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Featured Event |
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Monday, September 6,
A.L. Kennedy
author of What Becomes
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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Ongoing Events |
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•THE SPANISH LANGUAGE DISCUSSION GROUP• Led by Javier Molea, this group meets Saturdays at noon in the Spanish literature section downstairs. It's open to all who wish to practice their Spanish while discussing literature.
•OUR FICTION BOOK CLUB• Led by Sarah McNally, this discussion group meets the first Monday of every month, at 7pm downstairs. They'll be discussing The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya. Please note that due to Labor Day, the book club will be meeting on the second Monday of September, 9/13.
•OUR ART & BEAUTY BOOK CLUB• Led by Adjua Greaves, this discussion group meets the second Wednesday of every month, at 7pm downstairs. On September 8th the book club will be discussing A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World by Marcia Tucker.
•OUR GRAPHIC NOVEL BOOK CLUB• Led by Evan Narcisse, this discussion group meets the first Thursday of every month, at 7pm downstairs. At our next meeting on September 10th, the book club will be discussing Batwoman: Elegy by Greg Rucka and J. H. Williams III. Please note that the book club will be meeting on Friday, September 10.
•KIDS STORYTIME• Resident storyteller Yvonne Brooks leads a storytime with with arts and crafts for kids ages 3 - 7, every Saturday at noon in the children’s section. Baby Storytime with storyteller Stewart Dawes takes place on Friday at 4:00 PM for ages 0 - 2.
NOTE All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise indicated. For more information about store events, email events coordinator Dustin Kurtz. |
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| Second Annual Literary Halloween Party |
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Friday, October 31 2008, 6:30pm - 8:30pm |
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 For the second year in a row, McNally Jackson hosts a Halloween party built around books! The evening begins with a Literary Costume Contest: dress as a character, author, or literary idea. Refreshments will be served, to the accompaniment of projections from horror comics anthology Nightmare Factory 2 (Fox Atomic) and signings by writers Joe Harris and Stuart Moore and artist Bill Sienkiewicz. Next is the Scary Story Slam, in which partygoers can compete to present the best horror story (literary or original) in under 3 minutes. Then the spotlight is on readings by Doug Dorst, author of Alive in Necropolis (Penguin); David Wellington, author of Vampire Zero: A Gruesome Vampire Tale (Three Rivers Press), and Stuart Moore, author of the forthcoming dark fantasy novel Breuckelen. Finally, winners of the costume contest and story slam will receive fabulous bookish prizes.
Kids are welcome to come to our Monster Mayhem party from 4:00 to 6:00 PM.
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