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  Dec 5, 2018

  6:30pm-7:30pm

  How Will the Census Matter to You?

  Maria Hinojosa, host of Latino USA on NPR, leads a discussion on what is at stake for the 2020 Census. Not only will it determine national, state, and local representation—as well as spending for education, health, and infrastructure—but lack of funding and a newly planned question about citizenship…

  Maria Hinojosa, host of Latino USA on NPR, leads a discussion on what is at stake for the 2020 Census. Not only will it determine national, state, and local representation—as well as spending for education, health, and infrastructure—but lack of funding and a newly planned question about citizenship may threaten its accuracy. Featuring: Steven Choi of the New York Immigration Coalition and New York Counts 2020; Vanita Gupta of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; John Mollenkopf, GC distinguished professor of political science and sociology; and Esmeralda Simmons of the Center for Law and Social Justice.
  
  
  Presented with the CUNY Mapping Project at the Center for Urban Research.
  
  Free; reservations required.

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  The Graduate Center Public Programs (CUNY)

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  Wednesday, December 5

  7:00pm

  The Life and Work of John Berger: Joshua Sperling with Susie Linfield and Siddhartha Deb (PRINCE STREET

  John Berger was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker prize in 1972, donating half his prize money to the Black Panthers. As a TV presenter, he changed the way we looked at art with Ways of Seeing. As a storyteller and political activist,…

  John Berger was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker prize in 1972, donating half his prize money to the Black Panthers. As a TV presenter, he changed the way we looked at art with Ways of Seeing. As a storyteller and political activist, he defended the rights and dignity of workers, migrants, and the oppressed around the world. “Far from dragging politics into art,” he wrote in 1953, “art has dragged me into politics.” He remained a revolutionary up to his death in January 2017. Drawing on first-hand, unpublished interviews and archival sources only recently made available, Joshua Sperling digs beneath the moments of controversy to reveal a figure of remarkable complexity and resilience. The portrait that emerges is of a cultural innovator as celebrated as he was often misunderstood, and a writer increasingly driven as much by what he loved as by what he opposed. A Writer of Our Time brings the many faces of John Berger together, repatriating one of our great minds to the intellectual dramas of his and our time.
  
  Joshua Sperling was born in New York City and grew up in California. His writing has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Guernica, Film Quarterly, Jump Cut and Bullett Magazine, among other publications. He received a PhD in Comparative Literature, Film and Media from Yale University and currently teaches at Oberlin College.
  
  Susie Linfield is director of the cultural reporting and criticism program at New York University. Her book The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence (University of Chicago Press, 2010) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Guernica, Boston Review, and many other outlets.
  
  Siddhartha Deb is the author of The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India, a narrative nonfiction book that was a finalist for the Orwell Prize in the UK, winner of the PEN Open award in the United States, and published without its first chapter in India because of a court order. A columnist for the “Bookends” section of The New York Times Book Review and a contributing editor the The New Republic, Deb’s journalism, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Nation, Dissent, n+1, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Baffler.

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  Wednesday, December 5

  7:00pm

  Literary Partners Program: The Rational Creature, Vol. 4 Launch Party and Reading

  oin The Rational Creature to celebrate the launch of our fourth volume, The Generations Issue, exploring the evolution of feminism and the femme experience through art and writing. There will be food, readings from contributors, and copies of Volume 4 available. ABOUT THE RATIONAL CREATURE: Started…

  oin The Rational Creature to celebrate the launch of our fourth volume, The Generations Issue, exploring the evolution of feminism and the femme experience through art and writing. There will be food, readings from contributors, and copies of Volume 4 available.
  
  
  
  ABOUT THE RATIONAL CREATURE: Started in 2016 at NYU, The Rational Creature is a feminist arts journal working to find and create work that explores the fight for feminist issues, promotes intersectionality, and strives toward gender, racial, and sexual equality for all. We publish print editions bi-annually. We also run an online blog. From essays to photo series, documentaries to artwork, we are open to all forms and individuals whose artistic goals mirror our own. Find out more at www.therationalcreature.com
  
  
  
  This event is made possible through Poets House’s Literary Partners program. Poets House is an ADA accessible facility.
  
  Admission Free and open to the public
  
  Sponsored By The Rational Creature

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  Wednesday, December 5

  7:00pm

  THE WRITERS STUDIO READING SERIES PRESENTS: A CELEBRATION OF TURTLE POINT PRESS

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

  The Writers Studio Reading Series Presents A Celebration of Turtle Point Press with readings by Turtle Point Press Writers:
  
  Katharine Coles
  
  Edward J. Delaney
  
  Joseph Keckler
  
  Grace Schulman
  
  David Trinidad
  
  and a Celebration of the Publication of Strange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage by Grace Schulman.
  
  Join us in the Rare Book Room as these writers share their work.
  
  More about Strange Paradise: Grace Schulman is an award-winning poet and the author of seven collections of poems. She has had long posts as Poetry Editor of the Nation magazine, Director of the Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y, and Distinguished Professor at CUNY’s Baruch College, where she still teaches. But her love for her scientist husband and her care for him through his long illness proved to be among her greatest inspirations. It called forth her deepest grief at his loss.
  
  Katharine Coles is the author of the hybrid biography/memoir Look Both Ways: A Double Journey Along My Grandmother’s Far-Flung Path. She has also published two novels and six collections of poems, the fifth of which, The Earth Is Not Flat, was written under the auspices of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. The recipient of grants from the NEA, the NEH, and the Guggenheim Foundation, she has served as Poet Laureate of Utah, and was inaugural director of the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute. She is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Utah, and is currently working with Poet’s House to develop a program that will bring poetry into libraries and natural history museums.
  
  Edward J. Delaney is an award-winning author, journalist, and filmmaker. His books include the novels Follow the Sun, Broken Irish, and Warp & Weft, and the short story collection The Drowning and Other Stories. His short fiction has also been published in the Atlantic and Best American Short Stories, and featured on PRI’s Selected Shorts program. Among other honors, he has received the PEN/New England Award, O. Henry Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He is also the co-author of Born to Play, by Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia. As a journalist, Delaney has written for publications including the Denver Post and Chicago Tribune, received the National Education Reporting Award, and has served as an editor at the Neiman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. As a filmmaker, he has directed and produced documentary films including The Times Were Never So Bad: The Life of Andre Dubus and Library of the Early Mind. Born and raised in Massachusetts, Delaney has also spent time in Georgia, Florida, and Colorado, and now lives in Rhode Island, where he teaches at Roger Williams University and edits the literary journal Mount Hope.
  
  Joseph Keckler is a singer, musician, writer, and artist. He performs widely and has appeared at venues such as Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, SXSW, Miami Art Basel and Centre Pompidou. He is the author of several plays and many songs, and has written about contemporary art for VICE and other publications. His work has been featured on WNYC and BBC America, and he has received a number of awards, including a Creative Capital grant and a fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts. Dragon at the Edge of a Flat World is his first book.
  
  Grace Schulman is an acclaimed poet, most recently recipient of the Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in American Poetry, the highest award of the Poetry Society of America. Among her other honors are the Aiken Taylor Award for poetry, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, New York University’s Distinguished Alumni Award, a Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and four Pushcart Prizes. Schulman’s memoir is Strange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage. She is the author of seven collections of poems, including Without a Claim, her most recent, and Days of Wonder: New and Selected Poems, a Library Journal Best Books of the Year. Her prose essays are collected in First Loves and Other Adventures, and she is editor of The Poems of Marianne Moore. Schulman is former director of the Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y, and former poetry editor of the Nation. She is Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY.
  
  David Trinidad is known for the masterful use of popular culture in his poems. The poet James Schuyler wrote, “Trinidad turns the paste jewels of pop art into the real thing.” His work is also associated with the innovative formalism of the New York School. Originally from Los Angeles, Trinidad lives in Chicago, where he is a professor in the Creative Writing Department at Columbia College. Swinging on a Star is his fifth poetry collection with Turtle Point Press, and he has also published two collaborative works with the press.
  
  Founded in 1987 by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Philip Schultz, The Writers Studio is an independent creative writing program, offering six and eight-week workshops specializing in topics from the necessity of political fiction to writers beginning in their fifties. The classes, which meet in New York City, San Francisco, Tucson, the Hudson Valley and online, utilize an original teaching method which combines technique-based instruction with personal weekly feedback. Since its inception in 1990, The Writers Studio Reading Series has featured numerous writers and poets, including Lydia Davis, Junot Diaz, Andre Dubus III, Jennifer Egan, Mary Gaitskill, Julia Glass, Edward Hirsch, A.M. Homes, Etgar Keret, Marie Ponsot, Robert Pinsky, Gary Shteyngart, Colson Whitehead, and Yehuda Amichai. www.writerstudio.com
  
  Turtle Point Press, an independent publisher distinguished by books of superior literary content and elegant design, has been delighting readers with new fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry, memoirs, works in translation, and rediscovered classics since 1990. Our books have been recognized by the National Book Awards, the National Book Critic's Circle Awards, the Lambda Literary Awards, the PEN/New England Awards, the French-American Foundation Translation Awards, The New York Times, The New Yorker, NPR, and elsewhere. Our newest titles introduce arresting work by more women writers and West Coast writers, and fiction and nonfiction that spans the globe.

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  Wednesday, December 5

  7:30pm

  THALIA BOOK CLUB: JOAN DIDION'S SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM, 50TH ANNIVERSARY

  Actors and admirers, including essayist Sloane Crosley (Look Alive Out There), come together for an evening of readings and discussion to celebrate the master of the personal essay, whose distinctive prose has influenced the work of hundreds of writers and journalists. Didion’s first nonfiction work…

  Actors and admirers, including essayist Sloane Crosley (Look Alive Out There), come together for an evening of readings and discussion to celebrate the master of the personal essay, whose distinctive prose has influenced the work of hundreds of writers and journalists. Didion’s first nonfiction work remains, decades after its first publication, the essential portrait of America in the sixties.
  
  Joan Didion is not scheduled to appear at this event. This event will not include a book signing.
  
  At the Thalia Book Club, readers and writers meet for intimate conversations about compelling new books and favorite classics in fiction, essay, biography and more.
  
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  Symphony Space

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  Wednesday, December 5

  7:30pm

  Tom Barbash: The Dakota Winters w/ Isaac Fitzgerald

  It’s the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout of malaria, returns to his childhood home in the Dakota. Anton’s father, the famous late-night host Buddy Winter, is there to greet him, himself recovering from…

  It’s the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout of malaria, returns to his childhood home in the Dakota. Anton’s father, the famous late-night host Buddy Winter, is there to greet him, himself recovering from a breakdown. Before long, Anton is swept up in an effort to reignite Buddy’s stalled career, a mission that takes him from the gritty streets of New York, to the slopes of the Lake Placid Olympics, to the Hollywood Hills, to the blue waters of the Bermuda Triangle, and brings him into close quarters with the likes of Johnny Carson, Ted and Joan Kennedy, and a seagoing John Lennon.
  
  But the more Anton finds himself enmeshed in his father’s professional and spiritual reinvention, the more he questions his own path, and fissures in the Winter family begin to threaten their close bond. By turns hilarious and poignant, The Dakota Winters is a family saga, a page-turning social novel, and a tale of a critical moment in the history of New York City and the country at large.
  
  Tom Barbash is the author of the award-winning novel The Last Good Chance, which was awarded the California Book Award, and the short story collection Stay Up with Me, which was a national bestseller and was nominated for the Folio Prize. His nonfiction book, On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, and 9/11: A Story of Loss and Renewal, was a New York Times bestseller. He currently teaches in the MFA program at California College of the Arts.
  
  Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and was once given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals. Formerly of The Rumpus and McSweeney’s and most recently the founding editor of BuzzFeed Books, Isaac is now the co-host of BuzzFeed News’ Twitter Morning Show, #AMtoDM. He also appears frequently on The Today Show to talk books, and is co-author of Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them and Knives & Ink: Chefs and the Stories Behind Their Tattoos (with Recipes), winner of an IACP award, and the author of a YA novel and picture book forthcoming from Bloomsbury.
  
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• Monday, April 22

  6:30pm

  Mid-Sentence | Kali Fajardo-Anstine with Ivelisse Rodriguez

  Short stories of feminine power that blaze like Rocky Mountain sunsets.

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  Monday, April 22

  7:00pm

  BILL MCKIBBEN: FALTER

  Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature — issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic — was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization can exist, new technologies …

  Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature — issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic — was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization can exist, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human experience.
  
  Falter tells the story of these converging trends and of the ideological fervor that keeps us from bringing them under control. And then, drawing on McKibben’s experience in building 350.org, the first truly global citizens movement to combat climate change, it offers some possible ways out of the trap. We’re at a bleak moment in human history — and we’ll either confront that bleakness or watch the civilization our forebears built slip away.
  
  Falter is a powerful and sobering call to arms, to save not only our planet but also our humanity.
  
  Bill will be joined by fellow activist and award-winning journalist and author Naomi Klein.

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  Monday, April 22

  7:30pm

  Rachel Cline: The Question Authority w/ Lisa Miller

  A middle-aged woman enters into a negotiation with her childhood best friend and confronts the damage done by their eighth grade teacher, who molested them both. Nora Buchbinder—formerly rich and now broke—would be the last woman in Brooklyn to claim #MeToo, but when a work assignment reunites her…

  A middle-aged woman enters into a negotiation with her childhood best friend and confronts the damage done by their eighth grade teacher, who molested them both.
  
  Nora Buchbinder—formerly rich and now broke—would be the last woman in Brooklyn to claim #MeToo, but when a work assignment reunites her with her childhood best friend, Beth, she finds herself in a hall of mirrors. Was their eighth grade teacher Beth's lover or her rapist? Where were the grown-ups? What should justice look like, after so much time has passed? And what can Nora do, now?
  
  Nora’s memories, and Beth’s, and those of their classmates, their former teacher, and members of his family, bring to light some of the ways we absorb and manage unbearable behavior. From denial to reinvention, self-pity to self-righteousness, endless questioning to intransigent certainty, readers will recognize the ripples sent into the lives of others by one broken man.
  
  Rachel Cline, author of the novels What to Keep and My Liar, has written for the New York Times, New York, More, SELF, and Tin House magazines, and is a produced screen and television writer. For five years, she was a screenwriting instructor at the University of Southern California and has taught fiction writing at New York University, Eugene Lang College, and Sarah Lawrence College. She has been a resident at Yaddo, a fellow at Sewanee, and a Girls Write Now mentor. She lives in Brooklyn Heights, a few blocks from where she grew up.
  
  Lisa Miller is a contributing editor at New York magazine, covering politics, culture, education, mental health, parenting, and gender, among other topics. She writes features for the magazine, and regular columns for New York’s women’s site The Cut. She is the former religion columnist for the Washington Post and a former senior editor of Newsweek magazine, and author of Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife. In 2014, she was nominated for a National Magazine Award and featured in Best Magazine Writing, and in 2017 she was on the team that produced the ASME-award winning video "Guns and Empathy." She is a three-time winner of the New York Newswomen's award for feature writing and has won the prestigious Wilbur Award for religion reporting numerous times. She has appeared on MSNBC, CBS This Morning, Nightline, The O’Reilly Factor, and The Colbert Report, among other outlets, and has been a guest lecturer at Yale University, Columbia University, Syracuse University, and Emory University. She graduated from Oberlin College and lives in Brooklyn.

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  Into the White:

  The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image (Zone Books)

  by Christopher P. Heuer

  Zone Books

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  Apr 22, 2019

  7:00pm-9:00pm

  Christopher P. Heuer and Robert Slifkin on INTO THE WHITE

  Join us at Book Culture on 112th on Monday, April 22nd at 7pm as we welcome Professor Christopher P. Heuer to discuss his new book, Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image (Zone Books). Professor Jonathan Crary will introduce and Rob Slifkin will be joining Christopher in the…

  Join us at Book Culture on 112th on Monday, April 22nd at 7pm as we welcome Professor Christopher P. Heuer to discuss his new book, Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image (Zone Books). Professor Jonathan Crary will introduce and Rob Slifkin will be joining Christopher in the discussion.

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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.

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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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  Books Are Magic

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  255 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
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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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  Book Culture

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  536 West 112 Street, New York, NY 10025
  

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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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  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.
  
  Books will be available for purchase at the event from Books Are Magic!

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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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  McNally Jackson Books

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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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• 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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  5th Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018
  
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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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  52 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012
  212-274-1160

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

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