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  Thursday, March 15

  7:30pm

  Kate Greathead: Laura & Emma

  A tender, witty debut novel about a single mother raising her daughter among the upper crust of New York City society in the late twentieth century from a nine-time Moth StorySLAM champion. Laura hails from the Upper East Side of Manhattan, born into old money, drifting aimlessly into her early …

  A tender, witty debut novel about a single mother raising her daughter among the upper crust of New York City society in the late twentieth century from a nine-time Moth StorySLAM champion.
  
  Laura hails from the Upper East Side of Manhattan, born into old money, drifting aimlessly into her early thirties. One weekend in 1981 she meets Jefferson. The two sleep together. He vanishes. And Laura realizes she’s pregnant.
  
  Enter: Emma.

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  Books Are Magic

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  255 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
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  Thursday, March 15

  7:30pm

  Uzodinma Iweala with Larissa MacFarquha

  Uzodinma Iweala follows up his critically acclaimed debut Beasts of No Nation with a new novel that explores what it means to be different in a fundamentally conformist society – and how that difference plays out in our inner and outer struggles. In Speak No Evil, a Harvard-bound, Nigerian American…

  Uzodinma Iweala follows up his critically acclaimed debut Beasts of No Nation with a new novel that explores what it means to be different in a fundamentally conformist society – and how that difference plays out in our inner and outer struggles. In Speak No Evil, a Harvard-bound, Nigerian American teenager struggles with the recognition that he is gay – a secret only his best friend, the white daughter of top Washington, D.C. officials, knows. When his conservative, religious family discovers his secret, the fallout is brutal and swift, and the two friends find themselves speeding toward a future more violent and senseless than they can imagine. Speak No Evil limns the power of words and self-identification, and asks urgently the questions of who can speak and who has the power to speak for other people. Iweala discusses his long-anticipated sophomore novel at Greenlight with renowned New Yorker journalist Larissa MacFarquhar (author of Strangers Drowning), followed by a signing and Q&A.

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  Greenlight Bookstore

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  Thursday, March 15

  7:30pm

  Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World

  Greenlight is thrilled to host a reading and panel discussion for Women’s History Month celebrating the publication of Together We Rise, the remarkable story of the 2017 Women’s March, the largest global protest in modern history. Together We Rise is a new collection of contributions by writers, …

  Greenlight is thrilled to host a reading and panel discussion for Women’s History Month celebrating the publication of Together We Rise, the remarkable story of the 2017 Women’s March, the largest global protest in modern history. Together We Rise is a new collection of contributions by writers, political figures, actresses, artists, journalists, and other prominent feminists, that offers an unprecedented, front-row seat to one of the most galvanizing movements in American history, including exclusive interviews and never-before-seen photographs. Tonight at Greenlight, Women’s March organizers including Paola Mendoza and Sarah Sophie Flicker consider the new legacy of the Women’s March and discuss the road to come.

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  Greenlight Bookstore

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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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  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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  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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• Monday, April 30

  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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  Brooklyn Historical Society

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  128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
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  Tuesday, May 1

  7:30pm

  Dev Aujla

  Dev Aujla presents 50 Ways to Get a Job: An Unconventional Guide to Finding Work on Your Terms Greenlight neighbor and CEO of recruiting firm Catalog Dev Aujla builds on years of experience to present a discussion and workshop that pulls back the curtain on work, career, and the ever-fluctuating …

  Dev Aujla presents 50 Ways to Get a Job: An Unconventional Guide to Finding Work on Your Terms
  
  Greenlight neighbor and CEO of recruiting firm Catalog Dev Aujla builds on years of experience to present a discussion and workshop that pulls back the curtain on work, career, and the ever-fluctuating and ever-maddening job market. Aujla’s new book, 50 Ways to Get a Job, based on his popular website of the same name, offers practical, tangible steps to finding (and getting) the right job. Filled with anecdotes and advice from professionals ranging from a wilderness guide to an architect, it includes quick-step exercises that helps one avoid the common pitfalls of navigating a modern career. Aujla presents his new book, and discusses his tried-and-tested methods, personalized for individual job seekers, at tonight’s event.

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  Greenlight Bookstore

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  The Ministry of Utmost Happiness:

  A novel

  by Arundhati Roy

  Knopf

  $28.95 List Price

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  Wednesday, May 2

  7:30pm

  Arundhati Roy presents "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness"

  BPL Presents is proud to partner with Greenlight Books to host Arundhati Roy for the paperback launch of her bestselling and award-winning novel "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness." A dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of "The God of Small Things." "The Ministry…

  BPL Presents is proud to partner with Greenlight Books to host Arundhati Roy for the paperback launch of her bestselling and award-winning novel "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness."
  
  A dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of "The God of Small Things." "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness" takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent—from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond, where war is peace and peace is war.
  
  It is an aching love story and a decisive remonstration, a story told in a whisper, in a shout, through unsentimental tears and sometimes with a bitter laugh. Each of its characters is indelibly, tenderly rendered. Its heroes are people who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued, patched together by acts of love—and by hope.
  
  Each $19 ticket includes admission to the event, as well as a paperback copy of "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness;" books are distributed at the event. Roy will sign books following the discussion.

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  Brooklyn Public Library, Central Branch

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  10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238-5675
  718-230-2100

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  Wednesday, May 2

  7:30pm

  Heather Abel & Lisa Ko with Mira Jacob

  Algonquin Authors in Conversation Heather Abel presents The Optimistic Decade Lisa Ko presents The Leavers Moderated by Mira Jacob Greenlight is thrilled to present an evening of conversation between debut Algonquin authors Heather Abel and Lisa Ko, moderated by author Mira Jacob. Heather Abel …

  Algonquin Authors in Conversation
  
  Heather Abel presents The Optimistic Decade
  
  Lisa Ko presents The Leavers
  
  Moderated by Mira Jacob
  
  Greenlight is thrilled to present an evening of conversation between debut Algonquin authors Heather Abel and Lisa Ko, moderated by author Mira Jacob. Heather Abel presents her new novel The Optimistic Decade, an energetic story of revolution set at a utopian summer camp. Framed by the oil shale bust and the real estate boom, by protests against Reagan and against the Gulf War, the novel takes us into the lives of five unforgettable characters with a sweeping story about idealism, love, class, and a piece of land that changes everyone who lives on it. Lisa Ko presents her award-winning debut The Leavers, a finalist for the National Book Award and newly released in paperback. Inspired by recent, real-life stories of undocumented immigrant women whose U.S.-born children were taken away from them and adopted by American families, while the women themselves were jailed or deported, The Leavers is an unforgettable story of immigration, adoption, and lives lived across borders. Abel and Ko discuss their work with Mira Jacob, author of The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing, followed by a signing and Q&A.

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  Greenlight Bookstore

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  Broadway:

  A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles

  by Fran Leadon

  W. W. Norton & Company

  $35.00 List Price

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  May 3, 2018

  6:30pm-8:00pm

  Book Talk: "Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles"

  In his new book, architectural historian Fran Leadon delves into the history of NYC’s iconic artery, from its colonial roots to its twentieth-century status as a locus of spectacle and entertainment. Join Leadon in conversation with Untapped Cities editor and author of Images of America: Broadway, …

  In his new book, architectural historian Fran Leadon delves into the history of NYC’s iconic artery, from its colonial roots to its twentieth-century status as a locus of spectacle and entertainment. Join Leadon in conversation with Untapped Cities editor and author of Images of America: Broadway, Michelle Young, for an exploration of how Broadway offers a lens for understanding the capital of culture and commerce.

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  Brooklyn Historical Society

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  Thursday, May 3

  7:00pm

  Book Release: Whitewalling: Art, Race, & Protest in 3 Acts

  Celebrate the release of Aruna D’Souza’s new book Whitewalling: Art, Race, & Protest in 3 Acts, which reflects on three moments in the American art scene from 1969 to today. The program features a reading by D’Souza; a conversation with artists Devin Kenny and Lorraine O’Grady on the vexed relationship…

  Celebrate the release of Aruna D’Souza’s new book Whitewalling: Art, Race, & Protest in 3 Acts, which reflects on three moments in the American art scene from 1969 to today. The program features a reading by D’Souza; a conversation with artists Devin Kenny and Lorraine O’Grady on the vexed relationship between art, race, and institutions; a Q&A moderated by Catherine Morris, Sackler Senior Curator for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art; followed by a book signing. Presented in partnership with Badlands Unlimited.

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  Brooklyn Museum

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  200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238-6099
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  Monday, May 7

  7:30pm

  An Evening with Ig Publishing: Daniel Abbott & Dan Sheehan

  An Evening with Ig Publishing: Debut Authors in Conversation Daniel Abbott presents The Concrete Dan Sheehan presents Restless Souls Wine reception to follow Greenlight welcomes back local Brooklyn indie press Ig Publishing for an evening celebrating two of their debut authors, Daniel Abbott and …

  An Evening with Ig Publishing: Debut Authors in Conversation
  
  Daniel Abbott presents The Concrete
  
  Dan Sheehan presents Restless Souls
  
  Wine reception to follow
  
  Greenlight welcomes back local Brooklyn indie press Ig Publishing for an evening celebrating two of their debut authors, Daniel Abbott and Dan Sheehan. Daniel Abbott presents The Concrete, a striking new novel that grapples with the effects of childhood trauma, lost dreams, human sexuality, and the difficulties of marriage, and tells the story of one mixed-race family living in the gritty and impoverished southeast side of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dan Sheehan presents Restless Souls, a moving and darkly funny meditation on friendship, the emotional ravages of war, and the way our memories simultaneously comfort and restrict us from growing up and moving on, through the story of three wayward Irish lads in the mid 90s. Abbott and Sheehan discuss their debuts in conversation, followed by a signing, Q&A, and wine reception.

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  Greenlight Bookstore

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  Killers of the Flower Moon:

  The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

  by David Grann

  Doubleday

  $28.95 List Price

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  May 8, 2018

  6:30pm-8:00pm

  Book Talk: "Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders..."

  Between 1920 and 1924, more than two dozen people were killed on the oil-rich land of the Osage tribe in Oklahoma, most of them Osage themselves. A then little-known law enforcement organization called the Federal Bureau of Investigation was called in to discover the truth behind the killings, …

  Between 1920 and 1924, more than two dozen people were killed on the oil-rich land of the Osage tribe in Oklahoma, most of them Osage themselves. A then little-known law enforcement organization called the Federal Bureau of Investigation was called in to discover the truth behind the killings, unraveling a conspiracy steeped in old prejudices and greed. Author David Grann shares his award-winning account of the story behind this historic tragedy.

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  Brooklyn Historical Society

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  Tuesday, May 8

  7:30pm

  Maxim Loskutoff

  Debut author Maxim Loskutoff, winner of the Nelson Algren Literary Award, presents Come West and See, a new collection of stories of the vibrant and haunted life in the rural Northwest. Set in the Redoubt, an isolated triangle of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming where an armed occupation of a wildlife …

  Debut author Maxim Loskutoff, winner of the Nelson Algren Literary Award, presents Come West and See, a new collection of stories of the vibrant and haunted life in the rural Northwest. Set in the Redoubt, an isolated triangle of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming where an armed occupation of a wildlife refuge escalates into a separatist uprising, these stories explore the loneliness, insecurity, and frustration inherent to love and heartbreak. Come West and See explores divisions both personal and political, offering startling insights into the wounds of the American people and a powerful new vision of the West. Loskutoff presents his debut at Greenlight, followed by a signing and Q&A.

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  Greenlight Bookstore

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  Wednesday, May 9

  7:30pm

  Rachel Kushner

  Rachel Kushner presents The Mars Room Twice National Book Award-nominated Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers, presents a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping new novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. 2003, deep in California’s Central Valley: a young woman is …

  Rachel Kushner presents The Mars Room
  
  Twice National Book Award-nominated Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers, presents a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping new novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. 2003, deep in California’s Central Valley: a young woman is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at the Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, which Kushner evokes with great humor and precision. Kushner presents her highly anticipated new novel at Greenlight, followed by a signing and Q&A.

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  Greenlight Bookstore

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  Thursday, May 10

  12:00pm

  Book Signing: Chuck Palahniuk

  Bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk, best known for the cultural touchstone Fight Club, appears at Greenlight to celebrate the release of his newest novel Adjustment Day. In this ingeniously comic work – the author’s first novel in four years – Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the …

  Bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk, best known for the cultural touchstone Fight Club, appears at Greenlight to celebrate the release of his newest novel Adjustment Day. In this ingeniously comic work – the author’s first novel in four years – Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Smug, geriatric politicians hatch a nasty fate for the burgeoning population of young males; working-class men dream of burying the elites; and professors propound theories that offer students only the bleakest future. When it arrives, Adjustment Day inaugurates the new, disunited states. Palahniuk’s novel fearlessly makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche.
  
  This is a book signing only. Each $26.95 ticket includes a wristband to access the signing line, as well as a hardcover copy of Adjustment Day; books are distributed at the signing table.
  
  Wristbands for entry will be distributed to ticketholders on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 11:30 AM on the day of the event. The signing line will form outside of Greenlight Bookstore (686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn); please arrive no earlier than 10:00 AM and no later than 4:00 PM. All ticketholders will have their book(s) signed.
  
  Additional copies of Adjustment Day, as well as the new paperback edition of Fight Club 2 and other titles, will be available for sale on site. Palahniuk will sign Adjustment Day and up to two (2) additional items total per customer, and will personalize by request.

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  Greenlight Bookstore

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  Friday, May 11

  7:30pm

  Rita Bullwinkel: Belly Up w/ Alice Sola Kim

  Reading and signing.

  Books Are Magic

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  Monday, May 14

  7:30pm

  Rumaan Alam with J. Courtney Sullivan

  Rumaan Alam, author of Rich and Pretty (and Greenlight neighbor), presents his new novel That Kind of Mother, named one of the most anticipated books of the year by Buzzfeed, The Boston Globe, The Millions, and more. That Kind of Mother is a remarkable new novel about race, privilege, and parenthood,…

  Rumaan Alam, author of Rich and Pretty (and Greenlight neighbor), presents his new novel That Kind of Mother, named one of the most anticipated books of the year by Buzzfeed, The Boston Globe, The Millions, and more. That Kind of Mother is a remarkable new novel about race, privilege, and parenthood, and the story of two mothers: one white and one black, and the families they fight to build and those they fight to keep. When tragedy strikes, a woman is unprepared for what it means to be a white mother with a black son. As she soon learns, navigating motherhood for her is a matter of learning how to raise two children whom she loves with equal ferocity, but whom the world is determined to treat differently. Alam discusses his new novel in conversation with bestselling author J. Courtney Sullivan (Saints for All Occasions). A signing and Q&A follow the discussion.

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  Greenlight Bookstore

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  Tuesday, May 15

  7:30pm

  Justin Phillip Reed with Angel Nafis & Jayson P. Smith

  Greenlight is thrilled to host an evening of poetry and performance to celebrate the debut collection of poet Justin Phillip Reed. Indecency is boldly and carefully executed and perfectly ragged. In these poems, Justin Phillip Reed experiments with language to explore inequity and injustice and to …

  Greenlight is thrilled to host an evening of poetry and performance to celebrate the debut collection of poet Justin Phillip Reed. Indecency is boldly and carefully executed and perfectly ragged. In these poems, Justin Phillip Reed experiments with language to explore inequity and injustice and to critique and lament the culture of white supremacy and the dominant social order. Political and personal, tender, daring, and insightful, the author unpacks his intimacies, weaponizing poetry to take on masculinity, sexuality, exploitation, and the prison industrial complex and unmask all the failures of the structures into which society sorts us. Fellow poets (and Greenlight booksellers emeritus) Angel Nafis, author of BlackGirl Mansion, and Jayson P. Smith, founder of the NOMAD Reading Series, open for Justin at tonight’s event. A signing follows the performances.
  
  Event date:
  
  Tuesday, May 15, 2018 - 7:30pm
  
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  632 Flatbush Ave
  
  Brooklyn, NY 11225

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  Greenlight Bookstore

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  Thursday, May 17

  7:30pm

  Blanche McCrary Boyd with Hannah Tinti

  Guggenheim Fellow and Lambda Literary Award-winner Blanche McCrary Boyd (The Revolution of Little Girls, Terminal Velocity) presents her first novel in twenty years, picking up the story of her protagonist Ellen Burns and concluding her epic survey of political activism. Tomb of the Unknown Racist …

  Guggenheim Fellow and Lambda Literary Award-winner Blanche McCrary Boyd (The Revolution of Little Girls, Terminal Velocity) presents her first novel in twenty years, picking up the story of her protagonist Ellen Burns and concluding her epic survey of political activism. Tomb of the Unknown Racist finds Ellen sober, haunted by her activist past and failed relationships in South Carolina. When news resurfaces of her brother, a celebrated novelist whom Ellen thought dead, Ellen must uproot everything to find him – but her search transforms into a descent into the dark abyss of the simmering race war in the country. A thrilling novel set in the shadow of the Oklahoma City bombing, the subculture of white supremacy, and deep state government, Tomb of the Unknown Racist marks Boyd’s vigorous return to fiction. Boyd presents her new novel in conversation with her former student, award-winning author and friend of Greenlight Hannah Tinti. A signing and Q&A follows the discussion.

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  Greenlight Bookstore

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  Monday, May 21

  7:30pm

  Halifu Osumare with Jawole Zollar

  Prospect Lefferts Gardens store: Monday, May 21, 7:30 PM Halifu Osumare presents Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir In conversation with Jawole Zollar Co-hosted by Urban Bush Women Halifu Osumare, author, dancer, and professor emerita of African American Studies at University of California, Davis, …

  Prospect Lefferts Gardens store:
  
  Monday, May 21, 7:30 PM
  
  Halifu Osumare presents Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir
  
  In conversation with Jawole Zollar
  
  Co-hosted by Urban Bush Women
  
  Halifu Osumare, author, dancer, and professor emerita of African American Studies at University of California, Davis, presents her globe-trotting, decades-spanning, deeply personal new memoir. Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir is the inspiring story of an accomplished dance artist and world-renowned dance scholar who boldly developed and proclaimed her identity as a Black woman. Equal parts memoir, history, cultural analysis and catalog, Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir finds Osumare using her extraordinary experiences to reveal the overlooked ways that dance has been a vital tool in the black struggle for recognition, justice, and self-empowerment. Osumare discusses her new book in conversation with Jawole Zollar, founder of the Urban Bush Women dance company. A signing and Q&A follows the conversation.

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  Greenlight Bookstore

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  Monday, May 21

  7:30pm

  Halifu Osumare with Jawole Zollar

  Prospect Lefferts Gardens store: Monday, May 21, 7:30 PM Halifu Osumare presents Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir In conversation with Jawole Zollar Co-hosted by Urban Bush Women Halifu Osumare, author, dancer, and professor emerita of African American Studies at University of California, Davis, …

  Prospect Lefferts Gardens store:
  
  Monday, May 21, 7:30 PM
  
  Halifu Osumare presents Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir
  
  In conversation with Jawole Zollar
  
  Co-hosted by Urban Bush Women
  
  Halifu Osumare, author, dancer, and professor emerita of African American Studies at University of California, Davis, presents her globe-trotting, decades-spanning, deeply personal new memoir. Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir is the inspiring story of an accomplished dance artist and world-renowned dance scholar who boldly developed and proclaimed her identity as a Black woman. Equal parts memoir, history, cultural analysis and catalog, Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir finds Osumare using her extraordinary experiences to reveal the overlooked ways that dance has been a vital tool in the black struggle for recognition, justice, and self-empowerment. Osumare discusses her new book in conversation with Jawole Zollar, founder of the Urban Bush Women dance company. A signing and Q&A follows the conversation.

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  Greenlight Bookstore

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  Monday, May 21

  7:30pm

  Changing Tides: Brooklyn Artists and Writers Discuss a Borough in Transition

  Fort Greene store: Monday, May 21, 7:30 PM Changing Tides: Brooklyn Artists and Writers Discuss a Borough in Transition Panel discussion featuring Mark Noonan, Benjamin H. Shepard, Kelly Anderson, Neil DeMause, Erik McGregor and Robin Michals Mark Noonan and Benjamin H. Shepard, authors of the new…

  Fort Greene store:
  
  Monday, May 21, 7:30 PM
  
  Changing Tides: Brooklyn Artists and Writers Discuss a Borough in Transition
  
  Panel discussion featuring Mark Noonan, Benjamin H. Shepard, Kelly Anderson, Neil DeMause, Erik McGregor and Robin Michals
  
  Mark Noonan and Benjamin H. Shepard, authors of the new book Brooklyn Tides: The Fall and Rise of a Global Borough, present a panel discussion on activism, aesthetics, and the changes taking place in Brooklyn along its waterfront and throughout the borough. Joined by Kelly Anderson, director of the 2013 documentary My Brooklyn; Neil DeMause, author of The Brooklyn Wars: The Stories Behind the Remaking of New York’s Most Celebrated Borough; and photographers Erik McGregor and Robin Michals, this panel will explore the aspirations and struggles of local residents, the work of artists, and the battles to save community in this globalizing space. A Q&A and signing follow the panel discussion.

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  Greenlight Bookstore

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  Tuesday, May 22

  7:30pm

  Mary Gaitskill

  Literary icon Mary Gaitskill presents her first collection of essays, newly released in paperback. In essays on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal, Mary Gaitskill explores date rape and political adultery, the transcendentalism of the Talking Heads, the melancholy of Björk, and the …

  Literary icon Mary Gaitskill presents her first collection of essays, newly released in paperback. In essays on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal, Mary Gaitskill explores date rape and political adultery, the transcendentalism of the Talking Heads, the melancholy of Björk, and the playfulness of artist Laurel Nakadate. She celebrates the clownish grandiosity and the poetry of Norman Mailer's long career and maps the sociosexual cataclysm embodied by porn star Linda Lovelace. Witty, wide-ranging, tender, and beautiful, Somebody with a Little Hammer displays the same heat-seeking, revelatory understanding for which Gaitskill's writing has always been known. Gaitskill presents her latest work, followed by a signing and Q&A.

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  Greenlight Bookstore

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  Wednesday, May 23

  7:30pm

  Michael Chabon

  “Magical prose stylist” Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) — author of contemporary classic novels including The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and Moonglow, as well as literary nonfiction and children's books — delivers a new collection of heartfelt, humorous, insightful, …

  “Magical prose stylist” Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) — author of contemporary classic novels including The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and Moonglow, as well as literary nonfiction and children's books — delivers a new collection of heartfelt, humorous, insightful, and wise essays on the meaning of fatherhood. For the September 2016 issue of GQ, Chabon wrote about accompanying his son Abraham Chabon, then thirteen, to Paris Men’s Fashion Week. Possessed with a precocious sense of style, Abe was in his element, and despite his own indifference to fashion, Chabon emerged with a deep respect for his son’s passion. With the GQ story as its centerpiece, and featuring six additional essays plus an introduction, Pops illuminates the meaning, magic, and mysteries of fatherhood as only Michael Chabon can. Chabon speaks with fellow author and parent Julie Orringer about his book and experiences, followed by a book signing.
  
  Each $22 ticket includes admission to the event, as well as a hardcover copy of Pops; books are distributed at the event. Michael Chabon will sign books following the discussion.

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  Greenlight Bookstore

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  Thursday, May 24

  7:30pm

  Michelle Tea with Melissa Febos

  Michelle Tea presents Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms In conversation with Melissa Febos Queer countercultural icon Michelle Tea, author of Black Wave and How to Grow Up, presents a new collection of journalistic essays on all things artistic, romantic, and neurotic. The …

  Michelle Tea presents Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms
  
  In conversation with Melissa Febos
  
  Queer countercultural icon Michelle Tea, author of Black Wave and How to Grow Up, presents a new collection of journalistic essays on all things artistic, romantic, and neurotic. The razor-sharp but damaged Valerie Solanas, a doomed lesbian gang, recovering alcoholics, and teenage misfits: these are some of the larger-than-life, yet all-too-human figures populating America's fringes – and Tea’s new collection Against Memoir. Delivered with her signature honesty and dark humor, Tea blurs the line between telling other people's stories and her own, and turns an investigative eye to the genre that's nurtured her entire career —memoir — and considers the price that art demands be paid from life. Tea discusses her new book in conversation with fellow memoirist and essayist Melissa Febos, author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me. A signing and Q&A follow the conversation.

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  Greenlight Bookstore

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  Monday, June 11

  7:30pm

  Julia Fierro: Gypsy Moth Summer paperback launch

  It is the summer of 1992 and a gypsy moth invasion blankets Avalon Island. Ravenous caterpillars disrupt early summer serenity on Avalon, an islet off the coast of Long Island—dropping onto novels left open on picnic blankets, crawling across the T-shirts of children playing games of tag and capture…

  It is the summer of 1992 and a gypsy moth invasion blankets Avalon Island. Ravenous caterpillars disrupt early summer serenity on Avalon, an islet off the coast of Long Island—dropping onto novels left open on picnic blankets, crawling across the T-shirts of children playing games of tag and capture the flag in the island's leafy woods. The caterpillars become a relentless topic of island conversation and the inescapable soundtrack of the season.
  
  It is also the summer Leslie Day Marshall—only daughter of Avalon's most prominent family—returns with her husband, a botanist, and their children to live in "The Castle," the island's grandest estate. Leslie's husband Jules is African-American, and their children bi-racial, and islanders from both sides of the tracks form fast and dangerous opinions about the new arrivals.
  
  Maddie Pencott LaRosa straddles those tracks: a teen queen with roots in the tony precincts of East Avalon and the crowded working class corner of West Avalon, home to Grudder Aviation factory, the island's bread-and-butter and birthplace of generations of bombers and war machines. Maddie falls in love with Brooks, Leslie's and Jules' son, and that love feels as urgent to Maddie as the questions about the new and deadly cancers showing up across the island. Could Grudder Aviation, the pride of the island—and its patriarch, the Colonel—be to blame?

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  Books Are Magic

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  255 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
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