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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 22 2010, 7:00pm - 8:00pm |
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Stephen Benatar
Author of Wish Her Safe at Home (NYRB Classics, $15.95)
 Benatar is a British novelist in every sense. He has been many things in his life, among them a schoolteacher, umbrella salesman, Californian and forester. When it comes to his novels, however, he's turned to the classic English fare of biting farce and the minefields of social class. He didn't publish his first novel until he was forty-four. His other books include The Man on the Bridge, When I Was Otherwise and Letters for a Spy.
This novel, Wish Her Safe at Home, was first published in Britain in 1982, and is finding new life in this lovely New York Review of Books Classics edition. I can't do better to summarize the book that John Carey, who writes in his introduction that when he first encountered the novel as a nominee for the '82 Booker, his notes included the following marvelously pithy summary.
"Impressive study of woman going quietly and genteelly crazy. Skill of the presentation is that all is seen through her mind, so when she comes into contact with the outside world you understand her and feel awkward about her craziness."
The book is a fun and discomfiting character study you won't soon forget, and I hope you'll join me in giving this author the wider audience he so justly deserves. |
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