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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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| John Callahan and Adam Bradley |
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Wednesday, February 03 2010, 7:00pm - 8:00pm |
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John Callahan and Adam Bradley
Editors of Three Days Before the Shooting ...: the Unfinished Second Novel of Ralph Ellison (Random House, $50.00)
 We're helping to launch another book on Wednesday, when we host John Callahan and Adam Bradley who've worked together to re-edit Ralph Ellison's sprawling unfinished second novel.
After his initial success with Invisible Man, Ellison spent much of his time being toasted by the Harlem intelligentsia, but never managed to publish a second work of fiction. When Ellison died, on April 16, 1994, he left behind no explicit instructions for what should be done with the multiple drafts of his untitled second novel. What he left instead was 27 boxes of archived material, including 3,000 manuscript pages, and 469 computer files on 84 disks. He'd spent years - since 1954 - writing and rewriting the book that was eventually published posthumously (and vastly pared down) as Juneteenth.
Now Ellison's literary executor, John Callahan and Professor Adam Bradley present what is being called an “unedited, unadorned” version of the work, complete with notes and supporting material. More than just another edition of a midcentury novel, this new book – and it is a new book – is a literary event.
We invite you to join Bradley and Callahan and not a few of our own interested booksellers in a discussion of Ellison's work and life.
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