Events

« May 2013 »
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
			1 Puppet Show Start: 4:30 pm Caroline Leavitt in conversation with Sarah Weinman Start: 7:00 pm	2 The Bridge Presents: Turkish translators Start: 7:00 pm	3 Spanish Bookclub: Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí, de Javier Marías (España) Start: 7:00 pm	4 Cinco de Mayo Start: 11:30 am
5 Gotham Writer's Workshop: On Dialogue Start: 5:30 pm Charles Bernstein and Lisa Jarnot Start: 7:00 pm	6 Literature Book Club Start: 7:00 pm	7 CANCELLED: Picture This: Conversations with Illustrators from Paris & New York: Blutch and David Mazzucchelli Start: 7:00 pm Philosophy Book Club Start: 7:00 pm	8 FSG presents: An evening of poetry with Christian Wiman and Averill Curdy Start: 7:00 pm Real Characters, 8pm Start: 8:00 pm	9 Poetry Book Club Start: 7:00 pm Literary BFFS: A stellar discussion with Amy Brill and Tina Chang Start: 7:00 pm	10 An evening with David Sedaris Start: 7:00 pm	11 Mother's Day Paper Feast Start: 11:30 am
12 Corrine Fitzpatrick and Litia Perta present: In The Act - A Sprawling Space For Performance Start: 7:00 pm	13 Middle Grade Authors vs Editors Family Feud Start: 7:00 pm Drama Book Club Start: 7:00 pm	14 Kevin Powers in conversation with Bob Minzesheimer Start: 7:00 pm Small Business Book Club Start: 7:00 pm	15 The New York Theatre Workshop Presents: SONTAG:REBORN: A discussion and performance Start: 7:00 pm	16 Ru Freeman in conversation with Justin Torres Start: 7:00 pm	17	18 Jackie Robinson Event Start: 11:30 am Heide Hatry Not a Rose book Party Start: 3:30 pm
19	20 La Máscara Sarda, de Luisa Valenzuela (Argentina). Con Isabel Cadenas Cañón (España) Start: 7:00 pm Celebrating Muriel Rukeyser: an evening with Eileen Myles, Lynne Tillman, Kathleen Pollit and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein Start: 7:00 pm	21 Margaret Stohl in conversation with Lev Grossman Start: 7:00 pm	22 Factual Lies and Fictional Truths: Performing the life of Walt Disney Start: 7:00 pm	23 On Literary Film-Making: An evening with The Brooklyn Rail Start: 7:00 pm	24	25 Books & Art Start: 11:30 am
26	27	28 Bennett Madison in conversation with Emily Gould Start: 7:00 pm	29 Illustrator Pictionary Start: 6:00 pm	30 FSG and Sarah Crichton Books Present Book Keeping, with Alice McDermott Start: 7:00 pm	31

A Note on Events

McNally Jackson hosts its events downstairs. Unfortunately, we do not have an elevator. If you are a person with a disability and would like to attend an event, we will--without hesitation--host it upstairs. Email events[at] mcnallyjackson.com to let us know, and if you have any questions.

Our Book Clubs

INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE: Led by Sarah McNally, this discussion group meets downstairs the first Monday of every month, at 7pm. On Monday, June 3rd, the book club will be discussing Elizabeth Bowen's The Death of the Heart.

ESSAYS: Co-led by Sarah Gerard and Rachel Hurn, our Essays Book Group meets in the travel section the first Wednesday of every month, at 7pm. On Wednesday, June 5th, the book club will be discussing Joan Didion's The White Album.

POETRY: Led by Brigid Brine, the Poetry Book Group meets upstairs in the travel section the second Thursday of every month, at 7pm. On Thursday, June 13th, the book club will be discussing Eugene Guillevic's Art Poétique. This month, the book club will be discussing the magic of the line in Guillevic's book. How does he use the line, and how is it different than in the poetry of Mallarmé or Baudelaire?

PHILOSOPHY: Led by Kevin Cassem and Matthew Wagstaffe, our Philosophy Book Group meets in the travel section the first Tuesday of every month, at 7pm. On Tuesday, June 4th, the book club will be discussing Revolution: A Reader, compiled and annotated by Lisa Robertson and Matthew Stadler. Read the essays between p. 487 and p. 632. Come, and make your reading performative.

DRAMA: Led by Matt Pieknik, our Drama book group meets in the travel section the second Monday of every month, at 7pm. On Monday, June 10th, the book club will be discussing Thomas Bradshaw's Mary.

SMALL BUSINESS: Led by Holly Howard, our Small Business Reading Group meets in the travel section the second Tuesday of every month, at 7pm. On Tuesday, June 11th, the book club will be discussing Give And Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success, by Adam Grant.

SPANISH WORKSHOP: Led by Javier Molea, this group meets Saturdays downstairs at 1pm. It's open to all who wish to practice their Spanish while discussing literature. See the Español page for more details.

SPANISH BOOKCLUB: Led by Javier Molea, this group meets once a month at 7pm downstairs. On Friday, June 7th, the book club will be discussing La literatura nazi en América, de Roberto Bolano (Chile). See the Events page for more details.

Our Series

ASK ME ABOUT: Know that classic novel you absolutely should have read by this point in your life? It's time to alleviate your nagging guilt with Ask Me About..., a Time Out New York and McNally Jackson event that's part book club, part lecture series, part show and part social occasion.

CONVERSATIONS ON PRACTICE: Hosted by Glenn Kurtz, Conversations on Practice is an ongoing series devoted to the the daily work of artmaking: how artists, musicians, and authors hone their craft and understand their work.

NEWS FROM UNDERGROUND: Mark Crispin Miller, a professor at NYU and author of many books on politics and cultural history, hosts News from Underground, a monthly series. In these tense times, there are many topics of extreme importance that the corporate media tends to ignore or misreport; the panel discussions of News from Underground are here to deal honestly with these forbidden issues.

REAL CHARACTERS: Real Characters is a monthly storytelling and performance show that combines some of New York’s best storytellers with its funniest, most innovative comedians and writers. So, some of it’s true, some of it feels more than true, and most of it is mostly funny.

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