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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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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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