reader at the flagship location of the largest library system in the country.

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  The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

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  Wednesday, October 24

  7:30pm

  SELECTED SHORTS: AN EVENING WITH JOHN DARNIELLE

  Author, musician, and National Book Award nominee John Darnielle (The Mountain Goats, Wolf in White Van) returns curate a special evening of favorite stories. Not only is Darnielle "America's best non-hip-hop lyricist" (The New Yorker), he is a classics devotee who references Daniel Dafoe and the …

  Author, musician, and National Book Award nominee John Darnielle (The Mountain Goats, Wolf in White Van) returns curate a special evening of favorite stories. Not only is Darnielle "America's best non-hip-hop lyricist" (The New Yorker), he is a classics devotee who references Daniel Dafoe and the Bible as easily as he does Marlon James and Catalan novelist Mercè Rodoreda. This night, which explores the connective tissues between songwriting and storytelling, promises to be an invigorating, eclectic and truly one-of-a-kind experience.
  
  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.
  
  Actors subject to change.

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  Symphony Space

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

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