February 23, 2007 / 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Barnes & Noble Booksellers
82nd & Broadway
82nd & Broadway
2289 Broadway
New York, NY

From the Slate:

Click here to read a new serial novel, The Unbinding, by award-winning novelist Walter Kirn, exclusively on Slate. Installments of the novel will appear in Slate roughly twice a week from March through June. Don’t worry if you’ve joined in late; previous installments are available inside, and it’s easy to catch up. We hope you enjoy The Unbinding.

February 23, 2007 / 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Barnes & Noble Booksellers
Astor Place
Astor Place
4 Astor Place
New York, NY

From the official website:

Bridie Clark was born on October 7, 1977, and spent a happy childhood in West Hartford, CT. Her parents encouraged her early love of reading and writing.

In 1999, Bridie graduated from Harvard, where she majored in English and was an editor of the Harvard Crimson. Then she headed into the publishing world, working at Vanity Fair, New York, Simon & Schuster and most recently, as an editor at ReganBooks.

In November of 2004, Bridie left her desk job to write a novel, which turned into Because She Can with a strong assist from friends, family, her agent, and her editor at Warner Books. Because She Can has been sold in eight countries.

In 2006, she co-wrote Gawker’s Guide to Conquering All Media (Atria, July 2007) and co-founded Blue State Coffee.

Bridie lives in New York City with her husband, John, and is starting to work on her second novel.

February 22, 2007 / 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Barnes & Noble Booksellers
82nd & Broadway
82nd & Broadway
2289 Broadway
New York, NY

For ten years, Norma has been the voice of consolation for a people broken by violence. She hosts Lost City Radio, the most popular program in their nameless South American country, gripped in the aftermath of war. Every week, the Indians in the mountains and the poor from the barrios listen as she reads the names of those who have gone missing, those whom the furiously expanding city has swallowed. Loved ones are reunited and the lost are found. Each week, she returns to the airwaves while hiding her own personal loss: her husband disappeared at the end of the war.

But the life she has become accustomed to is forever changed when a young boy arrives from the jungle and provides a clue to the fate of her long-missing husband.

Stunning, timely, and absolutely mesmerizing, Lost City Radio probes the deepest questions of war and its meaning: from its devastating impact on a society transformed by violence to the emotional scarring each participant, observer, and survivor carries for years after. This tender debut marks Alarcón’s emergence as a major new voice in American fiction.

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February 22, 2007 / 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

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Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center
1972 Broadway
New York, NY

Emily has a tendency to live with one foot out the door. For her, the best thing about a family crisis is the excuse to cut and run. When her mother dramatically announces they’ve found a lump, Emily gladly takes a rain check on life to be by her mother’s side, leaving behind her career, her boyfriend, and those pesky, unanswerable questions about who she is and what she’s doing with her life.

But back in her childhood bedroom, Emily realizes that she hasn’t run fast or far enough. One evening, while her mother calls everyone in her Rolodex to brief them on her medical crisis and schedule a farewell martini, Emily opens the door, quite literally, to find her past staring her in the face. How do you forge a relationship with the father who left when you were five years old? As Emily attempts to find balance on the emotional seesaw of her life, with the help of two hopeful suitors and her Park Avenue Princess sister, she takes a no-risk job as a receptionist at her father’s law firm and slowly gets to know the man she once pretended was dead.

From the brainy, breezy writer who “writes like a professional comic” (The Onion) and is “hard to stop reading once you start” (USA Today) comes a laugh-out-loud tale that confirms you can recover from your parents, the bad habit of missed opportunities, and men who romance you with meat. When opportunity knocks, it’s time to stop running and start living.

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February 20, 2007 / 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Barnes & Noble Booksellers
6th @ 22nd
Chelsea
675 6th Avenue
New York, NY

M.J. has dreamt her whole life about breaking the glass ceiling and becoming the first Asian female sportscaster on ESPN, but will her need to become an insider blind her to the potential prospects right in front of her?

Fiery Alex owes her success as an attorney to her toughness, but will her need to control everything and her overprotectiveness drive everyone away from her?

Beautiful, reckless Lin has made her mark on Wall Street because of her willingness to roll the dice, but will she lose it all when she risks everything for Mr. Dangerous?

Through their ups and downs, their family pressures, and their personal and professional heartbreaks, these three women know that they can always count on one thing: each other.

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February 19, 2007 / 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Barnes & Noble Booksellers
Astor Place
Astor Place
4 Astor Place
New York, NY

Sasha Goldberg (Figure 1) is a biracial, Jewish, socially maladjusted “child of the intelligentsia” from the Siberian town Asbestos 2. Sasha’s father takes off for the U.S., leaving Sasha to navigate adolescence under the shadow of her overbearing mother. At fourteen, Sasha falls in love with an art school dropout who lives in a concrete half-pipe in the town’s dump. When following her heart gets her into trouble at home, Sasha leaves Russia as a mail-order bride and, with the help of the Kupid’s Korner Agency, lands in suburban Arizona. Soon, she escapes her Red Lobster- loving fiance and embarks on a misadventure-filled journey across America in search of her father.

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