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Rachel Giese | Appel Salon

"Could a similar feminist critique that had been applied to gender norms for girls, could we bring that to boys?"—Rachel Giese

Rachel Giese, Todd Minerson and Garvia Bailey in conversation on Giese's new book Boys, and the current state of masculinity.

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PEN America Break Out: Voices From the Inside at the Brooklyn Book Festival 2018
A night of award-winning work from the 2018 Prison Writing Contest staged by Joshua Bennett, Ammayeah Benton, Sergio De La Pava, Baz Dreisinger, Brendan Kiely, Ian Manuel, Jackie Wang, and Rehabilitation Through the Arts’ alumni theater group. Currently incarcerated artists were commissioned to score collaborative movement and song for the event through Dances For Solidarity and Musicambia.
Michael Ondaatje on "Warlight: A Novel" at the 2018 Miami Book Fair
Michael Ondaatje on "Warlight: A Novel" at the 2018 Miami Book Fair interviewed by Jeffrey Brown.

From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement.

In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself—shadowed and luminous at once—we read the story of fourteen-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified service during the war, all of whom seem, in some way, determined now to protect, and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? And what does it mean when the siblings' mother returns after months of silence without their father, explaining nothing, excusing nothing? A dozen years later, Nathaniel begins to uncover all that he didn't know and understand in that time, and it is this journey—through facts, recollection, and imagination—that he narrates in this masterwork from one of the great writers of our time.
Ralph Gibson & Laurie Anderson | Self-Exposure
Self-Exposure is the autobiography of celebrated American art photographer Ralph Gibson. With his 80th birthday on the horizon in January 2019 and a career spanning over 50 years, Gibson is at a point of reflection in his life and work and decided to put pen to paper.

Writing in candid prose, Gibson takes the reader through his life and career from his earliest memories of growing up in California (the son of a Hollywood director, Gibson's childhood is touched by the old glamour of the silver screen: the likes of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth make appearances) to his time in the navy and his continuous love affair with photography.

Gibson's memories are filled with rich characters and period details. Often moving, the narratives of his at times troublesome childhood provide a rich background to the charismatic artist Gibson has become. Gibson covers a range of topics such as music, Catholicism, his wife, Mary Jane, and a long line of fellow artists and photographers such as Dorothea Lange and Robert Frank. His ruminations on his life so far display a deep, thoughtful understanding and self-awareness that make this book a fascinating read in itself as well as an illuminating companion to his work.

What emerges is an insight into the mind of an incredible, highly decorated artist. Evocatively illustrated, Self-Exposure presents Gibson's life story alongside his photographic work. Designed and produced in close collaboration with Gibson, this large-format publication—as much a biography as it is an artist's book—is Gibson's most personal book to date.

Join us as Ralph shares his latest work with fellow artist Laurie Anderson.

Ralph Gibson was born in Los Angeles in 1939. In 1956 he enlisted in the navy, where he began studying photography. His work is widely exhibited and held in public collections around the world, such as the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Laurie Anderson is a American avant-garde artist, composer, musician and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. Initially trained in violin and sculpting, Anderson pursued a variety of performance art projects in New York during the 1970s, focusing particularly on language, technology, and visual imagery.
Esi Edugyan: The Waterstones Interview
Esi Edugyan's new novel, Washington Black, saw her shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for the second book in a row. We sat down with her to talk about the book's theme's of slavery, freedom and guilt; and to discuss how much progress has really been made for black people in America and elsewhere since abolition.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs: "Small Fry" | Talks at Google
Lisa Brennan-Jobs reads from and discusses her new memoir, "Small Fry," a poignant coming-of-age story about growing up in Silicon Valley that chronicles her relationship with her father, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
Nomi Prins: "Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World" | Talks at Google
From a former Wall Street insider and author of All the Presidents' Bankers, a searing exposé of the collusion between public and private banks as they seek to control global markets and dictate economic policy. Central banks and institutions like the IMF and the World Bank are overstepping the boundaries of their mandates by using the flow of money to control global markets and dictate economic policy both at the domestic and global level. These public institutions have become so dependent on funding from private banking and the revolving door between the two worlds is so smooth that public and private banks are effectively working toward the same goals.
Andrew Sean Greer: 2018 National Book Festival
Andrew Sean Greer discusses "Less" at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

Speaker Biography: Andrew Sean Greer is the best-selling author of five works of fiction, including "The Confessions of Max Tivoli," which was named a best book of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. He is the recipient of the Northern California Book Award, the California Book Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, the O Henry award for short fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Public Library. His new novel is "Less" (Lee Boudreaux), winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Greer lives in San Francisco. He has traveled to all of the locations in this novel, but he is only big in Italy.
Indigenous Writers' Gathering
"I think everyone should be encouraged and listened to when they need to tell their truth." —Katherena Vermette Katherena Vermette, Tracey Lindberg and Cherie Dimaline appeared at the Toronto Reference Library to discuss Race, Representation and Reconciliation with Canada Reads Host Ali Hassan.
Laura Esther Wolfson: "For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors"
Laura Esther Wolfson is the author of "For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors," which won the Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction. In this talk she provides a quirky insider view of her experience working as a translator and interpreter at the United Nations and reads her essay "Proust at Rush Hour."
Gerhard Steidl & Orhan Pamuk
Join us for an event with the iconic publishing company STEIDL to celebrate a series of book launches. The evening features works from Orhan Pamuk, Martin Schoeller, Karine Laval, Lawrence Schwartzwald, and Tod Papageorge, with an introduction by Gerhard Steidl.

Orhan Pamuk 'Balkon' - In the winter of 2011 Nobel-Prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk took 8,500 color photographs from his balcony with its panoramic view of Istanbul, the entrance of the Bosphorus, the old town, the Asian and European sides of the city, the surrounding hills, and the distant islands and mountains. Sometimes he would leave his writing desk and follow the movements of the boats as they passed in front of his apartment and sailed far away.
RO Kwon on "The Incendiaries" at the 2018 Miami Book Fair
RO Kwon on "The Incendiaries" at the 2018 Miami Book Fair interview by Rich Fahle.

"Radiant...A dark, absorbing story of how first love can be as intoxicating and dangerous as religious fundamentalism." —New York Times Book Review

A powerful, darkly glittering novel of violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young woman at an elite American university is drawn into a cult's acts of terrorism.

Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet in their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn't tell anyone she blames herself for her mother's recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe.

Grieving and guilt-ridden, Phoebe is drawn into a secretive cult founded by a charismatic former student with an enigmatic past. When the group commits a violent act in the name of faith, Will finds himself struggling to confront a new version of the fanaticism he's worked so hard to escape. Haunting and intense, The Incendiaries is a fractured love story that explores what can befall those who lose what they love most.
Lauren Hendricks: "Fighting Poverty with Data"
Lauren Hendricks is the Executive Vice President for Program Strategy and Institutional Relations at Grameen Foundation, a global nonprofit that creates breakthrough solutions spanning financial, agricultural and health services. Grameen uses digital technology and strengthen local partner networks to design and deliver solutions that open opportunity for women and families living in poverty.

Lauren leads a riveting discussion, giving a broad overview of Grameen’s work to use new digital technology to solve the lingering problems facing the nearly one billion people still living in poverty today. She also gives a detailed overview of some of Grameen’s work focused on data-driven solutions, including a new SAT4Faming Project, through which we are developing a geo data-enabled agriculture service and technology platform aimed at increasing the farm yields of smallholder cocoa farmers in Ghana. Lauren also discusses potential uses for data collected during Grameen Foundation projects that will enable the development community to better understand our beneficiaries and the field workers who interact with them.
Kiese Laymon | Heavy: An American Memoir
Join us as Kiese Laymon shares his highly-anticipated forthcoming book Heavy: An American Memoir.

It's a searing memoir that explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a black family, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse.

With a commitment to facing hard truths, Heavy charts Laymon’s early experiences of sexual violence and toxic masculinity growing up in Jackson, Mississippi; his complex and often painful relationship to his brilliant mother; first-hand experiences with racism in academia; and the physical manifestations of trauma, including obesity, anorexia, and gambling addiction, on his own body.

Kiese Laymon is a black southern writer, born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. Laymon attended Millsaps College and Jackson State University before graduating from Oberlin College. He earned an MFA in Fiction from Indiana University. Laymon is currently a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of the award-winning novel, Long Division and a collection of essays, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. Laymon has written for numerous publications including New York Times, NPR, Los Angeles Times, Esquire, The Guardian, McSweeneys, Colorlines, The Best American Series, Ebony and many others. He is a contributing editor of Oxford American.
How Writers Build Authenticity Into Diverse Worlds | New York Comic Con 2018
Diversity and representation had never been more important in Science fiction and fantasy. In the era of #OwnVoices, how do writers craft sci-fi or fantasy stories using their own experience to create diverse and compelling worlds? Featuring authors Marlon James, Tochi Onyebuchi, Maura Milan, Julie Kagawa, Sam J. Miller, and moderated by Ali T. Kokmen.
Tim Wu + Zephyr Teachout | The Curse of Bigness
Tim Wu and Zephyr Teachout discuss Wu’s new book “The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age.”

We live in an "oligopoly age" where many industries are controlled by just a few firms — big banks, big pharma, big tech. Bigness has become too much of a drain on the nation's economy, and too far a deviation from the type of open capitalism that has, at times, created a broad-based wealth and promised a sense of opportunity to every generation. There is a good reason to believe that we once again face the "Curse of Bigness," in the phrase used by Justice Louis Brandeis, to describe the challenges confronting the United States a century ago. Columbia law professor Tim Wu tells the story of what went wrong, and calls for recovering the lost tenets of trustbusters as part of a broader revival of American progressive ideas in a new age of extreme economic inequality.

Joining Tim in conversation will be attorney, activist, and Fordham Law professor Zephyr Teachout, author of “Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United.”

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