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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 Sixth Annual Story Prize Award Night |
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Wednesday, March 03 2010, 7:30pm - 9:30pm |
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 With readings by
Daniyal Mueenuddin,
Victoria Patterson,
and Wells Tower
at The New School
Tishman Auditorium
66 W.12th Street
New York, NY 10011
(Btn 5th and 6th Ave)
Tickets available here.
We'll be selling books at the 6th annual Story Prize reading and award night, hosted by The New School. The Story Prize is a relatively new but much-needed award for books of short fiction. This year judges A.M. Homes, Carolyn Kellog and Bill Kelly whittled down an incredible field of 78 collections to these celebrated three: Wells Tower's Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, Victoria Patterson's Drift, and Daniyal Mueenuddin's In Other Rooms Other Wonders. All three authors will be reading and discussing their work in the Tishman auditorium before being presented with their awards: $20,000 for first place and $5,000 for runners up. It'll be a great gala evening in celebration of the art of the story.
Again, this event is not actually in our store but rather in the New School's Tishman Auditorium (though you'll certainly see a few McNally Jackson Booksellers there). Tickets and a love of good fiction are required for this event. I imagine they'll be checking for both at the door.
For more about the Story Prize please visit their site here.
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