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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.

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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 Drawing on first-hand, unpublished interviews and archival sources only recently made available, Joshua Sperling digs beneath the moments of controversy to reveal a figure of remarkable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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McNally Jackson Books
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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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Poets House
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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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Strand Book Store
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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.

Actors subject to change.

Group discounts are available for groups of fifteen people or more - please contact the Box Office.
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Symphony Space
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2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, NY 10025
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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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Books Are Magic
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255 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
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Saturday, December 15
12:00pm
What the Dickens? Ninth Annual "A Christmas Carol" Marathon Reading
Join dozens of terrific writers and performers for a reading of Charles Dickens’s holiday classic, "A Christmas Carol". Drop in early and often to catch a selection of performers, or linger through the afternoon for the whole, spirited tale. All books and merchandise are 10% off, and the cafe will …
Join dozens of terrific writers and performers for a reading of Charles Dickens’s holiday classic, "A Christmas Carol". Drop in early and often to catch a selection of performers, or linger through the afternoon for the whole, spirited tale. All books and merchandise are 10% off, and the cafe will be stocked with seasonal specials. Finish your Christmas shopping with unique literary finds, have some festive treats from our cafe with a hot cocoa or a glass of mulled wine, and enjoy!

Festivities will kick off at 12PM with Christmas caroling from members of the New York City Master Chorale. The reading of "A Christmas Carol" will begin at 1PM and end at approximately 4:30PM.

This year we have some veteran Dickensians, as well as plenty of new faces, including:

Megan Abbott

Scott Adsit

Mike Albo

Jami Attenberg

Sandra Bauleo

Tara Isabella Burton

Alexander Chee

Vinson Cunningham

Maria Dahvana Headley

Marcy Dermansky

Jo Firestone

Angela Flournoy

Alice Gregory

Jill Hennessy

Suki Kim

Maris Kreizman

Victor LaValle

Min Jin Lee

Lisa Lucas

Noreen Malone

Leon Neyfakh

Max Read

Rosie Schaap

Elissa Schappell

Rob Spillman

J. Courtney Sullivan

Sarah Weinman

& more!
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Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
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126 Crosby Street, New York, NY 10012
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Tuesday, December 18
7:00pm
The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon the icon is the Dexter beloved and celebrated on albums, on film and in jazz lore—even in a street named for him in Copenhagen. But this image of the cool jazzman fails to come to terms with the multidimensional man full of humor and wisdom, a figure who struggled to reconcile being …
Dexter Gordon the icon is the Dexter beloved and celebrated on albums, on film and in jazz lore—even in a street named for him in Copenhagen. But this image of the cool jazzman fails to come to terms with the multidimensional man full of humor and wisdom, a figure who struggled to reconcile being both a creative outsider who broke the rules and a comforting insider who was a son, father, husband, and world citizen. Join Dexter’s widow, Maxine Gordon, as she attempts to fill in the gaps created by our misperceptions as well as the gaps left by Dexter himself.
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92nd Street Y
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1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10128
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Thursday, December 20
7:00pm
The Moth StorySLAM
10 stories, 3 teams of judges, 1 winner. $10 online and at the door (+ credit card fee). This event always sells out. Tickets are on sale 1 week before the show at 3PM EDT, at themoth.org/events. Please note - Moth StorySLAM ticketing policy: ALL NYC StorySLAM tickets are available for online, …
10 stories, 3 teams of judges, 1 winner. $10 online and at the door (+ credit card fee). This event always sells out. Tickets are on sale 1 week before the show at 3PM EDT, at themoth.org/events.

Please note - Moth StorySLAM ticketing policy:

ALL NYC StorySLAM tickets are available for online, pre-event purchase. Tickets go live 1 week before the show at 3pm EDT, unless otherwise noted.

Limited seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

In addition to online sales, a limited number of tickets to this SLAM will be sold at the door - first come, first-served!

Please plan to arrive early and join the line outside the bookstore, south toward Prince Street.

This event always sells out. Standing in line does not guarantee entry. We do our absolute best to monitor the line and let people know if they might be past our capacity.

Housing Works does not sell any pre-sale tickets to this event.

WAITLIST

Waitlist goes up 6:30pm, day-of-show (in person only).

Names will be taken at 6:30pm. Names can only be taken in person. It will be announced at 7:25PM if anyone can be accommodated.If chosen, tickets are $10 CASH.

Waitlist customers must form a line outside the building north towards Lafayette. Please do not stand in front of the building.
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Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
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Friday, December 28
7:00pm
Invasions: Calvin Gimpelevich and Friends (PRINCE STREET)
A body-swapping personal trainer and her trans girlfriend turn to a life of crime. A man mourning his dead lover becomes trapped in the mind of the leader of a bathhouse raid. A trans man, recovering from top surgery paid for with a stolen credit card, finds strange connection and condemnation among…
A body-swapping personal trainer and her trans girlfriend turn to a life of crime. A man mourning his dead lover becomes trapped in the mind of the leader of a bathhouse raid. A trans man, recovering from top surgery paid for with a stolen credit card, finds strange connection and condemnation among his fellow patients. The fifteen stories in this debut fiction collection from author Calvin Gimpelevich move in the borderlands between realism and surrealism, investigating gender, class, relationships, and the powers we still hold within spaces of powerlessness. They articulate the invasions we commit, the invitations we receive to cross over into another person's world.

"Invasions blew my mind. Flipping between speculative worlds deeply rooted in realness and emotion and more familiar landscapes that tip on the edges of personal apocalypses, Gimpelevich's writing is strong and sure, taking us places we really haven't been. I'm hooked.” —Michelle Tea

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McNally Jackson Books
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52 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012
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Friday, January 4
12:00pm
Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy Doug Ecklund and Ian Alteveer
Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy Doug Ecklund and Ian Alteveer For the last 50 years, artists have explored the hidden operations of power and the symbiotic suspicion between the government and its citizens that haunts Western democracies. Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy, on…
Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy

Doug Ecklund and Ian Alteveer

For the last 50 years, artists have explored the hidden operations of power and the symbiotic suspicion between the government and its citizens that haunts Western democracies.

Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy, on display at The Met Breuer through January 6, 2019, is the first major exhibition to tackle this perennially provocative topic. It traces the simultaneous development of two kinds of art about conspiracy.

Curators Doug Ecklund and Ian Alteveer explore this art ranging from painting and sculpture to photography, video, and installation art, from 1969 to 2016, presenting an alternate history of postwar and contemporary art that is also an archaeology of our troubled times.
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92nd Street Y
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Tuesday, January 8
7:00pm
RENIQUA ALLEN: IT WAS ALL A DREAM
In It Was All a Dream, Reniqua Allen tells the stories of Black millennials searching for a better future in spite of racist policies that have closed off traditional versions of success. Many watched their parents and grandparents play by the rules, only to sink deeper and deeper into debt. They …
In It Was All a Dream, Reniqua Allen tells the stories of Black millennials searching for a better future in spite of racist policies that have closed off traditional versions of success. Many watched their parents and grandparents play by the rules, only to sink deeper and deeper into debt. They witnessed their elders fight to escape cycles of oppression for more promising prospects, largely to no avail. Today, in this post-Obama era, they face a critical turning point.

Interweaving her own experience with those of young Black Americans in cities and towns from New York to Los Angeles and Bluefield, West Virginia to Chicago, Allen shares surprising stories of hope and ingenuity. Instead of accepting downward mobility, Black millennials are flipping the script and rejecting White America's standards. Whether it means moving away from cities and heading South, hustling in the entertainment industry, challenging ideas about gender and sexuality, or building activist networks, they are determined to forge their own path.

Compassionate and deeply reported, It Was All a Dream is a celebration of a generation's doggedness against all odds, as they fight for a country in which their dreams can become a reality.
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Strand Book Store
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Friday, January 11
7:30pm
Laura Sims: Looker
In this taut and thrilling debut, an unraveling woman, unhappily childless and recently separated, becomes fixated on her neighbor—the beautiful, famous actress. The unnamed narrator can’t help noticing with wry irony that, though she and the actress live just a few doors apart, they are separated …
In this taut and thrilling debut, an unraveling woman, unhappily childless and recently separated, becomes fixated on her neighbor—the beautiful, famous actress. The unnamed narrator can’t help noticing with wry irony that, though she and the actress live just a few doors apart, they are separated by a chasm of professional success and personal fulfillment. The actress, a celebrity with her face on the side of every bus, shares a gleaming brownstone with her handsome husband and their three adorable children, while the narrator, working in a dead-end job, lives in a run-down, three-story walk-up with her ex-husband’s cat.

When an interaction with the actress at the annual block party takes a disastrous turn, what began as an innocent preoccupation spirals quickly, and lethally, into a frightening and irretrievable madness. Darkly witty and searingly sharp, Looker is enormously entertaining—part tightly coiled Hitchcockian thriller and part send-up of life in the Instagram-ready city. Driven by a fresh and fearlessly original voice, this slender novel packs a powerful punch.

Laura Sims is the author of Looker, a novel; four books of poetry, most recently Staying Alive; and the editor of Fare Forward: Letters from David Markson. She lives outside of New York City with her family.

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Books Are Magic
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Monday, January 14
7:00pm
KRISTEN ROUPENIAN: YOU KNOW YOU WANT THIS
You Know You Want This brilliantly explores the ways in which women are horrifying as much as it captures the horrors that are done to them. Among its pages are a couple who becomes obsessed with their friend hearing them have sex, then seeing them have sex…until they can’t have sex without him; a …
You Know You Want This brilliantly explores the ways in which women are horrifying as much as it captures the horrors that are done to them. Among its pages are a couple who becomes obsessed with their friend hearing them have sex, then seeing them have sex…until they can’t have sex without him; a ten-year-old whose birthday party takes a sinister turn when she wishes for “something mean”; a woman who finds a book of spells half hidden at the library and summons her heart’s desire: a nameless, naked man; and a self-proclaimed “biter” who dreams of sneaking up behind and sinking her teeth into a green-eyed, long-haired, pink-cheeked coworker.

Spanning a range of genres and topics—from the mundane to the murderous and supernatural—these are stories about sex and punishment, guilt and anger, the pleasure and terror of inflicting and experiencing pain. These stories fascinate and repel, revolt and arouse, scare and delight in equal measure. And, as a collection, they point a finger at you, daring you to feel uncomfortable—or worse, understood—as if to say, “You want this, right? You know you want this.”

Join us as Kristen celebrated the launch of her first short story collection!
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Strand Book Store
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Wednesday, January 16
7:00pm
Columbus: John Fried on The Martin Chronicles
A powerful and heartfelt novel that follows one boy as he grows up in 1980s Manhattan, bringing the magic of first experiences and the brutal truth of hard lessons to life on the page. In sixth grade, eleven-year-old Martin Kelso's world starts to change. Girls get under his skin in ways he never …
A powerful and heartfelt novel that follows one boy as he grows up in 1980s Manhattan, bringing the magic of first experiences and the brutal truth of hard lessons to life on the page.

In sixth grade, eleven-year-old Martin Kelso's world starts to change. Girls get under his skin in ways he never noticed before. Even his cousin Evie, who taught him the right way to eat pizza and how to catch tadpoles, has grown wild, unpredictable, and mysterious. Mugger was once just a game played by Marty and his friends, but now real muggers are targeting them on their way to school. Marty used to feel secure in his own skin; but as he grows up and life changes too quickly around him, it becomes increasingly difficult for him to choose right over wrong-or to even tell the difference between the two.

This moving debut perfectly captures the intense emotion, humor, and earnestness of young adulthood as Marty ages from eleven to seventeen and navigates a series of life-changing firsts: first kiss, first enemy, first loss, and ultimately, his first awareness that the world is not as simple or safe a place as he had once imagined.

John Fried teaches creative writing at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He received his MFA from Warren Wilson College's Program for Writers. His short fiction has appeared in numerous journals, including The Gettysburg Review, North American Review, and Columbia: A Journal of Arts and Literature. Prior to teaching, he was a magazine writer and editor in New York, and his work appeared in various publications, including The New Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, New York, Time, and Real Simple.
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Book Culture
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450 Columbus Avenue, New York, NY 10024
212-595-1962

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

Join us at Book Culture on Columbus as Lynda Cogen Loigman celebrates the release of his new novel, The Wartime Sisters, on Tuesday, January 22nd at 7pm! Bestselling author Fiona Davis will be joining Lynda in conversation.

For fans of Lilac Girls, the next powerful novel from the author of Goodreads Choice Awards semifinalist The Two-Family House about two sisters working in a WWII armory, each with a deep secret.

Two estranged sisters, raised in Brooklyn and each burdened with her own shocking secret, are reunited at the Springfield Armory in the early days of WWII. While one sister lives in relative ease on the bucolic Armory campus as an officer’s wife, the other arrives as a war widow and takes a position in the Armory factories as a “soldier of production.” Resentment festers between the two, and secrets are shattered when a mysterious figure from the past reemerges in their lives.

Lynda Cohen Loigman grew up in Longmeadow, MA. She received a B.A. in English and American Literature from Harvard College and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. She is now a student of the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, and lives with her husband and two children in Chappaqua, NY. The Two-Family House is her first novel.
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Book Culture
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Wednesday, January 23
7:00pm
Spawning Generations: A Queerspawn Anthology
Join us in celebrating queerspawn and the families/communities that raised them. Moving beyond “The Kids are Alright,” the contributors in this volume break away from the pressures to be perfect and the demand to be well-adjusted. Spanning 6 decades, 3 continents and 5 countries, these are queerspawn…
Join us in celebrating queerspawn and the families/communities that raised them. Moving beyond “The Kids are Alright,” the contributors in this volume break away from the pressures to be perfect and the demand to be well-adjusted. Spanning 6 decades, 3 continents and 5 countries, these are queerspawn stories told on their own terms.
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Bluestockings Books
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172 Allen Street, New York, NY 10002
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Wednesday, January 23
7:30pm
SELECTED SHORTS: JAMES THURBER’S WORLD WITH SPECIAL GUEST ROZ CHAST
2019 has been declared “The Year of Thurber” in honor of the great humorist’s 125th birthday. Special guests, including Roz Chast, introduce an evening of stories and art from the vast collection of this masterful storyteller, author of such comic classics as “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” and “…
2019 has been declared “The Year of Thurber” in honor of the great humorist’s 125th birthday. Special guests, including Roz Chast, introduce an evening of stories and art from the vast collection of this masterful storyteller, author of such comic classics as “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” and “The Catbird Seat,” as well as the beloved fantasy The 13 Clocks.

Selected Shorts is produced by Symphony Space and broadcast on more than 150 stations around the country. The Selected Shorts podcast consistently ranks as one of the most popular podcasts on iTunes. The series began in 1985 and enjoys sold-out performances to this day. Selected Shorts was conceived with a simple premise: take great stories by well-known and emerging writers and have them performed by terrific actors of stage and screen. Featuring stories around a lively theme, the favorite works of a guest author, or a special collaboration, each Selected Shorts event is a unique night of literature in performance.

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Wednesday, January 23
7:30pm
Stephanie Land: Maid
While the gap between upper middle-class Americans and the working poor widens, grueling low-wage domestic and service work—primarily done by women—fuels the economic success of the wealthy. Stephanie Land worked for years as a maid, pulling long hours while struggling as a single mom to keep a roof…
While the gap between upper middle-class Americans and the working poor widens, grueling low-wage domestic and service work—primarily done by women—fuels the economic success of the wealthy. Stephanie Land worked for years as a maid, pulling long hours while struggling as a single mom to keep a roof over her daughter's head. In Maid, she reveals the dark truth of what it takes to survive and thrive in today's inequitable society.

While she worked hard to scratch her way out of poverty as a single parent, scrubbing the toilets of the wealthy, navigating domestic labor jobs, higher education, assisted housing, and a tangled web of government assistance, Stephanie wrote. She wrote the true stories that weren't being told. The stories of overworked and underpaid Americans.

Written in honest, heart-rending prose and with great insight, Maid explores the underbelly of upper-middle class America and the reality of what it's like to be in service to them. "I'd become a nameless ghost," Stephanie writes. With this book, she gives voice to the "servant" worker, those who fight daily to scramble and scrape by for their own lives and the lives of their children.

Stephanie Land is a journalist whose work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Vox, Salon, and many other outlets. She focuses on social and economic justice as a writing fellow through both the Center for Community Change and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

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Books Are Magic
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Thursday, January 24
7:30pm
Juliet Lapidos: Talent
In this wickedly funny debut, a young graduate student writing about-and desperately searching for-inspiration stumbles upon it in the unlikeliest of places. Anna Brisker is a twenty-nine-year-old graduate student in English at Collegiate University who can't seem to finish her dissertation. Her …
In this wickedly funny debut, a young graduate student writing about-and desperately searching for-inspiration stumbles upon it in the unlikeliest of places.

Anna Brisker is a twenty-nine-year-old graduate student in English at Collegiate University who can't seem to finish her dissertation. Her project: an intellectual history of inspiration. As Anna's adviser is quick to remind her, time is running out. She needs the perfect case study to anchor her thesis-and she needs it now. Amid this mounting pressure, Anna strikes up a tenuous friendship with the niece of the famous author Frederick Langley. Freddy wrote three successful books as a young man, then published exactly nothing for the rest of his wayward, hermetic life. Critics believe Freddy suffered from an acute case of writer's block, but his niece tells Anna that there's more to the story: When he died, he was at work on something new.

Fascination with Freddy blooms into obsession, and Anna is drawn irrevocably into the criminal machinations of his sole living heir. A modern twist on the Parable of the Talents, Lapidos's debut is a many-layered labyrinth of possible truths that reveal at each turn the danger of interpreting another person's intentions-literary or otherwise.

Juliet Lapidos is a senior editor at The Atlantic. Previously she worked at the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and Slate. She received her B.A. in Comparative Literature from Yale University and her MPhil in English Literature from Cambridge University, which she attended on a Gates Scholarship.

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