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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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| Tamler Sommers |
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Monday, February 15 2010, 7:00pm - 8:00pm |
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Tamler Sommers
Author of A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain - Nine Conversations (Believer Books, $14.00)
In conversation with cognitive scientist Joshua Knobe
Sommers is a professor of philosophy at the University of Houston. A Very Bad Wizard is a collection of his interviews from the pages of The Believer with ten researchers, attempting to get at ideas of mind through neuroscience, anthropology, moral psychology and, necessarily, Sommers' own philosophy. He speaks with Franz de Waal about love among the apes, to Philip Zimbardo about the famous Stanford Prison Experiment and to Jonathan Haidt about the aesthetic truth of Drew Barrymore. The interviews are smart, funny, and full of surprises. They're a seminar course on ourselves, in a very sophisticated package.
It's a great pleasure for me that the book brings Tamler to our store to conduct another in the series of interviews, this time live and in the flesh, with Yale cognitive scientist Joshua Knobe. Yes, I know, you're pretty smart already, but every little bit helps, doesn't it? |
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