Don't miss out on this special Labor Day surprise. The internationally revered Kennedy shares with us her comedic repertoire. “Her stand-up is startlingly good. She works the audience and makes the most of her cleverness with words, her knack for seeing things freshly. She has a great riff about people scraping moss off each other every morning in Scotland, but the audience seems most to enjoy the material about pubic hair." - The Guardian
She's assertive, well-timed, and she will be at McNally Jackson Books for one night only.
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Staff Picks
Birthday Letters
Written by Douglas
by Ted Hughes (Farrar Straus & Giroux, $14.00)
Is it ever possible to move past the gender politics so wound up in the history that is the Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes saga and honestly contemplate the work of these most potent of writers? Here, in the last collection published before his death, is a reminder of how powerful a poet Hughes could be. That he for the first time contemplated his romance and life with Plath, after decades of contentious silence, is breathtaking.
Art/Work
Written by Adjua
by Heather Darcy Bhandari, Jonathan Melber (Free Press, $16.95)
Solid, solid, solid. I have found myself hugging this gem to my chest in relief and gratitude. Bhandari and Melber are clear and practical and still, somehow, gentle and lighthearted in their presentation of these vital nuts and bolts. A most welcome missing piece to a potentially toxic puzzle. Many, many thanks.
American Pastoral
Written by Sandy
by Phillip Roth (Random House, $14.00)
Swede: everybody's favorite, the golden child, whose perfect life is the most that anyone could ask or hope for, is actually the object of unspeakable horror. When all that great American luck finally runs dry, Swede is shown the dark side that life can actually have.
Is it ever possible to move past the gender politics so wound up in the history that is the Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes saga and honestly contemplate the work of these most potent of writers? Here, in the last collection published before his death, is a reminder of how powerful a poet Hughes could be. That he for the first time contemplated his romance and life with Plath, after decades of contentious silence, is breathtaking.
Solid, solid, solid. I have found myself hugging this gem to my chest in relief and gratitude. Bhandari and Melber are clear and practical and still, somehow, gentle and lighthearted in their presentation of these vital nuts and bolts. A most welcome missing piece to a potentially toxic puzzle. Many, many thanks.
Swede: everybody's favorite, the golden child, whose perfect life is the most that anyone could ask or hope for, is actually the object of unspeakable horror. When all that great American luck finally runs dry, Swede is shown the dark side that life can actually have.