• Feb 27, 2019

  6:00pm-7:30pm

  Alexander Rutherford - Author Reading

  "BFFs (Best Friends Forever): The First in the Alex's Dreams Trilogy", is a fascinating story of teenager Alex and her friends. BFFs captures the everyday lives of a colorful cast of characters moving into young adulthood and experiencing dating, relationships, and academic and social pressures. This…

  "BFFs (Best Friends Forever): The First in the Alex's Dreams Trilogy", is a fascinating story of teenager Alex and her friends. BFFs captures the everyday lives of a colorful cast of characters moving into young adulthood and experiencing dating, relationships, and academic and social pressures. This memorable novel also delves into highly intriguing, more complicated territory.
  
  Born: December 5, 1977 — 7:35am (Queens General Hospital: Saint Albans, New York), the middle of three sons. Widower (wife, Leslie Rutherford [née Osouna] born on July 13, 1970 passed away on August 19, 2016 after a lengthy battle with Scleroderma.) Father of 3 sons: oldest two are stepchildren (Jerome Darrell Johnson: born October 12, 1990; Daniel Patrick Raymond Card: born June 5, 1994). Youngest is biological (Benjamin Alexander Rutherford: born October 12, 2002).

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  NYU Bookstore

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• Wednesday, February 27

  6:30pm

  Modern HERstory: Blair Imani with Jamia Wilson

  Seventy women, girls, and nonbinary people who are changing the world. From the civil rights movement and Stonewall riots to Black Lives Matter and beyond, Blair Imani features seventy champions of progressive social change in Modern HERstory, a colorfully illustrated collection of profiles suitable…

  Seventy women, girls, and nonbinary people who are changing the world.
  
  From the civil rights movement and Stonewall riots to Black Lives Matter and beyond, Blair Imani features seventy champions of progressive social change in Modern HERstory, a colorfully illustrated collection of profiles suitable for all ages. The featured trailblazers come from backgrounds and communities that are traditionally overlooked and under-celebrated: not just women, but people of color, queer people, trans people, disabled people, young people, and people of faith. These powerful stories of the leaders and movements that are changing the world as we know it will inspire readers to become change-makers themselves.
  
  Blair Imani, founder and Executive Director of Equality for HER, a nonprofit educational platform, will be joined in conversation by Jamia Wilson, director of the Feminist Press at CUNY, author of Young, Gifted, and Black and contributor to Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World.
  
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  The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

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  Wednesday, February 27

  7:00pm

  112: An evening of poetry with Marwa Helal

  Join us at Book Culture on 112th on Wednesday, February 27th at 7pm for an evening of poetry reading with Marwa Helal and the new collection, Invasive Species. In Invasive species, Marwa Helal's searing politically charged poems touch on our collective humanity and build new pathways for empathy, …

  Join us at Book Culture on 112th on Wednesday, February 27th at 7pm for an evening of poetry reading with Marwa Helal and the new collection, Invasive Species.
  
  In Invasive species, Marwa Helal's searing politically charged poems touch on our collective humanity and build new pathways for empathy, etching themselves into memory. This work centers on urgent themes in our cultural landscape, creating space for unseen victims of discriminatory foreign (read: immigration) policy: migrants, refugees—the displaced. Helal transfers lived experiences of dislocation and relocation onto the reader by obscuring borders through language.
  
  Marwa Helal is the author of the chapbook I Am Made To Leave I Am Made To Return and winner of BOMB Magazine's Biennial Contest. Born in Al Mansurah, Egypt, Helal currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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  Book Culture

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  Wednesday, February 27

  7:00pm

  112th: Elizabeth Emens on Life Admin

  Join us at Book Culture on 112th on Wednesday, February 27th at 7pm for an evening of poetry reading with Marwa Helal and the new collection, Invasive Species. In Invasive species, Marwa Helal's searing politically charged poems touch on our collective humanity and build new pathways for empathy, …

  Join us at Book Culture on 112th on Wednesday, February 27th at 7pm for an evening of poetry reading with Marwa Helal and the new collection, Invasive Species.
  
  In Invasive species, Marwa Helal's searing politically charged poems touch on our collective humanity and build new pathways for empathy, etching themselves into memory. This work centers on urgent themes in our cultural landscape, creating space for unseen victims of discriminatory foreign (read: immigration) policy: migrants, refugees—the displaced. Helal transfers lived experiences of dislocation and relocation onto the reader by obscuring borders through language.
  
  Marwa Helal is the author of the chapbook I Am Made To Leave I Am Made To Return and winner of BOMB Magazine's Biennial Contest. Born in Al Mansurah, Egypt, Helal currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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  Book Culture

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  Wednesday, February 27

  7:00pm

  Dead Men's Trousers: Irvine Welsh (WILLIAMSBURG)

  The gang from Trainspotting have mostly cleaned up their act… until they are drawn back together to Scotland for one last scheme – a scheme one of them won’t survive. It’s an action-packed, hilarious and rollicking trip, as well as a moving elegy to the crew. Irvine Welsh was born in Edinburgh, …

  The gang from Trainspotting have mostly cleaned up their act… until they are drawn back together to Scotland for one last scheme – a scheme one of them won’t survive. It’s an action-packed, hilarious and rollicking trip, as well as a moving elegy to the crew.
  
  Irvine Welsh was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Raised in the tenement homes of Leith, the prefabs in West Pilton and the maisonettes in Muirhouse. At sixteen, he left school, took various jobs, and eventually moved to London in the seventies. There he spent his free time exploring the London punk scene, then moved back to Edinburgh to renew his studies. Back home, and inspired by the nineties rave scene, he ran into some fascinating characters he immortalised later, in the pages of Trainspotting. At first dismissed for its unmarketable content, Trainspotting shot Welsh to fame, precipitated further by the release of the film, by Danny Boyle, three years later. Since then he has written eight other works of fiction. He currently lives in the US.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Wednesday, February 27

  7:00pm

  Mother Winter: Sophia Shalmiyev with Eileen Myles (PRINCE STREET)

  Russian sentences begin backward, Sophia Shalmiyev tells us on the first page of her striking, lyrical memoir, Mother Winter. To understand the end of her story we must go back to her beginning. Born to a Russian mother and an Azerbaijani father, Shalmiyev was raised in the stark oppressiveness of …

  Russian sentences begin backward, Sophia Shalmiyev tells us on the first page of her striking, lyrical memoir, Mother Winter. To understand the end of her story we must go back to her beginning. Born to a Russian mother and an Azerbaijani father, Shalmiyev was raised in the stark oppressiveness of 1980s Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). An imbalance of power and the prevalence of antisemitism in her homeland led her father to steal Shalmiyev away, emigrating to America, abandoning her estranged mother, Elena. At age eleven, Shalmiyev found herself on a plane headed west, motherless and terrified of the new world unfolding before her.
  
  Now a mother herself, in Mother Winter Shalmiyev depicts in urgent vignettes her emotional journeys as an immigrant, an artist, and a woman raised without her mother. She tells of her early days in St. Petersburg, a land unkind to women, wayward or otherwise; her tumultuous pit-stop in Italy as a refugee on her way to America; the life she built for herself in the Pacific Northwest, raising two children of her own; and ultimately, her cathartic voyage back to Russia as an adult, where she searched endlessly for the alcoholic mother she never knew. Braided into her physical journey is a metaphorical exploration of the many surrogate mothers Shalmiyev sought out in place of her own—whether in books, art, lovers, or other lost souls banded together by their misfortunes. Mother Winter is the story of Shalmiyev’s years of travel, searching, and forging meaningful connection with the worlds she occupies—the result is a searing observation of the human heart and psyche’s many shades across time and culture. As acclaimed author Michelle Tea says, “with sparse, poetic language Shalmiyev builds a personal history that is fractured and raw; a brilliant, lovely ache.”
  
  Sophia Shalmiyev emigrated from Leningrad to NYC in 1990. An MFA graduate of Portland State University, she was the nonfiction editor for The Portland Review and is a recipient of the Laurels scholarship and numerous Kellogg’s fellowship awards. She has a second master’s degree in creative arts therapy from The School of Visual Arts, where she worked with survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking. Her work has appeared in Vela Magazine, Bellows American Review, Electric Lit, The Seattle Review of Books, Ravishly and The Literary Review, among others; all with a feminist lens. She is also at work on a novel and an essay collection. She lives in Portland. Visit her website for more.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Wednesday, February 27

  7:00pm

  IAN FRISCH: MAGIC IS DEAD

  In the vein of Neil Strauss’ The Game and Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein comes the fascinating story of one man’s colorful, mysterious, and personal journey into the world of magic, and his unlikely invitation into a secret underground society of revolutionary illusionists from around the …

  In the vein of Neil Strauss’ The Game and Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein comes the fascinating story of one man’s colorful, mysterious, and personal journey into the world of magic, and his unlikely invitation into a secret underground society of revolutionary illusionists from around the world.
  
  Magic Is Dead is Ian Frisch’s head-first dive into a hidden world full of extraordinary characters and highly guarded secrets. It is a story of imagination, deception, and art that spotlights today’s most brilliant young magicians—a mysterious society known as the52, who are revolutionizing an ancient artform under the mantra Magic Is Dead.
  
  Ian brings us with him as he not only gets to know this fascinating world, but also becomes an integral part of it. We meet the52’s founding members—Laura London and Daniel Madison—and explore their personal demons, professional aspirations, and what drew them to their art. We join them at private gatherings of the most extraordinary magicians working today, follow them to magic conventions in Las Vegas and London, and discover some of the best tricks of the trade. We also encounter David Blaine, a close friend of Madison’s; hang out with Penn Jillette; and meet Dynamo, the U.K.’s most famous magician. Magic Is Dead is also a chronicle of magic’s rich history and how it has changed in the internet age, as the young guns moves away from the old-school take on the craft.
  
  As he tells the story of the52, and his role as its most unlikely member, Ian reveals his own connection with trickery and deceit, how he first learned the elements that make magic work from his poker-playing mother, and recalls their adventures in card rooms and casinos after his father’s sudden death. “Magic—the romanticism of the inexplicable, the awe and admiration of the unexpected—is an underlying force in how we view the world and its myriad possibilities,” Ian writes. As his journey continues, Ian not only becomes a performer and creator of magic, he also cements a new brotherhood, and begins to understand his relationship with his father, fifteen years after his death. Written with psychological acuity and a keen eye for detail, Magic Is Dead is an engrossing tale full of wonder and surprise.
  
  Join us as Ian discusses his work!
  
  Ian Frisch has written for The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, Playboy, Wired, and Vice. He has appeared on Bloomberg Television and was a finalist for the 2016 Associated Press Sports Editors Explanatory Award. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
  
  Kyle Chayka is a freelance writer living in Brooklyn, the author of a forthcoming book on minimalism from Bloomsbury, and co-founder of STUDY HALL, a journalist collective.

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  Strand Book Store

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  Wednesday, February 27

  7:30pm

  SELECTED SHORTS SPECIAL EVENT: WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS

  DATE | Feb 27 2019 TIME | 7:30pm PRICES | Members: $22 Non-Members: $26 30 & Under: $16 THEATER | Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre Selected Shorts teams up with Words Without Borders for a special evening of stories featuring work by some of the most exciting international authors out there, performed…

  DATE | Feb 27 2019
  
  TIME | 7:30pm
  
  PRICES | Members: $22
  
  Non-Members: $26
  
  30 & Under: $16
  
  THEATER | Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre
  
  Selected Shorts teams up with Words Without Borders for a special evening of stories featuring work by some of the most exciting international authors out there, performed by actors of stage and screen. Whether you regularly read without borders or are looking to expand your horizons, this evening will introduce you to new gems and old masters. Hosted by writer and translator Idra Novey (Those Who Knew)and featuring Karan Mahajan (The Association of Small Bombs) and Siri Hustvedt (The Blazing World).
  
  Special live taping of the radio show and podcast in the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre.
  
  Selected Shorts is produced by Symphony Space and broadcast on more than 150 stations around the country. The series began in 1985 and enjoys sold-out performances to this day. Selected Shorts was conceived with a simple premise: take great stories by well-known and emerging writers and have them performed by terrific actors of stage and screen. Featuring stories around a lively theme, the favorite works of a guest author, or a special collaboration, each Selected Shorts event is a unique night of literature in performance.
  
  Actors subject to change.

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  Symphony Space

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  Wednesday, February 27

  7:30pm

  Chloe Aridjis: Sea Monsters

  Wednesday February 27 | 7:30PM - 8:30PM One autumn afternoon in Mexico City, seventeen-year-old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with Tomás, a boy she barely knows. He seems to represent everything her life is lacking—recklessness, impulse, …

  Wednesday February 27 | 7:30PM - 8:30PM
  
  One autumn afternoon in Mexico City, seventeen-year-old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with Tomás, a boy she barely knows. He seems to represent everything her life is lacking—recklessness, impulse, independence. Tomás may also help Luisa fulfill an unusual obsession: she wants to track down a traveling troupe of Ukrainian dwarfs. According to newspaper reports, the dwarfs recently escaped a Soviet circus touring Mexico. The imagined fates of these performers fill Luisa’s surreal dreams as she settles in a beach community in Oaxaca.
  
  Surrounded by hippies, nudists, beachcombers, and eccentric storytellers, Luisa searches for someone, anyone, who will “promise, no matter what, to remain a mystery.” It is a quest more easily envisioned than accomplished. As she wanders the shoreline and visits the local bar, Luisa begins to disappear dangerously into the lives of strangers on Zipolite, the “Beach of the Dead.”
  
  Meanwhile, her father has set out to find his missing daughter. A mesmeric portrait of transgression and disenchantment unfolds.Sea Monsters is a brilliantly playful and supple novel about the moments and mysteries that shape us.
  
  Chloe Aridjis is a Mexican American writer who was born in New York and grew up in the Netherlands and Mexico. After completing her Ph.D. at the University of Oxford in nineteenth-century French poetry and magic shows, she lived for nearly six years in Berlin. Her debut novel, Book of Clouds, has been published in eight languages and won the Prix du Premier Roman Étranger in France. Aridjis sometimes writes about art and insomnia and was a guest curator at Tate Liverpool. In 2014, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in London.
  
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  Books Are Magic

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  Monday, February 25

  6:30pm

  Albertine Book Club on The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust

  Join us for a lively conversation with Caroline Weber, author and professor, and Thibault Lacarrière, Cultural Attaché and Director, Books & Ideas Department at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy on The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, translated from the French by Mark Treharne (Penguin).…

  Join us for a lively conversation with Caroline Weber, author and professor, and Thibault Lacarrière, Cultural Attaché and Director, Books & Ideas Department at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy on The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, translated from the French by Mark Treharne (Penguin).
  
  After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century, as the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow world of the literary and aristocratic salons. Both a salute to and a devastating satire of a time, place, and culture, The Guermantes Way defines the great tradition of novels that follow the initiation of a young man into the ways of the world.

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  Albertine

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  You Know You Want This:

  "Cat Person" and Other Stories

  by Kristen Roupenian

  Gallery/Scout Press

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  Monday, February 25

  6:30pm

  You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories—Kristen Roupenian with Deborah Treisman

  The delights and horrors of womanhood. When “Cat Person” appeared in the New Yorker in December 2017 it quickly took Book Twitter by storm. The short story centers on a young woman's experience dating in a sleepy college town, but with decidedly skin-crawling twists. You Know You Want This is Kristen…

  The delights and horrors of womanhood.
  
  When “Cat Person” appeared in the New Yorker in December 2017 it quickly took Book Twitter by storm. The short story centers on a young woman's experience dating in a sleepy college town, but with decidedly skin-crawling twists. You Know You Want This is Kristen Roupenian's highly anticipated debut collection of stories that explore the ways in which women are horrifying as much as it captures the horrors that are done to them. Spanning a range of topics and genres, it is darkly funny, delightfully cringeworthy, and compulsively readable.
  
  Kristen Roupenian graduated from Barnard and holds a PhD in African Literature from Harvard. She is a Zell Fellow in the University of Michigan MFA program, and she has received numerous awards for her work.
  
  Mid-Sentence presents a series of conversations with groundbreaking literary voices. Indie authors and cult favorites explore the intersections between literature and lived experience.

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  The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

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• Monday, February 25

  6:30pm

  Bertolt Brecht Out Loud

  Some of today’s most captivating poets perform Brecht’s funny, heartbreaking, personal, and political verse. FEATURING: - Adam Fitzgerald - Paul Muldoon (with musician David Mansfield) - Eileen Myles - Amber Tamblyn Though he is widely regarded as the greatest German playwright of the twentieth …

  Some of today’s most captivating poets perform Brecht’s funny, heartbreaking, personal, and political verse.
  
  FEATURING:
  
  - Adam Fitzgerald
  
  - Paul Muldoon (with musician David Mansfield)
  
  - Eileen Myles
  
  - Amber Tamblyn
  
  Though he is widely regarded as the greatest German playwright of the twentieth century, among English readers it is less known that all the while Bertolt Brecht was doing double duty as a poet. Touching on subjects from chess to war to sex, he composed more than 2,000 poems, though fewer than half were published in his lifetime.
  
  Now award-winning translators David Constantine and Tom Kuhn have made 1,200 of Brecht’s poems available to English readers in The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht, the most comprehensive collection of his poetry to date. To celebrate this monumental achievement, contemporary poets will gather at the Library to read aloud and perform poems that illustrate his ever-lasting lust for life.
  
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  Monday, February 25

  7:00pm

  Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women: Silvia Federici (PRINCE STREET)

  The world is witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, including new witch hunts. This surge of violence has occurred alongside an expansion of capitalist social relation. In this new work, Silvia Federici examines the root causes of these developments and …

  The world is witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, including new witch hunts. This surge of violence has occurred alongside an expansion of capitalist social relation. In this new work, Silvia Federici examines the root causes of these developments and outlines the consequences for the women affected and their communities. She argues, that this new war on women, a mirror of witch hunts in 16th- and 17th-century Europe and the “New World,” is a structural element of the new forms of capitalist accumulation. These processes are founded on the destruction of people’s most basic means of reproduction. Like at the dawn of capitalism, the factors behind today’s violence against women are processes of enclosure, land dispossession, and the remolding of women’s reproductive activities and subjectivity.
  
  Silvia Federici is a feminist writer, teacher, and militant. In 1972 she was co-founder of the International Feminist Collective that launched the campaign for Wages for Housework internationally. Her previous books include Caliban and the Witch and Revolution at Point Zero. She is a professor emerita at Hofstra University, where she was a social science professor.

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  McNally Jackson Books

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  Monday, February 25

  7:00pm

  TAYLOR SARACEN + JOEY MILLS: ELECTRIC SOUL

  Check back soon for ticketing information! Join us as author Taylor Saracen and actor/model Joey Mills discuss their collaboration and celebrate the launch of Electric Soul! The RISE UP series is a collection of new adult novels that illuminates pivotal moments in the lives of LGBT youth. Each …

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  Join us as author Taylor Saracen and actor/model Joey Mills discuss their collaboration and celebrate the launch of Electric Soul!
  
  The RISE UP series is a collection of new adult novels that illuminates pivotal moments in the lives of LGBT youth. Each novel features a fresh protagonist and his experience navigating the ups and downs of adulthood. While the characters change and the stories vary, common themes—including the struggle for independence, identifying one’s passions, searching for acceptance and for love—are interwoven through the pages of the novels. These stories will open your eyes to worlds of possibilities, both conventional and off-beat, as these men take you on their journeys to self-discovery.

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  Strand Book Store

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  Monday, February 25

  7:30pm

  Sophia Shalmiyev: Mother Winter w/ Melissa Febos

  Monday February 25 | 7:30PM - 8:30PM Mother Winter is the story of Sophia’s emotional journeys as an immigrant, an artist, and a woman raised without her mother. Born to a Russian mother and an Azerbaijani father, Shalmiyev grew up under the stark oppressiveness of 1980s Leningrad. An imbalance of …

  Monday February 25 | 7:30PM - 8:30PM
  
  Mother Winter is the story of Sophia’s emotional journeys as an immigrant, an artist, and a woman raised without her mother. Born to a Russian mother and an Azerbaijani father, Shalmiyev grew up under the stark oppressiveness of 1980s Leningrad. An imbalance of power and widespread anti-Semitism in her homeland led her father to steal Shalmiyev away, emigrating to America and abandoning her estranged and alcoholic mother, Elena. At age eleven, Shalmiyev found herself on a plane headed west, motherless and terrified of the new world unfolding before her.
  
  Mother Winter depicts in urgent vignettes Sophia’s years of travel, searching, and forging meaningful connection with the worlds she occupies. The result is a searing meditation on motherhood, displacement, gender politics, and the pursuit of wholeness after shattering loss. And ultimately, it is an aching observation of the human heart across time and culture.
  
  Sophia Shalmiyev emigrated from Leningrad to NYC in 1990. An MFA graduate of Portland State University, she was the nonfiction editor for The Portland Review and is a recipient of the Laurels scholarship and numerous Kellogg’s fellowship awards. She has a second master’s degree in creative arts therapy from The School of Visual Arts, where she worked with survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking. Her work has appeared in Vela Magazine, Bellows American Review, Electric Lit, The Seattle Review of Books, Ravishly and The Literary Review, among others; all with a feminist lens. She lives in Portland.
  
  Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir, Whip Smart, and the essay collection, Abandon Me. She is a three-time MacDowell Colony fellow, and has also received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Ragdale, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. The recipient of an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, she is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Monmouth University, MFA faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), and serves on the Board of Directors for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. She grew up on Cape Cod and lives in Brooklyn.

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  Books Are Magic

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  The Tell:

  A Memoir

  by Linda I. Meyers

  She Writes Press

  $16.95 List Price

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  Feb 26, 2019

  5:30pm-6:45pm

  Linda Meyers at New York Public Library

  Linda Meyers comes to St. Agnes to read from her memoir: The Tell. Linda Meyers was twenty-eight and the mother of three little boys when her mother, after a lifetime of threats, killed herself. Staggered by conflicting feelings of relief and remorse, Linda believed that the best way to give meaning…

  Linda Meyers comes to St. Agnes to read from her memoir: The Tell.
  
  Linda Meyers was twenty-eight and the mother of three little boys when her mother, after a lifetime of threats, killed herself. Staggered by conflicting feelings of relief and remorse, Linda believed that the best way to give meaning to her mother’s death was to make changes to her own life. Bolstered by the women’s movement of the seventies, she left her marriage, went to college, started a successful family acting business, and established a fulfilling career.
  
  Written with irony and humor and sprinkled with Yiddish, The Tell is one woman’s inspirational story of before and after, and ultimately of emancipation and purpose.
  
  Linda Meyers is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in NYC and Princeton, NJ. She has published in professional journals and academic books. In 2016 she published two chapters from The Tell: “The Flowers,” a top five finalist in Alligator Juniper’s annual contest in creative nonfiction, and “The Spring Line” in Post Road.

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  New York Public Library St. Agnes Branch

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  Tuesday, February 26

  6:30pm

  Claire Messud Discusses Camus, Proust and Flaubert

  Author Claire Messud will discuss her work, including her most recent novel, The Burning Girl, as well as how French authors such as Albert Camus, Marcel Proust, and Gustave Flaubert have impacted her writings, with Cultural Counselor of the French Embassy in the United States, Bénédicte de Montlaur.…

  Author Claire Messud will discuss her work, including her most recent novel, The Burning Girl, as well as how French authors such as Albert Camus, Marcel Proust, and Gustave Flaubert have impacted her writings, with Cultural Counselor of the French Embassy in the United States, Bénédicte de Montlaur.
  
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  Claire Messud is a recipient of Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Author of six works of fiction including her most recent novel, The Burning Girl, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her family.
  
  Bénédicte de Montlaur has been director of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States since 2015. A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure (Ulm) and Sciences Po, Paris, she has served as head of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris; a political analyst at the French Embassy in Syria; a Negotiator on the United Nations Security Council; and Head of the North Africa Division at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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  Albertine

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  Tuesday, February 26

  6:35pm

  Widows-In-Law Book Launch

  Michele W. Miller appearing in conversation with bestselling author Lawrence Block at Mysterious Bookshop for a publication day launch of Miller's WIDOWS-IN-LAW. About Widows-In-Law After the sudden death of her ex-husband, Brian, Lauren helps Brian’s much-younger widow, Jessica, arrange the funeral…

  Michele W. Miller appearing in conversation with bestselling author Lawrence Block at Mysterious Bookshop for a publication day launch of Miller's WIDOWS-IN-LAW.
  
  About Widows-In-Law
  
  After the sudden death of her ex-husband, Brian, Lauren helps Brian’s much-younger widow, Jessica, arrange the funeral and settle his affairs. Although they were once adversaries in the battle for Brian’s heart, Lauren agrees to pitch in for the sake of their troubled sixteen-year-old daughter, Emily. But Lauren gets much more than she bargained for when information comes to light about Brian’s shady business deals with his old college friend Jordan Connors and the crime lord Jorge Arena, jeopardizing Brian’s estate and throwing the women into the world of high-stakes illegal gambling.
  
  With only a few days to find out where Brian hid millions of dollars in bonds and in fear for their lives, Lauren, Jessica, and Emily must set aside their differences and work together to secure their inheritance and evade Jorge Arena’s murderous crew.
  
  Widows-in-Law is a gripping tale of mothers and daughters, wives and ex-wives, broken and remade families, and unlikely partners-in-crime. Most of all, it is a moving story about the women left behind to clean up the messes men make.

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  Tuesday, February 26

  7:00pm

  112th: Elizabeth Emens on Life Admin

  Join us at Book Culture on 112th Street on Tuesday, February 26th at 7pm as we welcome Elizabeth Emens to discuss her new book, Life Admin: How I Learned to Do Less, Do Better, and Life More. Reading this book should be at the top of your To Do list. Life Admin will give you many hours of your life…

  Join us at Book Culture on 112th Street on Tuesday, February 26th at 7pm as we welcome Elizabeth Emens to discuss her new book, Life Admin: How I Learned to Do Less, Do Better, and Life More.
  
  Reading this book should be at the top of your To Do list. Life Admin will give you many hours of your life back.
  
  
  Every day an unseen form of labor creeps into our lives—stealing precious moments of free time, placing a strain on our schedules and our relationships, and earning neither appreciation nor compensation in return. This labor is life admin: the kind of secretarial and managerial work necessary to run a life and a household.
  
  
  Elizabeth Emens was a working mother with two young children, swamped like so many of us, when she realized that this invisible labor was consuming her. Desperate to survive and to help others along the way, she conducted interviews and focus groups to gather favorite tips and tricks, admin confessions, and the secrets of admin-happy households.
  
  
  Life Admin tackles the problem of admin in all its forms, from everyday tasks like scheduling doctors appointments and paying bills, to life-cycle events like planning a wedding, a birth, a funeral. Emens explores how this labor is created, how it affects our lives, and how we might avoid, reduce, and redistribute admin whenever possible—as individuals and as a society.
  
  
  Life Admin is the book that will teach us all how to do less of it, and to do it better.

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  Tuesday, February 26

  7:00pm

  Savage Feast: Boris Fishman (PRINCE STREET)

  The acclaimed author of A Replacement Life shifts between heartbreak and humor in this gorgeously told, recipe-filled memoir. A family story, an immigrant story, a love story, and an epic meal, Savage Feast explores the challenges of navigating two cultures from an unusual angle. A revealing personal…

  The acclaimed author of A Replacement Life shifts between heartbreak and humor in this gorgeously told, recipe-filled memoir. A family story, an immigrant story, a love story, and an epic meal, Savage Feast explores the challenges of navigating two cultures from an unusual angle. A revealing personal story and family memoir told through meals and recipes, Savage Feast begins with Boris’s childhood in Soviet Belarus, where good food was often worth more than money. He describes the unlikely dish that brought his parents together and how years of Holocaust hunger left his grandmother so obsessed with bread that she always kept five loaves on hand. She was the stove magician and Boris’ grandfather the master black marketer who supplied her, evading at least one firing squad on the way. These spoils kept Boris’ family—Jews who lived under threat of discrimination and violence—provided-for and protected.
  
  Despite its abundance, food becomes even more important in America, which Boris’ family reaches after an emigration through Vienna and Rome filled with marvel, despair, and bratwurst. How to remain connected to one’s roots while shedding their trauma? The ambrosial cooking of Oksana, Boris’s grandfather’s Ukrainian home aide, begins to show him the way. His quest takes him to a farm in the Hudson River Valley, the kitchen of a Russian restaurant on the Lower East Side, a Native American reservation in South Dakota, and back to Oksana’s kitchen in Brooklyn. His relationships with women—troubled, he realizes, for reasons that go back many generations—unfold concurrently, finally bringing him, after many misadventures, to an American soulmate.
  
  Boris Fishman was born in Minsk, Belarus, and immigrated to the United States in 1988 at the age of nine. His journalism, essays, and criticism have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. His first novel, A Replacement Life won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the American Library Association’s Sophie Brody Medal, was one of The New York Times' 100 Notable Books, and was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick. He lives in New York.

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  Tuesday, February 26

  7:00pm

  DON WINSLOW: THE BORDER

  What do you do when there are no borders? When the lines you thought existed simply vanish? How do you plant your feet to make a stand when you no longer know what side you’re on? The war has come home. For over forty years, Art Keller has been on the front lines of America’s longest conflict: The…

  What do you do when there are no borders? When the lines you thought existed simply vanish? How do you plant your feet to make a stand when you no longer know what side you’re on?
  
  The war has come home.
  
  For over forty years, Art Keller has been on the front lines of America’s longest conflict: The War on Drugs. His obsession to defeat the world’s most powerful, wealthy, and lethal kingpin?the godfather of the Sinaloa Cartel, Adán Barrera?has left him bloody and scarred, cost him the people he loves, even taken a piece of his soul.
  
  Now Keller is elevated to the highest ranks of the DEA, only to find that in destroying one monster he has created thirty more that are wreaking even more chaos and suffering in his beloved Mexico. But not just there.
  
  Barrera’s final legacy is the heroin epidemic scourging America. Throwing himself into the gap to stem the deadly flow, Keller finds himself surrounded by enemies?men who want to kill him, politicians who want to destroy him, and worse, the unimaginable?an incoming administration that’s in bed with the very drug traffickers that Keller is trying to bring down.
  
  Art Keller is at war with not only the cartels, but with his own government. And the long fight has taught him more than he ever imagined. Now, he learns the final lesson?there are no borders.
  
  In a story that moves from deserts south of the border to Wall Street, from the slums of Guatemala to the marbled corridors of Washington, D.C., Winslow follows a new generation of narcos, the cops who fight them, the street traffickers, the addicts, the politicians, money-launderers, real-estate moguls, and mere children fleeing the violence for the chance of a life in a new country.
  
  A shattering tale of vengeance, violence, corruption and justice, this last novel in Don Winslow’s magnificent, award-winning, internationally bestselling trilogy is packed with unforgettable, drawn-from-the-headlines scenes. Shocking in its brutality, raw in its humanity, The Border is an unflinching portrait of modern America, a story of—and for—our time.
  
  Join us as Don talks about his latest entry to his Cartel trilogy.
  
  Don Winslow is author of twenty acclaimed, award-winning, international bestsellers— including the New York Times bestseller and sensation The Force, the #1 international bestseller The Cartel, The Power of the Dog, Savages, and The Winter of Frankie Machine. Savages was made into a major film by three-time Oscar winning writer-director Oliver Stone. The Cartel is scheduled to begin production in 2019. A former investigator, anti-terrorist trainer, and trial consultant, Winslow lives in California and Rhode Island.

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• Feb 28, 2019

  6:00pm-7:30pm

  Poetry Reading with Jennifer Franklin and Sally Bliumis-Dunn

  Grave illness, profound disability, and stunning cruelty and betrayal are Franklin’s catalysts in No Small Gift: turning the chaos of her trauma into meaning, rediscovering a voice embedded under sutures and scars, making a whole from rent parts. As a series, the poems in Bliumis-Dunn’s Echolocation…

  Grave illness, profound disability, and stunning cruelty and betrayal are Franklin’s catalysts in No Small Gift: turning the chaos of her trauma into meaning, rediscovering a voice embedded under sutures and scars, making a whole from rent parts.
  
  As a series, the poems in Bliumis-Dunn’s Echolocation swing back and forth from the natural world keenly observed—rain, birds, sunflowers, even a clam— to the contortions of the human heart, mostly caused by hurt and loss. And isn’t that where the best poetry resides, between the thing and the emotion, the swan and the grief? —BILLY COLLINS
  
  Jennifer Franklin (AB Brown, MFA Columbia) is the author of No Small Gift (Four Way Books 2018) and Looming (Elixir Press, 2015). Her poetry has appeared in Blackbird, Boston Review, Gettysburg Review, Guernica, The Nation, Paris Review,“poem-a-day” on poets.org, and Prairie Schooner. She is co-editor of Slapering Hol Press. She teaches poetry workshops and seminars at the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, where she serves as Program Director. She lives in New York City.
  
  Sally Bliumis-Dunn teaches Modern Poetry at Manhattanville College and the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. Her poems appeared in New Ohio Review, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, PLUME, Poetry London, the NYT, PBS NewsHour, upstreet, The Writer’s Almanac, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day, and Ted Kooser’s column, among others. In 2002, she was a finalist for the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize. Her two books, Talking Underwater and Second Skin were published by Wind Publications in 2007 and 2010. Galapagos Poems published by Kattywompus Press in 2016. Her third full-length collection, Echolocation, was published by Plume editions Madhat Press in March of 2018. Shortly afterwards she was interviewed by Nin Andrews for THE BEST OF AMERICAN POETRY.

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  Feb 28, 2019

  6:30pm-9:00pm

  12th Annual Charles Bukowski Memorial Reading!

  This highly anticipated yearly event is hosted by Three Rooms Press co-directors Kat Georges and Peter Carlaftes and features readings from various authors and prizes including a collection of poetry, cds, rare videos, and rare photos. Held since 2008, the event will feature performances of Bukowski…

  This highly anticipated yearly event is hosted by Three Rooms Press co-directors Kat Georges and Peter Carlaftes and features readings from various authors and prizes including a collection of poetry, cds, rare videos, and rare photos. Held since 2008, the event will feature performances of Bukowski poems and tales by a unique cast of talented fans including famed monologist Mike Daisey, NYTs bestselling author Reed Farrel Coleman, world-renowned poet George Wallace, playwright/novelist Richard Vetere (Champagne and Cocaine), playwright Michael Puzzo (Spirits of Exit Eleven), poet Puma Perl (Retrograde), and performance artist Diane O’Debra. Admission is $10. A limited open mic will be available for audience members wanted to share their personal favorite Bukowski poem (under 3 minutes).
  
  Charles Bukowski was considered the champion of the outsiders, the lost, the lonely, and the outcasts of society. His work is still vividly relevant today. Overall, Bukowski wrote about the human condition, something that can be applied to any time period regardless of changes in technology, politics, or societal conflict.
  
  Doors open at 6:30pm. (for best seating please arrive early). All attendees have a chance to win Bukowski books, CDs, DVDs, and other prizes!
  
  Le Poisson Rouge is located at 158 Bleecker Street, just West of Thompson Street. For tickets or more information you can call (212) 505-FISH (3474) or visit (https://lpr.com).
  
  For additional press details, including photos, interviews and press passes, please call Peter Carlaftes at 212-731-0574.
  
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  Thursday, February 28

  7:00pm

  Capital City: Samuel Stein with Jeremiah Moss (PRINCE STREET)

  Our cities are changing. Global real estate is now a $217 trillion dollar industry, 36 times the value of all the gold ever mined. It makes up 60 percent of the world's assets, and the most powerful person in the world - the president of the United States - made his name as a landlord and real estate…

  Our cities are changing. Global real estate is now a $217 trillion dollar industry, 36 times the value of all the gold ever mined. It makes up 60 percent of the world's assets, and the most powerful person in the world - the president of the United States - made his name as a landlord and real estate developer.
  
  As Samuel Stein makes clear in this tightly argued book, its through seemingly innocuous profession of city planners that we can best understand the transformations underway. Planners provide a window into the practical dynamics of urban change: the way the state uses and is used by organized capital, and the power of landlords and developers at every level of government. But crucially, planners also possess some of the powers we must leverage if we ever wish to reclaim our cities from real estate capital.
  
  Samuel Stein studies geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and teaches urban studies at Hunter College. His writing on planning politics been published by Jacobin, The Journal of Urban Affairs, Metropolitics, and many other magazines and journals. In addition to studying and teaching urban geography, he worked as a researcher, organizer, and planner on numerous New York City union campaigns, tenant mobilizations, and public policy initiatives.
  
  Jeremiah Moss, creator of the award-winning blog Vanishing New York, is the pen name of Griffin Hansbury. His writing on the city has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Daily News, and online for The New Yorker and The Paris Review. As Hansbury, he is the author of The Nostalgist, a novel, and works as a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City.

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  Thursday, February 28

  7:30pm

  Karen Ellis: Last Night w/ Alex Segura

  YPD detective Lex Cole tracks a missing Brooklyn teen whose bright future is endangered by the ghosts of his unknown father's past, in this highly anticipated sequel to A Map of the Dark. One of the few black kids on his Brighton Beach block, Titus "Crisp" Crespo was raised by his white mother and…

  YPD detective Lex Cole tracks a missing Brooklyn teen whose bright future is endangered by the ghosts of his unknown father's past, in this highly anticipated sequel to A Map of the Dark.
  
  One of the few black kids on his Brighton Beach block, Titus "Crisp" Crespo was raised by his white mother and his Russian grandparents. He has two legacies from his absent father, Mo: his weird name and his brown skin. Crisp has always been the odd kid out, but a fundamentally good kid, with a bright future. But one impulsive decision triggers a horrible domino effect—an arrest, no reason not to accompany his richer, whiter friend Glynnie on a visit to her weed dealer, and a trip onto his father's old home turf where he'll face certain choices he's always strived to avoid.
  
  As Detective Lex Cole tries to unravel the clues from Crisp's night out, they both find that what you don't know about your past can still come back to haunt you.
  
  Karen Ellis lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her family. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America and International Thriller Writers.
  
  Alex Segura is the author of the Anthony Award-nominated Pete Fernandez Mystery series, which includes the upcoming Miami Midnight. He has also written a number of short stories that have appeared in numerous anthologies, and many best-selling and critically acclaimed comic books. He also co-created and co-wrote the scripted crime podcast, LETHAL LIT.
  
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  Friday, March 1

  7:00pm

  112th: Aurelie Vialette on Intellectual Philanthropy

  Join us at Book Culture on 112th on Friday, March 1st at 7pm as we welcome Aurelie Vialette to discuss her book, Intellectual Philanthropy: The Seduction of the Masses (Perdue Studies in Romance Literatures #73). What's in a nineteenth-century philanthropist? Fear of an uprising. But the frightened…

  Join us at Book Culture on 112th on Friday, March 1st at 7pm as we welcome Aurelie Vialette to discuss her book, Intellectual Philanthropy: The Seduction of the Masses (Perdue Studies in Romance Literatures #73).
  
  What's in a nineteenth-century philanthropist? Fear of an uprising. But the frightened philanthropist has a remedy. Aware that the urban surge of the working-class masses in Spain would create a state of emergency, he or she devises a means to seduce the masses away from rebellion by taking on himself or herself the role of the seducer: the capitalist intellectual hero invested in the caretaking of the unpredictable working class. Intellectual Philanthropy examines cultural practices used by philanthropists in modern Iberia. It explains the meaning and role of intellectual philanthropy by focusing on the devices and apparatuses philanthropists devised to realize their projects. Intellectual philanthropists considered themselves activists in that they aimed to impact social structures and deployed a rhetoric of the affect to convince the workers to join their philanthropic enterprise.
  
  Philanthropy, in the nineteenth century, was not necessarily linked to money. Motivations could be moral or political; they could arise from a desire to enhance social status or to acquire influence. To explicitly designate this conceptualization of the philanthropic act, the author proposes its own name: intellectual philanthropy. Intellectual philanthropy is the use of philanthropic platforms by intellectuals to deploy cultural and educational structures in which workers could acquire a cultural capital constructed and organized by the philanthropists. Vialette argues that intellectual philanthropy appeared as a reaction to the feared political and cultural organization of the working class, rather than as a process of worker emancipation.
  
  These philanthropic processes aimed at organizing the -workers emotionally and rationally into what she calls micro-societies. Philanthropists used the technique of seduction and expressed love to and for a targeted class. However, this seduction prevented real communication, and created a moral and symbolic indebtedness. This process was perverse in that, through its cultural and educational structures, philanthropy would give workers cultural capital that was not just emancipatory, but also a way to restrict their agency.

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  Friday, March 1

  7:00pm

  PEN OUT LOUD: LAYLI LONG SOLDIER AND CLAUDIA RANKINE

  Layli Long Soldier - winner of the 2018 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for her vital debut poetry collection WHEREAS - will be in conversation with award-winning poet Claudia Rankine, 2018 PEN/Jean Stein judge and author of Citizen: An American Lyric and forthcoming published play, The White Card. These…

  Layli Long Soldier - winner of the 2018 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for her vital debut poetry collection WHEREAS - will be in conversation with award-winning poet Claudia Rankine, 2018 PEN/Jean Stein judge and author of Citizen: An American Lyric and forthcoming published play, The White Card. These two formidable poets will read from their work and then share more about their literary lineage, writing double consciousness, and their use of language to illuminate and excavate the past.
  
  Presented in collaboration with the Creative Writing Program at The New School.
  
  PEN Out Loud is a partnership between Strand Book Store & PEN America. Ticketed guests may receive emails and updates from both organizations.
  
  Buy a $15 ticket to attend this event. Please note that payment is required for all online event orders at the time of checkout. The event will be located in The New School's Tishman Auditorium at 63 5th Ave, New York, NY 10003.
  
  Layli Long Soldier holds a B.F.A. from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an M.F.A. from Bard College. Her poems have appeared in POETRY Magazine, The New York Times, The American Poet, The American Reader, The Kenyon Review Online, BOMB, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an NACF National Artist Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award. Most recently, she received the 2018 PEN/Jean Stein Award and the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the author of Chromosomory (Q Avenue Press, 2010) and WHEREAS (Graywolf Press, 2017). She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
  
  Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely; two plays including The White Card, which premiered in February 2018 (ArtsEmerson/American Repertory Theater) and will be published with Graywolf Press in 2019, and Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue; as well as numerous video collaborations. She is also the editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. In 2016, she co-founded The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII). Among her numerous awards and honors, Rankine is the recipient of the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, the Poets & Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, United States Artists, and the National Endowment of the Arts. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches at Yale University as the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

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  Friday, March 1

  7:30pm

  Andrea Bartz: The Lost Night w/ Jason Diamond

  Come party like its 2009 with Andrea Bartz and Jason Diamond! In 2009, in a loft complex in Bushwick, Edie is the shining star of a group of recent college graduates. Seductive, mercurial, and beguiling, Edie has the social world in her thrall, and she and her best friends treat New York like a …

  Come party like its 2009 with Andrea Bartz and Jason Diamond!
  
  In 2009, in a loft complex in Bushwick, Edie is the shining star of a group of recent college graduates. Seductive, mercurial, and beguiling, Edie has the social world in her thrall, and she and her best friends treat New York like a playground. When she commits suicide at the end of a long, drunken night, no one can quite believe it. But an overwhelming mix of grief, shock, and long-standing resentment force each friend into their own corner, and, for years, that’s where they stay.
  
  A decade later, Lindsay is content with her life and has come a long way from the drug-addled world of Calhoun Lofts. She has a thriving career in magazines, lives in a cozy apartment, and has true adult friendships. But when a chance reunion leads Lindsay to discover an unsettling video from that terrible, hazy night, she starts to wonder if Edie was actually murdered—and, worse perhaps, if she herself was involved. As she rifles through those months in 2009—combing through case files, old technology, and her fractured memory—Lindsay is forced to confront the demons of her own violent history to bring the truth to light.
  
  Andrea Bartz is a Brooklyn-based journalist and coauthor of the blog-turned-book Stuff Hipsters Hate (Ulysses Press, 2010), which The New Yorker called "depressingly astute." Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Marie Claire, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Women's Health, Martha Stewart Living, Redbook, Elle, and many other outlets, and she's held editorial positions at Glamour, Psychology Today, and Self, among other titles.
  
  Jason Diamond founded the site Vol. 1 Brooklyn. Vol 1., launched Julius Singer Press and curates regular free literary events, including the popular 3-Minute Stories series. He has written for The New York Times, Outside, The Paris Review, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, Eater, The Wall Street Journal, New Republic, Vice, Bookforum, Tablet, The Awl, Pitchfork, McSweeny's, NPR, and many other fine outlets. His memoir, Searching For John Hughes, was released in November 2016. His next book, The Sprawl, will be released by Coffee House Press in 2020. He lives in Brooklyn.

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  Books Are Magic

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  Saturday, March 2

  7:00pm

  Nina LaCour: We Are Okay

  You go through life thinking there’s so much you need…. Until you leave with only your phone, your wallet, and a picture of your mother. Marin hasn’t spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend…

  You go through life thinking there’s so much you need…. Until you leave with only your phone, your wallet, and a picture of your mother. Marin hasn’t spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend Mabel. But even thousands of miles away from the California coast, at college in New York, Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she’s tried to outrun. Now, months later, alone in an emptied dorm for winter break, Marin waits. Mabel is coming to visit and Marin will be forced to face everything that’s been left unsaid and finally confront the loneliness that has made a home in her heart.
  
  An intimate whisper that packs an indelible punch, We Are Okay is Nina LaCour at her finest. This gorgeously crafted and achingly honest portrayal of grief will leave you urgent to reach across any distance to reconnect with the people you love.
  
  Nina LaCour is the Michael L. Printz Award winning and bestselling author of We Are Okay, Hold Still, Everything Leads to You and The Disenchantments. She is also the co-author, with David Levithan, of You Know Me Well. A life-long lover of books and storytelling, she is on the faculty of Hamline University's MFAC program, runs The Slow Novel Lab, an online novel writing course, and hosts "Keeping a Notebook: a podcast on writing." She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her wife and daughter. You can find her on Instagram and Twitter @nina_lacour or at ninalacour.com
  
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  Sunday, March 3

  11:00am

  Sharp: Michelle Dean with Meg Wolitzer

  A discussion of the brilliant writers—Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Susan Sontag and Joan Didion, to name a few—featured in Michelle Dean’s Sharp, a mix of biography, literary criticism and cultural history examining how they asserted themselves through their writing in the male-dominant…

  A discussion of the brilliant writers—Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Susan Sontag and Joan Didion, to name a few—featured in Michelle Dean’s Sharp, a mix of biography, literary criticism and cultural history examining how they asserted themselves through their writing in the male-dominant and often hostile intellectual beau monde of twentieth-century New York.

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  92nd Street Y

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  Sunday, March 3

  11:00am

  Sharp: Michelle Dean with Meg Wolitzer

  A discussion of the brilliant writers—Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Susan Sontag and Joan Didion, to name a few—featured in Michelle Dean’s Sharp, a mix of biography, literary criticism and cultural history examining how they asserted themselves through their writing in the male-dominant…

  A discussion of the brilliant writers—Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Susan Sontag and Joan Didion, to name a few—featured in Michelle Dean’s Sharp, a mix of biography, literary criticism and cultural history examining how they asserted themselves through their writing in the male-dominant and often hostile intellectual beau monde of twentieth-century New York.

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  92Y Tribeca

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• Sunday, March 3

  3:00pm

  The Vision She Sees: A Conversation among Female Film Professionals

  In the context of MoMA’s “Carte Blanche: Mariette Rissenbeek on German Women Cinematographers” film series (March 1–12) and in cooperation with German Films Service and Marketing GmbH, Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation about "The Vision She Sees: A Conversation among Female Film Professionals"…

  In the context of MoMA’s “Carte Blanche: Mariette Rissenbeek on German Women Cinematographers” film series (March 1–12) and in cooperation with German Films Service and Marketing GmbH, Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation about "The Vision She Sees: A Conversation among Female Film Professionals" among Mariette Rissenbeek and cinematographers Daniela Knapp, Sophie Maintigneux, Jakobine Motz, Ulrike Ottinger, and Leah Striker, which will be moderated by Professor Fatima Naqvi.
  
  About the film series at MoMA:
  
  In 2020, Mariette Rissenbeek will become the first woman to lead the Berlin Film Festival (as executive director, with newly appointed artistic director Carlo Chatrian)—and, by extension, any of the “big three” European festivals (including Cannes and Venice). This milestone, which took 69 years to achieve, is cause for long-overdue celebration. Rissenbeek began her career in production, before becoming familiar to lovers of German cinema through her work as head of the film-promotion agency German Films. In celebration of her staunch support for women throughout the industry, MoMA has invited her to select 11 must-see films shot by German women cinematographers. “It was very exciting but at the same time quite challenging when MoMA offered me a Carte Blanche to present a number of recent German films,” Rissenbeek says. “For me personally, the female view on society and its topics has always played a crucial role. From its very beginnings, cinema tells its stories in pictures, and they are right at the center of cinematographic art. So it seemed not only natural but, rather, mandatory to work with exactly that point of view: pictures made by women, women behind the camera.”
  
  About the speakers:
  
  Daniela Knapp was born in Austria and is currently based in Berlin. Since graduating from the Film Academy Baden Württemberg, she has been working consistently with (her partner in crime) director Sven Taddicken (Emmas Glück and Gleissendes Glück, among other films). Her loyalty also has resulted in an ongoing creative partnerships with Julia von Heinz (Hannas Reise and Katharina Luther, among other films). For Katharina Luther Daniela Knapp received the „Bavarian Fernsehpreis for Best Cinematography“and for her work on Poll, directed by Chris Kraus, the prestigious „Deutscher Filmpreis for Best Cinematography.”
  
  Sophie Maintigneux was born in Antony (France). After training as an assistant camera operator, she began working as a cinematographer in 1984. She participated as director of photography in over 70 fiction feature films and documentaries to date, having worked with Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard, Michael Klier, Jan Schütte, Rudolph Thome, Helga Reidemeister, Philipp Gröning, Marcel Gisler, Judith Kennel, Lilo Mangelsdorff, Erica von Moeller, Maria Teresa Camoglio, Michael Radford, Mareike Wegener, Ingo Haeb, Doris Metz, and Immogen Kimmel. In 1990, Sophie Maintigneux was presented with the German Film Critics' Association Award for Best Photography. Other awards and nominations include: Best Photography Award at the Dignes Film Festival (1989); Best Photography from Hessen Federal State (1990); the Max Ophüls Festival: Femina Award (2001); a Camerimage Golden Frog nomination (2001); Silver Award at the 22nd International Film Camera Festival in Vitola (2001); Best Photography at the 45th Leipzig International Documentary Film Festival (2002); the German Camera Award in the Documentary Category (2003 and 2009); plus a nomination for the same award in 2006 and another for the German Camera Award in the Feature Film category (2007). In 2017, she received the Cinematographer Award at The WIFTS Foundation International Visionary Awards. Her film credits include (among other things): Le Rayon vert (1984); Les quatre aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle (1985); King Lear (1987); Überall ist es besser, wo wir nicht sind (1988); Rupture (1988); Winkelmanns Reisen (1990); Ostkreuz (1991); Liebe auf den ersten Blick (1991); Rosa Negra (1991), Das Tripas Coração (1992), Frankie, Johnny und die anderen (1992), Küss mich (1994); F. est un salaud (1997); L' amour, l' argent, l' amour (2000); Heidi M. (2000); Gotteszell (2000); Venus Boyz (2001); NeuFundLand (2001); Liebe und Verlangen (2002); Damen und Herren ab 65 (2002); Siehst du mich? (2004); Hannah (2006); Alter und Schönheit (2008); Fräulein Stines fährt um die Welt (2008); Die dünnen Mädchen (2008); Liebe Geschichte (2009); Michel Petrucciani (2010); Mark Lombardi—Kunst und Konspiration (2011); Rosie (2012); Sternstunde meines Leben (2013); Das Zimmermädchen Lynn (2014); CinéKino (2015); Der Primus. Franz Joseph Strauß (2015); Draußen (2016); Mario (2017); Widerstandsmomente (2017); and In Transition (2018). Sophie Maintigneux is currently a professor at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. She has taught at several film schools, chiefly at the DFFB (German Film and Television Academy Berlin). She is currently based in Berlin and holds dual German–French nationality.
  
  Jakobine Motz was born in 1967 and grew up in the GDR. She studied cinematography at the University of Film and Television “Konrad Wolf” in Potsdam-Babelsberg. In 1994, she went to Ghana for one year as a DAAD scholarship holder. From 1996 until 1998, she attended the Advanced Film and Television Studies for Cinematography at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, where she graduated with a Master Degree of Fine Arts. Afterwards, she returned to Germany and worked as lecturer and assistant professor at the University of Film and Television “Konrad Wolf” in Potsdam-Babelsberg unti 2003. Since then, she has been working as director of photography as well as editor, author for documentary and fiction film, and lecturer.
  
  Fatima Naqvi (moderator) is professor of German and Film Studies at Rutgers University, where she has taught since 2000. Professor Naqvi’s research interests include the intersection of architecture and literature; the theorization of interdisciplinarity; ecological films; Austrian authors and filmmakers of the 20th and 21st centuries; and affect studies. She has written books on the perception of victimhood in Western European culture between 1968 and the new millennium (The Literary and Cultural Rhetoric of Victimhood, Palgrave 2007); the films of Michael Haneke (Trügerische Vertrautheit, Synema 2010; The While Ribbon, Camden House, forthcoming 2019; Michael Haneke: Interviews, University Press of Mississippi, forthcoming 2019); and the intersection of architecture and educational discourse in the works of Thomas Bernhard (How We Learn Where We Live; Northwestern 2016). One current research project focuses on the topic of “fremdschämen”—the sense of shame for another—in contemporary media culture (special attention is devoted to the works of Ulrich Seidl, Erwin Wurm, and Elfriede Jelinek). A second project delves into the problem of generosity and environmental consciousness in recent documentary films. Professor Naqvi teaches courses on Vienna 1900; Robert Musil and His Age; the German novel of the post-1945 period; literature and architecture; modernism; and film (“From Haunted Screen to Hyperreality,” “Screening German Histories,” ”Our Threatened Planet: Documentary Films and Ecocriticism,” “Weimar Cinema.”)
  
  Ulrike Ottinger has been a unique and provocative voice in German cinema since her debut in the early 1970s. Over the past 37 years, she has directed 26 films, including feature-length fiction films and experimental documentaries. She received numerous awards, including the Audience Jury Prize in Montréal, the Bundesfilmpreis, and the German Film Critics Award. Her films have been shown at multiple retrospectives, including the Cinémathèque Française in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Ulrike Ottinger has been a photographer throughout her career presenting works at the Biennale di Venezia, the Documenta, and the Berlin Biennale, among others. She has also worked as a theatre director and ethnographer and she has published several books.
  
  Mariette Rissenbeek studied German Language & Literature at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands) and at the Free University of Berlin. After moving to Berlin she started her career in film at the independent distribution company Tobis Filmkunst. Being in charge of acquisitions and PR coordination, she was responsible for, among others, La Reine Margot by Patrice Chereau; The Fabulous Baker Boys by Steve Kloves; Thelma and Louise by Ridley Scott; L’Amant by Jean-Jacques Annaud; La Petite Vouleuse by Claude Miller; and Belle Epoque by Fernando Trueba. Tobis Filmkunst was co-producer on Wim Wenders’ award-winning film Faraway, So Close! and Mariette Rissenbeek was in charge of the international sales of the film. In 1995, she started to work as a producer at the independent production company Regina Ziegler Filmproduktion in Berlin. She was responsible for the production of theatrical projects like The Waiting Room by Jos Stelling; Elephants Never Forget by Detlev Buck; Samolico by Mika Kaurismäki; and Solo für Klarinette by Nico Hofmann. In addition, she produced a number of films for the public broadcaster ZDF including the miniseries Sturmzeit by Bernd Böhlich and Beckmann & Markowski by Kai Wessel, as well as the romantic comedy Champagner und Kamillentee by Marijan Vajda. Mariette Rissenbeek established her own production company in 1998 in Hamburg and produced the feature film Highway Society by Mika Kaurismäki, which starred the well-known German actors Kai Wiesinger and Marie Zielke. In 2000, she moved to Munich and produced a television film Aus Liebe zu Tom by Juliane Hohl for the commercial broadcaster SAT1, working at Hofmann & Voges Entertainment, Munich. Mariette Rissenbeek was responsible for festival promotion and public relations at German Films Service + Marketing GmbH when she started working there in 2003. Since 2011, she is the Managing Director of German Films, the national institution in charge of the international promotion of German cinema.
  
  Leah Striker had a background in mathematics, punkrock music, and photography before she pursued an MfA at the American Film Institute (AFI) conservatory in Los Angeles. Since graduating in 2005, she has shot a wide range of feature films for both cinema and television in Europe and other parts of the world. Some of her collaborations for feature films with European directors include Stiller Sommer (director: Nana Neul); Wolfskinder and Krieg (director: Rick Ostermann), both of which opened at the Venice Film festival; and South African apartheid-era Shepherds and Butchers (director: Oliver Schmitz) which premiered at the Berlinale in 2016.
  
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  "The Vision She Sees: A Conversation among Female Film Professionals" is a DAAD-sponsored event.

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  Monday, March 4

  7:00pm

  Foucault in California: David Wade and Camille Robcis (PRINCE STREET)

  In The Lives of Michel Foucault, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking "nostalgically...of 'an unforgettable evening on LSD, in carefully prepared doses, in the desert night, with delicious music, and] nice people'." This came to pass in 1975, when Foucault spent Memorial Day…

  In The Lives of Michel Foucault, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking "nostalgically...of 'an unforgettable evening on LSD, in carefully prepared doses, in the desert night, with delicious music, and] nice people'." This came to pass in 1975, when Foucault spent Memorial Day weekend in Southern California at the invitation of Simeon Wade-ostensibly to guest-lecture at the Claremont Graduate School where Wade was an assistant professor, but in truth to explore what he called the Valley of Death. Led by Wade and Wade's partner Michael Stoneman, Foucault experimented with psychotropic drugs for the first time; by morning he was crying and proclaiming that he knew Truth. Foucault in California is Wade's firsthand account of that long weekend. Felicitous and often humorous prose vaults readers headlong into the erudite and subversive circles of the Claremont intelligentsia: parties in Wade's bungalow, intensive dialogues between Foucault and his disciples at a Taoist utopia in the Angeles Forest (whose denizens call Foucault "Country Joe"); and, of course, the fabled synesthetic acid trip in Death Valley, set to the strains of Bach and Stockhausen. Part search for higher consciousness, part bacchanal, this book chronicles a young man's burgeoning friendship with one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers.
  
  Simeon Wade (1940-2017) In all parts of his multi-dimensional life in Southern California, teaching at Claremont Graduate School, Otis College of Art and Design, and Samra Acupuncture School and practicing as a psychiatric nurse at the Ventura County Psychiatric Ward, Simeon stressed the teachings and practices of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, even living his life in a Deleuzian revolutionary framework.

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  Monday, March 4

  7:00pm

  RHETT MILLER: NO MORE POEMS!

  In the tradition of Shel Silverstein, these poems bring a fresh new twist to the classic dilemmas of childhood as well as a perceptive eye to the foibles of modern family life. Full of clever wordplay and bright visual gags—and toilet humor to spare—these twenty-three rhyming poems make for an ideal…

  In the tradition of Shel Silverstein, these poems bring a fresh new twist to the classic dilemmas of childhood as well as a perceptive eye to the foibles of modern family life. Full of clever wordplay and bright visual gags—and toilet humor to spare—these twenty-three rhyming poems make for an ideal read-aloud experience.
  
  Taking on the subjects of a bullying baseball coach and annoying little brothers with equally sly humor, renowned lyricist Rhett Miller's clever verses will have the whole family cackling.
  
  Join us as Rhett shares his book!
  
  Rhett Miller is a singer-songwriter known for fronting the popular rock band Old 97's. Between projects with the Old 97's Miller has released six solo albums, most recently 2018's The Messenger. In addition to his songwriting, Miller has branched out to write fiction and nonfiction. He has authored short stories, essays and articles that have been featured in Rolling Stone, Bookforum, Sports Illustrated, McSweeney's, The Atlantic and Salon. When not on tour, Miller resides in New Paltz, New York with his wife and two children.

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  Monday, March 4

  7:30pm

  Aatish Taseer: The Twice-Born w/ Karan Mahajan

  When Aatish Taseer first came to Benares, the spiritual capital of Hinduism, he was eighteen, the Westernized child of an Indian journalist and a Pakistani politician, raised among the intellectual and cultural elite of New Delhi. Nearly two decades later, Taseer leaves his life in Manhattan to go …

  When Aatish Taseer first came to Benares, the spiritual capital of Hinduism, he was eighteen, the Westernized child of an Indian journalist and a Pakistani politician, raised among the intellectual and cultural elite of New Delhi. Nearly two decades later, Taseer leaves his life in Manhattan to go in search of the Brahmins, wanting to understand his own estrangement from India through their ties to tradition.
  
  Known as the twice-born—first into the flesh, and again when initiated into their vocation—the Brahmins are a caste devoted to sacred learning. But what Taseer finds in Benares is a window on an India as internally fractured as his own continent-bridging identity. At every turn, the seductive, homogenizing force of modernity collides with the insistent presence of the past. In a globalized world, to be modern is to renounce India—and yet the tide of nationalism is rising, heralded by cries of “Victory to Mother India!” and an outbreak of anti-Muslim violence.
  
  From the narrow streets of the temple town to a Modi rally in Delhi, among the blossoming cotton trees and the bathers and burning corpses of the Ganges, Taseer struggles to reconcile magic with reason, faith in tradition with hope for the future and the brutalities of the caste system, all the while challenging his own myths about himself, his past, and his countries old and new.
  
  Aatish Taseer was born in 1980. He is the author of the memoir Stranger to History: A Son’s Journey Through Islamic Lands and the acclaimed novels: The Way Things Were, a finalist for the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize; The Temple-Goers, which was short-listed for the Costa First Novel Award; and Noon. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. He is a contributing writer for The International New York Times and lives in New Delhi and New York.
  
  Karan Mahajan grew up in New Delhi, India and moved to the US for college. His first novel, Family Planning (2008), was a finalist for the International Dylan Thomas Prize. It was published in nine countries. His second novel, The Association of Small Bombs (2016), was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Awards and was named one of the "10 Best Books of 2016" by The New York Times. Karan's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker online, The New Republic and other venues. From 2018-2019 he will be a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
  
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  Tuesday, March 5

  7:00pm

  112: Charlie Bondus, Rachel Hadas, and Gardner McFall

  Join us at Book Culture on 112th on Tuesday, March 5th at 7pm for an evening of poetry with Charlie Bondus, Rachel Hadas, and Gardner McFall on their new collections, Divining Bones (Bondus), Poems for Camilla (Hadas), Iphigenia Plays (Hadas) and On The Line (McFall). Divining Bones: Boys become…

  Join us at Book Culture on 112th on Tuesday, March 5th at 7pm for an evening of poetry with Charlie Bondus, Rachel Hadas, and Gardner McFall on their new collections, Divining Bones (Bondus), Poems for Camilla (Hadas), Iphigenia Plays (Hadas) and On The Line (McFall).
  
  Divining Bones:
  
  Boys become crones; baked bread becomes a baby; electricity turns out to be Jesus; a first grade class stages Oedipus Rex. At the center of it all stands Baba Yaga, the child-eating forest witch and earth goddess of Russian folklore. Under her tutelage,
  
  Charlie Bondhus uses the occult and the magical to explore the fluidity of age, gender, and self-perception in this radical and playful book.
  
  Poems for Camilla
  
  Rachel Hadas's remarkable new book treats the Aeneid as a commentary on our times. Just as Virgil wrote against the backdrop of the self-conflicted, imperial turbulence of Rome, Hadas examines our republic as it veers off into possibly irreversible disorder. The good news, as Hadas reminds us with her characteristic humanity and intelligence, is that individuals and societies often survive crises rather than succumbing to them. Against the jolts and jars of history, she asserts life's quiet miracles, including, in her case, the generational continuity extending from her revered father to the beloved grandchild to whom this book is dedicated.
  
  Iphigenia Plays:
  
  At the heart of Iphigenia’s enduring story are an ambitious, opportunistic, and indecisive leader and the daughter whose life he is willing to sacrifice. In The Iphigenia Plays, poet Rachel Hadas offers a new generation of readers a graceful, clear, and powerful translation of Euripides’s two spellbinding (and very different) plays drawn from this legend: Iphigenia in Aulis and Iphigenia among the Taurians.
  
  Even for readers unfamiliar with Greek mythology or drama, these plays are suspenseful, poignant, and haunting. Euripides’s ability to evoke emotion and raise difficult questions has long engaged viewers and readers alike. Taken together, the two plays illuminate timeless human conflicts, showcasing individuals and families ensnared by the fury of war, of politics, of religion, and of ambition. Euripidean characters are always second-guessing themselves; now new readers can also ponder their dilemmas.
  
  Poet and translator Rachel Hadas highlights the lyricism, emotion, and sheer humanity of Euripides’s plays. Mordant humor is here; so are heartbreak and tenderness. Hadas offers an Iphigenia story that resonates with our own troubled times and demonstrates anew the genius of one of the world’s supreme dramatists.
  
  On The Lines:
  
  The poems in Gardner McFall’s poignant, stirring collection “On the Line” fit together like links in a bracelet. Love and light irradiate from the story of her pilot father lost at war and his daughter’s becoming herself in his absence, while keeping all the doors of her life open, though she knows the “death-plane” will never return out of the foggy night. Anger, longing, regret, & grief are part of this translucent self-portrait, but also the lucky knowledge that nothing is to be gained from lingering in “history’s dark rooms.” Out of the blood and valor of war, with its infinite losses, Gardner McFall has created a polished, durable sequence of poems lit with piercing glances into the American life. What a touching and wonderful little book.
  
  –Henri Cole
  
  On the Line is a remarkable collection of poems whose loss is both universal and deeply personal. Gardner McFall, the daughter of an American pilot who went missing in the Vietnam war, portrays her own daily experience as wife and mother while all the while lamenting her father’s death: “I have kept / all the doors open in my life / so that he could walk in.” Ironically, she remembers how he dutifully accepted his command, yet privately confessed, “We can’t win,” a bitter truth the world was to discover about the war. Decades later, trying to make sense of it all, the poet retraces her father’s path by traveling to Vietnam. Deepening the quest, she delves into history, myth, and the truth that can be found in the poet’s imagery. Her search is never-ending, and it is our search. Her grief is ours.
  
  –Grace Schulman

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  Tuesday, March 5

  7:00pm

  Columbus: Charles Glass on They Fought Alone

  Join Harper's Magazine and Book Culture on Columbus on Tuesday, March 5th at 7pm, as we welcome Tom Hansell for a discussion of his book, They Fought Alone: The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France. “Highly detailed and fast-paced, Charles Glass’s They …

  Join Harper's Magazine and Book Culture on Columbus on Tuesday, March 5th at 7pm, as we welcome Tom Hansell for a discussion of his book, They Fought Alone: The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France.
  
  “Highly detailed and fast-paced, Charles Glass’s They Fought Alone is a must-read for those whose passion is the Resistance literature of World War II.” —Alan Furst, author of A Hero of France
  
  From the bestselling author of Americans in Paris and The Deserters, the astounding story of Britain's Special Operations Executive, one of World War II's most important secret fighting forces
  
  As far as the public knew, Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) did not exist. After the defeat of the French Army and Britain's retreat from the Continent in June 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill created the top-secret espionage operation to "set Europe ablaze." The agents infiltrated Nazi-occupied territory, parachuting behind enemy lines and hiding in plain sight, quietly but forcefully recruiting, training, and arming local French résistants to attack the German war machine. SOE would not only change the course of the war, but the nature of combat itself. Of the many brave men and women conscripted, two Anglo-American recruits, the Starr brothers, stood out to become legendary figures to the guerillas, assassins, and saboteurs they led.
  
  While both brothers were sent across the channel to organize against the Germans, their fates in war could hardly have been more different. Captain George Starr commanded networks of résistants in southwest France, cutting German communications, destroying weapons factories, and delaying the arrival of Nazi troops to Normandy by seventeen days after D-Day. Younger brother Lieutenant John Starr laid groundwork for resistance in the Burgundy countryside until he was betrayed, captured, tortured, and imprisoned by the Nazis in France and sent to a series of concentration camps in Germany and Austria. Feats of boldness and bravado were many, but appalling scandals, including George's supposed torture and execution of Nazis prisoners, and John's alleged collaboration with his German captors, overshadowed them all. At the war's end, Britain, France, and the United States awarded both brothers medals for heroism, and George would become one of only three among thousands of SOE operatives to achieve the rank of colonel. Yet, their battle honors did little to allay postwar allegations against them, and when they returned to England, their government accused both brothers of heinous war crimes.
  
  Here, for the first time, is the story of one of the great clandestine organizations of World War II, and of two heroic brothers whose ordeals during and after the war challenged the accepted myths of Britain's wartime resistance in occupied France. Written with complete and unrivaled access to only recently declassified documents from Britain's SOE files, French archives, family letters, diaries, and court records, along with interviews from surviving wartime Resistance fighters, They Fought Alone is a real-life thriller. Renowned journalist and war correspondent Charles Glass exposes a dramatic tale of spies, sabotage, and the daring men and women who risked everything to change the course of World War II.

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  Tuesday, March 5

  7:00pm

  Jennifer E. Smith: Field Notes on Love w/ Jenny Han

  It’s the perfect idea for a romantic week together: traveling across America by train. But then Hugo’s girlfriend dumps him. Her parting gift: the tickets for their long-planned last-hurrah-before-uni trip. Only, it’s been booked under her name. Nontransferable, no exceptions. Mae is still reeling…

  It’s the perfect idea for a romantic week together: traveling across America by train. But then Hugo’s girlfriend dumps him. Her parting gift: the tickets for their long-planned last-hurrah-before-uni trip. Only, it’s been booked under her name. Nontransferable, no exceptions.
  
  Mae is still reeling from being rejected from USC’s film school. When she stumbles across Hugo’s ad for a replacement Margaret Campbell (her full name!), she’s certain it’s exactly the adventure she needs to shake off her disappointment and jump-start her next film.
  
  A cross-country train trip with a complete stranger might not seem like the best idea. But to Mae and Hugo, both eager to escape their regular lives, it makes perfect sense. What starts as a convenient arrangement soon turns into something more. But when life outside the train catches up to them, can they find a way to keep their feelings for each other from getting derailed?
  
  Jennifer E. Smith is the author of eight novels for young adults, including The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight. She earned a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and her work has been translated into thirty-three languages. She lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter at @JenESmith or visit her at jenniferesmith.com.
  
  Jenny Han is the New York Times bestselling author of Shug, The Summer I Turned Pretty series, co-author of the Burn for Burn series, and most recently, the To All the Boys I've Loved Before trilogy. A former children’s bookseller, she earned her MFA in creative writing at the New School. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her at DearJennyHan.com.

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  Tuesday, March 5

  7:30pm

  AMANDA LOVELACE: THE MERMAID'S VOICE RETURNS IN THIS ONE

  Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet and USA TODAY bestselling author Amanda Lovelace presents the mermaid’s voice returns in this one — the third and final installment in her “women are some kind of magic” series, featuring a foreword from Lang Leav and 13 guest poems from leading voices in poetry …

  Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet and USA TODAY bestselling author Amanda Lovelace presents the mermaid’s voice returns in this one — the third and final installment in her “women are some kind of magic” series, featuring a foreword from Lang Leav and 13 guest poems from leading voices in poetry such as Nikita Gill, KY Robinson, and Orion Carloto.
  
  The mermaid is known for her siren song, luring bedroom-eyed sailors to their demise. However, beneath these misguided myths are tales of escapism and healing, which Lovelace weaves throughout this empowering collection of poetry, taking you on a journey from the sea to the stars. They tried to silence her once and for all, but the mermaid’s voice returns in this one.
  
  Joining Amanda are a group of writers who will be reading some of their work, featuring:
  
  Trista Mateer
  
  Caitlyn Siehl
  
  Clementine von Radics
  
  Gretchen Gomez
  
  Sophia Elaine Hanson
  
  Alison Malee
  
  Join us on the second floor as Amanda shares her latest work!
  
  Growing up a word-devourer & avid fairytale lover, it was only natural that Amanda Lovelace began writing books of her own. When she isn’t reading or writing, she can be found waiting for pumpkin spice coffee to come back into season and binge-watching Gilmore girls (before you ask: Team Jess all the way). The lifelong poetess and storyteller currently lives in New Jersey with her spouse, their bunnycat, and a combined book collection so large it will soon need its own home. She has her B.A. in English literature with a minor in sociology. Winner of two Goodreads choice awards for best poetry and a USA TODAY and Publishers Weekly bestseller.

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  Mar 6, 2019

  6:30pm-7:30pm

  Workers and Wages in America Today

  In this time of low unemployment, why is it so hard for American workers to make a living? Why haven’t the economy’s gains of the recent past meant higher wages for everyone? A panel of experts examines the power, or weakness, of the American worker—looking at factors such as features of U.S. markets,…

  In this time of low unemployment, why is it so hard for American workers to make a living? Why haven’t the economy’s gains of the recent past meant higher wages for everyone? A panel of experts examines the power, or weakness, of the American worker—looking at factors such as features of U.S. markets, technology, globalization, gendered wage patterns, and the decline of unions. Featuring Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize–winning economist, New York Times columnist, and distinguished professor at The Graduate Center; Heidi Shierholz, senior economist and director of policy at The Economic Policy Institute; Arindrajit Dube, professor of economics at UMass Amherst; and Eduardo Porter, economics reporter for the business section of The New York Times (moderator).
  
  Presented with the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality.

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  Wednesday, March 6

  7:00pm

  112: Mary Gordon on On Thomas Merton

  Join us at Book Culture on 112th on Wednesday, March 6th at 7pm as we welcome Mary Gordon to discuss her latest book, On Thomas Merton. Author Katheen Hill will be joining Mary in conversation. From the best-selling novelist and memoirist: a deeply personal view of her discovery of the celebrated …

  Join us at Book Culture on 112th on Wednesday, March 6th at 7pm as we welcome Mary Gordon to discuss her latest book, On Thomas Merton. Author Katheen Hill will be joining Mary in conversation.
  
  From the best-selling novelist and memoirist: a deeply personal view of her discovery of the celebrated modern monk and thinker through his writings.
  
  “If Thomas Merton had been a writer and not a monk, we would never have heard of him. If Thomas Merton had been a monk and not a writer, we would never have heard of him.”
  
  So begins acclaimed author Mary Gordon in this probing, candid exploration of the man who became the face and voice of mid-twentieth-century American Catholicism. Approaching Merton “writer to writer,” Gordon illuminates his life and work through his letters, journals, autobiography, and fiction. Pope Francis has celebrated Merton as “a man of dialogue,” and here Gordon shows that the dialogue was as much internal as external—an unending conversation, and at times a heated conflict, between Merton the monk and Merton the writer.
  
  Rich with excerpts from Merton’s own writing, On Thomas Merton produces an intimate portrait of a man who “lived life in all its imperfectability, reaching toward it in exaltation, pulling back in anguish, but insisting on the primacy of his praise as a man of God.”

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  Book Culture

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  Wednesday, March 6

  7:00pm

  ROZ CHAST: GOING INTO TOWN

  New Yorker cartoonist and NYT bestselling author Roz Chast, native Brooklynite-turned-suburban commuter deemed the quintessential New Yorker, has always been intensely alive to the glorious spectacle that is Manhattan—the daily clash of sidewalk racers and dawdlers, the fascinating range of dress …

  New Yorker cartoonist and NYT bestselling author Roz Chast, native Brooklynite-turned-suburban commuter deemed the quintessential New Yorker, has always been intensely alive to the glorious spectacle that is Manhattan—the daily clash of sidewalk racers and dawdlers, the fascinating range of dress codes, and the priceless, nutty outbursts of souls from all walks of life.
  
  For Chast, adjusting to life outside the city was surreal (you can own trees!? you have to drive!?), but she recognized that the reverse was true for her kids. On trips into town, they would marvel at the strange visual world of Manhattan—its blackened sidewalk gum wads, "those West Side Story—things" (fire escapes)—its crazily honeycombed systems and grids.
  
  Told through Chast's singularly zany, laugh-out-loud, touching, and true cartoons, Going into Town is part New York stories (the "overheard and overseen" of the island borough), part personal and practical guide to walking, talking, renting, and venting—an irresistible, one-of-a-kind love letter to the city.
  
  Join us as Roz Chast shares and signs her book!

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  Strand Book Store

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  Wednesday, March 6

  7:30pm

  THALIA BOOK CLUB: TAYARI JONES, AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE

  The award-winning author launches the paperback of her New York Times bestselling novel — a masterpiece of storytelling which tells the story of a couple ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. “An exquisite, timely, and powerful novel that feels both urgent and indispensable." …

  The award-winning author launches the paperback of her New York Times bestselling novel — a masterpiece of storytelling which tells the story of a couple ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined.
  
  “An exquisite, timely, and powerful novel that feels both urgent and indispensable." —Edwidge Danticat
  
  “Haunting . . . Beautifully written.” —The New York Times Book Review
  
  At the Thalia Book Club, readers and writers meet for intimate conversations about compelling new books and favorite classics in fiction, essay, biography, and more. Evenings include an actor performing an excerpt, an interview, a conversation with the audience, and a book signing on stage following the event.
  
  Actors subject to change.
  
  Group discounts are available for groups of fifteen people or more - please contact the Box Office

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  Symphony Space

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  Wednesday, March 6

  7:30pm

  Salvatore Scibona: The Volunteer w/ Colm Tóibín

  A small boy speaking an unknown language is abandoned by his father at an international airport, with only the clothes on his back and a handful of money jammed in the pocket of his coat. So begins The Volunteer. But in order to understand this heartbreaking and indefensible decision, the story must…

  A small boy speaking an unknown language is abandoned by his father at an international airport, with only the clothes on his back and a handful of money jammed in the pocket of his coat. So begins The Volunteer. But in order to understand this heartbreaking and indefensible decision, the story must return to the moment, decades earlier, when a young man named Vollie Frade, almost on a whim, enlists in the United States Marine Corps to fight in Vietnam. Breaking definitively from his rural Iowan parents, Vollie puts in motion an unimaginable chain of events, which sees him go to work for insidious people with intentions he cannot yet grasp. From the Cambodian jungle, to a flophouse in Queens, to a commune in New Mexico, Vollie’s path traces a secret history of life on the margins of America, culminating with an inevitable and terrible reckoning.
  
  With intense feeling, uncommon erudition, and bracing style, Scibona offers at once a pensive exploration of how we are capable of both inventing and discovering our true families and a lacerating interrogation of institutional power at its most commanding and terrifying. An odyssey of loss and salvation ranging across four generations of fathers and sons, The Volunteer is a triumph in the grandest traditions of American storytelling.
  
  Salvatore Scibona's first novel, The End, was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Young Lions Fiction Award. His work has won a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, an O. Henry Award, and a Whiting Award; and the New Yorker named him one of its "20 Under 40" fiction writers to watch. He is the Sue Ann and John Weinberg Director of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
  
  Colm Tóibín is the author of nine novels, including The Blackwater Lightship; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; The Testament of Mary; and Nora Webster, as well as two story collections, and Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, a look at three nineteenth-century Irish authors. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. Three times shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York.

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  Books Are Magic

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  Thursday, March 7

  7:00pm

  Columbus: Harper's Presents Emily Bernard and Mychal Denzel Smith

  Join Harper's Magazine and Book Culture on Columbus on Thursday, March 7th at 7pm, as we welcome Emily Bernard and Mychal Denzel Smith for a discussion of the new book, Black is the Body. This event is ticketed. Tickets are $25 and include a copy of Black is the Body and a one-year subscription to…

  Join Harper's Magazine and Book Culture on Columbus on Thursday, March 7th at 7pm, as we welcome Emily Bernard and Mychal Denzel Smith for a discussion of the new book, Black is the Body.
  
  This event is ticketed. Tickets are $25 and include a copy of Black is the Body and a one-year subscription to Harper’s Magazine.
  
  An extraordinary, exquisitely written memoir (of sorts) that looks at race—in a fearless, penetrating, honest, true way—in twelve telltale, connected, deeply personal essays that explore, up-close, the complexities and paradoxes, the haunting memories and ambushing realities of growing up black in the South with a family name inherited from a white man, of getting a PhD from Yale, of marrying a white man from the North, of adopting two babies from Ethiopia, of teaching at a white college and living in America's New England today. From the acclaimed editor of Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten ("A major contribution," Henry Louis Gates; "Magnificent," Washington Post).
  
  "I am black—and brown, too," writes Emily Bernard. "Brown is the body I was born into. Black is the body of the stories I tell."
  
  And the storytelling, and the mystery of Bernard's storytelling, of getting to the truth, begins with a stabbing in a New England college town. Bernard writes how, when she was a graduate student at Yale, she walked into a coffee shop and, along with six other people, was randomly attacked by a stranger with a knife ("I remember making the decision not to let the oddness of this stranger bother me"). "I was not stabbed because I was black," she writes (the attacker was white), "but I have always viewed the violence I survived as a metaphor for the violent encounter that has generally characterized American race relations. There was no connection between us, yet we were suddenly and irreparably bound by a knife, an attachment that cost us both: him, his freedom; me, my wholeness."
  
  Bernard explores how that bizarre act of violence set her free and unleashed the storyteller in her ("The equation of writing and regeneration is fundamental to black American experience").
  
  She writes in Black Is the Body how each of the essays goes beyond a narrative of black innocence and white guilt, how each is anchored in a mystery, and how each sets out to discover a new way of telling the truth as the author has lived it. "Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably . . . Race is the story of my life, and therefore black is the body of this book."
  
  And what most interests Bernard is looking at "blackness at its borders, where it meets whiteness in fear and hope, in anguish and love."

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  Book Culture

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