October 31st, 2006
November 30, 2006 / 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Tischman Auditorium: 66 West 12th St., NYC
From PEN:
Event info: For tickets, please call (212) 229-5776, ext. 3121 or visit www.socres.org/punishment/
The PEN Prison Writing Program is pleased to annouce that actor Richard Gere and his wife Carey Lowell, will read from manuscripts culled from the archives of the annual PEN Prison Writing Contest.
The reading culminates the first night of a three-day conference on Punishment: The U.S. Record, sponsored by Social Research, the journal of The New School for Social Research.
October 31st, 2006
November 1, 2006 / 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Symphony Space: Broadway at 95th Street, NYC
Tickets: $12
With special guests Russell Banks, Jhumpa Lahiri, Michael Ondaatje, and Edward Hirsch
Co-sponsored by The National Book Foundation, New York Review Books, PEN American Center, and VQR: The Virginia Quarterly Review.
Get details.
October 31st, 2006
Download this bookfair voucher if you want Barnes & Noble at Astor Place to donate part of your Nov 17-19 purchases to NYWC.
October 30th, 2006
November 8, 2006 / 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
McNally Robinson Booksellers
52 Prince St.
(between Lafayette and Mulberry)
New York, NY
From their website:
Nell Freudenberger’s first book, the story collection Lucky Girls (2003), astonished the literary world with a young writer’s international cosmopolitan sensibility and biting emotional insights. In her first novel The Dissident, Freudenberger fulfills the promise of her debut with an ambitious story of cultural collision, artistic integrity and the minefield of family life. The story of an exiled Chinese dissident artist who finds himself living with a well-off but damaged family in Los Angeles, The Dissident raises difficult questions of identity and motivation that are sure to spark conversation. Amnesty International will host this event and present information and materials related to the themes of Freudenberger’s novel. Reading, discussion, and signing.
October 30th, 2006
November 6, 2006 / 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
McNally Robinson Booksellers
52 Prince St.
(between Lafayette and Mulberry)
New York, NY
From their website:
The third book in our ongoing series of discussions of contemporary Latin American literature is Cesar Aira’s An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter, a fictionalized story from the real life of German artist Johan Moritz Rugendas. The European painter’s dramatic encounter on the pampas of Argentina offers him the chance to achieve true inspiration — but at an immense cost. Please join us in the TeaHouse for what promises to be a lively discussion.
October 30th, 2006
November 2, 2006 / 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
McNally Robinson Booksellers
52 Prince St.
(between Lafayette and Mulberry)
New York, NY
From their website:
Just out of college, Patricia Hampl was mesmerized by a Matisse painting she saw in the Art Institute of Chicago: an aloof woman gazing at goldfish in a bowl, a mysterious Moroccan screen behind her. In Blue Arabesque, Hampl explores the allure of that woman, immersed in leisure, so at odds with the increasing rush of the modern era. Her tantalizing meditation takes us to the Cote d’Azur and North Africa, from cloister to harem, pondering figures as diverse as Eugene Delacroix, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Katherine Mansfield. Join us for an energetic discussion of Matisse’s women and the comtemplations of the sublime that they inspire. Reading, signing, and discussion.
October 30th, 2006
November 1, 2006 / 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
McNally Robinson Booksellers
52 Prince St.
(between Lafayette and Mulberry)
New York, NY
From their website:
Bookseller Roxanne Coady marked the birthday of R.J. Julia, her Madison, Connecticut bookstore, by asking noted writers and readers to write about the first book that opened their eyes and changed their world. The result is an exultant collection of 71 musings from readers ranging from Harold Bloom to Billy Collins to Joe Lieberman and many others. Now Coady and her co-writers are bringing this celebration of books to independent bookstores across the country. Proceeds from the book support Read to Grow, a nonprofit literacy organization that provides books to newborns. Join us at McNally Robinson for an evening celebrating literary community and the joys and discoveries of reading.
October 30th, 2006
October 30, 2006 / 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
McNally Robinson Booksellers
52 Prince St.
(between Lafayette and Mulberry)
New York, NY
From their website:
When Paris was beset by spies, collaborators, and the Gestapo during WW II, people like Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Victor Serge, Marc Chagall, Consuelo de Saint-Exupery, Remedios Varo, Benjamin Peret, and scores of other cultural elite lived in constant fear. But there was sanctuary to be found in an estate, called Villa Air-Bel, outside Marseille. Financed by the Emergency Rescue Committee, a private American relief organization, and staffed by an eclectic and committed group, the estate became a vibrant artistic salon, home to lively debates and clandestine affairs, to Sunday art auctions and subversive surrealist games. By examining the diaries, memoirs, and letters of the individuals involved, Rosemary Sullivan uncovers their private worlds and the web of relationships they developed as they struggled to survive.
October 30th, 2006
November 6, 2006 / 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
KGB Bar
85 E. 4th Street
New York, NY, 10079
