Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Read Yourself into a Vacation Spot
The end of summer is when many of us are accustomed to traveling for our holidays. So here are five new novels that I found especially intriguing...
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Events
International Launch Party! The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
Tuesday, 4:00 pm EDT September 1, 2020
An evening of literary discussions, trivia, readings, and giveaways.
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Events
On America: Writing and Reading the Environment
Thursday, 7:30 pm EDT October 1, 2020
A panel of writers, journalists, and climate change activists will consider the formal, structural elements environmental writers can bring to storytelling.
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Groups+Workshops
Manuscripts Don't Burn: Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita with Mike Levine (Sold Out)
Once a week Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT October 6 to November 10, 2020
In Mikhail Bulgakov’s inimitable masterpiece, The Master and Margarita, an unfathomable force enters Moscow, citizens begin to disappear...
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Groups+Workshops
Little Red Razes the Woods: Folk and Fairy Tales in the Modern Era with Jacqueline Ahl
Once a Month Wednesdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT September 16, 2020 to January 6, 2021
This series focuses on incarnations of folk and fairy tales in the modern era. It considers the ways in which pervasive themes drawn from oral...
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Groups+Workshops
Creating a Nuyorican Identity: A Reading Group with Richie Narvaez
4 Sessions Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT September 30, 2020 to January 6, 2021
As a commonwealth, Puerto Rico has a strange, strained relationship with the U.S., and Nuyoricans (Puerto Ricans who were born or lived in New...
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Groups+Workshops
Armchair Travelogue: Setting's Place in Fiction with Donna Raskin
Once a Month Mondays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT September 14 to December 14, 2020
While setting is one of the basic elements of a novel, great writers raise that requirement to another level, allowing readers to feel...
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Groups+Workshops
Mystery Writers of Color with Dr. Frankie Y. Bailey
Once a Month Thursdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT September 24 to December 17, 2020
You can’t outrun the past—that’s a central theme in our crime fiction reading group led by Dr. Frankie Y. Bailey, a mystery writer and criminal...
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Groups+Workshops
The Neapolitan Novels with Rebecca Falkoff
Once a month Mondays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT September 14 to December 7, 2020
This discussion group, led by NYU professor Rebecca Falkoff, will be dedicated to Elena Ferrante’s stunningly successful and viscerally riveting...
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Groups+Workshops
Haitian Fiction: The Story of a World with Kaiama L. Glover
Once a Month Thursdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT September 24 to December 17, 2020
Explore four provocative Haitian novels that evoke the complexity of Haiti’s culture, the persistent radicalism of its people, and the drama of its history.
