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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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| Jhumpa Lahiri reads Mavis Gallant |
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Monday, October 05 2009, 7:00pm - 8:00pm |
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From the new collection The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories (NYRB, $16.95)
 Mavis Gallant was born in Montreal and currently resides in Paris. She was first published by The New Yorker in 1951, and they subsequently accepted more than 100 of her stories. NYRB Classics has published two other collections of her stories: Varieties of Exile and Paris Stories. This new collection spans the first twenty years of Gallant’s celebrated career as a short-story writer and reveals the development of her sophisticated and urbane sensibility. Apart from being a marvelous collection, it's almost a textbook for writers of short fiction, with Gallant creating before our eyes the techniques that would be used and reused to incredible effect over the course of her life. The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories is a powerful survey of Gallant’s early work, and a unique one: none of the stories assembled here appeared in the 1996 anthology The Collected Stories. Rather, these stories have been harvested from her earliest volumes, now out of print—The Other Paris and My Heart is Broken—as well as from The New Yorker, where most of the stories originally appeared. Gallant’s wit and psychological insight have made her a favorite of Russell Banks, Fran Lebowitz, Michael Ondaatje, and many others.
Gallant's work will be read and discussed by Jhumpa Lahiri, who wrote the introduction for this collection. Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for her debut short-story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, and her first novel, The Namesake, was adapted into the popular film of the same name. Her most recent book is the widely acclaimed Unaccustomed Earth. |
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