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  Mar 15 - Apr 20, 2017

  7:30pm

  The Library Exhibition: Thomas R. Schiff

  In 38 sweeping 360° panoramic photographs by Thomas R. Schiff, The Library Exhibition, based off the forthcoming publication The Library Book (Aperture, 2017), describes many of the great libraries of the United States of America, built between the 18th century and the present. In pre–Revolutionary…

  In 38 sweeping 360° panoramic photographs by Thomas R. Schiff, The Library Exhibition, based off the forthcoming publication The Library Book (Aperture, 2017), describes many of the great libraries of the United States of America, built between the 18th century and the present. In pre–Revolutionary War America, libraries were member-driven collections for the elite; it was not until 1790 that Benjamin Franklin helped to establish the first public lending library. Throughout the subsequent centuries the library has evolved, but always remained central to the cultural life of the nation. Thomas R. Schiff ’s photographs trace the history of the library through aesthetic and style while featuring legendary architects such as Charles F. McKim; Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge; and I. M. Pei. The Library Exhibition celebrates the library as an institution at the heart of American civilization, telling the related stories of America’s architecture, philanthropy, and civic idealism.

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  Aperture Gallery & Bookstore

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  547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, Between 10th and 11th Avenues, New York, NY 10001
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  Monday, April 17

  6:30pm

  Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders | Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton

  Atlas Obscura writers Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton celebrate the strangest and most curious places in the world.

  New York Public Library - Mid-Manhattan Library

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  455 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10018
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  Monday, April 17

  7:00pm

  Jacques Rancière & Kristin Ross in Conversation

  Join eminent French philospher Jacques Rancière and New York University professor Kristin Ross as they discuss Rancière’s most recent publication in the US, The Lost Thread.
  
  In English. Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary.

  Albertine

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  Monday, April 17

  7:30pm

  An Evening with Omnidawn Publishing

  Founded in 2001 out of the belief that lively, culturally pertinent, and emotionally and intellectually engaging literature can be of great value, Omidawn Publishing has gone on to publish critically acclaimed and award-winning titles. Greenlight hosts an evening with the authors of Omnidawn, followed…

  Founded in 2001 out of the belief that lively, culturally pertinent, and emotionally and intellectually engaging literature can be of great value, Omidawn Publishing has gone on to publish critically acclaimed and award-winning titles. Greenlight hosts an evening with the authors of Omnidawn, followed by a wine reception. Daniel Poppick is the winner of the 2012 BOMB Biennial Poetry Prize, and his work has been praised as capturing “a consciousness hived by the augmented realities of contemporary life,” (Cathy Park Hong); he reads from his newly published debut poetry collection The Police. Margaret Ross reads from her poetry collection A Timeshare, which was selected as one of Lit Hub’s 30 Must-Read Poetry Debuts from 2015. Zach Savich, whose work has received the Iowa Poetry Prize, among other honors, presents The Orchard Green and Every Color.

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  Greenlight Bookstore

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  686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
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  Apr 17, 2017

  6:30pm-7:30pm

  Truth and Power in the Trump Era

  The Trump Administration’s contentious relationship with the press — characterized by claims of “fake news” and “alternative facts” — raises serious concerns about the role of the media in a free and democratic society. To help us understand this “post-truth” era, a panel of experts will examine the…

  The Trump Administration’s contentious relationship with the press — characterized by claims of “fake news” and “alternative facts” — raises serious concerns about the role of the media in a free and democratic society. To help us understand this “post-truth” era, a panel of experts will examine the interplay of media and politics in contemporary America on the basis of their experience both here and in the regimes of Vladimir Putin in Russia and Silvio Berlusconi in Italy. Participants include Masha Gessen, author of The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin; Alexander Stille, author of The Sack of Rome: How a Beautiful European Country with a Fabled History and a Storied Culture Was Taken Over by a Man Named Silvio Berlusconi; and Jim Rutenberg, media columnist for the New York Times. Moderated by John Torpey, director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies.

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  The Graduate Center Public Programs (CUNY)

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• Apr 17, 2017

  7:00pm-8:00pm

  The Osage Murders: David Grann and Jeffrey Toobin

  David Grann and Jeffrey Toobin talk about his Grann's book, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. After huge petroleum reserves were discovered on the Osage Indian reservation in Oklahoma in the 1920s, members of the tribe were briefly among the wealthiest people…

  David Grann and Jeffrey Toobin talk about his Grann's book, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. After huge petroleum reserves were discovered on the Osage Indian reservation in Oklahoma in the 1920s, members of the tribe were briefly among the wealthiest people in the world. Then they began to die. Working with new sources and deep research, Grann tells the riveting story of the mystery behind their murders.
  
  
  An award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker, David Grann, is the author of The Lost City of Z, which has been adapted into a film due in theaters in April 2017, and of The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession. He worked on Killers of the Flower Moon as a fellow at the Cullman Center in 2013-14.
  
  Jeffrey Toobin, a staff writer at The New Yorker and a senior legal analyst at CNN, is the author most recently of American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst. His previous books include The Nine, Too Close to Call, A Vast Conspiracy, and The Run of His Life.

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  The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

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  Thursday, April 19

  7:00pm

  Hassan Najmi on The Blueness of the Evening

  Come to Book Culture on 112th to celebrate the release of Hassan Najmi's first English translation of his poetry collection, The Blueness of the Evening on Thursday, April 19th at 7pm! This selection of Hassan Najmi's poems, translated by Mbarek Sryfi and Eric Sellin, provides an excellent introduction…

  Come to Book Culture on 112th to celebrate the release of Hassan Najmi's first English translation of his poetry collection, The Blueness of the Evening on Thursday, April 19th at 7pm!
  
  This selection of Hassan Najmi's poems, translated by Mbarek Sryfi and Eric Sellin, provides an excellent introduction to the work of one of Morocco's foremost poets and to a school of modern verse emerging in the Arab World. Scenes of late night cityscapes, lonely interiors, awe-inspiring desert wastes, and seaside vistas are found within the exquisitely subtle lyric moods and nuances of Najmi's ars poetica, providing insight into the geographical, political, and linguistic ferment that have made Morocco an exciting hub of creative activity in the twenty-first century.
  
  Hassan Najmi, born in Ben Ahmed in 1960, now resides in Rabat. He is the author of two novels and ten poetry collections. His poetry has been translated into more than ten languages and he has himself translated many poets into Arabic, including Giuseppe Ungaretti, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Philippe Jaccottet, Yannis Ritsos, and Anna Akhmatova.

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  Book Culture

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  Saturday, April 21

  5:00pm

  Leila Slimani & Mona Eltahawy in Conversation!

  In September 2013, Mona Eltahawy published her groundbreaking manifesto Headscarves and Hymens in France (Belfond), and Leila Slimani interviewed her for the French magazine Jeune Afrique. Five years later, the tables will turn when the two women meet again as Leila Slimani, now the author of the …

  In September 2013, Mona Eltahawy published her groundbreaking manifesto Headscarves and Hymens in France (Belfond), and Leila Slimani interviewed her for the French magazine Jeune Afrique. Five years later, the tables will turn when the two women meet again as Leila Slimani, now the author of the international bestseller The Perfect Nanny (Chanson Douce, Gallimard), will be interviewed by award winning writer Mona Eltahawy! Join these two major writers as they discuss their work, the importance of feminism today, and their choice to talk openly about sexuality in conservative cultures.
  
  Building tension with every page, The Perfect Nanny is a compulsive, riveting, bravely observed exploration of power, class, race, domesticity, and motherhood—and the American debut of an immensely talented writer.
  
  Film versions are underway in France and the US. The novel immediately positioned Leila Slimani as a major contemporary French author.
  
  In English. Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary.

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  Albertine

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• Apr 23, 2018

  6:30pm-8:00pm

  Necromancers of the Public Domain: My Country by Queen Marie of Romania

  Each month, Theater of the Apes plucks a long forgotten volume from the shelves of the New York Society Library and resurrects it as a low budget variety show. April's book is My Country by Queen Marie of Romania (1916) We will be bringing it back to life in The New York Society Library's grand and…

  Each month, Theater of the Apes plucks a long forgotten volume from the shelves of the New York Society Library and resurrects it as a low budget variety show. April's book is My Country by Queen Marie of Romania (1916)
  
  We will be bringing it back to life in The New York Society Library's grand and historic Members Room, seldom seen by the peasant class... Wine and light refreshments are included as part of your admission. No tickets will be sold at the door! You must pre-register:
  
  Contact the Events Office at events@nysoclib.org or 212.288.6900 x230.
  
  Featuring
  
  Theater of the Apes and...
  
  Rob Ackerman (Tabletop / Volleygirls)
  
  Nick Balaban (Blues Clues / Musician around town)
  
  Karen Christopher (Haranczak/Navarre Performance Projects)
  
  Leah Coloff (This Tree)
  
  Susan Hwang (The Bushwick Book Club / Lusterlit)
  
  Greg Kotis (Urinetown / Yeast Nation )
  
  Charlie Nieland (Lusterlit)
  
  Paul David Young (Faust 3 / In the Summer Pavilion)
  
  Hosted by Ayun Halliday (No Touch Monkey! / The East Village Inky)

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  The New York Society Library

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  Monday, April 23

  7:00pm

  Daughter of the Cold War: Grace Kennan Warnecke

  Grace Kennan Warnecke's memoir is about a life lived on the edge of history. Daughter of one of the most influential diplomats of the twentieth century, wife of the scion of a newspaper dynasty and mother of the youngest owner of a major league baseball team, Grace eventually found her way out from…

  Grace Kennan Warnecke's memoir is about a life lived on the edge of history. Daughter of one of the most influential diplomats of the twentieth century, wife of the scion of a newspaper dynasty and mother of the youngest owner of a major league baseball team, Grace eventually found her way out from under the shadows of others to forge a dynamic career of her own. This compelling and evocative memoir allows readers to follow Grace's amazing path through life – a whirlwind journey of survival, risk, and self-discovery through a kaleidoscope of many countries, historic events, and fascinating people.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Monday, April 23

  7:00pm

  Sofija Stefanovic: Miss Ex-Yugoslavia

  From writer and storyteller Sofija Stefanovic comes a humorous and candid memoir about duality and not fitting in anywhere, in as many ways as you can imagine. Born in socialist Yugoslavia and partially raised in the much less politically turbulent Australia, Sofija has lived a liminal existence, …

  From writer and storyteller Sofija Stefanovic comes a humorous and candid memoir about duality and not fitting in anywhere, in as many ways as you can imagine. Born in socialist Yugoslavia and partially raised in the much less politically turbulent Australia, Sofija has lived a liminal existence, stuck between two countries that don’t quite embrace her in full. Speckled with tales of youthful rebellion, totalitarian politics, and warlords, Miss Ex-Yugoslavia paints a vivid picture of the love-hate relationship Sofija has with her native culture, and the constant state of being caught in the middle.

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  Strand Book Store

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  828 Broadway, New York, NY 10003-4805
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  Monday, April 23

  7:30pm

  Sloane Crosley with Heidi Julavits

  Bestselling, beloved author Sloane Crosley presents her brand-new collection of essays filled with trademark hilarity, wit, and charm. In Look Alive Out There, whether it's scaling active volcanoes, crashing shivas, playing herself on Gossip Girl, befriending swingers, or staring down the barrel of…

  Bestselling, beloved author Sloane Crosley presents her brand-new collection of essays filled with trademark hilarity, wit, and charm. In Look Alive Out There, whether it's scaling active volcanoes, crashing shivas, playing herself on Gossip Girl, befriending swingers, or staring down the barrel of the fertility gun, Crosley continues to rise to the occasion with unmatchable nerve and electric one-liners. And as her subjects become more serious, her essays deliver not just laughs but lasting emotional heft and insight. Ten years after the release of I Was Told There’d Be Cake, Crosley's essays have managed to grow simultaneously more sophisticated and even funnier. Crosley presents her new book in conversation with Heidi Julavits, author of The Folded Clock, followed by a signing and Q&

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  Greenlight Bookstore

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  686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
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  Tuesday, April 24

  6:00pm

  God Save Texas: Lawrence Wright

  God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America. It is a red state in the heart of Trumpland that hasn't elected a Democrat to a statewide office in more than twenty years; but it is also a state in which minorities already form a majority (including the largest number of…

  God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America. It is a red state in the heart of Trumpland that hasn't elected a Democrat to a statewide office in more than twenty years; but it is also a state in which minorities already form a majority (including the largest number of Muslims). The cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation. Oil is still king but Texas now leads California in technology exports. The Texas economic model of low taxes and minimal regulation has produced extraordinary growth but also striking income disparities. Texas looks a lot like the America that Donald Trump wants to create. And Wright's profound portrait of the state not only reflects our country back as it is, but as it was and as it might be.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Tuesday, April 24

  7:00pm

  Four Barnard Alumnae Writers

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz is the author of twenty-four books, three short story collections, three essay collections, two books of poetry, and three translations from Italian. Among them are the novels Rough Strife (nominated for a National Book Award) and Leaving Brooklyn (nominated for a PEN/Faulkner…

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz is the author of twenty-four books, three short story collections, three essay collections, two books of poetry, and three translations from Italian. Among them are the novels Rough Strife (nominated for a National Book Award) and Leaving Brooklyn (nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award in fiction), and the memoirs Ruined by Reading and Not Now, Voyager. She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA in fiction and translation, and the New York State Foundation for the Arts. She teaches at the Bennington Writing Seminars and Columbia University's School of the Arts, and has taught in many other places both in the US and abroad. Schwartz lives in New York City.
  
  Sigrid Nunez is the author of the novels Salvation City, The Last of Her Kind, A Feather on the Breath of God, For Rouenna, and most recently, The Friend. She has been the recipient of several awards including a Whiting Writers' Award, the Rome Prize in Literature, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship. She lives in New York City.
  
  Susan Daitch is the author of five works of fiction, and her work was the subject of an issue of "The Review of Contemporary Fiction" along with David Foster Wallace and William Vollman. She has been the recipient of two Vogelstein awards, research grants from NYU, CUNY, was awarded a 2012 Fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation of the Arts. Her novel, L.C., won an NEA Heritage Award and was a Lannan Foundation Selection. She lives in Brooklyn with her son and teaches at Hunter College.
  
  B. G. Firmani is a graduate of Barnard College and holds an MFA from Brown. Her short fiction has been published in BOMB Magazine, The Kenyon Review, and Bellevue Literary Review. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship and has been a resident at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. She lives in New York City.

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  Book Culture

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  Tuesday, April 24

  7:00pm

  John Scalzi: Head On

  John Scalzi's latest thrilling sci-fi tale takes us to the not too distant future, where scores of ravenous fans come form far and wide to indulge in the latest sports sensation: Hilketa. A game of high octane excitement and devastating violence, Hilketa involves the dismemberment of the opponent's…

  John Scalzi's latest thrilling sci-fi tale takes us to the not too distant future, where scores of ravenous fans come form far and wide to indulge in the latest sports sensation: Hilketa. A game of high octane excitement and devastating violence, Hilketa involves the dismemberment of the opponent's cybernetic bodies in order to pillage their actual human head and run it through the goal as the figurative "ball". It's the perfect cocktail, delivering the ultra-violence that the audience craves, while keeping all of the players safe as disembodied yet sentient heads.

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  Strand Book Store

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  Tuesday, April 24

  7:00pm

  Christine Lahti + Michael Moore

  Over the years, actor and director Christine Lahti has embodied iconic roles in Chicago Hope, Running on Empty, Housekeeping, And Justice for All, Swing Shift, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, God of Carnage, and The Blacklist. Now she’s turning her talent to the literary world. In this collection…

  Over the years, actor and director Christine Lahti has embodied iconic roles in Chicago Hope, Running on Empty, Housekeeping, And Justice for All, Swing Shift, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, God of Carnage, and The Blacklist. Now she’s turning her talent to the literary world.
  
  In this collection of affecting essays, Lahti examines her life, from her childhood, to her start as an actor and activist, and her life as a middle-aged woman in Hollywood today. Her witty and humble writing captures moments in her life, revealing her struggle against her need for perfection, fighting to maintain her integrity as a feminist and as a person.

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  Strand Book Store

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  Tuesday, April 24

  7:30pm

  Lynne Tillman with Lucy Ives and Andrew Durbin

  Award-winning, iconic author and cultural critic Lynne Tillman presents the hotly-anticipated Men and Apparitions, her first novel in 12 years. Why do human beings feel the need to create, remake, and keep images from and of everything? How are we supposed to live amid this glut of images? Men and …

  Award-winning, iconic author and cultural critic Lynne Tillman presents the hotly-anticipated Men and Apparitions, her first novel in 12 years. Why do human beings feel the need to create, remake, and keep images from and of everything? How are we supposed to live amid this glut of images? Men and Apparitions takes on a central question of our time through the wild musings and eventful life of Ezekiel Hooper Stark, cultural anthropologist, ethnographer, specialist in family photographs. Kaleidoscopic and encyclopedic, madcap and wry, Men and Apparitions showcases Lynne Tillman not only as a brilliantly original novelist but as one of our most prominent thinkers on visual art and culture today. Tillman presents her work with a conversation with novelists Lucy Ives (Impossible Views of the World) and Andrew Durbin (Mature Themes).

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  Greenlight Bookstore

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  Days in the History of Silence

  by Merethe Lindstrom

  Other Press

  $14.95 List Price

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  Apr 24, 2018

  6:00pm-7:00pm

  Nordic Book Club: Days in the History of Silence by Merethe Lindstrøm

  This month we’re reading Days in the History of Silence by Merethe Lindstrøm. Beneath the surface of a happy marriage, a couple hides painful facts about their own respective histories, from one another as well as from their children. As memories resurface and take on new weight, what are the …

  This month we’re reading Days in the History of Silence by Merethe Lindstrøm. Beneath the surface of a happy marriage, a couple hides painful facts about their own respective histories, from one another as well as from their children. As memories resurface and take on new weight, what are the consequences of mistaking silence for peace?

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  Scandinavia House

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  Wednesday, April 25

  7:00pm

  Dani Shapiro on Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage

  The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love. Hourglass is an inquiry into…

  The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love.
  
  Hourglass is an inquiry into how marriage is transformed by time—abraded, strengthened, shaped in miraculous and sometimes terrifying ways by accident and experience. With courage and relentless honesty, Dani Shapiro opens the door to her house, her marriage, and her heart, and invites us to witness her own marital reckoning—a reckoning in which she confronts both the life she dreamed of and the life she made, and struggles to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become.
  
  What are the forces that shape our most elemental bonds? How do we make lifelong commitments in the face of identities that are continuously shifting, and commit ourselves for all time when the self is so often in flux? What happens to love in the face of the unexpected, in the face of disappointment and compromise—how do we wrest beauty from imperfection, find grace in the ordinary, desire what we have rather than what we lack? Drawing on literature, poetry, philosophy, and theology, Shapiro writes gloriously of the joys and challenges of matrimonial life, in a luminous narrative that unfurls with urgent immediacy and sharp intelligence. Artful, intensely emotional work from one of our finest writers.

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  Book Culture

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  Wednesday, April 25

  7:00pm

  The Girl Who Smiled Beads: Clemantine Wamariya

  Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. In 1994, she and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, fled the Rwandan massacre and spent the next …

  Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. In 1994, she and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, fled the Rwandan massacre and spent the next six years migrating through seven African countries, searching for safety—perpetually hungry, imprisoned and abused, enduring and escaping refugee camps, finding unexpected kindness, witnessing inhuman cruelty. They did not know whether their parents were dead or alive.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Look Alive Out There:

  Essays

  by Sloane Crosley

  MCD

  $26.00 List Price

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  Wednesday, April 25

  7:30pm

  Thalia Book Club: Sloane Crosley, "Look Alive Out There"

  Essayist and author Sloane Crosley will be joined by award-winning writer Zadie Smith ("Swing Time") in a conversation on Crosley's newest essay collection, "Look Alive Out There." "Look Alive Out There" is a hilarious and poignant essay collection, full of the trademark hilarity, wit, and charm …

  Essayist and author Sloane Crosley will be joined by award-winning writer Zadie Smith ("Swing Time") in a conversation on Crosley's newest essay collection, "Look Alive Out There."
  
  "Look Alive Out There" is a hilarious and poignant essay collection, full of the trademark hilarity, wit, and charm readers will recognize from Crosley's novel "The Clasp" and bestselling collection "I Was Told There'd Be Cake."

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  Symphony Space

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  Wednesday, April 25

  7:30pm

  Patricia Fara with Clara Moskowitz

  Patricia Fara presents A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War In conversation with Clara Moskowitz Patricia Fara, author of Science: A Four Thousand Year History and professor at Cambridge University, presents her latest book on the forgotten suffragists of World War I who…

  Patricia Fara presents A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War
  
  In conversation with Clara Moskowitz
  
  Patricia Fara, author of Science: A Four Thousand Year History and professor at Cambridge University, presents her latest book on the forgotten suffragists of World War I who bravely changed women's roles in the war and paved the way for today's female scientists. In A Lab of One’s Own, Fara reveals the untold stories of the many extraordinary but forgotten female scientists, doctors, and engineers in World War One Britain and the taste of independence, freedom and excitement they experienced during the war years. Fara examines how the bravery of these pioneers, temporarily allowed into a closed world before the door slammed shut again, paved the way for women in science today. Fara presents her work in conversation with Clara Moskowitz, editor of Scientific American Magazine, followed by a signing and Q&A.

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  Greenlight Bookstore

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  Apr 26, 2018

  6:30pm-7:30pm

  Gregory Pardlo and Vievee Francis: Race and Labor in Poetry and Memoir

  On the publication of Pulitzer Prize–winner Gregory Pardlo’s Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America, he joins fellow poet Vievee Francis for a reading and conversation on race and labor. The first prose book by Pardlo, a Ph.D. candidate in English at the GC, focuses on his father’s…

  On the publication of Pulitzer Prize–winner Gregory Pardlo’s Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America, he joins fellow poet Vievee Francis for a reading and conversation on race and labor. The first prose book by Pardlo, a Ph.D. candidate in English at the GC, focuses on his father’s loss of his job in the Air Traffic Controller’s Strike of 1981 and the emotional impact on the family. Francis’ poetry collections include the award-winning Horse in the Dark and Forest Primeval.
  
  
  Presented with the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean.
  
  Free; registration required.

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  The Graduate Center Public Programs (CUNY)

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  Thursday, April 26

  7:00pm

  Amy Wallen on When We Were Ghouls

  When Amy E. Wallen's southern, blue-collar, peripatetic family was transferred from Ely, Nevada, to Lagos, Nigeria, she had just turned seven. From Nevada to Nigeria and on to Peru, Bolivia, and Oklahoma, the family wandered the world, living in a state of constant upheaval. When We Were Ghoulsfollows…

  When Amy E. Wallen's southern, blue-collar, peripatetic family was transferred from Ely, Nevada, to Lagos, Nigeria, she had just turned seven. From Nevada to Nigeria and on to Peru, Bolivia, and Oklahoma, the family wandered the world, living in a state of constant upheaval. When We Were Ghoulsfollows Wallen's recollections of her family who, like ghosts, came and went and slipped through her fingers, rendering her memories unclear. Were they a family of grave robbers, as her memory of the pillaging of a pre-Incan grave site indicates? Are they, as the author's mother posits, "hideous people?" Or is Wallen's memory out of focus?
  
  In this quick-paced and riveting narrative, Wallen exorcizes these haunted memories to clarify the nature of her family and, by extension, her own character. Plumbing the slipperiness of memory and confronting what it means to be a "good" human, When We Were Ghouls links the fear of loss and mortality to childhood ideas of permanence. It is a story about family, surely, but it is also a representation of how a combination of innocence and denial can cause us to neglect our most precious earthly treasures: not just our children but the artifacts of humanity and humanity itself.
  
  Amy E. Wallen is associate director at the New York State Writers Institute and teaches creative writing at the University of California, San Diego Extension. Her first novel, Moon Pies and Movie Stars, was a Los Angeles Times bestseller.

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  Thursday, April 26

  7:00pm

  To Throw Away Unopened: Viv Albertine with Joanna Scutts

  At the launch party for her memoir Clothes Music Boys in 2014, Viv Albertine received the news her mother was dying. She left the party immediately and spent a few final hours with a woman who had been an enormous presence and force in her life. In the weeks that followed, Viv was left with the task…

  At the launch party for her memoir Clothes Music Boys in 2014, Viv Albertine received the news her mother was dying. She left the party immediately and spent a few final hours with a woman who had been an enormous presence and force in her life. In the weeks that followed, Viv was left with the task of sorting through her mother's affairs. In that process she came across one fatally curious item: a bag labelled "To throw away unopened." This auspicious moment lies at the heart of Viv Albertine's second book, part memoir, part manifesto, part polemic in which she touches on sex, ageing, feminism (in all its guises) and other conundrums that characterize the 21st century life. It is a bold and unapologetic follow-up to a book which became a sensation by a musician and writer who sits at the heart of the counter-cultural landscape today as a celebrated and feted figure.
  
  Songwriter and musician Viv Albertine was the guitarist in cult female punk band The Slits. She was a key player in British counter-culture before her career in TV and film Directing. Her first solo album The Vermilion Border was released in 2012, and her memoir, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys was a Sunday Times, Mojo, Rough Trade, and NME Book of the Year in 2014.
  
  Joanna Scutts is a literary critic, cultural historian, and author of The Extra Woman (Liveright, 2017).

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  Thursday, April 26

  7:00pm

  Stacey Abrams: Minority Leader

  t’s commonly regarded that networking, persistence, and hard work are the ingredients necessary to advance in the world, but for people like Stacey Abrams it takes more than that to make it. Stacey put in the time, rising from humble beginnings and getting through Yale Law School, spending years in…

  t’s commonly regarded that networking, persistence, and hard work are the ingredients necessary to advance in the world, but for people like Stacey Abrams it takes more than that to make it. Stacey put in the time, rising from humble beginnings and getting through Yale Law School, spending years in C-suite businesses, before becoming the first woman to lead a political party in the Georgia General Assembly and the first African American to lead in the House of Representatives. She has succeeded in a world that, until recently, was largely the territory of white men.

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  Apr 27, 2018

  6:30pm-6:30pm

  Jimmy Carter in the White House: A Talk with Biographer Stuart E. Eizenstat

  Stuart E. Eizenstat was there with Jimmy Carter from his political rise in Georgia through his four years as president, serving as Carter’s chief domestic policy advisor. His new book, "President Carter: The White House Years," gives an insider’s look at the achievements and missteps of an …

  Stuart E. Eizenstat was there with Jimmy Carter from his political rise in Georgia through his four years as president, serving as Carter’s chief domestic policy advisor. His new book, "President Carter: The White House Years," gives an insider’s look at the achievements and missteps of an often-misunderstood presidency. Eizenstat joins in conversation with Kai Bird, executive director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography, who is also writing a biography of Carter.
  
  
  
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  Friday, April 27

  7:00pm

  ALICE BOLIN: DEAD GIRLS

  In this debut essay collection Alice Bolin addresses one of America's cultural obsessions: dead women in media. From the essays of Joan Didion and James Baldwin to Twin Peaks, Britney Spears, and Serial, Alice studies what it is about these stories that people enjoy. She expertly blends the personal…

  In this debut essay collection Alice Bolin addresses one of America's cultural obsessions: dead women in media. From the essays of Joan Didion and James Baldwin to Twin Peaks, Britney Spears, and Serial, Alice studies what it is about these stories that people enjoy. She expertly blends the personal and political, highlighting the widespread fixation with women who are abused, killed, and disenfranchised, and whose bodies are often reduced props to bolster men’s stories. Smart and thoughtful, Alice's investigation searches for the meaning behind this cultural phenomena, and her own role as a consumer and creator.
  
  Alice's Dead Girls starts by exploring the trope of dead women in fiction, and ends by interrogating the more complex dilemma of living women – both the persistent injustices they suffer and the oppression that white women help perpetrate.

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  Flying Jenny

  by Theasa Tuohy

  Kaylie Jones Books

  $15.95 List Price

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  Apr 28, 2018

  3:00pm-5:00pm

  Theasa Tuohy Launches FLYING JENNY

  Join Akashic Books and Kaylie Jones Books in the Willa Cather Community Room at the historic Jefferson Market Library as we launch Theasa Tuohy's latest novel, FLYING JENNY! Refreshments will be provided.

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  Saturday, April 28

  7:00pm

  The Politics of Borders: Matthew Longo

  Borders sit at the center of global politics. Yet they are too often understood as thin lines, as they appear on maps, rather than as political institutions in their own right. This book takes a detailed look at the evolution of border security in the United States after 9/11. Far from the walls and…

  Borders sit at the center of global politics. Yet they are too often understood as thin lines, as they appear on maps, rather than as political institutions in their own right. This book takes a detailed look at the evolution of border security in the United States after 9/11. Far from the walls and fences that dominate the news, it reveals borders to be thick, multi-faceted and binational institutions that have evolved greatly in recent decades. The book contributes to debates within political science on sovereignty, citizenship, cosmopolitanism, human rights and global justice. In particular, the new politics of borders reveal a sovereignty that is not waning, but changing, expanding beyond the state carapace and engaging certain logics of empire.
  
  Matthew Longo is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Leiden University. He received his PhD with distinction from Yale University in 2014 and was awarded the Leo Strauss Award for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in Political Philosophy, given by the American Political Science Association. In addition to his book, The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11 (Cambridge University Press, 2018), his writing has appeared in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, L.A. Times and Christian Science Monitor and been featured in the Washington Post and on NPR.

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  Sunday, April 29

  6:00pm

  Launching Leila Sales's If You Don't Have Anything Nice To Say

  In this timely and discussable young adult novel, a well-respected high school girl becomes the object of public Internet shaming after writing an offensive tweet that goes viral. This provocative and relevant young adult novel is about Winter, a one-time National Spelling Bee Champ with a bright …

  In this timely and discussable young adult novel, a well-respected high school girl becomes the object of public Internet shaming after writing an offensive tweet that goes viral.
  
  This provocative and relevant young adult novel is about Winter, a one-time National Spelling Bee Champ with a bright future ahead of her. That all changes after she haphazardly writes an offensive tweet that she thought was a harmless joke. What unfolds is a barrage of Internet shaming and rejection from her community and closest friends. Winter seeks to redeem herself but first must come to terms with what she wrote and understand why there was so much backlash.
  
  Written with Leila Sale's trademark humor and keen eye for observation, If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say deftly explores issues of microaggressions, culpability, and the boundaries of forgiveness.

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  Apr 30, 2018

  6:30pm-6:30pm

  How NYC Became America's Cultural Capital

  Morris Dickstein, author of "Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression" and distinguished professor emeritus at the GC, speaks with four scholars who explore how and why New York City became a national and global citadel for the arts in the 20th century. How have painters, …

  Morris Dickstein, author of "Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression" and distinguished professor emeritus at the GC, speaks with four scholars who explore how and why New York City became a national and global citadel for the arts in the 20th century. How have painters, filmmakers, writers, and others shaped the world's view of Gotham? Featuring: Julia L. Foulkes ("A Place for Us: West Side Story and New York"), Fran Leadon ("Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles"), Christoph Lindner ("Imagining New York City: Literature, Urbanism, and the Visual Arts, 1890-1940"), and Robert A. Slayton ("Beauty in the City: The Ashcan School").
  
  
  Presented with the Gotham Center for NYC History.
  
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  Apr 30, 2018

  6:30pm-6:30pm

  How NYC Became America's Cultural Capital

  Morris Dickstein, author of "Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression" and distinguished professor emeritus at the GC, speaks with four scholars who explore how and why New York City became a national and global citadel for the arts in the 20th century. How have painters, …

  Morris Dickstein, author of "Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression" and distinguished professor emeritus at the GC, speaks with four scholars who explore how and why New York City became a national and global citadel for the arts in the 20th century. How have painters, filmmakers, writers, and others shaped the world's view of Gotham? Featuring: Julia L. Foulkes ("A Place for Us: West Side Story and New York"), Fran Leadon ("Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles"), Christoph Lindner ("Imagining New York City: Literature, Urbanism, and the Visual Arts, 1890-1940"), and Robert A. Slayton ("Beauty in the City: The Ashcan School").
  
  
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  Cruel Is the Night

  by Karo Hamalainen

  translation by Owen Witesman

  Soho Crime

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  Apr 30, 2018

  7:00pm-8:00pm

  Cruel Is The Night- Book Talk With Karo Hämäläinen

  Join us for a book talk with prizewinning Finnish author Karo Hämäläinen on his English-language debut, Cruel Is The Night.
  
  Translator Owen F. Witesman joins us for the book talk. Following the discussion, copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.

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  6:30pm

  Roasted: The History of Coffee in NYCRoasted: The History of Coffee in NYC

  From Arbuckle Coffee to Brooklyn Roasting Company, coffee has been at the center of Brooklyn life for well over a century. Join historian Steven Jaffe; coffee impresario and owner of Gillies Coffee Company (which was founded in 1840) Donald Schoenholt; Brooklyn Roasting Company’s Jim Munson; and Erin…

  From Arbuckle Coffee to Brooklyn Roasting Company, coffee has been at the center of Brooklyn life for well over a century. Join historian Steven Jaffe; coffee impresario and owner of Gillies Coffee Company (which was founded in 1840) Donald Schoenholt; Brooklyn Roasting Company’s Jim Munson; and Erin Meister, author of New York City Coffee: A Caffeinated History, for a conversation about the love affair that wakes us up every morning

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  Monday, April 30

  7:00pm

  Matt Waggoner on Unhoused

  Unhoused: Adorno and the Problem of Dwelling is the first book-length study of Theodor Adorno as a philosopher of housing. Treating his own experience of exile as emblematic of late modern life, Adorno observed that twentieth-century dwelling had been rendered “impossible” by nativism, by the …

  Unhoused: Adorno and the Problem of Dwelling is the first book-length study of Theodor Adorno as a philosopher of housing. Treating his own experience of exile as emblematic of late modern life, Adorno observed that twentieth-century dwelling had been rendered “impossible” by nativism, by the decimations of war, and, in the postwar period, by housing’s increasingly thorough assimilation into private property. Adorno’s position on the meaning and prospects for adequate dwelling—a concept he never wrote about systematically but nevertheless returned to frequently—was not that some invulnerable state of home or dwelling should be revived. Rather, Adorno believed that the only responsible approach to housing was to cultivate an ethic of displacement, to learn “how not to be at home in one’s home.”
  
  Unhoused tracks four figurations of troubled dwelling in Adorno’s texts—homelessness, no man’s lands, the nature theater, and the ironic property relation—and reads them as timely interventions and challenges for today’s architecture, housing, and senses of belonging. Entangled as we are in juridical and financial frameworks that adhere to a very different logic, these figurations ask what it means to organize, design, build, and cohabit in ways that enliven non-exclusive relations to ourselves, others, objects, and place.
  
  Matt Waggoner is professor of philosophy and humanities at Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, Connecticut. A graduate of the Program in History of Consciousness at University of California, Santa Cruz, his articles appear in journals of cultural and critical theory such as Telos, Theory and Event, New Formations, Constellations, Critical Horizons, and others.

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  Monday, April 30

  7:00pm

  Charles Salzberg on Second Story Man

  Is a serial criminal good at his job? Are the detectives who hunt him determined to win? How different are these three calculating personalities or is the only thing that sets them apart whether they operate inside or outside of the law? In Charles Salzberg's critically-acclaimed literary thriller…

  Is a serial criminal good at his job? Are the detectives who hunt him determined to win? How different are these three calculating personalities or is the only thing that sets them apart whether they operate inside or outside of the law?
  
  In Charles Salzberg's critically-acclaimed literary thriller Devil in the Hole, detective Charlie Floyd was obsessed with catching an abominable murderer. Now not-so comfortably settled into being recently retired, he is abruptly drawn back into the game by Cuban-born Miami police detective Manny Perez, who is on a mission to catch a notoriously elusive thief. Knowing how attached Floyd can become to a suspect, Perez is going to enjoy watching him work in Salzberg's new crime novel, SECOND STORY MAN.
  
  Charles Salzberg is a novelist, journalist, and acclaimed writing instructor. He is the author of the Henry Swann detective series, including Swann’s Last Song which was nominated for a Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel and Devil in the Hole, which was named one of the best crime novels of 2013 by Suspense magazine. He has taught writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Hunter College, the Writer’s Voice, and the New York Writers Workshop, where he is a Founding Member. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, Esquire, New York Magazine, and GQ. He lives in New York City.

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  Monday, April 30

  7:00pm

  A Wilder Time: William E. Glassley

  A veteran geologist recounts time spent studying Greenland's remarkable landscape during a series of six expeditions. Whether William Glassley is writing about the magnitude of the landscape, the silence that permeates each day, mirages, lichen, falcons, gulls, ptarmigan, fish, ice, or tidal currents,…

  A veteran geologist recounts time spent studying Greenland's remarkable landscape during a series of six expeditions. Whether William Glassley is writing about the magnitude of the landscape, the silence that permeates each day, mirages, lichen, falcons, gulls, ptarmigan, fish, ice, or tidal currents, his descriptions capture the majesty of the area. Just as captivating are Glassley's detailed explanations of the complex geologic processes that formed this incredible environment. He conveys the significance of shear zones, straight belts, "root" zones, and the feeling of standing in the middle of a molten rock chamber formed 65 million years ago 10 miles below the surface of the Earth. The author's final thoughts regarding the preservation of wilderness are especially poignant within our current turbulent environmental, political, and cultural arenas. "With infinite hubris," he writes, "the modern world is imposing the consequences of its industrial avarice on lifestyles it knows nothing of. The moral bankruptcy of the rationalizations for the destruction of wilderness and the people who live in harmony with it is staggering." A superb tool for a better understanding of the natural world and why real science matters.
  
  "Very few people have spent as much time as William E. Glassley in such deep wilderness. So it would behoove us to pay attention even if he had not brought back such a fascinating, lovely, and useful set of observations. This is a remarkable book." —Bill McKibben
  
  William E. Glassley is a geologist at the University of California, Davis, and an emeritus researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark, focusing on the evolution of continents and the processes that energize them. He is the author of over seventy research articles and a textbook on geothermal energy. A Wilder Time is his first book for a general audience. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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  Monday, April 30

  7:00pm

  Nomi Prins: Collusion

  The 2008 financial crisis started a chain reaction that boosted the influence of central bankers and caused a massive shift in the world order. Central banks and institutions are overstepping the boundaries of their mandates and directing the flow of money without any restrictions. Meanwhile, the …

  The 2008 financial crisis started a chain reaction that boosted the influence of central bankers and caused a massive shift in the world order. Central banks and institutions are overstepping the boundaries of their mandates and directing the flow of money without any restrictions. Meanwhile, the cozy relationship between private and central banking ensures boundless manipulation with government support.

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  Tuesday, May 1

  7:00pm

  Motherhood: Sheila Heti

  Motherhood: Sheila Heti In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman becomes a mother, treating the most consequential decision of early adulthood with the candor, originality, and humor that have won Heti international acclaim and made How Should A Person Be? required…

  Motherhood: Sheila Heti
  
  In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman becomes a mother, treating the most consequential decision of early adulthood with the candor, originality, and humor that have won Heti international acclaim and made How Should A Person Be? required reading for a generation.
  
  In her late thirties, when her friends are asking when they will become mothers, the narrator of Heti's intimate and urgent novel considers whether she will do so at all. In a narrative spanning several years, casting among the influence of her peers, partner, and her duties to her forbearers, she struggles to make a wise and moral choice.After seeking guidance from philosophy, her body, mysticism, and chance, she discovers her answer much closer to home.
  
  Sheila Heti is the author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction, including How Should a Person Be? which was a New York Times Notable Book and was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker. She is co-editor of the New York Times bestseller Women in Clothes, and is the former Interviews Editor for The Believer magazine. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The London Review of Books, The Paris Review, McSweeney's, Harper's, and n+1.

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  Tuesday, May 1

  7:00pm

  H JON BENJAMIN: FAILURE IS AN OPTION

  H. Jon Benjamin is widely considered a comedy show success, but he'd like to remind everyone that as great as success can be, failure is also an option. And maybe the best option. Breaking down one's natural ability to succeed is not an easy task, but also not an impossible one. Society as we know…

  H. Jon Benjamin is widely considered a comedy show success, but he'd like to remind everyone that as great as success can be, failure is also an option. And maybe the best option.
  
  Breaking down one's natural ability to succeed is not an easy task, but also not an impossible one. Society as we know it is, unfortunately, opposes failure. If failure became more accepted it would make the world a different place, a kinder, gentler place, where gardens are overgrown and most people stay home with their pets. A vision of failure, but also a vision of freedom.
  
  With stories, examples of artistic and literary failure, and a powerful can't-do attitude, Failure Is an Option is the book the world doesn't need right now but will get regardless.
  
  H. Jon Benjamin is an actor, voice actor and stand-up comedian, best known for voicing characters, including Sterling Archer in Archer, Bob Belcher in Bob’s Burgers, Dr. Katz in Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, Coach McGuirk and Jason in Home Movies, and a can of mixed vegetable in the film Wet Hot American Summer.

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  A World to Win:

  The Life and Thought of Karl Marx

  by Sven-Eric Liedman

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  May 1, 2018

  7:00pm-8:00pm

  The Life And Works Of Karl Marx, Book Talk With Sven-Eric Liedman

  Sven-Eric Liedman joins us to discuss his new book, A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx, published on the 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth. In this essential new biography — the first to give equal weight to both the work and life of Karl Marx — Liedman expertly navigates the imposing,…

  Sven-Eric Liedman joins us to discuss his new book, A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx, published on the 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth. In this essential new biography — the first to give equal weight to both the work and life of Karl Marx — Liedman expertly navigates the imposing, complex personality of his subject through the turbulent passages of global history. A World to Win follows Marx through childhood and student days, a difficult and sometimes tragic family life, his far-sighted journalism, and his enduring friendship and intellectual partnership with Friedrich Engels.

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