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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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| The Faith of Graffiti |
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Monday, May 24 2010, 7:00pm - 8:30pm |
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Jon Naar
Photographer of The Faith of Graffiti (It Books, $19.95)
In conversation with
Marc and Sara Schiller of the Wooster Collective
Writers Snake 188 and Mike Hughes 171
and Hua Hsu, critic and journalist.
 The legendary photographer Jon Naar will be joining us to celebrate the recent re-issue of his classic book of photography The Faith of Graffiti.
This book was first published in 1973, a collaboration between Naar and Norman Mailer. By focusing on the truth of graffiti, on names and the tag or throw-up rather than full on pieces, it highlights the real birth of graffiti in New York in ways that celebrated books like Subway Art never did. It quickly became a cult object, a hard-to-find window into the history of the form.
Naar will be showing his photography and talking about the book alongside Marc and Sara Schiller of the Wooster Collective, a singularly important locus of interest and support for street art and artists in the city, as well as Hua Hsu, a music and art critic whose work appears regularly in the Atlantic Monthly among other places. We encourage all writers, photographers, or even just the graf-curious to come by for a stand-out evening. |
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