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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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| 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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