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Brookland:
A Novel
by Emily Barton
$15.00 List Price
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Witz
by Joshua Cohen
$18.95 List Price
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Luminous Airplanes:
A Novel
by Paul La Farge
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Thursday, May 17
7:00pm
Double Take
It's a commonplace—we all see things our own way. When three pairs of authors each trade takes on a shared experience they reveal just how different perception and prose can be. organized by Albert Mobilio Featuring: Darcey Steinke & Shelley Jackson Paul La Farge & Emily Barton Joshua Cohen & …

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It's a commonplace—we all see things our own way. When three pairs of authors each trade takes on a shared experience they reveal just how different perception and prose can be.

organized by

Albert Mobilio

Featuring:

Darcey Steinke & Shelley Jackson

Paul La Farge & Emily Barton

Joshua Cohen & Justin Taylor

Emily Barton is the author of the novels Brookland (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2006) and The Testament of Yves Gundron (FSG 2000), and her essays and criticism have appeared in numerous publications, most recently the Threepenny Review. She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts; she met Paul La Farge as a result of both writers having won the Bard Fiction Prize. Emily serves as Lecturer in English at Yale, and has also recently taught in the writing programs at Columbia and NYU.

Joshua Cohen's most recent novel is Witz. He is the New Books critic for Harper's Magazine. Four New Messages will be published by Graywolf Press this August.

Shelley Jackson is the author of The Melancholy of Anatomy, Half Life, hypertexts including Patchwork Girl, children's books including Mimi's Dada Catifesto, and SKIN, a story published in tattoos on 2095 volunteers.

Paul La Farge's fourth novel, Luminous Airplanes, was one of Entertainment Weekly's Best Books of 2011 — and one of the the Huffington Post's 10 Most Criminally Overlooked Novels of 2011. It will be published in paperback in October. His short stories have appeared in Harper's, McSweeney's, Fence, Conjunctions and elsewhere. He is a sporadic contributor to The Believer. He lives in the woods.

Darcey Steinke is author of the memoir Easter Everywhere (New York Times Notable) and the novels Milk, Jesus Saves, Suicide Blonde, and Up Through the Water (New York Times Notable). With Rick Moody, she edited Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited. Her books have been translated into ten languages. Nonfiction has appeared, among other places, in The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Review, Vogue, Spin Magazine, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and The Guardian. Her web-story "Blindspot" was a part of the 2000 Whitney Biennial. She has been both a Henry Hoyns and a Stegner Fellow and Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi, and has taught most recently at Columbia School of the Arts and Barnard College.

Justin Taylor is the author of The Gospel of Anarchy and Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever. He teaches at the Pratt Institute and New York University.

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291 Church Street, New York, NY 10013
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Running in Bed
by Jeffrey Sharlach
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Thursday, May 17
7:00pm
Jeffrey Sharlach — Running in Bed
Jeffrey Sharlach, a journalist, attorney and business leader, joins us for his debut novel, Running in Bed. It's the moving story about finding one's true self, and depicts a slice of gay life in New York City on the cusp of the 1980s.
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Thursday, May 17
8:00pm
John Cheever at 100 with Michael Chabon. Ben Cheever, Susan Cheever and others
n the occasion of John Cheever’s centenary, friends and family gather to remember him and read from his work. “There is a great, questing soul alive everywhere in [his] stories, a soul trying to come to grips with the parameters of human experience amid the ravishing beauty of nature,” wrote…

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n the occasion of John Cheever’s centenary, friends and family gather to remember him and read from his work.

“There is a great, questing soul alive everywhere in [his] stories, a soul trying to come to grips with the parameters of human experience amid the ravishing beauty of nature,” wrote T. C. Boyle. “Few prose writers can touch Cheever for the painterly precision of his descriptions, and the reward of them, too—his characters, locked in the struggles of suburban and familial angst, regularly experience moments of transcendence and rebirth.”

$27 / $10 for those 35 and under

This reading is in memory of Ronald Busch.

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Unterberg Poetry Center
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92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10128
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Oliver Twist (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Charles Dickens
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Saturday, May 19
1:00pm
The Dickens Fellowship
Members of The Dickens Fellowship seek to keep the memory and study of Charles Dickens alive in NYC. The Fellowship will discuss Oliver Twist. This event is open to the public.
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Ayiti
by Roxane Gay
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Windeye
by Brian Evenson
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Monday, May 21
7:00pm
Brian Evenson and Roxane Gay
Writers Roxane Gay (Ayiti) and Brian Evenson (Windeye) read from their books. Roxane Gay's writing appears or is forthcoming in New Stories From the Midwest 2011, Best Sex Writing 2012, NOON, American Short Fiction, Indiana Review, Cream City Review, Black Warrior Review, Brevity, The Rumpus, and …

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Writers Roxane Gay (Ayiti) and Brian Evenson (Windeye) read from their books.

Roxane Gay's writing appears or is forthcoming in New Stories From the Midwest 2011, Best Sex Writing 2012, NOON, American Short Fiction, Indiana Review, Cream City Review, Black Warrior Review, Brevity, The Rumpus, and many others. She is the co-editor of PANK, and an HTMLGIANT. She is also the author of Ayiti, a collection of writing about the Haitian diaspora experience.

Brian Evenson is the author of ten books of fiction, most recently the limited edition novella Baby Leg, published by New York Tyrant Press in 2009. In 2009 he also published the novel Last Days (which won the American Library Association's award for Best Horror Novel of 2009) and the story collection Fugue State, both of which were on Time Out New York's top books of 2009. His novel The Open Curtain (Coffee House Press) was a finalist for an Edgar Award and an IHG Award. His work has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Slovenian. He lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island, where he directs Brown University's Literary Arts Program. Other books include The Wavering Knife (which won the IHG Award for best story collection), Dark Property, and Altmann's Tongue. He has translated work by Christian Gailly, Jean Frémon, Claro, Jacques Jouet, Eric Chevillard, Antoine Volodine, and others. He is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes as well as an NEA fellowship.

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The Center for Fiction
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17 East 47th Street, New York, NY, New York, NY 10017
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Tuesday, May 22
7:00pm
HOT TEXTS Reading Series presents: Kate Schapira, Melissa Broder, HR Hegnauer
Unbalanced tokens, check your syntax…

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Curated by local poet activists Krystal Languell, Rachel Levitsky and Emily Skillings—HOT TEXTS is a reading series in Brooklyn, New York that celebrates innovative writing rooted in the body, desire, sexual politics and the erotic sphere. HOT TEXTS is an extension of the Belladonna* Collaborative, a feminist, avant-garde event series, collective and publishing venture.

Kate Schapira is the author of TOWN (Factory School, Heretical Texts), The Bounty: Four Addresses (Noemi Press), How We Saved the City (Stockport Flats) and The Soft Place (forthcoming from Horse Less Press), as well as six chapbooks with another coming soon from dancing girl press. She lives in Providence, RI, where she co-runs the Publicly Complex Reading Series and teaches writing to college students and fourth graders.

Melissa Broder is the author of two collections of poems, MEAT HEART and WHEN YOU SAY ONE THING BUT MEAN YOUR MOTHER. Recent poems appear in Guernica, Redivider, The Missouri Review, Court Green, et al. She edits La Petite Zine. By day she is a publicity manager at Penguin.

Hr Hegnauer is the author of Sir (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2011). She is a freelance book designer and website designer specializing in working with independent publishers as well as individual artists and writers. She maintains a portfolio of her work at hrhegnauer.com. HR has also acted in two movies directed by Ed Bowes: The Value of Small Skeletons (2011) and Essay on Ash (forthcoming). She is a member of Belladonna* and the poets’ theater group GASP: Girls Assembling Something Perpetual.

Suggested donation: $5.00

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The Way Station
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683 Washington Ave., New York, NY 11238
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Gillespie and I:
A Novel
by Jane Harris
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Friday, June 1
7:00pm
Friday Night Book Group
The Friday Night Book Group reconvenes in the Cafe for their monthly meeting. This month the group will discuss Gillespie and I by Jane Harris. Group meetings are open to the public.
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150 East 86th Street, New York, NY 10028-2105
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You've Got A Deal! The Biggest Lies of the Music Business
by Jeffrey Weber
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Wednesday, June 6
7:00pm
You've Got a Deal! The Biggest Lies of the Music Business
Jeff Weber has been producing music for over 30 years, with over 180 projects to his credit, including multiple Grammys and Grammy nominations. You've Got a Deal is his lighthearted recollection of the music industry.
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The Kid
by Sapphire
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Thursday, June 7
6:30pm
Eat, Drink, & Be Literary with Sapphire
“unflinching in her exploration of ignorance and deprivation” —The Guardian Sapphire is a poet, novelist, and performer whose work explores the experience of poverty and struggle in black America. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Push, which won the Black Caucus of …

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“unflinching in her exploration of ignorance and deprivation” —The Guardian

Sapphire is a poet, novelist, and performer whose work explores the experience of poverty and struggle in black America. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Push, which won the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s First Novelist Award and was the basis of the Academy Award winning motion picture Precious. She is also the author of The Kid, the recently released companion novel to Push, as well as the poetry collections American Dreams and Black Wings & Blind Angels.

This event is part of Eat, Drink & Be Literary, a unique series for sophisticated writers, readers, and eaters, that brings major contemporary authors to BAMcafé for intimate dinners, entertaining readings, and engaging discussions.

Tickets: $50 (includes dinner, wine, tax, and tip)

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Brooklyn Academy of Music
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30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217-1486
718-636-4100
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Love, Christopher Street:
Reflections of New York City
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Wednesday, June 13
7:00pm
Thomas Keith and Contributors — Love, Christopher Street
Editor Thomas Keith is joined by his Love, Christopher Street contributors Brendan Fay, G. Winston James, Andrea Meyers and Ocean Vuong for readings of their personal stories that form their book's tapestry of gay life in New York City.
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Brookland:

A Novel

by Emily Barton

$15.00 List Price

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Witz

by Joshua Cohen

$18.95 List Price

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Luminous Airplanes:

A Novel

by Paul La Farge

$25.00 List Price

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Thursday, May 17

7:00pm

Running in Bed

by Jeffrey Sharlach

$14.95 List Price

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Thursday, May 17

7:00pm

Thursday, May 17

8:00pm

Oliver Twist (Barnes & Noble Classics)

by Charles Dickens

$6.95 List Price

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Saturday, May 19

1:00pm

Ayiti

by Roxane Gay

$9.00 List Price

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Windeye

by Brian Evenson

$16.00 List Price

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Monday, May 21

7:00pm

Tuesday, May 22

7:00pm

The Patron Saint of Liars

by Ann Patchett

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