poetry reading featuring Erica Dawson and Eric Norris, plus open mic for metrical poetry. $10.

Erica Dawson is the author of two collections of poetry: Big-Eyed Afraid and The Small Blades Hurt (Measure Press, forthcoming January 2014). Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Harvard Review, Literary Imagination, VQR, and other journals and anthologies. She is an Assistant Professor of English & Writing at the University of Tampa.

Eric Norris is the author of 4 books: Terence, Takaaki, Nocturnal Omissions — with Gavin Geoffrey Dillard, and Cock Sucking (On Mars). He is a founding editor of the online poetry journal Kin (wearekin.org). Eric is also a co-host of the Carmine Street Metrics reading series at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City.

There is always that push and pull when it comes to living in New York: you love it, but you could probably do without the high rent, weird people, garbage, crazy cab drivers, loud noises pumping out from the streets at all hours of the day, and all the other random distractions that come with life as a New Yorker. Reading the essay collection Goodbye to All That really gives you a sense of the intense love/hate relationship most people have with living in New York and the conflicted feelings they might have about leaving no matter how much they love it, or how much they detest it.

Sari Botton, the editor of the collection, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn invited some of their favorite writers read to us about either staying put or getting the hell out:

Mike Albo

Emily Gould

Alexander Chee

Chloe Caldwell

Anna Holmes

Choire Sicha

Jon-Jon Goulian

Michelle Dean

Elissa Bassist

Isaac Fitzgerald

Thankfully they all said yes, and on December 2nd at Housing Works, they will all take the stage and maybe help you decide if New York City is still the place for you.

This event is free for students with ID and Members of Aperture at the $50 level and above.

Join Aperture and Emmet Gowin for a talk and book signing for his long-awaited survey Emmet Gowin (Fundación MAPFRE in association with Aperture, 2013), which pays tribute to his prolific career as a photographer and his impact on the medium.

In his photographs, Gowin has threaded together seemingly disparate subjects—his wife, Edith, and their extended family; American and European landscapes; aerial views of environmental devastation—that reflect his ongoing interest in issues of scale, the impact of the individual, and notions of belonging. As a photography professor at Princeton University from 1973 to 2009, Gowin exerted a powerful influence on several generations of photographers.

This talk is part of the Aperture In Person series.

Emmet Gowin (born in Danville, Virginia, 1941) earned his MFA in photography from Rhode Island School of Design in 1967 after studying graphic design as an undergraduate. His black-and-white photographs have been exhibited in the United States and abroad, including solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Espace Photographie Marie de Paris. Gowin’s work is included in major museum collections worldwide and he has published more than six monographs. He has been awarded several honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching from Princeton University.

Join us on December 3rd at 7pm for a discussion with Michael Levine, author of A Weak Messianic Power: Figures of a Time to Come in Benjamin, Derrida, and Celan. Anna Glazova and Richard Sieburth will act as discussants.

In his famous theses on the philosophy of history, Benjamin writes: "We have been endowed with a weak messianic power to which the past has a claim." This claim addresses us not just from the past but from what will have belonged to it only as a missed possibility and unrealized potential. For Benajmin, as for Celan and Derrida, what has never been actualized remains with us, not as a lingering echo but as a secretly insistent appeal. Because such appeals do not pass through normal channels of communication, they require a special attunement, perhaps even a mode of unconscious receptivity. Levine examines the ways in which this attunement is cultivated in Benjamin's philosophical, autobiographical, and photohistorical writings; Celan's poetry and poetological addresses; and Derrida's writings on Celan.

Michael G. Levine is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. He is the author of Belated Witness: Literature, Testimony, and the Question of Holocaust Survival and Writing Through Repression: Literature, Censorship, Psychoanalysis. He will be joined by Anna Glazova, Craig-Kade Scholar in Residence at Rutgers University, and Richard Sieburth, Professor of French and Comparative Literature at New York University.

In the mainstream media, People with AIDS were portrayed as either helpless victims who deserved to die of this gruesome disease or as innocent babies. People with AIDS and their allies had to discover not only how to force the government to provide necessary services, but how to portray the true, complicated story of the AIDS epidemic

A Hard Reigns Gonna Fall, Dean Lance, 8 min., 1990

Testing the Limits, Testing the Limits, 27 min., 1987

DHPG Mon Amour, Carl Michael George, 12 min., 1989

Seize Control of the FDA, Gregg Bordowitz & Jean Carlomusto, 25 min., 1988

Part of the Why We Fight Film Series curated by Jim Hubbard, director and co-producer of United in Anger: A History of ACT UP, who co-directs the ACT UP Oral History Project, and co-founded MIX - the New York Queer Experimental Film Festival. The film series focuses on films about HIV/AIDS and activism that are in or drawing on the Library’s collections

In this tribute to legendary author Frederick Busch, Elizabeth Strout, Benjamin Busch, Hilma Wolitzer, Stewart O'Nan, and Jill Bialosky will come together to read from and discuss his work.

Jill Bialosky was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She studied for her undergraduate degree at Ohio University and received a Master of Arts degree from the Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Fine Arts degree from University of Iowa Writer's Workshop. Her collections of poems are Subterranean (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001) and The End of Desire (1997). Bialosky is also the author of the novel House Under Snow (2002) and The Life Room (2007) and co-editor, with Helen Schulman, of the anthology Wanting A Child (1998). Her poems and essays appear in The New Yorker, O Magazine, Paris Review, The Nation, The New Republic, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review among other publications. Bialosky has received a number of awards including the Elliot Coleman Award in Poetry. She is currently an editor at W. W. Norton & Company and lives in New York City.

Benjamin Busch is a United States Marine Corps infantry officer, photographer, film director, and actor whose many roles have included Officer Anthony Colicchio on the HBO series The Wire. His writing has been featured in Harper's and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He has also appeared as a guest commentator on NPR's All Things Considered. He lives on a farm in Michigan with his wife and two daughters.

Stewart O’Nan’s award-winning fiction includes Snow Angels, A Prayer for the Dying, Last Night at the Lobster, and Emily, Alone. Granta named him one of America’s Best Young Novelists. He lives in Pittsburgh.

Elizabeth Strout is the author of the New York Times bestseller Olive Kitteridge, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize; the national bestseller Abide with Me; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in London. She lives in Maine and New York City.

Hilma Wolitzer has taught in the writing programs at Columbia University, NYU, The University of Iowa, and at the Bread Loaf Writer's conference. She's received grants and awards from The Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her most recent novel is An Available Man.

About This Is Between Us:

Chronicling five years of a troubled romance, This Is Between Us offers an intimate view of one couple’s struggle—from the illicit beginnings of sexual obsession to the fragile architecture of a pieced-together family. Full of sweet moments, emotional time bombs, unexpected humor, and blunt sexuality, the daily life of this man and woman, both recently divorced, with children and baggage in tow, emerges in all of its complexity. In this utterly engrossing debut novel, Kevin Sampsell delivers a confessional tale of love between two resilient people who have staked their hearts on each other.

Author Bio:

Kevin Sampsell is the author of the memoir, A Common Pornography (2010 Harper Perennial), and the short story collection, Creamy Bullets (Chiasmus) and the editor of the anthology, Portland Noir (Akashic). Sampsell is the publisher of the micropress, Future Tense Books, which he started in 1990. He has worked at Powell's Books as an events coordinator and the head of the small press section for fifteen years. His essays have appeared recently in Salon, The Faster Times, Jewcy, and The Good Men Project. His fiction has been published in McSweeney’s, Nerve, Hobart, and in several anthologies. He lives in Portland, OR, with his wife and son.

About RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA:


Spending several weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, Kimberly McCreight’s debut novel grabbed the attention of Gone Girl and Defending Jacob fans last spring with its well-struck balance between intrigue and heart. Releasing in paperback this winter, RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA is the story of secret first loves, old friendships and the cruelty of an all-girls club steeped in tradition, but most of all, it is the story of one mother’s love. At once poignant and suspenseful, McCreight explores the chilling reality of teen life in the age of social networking, asking just how much even the most dedicated mother can really know about her child’s life.


As a single mother, it has always been just Kate and Amelia, united against the world. So when Kate, a law firm partner, gets a phone call from Amelia’s exclusive private school summoning her to Brooklyn in the middle of an important meeting, she’s immediately skeptical. What could her over-achieving, well-behaved daughter possibly have done? But by the time Kate arrives, the answer no longer matters. Nothing does. Amelia has jumped to her death from the roof of the school. Clouded by guilt and grief, Kate accepts the school’s suspect explanation of events: that Amelia, distraught after being caught cheating, chose to end her own life. That is, until she receives an anonymous text: Amelia didn’t jump. Digging into Amelia’s emails, texts, and Facebook posts, Kate sets out to reconstruct the last troubled days of her daughter’s life until she discovers, finally, the heartbreaking truth about what really happened up on that roof.


RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA was inspired by McCreight’s own fears as a mother of two girls. “How on earth—in a world so filled with dangers, big and small—will I ever keep them safe?” she wondered. “Perhaps I worry because I’m especially fatalistic. But I don’t think so. I think I worry because, deep down, I know the truth: that there is only so much I can do to protect my girls. That’s what I thought a couple of years back when I read about the star student and athlete who committed suicide by jumping out a window at Dalton. It’s what I thought when I heard about Tyler Clementi’s tragic leap from the George Washington Bridge after he was surreptitiously videotaped with another man. And it was brought back to me again last spring when a New Jersey teenager named Lennon Baldwin hung himself allegedly in response to cyber-bullying.”

Bullying makes headlines whenever another tortured teen takes his or her life. This appalling pandemic—Huffington Post recently reported that as many as 53% of teens are targets of cyber-bullying—is at the troubled heart of Kimberly McCreight’s stunning debut novel, RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA.




About the Author:

Kimberly McCreight, named one of Entertainment Weekly’s “13 to Watch in 2013,” attended Vassar and the University of Pennsylvania Law School from which she graduated cum laude. After several years as a litigation associate at one of New York City’s biggest law firms, she left the practice of law to write full-time. Her work has appeared in such publications as Antietam Review, Oxford Magazine, and Babble. She lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters.

About RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA:


Spending several weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, Kimberly McCreight’s debut novel grabbed the attention of Gone Girl and Defending Jacob fans last spring with its well-struck balance between intrigue and heart. Releasing in paperback this winter, RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA is the story of secret first loves, old friendships and the cruelty of an all-girls club steeped in tradition, but most of all, it is the story of one mother’s love. At once poignant and suspenseful, McCreight explores the chilling reality of teen life in the age of social networking, asking just how much even the most dedicated mother can really know about her child’s life.


As a single mother, it has always been just Kate and Amelia, united against the world. So when Kate, a law firm partner, gets a phone call from Amelia’s exclusive private school summoning her to Brooklyn in the middle of an important meeting, she’s immediately skeptical. What could her over-achieving, well-behaved daughter possibly have done? But by the time Kate arrives, the answer no longer matters. Nothing does. Amelia has jumped to her death from the roof of the school. Clouded by guilt and grief, Kate accepts the school’s suspect explanation of events: that Amelia, distraught after being caught cheating, chose to end her own life. That is, until she receives an anonymous text: Amelia didn’t jump. Digging into Amelia’s emails, texts, and Facebook posts, Kate sets out to reconstruct the last troubled days of her daughter’s life until she discovers, finally, the heartbreaking truth about what really happened up on that roof.


RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA was inspired by McCreight’s own fears as a mother of two girls. “How on earth—in a world so filled with dangers, big and small—will I ever keep them safe?” she wondered. “Perhaps I worry because I’m especially fatalistic. But I don’t think so. I think I worry because, deep down, I know the truth: that there is only so much I can do to protect my girls. That’s what I thought a couple of years back when I read about the star student and athlete who committed suicide by jumping out a window at Dalton. It’s what I thought when I heard about Tyler Clementi’s tragic leap from the George Washington Bridge after he was surreptitiously videotaped with another man. And it was brought back to me again last spring when a New Jersey teenager named Lennon Baldwin hung himself allegedly in response to cyber-bullying.”

Bullying makes headlines whenever another tortured teen takes his or her life. This appalling pandemic—Huffington Post recently reported that as many as 53% of teens are targets of cyber-bullying—is at the troubled heart of Kimberly McCreight’s stunning debut novel, RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA.




About the Author:

Kimberly McCreight, named one of Entertainment Weekly’s “13 to Watch in 2013,” attended Vassar and the University of Pennsylvania Law School from which she graduated cum laude. After several years as a litigation associate at one of New York City’s biggest law firms, she left the practice of law to write full-time. Her work has appeared in such publications as Antietam Review, Oxford Magazine, and Babble. She lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters.

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For decades, the Chelsea Hotel was the center New York’s bohemian underground. It was home to writers, artists, musicians, and general eccentrics from Dylan Thomas to Bob Dylan Allen Ginsberg to Arthur Miller, and Janis Joplin to Dee Dee Ramone. Over the decades the Chelsea Hotel became the de facto base for generations of New York’s downtown bohemia. With Inside The Dream Palace Sherill Tippins, chronicler of New York’s artistic world with February House, now tells the story of the Chelsea Hotel and its storied occupants. It’s a particularly timely history as the Chelsea now stands on the edge of the critical new moment—after closing for renovations in 2011, questions remain as to whether the Chelsea will continue as a center for artists, or join the ranks of New York’s gentrification.

Sherill will be joined by Dennis Dunaway, founding member of rock band Alice Cooper. Join us in our cozy Rare Book Room to hear Sherill and Dennis chat about the life of this piece of historic New York!

Buy a copy of Inside The Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York’s Legendary Chelsea Hotel or a $15 Strand gift card in order to attend this event. All options admit one person. 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.

Join us on December 4th at 7pm for a discussion with David Stark and Nancy Warner, authors of This Place, These People: Life and Shadow on the Great Plains.

Nancy Warner's photographs and David Stark's interviews and reflections provide fresh perspective on the history and culture of a distinctly American phenomenon. Continuing in the tradition of Solomon D. Butcher, who photographed some of the first midwestern settlers in the nineteenth century, and Wright Morris, who combined photographic and verbal accounts of farmers' lives in the twentieth century, Stark and Warner explore a way of life that continues to adapt in the face of wrenching change.

This book pairs images of abandoned farm places with the plain-spoken recollections of the people who still live in nearby communities. In his afterword, Stark grounds the project in the relationship between people and their land; the cadences and tough-minded humor of everyday speech; the ongoing mechanization of farming; the lure of cities for the young; and genetic and chemical innovations for improving crop yields. The result is both art and document, evoking memories, emotions, and open-ended questions for anyone with rural American roots.

David Stark is the Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Columbia University, where he directs the Center on Organizational Innovation. His most recent books is The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life. Nancy Warner is a fine-art and portrait photographer based in San Francisco. Many of the photographs in this books were first exhibited at the Great Plains Art Museum as Going Back: Midwestern Farm Places (2008).

Masters of the mystery genre, bestselling-authors Michael Connelly and Martin Cruz Smith will reveal how they've kept readers at the edge of their seats for over twenty years.

Inspired by the works of Raymond Chandler, Michael Connelly began his writing career covering crime for newspapers in South Florida, and later the Los Angeles Times. It was there that Connelly found the inspiration for some of his most beloved and popular characters, including Bosch, the LAPD detective at the heart of his popular series of crime novels, and Mickey Haller of The Lincoln Lawyer legal thrillers.

Connelly has kept his audience in suspense, keen to unpack the mysteries that he so masterfully crafts. The best-selling author will discuss his upcoming novel, The Gods of Guilt, the process of developing such compelling and captivating stories, and the interplay between fiction and reality in his works.

Michael Connelly is the bestselling author of twenty-six novels and one work of nonfiction. With over fifty million copies of his books sold worldwide and translated into thirty-six foreign languages, he is one of the most successful writers working today. A former newspaper reporter who worked the crime beat at the Los Angeles Times and the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Connelly has won numerous awards for his journalism and his fiction. His very first novel, The Black Echo, won the prestigious Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1992. In 2002, Clint Eastwood directed and starred in the movie adaptation of Connelly’s 1998 novel, Blood Work. In March 2011, the movie adaptation of his #1 bestselling novel, The Lincoln Lawyer, hit theaters worldwide starring Matthew McConaughey as Mickey Haller. His most recent #1 New York Times bestsellers include The Black Box, The Drop, The Fifth Witness, The Reversal, The Scarecrow, and The Brass Verdict. His next novel is titled The Gods of Guilt and it will be published on December 2, 2013.

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Natalie Diaz grew up in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California. After playing professional basketball in Europe and Asia for several years, she completed her MFA in poetry and fiction at Old Dominion University. She has been awarded the Bread Loaf 2012 Louis Untermeyer Scholarship in Poetry, the 2012 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Literature Fellowship, a 2012 Lannan Residency and the 2012 Lannan Literary Fellowship. Her first book, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press. Diaz currently lives in Mohave Valley, Arizona, and directs a language revitalization program at Fort Mojave, her home reservation. There she works and teaches with the last Elder speakers of the Mojave language. She is a faculty member at the new low-residency MFA program at The Institute of American Indian Arts.

Diane Wakoski, who was born in Southern California and educated at UC, Berkeley, made her home and began her poetry career in New York City from 1960-1973. In 1989 her selected poems, EMERALD ICE (Black Sparrow Press) won the William Carlos Williams prize from the PSA. The most recent of her more than 20 collections of poetry are THE DIAMOND DOG (ANHINGA, 2010) and a new collection, BAY OF ANGELS, (Anhinga Press, 2013). Since 1975, she has lived in East Lansing, Michigan where she was Poet In Residence and University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University, from which she retired in the spring of 2012.

oin Aperture and Prix Pictet, the global award in photography and sustainability, for the opening reception of Power. The theme of power has enormous creative reach, embracing both hope and despair in equal measure. Over two hundred nominators worldwide recommended almost 650 photographers from seventy-six countries, many of whom presented images that are both awe-inspiring and disturbing.

French photographer Luc Delahaye is this year’s winner. The shortlist includes photographers Robert Adams (United States), Daniel Beltrá (Spain/United States), Mohamed Bourouissa (Algeria/France), Philippe Chancel (France), Edmund Clark (United Kingdom), Carl De Keyzer (Belgium), Rena Effendi (Azerbaijan/Egypt), Jacqueline Hassink (the Netherlands), An-My Lê (Vietnam/United States), Joel Sternfeld (United States), and Guy Tillim (South Africa).

Image: Luc Delahaye, Ambush, Ramadi, Iraq, July 22, 2006; from Various works: 2008–2011

About The Wes Anderson Collection:

Wes Anderson is one of the most influential voices from the past two decades of American cinema. A true auteur, Anderson is known for the visual artistry, inimitable tone, and idiosyncratic characterizations that make each of his films—Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Moonrise Kingdom—instantly recognizable as “Andersonian.” The Wes Anderson Collection is the first in-depth overview of Anderson’s filmography, guiding readers through his life and career. Previously unpublished photos, artwork, and ephemera complement a book-length conversation between Anderson and award-winning critic Matt Zoller Seitz. The interview and images are woven together in a meticulously designed book that captures the spirit of his films: melancholy and playful, wise and childish—and thoroughly original.

Praise for The Wes Anderson Collection:

“In The Wes Anderson Collection, Seitz expands a series of video essays on Anderson’s influences, illuminating as much of Anderson’s process as possible in a massive, beautifully rendered volume. Although it looks (and sometimes reads) like a coffee table book, The Wes Anderson Collection brings together style and substance to provide a loving homage to Anderson’s films and moviemaking in general.” —The A.V. Club

"Cultural critic Seitz tours the quirky career of movie director Wes Anderson in this upbeat coffee-table book. Featuring a plethora of behind the scene photos, production artifacts, the author successfully conveys Anderson's creativity especially through the use of the director's original artwork. Every Anderson movie—from Bottle Rocket to the most recently Moonrise Kingdom—gets the royal treatment: a short essay from Seitz, an interview with the director, scrapbook's worth of photos. Anderson reveals the importance of his college library for aiding his interest in film, discusses his attraction to "old-fashioned special effects," and shares his favorite directors including Alfred Hitchcock and Francois Truffaut, along with how he attempts to evoke their style in his own movies. Seitz shows detailed knowledge of his subject's work, and Anderson is open about his creative process, making this tour especially worth taking. An introduction by author Michael Chabon is an added bonus." - Publishers Weekly

Author Bio:

Matt Zoller Seitz, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for criticism, currently writes for New York magazine. He lives in Brooklyn.

DEAD LANGUAGE will perform their own original compositions, inspired by Don DeLillo's White Noise and written for this installment of Notes on Fiction.

About White Noise by Don DeLillo

Jack Gladney teaches Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America where his colleagues include New York expatriates who want to immerse themselves in "American magic and dread." Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear of death, and four ultramodern offspring, navigate the usual rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. Then a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives, an "airborne toxic event" unleashed by an industrial accident. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladney family—radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmerings—pulsing with life, yet heralding the danger of death.

DEAD LANGUAGE views musical creation as a process without boundaries. They identify themselves as more than instrumentalists; they are artists, composers, songwriters, curators, and improvisers. The members of DEAD LANGUAGE have composed electronic music for TrioDance Collective; co-founded and curate the non-profit Silicon Valley Music Festival; self-released albums of electronic music (Shackelton Gray) and cello and voice (Other People's Ghosts); performed as members of the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, the Bang on a Can Summer Festival, and the Banff Centre; and collaborated with international jazz and improvisational artists. As an ensemble, DEAD LANGUAGE performs classics of their instrumentation's repertoire as well as those newly composed. Most recently, they premiered the work Glottophagy - a piece inspired by their namesake and representative of their mission - by American composer Mike Perdue, and performed this alongside Austrian composer Bernhard Lang's half-hour long work Differenz/Wiederholung 1.

$12 members, $15 general audience.

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Gladwell reads and discusses "David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants", a surprising journey through the hidden dynamics that shape the balance of power between the small and the mighty. From the conflicts in Northern Ireland, through the tactics of civil rights leaders and the problem of privilege, Gladwell demonstrates how we misunderstand the true meaning of advantage and disadvantage. Produced in association with Brooklyn Public Library.

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Who doesn’t love a fresh-baked pie in the chilly winter months, or any time of year for that matter! Enter Emily and Melissa Elsen, the twenty-something proprietors of the Four & Twenty Blackbirds bakery in Brooklyn, who have just released their delectable, gorgeous guide to gourmet pies— The Four & Twenty Blackbirds Pie Book: Uncommon Recipes from the Celebrated Brooklyn Pie Shop. These are not your grandma’s blueberry and apple recipes! Instead, Emily and Melissa have honed their pie-making crafts to include such creative and mouth-watering seasonal flavors as Green Chili Chocolate, Salty Honey, and Black Currant Lemon Chiffon, just to name a few.

They’ll join us in exclusive conversation about their shop and book with food blogger and The Amateur Gourmet author Adam Roberts. Make sure to grab savory and sweet samples of Four & Twenty offerings while you’re here.

Buy a copy of The Four & Twenty Blackbirds Pie Book: Uncommon Recipes from the Celebrated Brooklyn Pie Shop or a $15 Strand gift card in order to attend this event. All options admit one person. 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.

Dave Cullen, author of the New York Times bestseller Columbine will be a guest bookseller at our Grand Central location as part of the Indies First movement.

About Columbine:

"On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma-City style, and to leave "a lasting impression on the world." Their bombs failed, but the ensuing shooting defined a new era of school violence-irrevocably branding every subsequent shooting "another Columbine."

When we think of Columbine, we think of the Trench Coat Mafia; we think of Cassie Bernall, the girl we thought professed her faith before she was shot; and we think of the boy pulling himself out of a school window — the whole world was watching him. Now, in a riveting piece of journalism nearly ten years in the making, comes the story none of us knew. In this revelatory book, Dave Cullen has delivered a profile of teenage killers that goes to the heart of psychopathology. He lays bare the callous brutality of mastermind Eric Harris, and the quavering, suicidal Dylan Klebold, who went to prom three days earlier and obsessed about love in his journal.

The result is an astonishing account of two good students with lots of friends, who came to stockpile a basement cache of weapons, to record their raging hatred, and to manipulate every adult who got in their way. They left signs everywhere, described by Cullen with a keen investigative eye and psychological acumen. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, thousands of pages of police files, FBI psychologists, and the boy's tapes and diaries, he gives the first complete account of the Columbine tragedy.

In the tradition of HELTER SKELTER and IN COLD BLOOD, COLUMBINE is destined to be a classic. A close-up portrait of hatred, a community rendered helpless, and the police blunders and cover-ups, it is a compelling and utterly human portrait of two killers-an unforgettable cautionary tale for our times."

Located at 9 Grand Central Terminal, Vanderbilt & 42nd Street.

Join us for a Book Release Party Reform Without Justice:Latino Migrant Politic and the Homeland Security State by Professor Alfonso Gonzales. Discussion and Q&A will follow. .

MC Diego Hernandez of the Raza Youth Collective.

Panelists: Maria Huerta, Migrant Power Alliance, Denise Romero, Migrant Power Alliance, YaYa Network.

Alejandra Lopez, Attorney and Donald Anthonyson, Families for Freedom

David Misch will discuss his book Funny: The Book / Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Comedy.

David Misch

With allusions to the not-always-funny Carl Jung, George Orwell, and Arthur Koestler, Funny: The Book explores the evolution, theories, principles, and practice of comedy, as well as the psychological, philosophical, and even theological underpinnings of humor, coming to the conclusion that (Spoiler Alert!) Comedy is God.

David’s been a comic folksinger, stand-up comedian, and screenwriter. His credits include the multiple-Emmy-nominated “Mork and Mindy”, the Emmy-losing “Duckman”, the Emmy-ignored “Police Squad!”, the Emmy-engorged “Saturday Night Live”, and the Emmy-ineligible “The Muppets Take Manhattan”.

He blogs for The Huffington Post and his play “Occupied” is scheduled to be produced later this year in Los Angeles. He’s taught and lectured at the University of Southern California, UCLA, and Columbia University.

Located in The Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, at 41 Cooper Square (on Third Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets)

"A half million dollars in drug proceeds, guarded by three men with automatic weapons. For Wallace Stroby's determined heroine, professional thief Crissa Stone, and her team, stealing it was the easy part. But when the split goes awry in a blaze of gunfire, Crissa finds herself on the run with a duffel bag of stolen cash, bound by a promise to deliver part of the take to the needy family of one of her slain partners.

In pursuit are the drug kingpin’s lethal lieutenants and a former Detroit cop with his own deadly agenda. They think the money’s there for the taking, for whoever finds her first. But Crissa doesn’t plan to give it up without a fight, even as her mission of mercy puts her and a young child in mortal danger, with forces on both sides of the law closing in. After all, a debt is a debt…even if it has to be paid in blood."

The Strand and The Writers Studio partner in honor of the latest edition of the Pushcart Prize anthology, featuring an evening with literary favorites Eduardo C. Corral, Yusef Komunyakaa, Stephen Dixon, and Sigrid Nunez, who will give exclusive readings of their award-winning work. Edited by Bill Henderson, the Pushcart Prize is an American tradition in the literary world, honoring some of our best and brightest writing minds. Past recipients of this historic award include Raymond Carver, Junot Diaz, Joyce Carol Oates, and Andre Dubus.

Eduardo C. Corral is an award-winning American poet and teacher, and author of the collection Slow Lightning. He’s the winner of a Yale Younger Series Poets Prize.

Yusef Komunyakaa received both the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1994, and teaches at NYU. He received the 2007 Louisiana Writer Award for his ongoing contributions to poetry.

Stephen Dixon has been nominated multiple times for the National Book Award, and is a recipient of the O. Henry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and other awards. His controversial novel I. was produced by McSweeney’ in 2002.

Sigrid Nunez is the author of six novels. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, The Believer, and Tin House, amongst many other publications.

Taymiya R. Zaman is a member of the Writers Studio and has a story in the Pushcart Prize XXXVIII anthology.

Buy a copy of Pushcart Prize XXXVIII or a $15 Strand gift card in order to attend this event. All options admit one person. 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.

Kevin Sampsell, author of several acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, publisher of Future Tense Books, and an advocate for small presses at Portland's storied Powell's City of Books, presents his new novel This Is Between Us. Julia Fierro, Chelsea Hodson, and Joseph Riippi will also read, followed by a short Q & A with Vol.1 Brooklyn managing editor Tobias Carroll.

Camilo Roldán is a poet and translator currently pursuing his MFA in creative writing at Brooklyn College. He co-curates the Triptych Reading Series, is editor-in-chief for DIEZ and is the author of a chapbook, Amílkar U., Nadaísta in Translation (These Signals Press 2011). His writing has appeared in various journals, including SET, Sun’s Skeleton, PANK and Mandorla.

Katy Bohinc is a poet and digital media strategist for the Democratic Party of China. She co-edits COYDUP, a poetry pamphlet dedicated to hand-to-hand distribution at and around Occupy events with Meg Ronan. Work has recently appeared in Armed Cell & Poor Claudia and is forthcoming in Apartment & Open Letters Monthly. Summer BF press will soon publish selections of Dear Alain, love letters of a poet to a philosopher, as read at the East Bay Poetry Summit. She has a background in math, comp lit, DC, China, France & Buenos Aires. She lives in Manhattan.

Dr. Jeffrey Perry discusses Theodore W. Allen’s "The Invention of the White Race", a two-volume examination of racial oppression and the origin and nature of the “white race”. Allen was an independent working class scholar and an employee of Brooklyn Public Library. "The Invention of the White Race" has been praised for its extraordinary primary research and much of that work was done over a thirty-year period in Virginia archives and at BPL. Jeffrey Perry is the author of "Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism".

In January 2013 Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that the longstanding official ban on women serving in combat roles would be lifted. Dating back to the American Revolutionary War women have served in the military in various capacities - officially in auxiliary roles, but many de facto direct combat roles as well.

Join us for a panel of NYC women veterans as they discuss their experiences of American military service and what is to come for a fully integrated American military.

This event is produced in collaboration with Women Veterans and Families Netowork. The panel will be moderated by Meg McLagan, director of the film Lioness.

This panel will gather fiction writers who have used notable historical moments as the impetus for their works. The discussion will explore narratives set in motion by a maelstrom event like Hurricane Sandy.

How does fiction set in history allow a writer to explore her characters (and that historical reality) in a way she otherwise couldn't? How do you draw from history without being beholden to reality? In other words, where is the line between fact and fiction?

Panelists include:

Joseph O'Neill: Author of Netherland and winner of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Lucy Alibar: Author, playwright, and screenwriter of the acclaimed film "Beasts of the Southern Wild."

Alex Gilvarry: Author of From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant, and the founding editor of the Tottenville Review.

Paul Giamatti leads a cast of actors including Amy Ryan (The Office; Gone Baby Gone) in an afternoon of readings by the darkly comic master storyteller whose beloved novels include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, and James and the Giant Peach. This extraordinary lineup also includes a special performance from Matilda the Musical on Broadway, musical guests Broadway couple Jenny Powers (Grease; Little Women) and Matt Cavenaugh (Grey Gardens; West Side Story) and an appearance by Roald Dahl's grandson Luke Kelly. Hosted by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Lunch Lady series). Ages 8 and up.



This event is a benefit for First Book-Manhattan.

Please join us for a special event with:

Robert Wilson, Marina Abramovic, & Tim Hailand

Signing copies of “One Day in the Life of Robert Wilson’s The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic” by Tim Hailand

‘One Day in the Life of Robert Wilson’s The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic' revolves around the July 6, 2011 final dress rehearsal of Robert Wilson’s staged biography of acclaimed performance artist Marina Abramovic’s life (and death). With photos of and contributions from Robert Wilson, Marina Abramovic, Antony, and Willem Dafoe. 96 images both black and white and color, 136 pages, softcover, 15″ × 10″, a portion of all proceeds benefit the Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation.

This event is free and open to the public but please rsvp to news@printedmatter.org to ensure entrance. Note that Robert, Marina and Tim will only be signing this book. If you are unable to attend and would like to order a signed copy please call 212 925 0325.

Join us on December 9th at 7pm for a discussion with Charles Armstrong, author of Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950-1922.

To much of the world, North Korea is an impenetrable mystery, its inner workings unknown and its actions toward the outside unpredictable and frequently provocative. Tyranny of the Weak reveals for the first time the motivations, processes, and effects of North Korea's foreign relations during the Cold War era. Drawing on extensive research in the archives of North Korea's present and former communist allies, including the Soviet Union, China, and East Germany, Charles K. Armstrong tells in vivid detail how North Korea managed its alliances with fellow communist states, maintained a precarious independence in the Sino-Soviet split, attempted to reach out to the capitalist West and present itself as a model for Third World development, and confronted and engaged with its archenemies, the United States and South Korea.

From the invasion that set off the Korean War in June 1950 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Tyranny of the Weak shows how—despite its objective weakness—North Korea has managed for much of its history to deal with the outside world to its maximum advantage. Insisting on a path of "self-reliance" since the 1950s, North Korea has continually resisted pressure to change from enemies and allies alike. A worldview formed in the crucible of the Korean War and Cold War still maintains a powerful hold on North Korea in the twenty-first century, and understanding those historical forces is as urgent today as it was sixty years ago.

Charles K. Armstrong is the Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences at Columbia University. His recent books include The Koreas (Routledge, 2007); Puk Choson Tansaeng, the Korean translation of The North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950 (Seoul: Booksea, 2006; originally Cornell University Press, 2003); Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia (M. E. Sharpe, 2006, coeditor); and Korean Society: Civil Society, Democracy, and the State (Routledge, 2002, editor; 2nd edition, 2006).

Steven Alvarez is an Assistant Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of The Pocho Codex (2011) and The Xicano Genome (2012), both published by Editorial Paroxismo. Read more of his work at www.stevenpaulalvarez.com.

Guillermo Filice Castro is the recipient of a 2013 Emerge-Surface-Be fellowship from the St. Mark’s Poetry Project and the author of the chapbooks, Cry Me a Lorca (Seven Kitchen Press 2010) and Toy Storm (Big Fat Press 1997.) His poems appear in Assaracus, Barrow Street, The Brooklyn Rail, Court Green, The Bellevue Literary Review, Ducts.org, LaFovea, Quarterly West, and many more; as well as the anthologies Rabbit Ears, Flicker & Spark, Divining Divas, My Diva, Saints of Hysteria, and others. His translations of Olga Orozco, in collaboration with Ron Drummond, appear in Guernica, Terra Incognita, U.S. Latino Review, and Visions. In 2012 his work was a finalist for the Andrés Montoya prize. A native of Argentina, Castro lives in New York City.

Join author Mark Cohen for a lively talk about the song parodist and comedian Allan Sherman. Cohen’s book "Overweight Sensation: The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman" is the first biography of the comedian, who achieved worldwide fame in 1963 with his hit “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh,” and whose unapologetic Jewish comedy heralded an explosion in American ethnic pride. Cohen will play a sampling of Sherman’s famous parodies, and also lost recordings of Sherman's Jewish parodies of the Broadway musical.

wo of Time Magazine’s most influential people in the world, Ann Patchett and Elizabeth Gilbert come together on the occasion of their new books.

When Gilbert and Patchett - whose latest works are the novel The Signature of All Things and a collection of essays entitled This Is The Story of a Happy Marriage, respectively - take the stage at LIVE from the NYPL, the evening will be not just a conversation between two literary stars, but an intriguing dialogue between two friends about writing styles, sources of inspiration, and more.

The friends recently discovered they were writing novels about the same topic. As Patchett explained to Gilbert: “this friend of mine, who happens to be you...[was] writing a novel about the Amazon, and then you decided not to write a novel about the Amazon, and then I started writing a novel about the Amazon, and later when we compared notes (your book dismissed, mine halfway finished) they had remarkably similar story lines, to the point of being eerie. I thought this must be because it was an incredibly banal idea and we had both come up with a generic Amazon novel, but then you told me that ideas fly around looking for homes, and when the idea hadn’t worked out with you it came to me.”

Ann Patchett is the author of six novels, The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft, The Magician’s Assistant, Bel Canto, Run, and State of Wonder, and three books of nonfiction, Truth & Beauty, A Friendship, What now? and, This is the Story of a Happy Marriage. Patchett has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including England’s Orange Prize, PEN/Faulkner Award, the Book Sense Book of the Year, The Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, and the American Bookseller’s Association’s “Most Engaging Author Award.” Her books have been both New York Times notable books and New York Times bestsellers. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. In November, 2011, she opened Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee, with her partner Karen Hayes. She has since gone on to be a spokesperson for independent booksellers, talking about books and bookstores many places, including, “The Colbert Report.” In 2012 she was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.

Elizabeth Gilbert is the acclaimed author of five books of fiction and nonfiction. Her short story collection, Pilgrims, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and her novel, Stern Men, was a New York Times Notable Book. Her 2002 book, The Last American Man, was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is best known for her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, which has been published in more than thirty languages; a film based on the memoir, starring Julia Roberts, opened in August 2010. Her most recent work, Committed – a memoir of marriage – was a # 1 New York Times bestseller. In 2008, Time magazine named Gilbert one of the most influential people in the world.

FRIENDS of the NYPL receive discounted tickets and special pre-sales to LIVE events.

The former fellow Elizabeth Kendall talks about her new book, Balanchine & the Lost Muse: Revolution & the Making of a Choreographer, with Jennifer Homans, the author of Apollo’s Angels.

This event is co-presented with the Library for the Performing Arts

Elizabeth Kendall’s books include Where She Danced:The Birth of American Art- Dance; The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s; and American Daughter: Discovering my Mother. She has taught at Princeton, Bard College, Columbia University, and Smolny College in Russia, and she currently teaches writing at The New School. Her articles on dance have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Dance Magazine, among other publications. She did research for her new book, Balanchine & the Lost Muse, Revolution & the Making of a Choreographer, while she was a Fellow at the Cullman Center in 2004-05.


Jennifer Homans’s Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award and was one of The New York Time’s Book Review’s 2010 top ten “Books of the Year.” Homans is the dance critic for The New Republic and contributes regularly to Vogue, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, and The Guardian. A Distinguished Scholar in Residence at NYU, she is currently working on a book about Balanchine.

Please reserve your free ticket through the NYPL library, http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2013/12/10/elizabeth-kendall-and-jennifer-homans?nref=56909.

Ohio Edit's Global Holiday Extravaganza features some of the sparkliest writers from across the globe, including Jessa Crispin (Bookslut, Spolia) from Berlin; Natalie Eve Garrett (Hairpin) from Washington, DC; Zoe Ruiz (The Rumpus) from Los Angeles; Jim Behrle (Hairpin, Awl) as Santa; and Amy Fusselman (The Pharmacist's Mate/8). Plus free wine and candy canes!


About the Contributors:

Amy Fusselman is the author of 8 and The Pharmacist's Mate and is the editor of Ohio Edit. Her forthcoming book is Savage Park.


Jessa Crispin is the editor and founder of the literary magazines Bookslut and Spolia. Her Sun is conjoined Dark Moon Lilith. Sometimes she resides in Berlin, sometimes not.


Zoe Ruiz is the managing editor of The Rumpus. Her work has appeared in The Weeklings, Salon, and Two Serious Ladies and she has a bi-monthly column on Ohio Edit. She studied creative writing at UC Santa Cruz and now lives in LA.


Jim Behrle is Santa. He writes for The Awl, The Hairpin, The Poetry Foundation, and the good boys and girls everywhere.


Natalie Eve Garrett is an artist, writer, sea creature and chickpea. She lives with her husband and two children near the place where she grew up, in a town just outside DC, along the Potomac River. Her work can often be seen on The Hairpin, where she has several regularly featured columns, including a popular food column called Disgustingly Good. She is currently working on a cookbook anthology called The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook.


Josh Lefkowitz has had poems published in Court Green, The Hairpin, and elsewhere. He has recorded humorous essays for NPR's All Things Considered and BBC's Americana, and previously performed a pair of autobiographical monologues in theaters and spaces across the country. Josh won the 2013 Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry contest. He lives in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.


Kathy Giuffre is the author of An Afternoon in Summer: My Year in the South Seas and lives in Colorado with her husband and two sons. Her NPR radio show is called “Off Topic” and can be heard every Saturday morning on KRCC 91.5 FM or anytime at offtopicradio.org


Molly MacDermot is a noted expert on teens and has served as Editor in Chief of the teen magazines M, QuizFest, AstroGirl, and J-14.


Todd Wernstrom is a wine distributor in New York City where he lives with his wife, three children and a crazy (but cute) little dog. Prior to forming his own distribution company, he wrote about wine for a number of national and regional publications. To his great surprise, he recently discovered that not being paid to write about sports-related topics is far more satisfying than being paid to write about grapes.


Jillian Chaitin was born and raised in San Diego, California. She had a natural love of making art from very early on, which was fostered by her mother, an art teacher. Jillian went on to study fine art at U.C. Berkeley, before moving to the New York to continue her studies of painting, illustration, and screen printing, at SVA and FIT. In addition to being an illustrator and artist, she and her husband, Jeremy Hollingworth, are co founders and partners of Cabin Modern, a boutique interior design and lifestyle studio. Jillian lives with her husband on the lower east side, and loves traveling, hearts, and taking polaroids.


Jen May is a Scorpio and artist living in Brooklyn, NY with 3 cats.

Join us on December 10 at 7:30pm for a discussion with Rick Whitaker, author of An Honest Ghost. He will be introduced by Edmund White.

Rick Whitaker’s semi-autobiographical novel, An Honest Ghost, consists entirely of sentences appropriated from over 500 books. Whitaker limited himself to using 300 words per book (in accordance with Fair Use); never taking two sentences together; and never making any changes, even to punctuation. The experience of acknowledging each sentence as literary artifact, combined with the imagined accretion of books that built An Honest Ghost, deftly mirrors the burgeoning nostalgia in the narrator’s voice and, fittingly, in the careful reader’s heart.

Inspired by the task of unpacking his library, the narrator returns to writing an autobiographical novel about the sudden appearance his son, Joe, who at age nine shows up on the narrator’s doorstep for the first time. The narrator, unnerved by the prospect of sharing his life with his extremely precocious child, is nonetheless moved by Joe’s arrival. He has to change his own life by accepting the responsibility of fatherhood, a role he shares slightly with his young English boyfriend, David. Joe’s unpredictable mother, Eleanor Sullivan, seeks her own satisfactions. The domestic scene is affected when David introduces a new friend, Roy Hardeman, a strange gay cop who dies as mysteriously as he arrived. The heart of the novel is the ghostly, persistent, unreliable qualities of literary and personal memory, and the ways in which a narrative can hold onto, recapture, and transform memory.

"[Whitaker] has put the force back into tour de force." - John Ashbery

Rick Whitaker is the author of Assuming the Position: A Memoir of Hustling and The First Time I Met Frank O'Hara: Reading Gay American Writers. He is Concerts and Theatre Manager of the Italian Academy at Columbia University. Edmund White is an American novelist whose novels include the trilogy A Boy’s Own Story, The Beautiful Room is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony. His most recent works of fiction are Chaos and Hotel de Dream. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he teaches writing at Princeton and lives in New York City.

Light Industry hosts a rare double bill of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler—two major figures in contemporary experimental cinema—featuring Dorsky’s portrait of Hiler, the pivotal Hours for Jerome, and a new print of Hiler’s In the Stone House. Seen together, these films reveal the deeply reciprocal nature of Dorsky and Hiler’s art. “Hours for Jerome was photographed from 1966 to 1970 both in New York City and in the countryside in New Jersey,” Dorsky recalls. “During the exact same period of time, Jerome was shooting footage which would eventually become In the Stone House. These two works are a personal mirror of one another, but have never been shown together. Most of the footage from both films was shot at the house we were renting on Lake Owassa near the Delaware River, about two hours from Manhattan. It was known by the neighbors as the stone house. We were both about 25 years old.”

Partners for almost fifty years, Dorsky and Hiler first met in New York City in the 1960s, where they were both mentored by Gregory Markopoulos, whose ultimate influence can be seen in their precise, idiomatic, and expressive approach to montage. After relocating for a few years to rural New Jersey, the pair moved to San Francisco in 1971, where they have lived ever since. There, the two continued to shoot film, but for many years chose to screen footage only privately, to small groups of friends.

Dorsky broke from this habit in 1980, when he began editing what would become Hours for Jerome; with its completion, Dorsky returned to public exhibition, and the film came to be celebrated as one of the key works marking a new direction for American avant-garde cinema. “Hours for Jerome is simply the most beautifully photographed film that I’ve ever seen,” Warren Sonbert wrote upon the film’s release. “Here cinema enters the realm of the compassionate; capturing the eye and the mind, in ways unlike the predictable arena of the structural film.” Hours can now be seen as the beginning of certain formal practices of Dorsky’s that reach into the present day, particularly the exclusive use of silent 16mm projected at 18 frames per second. Like films such as Compline (2009), Aubade (2010) or August and After (2012), it too investigates the play of light through different seasons, but with a greater emotional immediacy, achieved through a design closer to the diary films of Jonas Mekas. And if Dorsky’s recent films have given nods to specific musical genres, Hours for Jerome is undoubtedly a love ballad.

Hiler took much longer to bring his work back into the public eye, but did so most notably with Words of Mercury, which premiered to great acclaim at the New York Film Festival in 2011, and was later included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial. Since then, Hiler’s annual presentation of new work has cemented his reputation. His films display a careful and subtle power all their own, pushing everyday events into a richly subjective realm. In the case of In the Stone House, Hiler documents the intimacies of the couple’s social life—visits from artist and poet friends, exploratory treks into the wilderness, a gathering for an eclipse—intercut with stretches of inky black leader that punctuate these images’ distance from the present day. “Viewers familiar with Dorsky’s films who see Hiler’s work for the first time might conclude that his greatest influence has been Dorsky’s mature cinema,” P. Adams Sitney recently observed. “Yet one might, with equal justification, claim that Hiler has been the primary influence on Dorsky.”

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In the Stone House, Jerome Hiler, 16mm, 1967-70/2012, 35 mins

“In the Stone House records and recollects a period of life of four years in rural New Jersey. In the latter 1960s, two young guys with monastic leanings leave the clatter of Manhattan’s art and film scene to catch the wave of higher consciousness that was about to change the world forever to find themselves washed ashore in a place only slightly updated from Way Down East. The monastic retreat quickly turned into the weekend getaway for a host of extravagant Manhattanites seeking films and fun.” - JH

Hours for Jerome, Part One, Nathaniel Dorsky, 16mm, 1982, 21 mins

Hours for Jerome, Part Two, Nathaniel Dorsky, 16mm, 1982, 24 mins

“Hours for Jerome is an arrangement of images, energies, and illuminations from daily life. These fragments of light revolve around the four seasons and are very much a part of the youthful energy and poignant joy of my mid-twenties. Part One is spring through summer; Part Two is fall and winter. The title of the film refers to a ‘Book of Hours’ which, in medieval European Catholicism, was a series of prayers presented eight times every 24 hours. Each ‘hour’ had its own qualities from pre-dawn till very late at night and these qualities also changed through the progressing seasons of the year. They were traditionally illustrated by luminous miniature paintings, and were often titled ‘Hours for…’. Saint Jerome was a favorite subject of these illuminations and he is often depicted at his studies accompanied by a lion. The Jerome in Hours for Jerome is a close friend and filmmaker who is seen at his work or studies often with his cats. He is first seen reading the newspaper, then putting sugar in his coffee, contemplating a book of Mozart’s letters in a ‘rain and lightening’ storm, swimming, and writing a letter in blue; and in Part Two picking an apple, editing film, standing under a tree, reading, watching television during a snowstorm, and driving a car at twilight. So the title is a somewhat humorous reference to the medieval form, as this film is also a series of illuminations from different times of day and night progressing through the seasons. There is also the pun that so much of the film has to do with various kinds of time.” - ND

Tickets -$7, available at door.

Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 7pm.

We go to the land of warm poets.

You are cordially invited to the New York City launch of the new anthology Twenty-first Century Russian Poetry

featuring readings by poets and translators

Alexander Cigale, Vladimir Druk, Dana Golin,

Andrey Gritsman, Irina Mashinski, Misha Semenov,

Alexander Stessin, Larissa Shmailo and Alexei Tsvetkov.

Twenty-first Century Russian Poetry is edited by Larissa Shmailo and published by Big Bridge Press.

$ 8 includes a drink, food menu available

Michael Eskin presents The Wisdom of Parenthood

Join us on December 11th at 7pm for a discussion with Michael Eskin, author of The Wisdom of Parenthood: An Essay. This event is sponsored by Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc.

If parenthood were a function of biology, adoptive parents, for instance, ought not to be considered parents—which is absurd. Thus, it follows that biology cannot be an essential component of parenthood. Concomitantly, if parenthood were merely a function of law, all those who have parented children without being their legal parents would be stripped of their de facto parenthood ... If, then, parenthood is neither a function of biology nor simply law—what is it? What does being a parent truly mean?

Rooted in the author’s own experience as a father of three, The Wisdom of Parenthood is an insightful, original, and provocative philosophical meditation on the meaning, experience, and practice of parenthood both as a universally human phenomenon across history and, more specifically, in the age of assisted reproduction, in vitro fertilization, gestational surrogacy, “third-party production,” international adoption, and the transformation of the very notion of the nuclear family with the rise of same-sex and LGBT parenting.

Chef David Chang and writer Peter Meehan introduce tales from their quarterly journal of food and writing, Lucky Peach. Readings and commentary by David Cross (Arrested Development), chef Mario Batali, Greta Gerwig (Frances Ha), and Gaby Hoffmann (Crystal Fairy, Sleepless in Seattle). Featuring stories by Nelly Reifler, and others. Selected Shorts is hosted by BD Wong.

Launched in 2011 by Chang, Meehan, and editor-in-chief Chris Ying, each issue of Lucky Peach explores a single topic through essays, art, photography, and recipes.

$28; Member $24; 30 and Under (with I.D.) $15

Join us for an evening of poems and poetics by writers from Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, edited by TC Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson. Featuring: Samuel Ace, Ching-in Chen, CAConrad, Joy Ladin, Dawn Lundy Martin, Tim Trace Peterson, Jordan Rice, Trish Salah, TC Tolbert, Zoe Tuck, Emerson Whitney, and surprise guests. Published in Spring 2013 by Nightboat Books, Troubling the Line is the first-ever anthology of poetry by trans and genderqueer writers.

Join author Myriam Alvarez as she presents her historical novel Flowers in the Dust. Alvarez transports readers to Paraguay, in the 1930s, when a young local woman from a strict Catholic home falls in love and marries a handsome German Jewish immigrant. Soon after that, his family is forced to escape Nazi Germany and travels to South America, where they start a new life. Reading followed by conversation with Luis Argueta, award winner film and documentary director from Guatemala.

Join Charlie Bondhus and Jim Story for an evening's visit to the highly individual worlds of poetry and fiction that they create.

Charlie will read from All the Heat We Could Carry. "A rare, brilliant and necessary book" (Carolyn Forch), it won Main Street Rag's Annual Poetry Book Award for 2013 and was also a finalist for the Gival Press Poetry Award. His How the Boy Might See It (Pecan Grove Press, 2009), was a finalist for the 2007 Blue Light Press First Book Award, and the chapbook, What We Have Learned to Love won Brickhouse Books's 2008-2009 Stonewall Award. His poetry also appears in numerous periodicals. Charlie holds an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He teaches at Raritan Valley Community College in New Jersey.

Jim will read from current fiction. A former Okie blues singer and Russian history professor, Jim is the author of the short story collection, Love and Other Terminal Diseases, and two novels, Wounded by History, which National Book Critics Circle Award Winner Ben Fountain called "swift, profound, and engaging," and, most recently, the comic adventure, Problems of Translation. Jim has published short stories, essays, reviews and poetry in Confrontation, The Same, Karamu, Folio, Pindeldyboz, Helicon, Aspen Anthology, Berkeley Poetry Review, Steelhead Review, Now, Paper Boat, Hyn Poetry Anthology, Poets, Big City Lit, Long Island University Magazine, And Then, and Home Planet News. His short story "We Shall Come Rejoicing" is just out in the fall/winter issue of The Same.

Join for a launch of An Annotated Index…, featuring a conversation between Tan Lin and Diana Kingsley, moderated by Paul Stephens.

An index to the photographs of Diana Kingsley, with references to cheeses, children, crackle glazes, capillary action of colors, corn syrup mimicry, plants, doublets, embalmed moonlight, etiquette, Violent Femmes, 8:37 pm, furniture and the afterlife, Aunt Rooney, grief and the reversal of mischief, hortensia, Japan double, love story as furniture, music of the undertaker (Photoshop), Nars Orgasm Blush, the New Brunswick Southern Railway, Ontario, perfume of doorways, photography and craquelure, rooms with honeymoons in them, stock photos, summers act inwardly, speed of wallpaper, and sex.

With Anecdotes and Emendations by M. Moore and E. Dickinson. Full color reproductions, b/w text and optical endpapers.

The book was issued in three variant colors for the cover: gold, blue-silver, and silver-pink. It retails for $20.00 and is available through the Printed Matter website here.

Published by Convolution Press. 2013.

Join us on December 12th at 7pm for a discussion with Paul Grimstad, author of Experience and Experimental Writing: Literary Pragmatism from Emerson to the Jameses. Branka Arsic and Ross Posnock will act as respondents.

American pragmatism is premised on the notion that to find out what something means, look to fruits rather than roots. But, as Paul Grimstad shows, the thought of the classical pragmatists is itself the fruit of earlier experiments in American literature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and (contemporaneously with the flowering of pragmatism) Henry James, each in their different ways prefigure at the level of literary form what emerge as the guiding ideas of classical pragmatism. Specifically, this occurs in the way an experimental approach to composition informs the classical pragmatists' central idea that experience is not a matter of correspondence but of an ongoing attunement to process. The link between experience and experiment is thus for Grimstad a way of gauging the deeper intellectual history by which literary experiments—Emerson's Essays; Poe's invention of the detective story in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue;" Melville's Pierre; and Henry James's late style—find their philosophical expression in classical pragmatism. Charles Peirce's notion of the "abductive" inference; William James's "radical empiricism;" and John Dewey's naturalist account of experience inform the book's readings.

Experience and Experimental Writing also frames its set of claims in relation to more contemporary debates within literary criticism and philosophy that have so far not been taken up in this context: putting Richard Poirier's account of the relation of pragmatism to literature into dialogue with Stanley Cavell's inheritance of Emerson as someone decidedly not a "pragmatist;" to differences between classical pragmatists like William James and John Dewey and more recent, post-linguistic turn thinkers like Richard Rorty and Robert Brandom.

Paul Grimstad is Assistant Professor of English at Yale University. He has published on literary pragmatism, the work of Emerson and Poe, and American literature. He will be joined by Branka Arsic, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and Ross Posnock, Anna Garbedian Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University.

Ilya Kaminsky’s newest work, in collaboration with Jean Valentine, is “Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva” (Alice James, 2012).

About "Dark Elderberry Branch" :

"Via what Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine call "readings"—not translations—of fragments of Marina Tsvetaeva's poems and prose, Tsvetaeva's lyrical genius is made accessible and poignant to a new generation of readers. By juxtaposing fragments of her poems with short pieces of prose, we begin to know her as poet, friend, enemy, woman, lover, and revolutionary."

Co-sponsored with the NYU Office of Global Services.

About INGENIOUS:

America is a nation of inventors—or so said Mark Twain. But these days it seems American innovation is in the hands of engineers in Silicon Valley, Detroit manufacturers, or Houston rocket scientists. So when journalist Jason Fagone heard about a contest offering $10 million to anyone who could build a safe, energy-efficient car of the future, he knew he was in for the ride of his life. INGENIOUS: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America is the story of four teams vying for that prize, and their fervor reminds us we are still living in Twain’s America, a place where ingenuity springs from the most unexpected places.

The Automotive X Prize was announced in 2007 by American entrepreneur Peter Diamandis. The contest attracted interest from more than three hundred teams around the world, including dozens of amateur inventors. Many of them threw out the rulebook on how a car should look, feel, and drive, choosing instead to start from scratch. The finished product needed to be safe, mass- producible, and able to travel 100 miles on the energy equivalent of one gallon of gas—the inventors could take it from there.

The first team Fagone heard about was a group of local Philadelphia high-schoolers who had beaten out a team from MIT in a previous competition. When he went to the school to investigate, he was amazed: This was 2010, and the country was in a recession. General Motors had gone bankrupt. America, everyone kept saying, didn’t make things anymore. Yet here, Fagone found a hive of energy, ingenuity, and hope. He was hooked.

As more than a hundred teams battled it out for the Automotive X Prize, Fagone spent the next several years focused on four teams in particular, getting to know the inventors—many of them amateurs—who were investing their sweat, tears, time, and money in America’s energy future. In INGENIOUS we meet:

Kevin and Jen, high school sweethearts and garage tinkerers. They’re sinking their life savings into cobbling together a battery-powered dream machine in an Illinois barn.

Oliver Kuttner, German immigrant, realestate developer, and big-idea man whose Virginia team is building what they call the Very Light Car. Forget reinventing the wheel —Oliver reinvents the lug nut, recalibrating every part of the machine to make it featherweight, a car so light you could push it across the floor with your thumb.

California start-up Aptera Motors, working on a pod-shaped, aerodynamic vehicle resembling the wingless bird the company is named for. They’re the early favorite, but false starts and management restructuring have left the company’s future hinging on Diamandis’s prize.

The West Philly school kids, who are building two hybrid cars: one that looks sexier than the Prius, another meant to be within the budget of families in their lower-income neighborhood.

INGENIOUS is the story of ordinary people striving for the extraordinary. It offers a fascinating window into the creative process, and it celebrates the return of an older, more democratic notion of invention, one not reserved for huge corporations with deep pockets and hundreds of engineers. These four teams risk failure, ridicule, and financial ruin in a pursuit of a dream bigger than themselves. As the Illinois team writes in chalk on their barn wall: SOMEBODY HAS TO DO SOMETHING. THAT SOMEBODY IS US!

To commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the journal called “a key barometer of the literary climate” by The New York Times, The Best of McSweeney’s, edited by Dave Eggers, is a comprehensive collection of the most remarkable work from a remarkable magazine.

Join some its notable contributors for an uproarious evening of readings and discussion in celebration of its publication.

Drawing on the full range of the journal thus far—from the very earliest volumes to our groundbreaking, Chris Ware–edited graphic novel issue to our most popular project yet, the full-on Sunday-newspaper issue known as San Francisco Panorama, The Best of McSweeney’s is an essential retrospective of recent literary history. With full-color contributions from some of the pioneering artists and illustrators featured in our pages over the years (Marcel Dzama, Art Spiegelman and many more) and a breathtaking array of first-rate fiction (and some incredible nonfiction, too), this is a book to be pored over, and lasting proof that the contemporary short story is as vital as ever.

McSweeney’s began in 1998 as a literary journal that published only works rejected by other magazines. That rule was soon abandoned, and since then McSweeney’s has attracted work from some of the finest writers in the country, including Denis Johnson, Jonathan Franzen, William T. Vollmann, Rick Moody, Joyce Carol Oates, Heidi Julavits, Jonathan Lethem, Michael Chabon, Ben Marcus, Susan Straight, Roddy Doyle, T. C. Boyle, Steven Millhauser, Gabe Hudson, Robert Coover, Ann Beattie and many others. At the same time, the journal continues to be a major home for new and unpublished writers; we’re committed to publishing exciting fiction regardless of pedigree.

Tickets from $22.

Printed Matter is pleased to announce the launch of the 8th First Rate Second Hand calendar by Sophy Naess and Carmelle Safdie. Join us and the artists for a reception on Friday, December 13th, from 6-8 PM.

Since 2006 Naess and Safdie have mined secondhand stores for props and outfits for their full fantasy montages, which they distribute annually in wall-calendar format. The artists perform peculiar seasonal sitcoms in the material theaters of the Thriftstore and then Photoshop themselves into backgrounds found through Google image search to produce 12 humorous and topical collages for organizing the days of our lives. Their 2014 calendar explores recurring themes of domestic surveillance, waste management, mainstream and underground entertainment, animal life, and more.

First Rate Second Hand 2014 is a full color, heavy stock, spiral bound wall calendar.

Artist Jessie Stead has created a TV commercial for this year’s calendar.

Sophy Naess and Carmelle Safdie met at Cooper Union in 2000. They have exhibited together at Soloway Gallery and The Fruit And Vegetable Stand, New York, NY; Franklin Street Works, Stamfort, CT; New Capital Projects, Chicago, IL; The Green Gallery East, Milwaukee, WI and The Fresh Up Club in Austin, TX. Naess and Safdie have performed in various musical constellations and staged the experimental video course The Artist At Work at Recess Activities, in collaboration with the Bruce High Quality Foundation University. In 2013 Naess and Safdie held artist residencies at The Shandaken Project, Shandaken, NY.

Moonlighter Presents is an occasional lecture series that features speakers who something but are not experts or professionals on their subjects. The event is three short twenty-minute talks on subjects as diverse as airport carpets and literary hay fever.

On Friday, Dec 13th at 8pm, Cathouse FUNeral in Williamsburg will host the 12th installment of Moonlighter Presents, a nomadic lecture series organized by Stephanie DeGooyer and Justin Martin. Three speakers will lecture briefly on topics that extend beyond their “official” qualifications: artist Tyler Colburn will lecture on autonomous city states known as "charter cities"; architect Leslie Gills will give a history of typology and fonts; and painter Evan Daniel Smith will discuss the aesthetics of Pi and his effort to memorize a series of meaningless random numbers. Dan Fox of Frieze will DJ.

After a two-year intercontinental tour, with stops in Basel, New York, St. Louis, and Chicago, the e-flux book co-op inventory of more than 600 titles is being liquidated.

The e-flux book co-op is a mobile bookstore selling publications on behalf of co-operative member organizations, including:

98weeks : Architectural Association / Bedford Press : Arsenal Gallery : Artspace : AS220 : BAK, basis voor actuele kunst : Ballroom Marfa : BAS : Bergen Kunsthall : Berliner Künstlerprogramm / DAAD : Bielefelder Kunstverein : Brumaria : CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo : CASCO—Office for Art, Design and Theory : Casino Luxembourg—Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg : CDA-Projects : Contemporary Image Collective (CIC) : Cultural Center of Belgrade : DeLVe, Institute for Duration, Location and Variables : Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane : EACC—Espai d’Art contempoarani de Castello : Eastside Projects : Fillip / Motto : Fondazione March : Fondazione Nicola Trussardi : Foreman Art Gallery of Bishopʼs University : Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic : Gallery Nova / WHW : Grazer Kunstverein : IASPIS : ICA Sofia : Ikon Gallery : Independent Curators International (ICI) : Index, The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation : Kadist / Kadist Paris : Kim? : Kölnischer Kunstverein : Kumu Art Museum : Kunsthalle Basel : Kunsthalle Bern : Kunsthaus Bregenz : Kunsthaus Graz : Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein : Kunstnernes Hus : Kunstverein Hamburg : LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries : Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers : M HKA : MACBA : MAMbo-Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna : Master in Visual Arts, Faculdade Santa Marcelina : Maumaus, Escola de Artes Visuais : Milton Keynes Gallery : Moderna Galerija Ljubljana : MUMA, Monash University Museum of Art : Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia : Museum of Contemporary Art Serralves : NKV, Nassauischer Kunstverein : MNAC, National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest : NBK, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein : Nottingham Contemporary : OMMU : Pavilion : Pavilion Unicredit : Pori Art Museum : Portikus / Städelschule : Postgraduate Program in Curating, Zürich University of the Arts / Whitespace : Press to exit project space : Project Arts Centre : Publication Studio : Rakett : READ Books, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art and Design : REDCAT : Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten : SALT : Salzburger Kunstverein : Sarai-CSDS : Serpentine Gallery : Shedhalle : split/fountain : Sternberg Press : Stroom den Haag : The Books : The New Gallery : The Power Plant : The Renaissance Society : Traffic : Van Abbemuseum : Vitamin Creative Space : Walker Arts Center : White Flag Projects : Wysing Arts Center : Zachęta National Gallery of Art and others.

First presented in the summer of 2011 at Art Basel, the book co-op was brought to the New York Art Book Fair in the fall of 2011, where it was housed in a refurbished Airstream trailer located in MoMA PS1‘s courtyard. It remained at MoMA PS1 following the fair’s close until May 2012. The next stop on the tour was White Flag Projects, St. Louis in the fall of 2012, followed by threewalls, Chicago in collaboration with Open Practice Committee & Logan Center Exhibitions, University of Chicago, in spring and summer of 2013.

e-flux would like to extend sincere thanks and gratitude to all co-operative members as well as everyone who has participated and contributed to making the book co-op such a great success.

Very special thanks to Laura Barlow, Lauren Basing, Klaus Biesenbach, Zachary Bowman, Zachary Cahill, Fontaine Capel, Kathy Cho, Sarah Colbert, Becky Daniels, David Giordano, Melissa Golance, Eliza Heitzman, Gita Jackson, Peter Katz, Sam Korman, Amy-Clare McCarthy, Eugene Pflieger, Joe Pflieger, Amanda Ryan, Etta Sandry, Brook Sinkinson-Withrow, Matthew Strauss, Abigail Satinsky, Shannon Stratton, Michael Schuh, Monika Szewczyk, and Mila Zacharias.

Need holiday gifts? Please join us for mulled cider and a final blowout book sale!

After a two-year intercontinental tour, with stops in Basel, New York, St. Louis, and Chicago, the e-flux book co-op inventory of more than 600 titles is being liquidated.

The e-flux book co-op is a mobile bookstore selling publications on behalf of co-operative member organizations, including:

98weeks : Architectural Association / Bedford Press : Arsenal Gallery : Artspace : AS220 : BAK, basis voor actuele kunst : Ballroom Marfa : BAS : Bergen Kunsthall : Berliner Künstlerprogramm / DAAD : Bielefelder Kunstverein : Brumaria : CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo : CASCO—Office for Art, Design and Theory : Casino Luxembourg—Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg : CDA-Projects : Contemporary Image Collective (CIC) : Cultural Center of Belgrade : DeLVe, Institute for Duration, Location and Variables : Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane : EACC—Espai d’Art contempoarani de Castello : Eastside Projects : Fillip / Motto : Fondazione March : Fondazione Nicola Trussardi : Foreman Art Gallery of Bishopʼs University : Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic : Gallery Nova / WHW : Grazer Kunstverein : IASPIS : ICA Sofia : Ikon Gallery : Independent Curators International (ICI) : Index, The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation : Kadist / Kadist Paris : Kim? : Kölnischer Kunstverein : Kumu Art Museum : Kunsthalle Basel : Kunsthalle Bern : Kunsthaus Bregenz : Kunsthaus Graz : Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein : Kunstnernes Hus : Kunstverein Hamburg : LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries : Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers : M HKA : MACBA : MAMbo-Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna : Master in Visual Arts, Faculdade Santa Marcelina : Maumaus, Escola de Artes Visuais : Milton Keynes Gallery : Moderna Galerija Ljubljana : MUMA, Monash University Museum of Art : Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia : Museum of Contemporary Art Serralves : NKV, Nassauischer Kunstverein : MNAC, National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest : NBK, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein : Nottingham Contemporary : OMMU : Pavilion : Pavilion Unicredit : Pori Art Museum : Portikus / Städelschule : Postgraduate Program in Curating, Zürich University of the Arts / Whitespace : Press to exit project space : Project Arts Centre : Publication Studio : Rakett : READ Books, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art and Design : REDCAT : Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten : SALT : Salzburger Kunstverein : Sarai-CSDS : Serpentine Gallery : Shedhalle : split/fountain : Sternberg Press : Stroom den Haag : The Books : The New Gallery : The Power Plant : The Renaissance Society : Traffic : Van Abbemuseum : Vitamin Creative Space : Walker Arts Center : White Flag Projects : Wysing Arts Center : Zachęta National Gallery of Art and others.

First presented in the summer of 2011 at Art Basel, the book co-op was brought to the New York Art Book Fair in the fall of 2011, where it was housed in a refurbished Airstream trailer located in MoMA PS1‘s courtyard. It remained at MoMA PS1 following the fair’s close until May 2012. The next stop on the tour was White Flag Projects, St. Louis in the fall of 2012, followed by threewalls, Chicago in collaboration with Open Practice Committee & Logan Center Exhibitions, University of Chicago, in spring and summer of 2013.

e-flux would like to extend sincere thanks and gratitude to all co-operative members as well as everyone who has participated and contributed to making the book co-op such a great success.

Very special thanks to Laura Barlow, Lauren Basing, Klaus Biesenbach, Zachary Bowman, Zachary Cahill, Fontaine Capel, Kathy Cho, Sarah Colbert, Becky Daniels, David Giordano, Melissa Golance, Eliza Heitzman, Gita Jackson, Peter Katz, Sam Korman, Amy-Clare McCarthy, Eugene Pflieger, Joe Pflieger, Amanda Ryan, Etta Sandry, Brook Sinkinson-Withrow, Matthew Strauss, Abigail Satinsky, Shannon Stratton, Michael Schuh, Monika Szewczyk, and Mila Zacharias.

Join Aperture for a Holiday Book Bazaar with publishers Artbook/D.A.P., bookdummypress, Conveyor Arts, Empty Stretch, MACK, Magnum Foundation, Oranbeg Press, Pau Wau Publications, Spaces Corners, and more to be announced! Enjoy winter festivities throughout the afternoon, a special guest DJ, and treats donated by Brooklyn baking company The Good Batch.

Plus, stop by the opening for the 2013 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards Short List Exhibition.

MEMBERS-ONLY PREVIEW: 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Enjoy brunch courtesy of Bottino, discounts on books (some restrictions apply) and early access to the Bazaar.

$10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House and members of the Academy of American Poets

with Ana Bozicevic, Nicole Cooley, Jan Freeman, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Kimiko Hahn, Patricia Spears Jones, Rowena Kennedy-Epstein, Christoph Keller, Joan Larkin, Jan Heller Levi, Anne Marie Macari, Donna Masini, Jena Osman, Alicia Ostriker, William L. Rukeyser, Gerald Stern & Brian Teare

Recipient of the 1935 Yale Younger Poets Prize for Theory of Flight, Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) exploded notions of what poetry could do, pushing poetics into the realm of the political. Mentor to Alice Walker, Anne Sexton, and many others, she helped to usher in a new era for women writers through her own passionate example. Rukeyser published twenty collections of poetry, including U.S. 1 and Breaking Open, and is also celebrated for her great prose work The Life of Poetry.

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 few surprise performers or linger through the afternoon for the whole, spirited tale. All books are 10 percent 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 wine and enjoy!

Festivities will kick off at noon with Christmas caroling from members of the New York City Master Chorale. The reading of A Christmas Carol will begin at 1 PM inside the bookstore.

Readers TBA.

Cultural critic, Als, discusses "White Girls", a brilliant analysis of literature, art, and music with fearless insights on race, gender, and history. The result is an extraordinary, complex portrait of “white girls,” as Als dubs them—an expansive but precise category that encompasses figures as diverse as Truman Capote and Louise Brooks, Malcolm X, and Flannery O’Connor. Children under the age of 6 will not be admitted.

This series is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

With Svetlana Boym, David Graeber, and Tom McDonough

Since Dia’s inception in 1974, the issue of monumentality has been a recurring object of examination, emerging in several landmark artist commissions. Dia’s sponsorship of outdoor works by James Turrell, Walter De Maria, Michael Heizer, and Joseph Beuys, as well as architectural interventions by Dan Flavin and Robert Irwin, demonstrates a sustained interest in promoting approaches to the monumental as a critical or truncated principle at work in public spaces. Moreover, critical revisions of the notion of monument are a recurrent motif in various Dia commissions and exhibitions, including Thomas Hirschhorn’s Gramsci Monument (July - September 2013) and the upcoming retrospective Carl Andre: Sculpture as Place, 1958-2010 (to open May 2014).

In 2013-14, the cycle of Discussions in Contemporary Culture will bring together artists, architects, scholars, and writers to address today’s monuments and counter-monuments as effigies of the multifarious forces at work in global society, and to examine the current possibilities—even the need—for a redefinition of this important concept.

Celebration at Revolution Books for the release of Hanging Loose #102. hl102Hanging Loose is a poetry and arts magazine which has been publishing since 1966. Hanging Loose Press has published the first full collections by Sherman Alexie, Jack Agüeros, Cathy Park Hong, Maggie Nelson, Indran Amirthanayagam, among others.

Martin Espada has been called "the Latino poet of his generation." He's published more than 15 books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator. The Trouble Ball received the Milt Kessler Award. The Republic of Poetry was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Imagine the Angels of Bread won an American Book Award. His book of essays, Zapata's Disciple, has recently been banned as part of the Mexican-American Studies Program outlawed by the state of Arizona.

Robert Hershon has written 13 books, most recently Goldfish and Rose (2013). He worked as the executive director of the Print Center and is a co-editor of Hanging Loose Press and Hanging Loose magazine.

Rich Villar directs Acentos, an organization fostering audiences and community around Latino/a literature. His debut collection, Comprehending Forever, is forthcoming in February 2014.

Book signing. Light refreshments. Donation requested to support Revolution Books.

Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly is the co-director of the Program in Written Arts at Bard College. His first book of poems was published in 1961 and his most recent books in prose are the novel The Book from the Sky (North Atlantic/Random) and his fifth collection of shorter fiction, The Logic of the World (McPherson & Co.). He has also written substantial texts responding to work by Brigitte Mahlknecht, Philip Taaffe, Nora Jaffe, Matt Phillips, Heide Hatry, Sherry Williams, Barbara Leon, Nathlie Provosty, Susan Quasha and others. Kelly lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife, the translator Charlotte Mandell.

Section 53

But if you burn a log a wolf has pissed on

in deep winter but it’s summer now

some strange night cold sugars of his appetites

will dance in smoke above the franklin stove

filling the parlor with outrageous schemes

lust and bite and midnight chase

close that old book

old wolf is trotting still

no need for memory

forget the meat you bit or bite

don’t let melody resolve

so quick inside the harmony your head

the malady of intercourse

there are sentence patterns here

you have to learn from listening

the opal sky gives way to grey and then to pearl

a little rain a little wind and thou

asleep beside me be wilderness enow

I wolf my way through the light

guided by cloud contours

brisk northwind shoves the sky out to sea

secateurs and flowers

only voices here no people

bodies come later

after the linguistic conventions are established

it’s time for meat

and Entities come down to the surface of earth

to take up residence in the pronouns

to inhabit the language they had to make

flesho-mechanical bodies to manifest and control

the organs of articulation needed to speak

then ears to hear then hands to cover them

when the information grows too thick

and the Entity yearned for opalescent repose

east of the sea

where the strayed voluptuary tries to think of something else

only the images count

ignore the propositions

they’re just armatures

to wind our bright things on

that teach us how to be and touch and to mean,

only the images

the story’s for the sake

only of the instruments deployed

the scythe and the haystack, lipstick in the canoe.

I saw you part your lips last night

standing beside the bed I got in first

for a change you were putting lip balm on

standing there in your blue peignoir

and this is heaven I understood,

Eden was an accidental suburb of this moment

a cluttered Levittown of heaven,

heaven that is here now, thingly and will-free,

apocalypse of This.

Anna Moschovakis

Anna Moschovakis is a poet, translator, and editor. Her most recent books are You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake (Coffee House Press, 2011), and The Jokers (New York Review of Books, 2010), a translation of La violence et la Dérision by Egyptian-French novelist Albert Cossery. She is also the author of a previous book of poems, I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone (Turtle Point Press, 2006), and translator of novels by Annie Ernaux and Georges Simenon. She teaches at Pratt Institute and in the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. Moschovakis is also a longtime member of Brooklyn-based publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse. She lives in South Kortright, New York.

from Death as a Way of Life

It began:

1. Life is not fair

2. How can I be happy while others suffer

3. How can I not be happy while others suffer

4. Others will suffer whether or not I am happy

5. It is not the suffering of others that causes my happiness

6. It is not the not-suffering of others that causes my unhappiness

8.

I have been attracted to the idea that naming is a form of violence

but does that mean we should go around calling everyone Hey You

which seems like another sort of violence

even though it is a way of recognizing the other

as other

What can be said on this point?

$6 general admission; $3 Dia members, students, and seniors

oin us on December 16th at 7pm for a poetry night presented by The Urban Range poetry collective to celebrate the launch of Stephen Massimilla's The Plague Doctor in His Hull-Shaped Hat, which was selected in the Stephen F. Austin University Press Prize Competition. Massimilla will be joined by David Groff, Suzanne Parker, Ruth Danon, Melissa Hotchkiss, and Hermine Meinhard. A discussion addressing the value of the expanse and multiplicity of poetry today will follow.

Stephen Massimilla will be joined by fellow members of The Urban Range poetry collective, who will also read from their recent work: David Groff reading from Clay, Suzanne Parker reading from Viral, Ruth Danon, author of Triangulation from a Known Point, Melissa Hotchkiss, author of Storm Damage, and Hermine Meinhard, author of Bright Turquoise Umbrella.

The event will feature a Q and A and discussion addressing the expanse and multiplicity of poetry today, followed by a reception with refreshments.

Colum McCann’s new novel is Transatlantic. “This novel is beautifully hypnotic in its movements, from the grand (between two continents, across three centuries) to the most subtle,” wrote Emma Donaghue. Norman Rush’s new novel is Subtle Bodies. He thrills “literary readers with his extraordinary prose, which could only be American, and which, like Bellow’s language, combines high and low registers in greatly unstable compounds,” wrote James Wood.

Tickets from $27.

Nikki Giovanni's first poetry collection since 2010 is entitled Chasing Utopia, but make no mistake This is no meek gathering of pining regret. Instead, this beloved author has gifted us with verse reflections on family, shared joys, and the memories that keep us alive. A typically unpretentious treasure.

Broken Souths: Latina/o Poetic Responses to Neoliberalism and Globalization offers the first in-depth study of the diverse field of Latina/o poetry. Its innovative angle of approach puts Latina/o and Latin American poets into sustained conversation in original and rewarding ways. In addition, Dowdy presents ecocritical readings that foreground the environmental dimensions of current Latina/o poetics. It features discussions of writers such as Victor Hernandez Cruz, Martin Espada, Juan Felipe Herrera, Guillermo Verdecchia, Marcos McPeek Villatoro, Maurice Kelwein Guevara, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Jack Agueros, Marjorie Agosin, Valerie Martinez, and Ariel Dorfman, alongside discussions of influential Latin American writers, including Roberto Bolano, Ernesto Cardenal, David Huerta, Jose Emilio Pacheco, and Raul Zurita.

For those who want to listen to and engage with an author who has the whole world's tectonic movements in mind when discussing how radical and progressive poets see this, it is surely going to be an enlightening evening.

"Broken Souths succinctly stated is a magnificent piece of writing in terms of originality, sophistication, and scope" —Francisco A. Lomeli

Michael Dowdy is assistant professor of English at Hunter College. He is also author of American Political Poetry into the 21st Century and a chapbook of poems, The Coriolis Effect.

Photographer Baldomero Fernandez discusses the legacy of the Lower East Side deli with Katz’s fifth-generation owner Jake Dell.

About KATZ’S:

A great visual record of how a restaurant runs. This first-ever book about Katz’s Delicatessen indelibly captures the unique spirit and appeal of the Lower East Side classic. Timed to coincide with Katz’s 125th anniversary, this special edition brings a bit of Katz’s right into your own home.

A New York City institution since 1888, Katz’s Deli on the corner of Ludlow and East Houston Streets is the oldest and most beloved delicatessen in America. Famous for its mouth-watering pastrami and mouth-puckering pickles—as well as its traditional Friday evening hot dogs—Katz’s has been serving Jewish comfort food to literally generations of hungry customers, from locals dropping in for their “usual” and tourists from around the world, to a veritable who’s-who of celebrities and politicians, their visits immortalized in hundreds of photographs along the walls.

The 384 pages of this elegant and hefty tome contain hundreds of striking photographs by Baldomero Fernandez: the people on both sides of the counter; the storied cutting stations; the distinctive signage; the remarkably small kitchen; and more. Part-owner Jake Dell reveals the deli’s rich and compelling 125-year history, as well as the characteristics of the traditional Jewish foods that are at the core of Katz’s culinary offerings—the difference between pastrami and corned beef, the deli’s pickling process, and more—while Travel Channel star Adam Richman provides a very personal and evocative foreword.

No need to be a New Yorker. This book will prove equally irresistible to the regulars (whose grandfather took them at age 5 for their first taste of Katz’s pastrami), and to the uninitiated who have yet to walk on the famous sawdust- covered terrazzo floor, ticket in hand.

Fiction Addiction Reading Series. At 2A in the east village. FREE event.

This month's event: Tuesday, December 17. 8 pm. Upstairs.

Lynne Tillman (Someday This Will Be Funny, This Is Not It, etc)

David Gilbert (& Sons, The Normals, etc)

Laura van den Berg (The Isle of Youth, etc)

A. Igoni Barrett (Love is Power, Or Something Like That, etc)

The event goes from 8-10 pm. $4 whiskeys are available to those who come for the reading.

Extra details:

Event takes place at 2A, 25 Avenue A at Second Street and Avenue A. Nearest subways include the F at 2nd Avenue, the 6 at Bleecker, the BD at Grand or the JMZ at Essex.

phone: (212) 505-2466

website: fictionaddiction.org

Past readers now include: Edmund White, Patrick McGrath, Karen Russell, Jim Shepard, Tea Obreht, Jonathan Dee, Joshua Cohen, Dani Shapiro, David Goodwillie, Darin Strauss, Myla Goldberg, Teju Cole, Vaddey Ratner, Helen Oyeyemi, John Wray, Leigh Newman, Jessica Francis Kane, Roxana Robinson, Alex Shakar, Tayari Jones, Amelia Gray, Joshua Henkin, Ben Greenman, Teddy Wayne, Aryn Kyle, Dale Peck, Ben Greenman, Hari Kunzru, Stefan Merrill Block, Said Sayrafiezadeh, Meg Wolitzer, Paul La Farge, Joshua Furst, Jennifer Gilmore, Terese Svoboda, Diana Spechler, Christopher Bollen, Fiona Maazel, Amy Waldman, Elissa Schappell, Alison Espach, Maggie Shipstead, James Hannaham, Amy Brill, Matt Dojny, Robert Lopez, Justin Taylor, Victoria Brown, Benjamin Hale, Seth Fried, Alethea Black, Nick Ripatrazone, Kiese Laymon, Susan Tepper, Tom Hopkins.

Arielle Eckstut and Joann Eckstut take the audience on a journey through time and space, visiting color past and present, and revealing along the way myriad surprising facets of color in both the natural and man-made worlds. Come learn how color colors nearly every aspect of our universe.

Why is the sky blue, the grass green, the rose red? Most of us have no idea, nor are we aware that color pervades all aspects of life, from the subatomic realm and the natural world to human culture and psychology. In this beautiful and thorough investigation, The Secret Language of Color explores everything from why and how we see color to the nature of rainbows; from why red is universally the first color named after black and white to why grass really does appear greener on the other side of the fence; from why purple is associated with royalty to how Starbucks got in trouble for using bugs to color its strawberry frappuccinos. This new book is organized by alternating chapters that cover broad topics (such as the Physics and Chemistry of Color) and those that cover each hue in the visible spectrum (Red, Orange, Yellow, etc), presenting them in singular and in-depth detail.

Arielle Eckstut is the author of 9 books including The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published. She is co-founder of The Book Doctors with her husband David Henry Sterry, a company dedicated to helping writers successfully publish their books. She is also co-founder of the iconic, colorful company, LittleMissMatched, which now has stores all over the United States including Disneyland to Fifth Avenue in New York City. She is also on the children's committee of the Color Association of the United States. She lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

Joann Eckstut is a leading color consultant and interior designer who works with a wide range of professionals including architects, developers, and manufacturers of name-brand products. She is founder of The Roomworks, a prominent New York City interior design firm and is one of twelve designers chosen by the Color Association of the United States to create the yearly interior/environmental forecast that is bought by major industries to keep up with color trends. She lives in Rensselaerville, New York.

This event is organized in collaboration with Arezoo Moseni.

Copies of The Secret Language of Color: Science, Nature, History, Culture, Beauty and Joy of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Violet (Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2013) are available for purchase and signing at the event after the audience Q&A.

With full access to Stanwyck’s family, friends, colleagues, and never-before-seen letters, journals and photographs, Victoria Wilson portrays Barbara Stanwyck’s rich, complex life and explores the great screen actress’s extraordinary range of work.

Please note: This event has been rescheduled from its original date. The new date for this program is Wed, Dec 18.



Brief Bios

Victoria Wilson is a vice president and senior editor at 
Alfred Knopf. She was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the US Commission on Civil Rights and has served on the boards of PEN American Center, the National Board Review 
of Motion Pictures, the Writing Program of the New School 
of Social Research, and Poets & Writers. She is the author 
of A Life of Barbara Stanwyck.

Rachel Syme is the former Books Editor of NPR and a current contributor to NPR, The New York Times and the New Yorker. She is currently at work on a book for Random House about F. Scott Fitzgerald's years in Hollywood and his love affair with the gossip columnist Sheilah Graham.

Tickets from $29.

Laura Hemphill’s debut novel follows the story of Sophia Landgraf, a young woman making her way in the male-dominated world of Wall Street, just on the eve of the financial crisis. Sophie knows that life in the fast-paced world of business won’t be easy. When she finds herself at the center of a high-stakes merger she must decide who she can trust, and how far she is can go without losing herself. Drawing on Hemphill’s own experience working in the world of banking, Buying In is a clear-eyed, emotionally incisive look at a young woman making her way in the world of high finance. Joining Laura Hemphill in conversation in our rare book room will be Teddy Wayne, author of highly-acclaimed novels The Love Song of Johnny Valentine and Kapitoil!

Buy a copy of Buying In or a $15 Strand gift card in order to attend this event. All options admit one person. Please note that payment is required for all online event orders at the timeof checkout. The event will be located in the Strand's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at our store at 828 Broadway at 12th Street.

The famous jazz critic Stanley Crouch, author of the new biography Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker will talk with novelist Tom Piazza, who may be best known to Center for Fiction audiences as author of the novel City Of Refuge, which won the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction, and as a writer for the HBO series Treme. Piazza is also a Grammy Award-winning music journalist who has written widely on jazz, blues, and country music for the New York Times, the Oxford American, and many other publications.

About Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker

The groundbreaking Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first in a projected two-volume life of Charlie Parker by one of our foremost writers on jazz and the cultural experience in America, Stanley Crouch. The product of decades of research, including exclusive interviews with peers, collaborators, and family members, KANSAS CITY LIGHTNING reaches back past the legend to reveal Charlie Parker as he emerged from the landscapes—literal and artistic—that he inhabited. It follows Parker from the “freak shows” and “spook breakfasts” of late-night Kansas City, to the segregated union halls of Chicago, and finally to the Harlem ballrooms of New York City. With the musical wisdom of a lifetime jazz scholar, the cultural insights of an indispensable social critic, and the narrative skill of a writer at the height of his powers, Crouch brings Parker back to rich, vivid life—and delivers a book that goes beyond mere biography to become a major cultural event, as rich and evocative as a great novel.



A winner of the MacArthur “Genius” Award, Stanley Crouch has been writing about jazz music and the African American experience for more than forty years. He has twice been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle award, for his essay collections Notes of a Hanging Judge (1990) and The All-American Skin Game (1995). His other books include Always in Pursuit (1998), The Artificial White Man (2004), and the novel Don’t the Moon Look Lonesome (2000). He has served, off and on, since 1987 as artistic consultant for jazz programming at Lincoln Center and is a founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He is also executive vice president of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation. He has appeared in the Ken Burns documentary Jazz and has appeared as a guest on many radio and television shows. he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a regular columnist for the New York Daily News.



Tom Piazza is the author of eleven books of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels City Of Refuge, which won the Willie Morris Award, and My Cold War, the post-Katrina manifesto Why New Orleans Matters, and the essay collection Devil Sent The Rain: Music and Writing in Desperate America. He was a principal writer for the HBO drama series TREME, and he is currently at work on a new novel. A well-known writer on American music as well, he won a Grammy Award for his album notes to Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey, and he is a three-time winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Music Writing. He lives in New Orleans.-

With full access to Stanwyck’s family, friends, colleagues, and never-before-seen letters, journals and photographs, Victoria Wilson portrays Barbara Stanwyck’s rich, complex life and explores the great screen actress’s extraordinary range of work.

Brief Bios

Victoria Wilson is a vice president and senior editor at 
Alfred Knopf. She was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the US Commission on Civil Rights and has served on the boards of PEN American Center, the National Board Review 
of Motion Pictures, the Writing Program of the New School 
of Social Research, and Poets & Writers. She is the author 
of A Life of Barbara Stanwyck.

Rachel Syme is the former Books Editor of NPR and a current contributor to NPR, The New York Times and the New Yorker. She is currently at work on a book for Random House about F. Scott Fitzgerald's years in Hollywood and his love affair with the gossip columnist Sheilah Graham.

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Laurie Duggan was born in in Melbourne, Australia in 1949 and was involved in the poetry worlds of that city and Sydney through the 1970s and 80s. In 2006 he moved England where he lives in a market town in East Kent. He has published some twenty books of poems together with Ghost Nation, a work about imagined space. His history poem The Ash Range was republished in the UK by Shearsman and more recently Pressed Wafer republished The Epigrams of Martial. His most recent volumes are Crab & Winkle, Exeter, Shearsman, 2009; Allotments [1-29], Wendell, Massachusetts, Fewer & Further, 2011; The Pursuit of Happiness, Bristol, Shearsman, 2012; Leaving Here, Brisbane, Light-Trap Press, 2012; and The Collected Blue Hills, Sydney, Puncher & Wattman, 2012.

Jennifer Firestone is the author of Flashes (Shearsman Books) Holiday (Shearsman Books), Waves (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), from Flashes and snapshot (Sona Books) and Fanimaly (Dusie Kollektiv). She is the co-editor of Letters To Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics and Community (Saturnalia Books), and an Assistant Professor of Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College (The New School).

This event will be held in the Trustees' Room.

This epic literary achievement broadly focuses on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both men. As Napoleon’s army invades, Tolstoy follows peasants and nobility, civilians and soldiers, as they struggle with the problems unique to their era.

Discussions will be led by Inessa Medzhibovskaya, the author of "Tolstoy and the Religious Culture of His Time: A Biography of a Long Conversion, 1845-1887". She is working on the completion of two new monographs: "Tolstoy and the Fates of the Twentieth Century" and a philosophical-literary study titled "Writing and Confinement".

This series is made possible through Brooklyn Public Library’s Fund for the Humanities, established through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Additional funding was provided by The Hearst Foundation, Inc.; the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; The Starr Foundation; the Leon and Muriel Gilbert Charitable Trust; the Henry and Lucy Moses Fund, Inc., and a gift in memory of Samuel and Pauline Wine.

As Walter Benjamin once said, there is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism. Join Nicholas Birns as he reads from his new book Barbarian Memory, which explores how some of the monuments of European high culture—the works of Chaucer and Shakespeare; Renaissance epic and classical French drama—were influenced by memory of the warring trends and uncouth names of the early Middle Ages. We will explore what is 'the past of the past', and how it might figure into our future.

Lucy Ives is the author of two books of poetry, Orange Roses (Ahsahta, 2013) and Anamnesis (Slope, 2009), and a brief novel, Nineties (Tea Party Republicans, 2013). A deputy editor at Triple Canopy, she lives in New York.

Masha Tupitsyn is a writer, cultural critic, and multi-media artist. She is the author of Love Dog (Penny-Ante Editions, 2013), LACONIA: 1,200 Tweets on Film (ZerO Books, 2011), Beauty Talk & Monsters, a collection of film-based stories (Semiotext(e) Press, 2007), and co-editor of the anthology Life As We Show It: Writing on Film (City Lights, 2009). Her fiction and criticism has appeared or is forthcoming in the anthologies The Force of What’s Possible: Avant-garde Writing in the 21st Century (Nightboat Books, 2014), Women in Clothes (Penguin, 2014), The American Tetralogy (Blackjack Editions, 2013), Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology (2012), The Encyclopedia Project Volume 2 (F-K) (2010) and Volume and 3 (L-Z) (2014), and Wreckage of Reason: XXperimental Women Writers Writing in the 21st Century (2008), with additional works published by The White Review, The New Inquiry, Fence, Bookforum, The Rumpus, Boing Boing, Indiewire’s Press Play, Animal Shelter, and Ryberg Curated Video.

Marie Buck is the author of Life & Style (Patrick Lovelace Editions, 2009) and a chapbook, Amazing Weapons (Scary Topiary, 2011). She lives in Detroit where she teaches and dissertates. Recent work can be found in West Wind Review, OMG!, Rethinking Marxism, and online at Two Serious Ladies.

Arlo Quint is the author of Death to Explosions (Skysill, 2013), Drawn In (Fewer & Further, 2010) and Photographic Memory (Lame House, 2007) and, with Charles Wolski, Check Out My Lifestyle (Well Greased, 2012). He is an editor of Brawling Pigeon and the program coordinaor for The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church.

There are three things to consider when the New Year’s Day Poetry Marathon sweeps you into its gracefully uncouth embrace — what it is, what it was, and who you will be when it’s over. An untamed gathering of the heart’s secret, wild nobility — over 140 poets together revealing not just that a better life could exist, but that it already does, sexy and wise, rancorous and sweet, big hearted and mad as hell. The Marathon measures its success through insurrectionist reframings of the universe, an in-it-together courage that crafts a community out of the riot of lineages and traditions we all emerge from. This collective effort also helps fund as many as 85 additional events every year. It’s our largest fundraiser of the year, and arguably the most inspired ongoing literary event in the city.

This is the 40th anniversary of the New Year’s Day Poetry Marathon! We have a lot of bonuses in the works to commemorate the occasion: Sean Cole, independent producer for public radio, will emcee the 7-10pm hours of the event; there will be a raffle for desirable items from The Poetry Project’s collection; PLUS we’ll reveal a series of 3 special edition Project tote bags made by 3 different design students at Parsons. They did great work for this!

By popular demand, we are selling tickets in advance via Brown Paper Ticket! Stand in the cold no longer (or may be just not as long), show your support of the event, and pre-purchase your ticket to the best place to be in NYC on New Year’s Day!



The 40th anniversary of the Marathon will feature:

Philip Glass, Anne Waldman, John Giorno, Steve Earle, Guy Picciotto, Eileen Myles, Anselm Berrigan, CA Conrad, Bob Holman, Yvonne Rainer, Filip Marinovich, Emily Skillings, Krystal Languell, Fast Speaking Music Band, Felix Bernstein, Tracie Morris, Andrew Durbin, Todd Colby, Tom Savage, Cole Heinowitz, Alex Dimitrov, Amanda Davidson, Andrew Boston, Ariel Goldberg, Basil King, Matt Longabucco, Becca Klaver, Beth Gill, Betsy Fagin, Bill Kushner, Bob Hershon, Nathaniel Otting, Bob Rosenthal, Brenda Coultas, Sarah Schulman, Sophia Le Fraga, Brendan Lorber, Brett Price, Camille Rankine, Carley Moore, Carol Mirakove, Carolee Schneemann, Cecilia Corrigan, Christina Strong, Christine Elmo, Erica Kaufman, Evie Shockley, Christine Kanownik, Kim Lyons, Laura Henriksen, Lee Ann Brown, Christine Shan Shan Hou, Claudia La Rocco, Corina Copp, Dell Lemmon, Dynasty Handbag, Ed Friedman, Elinor Nauen, Elliott Sharp, Frank Sherlock, Jason Hwang, Jason Nazary, Jen Benka, Jennifer Bartlett, Jennifer Miller, Douglas Rothschild, Jennifer Monson & Chris Cochrane, Jim Behrle, Joanna Kotze, John Coletti, Lenny Kaye, Leopoldine Core, Lewis Warsh, Lonely Christopher, Lucy Ives w/ Ben Gocker, Lynne Tillman, Maggie Dubris, Marcella Durand, Marissa Perel, Martha King, John Godfrey, Jonas Mekas, Marty Ehrlich, Edgar Oliver, Edwin Torres, Mel Elberg, Michael Portnoy, Michelle Boulé, Mitch Highfill, Montana Ray, Nada Gordon, Nathaniel Siegel, Nick Hallett, Nicole Peyrafitte, Patricia Spears Jones, Peter Bogart Johnson, Phyllis Wat, Pierre Joris, Rachel Trachtenburg, Rangi McNeil, Rebecca Moore, Stephanie Gray, Stephen Boyer, Steven Taylor, Ted Dodson, Tommy Pico, Tony Towle, Tracey McTague, Vyt Bakaitis, Yoshiko Chuma, Don Yorty, Douglas Dunn, Yvonne Meier, Johanna Fuhrman, Nurit Tilles, Anne Tardos, and more TBA

Admission: $20 general

Please join Victoria Patterson and Veronica Gonzalez Pena for a reading & signing of their new novels, The Peerless Four and The Sad Passions.

The Peerless Four: "A gripping sports novel you will not forget! " – Fresh Fiction

The Sad Passions: "The Sad Passions paints haunting tale of loss and art." – The Los Angeles Times

Veronica Gonzalez Pena is the winner of the Aztlan Prize for Latino Literature and finalist for The Believer 2007 Fiction award. Her work has been published in Black Clock, Animal Shelter, The Massachusetts Review and New World: Young Latino Writers, among other publications. Her short fiction has been widely published in literary magazines and anthologies. In 2006 she founded Rockypoint press, a series of artist/writer collaborative prints, books, and films. For more information, visit: www.http://www.rockypointpress.net.

Victoria Patterson is the author, most recently, of the historical fiction novel, The Peerless Four. Her previous novel, This Vacant Paradise, was a 2011 New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and garnered rave reviews in Booklist, the New York Journal of Books, the Hollywood Reporter, and other major publications. Her story collection, Drift, was a finalist for the California Book Award, the 2009 Story Prize and has been selected as one of the best books of 2009 by The San Francisco Chronicle. For more info on Victoria Patterson, please visit: http://victoriapatterson.com

About the Series: KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction: The KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction showcases the finest in contemporary fiction from new and emerging writers.