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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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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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