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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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| Elif Batuman |
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Monday, March 15 2010, 7:00pm - 8:00pm |
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Elif Batuman
Author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $15.00)
In conversation with Keith Gessen
 Elif Batuman's debut collection of essays finds in books and literary scholars all the intelligence, wry humor, and hilarious, dangerous, obsession we've always known to be there, but which it can take a brilliant essayist such as herself to reveal.
The book is part memoir, about losing a Babel in an airport, about the population statistics of cossacks in Los Angeles, about Samarkand certainly, but is also a hilarious lampooning of academic culture.
Batuman was born in New York, grew up in New Jersey, attended Harvard and then Stanford, where she now teaches comparative literature.
She'll be talking about the book with Keith Gessen, novelist, critic, and editor of n+1 Magazine, where some of the essays in The Possessed were originally published. |
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