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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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| Rebecca Skloot |
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Monday, February 01 2010, 7:00pm - 8:00pm |
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Rebecca Skloot
Author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Crown, $26.00)
Introduced by Radiolab's Jad Abumrad
 We're starting our February with an inaugural reading for the first book by celebrated science writer and blogger Rebecca Skloot. Rebecca's work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, O, Discover, and Columbia Journalism Review. She writes about science and writing, among other things, at her Culture Dish blog.
Skloot's book introduces us to Henrietta Lacks, a woman little known even in her own time, but whose blood cells have furnished nearly a century of scientific discovery. Lacks was a poor Southern tobacco farmer whose cells, taken without her knowledge and cultured in labs across the nation, helped cure polio, and are the foundation for our understanding of cancer, in vitro fertilization, viruses, radiation, cloning and even gene mapping. Her cells are being used in science even today, though Henrietta died sixty years ago. It's a story about science yes, but also about the troubling history of experimentation on African Americans and the bioethical hedgerows that we find ourselves traveling ever deeper into as a culture. It's a book full of drama and heart and we're proud to help introduce it to readers.
Here to introduce Rebecca will be Jad Abumrad, the founder of WNYC's Radiolab program and another voice of the crossroads between science and culture. They'll be bringing along actual samples of HeLa cells, as they're commonly known, for our audience to see, and members of Henrietta Lacks' family (who feature largely in Skloot's book) will also be in attendance. |
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