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Featured Event |
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Tuesday, March 9th 7pm
David Shields
Author of Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
This is a lyrical explosion of a book, a challenge to literature, and particularly to narrative non-fiction, as we know it.
Our books no longer reflect the way we understand our lives, Shields argues. They are not fractured enough, not various and stolen, too hemmed in. We are all of us increasingly hungry for the "real", and have created monuments of commodified irreality in a desperate attempt to find it.
This book is indeed a manifesto in the best sense, a call to action for readers and writers. Shields is demanding reader interaction, greater risk, more serendipity and - as difficult, possibly, to acheive as it is easy to say - more reality in our use of the written word. It's a stirring book full of more questions than answers, and one I'm very excited to have as the topic of a conversation here at the store..
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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 The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake on March 1st.
•OUR ART & BEAUTY BOOK CLUB• Led by Adjua Greaves, this discussion group meets the second Wednesday of every month, at 7pm downstairs. For the next meetings on February 10th and March 10th, the book club will be discussing The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich.
•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 March 4th, the book club will be discussing The Winter Men by Brett Lewis and John Paul Leon.
•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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| Marisa Meltzer with Allison Wolfe and Denise Oswald |
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Thursday, February 11 2010, 7:00pm - 8:00pm |
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Marisa Meltzer
Author of Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music (Faber & Faber, $14.00)
With Allison Wolfe, founding member of Bratmobile
And Denise Oswald, editorial director of Soft Skull Press
 The early nineties was the time of the riot grrl. Girls across the country put down gender roles and classic feminist critiques, and picked up instruments, zines, and revolutionary politics. For years the best bands were almost exclusively girl bands, and even if the instincts behind riot grrls and girl power were quickly run through the hungry mill wheel of marketing and commodity, it's not hard to see that these women, these musicians, made possible the type of women and music we see rising to prominence today.
Marisa Meltzer is the coauthor of How Sassy Changed My Life (Faber, 2007). Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Elle, and Teen Vogue. She lives in Brooklyn. As do we all, I guess? She'll be here with the legendary Allison Wolfe of Bratmobile and editor Denise Oswald to talk about the book, the music and the movement.
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