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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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| The Life and Work of Roberto Bolaño |
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Thursday, May 21 2009, 7:00pm - 8:00pm |
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Carmen Boullosa, author of La virgen y el violin (Editorial Siruel)
Javier Calvo, author of Wonderful World (Harper Collins)
Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn (Vintage) and Fortress of Solitude (Doubleday)
Moderated by Eduardo Kaplan
   The McNally Jackson Forum Series brings together New York City's creators and thinkers to discuss issues of cultural significance. Chilean novelist and poet Roberto Bolaño has had a posthumous explosion in popularity int he United States with such msterful novels as The Savage Detectives and 2666, and his work raises questions about where life ends and fiction begins. Discussing Bolaño's life and work are Carmen Boullosa (La virgen y el violin), a Mexican novelist, poet and playwright who knew Bolaño until his death; Spanish novelist Javier Calvo (Wonderful World), who know Bolaño late in the author's career; and novelist and essayist Jonathan Lethem (The Fortress of Solitude), who has written extensively about Bolaño's work. The panel is moderated by Latin American scholar and translator Eduardo Kaplan.
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