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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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| Out of the Book: State by State at the Cantor Film Center |
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Thursday, September 18 2008, 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
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 McNally Jackson Books, New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, and Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers will co-host the New York premiere of State by State, the third film in the Out of the Book series produced by Powell’s Books. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey, editors of the book State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America, and many of the 50 writers whose original essays appear in the book. Writers included in the panel discussion and post-event book signing include Will Blythe, Charles Bock, Joshua Ferris, Myla Goldberg, Rick Moody, David Rakoff, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Ellery Washington, and others. See details below.
WHEN: September 18, 2008, 7:00 PM (doors open at 6:45)
WHERE: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8 Street, (212) 998-4100 (click here for a map)
WHAT: • Introduction by editors Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey, and film producer David Weich • Screening of the 42-minute film • Panel discussion moderated by Lawrence Weschler with editors Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey and selected contributors. • Copies of State by State will be available for sale by McNally Jackson Books in the Cantor Film Center lobby before and after the screening event. Authors will be available to sign books after the discussion. |
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