• Nov 27, 2018

  6:00pm-8:00pm

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

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

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

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  Deutsches Haus at NYU

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• Nov 27, 2018

  6:00pm-7:30pm

  John Tauranac - Author Reading

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

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

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  Nov 27, 2018

  7:00pm-9:00pm

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

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

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

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  Nov 27 - 29, 2018

  New Literature from Europe Festival

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

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

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  Tuesday, November 27

  6:30pm

  Resistance: The Populist Challenge to Democracy

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

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

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  Tuesday, November 27

  7:00pm

  112th: Surrealism with Margaret Carson and Mary Ann Caws

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

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

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  Tuesday, November 27

  7:00pm

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

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

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

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Tuesday, November 27

  7:30pm

  Amelia Bonow: Shout Your Abortion w/ Jessica Valenti

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

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

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  Tuesday, April 23

  7:00am

  Jennifer Epstein: Wunderland w/ Chris Bohjalian

  nspired by a true story, Jennifer Cody Epstein’s Wunderland is an ambitious, multigenerational saga that crosses decades, borders, and warzones. Drawn together by shared idealism and mutual bookishness, Ilse Fischer and Renate Bauer form a passionate friendship that will be ripped apart by Germany’s…

  nspired by a true story, Jennifer Cody Epstein’s Wunderland is an ambitious, multigenerational saga that crosses decades, borders, and warzones. Drawn together by shared idealism and mutual bookishness, Ilse Fischer and Renate Bauer form a passionate friendship that will be ripped apart by Germany’s race laws—and a shocking betrayal. Three decades later, struggling East Village artist Ava Fisher receives her estranged mother Ilse’s ashes in the mail—along with a trove of unsent letters to a woman named Renate Bauer. It’s a discovery that will launch Ava onto the gritty streets of 1980’s New York City—and on a collision course with a dark revelation about both her mother’s hidden past that will shake her to her very core.
  
  Hailed as “a devastating tale bound for bestseller lists,” “a vividly written and stark chronicle of Nazism and its legacies” and “an absorbing exploration of friendship, betrayal, and coming to terms with the past” in starred reviews by Publishers Weekly, Kirkus and Booklist, Wunderland draws readers into the lives of complex, flawed characters whose worlds intersect in ways both life-affirming and tragic, right up until the novel’s stunning conclusion. The result is a propulsive, page-turning narrative that deep-dives into the secrets we keep from others, the lies we tell ourselves, and humanity’s potential for both unspeakable evil and immense goodness….and a story that resonates startlingly amid today’s troubled world.
  
  Jennifer Cody Epstein is the author of the international bestseller The Painter from Shanghai, and The Gods of Heavenly Punishment, and winner of the 2014 Asian Pacific Association of Librarians Honor award for outstanding fiction. She has written for The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Self, Mademoiselle, and many others. She has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University and an MA in international affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters.
  
  Chris Bohjalian is the author of twenty books, including The Guest Room; Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands; The Sandcastle Girls; Skeletons at the Feast; The Double Bind; and Midwives which was a number one New York Times bestseller and a selection of Oprah's Book Club. Chris's work has been translated into more than thirty languages, and three novels have become movies (Secrets of Eden, Midwives, and Past the Bleachers). Chris lives in Vermont and can be found at www.chrisbohjalian.com or on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Litsy, and Goodreads.
  
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• Tuesday, April 23

  6:30pm

  One Book, One New York: Author Event

  Each year the One Book, One New York city-wide reading program unites New Yorkers in all five boroughs around the power of the written word. But with 8 million people in the city, who decides what book to read? Meet the incredible group of women authors who wrote this year’s five nominated titles…

  Each year the One Book, One New York city-wide reading program unites New Yorkers in all five boroughs around the power of the written word. But with 8 million people in the city, who decides what book to read?
  
  Meet the incredible group of women authors who wrote this year’s five nominated titles and prepare to cast your vote!

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  Tuesday, April 23

  7:30pm

  D. WATKINS AND YAHDON ISRAEL ON THE 2ND FLOOR

  Join us on the second floor as writer Salon columnist D. Watkins sits down with writer and host Yahdon Israel to share his new book! While author D. Watkins is pleased about the number of books exploring issues of race that are being published, there’s one crucial aspect of contemporary black life…

  Join us on the second floor as writer Salon columnist D. Watkins sits down with writer and host Yahdon Israel to share his new book!
  
  While author D. Watkins is pleased about the number of books exploring issues of race that are being published, there’s one crucial aspect of contemporary black life that doesn’t get enough attention: the hood. The Baltimore native knows firsthand what it means to live in poverty, where violence and drugs are inescapable. As he sees it, the perspective of people who live in poor black communities is largely absent from the work of many of the top intellectuals who speak and write about race.
  
  Now, D. Watkins is here to tell his truth. Built upon Watkins's own experiences, We Speak for Ourselves eases us into the bigger conversation about race and the various issues affecting poor black neighborhoods in America. Unapologetic and eye-opening, We Speak for Ourselves identifies and addresses a range of issues affecting these low-income communities—such as the trouble with misrepresentation and why we need more than one black voice—and sheds light on the harsh realities of daily life. Additionally, Watkins examines various crucial activist movements, including the Civil Rights Movement, and asks what it means to be a model activist in today’s world.
  
  Through the personal retelling of his journey, Watkins aims to illuminate the lessons he’s learned navigating through two very distinct worlds—the hood and the elite sanctums of the prominent black thinkers and public figures—in hopes of providing actionable solutions.

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• Wednesday, April 24

  6:30pm

  This Is Cuba: David Ariosto with Cynthia Carris Alonso

  David Ariosto, an author and journalist who has worked for National Geographic, Reuters, CNN and NPR, will be joined in conversation by Cynthia Carris Alonso, a photographer and photo editor for Newsweek, Vanity Fair, and Business Week.

  The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

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  Wednesday, April 24

  7:00pm

  Disquieting: Cynthia Cruz (PRINCE STREET)

  Disquieting: Essays on Silence by Cynthia Cruz is a book of silence and turning away. In these essays, Cruz asks how can we live lives of resistance to the desires and ideologies of contemporary Neoliberal culture. Tarrying with those who turn away, she inhabits connections between mental illness, …

  Disquieting: Essays on Silence by Cynthia Cruz is a book of silence and turning away. In these essays, Cruz asks how can we live lives of resistance to the desires and ideologies of contemporary Neoliberal culture. Tarrying with those who turn away, she inhabits connections between mental illness, anorexia, refusal, silence and Neoliberalism. She explores the experience of being working-class and poor in contemporary culture, and how those who are silenced often turn to forms of disquietude that value open-endedness, complexity, and difficulty. Disquieting draws on philosophy, theory, art, film, and literature to offer alternative ways of being in this world and possibilities for building a new one.
  
  Cynthia Cruz is the author of five collections of poems: How the End Begins, Wunderkammer, The Glimmering Room, and Ruin. Her fifth collection of poems, Dregs, was published in September of 2018. The editor of a forthcoming anthology of contemporary Latina poetry, Other Musics: New Latina Poetry (2019), Disquieting:Essays on Silence is her first collection of essays. Cruz is the recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and a Hodder fellowship from Princeton University. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University.

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  Wednesday, April 24

  7:00pm

  ERSI SOTIROPOULOS: WHAT'S LEFT OF THE NIGHT

  Join us as author Ersi Sotiropoulos shares and signs her book. In June 1897, the young Constantine Cavafy arrives in Paris on the last stop of a long European tour, a trip that will deeply shape his future and push him toward his poetic inclination. With this lyrical novel, tinged with an hallucinatory…

  Join us as author Ersi Sotiropoulos shares and signs her book.
  
  In June 1897, the young Constantine Cavafy arrives in Paris on the last stop of a long European tour, a trip that will deeply shape his future and push him toward his poetic inclination. With this lyrical novel, tinged with an hallucinatory eroticism that unfolds over three unforgettable days, celebrated Greek author Ersi Sotiropoulos depicts Cavafy in the midst of a journey of self-discovery across a continent on the brink of massive change. He is by turns exhilarated and tormented by his homosexuality; the Greek-Turkish War has ended in Greece’s defeat and humiliation; France is torn by the Dreyfus Affair, and Cavafy’s native Alexandria has surrendered to the indolent rhythms of the East. A stunning portrait of a budding author?before he became C.P. Cavafy, one of the 20th century’s greatest poets?that illuminates the complex relationship of art, life, and the erotic desires that trigger creativity.

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  Wednesday, April 24

  7:30pm

  Leanne Shapton presents Guestbook: Ghost Stories

  What haunts us? What can’t we let go of? A tennis prodigy collapses after his wins, crediting them to an invisible, not entirely benevolent presence. A series of ghosts appear at their former bedsides, some distraught, some fascinated, to witness their unfamiliar occupants. A woman returns from a …

  What haunts us? What can’t we let go of? A tennis prodigy collapses after his wins, crediting them to an invisible, not entirely benevolent presence. A series of ghosts appear at their former bedsides, some distraught, some fascinated, to witness their unfamiliar occupants. A woman returns from a visit to Alcatraz with an uncomfortable feeling. The spirit of a prisoner has attached himself to you, a friend tells her. He sensed the empathy you had for those men.
  
  In more than two dozen stories and vignettes accompanied by an evocative curiosity cabinet of artifacts and images—found photographs, original paintings, Instagram-style portraits—Guestbook beckons us through the glimmering, unsettling evidence that marks our paths through life.

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• Apr 24, 2019

  7:00pm-8:30pm

  Formerly Homeless People Read Their Own Stories

  Bookstore readings are not typically newsworthy but how often do people who have experienced homelessness get to read from their book at a college bookstore? On April 24, 7 PM at Book Culture (536 West 112th Street) several individuals will describe their childhood traumas, the devastation of …

  Bookstore readings are not typically newsworthy but how often do people who have experienced homelessness get to read from their book at a college bookstore? On April 24, 7 PM at Book Culture (536 West 112th Street) several individuals will describe their childhood traumas, the devastation of homelessness, and the healing they discovered though community and faith. All are contributors to Sacred Shelter: Thirteen Journeys of Homelessness and Healing, edited by Susan Celia Greenfield and recently published by Fordham University Press. Please join us for a different kind of bookstore reading.

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• Apr 25, 2019

  6:00pm-7:30pm

  Xu Xi and Randon Billings Noble - Author Reading

  XU XI 許素細 is the author of five novels, eight collections of short fiction and essays, one memoir and editor of four anthologies of Hong Kong writing in English. Her newest book is This Fish is Fowl: Essays of Being (American Lives Series - Univ. Nebraska, March 1, 2019). Other recent titles include…

  XU XI 許素細 is the author of five novels, eight collections of short fiction and essays, one memoir and editor of four anthologies of Hong Kong writing in English. Her newest book is This Fish is Fowl: Essays of Being (American Lives Series - Univ. Nebraska, March 1, 2019). Other recent titles include the novel That Man In Our Lives (C&R 2016), a memoir Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy For A City (Penguin, 2017) and Insignificance: Hong Kong Stories (Signal 8 2018).
  
  Noble's full-length essay collection Be with Me Always was published by the University of Nebraska Press in March 2019 and her lyric essay chapbook Devotional was published by Red Bird in 2017. Individual essays have appeared in the Modern Love column of The New York Times, The Massachusetts Review, Brevity, Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, and elsewhere. Noble lives in the District of Columbia, where she is the Founding Editor of After the Art.

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  NYU Bookstore

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  726 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
  

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  Thursday, April 25

  7:00pm

  Lions' Den: Susie Linfield (PRINCE STREET)

  Lions' Den: Susie Linfield (PRINCE STREET)

  McNally Jackson Books

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  52 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012
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• Thursday, April 25

  7:00pm

  LIVE from the NYPL: Justin Vivian Bond and Friends: Stonewall 50 Cabaret

  The Library’s exhibition Love & Resistance: Stonewall 50 comes to life in a night of song, comedy, and burlesque.

  The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

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  5th Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018
  
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  A Place for Us:

  A Novel

  by Fatima Farheen Mirza

  SJP for Hogarth

  $17.00 List Price

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  Thursday, April 25

  7:30pm

  Fatima Farheen Mirza on A Place for Us

  The first novel from Sarah Jessica Parker’s new imprint, SJP for Hogarth—and a finalist for One Book, One New York—"A Place for Us" is a deeply moving and resonant story of love, identity, and belonging. As an Indian wedding gathers a family back together, parents Rafiq and Layla must reckon with …

  The first novel from Sarah Jessica Parker’s new imprint, SJP for Hogarth—and a finalist for One Book, One New York—"A Place for Us" is a deeply moving and resonant story of love, identity, and belonging.
  
  As an Indian wedding gathers a family back together, parents Rafiq and Layla must reckon with the choices their children have made. There is Hadia: their headstrong, eldest daughter, whose marriage is a match of love and not tradition. Huda, the middle child, determined to follow in her sister’s footsteps. And lastly, their estranged son, Amar, who returns to the family fold for the first time in three years to take his place as brother of the bride. What secrets and betrayals have caused this close-knit family to fracture? Can Amar find his way back to the people who know and love him best?
  
  "A Place for Us" takes us back to the beginning of this family’s life: from the bonds that bring them together, to the differences that pull them apart. All the joy and struggle of family life is here, from Rafiq and Layla’s own arrival in America from India, to the years in which their children—each in their own way—tread between two cultures, seeking to find their place in the world, as well as a path home.
  
  An instant New York Times Best Seller, "A Place for Us", now out in paperback, is a book for our times: an astonishingly tender-hearted novel of identity and belonging, and a resonant portrait of what it means to be an American family today. It announces Fatima Farheen Mirza as a major new literary talent.
  
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  Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library, Dweck Center

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  10 Grand Army Plaza, New York, NY 11238
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  Thursday, April 25

  7:30pm

  Letters In Ink with calligrapher Rajiv Surendra (GOODS FOR THE STUDY)

  When was the last time you sent someone a handwritten letter? Join us for an evening celebrating the quiet pleasure of communicating with pen and paper as you write a missive to someone you care about. Please bring along your recipient’s mailing address, as Rajiv will be addressing envelopes with …

  When was the last time you sent someone a handwritten letter? Join us for an evening celebrating the quiet pleasure of communicating with pen and paper as you write a missive to someone you care about. Please bring along your recipient’s mailing address, as Rajiv will be addressing envelopes with calligraphy at the end of the evening.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Friday, April 26

  7:00pm

  PEN OUT LOUD: VIET THANH NGUYEN AND MAAZA MENGISTE

  Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer) and author Maaza Mengiste (Beneath the Lion’s Gaze) discuss the critically acclaimed anthology The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives. Edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen and featuring an essay by Maaza Mengiste, The Displaced collects…

  Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer) and author Maaza Mengiste (Beneath the Lion’s Gaze) discuss the critically acclaimed anthology The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives. Edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen and featuring an essay by Maaza Mengiste, The Displaced collects the work of 17 refugee writers, painting intimate narratives of their everyday lives and reckoning with the largest refugee crisis in history, and the increasingly hostile conditions refugees face.
  
  Buy a $15 ticket to attend this event. Please note that payment is required for all online event orders at the time of checkout. The event will be located in the Strand's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at our store at 828 Broadway at 12th Street.
  
  Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam in 1971. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, he and his family fled to the United States. The author of three books including The Sympathizer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a recently published story collection, The Refugees, Nguyen is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles.
  
  Maaza Mengiste‘s debut novel, Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, was selected by The Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African books and named one of the best books of 2010 by Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, and other publications. A recipient of a 2018 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, she is also a Fulbright Scholar, a Puterbaugh Fellow, and a runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Her work can be found in The New Yorker, New York Review of Books, Granta, The Guardian, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and BBC, among other places. She was a writer on the documentary projects, Girl Rising and The Invisible City: Kakuma. Her second novel, The Shadow King, will be published in late 2019.

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  Strand Book Store

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  828 Broadway, New York, NY 10003-4805
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  Saturday, April 27

  4:00pm

  Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Project Prizewinners (PRINCE STREET)

  Each year the Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Project commemorates poet-activist Lexi Rudnitsky (1972-2005) by holding two book contests to memorialize Lexi and to promote the type of meaningful poetry in which she so spiritedly believed. The winners are published by Persea Books. Join us as we welcome today's…

  Each year the Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Project commemorates poet-activist Lexi Rudnitsky (1972-2005) by holding two book contests to memorialize Lexi and to promote the type of meaningful poetry in which she so spiritedly believed. The winners are published by Persea Books. Join us as we welcome today's extraordinary readers and prizewinners.
  
  Karen Donovan is the author of two books of poetry, Fugitive Red and Your Enzymes Are Calling the Ancients, winner of the 2015 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
  
  Mitchell L. H. Douglas is the author of three books of poetry, including, dying in the scarecrow’s arms, /blak/ /al-fə bet/, winner of the 2011 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award, and Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem. He is a cofounder of the Affrilachian Poets and Associate Professor of English at IUPUI.
  
  Cynthia Marie Hoffman is the author of three books of poetry, including Call Me When You Want to Talk About the Tombstones, and Sightseer, winner of the 2010 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
  
  Susannah Nevison is the author of two books of poetry, Lethal Theater and Teratology, which won the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. She teaches at Sweet Briar College in southwestern Virginia.
  
  Valencia Robin’s first book of poetry, Ridiculous Light, won the 2018 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. She is a visual artist as well as a poet, and currently living in Charlottesville, Virginia.
  
  Gary Young is the author of, most recently, That’s What I Thought, which won the 2017 Lexi Rudnitky Editor’s Choice Award. He is a past recipient of the Shelley Memorial Medal and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. A printmaker, his art is represented in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Getty Center for the Arts.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  The Very Hungry Caterpillar:

  50th Anniversary Golden Edition

  by Eric Carle

  Philomel Books

  $22.99 List Price

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  Sunday, April 28

  11:00am

  The Very Hungry Caterpillar 50th Birthday Party

  This program will take place in the Grand Lobby. Be part of The Very Hungry Caterpillar's 50th birthday celebration and nationwide tour! Listen to Eric Carle's beloved children's book at this very special story time, participate in fun crafts and other activities and take photos with The Very Hungry…

  This program will take place in the Grand Lobby.
  
  Be part of The Very Hungry Caterpillar's 50th birthday celebration and nationwide tour! Listen to Eric Carle's beloved children's book at this very special story time, participate in fun crafts and other activities and take photos with The Very Hungry Caterpillar and his cool car.
  
  Eric Carle is acclaimed and beloved as the creator of brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed picture books for very young children. His best-known work, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has eaten its way into the hearts of millions of children all over the world and has been translated into more than 25 languages and sold over 12 million copies. Since The Very Hungry Caterpillar was published in 1969, Eric Carle has illustrated more than 60 books, many bestsellers, most of which he also wrote.
  
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  Brooklyn Public Library, Central Branch

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  10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238-5675
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  Sunday, April 28

  6:00pm

  Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: David L. Eng, Shinhee Han and Ben Kafka (PRINCE STREET)

  In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y. Combining critical race theory with…

  In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y. Combining critical race theory with several strands of psychoanalytic thought and clinical practice, they develop the concepts of racial melancholia and racial dissociation to investigate changing processes of loss associated with immigration, displacement, diaspora, and assimilation. These case studies of first- and second-generation Asian Americans deal with a range of difficulties, from depression, suicide, and the politics of coming out to broader issues of the model minority stereotype, transnational adoption, parachute children, colorblind discourses in the United States, and the rise of Asia under globalization. Throughout, Eng and Han link psychoanalysis to larger structural and historical phenomena, illuminating how the study of psychic processes of individuals can inform investigations of race, sexuality, and immigration while creating a more sustained conversation about the social lives of Asian Americans and Asians in the diaspora.
  
  David L. Eng is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Eng is author of The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy (Duke, 2010) and Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America (Duke, 2001). He is co-editor with David Kazanjian of Loss: The Politics of Mourning (California, 2003) and with Alice Y. Hom of Q & A: Queer in Asian America (Temple, 1998). In 2016, Eng was elected an honorary member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York City.
  
  Shinhee Han, PhD, is a psychotherapist at the New School as well as in private practice in New York City. In addition, she is an adjunct professor in the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University, where she teaches courses on Asian Americans, race, and psychoanalysis. Dr. Han is a founding member of the Asian Women Giving Circle, a philanthropic organization in New York City that funds Asian of women artists creating social activism and change. Previously, she worked in counseling and psychological services at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Barnard College, and Columbia University. Born in Seoul, Korea, she immigrated to Minnesota with her family at age 13.
  
  Ben Kafka is a psychoanalyst, cultural historian, and critic. He teaches at NYU and sees patients in private practice.

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  Sunday, April 28

  7:00pm

  Message from the Library with Sonia Sanchez

  Sonia Sanchez, renowned writer poet, professor and activist delivers a library-commissioned speech addressing today’s most critical issues in our local and global communities. Following the lecture, audience members will be invited to reflect, argue, debate and discuss the issues presented in Sanchez’s…

  Sonia Sanchez, renowned writer poet, professor and activist delivers a library-commissioned speech addressing today’s most critical issues in our local and global communities. Following the lecture, audience members will be invited to reflect, argue, debate and discuss the issues presented in Sanchez’s remarks in breakout conversations moderated by noted writers and intellectuals.
  
  Message from the Library is made possible through support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
  
  RSVPs strongly recommended.

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  Brooklyn Public Library, Central Branch

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  10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238-5675
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  Apr 28, 2019

  6:00pm-8:00pm

  First Person Plural Reading Series in Harlem

  First Person Plural Reading Series in Harlem: Join us on April 28th at Silvana for what promises to be a very special night featuring writers and exceptional literary citizens Chaya Bhuvaneswar, Jericho Brown, Veronica Liu, Holly Masturzo, Willie Perdomo, and Alexandra Watson. Brown and Perdomo will…

  First Person Plural Reading Series in Harlem: Join us on April 28th at Silvana for what promises to be a very special night featuring writers and exceptional literary citizens Chaya Bhuvaneswar, Jericho Brown, Veronica Liu, Holly Masturzo, Willie Perdomo, and Alexandra Watson. Brown and Perdomo will be celebrating the release of their new books of poems The Tradition and The Crazy Bunch respectively. Word Up Books is our official bookseller for the night. Plan to be with us Sunday, April 28th at Silvana in Harlem from 6:00pm-8:00pm. 300 W 116th St (SW corner of 116th and Frederick Douglass Blvd). The First Person Plural Reading Series is hosted by Stacy Parker Le Melle. Admission is free! There will be cake! Please RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/first-person-plural-reading-series-featuring-chaya-bhuvaneswar-jericho-brown-veronica-liu-holly-tickets-58615205658

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  The Shrine Bar

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  2271 Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard, New York, NY 10030
  

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• Monday, April 29

  6:30pm

  Mid-Sentence | T. Fleischmann and Kate Zambreno

  Writers Fleischmann and Zambreno discuss writing the body, the essay, gender, community, and more.

  The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

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  Monday, April 29

  8:00pm

  Paris Review Poets

  The Poetry Center continues its long-running collaboration with The Paris Review with a reading by poets featured in the magazine this year.

  92nd Street Y

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  1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10128
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  Monday, April 29

  8:00pm

  Paris Review Poets

  The Poetry Center continues its long-running collaboration with The Paris Review with a reading by poets featured in the magazine this year.

  92Y Tribeca

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

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• Apr 29, 2019

  7:00pm-9:00pm

  "Emilie Kempin-Spyri": Film Screening and Talk by Rahel Grunder

  Deutsches Haus at NYU, in partnership with the Consulate General of Switzerland New York and SALA (Swiss American Lawyers Association), presents a screening of the Swiss documentary Emilie Kempin-Spyri. Rahel Grunder, the film's director, will be present and speak about her film and the life of Emilie…

  Deutsches Haus at NYU, in partnership with the Consulate General of Switzerland New York and SALA (Swiss American Lawyers Association), presents a screening of the Swiss documentary Emilie Kempin-Spyri. Rahel Grunder, the film's director, will be present and speak about her film and the life of Emilie Kempin-Spyri.
  
  About the film:
  
  Emilie Kempin-Spyri. Written and directed by Rahel Grunder. Switzerland, 2015, 52. min, in German with English subtitles.
  
  Emilie Kempin-Spyri was the first female Doctor of Law in Europe. As a woman, however, she was not admitted to the bar, nor allowed to lecture at university. Emilie found a way out of her dissatisfying situation with a courageous journey into the unknown: In 1888, she emigrated with her husband and their three children to New York. With the help of influential women, she founded the first Woman's Law Class, which then was integrated into the law school at NYU. Her tireless efforts paid off, and Emilie was even allowed to lecture men. After only three years though, Emilie left to be with her family. Her husband, not able to acclimate to the foreign city, had returned to Switzerland with the children a year earlier. Emilie was finally allowed to work as a private lecturer at Zurich university, but her fight to be admitted to the bar remained unsuccessful again. She emigrated to Berlin and drafted articles on family law for the German Civil Code. Without stable social relationships, separated from her husband, and in an economically precarious situation, Kempin-Spyri suffered a breakdown in 1897. She was initially treated in a sanatorium in Berlin. In 1901 she tragically died at the age of 48 in a mental institution in Switzerland.
  
  About the filmmaker:
  
  Rahel Grunder creates authentic, sensitive, and female-driven stories as a writer and director in both fictional and documentary films. Her documentary Emilie Kempin-Spyri about Europe's first female lawyer received high critical and public acclaim. The TV comedy Daddyhunt was broadcast during prime time on the biggest Swiss network. Rahel's first short Happy Tobikomaki screened at the World of Women Film Festival in Australia, the Moscow Short Film Festival, and the Tucson Slow Food Film Festival. Her documentary Swimmers of Hope won the audience award at the Science et Cité Cinéma festival in Switzerland, and her documentary Farm Women the audience award at the Regard Bleu festival. Originally from Zurich, Rahel Grunder moved to Los Angeles in 2010 and graduated from the American Film Institute (AFI) in 2012. Rahel Grunder has an academic background in anthropology, film history, and art history. She’s an avid dancer, and a hiking, running, and cycling enthusiast. She teaches documentary filmmaking at University of Zurich, and is a mentor for the Munich Screenplay Workshop.
  
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  Events at Deutsches Haus are free of charge. If you would like to attend this event, please send us an email to deutscheshaus.rsvp@nyu.edu. Space at Deutsches Haus is limited, please arrive ten minutes prior to the event. Thank you!

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  Deutsches Haus at NYU

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  42 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003
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• Tuesday, April 30

  6:30pm

  All That You Leave Behind: Erin Lee Carr with Ta-Nehisi Coates

  The documentary filmmaker remembers her father, legendary journalist David Carr, in a moving new memoir.

  The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

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  Tuesday, April 30

  7:00pm

  Double Take Reading Series: Promise

  At apexart's Double Take reading series, poets, novelists, editors, and artists are invited to create and share an original work in response to a single, open-ended prompt, in this instance: Promise. As a result, apexart audiences experience a one-of-a-kind evening of stories and reflections. …

  At apexart's Double Take reading series, poets, novelists, editors, and artists are invited to create and share an original work in response to a single, open-ended prompt, in this instance: Promise. As a result, apexart audiences experience a one-of-a-kind evening of stories and reflections.
  
  Featuring contributions from:
  
  Heather Chaplin
  
  Lonely Christopher
  
  Jibade-Khalil Huffman
  
  Organized by Albert Mobilio.
  
  This event is free and open to the public. RSVP encouraged.
  
  Refreshments and light snacks will be provided.

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  apexart

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  291 Church Street, New York, NY 10013
  

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  Tuesday, April 30

  7:00pm

  What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Michele Filgate with Leslie Jamison, Melissa Febos, and Dani Shapiro (PRINCE STREET)

  Fifteen brilliant writers explore what we don’t talk to our mothers about, and how it affects us, for better or for worse. As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize what she was actually trying to …

  Fifteen brilliant writers explore what we don’t talk to our mothers about, and how it affects us, for better or for worse.
  
  As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize what she was actually trying to write: how this affected her relationship with her mother. When it was finally published, the essay went viral, shared on social media by Anne Lamott, Rebecca Solnit, and many others. The outpouring of responses gave Filgate an idea, and the resulting anthology offers a candid look at our relationships with our mothers.
  
  While some of the writers in this book are estranged from their mothers, others are extremely close. Leslie Jamison writes about trying to discover who her seemingly perfect mother was before ever becoming a mom. In Cathi Hanauer’s hilarious piece, she finally gets a chance to have a conversation with her mother that isn’t interrupted by her domineering (but lovable) father. André Aciman writes about what it was like to have a deaf mother. Melissa Febos uses mythology as a lens to look at her close-knit relationship with her psychotherapist mother. And Julianna Baggott talks about having a mom who tells her everything.
  
  As Filgate writes, “Our mothers are our first homes, and that’s why we’re always trying to return to them.” There’s relief in breaking the silence. Acknowledging what we couldn’t say for so long is one way to heal our relationships with others and, perhaps most important, with ourselves. Contributors include Cathi Hanauer, Melissa Febos, Alexander Chee, Dylan Landis, Bernice L. McFadden, Julianna Baggott, Lynn Steger Strong, Kiese Laymon, Carmen Maria Machado, André Aciman, Sari Botton, Nayomi Munaweera, Brandon Taylor, and Leslie Jamison.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Tuesday, April 30

  7:30pm

  Camonghne Felix: Build Yourself a Boat

  “Camonghne Felix is a brilliant writer, thinker, imaginer, builder—a young leader who shifts and opens the possibilities for a more just, better lit world, with each step, each word, each question.” —Kathy Engel This is about what grows through the wreckage. This is an anthem of survival and a look…

  “Camonghne Felix is a brilliant writer, thinker, imaginer, builder—a young leader who shifts and opens the possibilities for a more just, better lit world, with each step, each word, each question.” —Kathy Engel
  
  This is about what grows through the wreckage. This is an anthem of survival and a look at what might come after. A view of what floats and what, ultimately, sustains.
  
  Build Yourself a Boat redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory.
  
  Camonghne Felix, M.A. is a poet, a writer, speaker, & political strategist living in New York City. She received an M.A. in Arts Politics from NYU, an MFA from Bard College, & has received Fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo & Poets House. Her first full-length collection of poems, Build Yourself a Boat, was a 2017 University of Wisconsin Press Brittingham & Pollak Prize finalist, a 2017 Fordham University Poets Out Loud semi-finalist, & is forthcoming from Haymarket Books in 2019. The author of the chapbook Yolk, she was recently listed by Black Youth Project as a "Black Girl From the Future You Should Know." Felix's work has been published in BuzzFeed, Poetry Magazine,Apogee, The Offing, the Academy of American Poets website, & more. She's also been featured in New York Women's Foundation Magazine, Brooklyn Poets, Politico, Teen Vogue digital, Huffington Post & more.

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  Books Are Magic

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  255 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
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  May 1, 2019

  6:30pm-7:30pm

  Shakespeare in Living Color: Race and Performance Now

  In an evening of performance, director José Esquea generates fresh dramatic tensions in key Shakespeare scenes by introducing questions of race. Formerly director and artistic director of Teatro LATEA, Esquea has directed multicultural productions of Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth 2029, Romeo and Juliet,…

  In an evening of performance, director José Esquea generates fresh dramatic tensions in key Shakespeare scenes by introducing questions of race. Formerly director and artistic director of Teatro LATEA, Esquea has directed multicultural productions of Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth 2029, Romeo and Juliet, and King Lear. The evening’s performance will be followed by a conversation with the director and Shakespeare scholars Tanya Pollard, professor of English at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, and Miles Grier, assistant professor of English at Queens College.
  
  Presented with the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program.

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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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• Wednesday, May 1

  6:30pm

  What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape: Sohaila Abdulali with Chiké Frankie Edozien

  A survivor, writer, counselor, and activist offers an honest examination of sexual assault, and the process of recovering joy.

  The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

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  Wednesday, May 1

  7:00pm

  All in the Family: A Sibling Reading with Maureen Pilkington and Kevin Pilkington

  Maureen Pilkington will read short fiction from her collection, This Side of Water: Stories, and Kevin Pilkington will be reading from his latest collection of poetry, Where You Want to Be: New and Selected Poems. In This Side of Water: Stories, Maureen Pilkington’s bright debut collection, precise…

  Maureen Pilkington will read short fiction from her collection, This Side of Water: Stories, and Kevin Pilkington will be reading from his latest collection of poetry, Where You Want to Be: New and Selected Poems.
  
  In This Side of Water: Stories, Maureen Pilkington’s bright debut collection, precise and vivid language delivers flawed characters to their moments of reckoning. A married woman goes to the cemetery to resurrect her father; a young girl at a beach club witnesses her parents’ infidelity; an icy New Year’s Eve leads a devoted husband to violent clarity; a teenager spies on her mother and a Catholic priest; a Russian “dancer” visits her American husband and plays a dangerous game. In these sixteen stories, the backdrop of water—the Long Island Sound, the sulfur polluted Monangahela River, a koi pond, a basin of holy water, a tear in a boy’s eye—provides a salve for these characters, ferrying them to personal ports of resolution.
  
  "These are brave stories. Pilkington seems willing to go anywhere she needs to for a story, and fully inhabit any character.This Side of Water is a wide-ranging and darkly beautiful collection of stories."

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  McNally Jackson Books

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• Thursday, May 2

  7:00pm

  LIVE from the NYPL: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Stony the Road

  Between emancipation and the civil rights era, a war of ideas and imagery helped to sow the seeds of the structural racism that endures in this country to this day.

  Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

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  Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018
  212-475-4000

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  Thursday, May 2

  7:00pm

  STEVE ISRAEL: BIG GUNS

  When Chicago’s Mayor Michael Rodriguez starts a national campaign to ban handguns from America’s cities, towns, and villages, Otis Cogsworth, the wealthy chairman and CEO of Cogsworth International Arms worries about the effects on his company. In response he and lobbyist Sunny McCarthy convince an…

  When Chicago’s Mayor Michael Rodriguez starts a national campaign to ban handguns from America’s cities, towns, and villages, Otis Cogsworth, the wealthy chairman and CEO of Cogsworth International Arms worries about the effects on his company. In response he and lobbyist Sunny McCarthy convince an Arkansas congressman to introduce federal legislation mandating that every American must own a firearm. Events soon escalate.
  
  Asabogue’s Mayor Lois Leibowitz passes an ordinance to ban guns in the town—right in Otis Cogsworth’s backyard. Otis retaliates by orchestrating a recall election against Lois and Jack Steele, a rich town resident, runs against her. Even though the election is for the mayor of a village on Long Island, Steele brings in the big guns of American politics to defeat Lois: political consultants, Super PACs, and celebrities. Soon, thousands of pro-gun and anti-gun partisans descend on Asabogue, along with an assortment of heavily armed rightwing militias and the national news media. Bucolic Asabogue becomes a tinderbox. Meanwhile, Washington politicians in both parties are caught between a mighty gun lobby whose support they need for reelection and the absurdity of requiring that every American with waivers for children under age four carry a gun. What ensues is a discomfiting, hilarious indictment of the state of American politics.
  
  Former Long Island Congressman, Steve Israel has firsthand knowledge of the cynicism and corruption at the heart of our political system. Big Guns will make you laugh, will make you angry, and will make you think as you flip the pages faster and faster to find out what happens next.
  
  Join us as Rep. Steve Israel shares his book.

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  Strand Book Store

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  Hybrida:

  Poems

  by Tina Chang

  W. W. Norton & Company

  $26.95 List Price

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  Deaf Republic:

  Poems

  by Ilya Kaminsky

  Graywolf Press

  $16.00 List Price

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  The Octopus Museum:

  Poems

  by Brenda Shaughnessy

  Knopf

  $25.00 List Price

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  Thursday, May 2

  7:30pm

  Poets Tina Chang, Ilya Kaminsky & Brenda Shaughnessy

  Copresented with Brooklyn Poets as a Brooklyn Poets Reading Series event: three poets on their new books. A timely, stirring, and confident examination of mixed-race identity, violence, and history skillfully rendered through the lens of motherhood. In "Hybrida," Tina Chang confronts the complexities…

  Copresented with Brooklyn Poets as a Brooklyn Poets Reading Series event: three poets on their new books.
  
  A timely, stirring, and confident examination of mixed-race identity, violence, and history skillfully rendered through the lens of motherhood. In "Hybrida," Tina Chang confronts the complexities of raising a mixed-race child during an era of upheaval in the United States. She ruminates on the relationship between her son’s blackness and his safety, exploring the dangers of childhood in a post-Trayvon Martin era by invoking racialized roles in fairy tales. Meditating on the lives of Michael Brown, Leiby Kletzky, and Noemi Álvarez Quillay—lost at the hands of individuals entrusted to protect them—Chang creates hybrid poetic forms that mirror her investigation of racial tensions. "Hybrida" is a twenty-first-century tale that is equal parts a mother’s love and her fury, an ambitious and revelatory exploration of identity.
  
  "Deaf Republic" opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear—all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple, Alfonso and Sonya, expecting a child; the brash Momma Galya, instigating the insurgency from her puppet theater; and Galya’s girls, heroically teaching signs by day and by night luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea—Ilya Kaminsky’s long-awaited "Deaf Republic" confronts our time’s vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.
  
  Informed by Brenda Shaughnessy’s craft as a poet and her worst fears as a mother, the poems in "The Octopus Museum" blaze forth from her pen: in these pages, we see that what was once a generalized fear for our children (car accidents, falling from a tree) is now hyper-reasonable, specific, and multiple: school shootings, nuclear attack, loss of health care, a polluted planet. As Shaughnessy conjures our potential future, she movingly (and often with humor) envisions an age where cephalopods might rule over humankind, a fate she suggests we may just deserve after destroying their oceans. These heartbreaking, terrified poems are the battle cry of a woman who is fighting for the survival of the world she loves, and a stirring exhibition of who we are as a civilization.
  
  RSVPs strongly recommended.

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  Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library, Dweck Center

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  Thursday, May 2

  7:30pm

  Erika Swyler: Light From Other Stars w/ Maris Kreizman

  Erika Swyler: Light From Other Stars w/ Maris Kreizman Thursday May 02 | 7:30PM - 8:30PM Eleven-year-old Nedda Papas is obsessed with becoming an astronaut. In 1986 in Easter, a small Florida Space Coast town, her dreams seem almost within reach—if she can just grow up fast enough. Theo, the scientist…

  Erika Swyler: Light From Other Stars w/ Maris Kreizman
  
  Thursday May 02 | 7:30PM - 8:30PM
  
  Eleven-year-old Nedda Papas is obsessed with becoming an astronaut. In 1986 in Easter, a small Florida Space Coast town, her dreams seem almost within reach—if she can just grow up fast enough. Theo, the scientist father she idolizes, is consumed by his own obsessions. Laid off from his job at NASA and still reeling from the loss of Nedda’s newborn brother several years before, Theo turns to the dangerous dream of extending his living daughter's childhood just a little longer. The result is an invention that alters the fabric of time.
  
  Amidst the chaos that erupts, Nedda must confront her father and his secrets, the ramifications of which will irrevocably change her life, her community, and the entire world. But she finds an unexpected ally in Betheen, the mother she’s never quite understood, who surprises Nedda by seeing her more clearly than anyone else.
  
  Decades later, Nedda has achieved her long-held dream, and as she floats in antigravity, far from earth, she and her crewmates face a serious crisis. Nedda may hold the key to the solution, if she can come to terms with her past and the future that awaits her.
  
  Erika Swyler’s writing has appeared in Catapult Story, VIDA, The New York Times, and elsewhere. Her bestselling first novel, The Book of Speculation, was one of BuzzFeed’s 24 Best Fiction Books of 2015, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. She lives on Long Island, NY, with her husband and a mischievous rabbit.
  
  Maris Kreizman has hosted readings and moderated literary panels at various bookstores, conferences, and festivals across the country. She is the creator of Slaughterhouse 90210, a blog and book (Flatiron Books, 2015) that celebrates the intersection of literature and pop culture. A former book editor (Free Press/S&S) and former editorial director of Book of the Month, she is also an essayist and critic whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the LA Times, Vanity Fair, BuzzFeed, Publishers Weekly, The Ringer, The Toast, The Hairpin, The Cut, Vulture, Glamour, Esquire, GQ, OUT Magazine, and more.

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  Books Are Magic

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  255 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
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• May 3, 2019

  6:00pm-7:30pm

  "Intimate Ties": An Evening with P. Wortsman, K. Holzermayr Rosenfield, T. Lewis, and F. Naqvi

  Deutsches Haus at NYU and Archipelago Books present the book launch of Robert Musil’s Intimate Ties (“Vereinigungen”), and a conversation among the acclaimed author and translator of Intimate Ties, Peter Wortsman; the literary scholar and translator Kathrin Holzermeyr-Rosenfield; Fatima Naqvi, …

  Deutsches Haus at NYU and Archipelago Books present the book launch of Robert Musil’s Intimate Ties (“Vereinigungen”), and a conversation among the acclaimed author and translator of Intimate Ties, Peter Wortsman; the literary scholar and translator Kathrin Holzermeyr-Rosenfield; Fatima Naqvi, professor of German and Film Studies at Rutgers University; and moderated by the writer and translator Tess Lewis.
  
  About the book:
  
  First published in 1911, Intimate Ties (Vereinigungen) is Robert Musil’s second book, consisting of two novellas, “The Culmination of Love” and “The Temptation of Silent Veronica.” Each revolves around a woman in the throes of her sexual and romantic woes, as their memories of the past return to influence their present desires. Musil tracks the psyche of his protagonists in a blurring of impressions that is reflected in his experimental prose. Intimate Ties offers the reader an early glimpse of the high modernist style Musil would perfect in his magnum opus The Man Without Qualities.
  
  About the panelists:
  
  The author of an Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY)-winning travel memoir, Ghost Dance in Berlin, two stage plays produced in the U.S. and abroad, and four books of fiction, including, most recently, Stimme und Atem/Out of Breath, Out of Mind, a bilingual German-English collection of his stories originally written in German, forthcoming in October 2019 from PalmArt Press in Berlin, Peter Wortsman has translated numerous works from German, including Posthumous Papers of a Living Author, by Robert Musil, Konundrum, Selected Prose of Franz Kafka, both from Archipelago Books, and Tales of the German Imagination, an anthology he also compiled and edited, for Penguin Classics. He was a Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in 2010.
  
  Kathrin Holzermayr Rosenfield was born in Salzburg, Austria, and studied in Vienna, Salzburg, and Paris. Her thesis on French medieval literature and historical anthropology (under Jacques Le Goff) was published in Munich by Fink Verlag in 1984 and was translated into Portuguese in 1985. She started her career in Brazil in 1984 as a psychoanalyst, then joined the faculty of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, where she is a tenured Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Literature. Her work focuses on the connections between philosophy, literature, and the arts. She has been an active member of the National Center for Research since 1984 and was elected to the Academia Rio-Grandense de Letras in Porto Alegre. Her translation of Robert Musil’s Uniões (Vereinigungen) was published by Editora Perspectiva, São Paulo, 2018. She has published two books on Hölderlin’s Sophocles translations: Oedipus Rex. The Story of a Palace Intrigue, 2012; and Antigone. Sophocles’ Art, Hölderlin’s Insights, both published in the U.S. (Davies Group, Aurora/Colorado, 2010), and translated into French, Portuguese, and German. Her publications approach a great number of authors and languages, from the Brazilian João Guimarães Rosa to the South-African J. M. Coetzee, from J. C. Simon to Hegel, Kleist and Goethe.
  
  Tess Lewis is a writer and translator from French and German. Her translations include works by Peter Handke, Walter Benjamin, Maja Haderlap, Philippe Jaccottet, and Christine Angot. Her awards include the 2016 ACFNY Translation Prize, the 2017 PEN Translation Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is co-chair of the PEN Translation Committee and an Advisory Editor for The Hudson Review. In 2014 and 2015, Tess Lewis curated Festival Neue Literatur, New York City’s annual festival of German-language literature in English.
  
  Fatima Naqvi is professor of German and Film Studies at Rutgers University, where she has taught since 2000. Professor Naqvi’s research interests include the intersection of architecture and literature; the theorization of interdisciplinarity; ecological films; Austrian authors and filmmakers of the 20th and 21st centuries; and affect studies. She has written books on the perception of victimhood in Western European culture between 1968 and the new millennium (The Literary and Cultural Rhetoric of Victimhood, Palgrave 2007); the films of Michael Haneke (Trügerische Vertrautheit, Synema 2010; The White Ribbon, Camden House, forthcoming 2019; Michael Haneke: Interviews, University Press of Mississippi, forthcoming 2019); and the intersection of architecture and educational discourse in the works of Thomas Bernhard (How We Learn Where We Live; Northwestern 2016). One current research project focuses on the topic of “fremdschämen”—the sense of shame for another—in contemporary media culture (special attention is devoted to the works of Ulrich Seidl, Erwin Wurm, and Elfriede Jelinek). A second project delves into the problem of generosity and environmental consciousness in recent documentary films. Professor Naqvi teaches courses on Vienna 1900; Robert Musil and His Age; the German novel of the post-1945 period; literature and architecture; modernism; and film (“From Haunted Screen to Hyperreality,” “Screening German Histories,” ”Our Threatened Planet: Documentary Films and Ecocriticism,” “Weimar Cinema.”)
  
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  Events at Deutsches Haus are free of charge. If you would like to attend this event, please send us an email to deutscheshaus.rsvp@nyu.edu. Space at Deutsches Haus is limited, please arrive ten minutes prior to the event. Thank you!
  
  "Intimate Ties": An Evening with P. Wortsman, K. Holzermayr Rosenfield, T. Lewis, and F. Naqvi is a DAAD-sponsored event.

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  Deutsches Haus at NYU

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  Sunday, May 5

  11:00am

  On Tolstoy's Letters with Andrew Donskov

  “I can’t read [your letters] without tears. For me every word is significant. I read them over and over,” Leo Tolstoy wrote to his wife Sofia Tolstaya in July 1871. In Tolstoy and Tolstaya: A Portrait of a Life in Letters, editor Andrew Donskov presents a selection of the couple’s letters—most newly…

  “I can’t read [your letters] without tears. For me every word is significant. I read them over and over,” Leo Tolstoy wrote to his wife Sofia Tolstaya in July 1871.
  
  In Tolstoy and Tolstaya: A Portrait of a Life in Letters, editor Andrew Donskov presents a selection of the couple’s letters—most newly translated into English—that offers unique insights into the minds of two fascinating, deep-thinking individuals over the 48-year period of their conjugal life, allowing readers to penetrate their family life and observe, as in a generation-spanning chronicle, a variety of scenes of Russian society, from rural peasants to lords and ladies.

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  92nd Street Y

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