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Featured Event |
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Wednesay, September 8,
Simon Van Booy
author of Why We Need Love
Store favorite Simon Van Booy, author of the lovely story collections The Secret Lives of People in Love and Love Begins in Winter, has tried his hand at a Lapham's-esque threesome of books on existential questions. These books (only ten bucks each!) draw excerpts from a broad wealth of sources. Furnished with Van Booy's own erudite introductions and discussions, they make a convincing argument for the continued validity of the examined life. Simon will be here to make the case in person, and to engage in a discussion on these titular issues and more with our audience.
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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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| Sarah Hall |
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Tuesday, November 03 2009, 7:00pm - 8:00pm |
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Author of How to Paint a Dead Man (Harper Perennial, $14.99)
In conversation with critic Ed Champion
 Sarah Hall was born in 1974 in Cumbria, England. She received a Masters of Letters in Creative Writing from Scotland's St. Andrews University and is the author of four highly acclaimed novels. Her first, Haweswater won the Commonwealth Writers Prize. The Electric Michelangelo was shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and the Prix Femina Etranger, and was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Daughters Of the North won the 2006/07 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the James Tiptree Jr. Award, and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction. How to Paint a Dead Man is her fourth novel and earned her yet another Booker nomination. If you haven't heard of Sarah or read her by this point, consider this evening to be mandatory.
The novel is the story of four people cast adrift by their longings, their landscapes, and by art itself. It is intensely personal, revelatory, about grief and fear and sex, and above all about the creative impulse toward meaning and beauty.
She'll be discussing the book with Ed Champion, critic and blogger nonpareil. |
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