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This Week’s Readings
MONDAY: Jami Attenberg (THE MIDDLESTEINS) and Francesca Segal (THE INNOCENTS). [BOOKCOURT]
TUESDAY: Claire Messud (The WOMAN UPSTAIRS). [SYMPHONY SPACE]
WEDNESDAY: Max Barry (LEXICON). [B&N 86th ST]
THURSDAY: Book launch for MO META BLUES, by Questlove and Ben Greenman. [POWERHOUSE]
FRIDAY:Derangement of the Senses with Kevin Carter and Miracle Jones. [HAPPY ENDING]
Also, don’t forget to check out BookStalked with Cheryl Strayed (WILD, TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS) if you missed it on Friday!
This Week’s Readings
MONDAY: Book launch for Lisa Hanawalt’s My Dirty Dumb Eyes, a collection of her illustrations from places like the NYT, McSweeney’s and Vanity Fair. [POWERHOUSE]
TUESDAY: Khaled Housseini (The Kite Runner) reads from his newest novel, And the Mountains Echoed. [B&N UNION SQUARE]
WEDNESDAY: Bennett Sims will celebrate his debut novel A Questionable Shape along with Fiona Maazel (Woke Up Lonely) and Benjamin Hale (The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore). [HOUSING WORKS]
THURSDAY: National Book Award finalist Joan Silber (Fools) in convo with Stacey D’Erasmo (The Sky Below). [GREENLIGHT]
FRIDAY: John Strausbaugh will share tales from The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village. [BOOK COURT]
This Week’s Readings
MONDAY: This Franklin Park event features Karen Russell (Vampires in the Lemon Grove), Elissa Schappell (Blueprints for Building Better Girls), Leigh Newman (Still Points North), Roxane Gay (Ayiti), and Michael Heald (Goodbye to the Nervous Apprehension). [FRANKLIN PARK]
TUESDAY: Kevin Powers (The Yellow Birds) in convo with Michael Pietsch (Hachette chief exec). [MCNALLY JACKSON]
WEDNESDAY: Richard Hell (Television) will read from Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography. [BOOKCOURT]
THURSDAY: Mapping Manhattan: A Love (and sometimes Hate) Story in Maps by 75 New Yorkers with creator Becky Cooper and panelists Matt Green, Liana Finck, and Eugene Drucker. [POWERHOUSE]
FRIDAY: The Moth StorySLAM. Theme: envy. [HOUSING WORKS]
Franklin Park: Ben Greenman, Touré, Amelia Gray, Claire Vaye Watkins, and Sam Lipsyte
I am bewildered.
How does Penina Roth, founder of the Franklin Park Reading Series, do it? Not only does she bring in multiple amazing authors, but she does it several times a month (there are two FP events in May), and she draws in a huge crowd, every time. I BookStalked Penina a few weeks ago, and this is something I really should have asked.
This past Monday, I traveled to Crown Heights and had the pleasure of seeing the following authors: Ben Greenman, Touré, Amelia Gray, Claire Vaye Watkins, and Sam Lipsyte. (The next event, on May 13, features Karen Russell, Elissa Schappell, Leigh Newman, Roxane Gay, and Michael Heald.)
Some highlights:
Cheryl Strayed, Elissa Schappell, and Sweet Soubrette
Cheryl Strayed has become a bonafide feminist guru.
Last Thursday I waited in line for fifteen minutes at Public Assembly to get into a sold-out Largehearted Lit event featuring Cheryl, Elissa Schappell and musical act Sweet Soubrette. Inside, it was so packed that I could barely make my way to friends.
Sipping drinks, the mostly female and twenty-somethings in the crowd waited with giddy anticipation. They weren’t just there to see an author—they were there to meet someone they felt they already knew. As I mentioned the last time I saw Cheryl, her memoir Wild made even her (male) New York Times reviewer weep. Cheryl has an uncanny ability to connect through her words (see: her collection of advice columns Tiny Beautiful Things) with a combo of searing honesty and an insistence that people lift themselves up.
BookStalked: Jessica Soffer
The Arabic saying “bukra fil mish mish” means “tomorrow, apricots may bloom.” Jessica Soffer’s debut novel Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots focuses on two surprising friends facing uncertain futures. Young Lorca, about to be sent off to boarding school, thinks that if she’s able to make her mother’s favorite Middle Eastern dish, she might be allowed to stay. Victoria, an Iraqi Jewish immigrant and grieving widow in New York, teaches cooking lessons to Lorca. As they uncover secrets from their pasts, they begin to suspect that their connection runs deeper than food. Apricots has been called “a profoundly redemptive story” (O Magazine) and “a work of beauty in words” (New York Journal of Books). Jessica has just started doing readings about town, and she was kind enough to share some of her most memorable event experiences thus far — after the jump!
This Week’s Readings
In light of this nonsense, I’d like to offer a week of events featuring awesome lady writers. (And wouldn’t you know it, there’s SO MANY.)
MONDAY: Meg Wolitzer (The Interestings) in convo with Jami Attenberg (The Middlesteins). [WORD]
TUESDAY: Eve Ensler (The Vagina Monologue) on her memoir, In the Body of the World. {B&N UNION SQUARE]
WEDNESDAY: Whoa, get this:
-Rachel Kushner (The Flamethrowers) [STRAND]
-AND Claire Messud (The Woman Upstairs) [CENTER FOR FICTION]
-AND Marilynne Robinson (Housekeeping) [CUNY]
THURSDAY: Cheryl Strayed (Wild). [PUBLIC ASSEMBLY]
FRIDAY: PEN World Voice Festival: Master/Class with Fran Lebowitz and A.M. Homes. [NEW SCHOOL]
This Week’s Readings
MONDAY: Noteworthy: A Conversation with the Women at the Forefront of the NYC Arts Community includes Rachel Chanoff (Celebrate Brooklyn!), Erika Elliott (Summerstage), Yoko Shioya (Japan Society), and Shanta Thake (Joe’s Pub), moderated by Elisabeth Vincentelli (New York Post). [HOUSING WORKS]
TUESDAY: Augusten Burroughs (Running With Scissors) celebrates the paperback launch of This is How. [POWERHOUSE ARENA]
WEDNESDAY: Novelists Christina Baker Kline (Orphan Train) and Caroline Leavitt (Is This Tomorrow) will discuss the importance of place and historical research in their works. [CENTER FOR FICTION]
THURSDAY: Debut novelist Jessica Soffer (Tomorrow there will Apricots) in convo with Collum McCann (Let the Great World Spin). [MCNALLY JACKSON]
FRIDAY: Colson Whitehead, Luis Jaramillo and Catherine Barnett will read alongside student contributors to 12 Street Magazine. [B&N UNION SQUARE]
BookStalker Approved: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Jeanette Winterson published her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, in her twenties. The semi-autobiographical book details a lesbian growing up in a Pentecostal Community in England. It won a slew of awards and was adapted by the BBC. Nearly thirty years later, Jeanette’s new memoir further explores her reality of growing up with a fanatical and sometimes cruel adopted mother—and what happens when she decides to track down her birth mother. The book is filled with beautiful and poetic prose, like this passage:
BookStalked: Manuel Gonzales
Recently I had the pleasure of meeting Manuel Gonzales at an event thrown by his publisher, Riverhead. Manuel was in town from Austin to promote his buzzy debut collection, The Miniature Wife. Manuel’s surrealist short stories range in subject from a composer who talks through his ears to a man who accidentally shrinks his wife. Many have raved about Manuel’s work, though the coolest praise may be from the NYT, who called the tales: “Delightful freakishness.”
Manuel had some great stories to share in person, so I knew I had to BookStalk him immediately. Click on the jump for some tales about Manuel’s most memorable reading, the question he always gets asked, and the most unforgettable event he’s attended.
