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Tuesday, March 23rd 7pm
Paolo Giordano
Author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers
In conversation withe editor Pamela Dorman
Paolo Gioradano's debut novel has sold over a million copies around the world and earned him Italy's premier literary prize, the Premio Strega. Now, finally, we've earned our taste of his celebrated book here in the states. The Solitude of Prime Numbers is a book of striking beauty and disturbing content, including anorexia, cutting, loneliness and guilt. It's a coming-of-age story in the most awkward and lovely tradition, and its two protagonists are destined to win hearts here just as easily as they have abroad.
Giordano is a young author - only 27 - and his acclaim is all the more impressive given that he's a physicist by trade. He'll be here in conversation with his editor and now head of her own eponymous imprint, Pamela Dorman.
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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 and Chris Jackson, this discussion group meets the first Monday of every month, at 7pm downstairs. They'll be discussing A Death in the Family by James Agee on April 3rd.
•OUR ART & BEAUTY BOOK CLUB• Led by Adjua Greaves, this discussion group meets the second Wednesday of every month, at 7pm downstairs. On April 14th the book club will be discussing The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution by Denis Dutton.
•OUR GRAPHIC NOVEL BOOK CLUB• Led by Angela Williams and Evan Narcisse, this discussion group meets the first Thursday of every month, at 7pm downstairs. At our next meeting on April 6th, the book club will be discussing The Fixer by Joe Sacco.
•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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