BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Apple Inc.//iCal 3.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Mobile Libris X-WR-RELCALID:185163B6-2981-4AE6-8C0B-593FA0083B82 VERSION:2.0 X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:19551030T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;UNTIL=20061029T060000Z;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:19870405T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;UNTIL=20060402T070000Z;BYMONTH=4;BYDAY=1SU TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Montreal BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:19571027T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;UNTIL=20061029T060000Z;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:What "tragic knowledge"do Macbeth\,King Lear and Othello acq uire at their stories's close? david Bromwich discusses the endings of S hakespearean tragedies.David Bromwich is the sterlng Professor of Englis h at Yale University and a reviewer for\,among others\,The New Republic\ ,The New York Revies of Books and The London Review of Books.He is curre ntly at work on an intellectual biography of Edmund Burke.\n\nThe Elebas h Recital Hall\nCUNY Graduate Center for the Humanities\n365 5th Ave @ 3 4th St\n212 817-2005 UID:0C504942-6B06-41BF-8B19-10FC5A0373AA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081111T183000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204831Z SUMMARY:What Shakespeare's heroes learn\; David Bromwich CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081111T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Held at a Distance: My Rediscovery of Ethiopia\nRebecca Hail e\n(Academy Chicago Publishers\, $18)\n3PM\nFREE\n\n\nHaile's memoir tra ces her family's emigration from Ethiopia to the United States in the mi d-1970s\, a journey that led to her return 25 years later. The author's father was an academic who served in the Ethiopian parliament after the coup that toppled Emperor Haile Selassie. \n\nCentral Library\nJamaica\, Queens UID:5AEDC7FA-3430-4050-BC16-830963C9BAD2 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080426T150000 DTSTAMP:20080328T231429Z SUMMARY:Rebecca Haile CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080426T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:John Ehrenfeld\nSustainability by Design\nYale University Pr ess\, $28\n\nPeter G. Brown\nRight Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy\nBerrett-Koehler Publishers\, $16.95\n\nOur current economic sys tem is unsustainable. Its fundamental elementsunlimited growth and endle ss wealth accumulationfly in the face of the fact that the Earths resour ces are clearly finite. The destructive effects of this denial of realit y are wreaking havoc on our ecological and social systems. But what is t he alternative? We need to go beyond simply fixing problems as they aris e\, or even as we anticipate them\, and offer a comprehensive new econom ic model. It is a moral imperative.\n\nCUNY Grad Center\n365 Fifth Avenu e\nRooms C201/C202\n11:00 am\n\n UID:49DF27FB-E776-45AF-816F-9FDE28AE78EE TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090429T110000 DTSTAMP:20090319T225532Z SUMMARY:CUNY Earth & Environmental Sciences CREATED:20090624T221121Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090429T130000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Jennifer 8. Lee\nThe Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures i n the World of Chinese Food \n(Twelve\, $25)\n$20/TICKET - RSVP to upaan nyc@upaan.org\n5PM\n\nReaders take an unexpected and entertaining journe y through culinary\, social\, and cultural history in this delightful fi rst book on the origins of the customary after-Chinese-dinner treat by " New York Times" reporter Lee.\n\nDim Sum Go Go\n5 E Broadway at Chatham Square UID:2736F38E-F03A-4755-8531-6632D5128122 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080622T170000 DTSTAMP:20080612T205755Z SUMMARY:Jennifer 8 Lee CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080622T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Richard Engel\nWar Journal: My Five Years in Iraq \n(Simon & Schuster\, $28)\nFREE\n7:30PM\n\nNBC News' Engel\, the most dynamic and longest-serving television journalist in Iraq\, provides a vivid\, eart hy account of the war.\n\nHarmonie Club\n4 East 60th st. UID:40910571-D823-4D60-808D-31E95CEE8FBB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080602T193000 DTSTAMP:20080528T203340Z SUMMARY:Richard Engel CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080602T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Charlie Todd and Alex Scordelis\nCausing a Scene: Extraordin ary Pranks in Ordinary Places With Improve Everywhere\nWilliam Morrow & Co\, $19.99\n\nBryant Park\n42nd and 5th Ave\n12:30\n UID:1A04EE97-7BEA-4181-A787-674EFD9ADDB7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090520T123000 DTSTAMP:20090327T190339Z SUMMARY:Word For Word CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090520T123000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Jennifer 8 Lee\nThe Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food \n(Twelve\, $13)\nMEMBERS\n5PM\n\nJennifer 8 Lee\, the daughter of Chinese immigrants and a fluent speaker of Mandari n Chinese herself\, grew up eating her mother's authentic Chinese food i n her family's New York City kitchen before graduating from Harvard in 1 999 with a degree in Applied Mathematics and economics and studying at B eijing University. At the age of 24\, she was hired by the New York Time s\, where she is a metro repoter and has written a variety of stories on culture\, poverty\, and technology. \n\nUniversity Club\n1 W 54th St UID:6453E2F0-6ADD-4641-9534-F07D9C49E3A0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090113T170000 DTSTAMP:20080506T172942Z SUMMARY:Jennifer 8 Lee CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090113T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:13 DESCRIPTION:George Wallace\nBurn My Heart in Wet Sand \n(Troubador\, $15 )\n\nWith his typical skill at creating evocative and surprising images and lyrical music\, George Wallace has given this reader dream after tan talizing dream\, each bathed in human recognition and often sprinkled wi th political edginess. Carol Hamilton\, Former Poet Laureate\, Oklahoma George Wallace is my patron saint of contemporary mystic realism - or ma ybe that should be realistic mysticism? \n\nChristine Kluge\nStirring th e Mirror\n(Bitter Oleander\, $16)\n\nOnce you begin reading the work of Christine Boyka Kluge you can't help but feel yourself staring out the w indow of your imagination as you did as a child in grade school except t hat this time the imagination you are seeing through her language is rea l. So real\, in fact\, that you wonder how her ability to shrink herself inside the functions of natural and inanimate things can be consistentl y possible but it is\, over and over again until you realize you've ente red not only a universe of rapture and delight but also a darker one who se mystery is a delightful yearning for the unknown. \n\n\nWest Side Y\n 5 W 63rd\nWriter's Voice Series\n\n UID:B4DC8A6C-7C8A-41E7-8DC2-EF046C5D9BC8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080410T200000 DTSTAMP:20080331T175936Z SUMMARY:West Side Y CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080410T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Mindy Lewis\nDirt: The Quirks\, Habits\, and Passions of Kee ping House\nSeal Press\, $15.95\n\nThis is a collection to which everyon e can relate: a multidimensional look at the universal challenge of keep ing our stuff\, our dwellings\, and our personal space clean and unclutt ered. How we feel about keeping house speaks volumes about who we are\, our roots\, relationships\, and our outlook on life.\n\nKGB Bar\n85 East 4th Street\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n UID:1E5EC0BE-4575-451E-9D78-A82FD12D2AF5 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090428T190000 DTSTAMP:20090121T191447Z SUMMARY:KGB Nonfiction CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090428T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Fiction Salon\nColson Whitehead\nApex Hides the Hurt\nAnchor Books\n$14\n\nFREE\n7pm\n\nLillian Vernon Writers House\n58 W. 10th Str eet UID:5AD5ACFB-759C-494D-B874-F61460B7A6DE TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080911T190000 DTSTAMP:20080808T181321Z SUMMARY:Lillian Vernon CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080911T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Writing For Children\nJude Watson\n$5\; free to all students and New School faculty\, staff\, and alumni with ID\n\nThe Writing Prog ram at the New School presents a reading and discussion with Jude Watson \, author of Premonitions and Disappearance. Moderated by Deborah Brodie \, executive editor of Roaring Brook Press and coordinator of the Writin g for Children reading series.\n\nThe New School\n66 West 12th Street Ro om 510\n UID:EF0485EC-862B-4BC9-A05F-DB2F660ADE13 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080325T183000 DTSTAMP:20080314T192408Z SUMMARY:Writing for Children CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080325T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Nina Di Sesa\nSeducing the Boys Club: Uncensored Tactics fro m a Woman at the Top \n(Ballantine\, $25)\n6PM\n\nFrom the woman who bec ame chair of the flagship office of the largest advertising agency netwo rk in the world comes a wry reality check on how to get ahead and thrive in the testosterone-driven business arena.\n\nPatterson Belknap Webb & Taylor\n1133 6th Ave (43/44)\n24th Floor UID:5478A645-8C55-48D2-96C8-7121C5D367B9 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080416T180000 DTSTAMP:20080408T213920Z SUMMARY:Nina DiSesa CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080416T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Brandon Scott Gorrell\nDuring My Nervous Breakdown I Want to Have a Biographer Present\nMuumuu House\, $12\n\nBrandon Scott Gorrell' s debut full-length poetry book captures the feelings of small\, alienat ed\, and highly self-conscious humans who exist in an array of situation s\, from a very odd Halloween party to a full-scale planetary war involv ing humans\, androids\, robots\, and aliens. \n\nEllen Kennedy\nSometime s My Heart Pushes My Ribs\nMuumuu House\, $12\n\nEllen Kennedy's debut f ull-length poetry collection.\n\n\nCake Shop\n152 Ludlow Street\n5:00 pm \nFree\n\n UID:051F4DEF-9EFA-432E-A03C-8760194B3023 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090705T170000 DTSTAMP:20090617T152637Z SUMMARY:Polestar Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090705T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Benjamin Nugent\nAmerican Nerd: The Story of My People \n(Sc ribner\, $20)\nFREE\n7PM\n\n"American Nerd" explores the concept of nerd iness and the history of the nerd subculture: how they developed and how they have manifested in media\, literature\, schools\, the workplace\, and in the general public.\n\nHalf King\n505 W 23rd St UID:C0E18D62-51BF-45D8-8ECE-20BEF13D6FC0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080519T190000 DTSTAMP:20080502T160030Z SUMMARY:Half King Ben Nugent CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080519T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:\nMindy Lewis\nDirt: The Quirks\, Habits\, and Passions of K eeping House\nSeal Press\, $15.95\n\nThis is a collection to which every one can relate: a multidimensional look at the universal challenge of ke eping our stuff\, our dwellings\, and our personal space clean and unclu ttered. How we feel about keeping house speaks volumes about who we are\ , our roots\, relationships\, and our outlook on life.\n\nCornelia Stree t Cafe\n29 Cornelia Street\n6:00 pm UID:37812B26-EC6D-4B9A-B859-0ADD1820E4C9 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090602T180000 DTSTAMP:20090512T184738Z SUMMARY:Cornelia Street Cafe CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090602T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:HARRIET A. WASHINGTON \nA fellow in ethics at the Harvard Me dical School\, a fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health\, and a s enior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University. As a journalist and editor\, she has worked for "USA Today" and several other publications\, been a Knight Fellow at Stanford Univer sity and has written for such academic forums as the "Harvard Public Hea lth Review" and "The" "New England Journal of Medicine\," She is the rec ipient of several prestigious awards for her work. Washington lives in N ew York City.\n\nMedical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experime ntation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present \n(Harlem Moon\,$15.95) \n\nJoshua Prager \nLives in New York City. He studied mus ic theory at Columbia College and is currently a senior special writer a t "The Wall Street Journal\," He has three times been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing.\n\nThe Echoing Green: The Untold Stor y of Bobby Thomson\, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World \n( Vintage Books USA\,$15.95)\n\nPamela Paul \nA contributor to "Time "maga zine and the author of "Pornified: How Pornography Is Damaging Our Lives \, Our Relationships\, and Our Families "and "The Starter Marriage and t he Future of Matrimony\," She writes for such publications as "The New Y ork Times Book Review\," "Psychology Today\," "Self\," "Ladies' Home Jou rnal\," and "The Economist\," She and her family live in New York.\n\n \ nFREE\n7pm\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4th Street UID:3E5FF165-798B-476D-9434-FDF48F44F328 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081028T190000 DTSTAMP:20080903T172329Z SUMMARY:KGB Non Fiction CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081028T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:Burger Bash!\n\nGeorge Motz\nHamburger America\nRunning Pres s Book Publishers\, $19.95\n\nMotz has made it his personal mission to p reserve the nation's hamburger heritage by traveling across the country in search of the best burger joints--those that have survived outside th e fast-food mainstream--and has documented the rich local color behind t hem all.\n\nJosh Ozersky\nThe Hamburger: A History\nYale University Pres s\, $22\n\nFor decades America took its beloved ground-beef-patty sandwi ch pretty much for granted\, the only controversy concerning whether it should have a slice of cheese melted atop the meat. Thanks to the ubiqui ty granted it by Americas mobile culture\, the hamburgers hegemony is no w threatened on both nutritional and economic fronts. Ozersky traces the well-documented history of the hamburger\, debunking many of the myths surrounding its nineteenth-century origins.\n\nJames Beard House\n167 We st 12th Street\n6:00 pm\n\n UID:3C2FF8F9-EE42-4C15-9838-27795EF24700 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090203T180000 DTSTAMP:20081201T211449Z SUMMARY:Beard House CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090203T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Dee Davis\nA Match Made on Madison\nSt. Martin's Griffin\, $ 13.95\n\nManhattan's champion matchmaker Vanessa Carlson enters into a c ompetition with her rival to see who can score playboy Mark Grayson as t heir client. But emotions often have a will of their own\, and Vanessa l earns that her rules don't always apply.\n\nDianna Love\nWhispered Lies\ nPocket Books\, $15\n\nIn "New York Times"-bestselling authors Kenyon an d Love's newest romantic suspense novel\, a gutsy female agent from the Bureau of American Defense must come out of hiding to bring down a secre t organization.\n\nPhantom in the Night\nPocket Star Books\, $7.99\n\n"N ew York Times"-bestselling author Kenyon and acclaimed romance author Lo ve team up for their sixth novel of romantic suspense\, featuring the se xy agents from the Bureau of American Defense (BAD).\n\nMadame X\n94 W. Houston Street\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n\n\n UID:560CEE72-CDC7-4DEE-8493-5B800B63D4A8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090706T190000 DTSTAMP:20090616T203623Z SUMMARY:Lady Jane's Salon CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090706T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Stephen Wolf\nI Speak of the City: Poems of New York \n(Colu mbia U Press\, $25)\n3PM\nFREE\n\n"A rich poetic hymnal to New York\, wi th an excellent breadth of poets." -- Natalie Whittle\, "Financial Times Weekend Magazine" \n\nNYPL Bloomingdale\n150 W 100th St\n UID:DEDC494F-0A35-48C5-AB1A-BF285536B047 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080426T150000 DTSTAMP:20080325T181354Z SUMMARY:Stephen Wolf CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080426T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Monica Ali\nIn the Kitchen\nScribner\, $26.99\n\nBrick Lane\ nScribner\, $15\n\nAli's gorgeous first novel tells the deeply moving st ory of one woman\, Nazneen\, born in a Bangladeshi village and transport ed to London at age 18 to enter into an arranged marriage. She has writt en a stunningly accomplished debut about one outsider's quest to find he r voice.\n\nBryant Park\n42nd and 5th Avenue\n12:30 pm\n\n UID:223601F4-6B8B-4811-BECA-65B5852B3A37 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090617T123000 DTSTAMP:20090327T191355Z SUMMARY:Word for Word CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090617T143000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Brennan Center for Justice\nGolding Lounge\nVaderbilt Hall\n 40 Washington Square South\n\nThe Challenge\nJonathan Mahler\nFSG\n$26\n "New York Times Magazine" writer Mahler follows the case of "Hamdan v. R umsfeld" and offers the inside story of perhaps the most important decis ion on presidential power and the rule of law in the history of the Supr eme Court.\n\nThe Dark Side\nJane Mayer\nDoubleday\n$28\nThe Dark Side" is a dramatic\, riveting\, and definitive narrative account of how the U .S. has made self-destructive decisions in the pursuit of terrorists aro und the world--decisions that have not only violated the Constitution an d American values\, but have also hampered the pursuit of Al Qaeda. UID:46DD1D14-E9B6-4B6C-A662-72A14D1D1521 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080911T180000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194954Z SUMMARY:The Challenge CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080911T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:Suzanne Gardinier\nDialogue with the Archipelago\nSheep Mead ow Press\, $15.95\n\nToday: 101 Ghazals \nSheep Meadow Press\, $13.95\n\ n"Gardinier is above all a poet whose language and images are completely integrated so that\, in Keats's words\, every rift is laden with ore." --Adrienne Rich\n\nBar 13\n35 E. 13th Street\n7:30 pm\n\n\n\n UID:13EFAF34-8252-4144-8777-EB70504724C5 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090615T193000 DTSTAMP:20090520T204817Z SUMMARY:louderARTS Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090615T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:19 DESCRIPTION:Henry Alford\nHow to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old Peop le (While They Are Still on This Earth)\nTwelve\, $23.99\n\nIn this witt y guide for seekers of all ages\, Alford searches for instant enlightenm ent through conversations with those who have lived long and lived well. \n\nGary Indiana\nUtopia's Debris: Selected Essays\nBasic Books\, $28.95 \n\nThe very finest from the scabrous\, satirical\, and always sublime G ary Indiana.\n\n\nDoug Anderson\nKeep Your Head Down: Vietnam\, the Sixt ies\, and a Journey of Self-Discovery\nNorton\, $25.95\n\nAn award-winni ng poet highlights the vibrant history of his generation in a farewell t o Vietnam\, the chaotic sixties\, and their long aftermath.\n\nKGB Bar\n 85 East 4th Street\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n\n\n\n UID:B0B0EC3A-1C19-4FC1-B769-9A7E9F15E45A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090331T190000 DTSTAMP:20090121T190638Z SUMMARY:KGB Nonfiction CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090331T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Susan Nagel - Marie-Therese\, Child of Terror\n(Bloomsbury P ublishing PLC\, $40)\n6PM\nwww.nationalartsclub.org\n\nThe first major b iography of one of France's most mysterious women--Marie Antoinette's on ly child to survive the revolution.\nSusan Nagel\, author of the critica lly acclaimed biography "Mistress of the Elgin Marbles\," turns her atte ntion to the life of a remarkable woman who both defined and shaped an e ra\, the tumultuous last days of the crumbling "ancien regime\," Nagel b rings the formidable Marie-Therese to life\, along with the age of revol ution and the waning days of the aristocracy\, in a page-turning biograp hy that will appeal to fans of Antonia Fraser's "Marie Antoinette" and A manda Foreman's "Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire\," \n\nNational Arts C lub\n15 Gramercy Park South\n UID:9DF867B1-4402-4F1C-A9D1-CB9DC7565EDD TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080404T180000 DTSTAMP:20080324T154511Z SUMMARY:National Arts Club CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080404T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Laura Cronk and Michael Quattrone\n7:30 pm\nFREE\n \nRobert Hershon\nTony Towle\n\nhttp://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/200 8-03-03_poetry_robert_h.html\n\n\nKGB Bar \n5 East 4th Street UID:5A21A536-B4DE-42F8-86AE-956066A26E37 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080303T193000 DTSTAMP:20080219T185736Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080303T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:16 DESCRIPTION:Fiction Writers in Conversation: Judy Budnitz in conversatio n with Darin Strauss\n\nJudy Budnitz\nIf I Told You Once\nPicador USA\, $15\n\nIn her original novel about mothers\, daughters\, and love\, Judy Budnitz gives the traditional folktale an electrifying twist as she fol lows four generations of women from an Eastern European village to the t enements of an American city.\n\nNice Big American Baby\nVintage Books U SA $13.95\n\nBudnitz's 12 blazingly original new stories--riveting\, sed uctive\, and impossible to forget--take readers from suburban backyards and swimming pools to war-torn streets and fallout shelters.\n\nDarin St rauss\nChang and Eng\nPlume\, $15\n\nNow in paperback comes the brillian t reimagining of the remarkable lives of the original "Siamese Twins". S weeping from the Far East and the court of the king of Siam to the share d intimacy of their lives in America\, "Chang and Eng" rescues one of th e 19th century's most fabled human oddities from the sideshow of history .\n\nMore Than It Hurts You\nDutton\, $24.95\n\nThe acclaimed author of "Chang and Eng" returns with a beautifully realized novel that at it's h eart is the story of a woman who will risk everything to feel something and a man who suddenly realizes that being a good husband and father can no longer comfortably coexist.\n\nLillian Vernon Creative Writers House \, 58 West 10th Street\, between 5th and 6th Avenues\n\n UID:C25816BC-B419-48B1-843E-AB75EBA958A9 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090205T190000 DTSTAMP:20090119T170233Z SUMMARY:LV Writers House CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090205T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Bomb Book Talk\nWith \n\nRuth Howes\nProfessor of Physics\, Marquette University\nTheir Day in the Sun: Woman of Manhattan project\n \nThe Graduate Center\nC204/C205\n365 5th Ave\n34th St. UID:04886A2A-E35A-4247-964E-44D25278CEFB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081020T183000 DTSTAMP:20080910T194833Z SUMMARY:CUNY : Bomb Book Talk CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081020T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:The American President\nTheodore Sorensen\n\n1 W. 54th Stree t UID:61420C08-0EFA-4AFE-8872-1BFDA466654B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081028T120000 DTSTAMP:20080904T191513Z SUMMARY:University Club: The American President CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081028T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Word for Word Kids\nFREE\nNOON\n\nLou Gallo sings\n\nMobile Libris will sell an assortment of children's books\n\nBryant Park Readin g Series\n42nd St. side\nunder burgandy umbrellas\n UID:0610F284-AE8E-487E-8591-B845E53ED081 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080719T120000 DTSTAMP:20080423T172736Z SUMMARY:Word for Word kids series CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080719T130000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:David Brotherton & Phil Phil Kretsedemas\nKeeping Out the Ot her: A Critical Introduction to Immigration Enforcement Today \n(Columbi a\, $25)\nFREE\n\nAmerica's reputation for open immigration has always b een accompanied by a desire to remove or discourage the migration of "un desirables." But recent restrictions placed on immigrants\, along with a n increase in detentions and deportations\, point to a more worrying tre nd. Immigration enforcement has become the fastest growing sector of fed eral spending over the past two decades\, dwarfing the money spent on he lping immigrants adjust to their new lives.\n\nJohn Jay\n899 10th Ave UID:1336D18E-73FB-4514-AF7A-1557B7F1329E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080602T130000 DTSTAMP:20080527T210407Z SUMMARY:Keeping Out the Other CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080602T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Barry\nLater\, At the Bar\nSimon & Schuster\, $12\n\ nIn the tradition of Garrison Keillor and Richard Russo comes a warm\, f unny fiction debut about the lives and loves of the regulars at a small- town bar.\n\nPianos\n158 Ludlow\n6:30\n\n UID:2907C904-612C-4931-B265-588A463CDC20 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090403T183000 DTSTAMP:20081230T172642Z SUMMARY:One Story CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090403T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Mark Harris \nPictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood (Penguin Press\, $28)\nBook Party\n\nHarris examines the human drama behind the making of the five films nominated f or Best Picture of 1967 and\, through them\, the larger story of the cul tural revolution that transformed Hollywood--and America--forever.\n\nPu blic Theater\n425 Lafayette Street\n\n UID:A5E3A12A-D5CC-436A-B079-2D2DBAA93B18 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080225T180000 DTSTAMP:20080215T215758Z SUMMARY:Mark Harris CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080225T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Performance: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson\n\nBooks TBA\n\nTh e Public Theater\n425 Lafayette Street\n7:45 pm UID:C461F455-6C29-4138-9ABB-E5EE7D15E429 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090515T194500 DTSTAMP:20090119T185347Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090515T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Bill Fletcher\nSolidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized L abor and a New Path Toward Social Justice \n(U of CA Press\, $25)\n8:30A M\n\nCandid\, incisive\, and accessible\, "Solidarity Divided "is a crit ical examination of labor's current crisis and a plan for a bold new way forward into the twenty-first century. \n\nThe City University of NY\n2 5 W 43rd St\n18th Floor\n UID:B1C66657-8A3D-48DA-92F8-78EB51150251 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080613T083000 DTSTAMP:20080512T220116Z SUMMARY:Bill Fletcher at City University CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080613T103000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Pulitzer Prize winner James Tate is the author of a new book of poems\,The Ghost Soldiers:Poem \n\nDara Wier is the author \,most re cently of Remmants of Hannah.\n\nDavid Lehman\,moderator\n\n66 W 12th St \nroom 510\n\n$5\; free for students/alumni\n UID:C4D03B0F-0E8F-4837-86A0-011250E2719D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081027T183000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204836Z SUMMARY:New School Poetry Forum CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081027T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:A "New York Times" journalist discovers a discarded old diar y--a find that introduces her to an extraordinary woman and a glamorous\ , forgotten time. Evocative and entrancing\, "The Red Leather Diary" rec reates the romance and glitter of 1930s New York. Photos throughout.\nAu thor : Lily Koppel\n\n\nNew York Presbyterian Hospital\nWeill Cornell Ce nter\n525 E. 68th St\nYork Ave- E.68th St.\n UID:9C7FD916-3C61-4BE5-A3DD-CECC6637855A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080924T120000 DTSTAMP:20081018T195000Z SUMMARY:The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080924T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Shalom Auslander was raised in Monsey\, New York. Nominated for the Koret Award for writers under thirty-five\, he has written for " The New Yorker\," "Esquire\," "The New York Times Magazine\," and is a r egular contributor to NPR's "This American Life\," His short story colle ction\, "Beware of God\," was published in 2005. He lives in New York.\n \nForeskin'sLament\n(RiverheadsBook\,$15)\n\nFREE\n\nBrooklyn Library\nD weck Auditorium\nGrand Army Plaza\n UID:D03405BD-1DC4-4BEF-B2E4-892965F5FD8E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081220T160000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204826Z SUMMARY:Meet the Author: Shalom Auslander CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081220T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Alice Mattison is the acclaimed author of four story collect ions and five novels\, most recently "Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Broo klyn". "The Book Borrower" and her collections "In Case We're Separated" and "Men Giving Money\, Women Yelling" were named "New York Times" Nota ble Books. Raised in Brooklyn\, New York\, she teaches fiction in the gr aduate writing program at Bennington College in Vermont and lives in New Haven\, Connecticut.\n\nJeffrey Renard Allen\nThe author of two collect ions of poetry\, Steller Places and Harbors and Spirits\,and of the wide ly celebrated and influential novel\,Rails Under My Back\, which won the Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize for Fiction. His other awards include a Whiting Writer's Award\, The Chicago Public Library's Twenty-first Ce ntury Award\, a recognition for Pioneering Achievements in Fiction from the African American Literature and Culture Association\, and a support grant from Creative Capital\, and the 2003 Charles Angoff award for fict ion from Literary Review. Born in Chicago\, he holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is an instrutor in the gr aduate writing program at New School University. He is the founder and t he director of the Pan African Literary Forum\, a non-profit organizatio n which serves writers and which held its first annual write's conferenc e in Ghana this summer. His Latest publication is a book of short storie s\, Holding Pattern.\n\nHosted by MIRA JACOB and ALISON HART\n\nPete's C andy Store\n709 Lorimer St.\nWilliamsburg\,Brooklyn UID:DAD2D439-DBAB-4DAE-AE7B-55A7CF27149D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081002T193000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194959Z SUMMARY:Pete's Candy Store Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081002T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:New School Poetry Forum\nHomeTown Stories\n\nMaureen McNeil\ ,author of Red Hook Stories\,and Kelly McMasters\,author of Shirley:A Me moir from and Atomic Town\nJackson Taylor\,moderator\n\n66 W 12th St\nro om 510\n\n$5\; free for students/alumni UID:A0371991-EEBA-4BAF-921D-8BFF3D342566 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081006T183000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204828Z SUMMARY:New School Poetry CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081006T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Danny Simmons\n'85 (Atria\, $15)\n6:00 pm\nBook Release Part y\n\nInspired by the widely praised novel "Three Days as the Crow Flies\ ," Danny Simmons and Floyd Hughes present a richly illustrated graphic n ovel set in the gritty underworld of New York City circa 1985 -- a time and place when street culture and the fine arts scene came together in s trange and often predatory ways\n\nCorridor Gallery\n334 Grand Avenue be tween Greene and Gates Avenues\n\n\n UID:E7AE8F3E-8BCA-4FEB-8706-1925CD9896D7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080223T180000 DTSTAMP:20080214T202359Z SUMMARY:Danny Simmons CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080223T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:THE WHY AND LATER\, ANTHOLOGY READING\nwith\n\nJan Beatty\nL aure Anne Bosselaar\nTeresa Carson\nHarriet Levin\nAmanda Mcguire\nErin Murphy\nKiely Sweatt\nand editor Carly Sachs\n\nFree\n\nKGB Bar\n85 East 4 th St. UID:B53D84D9-81E7-4158-9883-26B304F02633 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081013T193000 DTSTAMP:20080904T171506Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081013T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:National Arts Club\, hosted by Fran Gordon\n\nJohn Reed and Ben Greenman\, read from current works\n\nBen Greenman is an editor at the New york and the author of several acclaimed books of fiction\, incl uding Superworse\, and A Circle is a balloon and compass bth : Stories a bout human love.\n\nJohn Reed is the author of A Still small voice (Dela corte)\, Snowball's chance (Roof Books)\, The Whole (MTV Books/Simon&Sch uster) \, the newly released All the World's a grave : A New play by Wil liam Shakespeare ( Penguin/Plume)\, and the forthcoming Tales of Woe (MT V Books 2009)\n\nThe National Arts Club \n15 Gramercy Park S\n UID:ABA1EE4B-F17B-4B85-A7E5-4A04B455A057 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081017T190000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194955Z SUMMARY:John Reed : All The World's a Grave CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081017T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Reading and Conversation\n7:00 pm\nFREE\n\nNicholas Christop her \nCrossing the Equator: New and Selected Poems 1972-2004 (Harvest B ooks\, $14)\n\nMarilyn Bowering \nGreen (Exile Editions\, $18)\n\nLilli an Vernon Creative Writers House\n58 W 10th St UID:25B15503-7E48-4272-B12B-27F753D6025A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080313T190000 DTSTAMP:20080228T213259Z SUMMARY:Nicholas Christopher & Marilyn Bowering CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080313T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:David Rees ( Get Your war on)\nand \njournalist Matt Taibbi (The Great Derangment: A Terrifying true Story of War\,Politics&Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire\;Smells like Dead Elephants\;Spa nking the Donkey)\n\nFREE\n\nBrooklyn Library\nDweck Auditorium\nGrand A rmy Plaza UID:BEEA0F60-8F9C-4A77-84BF-F9A06761FD57 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081115T160000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204828Z SUMMARY:How Doomed is America?Ree vs. taibbi CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081115T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Pamela Skillings\nEscape from Corporate America: A Practical Guide to Creating the Career of Your Dreams \n(Ballantine\, $15) \nFREE \n6PM\n\nCareer expert and corporate escapee Skillings inspires the cubi cle-bound and the corner-office-cornered to break free and create the ca reer of their dreams--without going broke.\n\nSoho House\n29-35 9th Ave (btn\, 13th and 14th) UID:4D323DA9-E50B-4CDE-85A2-ADB03B356EC6 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080603T180000 DTSTAMP:20080521T190155Z SUMMARY:Escape from Corporate America CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080603T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Bettina Bergo & Jill Stauffer \nNietzche and Levinas: After the Death of a Certain God\nColumbia University Press\, $27.50\n\nThe es says that Jill Stauffer and Bettina Bergo collect in this volume locate multiple affinities between the philosophies of Nietzsche and Levinas. B oth philosophers question the nature of subjectivity and the meaning of responsibility after the "death of God." While Nietzsche poses the dilem mas of a self without a ground and of ethics at a time of cultural uphea val and demystification\, Levinas wrestles with subjectivity and the she er possibility of ethics after the Shoah. Both argue that goodness exist s independently of calculative reason& mdash\;for Nietzsche\, goodness a rises in a creative act moving beyond reaction and ressentiment\; Levina s argues that goodness occurs in a spontaneous response to another perso n. In a world at once without God and haunted by multiple divinities\, N ietzsche and Levinas reject transcendental foundations for politics and work toward an alternative vision encompassing a positive sense of creat ion\, a complex fraternity or friendship\, and rival notions of responsi bility.\n\nCUNY Center for the Humanities\n365 Fifth Avenye\nMartin E. S egal Theater\n6:30 pm\nFree\n\n UID:A31FB343-D06E-4266-9DD9-63C29AABAF39 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090205T183000 DTSTAMP:20090115T174821Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090205T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:James Hoch\nMiscreants\nW.W. Norton & Co\, $14.95\n\nVivid\, disturbing\, and distinctively American ballads and lyrics....Astonishi ng. --Michael Collier\n\nPacific Standard Bar\n82 Fourth Avenue\nBrookly n\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n UID:702974ED-A471-41CF-88B8-65C89D00563D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090409T190000 DTSTAMP:20090304T153231Z SUMMARY:Chin Music Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090409T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Joanne Oppenheim\nStanley Hayami\, Nisei Son: His Diary\, Le tters & Story: From American Concentration Camp to Battlefield 1942-1945 \nBrick Tower Press\, $19.95\n\nStanley Hayami was sixteen when he was s ent to Heart Mountain\, an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II. He kept a diary of his life in the camps\, augmented with sketches and drawings. In 1944\, like many young Nisei men\, he was dra fted into the 442nd Infantry Regimental Combat Team\, an all-Nisei unit\ , continuing to write and earning a Bronze Star. He never lost his faith in America\, and remained defiantly patriotic to the last. He was kille d in combat in Northern Italy on April 23rd\, 1945\, while trying to hel p a fellow soldier. He was nineteen years old. This book is based on his diary\, now in the permanent collection of the Japanese American Nation al Museum in Los Angeles\, Ca.\n\nNYU Asian/Pacific/American Institute\n 41-51 East 11th Street\n7th Floor Gallery\n6:00 pm UID:526B9C0D-B712-4E2D-ADDB-8A046AC918FF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090210T180000 DTSTAMP:20090121T182246Z SUMMARY:NYU Asian/Pacific/American Institute CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090210T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld\nV intage Books USA : $ 16.95\n\nMisha Glenny was educated at Bristol Unive rsity in England and Charles University in Prague. He is also the author of "The Rebirth of History\," "The Fall of Yugoslavia "(which won the O verseas Press Club Award in 1993 for Best Book on Foreign Affairs)\, and "The Balkans\, 1804"-"1999." During the early 1990s he was the central Europe correspondent for the BBC World Service\, and in 1993 he won a So ny Award for his coverage of Yugoslavia. He has contributed to most majo r U.S. and European newspapers and current affairs magazines and is regu larly consulted by U.S. and European governments on Balkan issues. Misha Glenny lives in London.\n\nCouncil on Foreign Relations\n58 E.68th St.\ n@Park Ave. UID:B1F484B6-2CF4-41A8-8426-FA092A3FD9BD TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090407T173000 DTSTAMP:20090326T173624Z SUMMARY:McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld\n CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090407T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Brooklyn Independents: Fantastic Women\n7:00 pm\nFREE\n\nAwa rd-winning writers infuse their work with myth and fantasy\, with MacArt hur-winning poet Anne Carson\, James Laughlin Award-winning poet Brenda Shaughnessy\, novelist Lydia Millet\, and short-story writer Kelly Link. \n\nThe Brooklyn Independents Literary series is a consortium of highly regarded\, cutting-edge independent literary publishers:: Akashic\, BOM B Magazine\, A Public Space\, Tin House and Soft Skull.\n\nCentral Branc h\nGrand Army Plaza\nDweck Auditorium\n\n UID:1DCDD4D5-44D6-4835-B4D8-B921E7F62C8E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080306T190000 DTSTAMP:20080218T171506Z SUMMARY:Fantastic Women CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080306T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Michael Palmer\nCompany of Moths\nNew Directions\, $16.95\n\ nMichael Palmer has bee hailed by John Ashbery as "exemplarily radical" and by The Village Voice as "the most influential avant-gardist working\ , and perhaps the greatest poet of his generation." His new book\, Compa ny of Moths--a collection in four parts\, "Stone\," "Scale\," "Company o f Moths\," and "Dream" -- is beautiful\, and fierce: "bright archive\, s ad merriment\," "question pursuing question." Palmer\, in this new volum e for our darkest times\, asks\, "How will you now read in the dark?"\n\ nAmy Catanzano\nMultiversal\nFordham University Press\, $18.95\n\n\nFord ham University\n113 West 60th Street\n12th Floor Lounge\n7:00 pm\nFree\n \n\n UID:AD000615-3E53-45E8-B893-0F1E36937989 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090304T190000 DTSTAMP:20090203T211847Z SUMMARY:Poets Out Loud CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090304T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:John McWhorter\nAll about the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save B lack America\n(Gotham\, $20)\nMEMBERS\n6PM\n\nThe bestselling commentato r\, hailed for his frank and fearless arguments on race\, imparts a scat hing look at the hypocrisy of hip-hop--and why its popularity proves tha t black America must overhaul its politics.\n\nHarvard Club\n 35 W 44th St UID:F5493C21-7D21-46D2-B726-D77AEC0B123C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080604T180000 DTSTAMP:20080519T215920Z SUMMARY:All About the Beat CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080604T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:13 DESCRIPTION:302 E Broome @ Forsythe UID:1B12C101-509F-46C6-A84F-6D6DA1782325 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070912T200000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195250Z SUMMARY:Happy Ending Reading and Music Series CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070912T220000 RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;INTERVAL=2;UNTIL=20071107T045959Z;BYDAY=WE;WKST=SU END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:302 E Broome @ Forsythe\n\nRebecca Curtis\nMaxine Swann\nWil l Allison\nDan Bern UID:1B12C101-509F-46C6-A84F-6D6DA1782325 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070912T200000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195246Z SUMMARY:Happy Ending Reading and Music Series CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070912T220000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20070912T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:302 E Broome @ Forsythe\n\nEllen Litman\nSunshine O'Donnell\ nJoshua Furst UID:1B12C101-509F-46C6-A84F-6D6DA1782325 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070926T200000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195247Z SUMMARY:Happy Ending Reading and Music Series CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070926T220000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20070926T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:302 E Broome @ Forsythe\n\nRoy Kesey\nBenjamin Percy\nMin Ji n Lee UID:1B12C101-509F-46C6-A84F-6D6DA1782325 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071024T200000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195249Z SUMMARY:Happy Ending Reading and Music Series CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071024T220000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20071024T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:302 E Broome @ Forsythe\n\nTao Lin\nChris Adrian\nKate Chris tenson UID:1B12C101-509F-46C6-A84F-6D6DA1782325 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071010T200000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195249Z SUMMARY:Happy Ending Reading and Music Series CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071010T220000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20071010T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Poetry Forum\nKevin Prufer\nNational Anthem\nFour Way Books\ , $15.95\n\nThe poems in National Anthem\, the fourth collection of poet ry from critically-acclaimed poet and critic Kevin Prufer\, are finely-s tudied short films about America in the 21st century. Set in an apocalyp tic and post-apocalyptic world that is disturbing because it is uncannil y familiar\, National Anthem chronicles the aftermath of the failure of imperial vision. Allowing Rome and America to bleed into one another\, P rufer masterfully weaves the threads of history into an anthem that is a s intimate as it is far-reaching.\n\nThe New School\n66 West 12th Street \nRoom 510\n6:30 pm\n$5\n\n UID:3B02C1D8-F523-43FC-93E8-41E6241006EE TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090310T183000 DTSTAMP:20090106T191146Z SUMMARY:The New School CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090310T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:"it's like the Discovery Channel with beer" - Trevor Penn\, bartender/comedian/entrepeneur\n\nIn American Nerd: The Story of My Peop le (Scribner $20)\, Brooklyn-based writer Benjamin Nugent combines a per ipatetic history of the word “nerd” with accounts of the various kinds o f people it is most often used to describe.\n\nAngles and Kings\n500 Ave A\n2 drink minimum UID:3F1B0289-6A82-40C6-A360-53D1BC7C1D03 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080702T190000 DTSTAMP:20080627T001208Z SUMMARY:Nerd Nite NYC CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080702T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Jack Devine\n6:30\nMEMBERS\n\nUniversity Club\n1 W 54th St UID:CA3C5BF0-742C-4C99-A455-4435D68D56A7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080618T183000 DTSTAMP:20080508T220815Z SUMMARY:University Club - Jack Devine CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080618T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Perpetual Motion: Revolutions in 17-Century Science and Musi c\nA multimedia performance blending past\, present\, and future. \n\nF eaturing Dava Sobel\, author of Longitude. Galileo's Daughters\, and The Planets\, soprano Sarah Pillow\, Maryanne Ballard\, and Ronn McFarlane. \n\nA celebration of the International Year of Astronomy\n\nJudson Memor ial Church\n55 Washington Square South\nTickets $20 in advance\, $30 at the door\, $15 for students\, seniors\, musicians and scientists UID:129AB38E-3904-4F04-B552-590CD4CBADF0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090128T200000 DTSTAMP:20090121T180816Z SUMMARY:Perpetual Motion CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090128T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Irena Chalmers\nFood Jobs: 150 Great Jobs for Culinary Stude nts\, Career Changers and Food Lovers\nBeaufort Books\, $19.95\n\nDo you want to turn your passion for food into a career? Take a bite out of th e food world with help from the experts in this first-of-its-kind What C olor Is Your Parachute? for food related careers.\n\nJames Beard House\n 167 West 12th Street\n12:00 pm\n$20 suggested donation for nonstudents\n UID:BE3D50AC-2409-43C5-A28C-18EB75EC5287 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090422T120000 DTSTAMP:20090107T160717Z SUMMARY:Beard on Books CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090422T130000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:\nKeorapetse Kgositsile\nAuthor of This Way I Salute You\n\n Jeffery Renard Allen\,moderator\n\n66 W 12th St\nroom 510\n\n$5\; free f or students/alumni UID:21B8CB06-46E2-459C-9A7A-4708AF4BDD68 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081014T183000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204824Z SUMMARY:New School Poetry Forum CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081014T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Old Stone House Reading Series\n7PM\nFREE\n\nMartha Dudman\n Black Olives\n(Simon & Schuster\, $23)\n\nNan Bauer-Maglin\nCut Loose: ( Mostly) Older Women Talk about the End of (Mostly) Long-Term Relationshi ps \n(Rutgers U\, $60)\n\n\nOld Stone House\n5th Ave between 3rd and 4th St in Park Slope\nTake R train to Union St\, or F to 4th Ave Stop UID:2012715E-A000-439A-AF80-5D9D620B232D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080514T190000 DTSTAMP:20080428T210611Z SUMMARY:Old Stone House Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080514T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Po licy \n\n(Harper : $ 27.99)\n\nAuthor : Gelb\, Leslie H \nA provocative account of the use and misuse of power in international affairs\, from o ne of the nation's leading foreign policy thinkers and Pulitzer Prize wi nner.\n\nCouncil of Foreign Relations\n58 E 68th St\,\n@ Park Ave.\n\n UID:43DBCE0E-7019-4E3B-9E6B-2D2833F2C0A0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090318T173000 DTSTAMP:20090326T173628Z SUMMARY:Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090318T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:7PM \nFREE\n\nTomaz Salamun \nRow\n(ARC Pub\, $17)\n\nPresen ted as a bilingual edition with Slovenian and English texts on facing pa ges\, these instinctive\, sensory poems have a deliberate force and a co nvincing relevance.\n\nBrian Henry\nThe Stripping Point\n(Counterpath\, $15)\n\nBy turns ironic and deadly serious\, toxic and mysterious. . . . A poet to watch. --Publishers Weekly \n\nLillian Vernon Creative Writer s House\n58 W 10th St \n\n UID:982DE575-9BA1-4A72-BD6A-82CAEEAF382D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080410T190000 DTSTAMP:20080324T160347Z SUMMARY:LV Writers House CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080410T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:19 DESCRIPTION:The Economist Magazine consists 2 debates with topic\n-Corp orate Social Responsibility \n-US. Foreign Policy and The International Perception of The US.\n\nItems\nKevin Kallaugher Books\nEconomist Style Guides\nJohn Micklethwait Books\nPhilathrocapitalism\, Matthew Bishop\n Zoom\, Vijay Vatheeswaran\nSecond World\, Parag Khanna\nThe Truth of Pow er\, Benjamin Barber\nHistory of the World in 6 Glasses\, Tom Standage\n The Good Fight\, Peter Beinart\n\nGotham Hall\nBroadway @ 36th St UID:36CD7921-71EA-48AA-A52C-84D85AC4C136 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081102T110000 DTSTAMP:20081018T195003Z SUMMARY:Art of Debate :Economist Day 2 CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081102T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Anat Baniel\nMove into Life: The Nine Essentials for Lifelon g Vitality\nHarmony\, $24.95\n\n"Move Into Life" defines the nine essent ial skills the brain uses in order to thrive. Through her revolutionary understanding of how to use movement\, Baniel provides simple\, safe act ivities and mental exercises to incorporate into everyday activities.\n\ nSubud Chelsea Center\n230 West 29th Street\n12:30 pm UID:60D0D3BF-E28E-4B9F-A318-130A0B5318CF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090606T123000 DTSTAMP:20090501T150156Z SUMMARY:Subud Chelsea Center CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090606T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:0 DESCRIPTION:Thomas Sayers Ellis\n(Graywolf\, $14)\n\nPrageeta Sharma\nIn famous Landscapes \n(Fence\, $15)\n\nHosted by Laura Cronk and Michael Q uattrone\n\nKGB Bar \n5 East 4th Street\n UID:A1B1447A-1E0E-4DF7-882F-6383FCC608C6 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080428T193000 DTSTAMP:20080426T005801Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080428T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Arthur Phillips\nThe Song is You\nRandom House\, $25\n\nThe bestselling author of "Prague" delivers a love story and a uniquely hear tbreaking dark comedy about obsession and loss. It is a closely observed tale of love in the digital age that blurs the line between the longing for intimacy and the longing for oblivion.\n\nJulie Klam\nPlease Excuse My Daughter\nRiverhead Books\, $15\n\nThis big-hearted memoir from an i rresistible new writer is Klam's hilarious\, bittersweet account of grow ing up in a family of career-shunning\, dependence-seeking women and her journey to a state of 21st-century self-reliance.\n\nThe Gildhall Hotel \nUpstairs Library\n15 Gold Street\n6:00 pm\n\nNote: There is a dress co de. No jeans or t-shirts. \n\n UID:B06CD1C9-FE4A-46C0-9727-02DCDC7E65B8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090414T180000 DTSTAMP:20090220T184726Z SUMMARY:Pen Parentis Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090414T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Bomb Book Talk\nTBA\n\n\nThe Graduate Center\nSkylight Room\ n365 5th Ave\n34th St. UID:775E3DDA-0BA4-455D-B72D-C46B7B2E7019 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081111T183000 DTSTAMP:20080910T194833Z SUMMARY:CUNY CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081111T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Reading\nJudith Baumel and Susan Orlean\nJudith Baumel is th e author of Now and The Weight of Numbers\, which won the Walt Whitman A ward from the Academy of American Poets.\n\nSusan Orlean has been a staf f writer for The New Yorker since 1992\, and is the author of the nation al bestseller\, The Orchid Thief.\n\nLillian Vernon Creative Writers Hou se\, 58 West 10th Street\, between 5th and 6th Avenues UID:38302AD6-9A45-4426-9F7B-3EA1417F6D0D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090130T170000 DTSTAMP:20090116T153509Z SUMMARY:LV Writers House CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090130T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:The conversations between French and American authors that c onstitute the eleven one-hour sessions of the Festival of New French Wri ting will pair one French and one American writer\, confronting their re spective experiences and ambitions with respect to literary creation. E ach animated by an American cultural critic familiar with the literature s of the two countries\, the dialogues will explore the singular qualiti es of each author\, national similarities and differences\, as well as t he future of literature.\n\n2:00 pm: Marie Darrieussecq and Adam Gopnik\ , moderated by Deborah Treisman\n\n3:15 pm: Frederic Beigbeder and Paul Berman\, moderated by Tom Bishop\n\n4:30 pm: Abdourahman Waberi and Phil ip Gourevitch\, moderated by Lila Azam Zanganeh\n\nTischman Auditorium\n Vanderbilt Hall\n40 Washington Square South\n2:00 pm UID:5E791F59-2C01-49CB-9AC1-A8A0AC749C73 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090227T140000 DTSTAMP:20090115T190751Z SUMMARY:Festival of New French Writing CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090227T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:The Public Theater will be putting on a new play by Suzan-Lo ri Parks. More information to come.\n\nThe Public Theater\n425 Lafayett e Street\n6:45 pm UID:6F89F0DE-29AE-4F81-A9D1-9C51079022BA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090602T184500 DTSTAMP:20090320T201453Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090602T204500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Jane Yolen\nThe Rogues\n(Puffin\, $9)\n$5 tickets\n6:30PM\n\ n\n\nThe resounding Scottish Quartet reaches its dramatic conclusion. Wh en all in his Scottish village are violently evicted from their land by the laird\, Roddy Macallan knows he must find a way to fight back. Soon\ , Roddy teams up with a Robin Hood-like rogue who roams the Highlands ju st ahead of the unscrupulous laird.\n\nNew School\n66 W 12th Room 510\n\ n UID:422D0905-61E5-4CB0-983C-A411FE177AE7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080916T183000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204830Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080916T193000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:Just in time for its fortieth anniversary\, New York magazin e presents a stunning collection of some of its best and most influentia l articles\, stories that captured the spectacle\, the turbulence\, and the cultural realignments of the past four decades.\n\nCovering subjects from “Radical Chic” to Gawker.com\, written by some of the country’s mo st renowned authors\, here are works that broke news\, perfectly capture d the moment\, or set trends in motion. In New York Stories\, Gloria Ste inem (whose Ms. Magazine was introduced in New York) broaches the subjec t of women’s liberation\; Tom Wolfe coins “The Me Decade”\; and Steve Fi shman piercingly portrays the unwanted martyrdom of the 9/11 widows. Cut ting edge features that invented terms like “brat pack” and “grup”\; pro files of defining cultural figures including Joe Namath\, Truman Capote\ , and long-shot presidential candidate Bill Clinton\; and reports that i nspired the acclaimed movies Saturday Night Fever\, GoodFellas\, and Gre y Gardens–all are included in this one-of-a-kind compilation.\n\nThe wri ters who chronicled the times that began with Nixon’s campaign and end w ith Obama’s are at their best in New York Stories. It’s an irresistible anthology from a magazine that\, like the city itself\, is still making stars\, setting standards\, and going strong.\n\nRandom House has publis hed New york Stories by the editors of New york magazine.The magazine is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year and New york Stories is a co llection of some of the magazine's most influential writing.\n\n6pm- mid night\n\nHammerstein Ballroom\n311 W.34th St. and 7th Avenue\n UID:0082B0B5-6769-4EB2-A642-5AF843FA4026 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081010T180000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194959Z SUMMARY:40th Anniversary New York Magazine CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T000000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Ex-ZuZu Petal and Author Laurie Lindeen celebrates the papar back release of her memoir Petal Pusher out Sept.16 on Atria Books.\nJo in Laurie for an evening of reading\,music and laughs with special guest s Dan Zanes\, Lizz Winstead\, Jen Trynin and more.\n\n"Laurie Lindeen wr ites the same way Zuzu's Petals ussed to rock:With Authentic detail\, en fering sincerity \, and the innate ability to reflect a certain place at a certain time( with a voice that belongs only to her)" \n-Chuck Kloste rman\, author of Fargo Rock City\n\n"Laurie Lindeen writes beautifully a bout both sides of the rock and roll mirror--how it feels to be in the a udience looking up and what it's a like on the stage looking down. She w rites with the honesty of a Who song\, the humor of the Ramones\, and th e eye for detail of Joni Mitchell. Petel Pusher is music set to words"\n -Bill Flanagan\, author of A & R : A Novel and New Bedlam\n\nHosted by L aurie Lindeen \nEmceed by Minnesota public Radio's The Current on air- p ersonality Mary Lucia a Singing will follow at 10pm in the adjoining bar \n\nThe Cutting Room\n19 W24th St.\n UID:283B87F0-EF61-474E-9922-59861B41FC44 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080929T200000 DTSTAMP:20080912T170401Z SUMMARY:"PETAL PUSHER : A Rock And Roll Cinderella Story" CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080929T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Walter Isaacson\nEinstein: His Life and Universe\n(Simon & S chuster\, $18)\nCall 1-212-817-7000\n8PM\n\nFrom Isaacson\, the bestsell ing author of "Benjamin Franklin\," comes the first full biography of Al bert Einstein since all his papers have become available--a fully realiz ed portrait of a premier icon of his era.\n\nGrad Center at CUNY\n365 Fi fth Avenue\n UID:26538A51-E2DA-4B64-BD6A-4D7E16EE3346 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080530T200000 DTSTAMP:20080429T204513Z SUMMARY:Walter Isaacson at CUNY CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080530T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:William Hague\nWilliam Wilberforce: The Life of the Great An ti-Slave Trade Campaigner \n(Harcourt $35)\nFREE\n6:30PM\n\nFrom William Hague comes a major biography of abolitionist William Wilberforce\, the man who fought for twenty years to abolish the Atlantic slave trade.\n\ nEnglish Speaking Union\n144 E 39th St UID:F0F811B5-1A3A-4003-80CE-A9B0AF5BA0B8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080527T183000 DTSTAMP:20080512T214717Z SUMMARY:William Hague CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080527T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Jack Perkowski\nManaging the Dragon: How I'm Building a Bill ion-Dollar Business in China \n(Crown Business\, $28)\n5PM\nCONTACT CFR. ORG\n\nBusiness maverick Perkowski offers how-to lessons on starting a s uccessful company in China--the world's hottest\, but most challenging\, growth market. 1 map.\n\nCouncil of Foreign Relations\n58 E 68th St. UID:C20811B5-86E7-497D-B92E-0DCBBEB9FF88 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080402T170000 DTSTAMP:20080321T181752Z SUMMARY:Council of Foreign Relations CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080402T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:Appraiser Association of America is a host of David Cay John ston's Speech for his book\nFree Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enr ich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill) \nest selling author and acclaimed journalist Johnston shows how for the past three decades\, the government began to offer favorable treatment to cer tain groups. But for every subsidy and regulatory change that helps one person\, another pays the price.\n(Portfolio\,$25)\n\nDavid Cay Johnston \, a Pulitzer Prizeawinning reporter for "The New York Times\," has hunt ed down a killer the police failed to catch\, exposed LAPD abuses\, caus ed two television stations to lose their licenses over news manipulation s\, and revealed Donald Trumpas true net worth. He has uncovered so many tax dodges that he has been called the ade facto chief tax enforcement officer of the United States.a \nHis last book\, "Perfectly Legal\," was a "New York Times" bestseller and honored as Book of the Year by the jo urnalism organization Investigative Reporters and Editors. Over his fort y-year career he has won many other honors\, including a George Polk Awa rd.\n\nNew York Athletic Club\n180 Central Park South\n9th Floor Card Ro om UID:12DDC2DC-14B2-4AAA-8D71-6DC01F515A8E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081108T090000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194958Z SUMMARY:Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Go vernment Expense (and Stick You with the Bill) : David Cay Johnston CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081108T100000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Nancy Kuhl\nThe Wife of the Left Hand \n(Shearsman\, $15)\n\ nRichard Deming\nLet's Not Call It Consequence \n(Shearsman\, $15)\n\n7: 30PM\nFREE\n\nNancy Kuhl's first full-length collection of poems\, The W ife of the Left Hand\, was published in 2007 by Shearsman Books. She is co-editor of Phylum Press\, a small poetry publisher (www.phylumpress.co m). She is AssociateCurator of the Yale Collection of American Literatur e at the Beinecke Rare book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. w ww.phylumpress.com/nancykuhl.htm\n\nRichard Deming is the author of Let' s Not Call It Consequence (Shearsman\,2008) and Listening on All Sides: Towards an Emersonian Ethics of Reading (Stanford UP\, 2008). His poetry has also appeared in Sulfur\, Colorado Review\, Indiana Review\, Field and Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present. He is a lecture r at Yale University. With Nancy Kuhl he edits Phylum Press.\nHosted by Laura Cronk and Michael Quattrone\n\n\nKGB Bar \n5 East 4th Street\n\n UID:7FDFCAFE-A6F5-4B17-B7DE-21B0DFC69B7D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080407T193000 DTSTAMP:20080321T194100Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080407T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Julie Salamon\nHospital: Man\, Woman\, Birth\, Death\, Infin ity\, Plus Red Tape\, Bad Behavior\, Money\, God and Diversity on Steroi ds \nPenguin\, $25.95\n\nA bestselling author and award-winning journali st follows a year in the life of a big urban hospital\, painting a revea ling portrait of how medical care is delivered in America today.\n\nBroo klyn Library\nDweck Center\nGrand Army Plaza\n4:00 pm\nFree\n\n UID:41E69882-AD49-423A-8A6D-6E4FE6215A94 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090201T133000 DTSTAMP:20081217T201842Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090201T153000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Ansche Chesed Temple Readings\nFREE - 212 865 0600\n8PM\n\nJ oshua Cohen\nThe Quorum\n(Twisted Spoon\, $14)\n\nAnne Landsman\nThe Row ing Lesson\n(Soho\, $12)\n\nAnsche Chesed\n251 W 100th St UID:D2368241-37A1-4E02-9C94-329BD4666242 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080707T200000 DTSTAMP:20080513T205905Z SUMMARY:Ansche Chesed CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080707T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Samet\nSoldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point\n(Picador\, $15)\n\nThe Writing Program pre sents a reading and discussion with Elizabeth Samet\, author of Soldier’ s Heart. Moderated by David Lehman\, poetry coordinator\, the Writing Pr ogram.\n\nPoetry Forum \n\nNew School\n66 West 12th Street Room 510\n UID:4E3D7065-C5AC-4889-91C7-ECF2F0F9C3A5 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080408T183000 DTSTAMP:20080321T194417Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080408T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Ronald Zweig\nThe Gold Train: The Destruction of the Jews an d the Looting of Hungary (Harper Perennial\, $14)\n\nDrawing on a decade 's worth of research into American\, Israeli\, and European archives\, a s well as private papers\, eyewitness accounts\, and other sources\, Ron ald Zweig tells the full story of the Gold Train.\n\nCentral Branch\nGra nd Army Plaza\nDweck Auditorium UID:359E4E87-165B-4DB4-BA1A-E44446B3B6E6 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080504T160000 DTSTAMP:20080424T200736Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library- Ronald Zweig CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080504T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Robert J. Lang\nOrigami in Action\nSt. Martin's Griffin\, $1 8.95\n\nOne of the world's top origami creators presents 39 origami proj ects\, rangingfrom beginner to advanced levels\, and including such trad itional favorites asTyrannosaurus Rex\, a cootie catcher\, and the water bomb. Each of the models istrue origami\, folded from a single sheet of paper\, with no cutting or gluing\n\nCUNY Graduate Center\n365 5th Avenu e\n6:30 pm\n UID:9650CB72-A88B-473C-BB02-90564868FBB1 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090701T183000 DTSTAMP:20090522T144212Z SUMMARY:CUNY Science & The Arts CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090701T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Panel Discussion Featuring:\n\nDavid Kang \nChina Rising: P eace\, Power\, and Order in East Asia\n\nNina Hachigian \nThe Next Ameri can Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise \n\nDavid Deno on \nThe Economic and Strategic Rise of China and India: Asian Realignm ents after the 1997 Financial Crisis \n\nCouncil on Foreign Relations\n5 8 E. 68th Street\nCall for more information: 1-212-434-9400\n UID:D75D71DD-F862-4255-A396-BB043CF890E3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080229T120000 DTSTAMP:20080219T183755Z SUMMARY:Council On Foreign Relations CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080229T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:14 DESCRIPTION:Wally Lamb\nThe Hour I First Believed\nHarper\, $29.95\n\nTh e #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author and two-time Oprah's Book Club pick delivers his first novel in over a decade--an extraordinary work of prodigious scope and ambition that explores the consequences of violent events\, and the chaos that ensues.\n\nZoe Heller\nThe Believers\nHarpe r\, $25.99\n\nThe highly anticipated new novel from the author of the ac claimed "What Was She Thinking?" is a rich\, comic chronicle of one fami ly's struggles with the consolations of faith and the trials of doubt.\n \nCentral Park\nRumsey Playfield\nEnter at 69th and 5th Avenue \n7:00 pm \n\n\n UID:33C04B5B-BFD4-4950-868A-536AD4F50849 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090617T190000 DTSTAMP:20090610T183314Z SUMMARY:Summerstage CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090617T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Good Words @ Good World\nFREE\n5PM?\n\nJeff Gordinier\nX Sav es the World\n(Viking\, $22)\n\nJohn Sellers\nSimon & Schuster\, $13)\n\ nGood World Bar and Grill\n3 Orchard Street UID:8913A87E-6F16-4748-A9E3-1896EA6856DD TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080518T170000 DTSTAMP:20080512T212633Z SUMMARY:Dead Rock Stars at Good World CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080518T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Joan Cusack Handler\n\nJanuary O'Neil\n\nTeresa Carson\nEleg y for the Floater\nCavanKerry Press\, $16\n\nBryant Park Reading Room\nB ryant Park 42nd st. side\, under burgandy umbrellas\n\n\n UID:380CA1D7-9549-4DC4-B4E9-D7575AB2ED0F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090623T193000 DTSTAMP:20090526T173654Z SUMMARY:Word for Word Poetry CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090623T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Jean Chatszky\nMake Money\, Not Excuses: Wake Up\, Take Char ge\, and Overcome Your Financial Fears Forever \n(Three Rivers\, $14)\nP rivate event\n5:30PM\n\nChatzky has heard all the excuses for why women don't deal with their finances. Now she tells readers how she made every financial mistake in the book before finally making the decision to tak e control of her money and her future.\n\nCredit Suisse Office\n1 MAdiso n Ave\nOMA Auditorium\n\n\n UID:8F98E7D7-95BE-40E1-972B-C71C0712EA94 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080416T173000 DTSTAMP:20080410T225021Z SUMMARY:Jean Chatszky at Credit Suisse CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080416T183000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:13 DESCRIPTION:KGB Poetry Reading Series\n\nJD McClatchy\nMercury Dressing\ nKnopf\, $25\n\nSince the publication of "Hazmat\," a book about the lif e of the body--short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize--McClatchy's poetry h as increasingly taken up the life of the soul. Now\, he returns to theme s he has touched on before\, but from a new or unusual perspective.\n\nL ee Upton\nUndid in the Land of Undone\nNew Issues Poetry Press\, $14\n\n KGB Bar\n85 E. 4th Street\nFree\n\n\n\n\n UID:A25564FC-5D85-4FB6-B40B-7E0C8B012445 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090309T193000 DTSTAMP:20090203T175147Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090309T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:James Arthur Ray\nHarmonic Wealth: The Secret of Attracting the Life You Want \n(Hyperion\, $25)\n7PM\n\nPopular speaker and practit ioner of "The Secret\," Ray shows how to achieve abundance\, well-being\ , and fulfillment--true wealth--through harmony in all areas of life.\n\ nCrown Plaza Times Square\n1605 Broadway\n\n UID:3943E911-12AF-4D6F-A981-927A8A9BFEB1 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080423T190000 DTSTAMP:20080417T201708Z SUMMARY:James Arthur Ray CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080423T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Ansche Chesed Temple Readings\nFREE - 212 865 0600\n8PM\n\nD alia Sofer\nThe Septembers of Shiraz\n(Harper Perrenial\, $14)\n\nT Coop er\nLipshitz Six\, or Two Angry Blondes \n(Plume\, $14)\n\nAnsche Chesed \n251 W 100th St UID:7F6BBE5C-DB43-4291-AA6B-D93E24D4C5BB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080623T200000 DTSTAMP:20080513T215457Z SUMMARY:Ansche Chesed readings CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080623T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Asthmatic Kitty Night\n$15\n\nA special evening of Readings and Music\, featuring music journalist Alec Hanley Bemis\; Daphne Carr\, series editor of Best Music Writing and author of Nine Inch Nails: Pret ty Have Machine (Continuum)\; and Rob Sheffield\, Love is a Mix Tape (Cr own)\n\nMusical guest: My Brightest Diamond\n\nJoe's Pub\n425 Lafayette St.\n UID:076386B8-377D-407B-B634-C8E7B9856E65 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080402T210000 DTSTAMP:20080319T200317Z SUMMARY:Happy Ending at Joe's Pub CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080402T230000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Bibi Wein\, \nThe Way Home\n(Tupelo\, $17)\n\nProvocative fr om the beginning\, The Way Home wanders through the serious\, the mundan e and the humorous as the author seeks to find her way home physically a nd emotionally.\nLori Soderlind\nChasing Montana: A Love Story\n(U of Wi sconsin Press\, $23)\n\n Lori\, the heroine of this rousing narrative\, is attempting to flee the hectic East Coast for a better life in the Wes t. She is a child of the Seventies who feels misled by the rebellious "b oomer" generation and disappointed with life in 1980s New Jersey. Spurre d by the tale of her pioneering grandparents\, who immigrated to Montana \, and following her friend Madeleine\, who has all the answers\, Lori q uits her job\, loosens her ties\, and sets off into a wild frontier.\n\n Paquita Suarez\nSo I Won't Forget\n(Editorial Campana\, $13)\n\nThree g enerations\, a surprise confession and many secrets. Several Asturian wo men tell their histories in eighteen gripping stories\, retold by Paquit a Suarez Coalla. The ferocious Franco dictatorship\, the Spanish Civil W ar\, hunger\, confinement\, marriages\, maternity\, love and happiness m ark the lives of mothers\, daughters and granddaughters. Captivating tal es with subversive and critical connotations transcend national origin t o become universal. \n\n4PM\n$7 DONATION\n\nThe Lounge at Hudson View Ga rdens\nPinehurst Ave @ 183rd St.\n UID:6B404314-FD5C-46E0-990A-10A3CAE98E94 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080518T160000 DTSTAMP:20080509T172758Z SUMMARY: Sunday Best - Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080518T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Steven Kurutz\nLike a Rolling Stone\n(Broadway\, $24)\nFREE\ n7PM\n\nKurutz travels with two Rolling Stones tribute bands as they cri sscross the country in late-model cars trailing the real Rolling Stones' 2005-06 mega-tour. Richly reported and stylishly written\, the book off ers a wealth of amusing and touching anecdotes.\n\nArelene's Grocery\n95 Stanton\n\n\n UID:A3E065F8-DF71-4166-8F93-684B9AEC8AF4 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080422T190000 DTSTAMP:20080409T190742Z SUMMARY:Steven Kurutz at Arlene's Grocery CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080422T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Sea Change\nJorie Graham\n(Ecco\, $24)\n$5 includes museum a dmission\n\nJorie Graham is the author of nine collections of poetry\, i ncluding The Dream of the Unified Field\, which won the Pulitzer Prize. She divides her time between western France and Cambridge\, Massachusett s\, where she teaches at Harvard University.\n\nNew Museum\n235 Bowery\n \n UID:EEA2A551-1844-411A-A67E-A06EE84B6E9C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080403T190000 DTSTAMP:20080304T232956Z SUMMARY:National Poetry Month CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080403T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:14 DESCRIPTION:Mario Livio\nIs God a Mathematician?\nSimon & Schuster\, $26 \n\nThis fascinating exploration of the great discoveries of history's m ost important mathematicians seeks an answer to the eternal question: Do es mathematics hold the key to understanding the mysteries of the physic al world? Illustrations throughout.\n\nMatthew Alper\nThe God Part of th e Brain\nSourcebooks\, $14.95\n\nAcclaimed by a wide range of experts\, The "God" Part of the Brain is a classic. Matthew Alper presents a stunn ing argument: that our brain is hardwired to believe in a God.\n\nPaul B loom\nDescartes' Baby\nBasic Books\, $16\n\n"All humans see the world in two fundamentally different ways: even babies have a rich understanding of both the physical and social worlds."\n\nJLA Studios\n63 Pearl Stree t\nBrooklyn\n7:30 pm\nFree\n UID:1597AE2C-AB41-4095-8B32-5BBA81377FFA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090618T193000 DTSTAMP:20090612T195111Z SUMMARY:Gelf's Geeking Out CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090618T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Susanna Sirefman\nModern Shoestring: Contemporary Architectu re on a Budget\n(Monacelli\, $40)\n6PM\n\nCenter for Architecture\n536 L aGuardia Place\n(btn Bleeker and W Third St)\n\n\n UID:868BC726-2EC6-4876-9524-3EE424A8223A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080527T180000 DTSTAMP:20080508T214508Z SUMMARY:Architecture on a Shoestring CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080527T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Michael Ian Black\nMy Custom Van: And 50 Other Mind-Blowing Essays That Will Blow Your Mind All Over Your Face \n(Simon Spotlight\, $24)\nFREE\n\nBryant Park\n42nd and 5th Ave\n UID:6B3E37A9-0574-4D05-B563-590FB5F81BB7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080716T123000 DTSTAMP:20080506T180624Z SUMMARY:Word for Word Author CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080716T134500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Francesco Casetti is full professor at the Universita Cattol ica in Milan where he teaches the study of cinematography and is the cha ir of the Department of Media and Performing Arts. He is the author of I nside the Gaze: The Fiction Film and Its Spectator and Theories of Cinem a\, 1945-1995\n(Columbia U Press\,$27.50)\n\nColumbia University Campus\ nHeyman Center\,Common Room\n2nd Floor\n61 W.62St\n\n UID:2B612ED3-6BF7-495A-A54C-0407283A950C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080918T193000 DTSTAMP:20080908T173740Z SUMMARY:Eye of the Century: Film\, Experience\, Modernity CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080918T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Queens Museum of Art Poetry Series\nFREE\n5PM\n\nThomas Saye rs Ellis\nThe MAverick Room\n(Graywolf\, $14)\n\nWith its defiance for a ny one tradition or voice\, Thomas Sayers Ellis's debut becomes a powerf ul argument against monotony \n\nQueens Museum of Art\nFlushing Meadows Park\nNYC Bldg UID:9F9AF764-6DD2-409A-A806-6893FBFCAD9A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080629T170000 DTSTAMP:20080602T213314Z SUMMARY:Queens Museum Poetry CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080629T193000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Arianna Huffington\nRight Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe H ijacked America\, Shredded the Constitution\, and Made Us All Less Safe\ n(Knopf\, $25)\n$7 for Non-Members\nRSVEP at dl21c.org\n6PM\n\nDemocrati c Leadership for the 21st Century of New York event\n\n The editor-in-ch ief of "The Huffington Post" tackles the issues at the heart of the 2008 presidential election with her trademark passion\, intelligence\, and d evastating wit.\n\n723 Washington St\n\n\n UID:8908FD33-094C-45CA-905A-10D037EB7134 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080429T180000 DTSTAMP:20080424T200151Z SUMMARY:Arianna Huffington CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080429T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Todd Craig\nTor'cha \n(Swank\, $15)\nFREE\n3PM\n\nThree brot hers navigate the troubled streets of Queens in this dynamic debut novel . Emil\, a stick-up kid turned musician\; Damon\, an incarcerated felon turned muslim as Abdullah Zahir\; and Christian\, the one brother who ha s made it out of the street-life via education\, struggle to fend off tr ouble and find their way in a story set to a hip-hop beat. Original soun dtrack CD (free with book) features unreleased material by Mobb Deep\, o thers.\n\nLong Island City Public Library\n37-44 21 Street\nLong Island City\, NY UID:8297EBA2-A106-4F7E-8FF3-87FB5966344A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080531T150000 DTSTAMP:20080412T154023Z SUMMARY:LICPL with Todd Craig CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080531T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Other Means Reading Series\n\nRachel Shukert\nHave You No Sh ame? And Other Regrettable Stories\nVillard Books\, $14\n\nGrowing up in white-bread Omaha\, Nebraska\, Rachel Shukert was one of thirty-seven s tudents (circa 1990) in Nebraska's only Jewish elementary school. She sp ent her days dreaming of a fantasy Aryan boyfriend named Chris McPresbyt erian\, a tall blond god whose family spoke softly in public and did not inquire after his bowel movements. She spent her nights frantically pla stering her bedroom with pictures of intimidating co-religionists such a s Henry Kissinger and Bette Midler\, hoping to repel the Gestapo officer s she was certain were lurking behind the drywall. \nEven back then\, Ra chel knew she was destined for greatness.\n\nOther Author TBA\n\nFlying Saucer Cafe\n494 Atlantic Avenue\nBrooklyn\n8:00 pm\nFree\n\n\n\n UID:2D299E3D-8C97-4A55-9AD0-2940B3BE8DCB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090224T200000 DTSTAMP:20081124T194121Z SUMMARY:Other Means Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090224T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:New School Writing Program faculty members Richard Tayson an d Susan Shapiro read from their new works with Luis Jaramillo.\n\nSusan Shapiro\nOnly as Good as Your Word: Writing Lessons from My Favorite Lit erary Gurus (Seal Press\, $16) \n\nRichard Tayson\nThe World Underneath (Kent State\, $18)\n\nThe New School\n66 West 12th Street Room 510\n\n\n UID:AD192275-FB65-4E78-BE80-3D966D06A450 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080225T183000 DTSTAMP:20080215T221905Z SUMMARY:Susan Shapiro & Richard Tayson CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080225T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Jerome Charyn \nJohnny One-Eye: A Tale of the American Revol ution (W.W. Norton\, $26)\nBook Launch & Author Talk\n7:00 pm\nFREE\n\nT his comic masterpiece reimagines the American Revolution with a one-eyed spy\, a heroic whorehouse madam\, and a cunning George Washington.\n\nM aison Francaise\n16 Washington Mews UID:87C487BB-C5F0-40F7-9028-A8C69417AE1D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080226T190000 DTSTAMP:20080218T193640Z SUMMARY:Jerome Charyn CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080226T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Laurie Graff\nThe Shiska Syndrome\nBroadway Books\, $22.95\n \nAfter she's dumped\, Aimee Albert decides to seek companionship with a member of her own tribe. So when the very cute\, Jewish\, and gainfully employed Josh Hirsch catches Aimee's eye at a kosher wine tasting and m istakes her for a shiksa\, what's a girl to do?\n\n\nWondered where all the nice Jewish boys are? Wish you had Shiskappeal? Grab a glass of wi ne and sit down with author Laurie Graff as she tackles these questions and discusses her satirical new book\, The Shiska Syndrome.\n\n92Y Tribe ca\n200 Hudson Street\n7:30 pm\n$12 for single tickets\, $16 for single ticket with a glass of wine. $28 for two tickets and 2 glasses of wine. \n UID:C0F78961-C044-41BC-8FD3-5884F3E8DE60 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090129T193000 DTSTAMP:20090112T215816Z SUMMARY:92Y Tribeca CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090129T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:David Sirota\nThe Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Popu list Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington \n(Crown\, $26)\n7:30PM\n $12.50 tickets\n\nThe "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Hostile Ta keover" gives an all-access pass to the populist insurrection brewing ac ross the country.\n\nLizz Winstead's "Shoot the Messenger"\nThe Green Ro om Theater\n45 Bleecker St UID:EC585A3B-665A-4F0C-A1AD-5605C7A6B35A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080602T193000 DTSTAMP:20080402T184233Z SUMMARY:Lizz Winstead's Shoot the Messenger CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080602T230000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Kevin Baker\n\nThe bestselling author of the novels "Dreamla nd"\, "Paradise Alley"\, and "Sometimes You See It Coming". He is a colu mnist for "American Heritage" magazine and a regular contributor to the "New York Times"\, "Harper's"\, and other periodicals. He lives in New Y ork City with his wife\, the writer Ellen Abrams\, and their cat\, Stell a.\n\nFiction Salon\n\nFREE\nLillian Vernon Writers House\n58 W. 10th St reet UID:1B8A4ED0-63B4-4162-A9D9-6437CB599C8C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081002T190000 DTSTAMP:20080912T152358Z SUMMARY:Fiction Salon CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081002T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Jason Riley\nLet Them in: The Case for Open Borders\n(Gotham \, $23)\nMEMBERS\n10:30AM\n\nA conservative columnist makes an eye-openi ng case for why immigration improves the lives of Americans and is impor tant for the future of the country.\n\nUniversity Club\n1 W 54th St\n UID:5BC1005A-000F-4B21-8642-A2F84FAF5F86 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080513T103000 DTSTAMP:20080506T174036Z SUMMARY:Jason Riley at University Club CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080513T120000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Off the Rail\n7:00 pm\nFREE\n\nTerese Svoboda \nBlack Glasse s Like Clark Kent: A GI's Secret from Postwar Japan (Graywolf Press\, $1 4)\n\n"When Terese Svoboda agrees to write the war story of her uncle\, who served in the American military police in Japan in the aftermath of World War II\, she enters a nightmarish world of secrets and irretrievab le truths. Lucid\, self-knowing and artful\, her memoir about getting th e story will resonate for readers of every generation." --Alice Kaplan\, author of The Interpreter \n\nAppearing with Carl Warson\n\nCentral Bra nch\nGrand Army Plaza\nDweck Auditorium\n UID:BED62180-6FFF-45CF-B462-B771544B8649 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080508T190000 DTSTAMP:20080324T165425Z SUMMARY:Terese Svoboda CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080508T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:50th Anniversary of The Canada Council: The 2007 Governor Ge neral’s Awards\n6:00 pm\n\nPresented by The Canada Council for the Arts\ , the Governor General’s Literary Awards are Canada’s oldest and most pr estigious national literary prizes. They are given annually to the best English- and French-language books in each of seven categories. Join us on the occasion of the Council’s fiftieth anniversary for a program of s pecial readings and commentary featuring several of this year’s English- language honorees—poet Don Domanski\, playwright Colleen Murphy\, and no nfiction writer Karolyn Frost. Author and journalist Austin Clarke\, who served on this year’s jury\, will moderate.\n\nAmericas Society\n680 Pa rk Avenue\n212-628-3200\nhttp://as.americas-society.org/calevent.php?id= 258\n\n UID:BA53E20B-EC1F-46CA-B9F0-410E3B8903DE TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080305T180000 DTSTAMP:20080219T193329Z SUMMARY:Governor General's Awards CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080305T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Mid-Manhattan Library Presents\nANGRY MEN WHO KILL VIOLENT T HRILLERS\nWhy do writers and readers yearn to examine the dark side of h uman nature? As a novelist\,how does it feel to live within those haunte d and terribla places? Is there a point of empathy with charactes who co mmite evil\, and does "gallow humor" help alleviate the tension of creat ing-or recreating-violent acts?\n\nJoin the panelists in a lively discus sion about their memorable and all-too-real villains.\n\nModerator Corde lia Frances Biddle's Deception's Daughter ( Thomas Dunne Books of St.Ma rtin's) is the second in a series set in early Victorian Philadelphia. T he debut title\, The Conjurer\, was an IMBA best seller. Other novels:Be neath the wind (Simon&Schuster) and twelve tiles in The Cross Mystery Se ries ( Berkley/Prime Crime) penned with her husband\, Steve Zettler\, un der the pseudonym Nero Blanc.\n(www.cordeliafrancesbiddle.com)\n\nMegan Abbot is the Edgar-winning author of the novels\, Queenpin\, The Song Is You and Die a Little and the nonfiction book\, The Street Was Mine : wh ite Masulinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir. She is also the edit or of A Hell of a Woman : An Anthology of Female Noir. Her upcpming nove l\, Bury Me Deep\, comes out in June2009.\n\nVeteran Philadelphia journa list George Anastasia has written about organized and disorganized crime for thirty-five years. Books : The Last Gangster (ReganBooks/Harper Col lins)\, aNYT bestseller \; Blood and Honor ( William Morrow)\, which JIm my Breslin called "the best gangster book ever written " : NYT bestselle r The Summer WInd ( Regan Books/HarperCollins) \; The Goodfella Tapes (A von Books) \; Mobfather (Kensington Books).\n\nPhilip Cloffari is the au thor of two books of fiction : a mystery/thriller\, Catholic Boys\, and a collection of shorts stories\, A History of Things Lost or Broken. He has written and directed the Indie Feature film\, Love in the Age if Dio n. He is a professor of English at William Paterson University.\n(www.ph ilipcioffari.com)\n\nMerry Jones has written the Zoe Hayes mysteries : T he Nanny Murders\, The River Killings\, The Deadly Neighbors and The Bor rowed and Blue Murders. In her Philadelphia-based series\, a divorced\, adoptive mom manages murdurs\, motherhood\, men\, and menacing evil. Jon es' eleven books include humor\n(I Love Him\,But...) and non-fiction (Bi rthmothers).\n\nDuane Swierczynski is the author of several crime thrill ers\,most recently Severance Package (St.Martin's Minotaur). HIs previou s novel\, The Blonde\, was optioned for film by actress Michelle Monagha n. He also writes The Cable and The Immortal Iron Fist for Marvel Comics .He Lives in Philadelphia with his wife and Children. \n(www.duaneswierc zynski.com)\n\n\nMid-Manhattan Library\nThe New York Public Library\n40t h Street and 5th Ave\n212-340-0897 UID:F3D4376B-5A52-4255-ABFE-89BE6B2CE0D6 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081021T183000 DTSTAMP:20081018T195002Z SUMMARY:Angry Men Who Kill Violent Thrillers CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081021T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Todd Hasak-Lowy received his Ph.D. in comparative literature from UC Berkeley\, where he studied Hebrew\, Arabic\, and English liter ature. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Flori da\, where he teaches Hebrew language and literature. He is the author o f "The Task of This Translator\," a collection of stories. This is his f irst novel. He lives in Gainesville\, Florida.\n\nEtgar Keret was born i n Tel Aviv in 1967. His stories have been featured on "This American Lif e "and "Selected Shorts\," As screenwriters/ directors\, he and his wife \, Shira Geffen\, won the 2007 Palme d'Or for Best Debut Feature ("Jelly fish") at the Cannes Film Festival.\n\n free\n\nLillian Vernon Writers H ouse\n58 W. 10th Street UID:354910A9-873C-4EDA-A7DC-D21DE5A97ADF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081024T170000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204831Z SUMMARY:Lillian Vernon Writer House CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081024T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:The Story Prize\n\nThe three authors chosen as finalists for this annual book award for short fiction read from their collections an d discuss their worn onstage with Larry Dark\, Director of The Story Pri ze. Past finalists have included: Rick Bass\, Edwidge Danticat\, Mary G ordon\, Tessa Hadley\, Jim Harrison\, George Saunders\, and Jim Shepard. The event culminates with the announcement of the winner and presentat ion of the $20\,000 prize.\n\nThe New School\nTishman Auditorium\n7:30 p m\n$14 UID:F575CADC-2A7B-4204-9C53-7531880D3531 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090304T183000 DTSTAMP:20090106T211755Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090304T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic \nIn his provoc ative\, brave\, and sometimes brutal first book of poems\, \nRoger Sedar at directly addresses the possibility of political change in\na nation t hat some in America consider part of "the axis of evil." \nWritten in a style that is as sure-footed as it is experimental\, "Dear Regime: \nLet ters to the Islamic Republic" confronts the past and current injustices\ nof the Iranian government while retaining a sense of respect and admira tion\nfor the country itself. Woven into this collection are the author' s vivid\ndescriptions of the landscape as well as the people of Iran.\n( Ohio University Press: $ 24.95) \n\nRoger Sedarat is an assistant profe ssor of\nEnglish at Borough of Manhattan Community\nCollege/City Univers ity of New York. He is\nthe recipient of scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference as well as a St. Botolph Society poetry grant. His v erse has appeared in such journals as "New England Review\," "Atlanta Re view\," and "Poet Lore\,"\n\n\nCauseway \nLodged in various locales\, wh ether urban or rural\, earthbound or on the open sea\, answering a lands cape\, a family memory\, or the vagaries of love\, the poems of Causeway are always informed by an honest buoyancy of spirit\n(New Issues Poetry Press\, $ 14.00) \nEiaine Sexton\n\nShadow Mountain is the winner of th e Four Way Books Intro Series in Poetry\, selected by acclaimed poet Kim iko Hahn. The first years of the 21st century have been marked by a glob al uneasiness over untold stories: forgotten prisoners\, unjustified war s\, secret decisions. In Shadow Mountain Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan gi ves voice to older\, too-easily forgotten tragedies\, urging us to learn a present lesson. She draws on the stories of Japanese-Americans intern ed at Manzanar Relocation Center\, California\, and on her own childhood and memories of her grandparents\, examining the fault-line between fam ily life and communal experience. \n\n\nShadow Mountain \nCaptivating in its imagery\, enchanting in its sounds\, and a must read for anyone int erested in the history of Japanese-American citizens and their children. Ranging in her forms from sonnet to terzanelle to fragmented\, obstruct ed free verse\, Kageyama-Ramakrishnan is a heartfelt interlocutor. "A so cially-conscious writer whose issues of war and passion bring us back\, then forward again... Shadow Mountain\, a plaintive first book\, will be read by those who love poetry--and by those who will begin that love\, here." --Kimiko Han\n\n\nCLAIRE KAGEYAMA-RAMAKRISHNAN \nWon the Four Way Books Intro Prize in Poetry for this collection\, selected by Kimiko Ha hn. Born in Santa Monica and raised in Los Angeles\, she received her B. A. in English from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles\, earned a n M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Virginia\, where she was a Hen ry Hoyns Fellow\, and completed her M.A. in literature from the Universi ty of California at Berkeley. At the University of Houston she was a Cam bor Fellow and earned a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing. She is a full-time instructor at Houston Community College\, Central Campus. S he lives in Houston with her husband\, Raj\, a scientist specializing in HIV/AIDS research at Baylor College of Medicine\, and their three cats\ n\nCurator&Host\nRigoberto Gonzalez\n\n$7 admission (includes a free dri nk)\n\nCorneliastreetCafe\n29 Cornelia St UID:7CB7AAE9-B6C6-4D0A-9373-3CE43BA74550 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080928T180000 DTSTAMP:20080909T184247Z SUMMARY:The Quetzal Quill Presents at The Cornelia Street Cafe CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080928T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Jim Daniels \nIn Line for the Exterminator\n(Wayne State Un iversity Press\, $18)\n\nRachel Rose \nNotes on Arrival and Departure\n (McClelland & Stewart\, $14)\n\nLillian Vernon Creative Writers House\n5 8 W 10th St UID:770F8737-0B71-4716-912F-BEE988BF8434 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080313T130000 DTSTAMP:20080228T205412Z SUMMARY:Rachel Rose & Jim Daniels CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080313T150000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Manhattan Institute Charles Murray\nReal Edu cation\nCrown Forum\n$25\n\nThe controversial author of "The Bell Curve" returns with a groundbreaking manifesto to transform American education . He presents the four simple truths that parents and educators should c onfront to precipitate change\n\nUniversity Club\n1 W. 54th Street\n UID:C9774E57-3853-4C4B-AF3D-E0BCE36E7778 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080918T120000 DTSTAMP:20080818T175102Z SUMMARY:Manhattan Institute CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080918T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Daniel Tomasulo\nConfessions of a Former Child\n(Graywolf\, $16)\n6:30PM\n\nA hilarious and perceptive examination of the mysteries of childhood and the perils of parenthood\n\nCenter for Imaginative Writ ing at Teachers & Writers Collaborative\n520 Eighth Avenue (between 36th and 37th Streets)\n Suite 2020\n\n\n\n UID:D6882F0A-A242-4037-AABF-E19969E50E53 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080506T183000 DTSTAMP:20080428T211221Z SUMMARY:Daniel Tomasulo at Teachers and Writers CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080506T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Lorraine Gordon\nAlive at the village Vanguard\n\n\nFREE\nBr ooklyn Library\nDweck Auditorium\nGrand Army Plaza UID:ED204102-C379-4300-A3BE-35FA26CD79F0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T160000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204825Z SUMMARY:Conversation in Jazz CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081011T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Paule Marshall\nBrown Girl\, Brownstones\n(Feminist\, $16)\n 7PM\nFREE\n\nThis beloved coming-of-age story set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II follows the life of Selina Boyce\, the daug hter of Caribbean immigrants. Author Danticat explores the novel's theme s of identity\, sexuality\, and values as well as Selina's struggle agai nst the racism and poverty surrounding her.\n\n\nTeachers and Writers\n5 20 8th Ave #2020 UID:4E7A72FA-8FDE-4D0B-BBF4-7068644D7054 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080425T190000 DTSTAMP:20080424T201838Z SUMMARY:2020 Visions Paule Marchall CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080425T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Chester Finn \nTroublemaker: A Personal History of School R eform Since Sputnik (Princeton\, $27)\nSponsored by the Manhattan Instit ute http://www.manhattan-institute.org/ \n\nFew people have been more involved in shaping postwar U.S. education reforms--or dissented from so me of them more effectively--than Chester Finn. Assistant secretary of e ducation under Ronald Reagan\, and an aide to politicians as different a s Richard Nixon and Daniel Moynihan\, Finn has also been a high school t eacher\, an education professor\, a prolific and best-selling writer\, a think-tank analyst\, a nonprofit foundation president\, and both a Demo crat and Republican. \n\nHarvard Club\n35 West 44th Street between 5th A venue and the Avenue of the Americas (6th Avenue) UID:20ED5ECC-FAE7-480E-BF98-06D0F874AAE3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080228T120000 DTSTAMP:20080219T181732Z SUMMARY:Manhattan Institute CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080228T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Francis Kiernan\nThe Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story (W.W. Norton\, $16)\n5:15 pm\n\nA former editor at "The New Yorker" revisits the fabulous life of Brooke Astor\, a pioneer of philanthropy and for de cades a luminary of New York society. \n\nUniversity Club\n1 West 54th S treet\nCall for more information: (212) 489-7968 UID:385FFBCA-C0D4-4051-9347-7DA4D0151022 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080624T171500 DTSTAMP:20080424T203010Z SUMMARY:Francis Kiernan at Yale Club CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080624T191500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:John Dean and Barry Goldwater\, Jr.\nPure Goldwater\n(Palgra ve MacMillan\, $28)\n6:15PM\nVISIT www.oxoniansociety.com TO REGISTER\n\ n"New York Times"-bestselling author John Dean and the son of conservati ve icon Barry Goldwater team together to show why Goldwater matters\n\nC ornell Club\n6 E 44th St\n\n UID:C64500E5-5333-4AB6-9A28-08C0D178C10D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080421T181500 DTSTAMP:20080313T213211Z SUMMARY:John Dean and Bary Goldwater\, Jr. CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080421T191500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Fiction Forum\n\nWally Lamb\nThe Hour I First Believed\nHarp er\, $29.95\n\nThe #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author and two-time O prah's Book Club pick delivers his first novel in over a decade--an extr aordinary work of prodigious scope and ambition that explores the conseq uences of violent events\, and the chaos that ensues.\n\nThe New School\ n66 W. 12th Street\nRoom 510\n6:30 pm\n$5\n UID:334E6A47-CA01-4E2F-A6D2-413225FB39C7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090223T183000 DTSTAMP:20090106T184938Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090223T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Black Renaissance \nreading event at the Institute for Afric an American Affairs\n\nVictor Hernandez Cruz\nMaraca\n(Coffee House Pres s\, $17)\n\nGregory Parldo\nTotem\n(American Poetry\, $14)\n\nFarah Jasm ine Griffin\nIf You Can't Be Free\, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Ho liday\n(One World\, $15)\n\nInstitute for African American Affairs\n41 E 11th St #701 UID:843C6CEC-EC3E-4B90-B046-68F5E0DB9574 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080411T190000 DTSTAMP:20080407T164615Z SUMMARY:Black Renaissance CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080411T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Charles Gasparino\nThe King of the Club\n(Collins\, $16)\nME MBERS ONLY\n\nCharles Gasparino is a correspondent for CNBC and a former writer for the "Wall Street Journal" and "Newsweek". A graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism\, Gasparino was nominated fo r the Pulitzer Prize in beat reporting in 2002 and won the New York Pres s Club Award for best continuing coverage of the Wall Street research sc andals. He lives with his wife in New York City.\n\nUniversity Club\n1 W est 54th Street\nCall for more information: (212) 489-7968 UID:69F04B26-A25F-412D-942A-33A80B6CF1C4 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080318T183000 DTSTAMP:20080305T220907Z SUMMARY:Charles Gasparino CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080318T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Steven Cosson \nI Am Nobody's Lunch/Gone Missing \n(Oberon B ooks\, $19)\n8PM\nTickets $10\n\nMOBILE LIBRIS IS SELLING MICHAEL COSSON 'S BOOK PRIOR AND DURING THE PLAY "PARIS COMMUNE" AT THE PUBLIC\nIn 1871 \, working class Parisians overthrew the French government\, declared Pa ris autonomous and launched an attempt to radically reinvent society. In this musical play\, a versatile company of performers bring this explos ive event to life. With revolutionary songs from the period and survivin g first person records\, Paris Commune reanimates the past and provokes our thinking about the present in a dynamic and raucous cabaret style. S ince its founding in 2001 by Artistic Director Steven Cosson\, the award -winning company The Civilians has created several original shows includ ing the Off-Broadway hits (I Am) Nobody’s Lunch and Gone Missing.\n\nPub lic Theater\nShiva Theater\n425 Lafayette Street \n\n UID:10EE9107-FBF6-4E93-A302-0F507BB63FB3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080417T200000 DTSTAMP:20080326T195049Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080417T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Carol Gilligan\nKyra\nRandom House\, $15\n\nPassionate and r evolutionary\, "Kyra" is an exquisitely written love story\, imbued with gentle humor. This is an extraordinary work of fiction by one of the mo st brilliant writers of our time.--Catharine R. Stimpson.\n\nGuggenheim Museum\n1071 Fifth Avenue\nPeter B. Lewis Theater\n6:30 pm\n\n\n UID:B59A881B-1423-4330-9DC3-529FEC5928A3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090610T180000 DTSTAMP:20090427T214703Z SUMMARY:Guggenheim Museum CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090610T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Theresa Rebeck\nThree Girls and Their Brother: A Novel\n(Sha ye Areheart Books\, $24)\nFREE\n12:30\n\n In this sharp-edged drama that unfolds in New York's celebrity fast lane\, it takes an awful incident with a famous movie star to blast three famous girls--and their brother- -out of their self-destructive spiral.\n\nBryant Park\n42nd and 5th\n UID:3E6F17A2-361B-4751-A57E-0C1D9D87ACD0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080528T123000 DTSTAMP:20080505T213812Z SUMMARY:Theresa Rebeck CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080528T134500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Poetry & Fiction Reading: Donald Axinn and Fiona Maazel\n\nD onald Axinn\nTravel in My Borrowed Lives\nArcade Publishing\, $19.99\n\n Fiona Maazel\nLast Last Chance\nPicador\, $15\n\nA lethal strain of viru s vanishes from a lab in Washington\, D.C.\, unleashing an epidemic--and the world thinks Lucy Clark's dead father is to blame. The plague may b e the least of Lucy's problems. There's her mother\, Isifrid\, a peddler of high-end hatwear who's also a crackhead\; her twelve-year-old half s ister\, Hannah\, obsessed with disease and Christian fundamentalism\; an d Lucy's lover\, Stanley\, who's hell-bent on finding a womb for his dea d wife's frozen eggs. And then there is Lucy herself\, whose wise\, warp ed voice makes her an ideal guide to love among the ruins. Lucy tries to surmount her drug addiction and to keep her family intact in this brill iant novel about survival\, recovery\, opportunity\, and\, finally\, lov e and faith in an age of anxiety.\n\nLillian Vernon Writers House\n58 We st 10th Street\n5:00 pm\nFree\n\n\n\n UID:99E49339-D603-4CA7-B3E3-2ED09383F1AC TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090306T170000 DTSTAMP:20090119T180907Z SUMMARY:LV Writers House CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090306T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Jim Cummins is a widely-recognized authority on bilingualism \, literacy development and technology-assisted learning. He is co-autho r of the widely successful series\, "Scott Foresman ESL" (Scott Foresman ) and spends time presenting and consulting across the United States and Canada. Kristin Brown has been a leader in promoting global learning ne tworks internationally and currently travels across the country doing pr ofessional development workshops with various school districts. Dennis S ayers has researched two-way bilingual immersion programs\, technology a nd language awareness and has done professional development workshops in California.\n\nDavid Lehmann is Director of the Centre of Latin America n Studies\, Cambridge.\n\nFree\n\n85 East 4th UID:A826E5E0-B98D-4A7D-A248-5F32FF2E8EC8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081110T193000 DTSTAMP:20080904T171506Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081110T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:Mediabistro Circus conference\n\nMobile Libris will be hosti ng a bookstore at the conference\, and selling a variety of authors book over the 2 days.\n\na 2-day summit on media and technology\nvisit media bistro.com to see their schedule of events.\n\nSkylight Studios\n275 Hud son St UID:9DD22AC9-3CBE-4F7F-A99C-D3589957EA7E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080521T090000 DTSTAMP:20080422T172743Z SUMMARY:Mediabistro Circus CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080521T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Beard on Books Reading Series\n\nMarilyn and Sheila Brass\nH eirloom Cooking with the Brass Sisters\nBlackdog and Leventhal Publisher s\, $29.95\n\nAuthors of "Heirloom Baking" and James Beard Award finalis ts\, the Brass sisters have launched a new cookbook category with their heirloom baking recipes. Now they present delicious\, savory\, and timel ess heirloom dishes collected over decades and updated for the modern ki tchen.\n\nJames Beard House\n167 West 12th Street\n12:00 pm\n$20 suggest ed donation for nonstudents\n\n\n UID:7DF09941-4C24-45BB-823B-BBB1FFAE0940 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090311T120000 DTSTAMP:20090107T160407Z SUMMARY:Beard on Books CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090311T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:True Crime\nKathryn Harrison\nWhile They Slept\nRandom House \, $25\n\nFrom the bestselling author of "The Kiss" comes a riveting acc ount of true crime--the murder of a family in a small Midwestern town--a nd the gripping exploration of its haunting aftermath.\n\nBrooklyn Libra ry\nDweck Center\nGrand Army Plaza\n1:30 pm\nFree\n UID:5D72CD83-3378-49D9-BF8E-2A526B7ADAB8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090308T133000 DTSTAMP:20081217T212706Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090308T153000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Click: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why It M atters \n\nTancer searches deep inside the massive database of online in telligence to reveal the naked truth and unexpected insights about how p eople use the Web\, navigate to sites\, and search for information--and what that says about individuals and their buying habits.\n\n Bill Tance r\nAs the general manager of Global Research at Hitwise\, an online comp etitive intelligence company\, Bill Tancer has access to extensive data regarding Internet usage and the tools with which to properly analyze it . In addition to his weekly column\, "The Science of Search\," on Time.c om\, he has been interviewed and quoted widely in the press and on telev ision and radio. He lives in San Francisco.\n\nJacob K. Javits Conventio n Center \n655 West 34th Street \nbtw 11st-12th St. UID:E7CEE7FC-3F1E-42E0-8A35-16D03950C13B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081006T171500 DTSTAMP:20081018T195002Z SUMMARY:Search Marketing Expo CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081006T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot.\ nWolfs latest work exposes how the escalation of executive power has ero ded the core values surrounding personal freedoms. She outlines in this citizen call to action the real threats that exist to Americans civil li berties and explains how to solve the growing threat.\n(Chelsea Green : $14)\n\nGive Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.\nFrom an icon in the contemporary feminist movement and a well-respected polit ical commentator comes this clear\, accessible handbook about how to und erstand and use democracy.\n(Simon&Schuster:$14)\n\nNaomi Wolf is the au thor of "Promiscuitties" and "Fire With Fire\, " and her essays have app eared in "The New Republic\, Esquire\, Ms.\, The Washington Post\, " and "The New York Times." She holds a degree from Yale University and New C ollege\, Oxford University\, and lives in New York City.\n\nTicket :$12. 50 \n\nThe Green Room Theater (map)\n45 Bleecker St at LaFayette UID:4DF26BE2-96D1-4A1E-8EF4-24B4B6223FFC TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.shootthemessengernyc.com DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080929T193000 DTSTAMP:20081018T195002Z SUMMARY:Shoot the Messenger CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080929T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:14 DESCRIPTION:Steven Cosson \nI Am Nobody's Lunch/Gone Missing \n(Oberon B ooks\, $19)\n8PM\nTickets $10\n\nMOBILE LIBRIS IS SELLING MICHAEL COSSON 'S BOOK PRIOR AND DURING THE PLAY "PARIS COMMUNE" AT THE PUBLIC\nIn 1871 \, working class Parisians overthrew the French government\, declared Pa ris autonomous and launched an attempt to radically reinvent society. In this musical play\, a versatile company of performers bring this explos ive event to life. With revolutionary songs from the period and survivin g first person records\, Paris Commune reanimates the past and provokes our thinking about the present in a dynamic and raucous cabaret style. S ince its founding in 2001 by Artistic Director Steven Cosson\, the award -winning company The Civilians has created several original shows includ ing the Off-Broadway hits (I Am) Nobody’s Lunch and Gone Missing.\n\nPub lic Theater\nShiva Theater\n425 Lafayette Street \n\n UID:6B145B81-8709-43C4-921A-AFD0BCD78C8F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080404T200000 DTSTAMP:20080326T194514Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080404T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Performance: Tales of an Urban Indian \n\nDarrell Dennis\nTw o Plays: Tales of an Urban Indian & The Trickster of 3rd Avenue East\nPl aywrights Canada Press\, $17.95\n\n "Dennis is a writer and performer to keep your eye on. Sparked by anger but suffused with humanity and humil ity\, his Tales are worth telling-and watching."- "NOW Magazine"\n\nThe Public Theater\n425 Lafayette Street\n7:45 pm\n UID:433A449B-9BD8-4987-A777-1BEB95C676B3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090306T194500 DTSTAMP:20090119T184140Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090306T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Steven Cosson \nI Am Nobody's Lunch/Gone Missing \n(Oberon B ooks\, $19)\n8PM\nTickets $10\n\nMOBILE LIBRIS IS SELLING MICHAEL COSSON 'S BOOK PRIOR AND DURING THE PLAY "PARIS COMMUNE" AT THE PUBLIC\nIn 1871 \, working class Parisians overthrew the French government\, declared Pa ris autonomous and launched an attempt to radically reinvent society. In this musical play\, a versatile company of performers bring this explos ive event to life. With revolutionary songs from the period and survivin g first person records\, Paris Commune reanimates the past and provokes our thinking about the present in a dynamic and raucous cabaret style. S ince its founding in 2001 by Artistic Director Steven Cosson\, the award -winning company The Civilians has created several original shows includ ing the Off-Broadway hits (I Am) Nobody’s Lunch and Gone Missing.\n\nPub lic Theater\nShiva Theater\n425 Lafayette Street \n\n UID:42EAE389-6027-4410-9344-4D1A712336E1 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080418T200000 DTSTAMP:20080326T195224Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080418T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Late Bloomers Dream Big\nPublishing the First Mystery in Mid life\n\nJoin 5 talented authors who turned to crime in their 50s\, 60s\, and 70s as they discuss how living and having lived helps you write you r mystery and get it published\nFeaturing:\nHelen Barer\nJames Benn\nJan e Cleland\nMitch Silver\n\nMid-Manhattan NYPL\n40th St and 5th Ave\n6th Floor UID:E8928987-6A37-42CB-8FC1-10A08890CA7D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080520T183000 DTSTAMP:20080502T162843Z SUMMARY:Late Bloomers Dream Big CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080520T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Liz Tuccillo\nHow to be Single\n(Atria\, $25)\nFREE\n12:30PM \n\n From the co-author of the bestselling phenomenon "He's Just Not Tha t Into You" comes a humorous account of one woman's adventures after she gets fed up with New York City's dating scene\, and leaves the country to learn how women around the world deal with being single.\n\nBryant Pa rk\n42nd and 5th Ave\n UID:15594759-02FA-48B2-9CFD-F5C5B9766750 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080618T123000 DTSTAMP:20080505T214555Z SUMMARY:Word for Word CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080618T134500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:The Rejection Show Presents: Rejected Valentine's Day Heartb reak Haven\n\nJon Friedman\nRejected: Tales of the Failed\, Dumped & Can celed\nVillard Books\, $14\n\nFriedman gathers a hilarious compilation o f rejection stories and rejected works from well-known and under-the-rad ar comedians\, writers\, artists\, and television personalities.\n\nUCB Theater\n307 W. 26th Street\n10:30 pm\n$10\n\n\n UID:38AB20C4-D890-4B7A-84DD-7854BB7B52E2 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090214T223000 DTSTAMP:20090202T194104Z SUMMARY:Upright Citizens Brigade Theater CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090215T010000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Mark Leonard\nWhat Does China Think?\n(PublicAffairs\, $23)\ nMEMBERS\n8:15AM\n\nA renowned foreign policy expert with deep connectio ns to Chinas next generation of thinkers opens up a hidden world of inte llectual debate that is driving a new Chinese revolution.\n\nDeutsche Ha us at NYU\n42 Washington Mews UID:512D437A-D245-4A94-BAB0-F48D80AF187D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080506T183000 DTSTAMP:20080423T165100Z SUMMARY:Mark Leonard at Deutsche Haus CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080506T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Flash of Genius: And Other True Stories of Invention \nBase d on a true story\, "Flash of Genius" is the official tie-in to the feat ure film starring Greg Kinnear as an inventor who fought against the odd s for what he believed in\, and won.\n\nAuthor : John Seabrook\n\nInvent ors Association of Manhattan\nHoliday Inn\n440 W.57th St UID:E7ADE337-3D81-4100-A3C2-3EF19387F950 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081020T180000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194956Z SUMMARY:Flash of Genius: And Other True Stories of Invention CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081020T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:14 DESCRIPTION:Kishore Manhbubani \nThe New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresist ible Shift of Global Power to the East (Public Affairs\, $26)\n12:30 pm\ n\nMahbubani is Permanent Secretary of Singapore's Ministry of Foreign A ffairs\, and Dean of the Civil Service College. \n\nCouncil on Foreign Relations\n58 E. 68th Street\nCall for more information: 1-212-434-9400\ n\n UID:71F00ADD-BD3F-470D-AE05-C433028236D5 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080228T123000 DTSTAMP:20080219T182148Z SUMMARY:Kishore Manhbubani CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080228T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Richard Reeves \nA Force of Nature: The Frontier Genius of E rnest Rutherford (Great Discoveries\n(WW Norton\, $24)\nMEMBERS ONLY\n7P M\n\nIn this new intellectual biography of Ernest Rutherford\, the 20th centurys greatest experimental physicist\, Reeves portrays a ruddy\, gen ial man who was also a towering figure in scientific history.\n\nHarvard Club\n27 W 44th\n UID:52AADE1A-07EB-4BFC-88CC-FA4E71E2224A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080514T190000 DTSTAMP:20080410T222430Z SUMMARY:Richard Reeves CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080514T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Managing the Dragon: How I'm Building a Billion-Dollar Busin ess in China \nBusiness maverick Perkowski offers how-to lessons on star ting a successful company in China--the world's hottest\, but most chall enging\, growth market. 1 map.\nCrown Business: $ 27.50\n\nJACK PERKOWSK I was a working-class kid from western Pennsylvania who got a football s cholarship to Yale and went on to a successful career as an investment b anker for Paine Webber. After twenty years on Wall Street\, he asked him self whether he had the guts to do something completely different. He ch ucked his New York City lifestyle and bet the farm on China at a time wh en it was seen as an emerging economy\, not the powerhouse it is today. He is now chairman and CEO of ASIMCO Technologies\, among China's larges t automobile components makers\, with twelve thousand employees in seven teen plants in eight provinces.\n\nThe New York Society of SEcurity Anal ysts\n1177 6th Ave. 2nd FLoor\nbtw W.45th -W46th St.\n\n UID:1D35680C-856E-41FE-B0E8-DE9669F2316A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090416T173000 DTSTAMP:20090326T173632Z SUMMARY:Managing the Dragon : The New York Society of Security Analysts CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090416T181500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Brooklyn Independents\n\nDan Goldman \nShooting War\nGrand C entral Publishing\, $13.99\n\nThe global war on terror is raging out of control. The president is popping Prozac. And the #1 selling videogame i n 2011 America is the terrorist-simulator "Infidel Massacre: Los Angeles \," On the streets of gentrified Brooklyn\, videoblogger Jimmy Burns' la test anti-corporate rant is cut short by a terrorist bombing of a Starbu cks...but his live feed isn't. When his dramatic footage is uploaded by Global News ("Your home for 24-hour terror coverage") and rebroadcast ac ross the planet\, the obscure blogger is transformed into an overnight m edia sensation. The next thing he knows he's on a Black Hawk helicopter inbound for Baghdad\, working for the same mainstream media monster he o nce loathed. Burns soon finds that everyone from his ratings-ravenous ne twork overlords to Special Ops troops with messianic complexes to a char ismatic band of tech-savvy "jihadists" all want to make him their pawn. \n\nYoume Landowne\nPitch Black: Don't be Skerd\nCinco Puntos Press\, $1 7.95\n\nAnthony Horton is a homeless artist living underneath the New Yo rk City subway system. He draws what no one else sees. With art and word s from both of Landowne and Horton\, they map out Hortons world--a tough one from many perspectives--in this nonfiction work. Young adult.\n\nBr ooklyn Library \nDweck Center\nGrand Army Plaza\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n\n\n UID:979EABC5-FF5F-4519-A3DF-78F0740FF651 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090312T190000 DTSTAMP:20081217T213417Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090312T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Word Theatre Reading Series\n\nRae Dawn Chong will read "Suc h Fun" by James Salter\n\nTBA will read a story by Rick Moody.\n\nMore t o come.\n\nSoHo House\n29-35 9th Avenue\n3:00 pm UID:06D64A43-ADE3-4EA0-BDAE-C3A25CDCBA69 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090607T150000 DTSTAMP:20090202T200559Z SUMMARY:Word Theatre CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090607T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Fiction Writers in Conversation: Hannah Tinti and Darin Stra uss\n\nHannah Tinti\nThe Good Thief\nDial Press\, $25\n\nA Dickensian ca st of characters in 19th-century New England comes brilliantly to life i n this wondrous debut novel about an orphaned boy and the colorful con m an who claims to be his brother.\n\nDarin Strauss\nMore Than It Hurts Yo u\nDutton Books\, $24.95\n\nThe acclaimed author of "Chang and Eng" retu rns with a beautifully realized novel that at it's heart is the story of a woman who will risk everything to feel something and a man who sudden ly realizes that being a good husband and father can no longer comfortab ly coexist.\n\nLillian Vernon Writers House\n58 West 10th Street\n7:00 p m\nFree\n\n UID:27CB5CDA-A513-4E7B-BA2D-E7B3C28D890F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090219T190000 DTSTAMP:20090119T172444Z SUMMARY:LV Writers House CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090219T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:West Side Y with Cynthia Atkins\n\nPsyche's weather\n(Worldt ech\,$17)\n\n5 W 63rd St UID:7E2D7246-7155-49B0-BEB1-511FB2513EEB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081016T193000 DTSTAMP:20081018T195000Z SUMMARY:YMCA\, West Side Y CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081016T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:New School MFA graduates talk about the experience of gettin g published.\n\nDeborah Brodie\,moderator\n\n66 W 12th St\nroom 510\n\n$ 5\; free for students/alumni\n UID:D5964771-F031-4BA7-9543-ABAA3B83FA98 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081202T183000 DTSTAMP:20080508T223319Z SUMMARY:Writing for Children CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081202T193000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Love\, Mom: Poignant\, Goofy\, Brilliant Messages from Home \nShafrir and Grose have gathered more than 200 hilarious and heartfelt- -and just a bit grammatically challenged--e-mails from moms to their adu lt children.\nHyperion Books :17.99\nDoree Shafrir\, Jessica Grose\n\n92 Y Tribeca\nLECTURE HALL\n200 Hudson St.\n\n UID:C3953E96-5EBA-49F8-82D8-6B49B4EF2580 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090507T193000 DTSTAMP:20090326T173625Z SUMMARY:Love\, Mom: Poignant\, Goofy\, Brilliant Messages from Home CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090507T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Bomb Book Talk\nTBA\n\n\nThe Graduate Center\nSkyright Room\ n365 5th Ave\n34th St. UID:F7A9281D-30E6-4F3B-9C84-F64D592E65C7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081028T183000 DTSTAMP:20080910T194833Z SUMMARY:CUNY CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081028T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Brendan Koerner\nNow the Hell Will Start\nPenguin Books\, $1 6\n\n A true story of murder\, love\, and headhunters\, this work tells the remarkable tale of Herman Perry\, a budding playboy who winds up in the Indo-Burmese jungle--not for adventure\, but rather to escape the gr eatest manhunt conducted by the U.S. Army during World War II.\n\nHalf K ing\n505 W. 23rd Street\n7:00 pm\n\n UID:F2FDEBA9-F44B-4BA7-9E74-C11A648A84D8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090615T190000 DTSTAMP:20090423T170340Z SUMMARY:Half King CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090615T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Mard Strand\nMan and Camel \n(Knopf\, $15)\n\nSrikanth Reddy \nFacts for Visitors (New California Poetry #12 ) \n(U of CA Press\, $4 0)\n\nRick Hilles\nBrother Salvage (Pitt Poetry ) \n(U of Pitt\, $14)\n\ nBetween A & B Reading Series\n11th St Bar\n510 E 11th St\n UID:B55BFD0A-9D07-4A8B-825F-41BE2949A614 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080421T193000 DTSTAMP:20080328T222838Z SUMMARY:Between A&B CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080421T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Turnstyle Reading Series\n\nMore info to come\n\nCUNY Center for the Humanities\n365 Fifth Avenue\nMartin E. Segal Theater\n6:30 pm\ nFree UID:9D88087A-DE2B-4772-932C-3D24AAEF5E9D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090512T183000 DTSTAMP:20090115T174504Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090512T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Edward Strosser \nStupid Wars: A Citizen's Guide to Botched Putsches\, Failed Coups\, Inane Invasions\, and Ridiculous Revolutions\n 7:00 pm \nFREE\n\nStrosser and Prince take a humorous and insightful loo k at mankind's most idiotic strategies\, foolish alliances\, and other i ll-considered military blunders. \n\nThe Half King\n505 W 23rd St UID:0B3D9EC3-47B8-4C6D-9958-AC497ED4A025 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080505T190000 DTSTAMP:20080430T173848Z SUMMARY:The Half King - Stupid Wars CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080505T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:The Emerging Writers Reading Series\n7:00 pm\nFREE\n\nFeatur ing:\nIlya Kaminsky \nDancing in Odessa (Tupelo Press\, $17)\n\nAlso: M ark Lawley\, Brian Kalkbrenner\, Saloni Meghani\, and Ronnie Yates\n\nKG B Bar\n85 East 4th Street UID:8D8050D8-08F1-4F3A-91C7-6DB10493CF4F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080314T190000 DTSTAMP:20080228T215146Z SUMMARY:Emerging Writers Reading CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080314T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:N.S. Koenings\nTheft: Stories\n(Back Bay\, $14)\n8PM\nFREE\n \nPersonal strength and resiliency are recurrent themes in Köeningss sur prising and inventive collection (after the novel "The Blue Taxi") of fi ve longish stories. They focus largely on relationships and loss\, begin ning with Pearls to Swine\, about a narrow-minded wealthy woman whose vi sion of herself as a magnanimous host is threatened when the invitation she extends to two young women has unforeseen consequences. \n\nRocky Su livan's\n34 Van Dyke in Red Hook\n UID:18AD66AF-78C0-4430-8F14-A8B004F39226 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080519T200000 DTSTAMP:20080317T225049Z SUMMARY:N.S. Koenings CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080519T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Kate Flint\nVictorians and the Visual Imagination\nCambridge University Press\, $52\n\nRichly illustrated study drawing on art\, lit erature and science to explore Victorian attitudes towards sight.\n\nCUN Y Center for the Humanities\n365 Fifth Avenue\nElebash Recital Hall\n6:3 0 pm\nFree\n\n\n UID:2C244EBC-6B6F-423C-A090-F9106A5C74C0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090306T183000 DTSTAMP:20090115T163120Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090306T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Religion and Power --\nThe African American Church and Ameri can Politics\n\nYolanda Pierce\, Barbara Savage\n\nCUNY Graduate Center for the Humanities\n365 5th Ave @ 34th St UID:8D36FEBB-17C4-4263-8C3B-8CF3C84A8F18 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080923T190000 DTSTAMP:20080904T191513Z SUMMARY:CUNY GRADUATE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080923T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:13 DESCRIPTION:Kevin K. Birth\nBacchanalian Sentiments\n(Duke Universoty Pr ess $22)\n\nBirth draws on fieldwork he conducted in one of Trinidad's e thnically diverse rural villages to explore the relationship between mus ic and social and political consciousness on the island. He describes ho w Trinidadians use the affective power of music and the physiological ex perience of performance to express and work through issues related to id entity\, ethnicity\, and politics. He looks at how the performers and au dience members relate to different musical traditions. \n\nNYPL Mid-Manh attan Library\n455 5th Ave @ 40th St\n\n\n UID:C72A44E2-93B1-4E32-96DB-4020274C044B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080624T183000 DTSTAMP:20080422T181733Z SUMMARY:Kevin K. Birth @ NYPL CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080624T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:David Lehman\, editor\nThe Best American Erotic Poems\nScrib ner\, $16\n\nLehman\, the renowned editor of the celebrated Best America n Poetry series\, edits this witty\, titillating\, and very sexy collect ion of the greatest Americana erotic poems--from Walt Whitman to todays most talented contemporary poets.\n\nDavid Lehman\, Moira Egan\, and Lau ra Cronk will read selections from the Best American Erotic Poems.\n\nDu ane Park Cafe\n157 Duane Street\n$25 includes afternoon tea\n\n UID:51FF1F84-67F7-408C-A12E-5C0C1115411B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090207T150000 DTSTAMP:20090109T213058Z SUMMARY:Duane Park Cafe CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090207T163000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:2007 National Book Critics Circle Awards\n6PM\nFREE\n\nEvery year the NBCC presents awards for the finest books and reviews publishe d in English. \n\nNew School University Tishman Auditorium\n66 W 12th St \nhttp://www.bookcritics.org/\n\n\n UID:D4A20844-AFAD-45EA-9C80-99C6B5CE4ADA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080305T180000 DTSTAMP:20080229T222533Z SUMMARY:2007 National Book Critics Circle Awards CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080305T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Colin Harrison\nThe Finder \nSarah Crichton Books\, $25\n\nI n his electrifying thriller\, a young\, beautiful Chinese woman\, Jin-Li \, gets involved in a scheme to steal valuable information from corporat ions in New York City. When the plan is discovered\, she must go on the run from those who will stop at nothing to have their fortunes returned. \n\nMarymount Manhattan College\n221 East 71st Street\nRegina Peruggi Ro om\n7:30 pm\n\n UID:A16BA2A0-D871-4F3F-9D1A-81D9A5C508D7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090128T193000 DTSTAMP:20090113T191601Z SUMMARY:Marymount Manhattan CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090128T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Performance: Tales of an Urban Indian \n\nDarrell Dennis\nTw o Plays: Tales of an Urban Indian & The Trickster of 3rd Avenue East\nPl aywrights Canada Press\, $17.95\n\n "Dennis is a writer and performer to keep your eye on. Sparked by anger but suffused with humanity and humil ity\, his Tales are worth telling-and watching."- "NOW Magazine"\n\nThe Public Theater\n425 Lafayette Street\n7:45 pm\n\n UID:53066749-DDA0-4F25-B471-03158C7B5614 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090220T194500 DTSTAMP:20090119T183903Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090220T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:OP event at the Gay Center\nVisit gaycenter.org for info\n6P M\n\nPatricia Bosworth\n\nMobile Libris will sell her books Montgomery C lift (Hal Leonard\, $20)\, Diane Arbus: A Biograph (Norton\, $17) and Ma rlon Brando (Penguin\, $22)\n\nThe Gay Center\n208 W 13th St.\n\n UID:E3A5DF7F-5032-4644-8EE4-D2CBE80128D2 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080521T180000 DTSTAMP:20080512T213334Z SUMMARY:OP event at The Gay Center CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080521T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Gotham Hall \n1356 Broadway @ 36th Street\n\nbook signing 5: 30-7pm\n\nWedding Salon Event with David Tutera - The Party Planner & Bi g Birthdays\n\nThe Wedding Salon is the world's first luxury wedding sho wcase\, featuring must-have products and services for the sophisticated bride and groom. \n \nMeet with the finest companies to help you plan yo ur wedding. \nSee the spectacular display of cakes\, gowns\, calligraphe rs\, wedding bands\, floral arrangements\, romantic honeymoon destinatio ns\, and more. UID:6FD274D6-9F00-433C-A9C6-8351CDC2CDD7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080421T150000 DTSTAMP:20080131T193754Z SUMMARY:Gotham Hall CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080421T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Word for Word \nFREE\n6:30PM\n\nAsian American Writer's Work shop\nLineup TBA\n\nBryant Park\n42nd St side\nunder burgundy umbrellas UID:A4A19C92-1358-4B1D-8E82-E04B3F139172 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080826T183000 DTSTAMP:20080423T174552Z SUMMARY:Word for Word reading series CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080826T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:NYU's Institute for African American Affairs is hosting a la unch party for the latest issue of their review\, Black Renaissance. Fe atured writers include:\n\nPatricia Jabbeh Wesley\nThe River is Rising\n Autumn House Press\, $15\n\nBecoming Ebony\nSouthern Illinois University Press $15\n\nGail Melissa Grant\nAt the Elbows of My Elders\nUniversity of Missouri Press $25\n\nRoberto Sosa\nThe Common Grief\nCurbstone Pres s $12\nReturn of the River \nCurbstone Press $12\n\nInstitute for Africa n American Affairs\n41 E. 11th Street\, 701\n\n7:00 pm UID:41F6B1A0-5A54-4FB5-818A-E3FCC3CF99D6 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081024T190000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194957Z SUMMARY:Black Renaissance CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081024T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:15 DESCRIPTION:Patti Smith - Dream of Life\n\nPatti Smith and director Stev en Sebring in person for Q&A after the 7:30 pm show and introducing the 10 pm show of the film Dream of Life.\n\nSteven Sebring\nPatti Smith: Dr eam of Life\nRizzoli Publications\, $50\n\nPatti Smith\nPatti Smith Comp lete 1975-2006\nHarperCollins\, $25.95\n\nFeaturing never-before-seen ph otographs by Robert Mapplethorpe and Annie Liebovitz plus original artwo rk and text by Smith\, this book presents a living commemoration of Smit h's unique contribution to music and the empowerment of people through h er message of work\, love\, and charity. 150 photos.\n\nPatti Smith\nAug uries of Innocence\nHarper\, $15.95\n\nThis new collection of verse from one of "rock's original poets" (New York Times) effectively transmits t he effect and aura\, as well as the innocence\, that make Smith a rock s tar.\n\n92Y Tribeca\n200 Hudson Street\n6:30 pm\n\n7:30 Screening $18\n1 0:00 pm Screening $15\n\n\n\n\n UID:89861607-873D-4F6E-8CA8-907BC4CA8A1B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090110T183000 DTSTAMP:20090107T153133Z SUMMARY:92 Y Tribeca CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090110T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door\n\nKaufman has written Doris Day's incredible\, previously untold story. While Day symbolized virtuous America to the rest of the world\, she was in many ways the opposite of her image as "the girl next door."\n(Virgin Books\, $30)\n\n"The New York Times "praised David Kaufman's first book\, "Ridic ulous: The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam\, "as "informed a nd passionate." Kaufman\, a long-time theater critic and contributor to "The New York Times\, The Nation\, "and "Vanity Fair\, "lives in New Yor k City.\n\nJewish Community Center\n344 Amsterdam@76th St\n UID:F1642E2D-9A46-41B5-9781-484952788F8E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080918T190000 DTSTAMP:20080917T163719Z SUMMARY:Doris Day Events CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080918T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Blue Note Records at 70\n\nThelonious Monk\, Jimmy Smith\, A rt Blakey\, \nHorace Silver\, Miles Davis\, Sonny Rollins\, John \nColtr ane\, Betty Carter\, Cecil Taylor\, Cassandra Wilson\, \nJason Moran — t he history of Blue Note Records is \nthe history of jazz. Now\, on the 7 0th anniversary of the \nlabel’s first recording\, Gary Giddins brings t ogether \nBlue Note’s current president\, Bruce Lundvall\, and \none of its brightest talents\, world-renowned pianist \nBill Charlap\, for a co nversation about the history of \njazz\, the label’s unparalleled succes s and legacy\, and \nthe state of the recording industry. \n\nCUNY Cente r for the Humanities\nElebash Recital Hall\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n\n UID:2622963E-AF82-41A2-84D8-803FA2CB6690 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090507T183000 DTSTAMP:20090115T174119Z SUMMARY:CUNY Center for the Humanities CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090507T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:It Still Moves: Lost Songs\, Lost Highways\, and the Search for the Next American Music \n(Faber & Faber\,$25.00)\n\nAmanda Petrusic h\nA staff writer at Pitchforkmedia.com and a senior contributing editor at "Paste\," Amanda Petrusich is the author of "Pink Moon\," a short bo ok about Nick Drake's 1972 album for Continuum's 33 1/2 series.\n\nKey G rip: A Memoir of Endless Consequences\n(Mariner Books\,$12.95)\n\nDustin Beall Smith's Key Grip won the 2007 Bakeless Prize for nonfiction\, awa rded by the Middlebury College Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and judged by Terry Tempest Williams. Smith teaches at Gettysburg College and live s in Gettysburg\, Pennsylvania\, and New York City\n\nFREE\n7 pm\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E.4th Street UID:54353006-5E28-4059-B95F-C2519055A5D9 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080923T190000 DTSTAMP:20080904T171506Z SUMMARY:KGB Non-Fiction CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080923T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Beverly Gage\nThe Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of Ameri ca in Its First Age of Terror \nOxford\, $27.95\n\nJust after noon on Se ptember 16\, 1920\, as hundreds of workers poured onto Wall Street for t heir lunchtime break\, a horse-drawn cart packed with dynamite exploded in a spray of metal and fire. Gage tells the story of that once infamous but now largely forgotten act of terrorism.\n\nCUNY Grad Center\n365 5t h Avenue\n6:30 pm\n\n UID:40786EB9-30C8-4BB8-A028-D07705D239BA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090224T183000 DTSTAMP:20081205T211950Z SUMMARY:CUNY Gotham CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090224T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:CA Conrad\nThe Book of Frank\nChax Press\, $16\n\nCAConrad's voyeuresque surreal portrait of Frank includes apotheosis\, rebirth\, t alking teapots and hats. It disrupts the landscape as 'pins and/zippers of/other days/loosen.\n\n(Soma)tic Midge\nFaux Press\, $12.50\n\nThe sev en poems that make up (SOMA)TIC MIDGE were each written after eating a s ingle color of food for a day\, and carrying the color externally.\n\nRo se Live Music\n345 Grand Street\n8:00 pm\n$5/1 Free Drink\n UID:F141EA91-C602-409A-A758-FA0E264FB8B8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090626T200000 DTSTAMP:20090520T145810Z SUMMARY:Earshot CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090626T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Diane Lewis\nInside Out: Architecture New York City\n(Charta \, $45)\n6:30PM\n\nAn eminent professor at Cooper Union and principal of her own firm\, Diane Lewis is a leading figure in contemporary New York architecture. "Inside Out: Architecture" offers an insider's view of he r work over the last 25 years\, a portfolio embracing galleries\, museum s and performance spaces\, from Kent to Paul Kasmin\, Claude Bernard and the New York Kunsthalle\, not to mention film studios\, theaters\, muse ums and residences. A recipient of the Rome Prize who trained at the off ices of I.M. Pei and Richard Meier\, Lewis creates civic works attuned t o the relationships between contemporary forms and existing structural h istory. "Inside Out" brings readers a unique vision of architecture as a parallel medium to contemporary literature and conceptual art\, and sho wcases Diane Lewis's highly articulate and accomplished designs.\n\nThe Great Hall @\nThe Cooper Union\n7 E 7th St UID:6AB021F4-F44C-457A-803E-7ECE28C0B650 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080425T183000 DTSTAMP:20080415T194351Z SUMMARY:The City as Art-Work @ Cooper Union CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080425T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Cosmopolis :Lara Vapnyar\n\nBroccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love and There are Jews in My House\n\n\nFREE\n\nBrooklyn Library\n Dweck Auditorium\nGrand Army Plaza\n UID:32ACE922-80E7-4857-916A-B19F5A7FDCEE TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081206T160000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204827Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081206T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Charles Bardes\nPale Faces: The Masks of Anemia\n(Bellevue\, $20)\nRSVP to Barbara@barbarakilpatrick.com\n7PM\n\nPale\, pallid\, wan : when we say that someone looks anemic\, the implication is less about iron-poor blood than about the presence of some underlying illness. Laun ching Bellevue's Pathography series\, Bardes (associate dean at Weill Co rnell Medical College) examines how anemia and other diseases of the blo od have been perceived and understood in various places and times. \n\n3 12 E 53rd St\n UID:A8393E9E-23E5-45DA-A2FC-78E7639C0DAA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080624T190000 DTSTAMP:20080603T222958Z SUMMARY:Charles Bardes book party CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080624T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Go Green\n12:30PM\nFREE\n\nLori Bongiorno\nGreen\, Greener\, Greenest: A Practical Guide to Making Eco-Smart Choices a Part of Your Life \n(Perigee\, $15)\n\nDiane MacEachern\nBig Green Purse: Use Your Sp ending Power to Create a Cleaner\, Greener World \n(Avery\, $18)\n\nBrya nt Park\n42nd and 5th Ave UID:62634FF2-285A-4619-AEC2-54D8621CD46E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080806T123000 DTSTAMP:20080506T182655Z SUMMARY:Word for Word Authors CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080806T134500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down \nOne of the most promising young talents in cartooning makes his debut with a dazzling collection t hat is filled with visceral art and emotionally resonant storytelling. F ull-color illustrations throughout.\n(Pantheon Books:$ 24.95)\n\nDavid H eatley (McSweeney's) contributes the first of a series of stories revolv ing around a cast of characters in a town called "Overpeck" (also the na me of the strip). Originally conceived in a dream\, as are many of Heatl ey's comics\, he has fleshed out his initial\, unconscious creations int o a developed cast of characters that inhabit this town\, with each self -contained story focusing on a different character or characters.\n\nSli pperRoom\nThe Club\n167 Orchard St. UID:7E74800B-E827-49AC-A5DA-2DA1A0226596 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081009T190000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194957Z SUMMARY:My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081009T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Democratic Leadership of the 21st Century hosts \n\nA conver sation with Valerie Plame Wilson\, author of Fair Game: My Life as a Spy \, My Betrayal by the White House (Simon\n\nSpy Club\n17 W 19th St\nNew York\, NY 10011\n(212) 352-2001\n\nFree for non-members\; \n$7 non-membe rs\nPlease RSVP! UID:B4B69A71-7727-49BF-AD99-CEE58EAA692D TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.spyclubnyc.com/ DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080317T190000 DTSTAMP:20080312T013513Z SUMMARY:Valerie Plame Wilson CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080317T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Author TBA\n\nThe Half King\n505 West 23rd Street\n7:00 pm \ nFree UID:F73EE101-681D-4ECB-8F85-A88452913875 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090202T190000 DTSTAMP:20090112T205142Z SUMMARY:Half King CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090202T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Poetry Forum\n\nPaul Violi\nOvernight\nHanging Loose Press\, $25\n\nOvernight is Paul Violi's eleventh book of poems. On receiving t he Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, he was ci ted for "bringing the sharpness and surprise of the avant-garde to a poe try that continually impresses by its honesty\, its sincerity\, and its clarity. One is taken through the solidest and strongest emotional lands capes on a remarkable new road."\n\nThe New School\n66 West 12th Street\ nRoom 510\n6:30 pm\n$5\n UID:743580D0-EB66-4259-9A41-54BAE0F5D812 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090407T183000 DTSTAMP:20090106T193124Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090407T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:The Personal Democracy Forum will be holding its annual conf erence at the Rose Center. Featured speakers include danah boyd\, Jeff Jarvis\, Nate Silver\, David Weinberger and more.\n\nFrederick P. Rose H all\n60th Street and Broadway\n8:00 am\n UID:5C5C71E1-D21D-4F37-90F4-F79342924DB6 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090629T080000 DTSTAMP:20090609T181718Z SUMMARY:Personal Democracy Forum Conference CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090629T183000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Brian Sack\nIn the Event of My Untimely Demise: Twenty Thing s My Son Needs to Know \n(HarperOne\, $20)\n\nFunny and philosophical at the same time\, father-to-son life wisdom is delivered by humorist Sack \, the creator of banterist.com.\n\nFlatiron Lounge\n37 W 19th St.\n UID:406C536E-7C31-48A3-BBC7-7A2DF93F3951 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080502T190000 DTSTAMP:20080424T202138Z SUMMARY:Brian Sack CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080502T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Amy Hempel in Conversation with Darin Strauss\nThe Collected Stories of Amy Hempel (Scribner\, $15)\n7:00 pm\n\nFREE\n\nWith her ini mitable compassion and wit\, Hempel introduces characters who make choic es that seem inevitable\, and whose longings and misgivings evoke eterna l human experience. For readers who have known Hempel's work for decade s and for those who are just discovering her\, this indispensable volume contains all the stories in Reasons to Live\, At the Gates of the Anima l Kingdom\, Tumble Home\, and The Dog of the Marriage. No reader of grea t writing should be without it. \nThe Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House\n58 West 10th Street UID:30E4E460-EAD2-4790-AE51-2CED917D8487 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080229T190000 DTSTAMP:20080219T184325Z SUMMARY:Amy Hempel CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080229T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:15 DESCRIPTION:Hispanic Association of Corporate Responsibility 2008 Latino Leadership Conference\ncontact www.hacr.org to register\n1:30\n\nElsie Ramos\nElsie's Turkey Tacos and Arroz Con Pollo: More Than 100 Latin-Fla vored\, Great-Tasting Recipes for Working Moms \n(John Wiley\, $20)\n\nR obert Rodriguez\nLatino Talent: Effective Strategies to Recruit\, Retain \, and Develop Hispanic Prossionals \n(John Wiley\, $40)\n\nLeslie Sanch ez\nLos Republicanos: Why Hispanics and Republicans Need Each Other \n(P algrave MacMillan\, $25)\n\nLe Parker Meridien\n118 W 57th\n\n UID:A8316106-76F3-4EC9-84A9-2666EF6DE216 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080429T133000 DTSTAMP:20080402T183305Z SUMMARY:HACR Latino Leadership Conference CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080429T150000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Emerging Voices: Writers Published by Groundbreaking Indepen dent Presses\n6:30PM\ncontact \n\nMichelle Latiolais \nProper Knowledge\ n(Bellevue\, $23)\n\nPaula Nangle\nLeper Compound\n(Bellevue\, $15)\n\nN ew York Center for Independent Publishing\n20 West 44th St UID:C5B4F994-9E6C-4AAC-8519-7D56290BB2D9 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080603T183000 DTSTAMP:20080527T201633Z SUMMARY:New York Cener for Independent Publishing CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080603T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:David Barsamian\nSpeaking of Empire: Conversations with Tari q Ali \n(New Press\, $17)\nFREE\n7:30PM\n\nThis series of interviews bri ngs together Ali's insights into a wide range of topics--among them the fate of modern-day Pakistan\, the occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq\, t he intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict\, the state of the Islamic w orld\, and the continuing significance of imperialism in the 21st centur y.\n\nBaruch Performing Arts Center\nMason Hall\n17 Lexington @ 23rd st. UID:9343B8A5-3CB0-404B-A019-3796F06DED57 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080530T193000 DTSTAMP:20080514T202657Z SUMMARY:Tariq Ali @ Baruch Performing Arts CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080530T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Anat Baniel\nMove into Life: The Nine Essentials for Lifelon g Vitality\nHarmony\, $24.95\n\n"Move Into Life" defines the nine essent ial skills the brain uses in order to thrive. Through her revolutionary understanding of how to use movement\, Baniel provides simple\, safe act ivities and mental exercises to incorporate into everyday activities.\n\ nSubud Chelsea Center\n230 West 29th Street\n6:00 pm\n\n\n UID:5313169F-C7EF-4FF9-9BD2-63BCC4FFFAEC TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090604T180000 DTSTAMP:20090501T150110Z SUMMARY:Subud Chelsea Center CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090604T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:One Story\n\nOwen King and Kelly Braffet\nWho Can Save Us No w?\nSimon & Schuster \n$16\n\nFREE\n6:30 pm\n\nPianos\n158 Ludlow\n UID:6BF08F25-AE80-4CA8-8054-2A992F2DEEB2 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080905T183000 DTSTAMP:20080824T201701Z SUMMARY:One Story at Pianos CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080905T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Gary Hart\nUnder the Eagle's Wing: The National Security Str ategy of the United States 2009\n(Fulcrum\, $15)\nFREE\n5PM\n\nAimed at the new administration of 2009\, this work provides a sound national sec urity strategy for the new century. "Under the Eagle's Wing" makes a com pelling plea for America's leaders to embrace a new world order\, in whi ch the U.S. and other nations draw strength from a united approach.\n\nR osie O'Grady's\n800 7th Ave @ 52nd St\n\n UID:45307E7A-48C5-4AE7-835D-415012EB2B98 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080424T170000 DTSTAMP:20080421T201220Z SUMMARY:Gary Hart CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080424T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Balanchine Variations \nUniversity Press of Florida : $ 24.9 5\n\nNancy Goldner is a former dance critic for the "Christian Science M onitor\, The Nation\, "the "Philadelphia Inquirer\, "and "Dance News\," She is the author of "The Story of Coppelia "(with Lincoln Kirstein) and "The Stravinsky Festival of the New York City Ballet. "As a child\, she studied at the School of American Ballet\, founded by Balanchine\, and watched performances by his company\, the New York City Ballet\, almost from its inception in 1948.\n\nUniversity Club\n1 West 54th Street\n@5th Ave\n UID:96C9705C-7D6C-438F-9F91-5AC564DDB8EF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090407T170000 DTSTAMP:20090326T173630Z SUMMARY:Nancy Goldner@University Club CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090407T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Steve Almond\nThe author of the story collections "My Life i n Heavy Metal" and "The Evil B.B. Chow\," the nonfiction book "Candyfrea k\," and the novel "Which Brings Me to You\," co-written with Julianna B aggott. He lives outside Boston with his wife\, Erin\, and daughter\, Jo sephine\, whom he cannot stop kissing. Visit the author at www.stevenalm ond.com.\n\nFree\nhosted by NYU\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4th Street UID:4108A928-BF5D-43BF-8743-DDE7514B7CA1 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081031T190000 DTSTAMP:20080912T153816Z SUMMARY:My LIfe is Heavy Metal CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081031T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Who are today's poetry's readers\,and how did they acquire t he habit of poetry ?Formwer U.S. Poet Laureate Robert pinsy examines the changing landscape of American Poetry and its audiences.\nRobert Pinky is a Professor in the English Department of Boston University\,and the a uthor of\,most recently\,Gulf Music:Poems.During his Laureateship\,he fo unded the Favourite Poem Project\,a program dedicated to celebrating\,do cumenting and encouraging poetry's role in America's lives.\n\nThe Eleba sh Recital hall\nCUNY Graduate Center for the Humanities\n365 5th Ave @ 34th St\n212 817-2005 UID:500D2CF5-53EF-449E-BB2B-FF67CEC396DA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081112T183000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204829Z SUMMARY:Who Read Poetry? Robert Pinsky CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081112T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Lillian Vernon Emerging Writers Series\n\nGuest Author: Scot t Snyder\n\nScott Snyder\nVoodoo Heart\nDial Press\, $13\n\nReaders of " Zoetrope\, One Story\, Tin House" and "Epoch" will recognize this fierce ly original young writer\, whose compelling stories are now assembled fo r the first time.\n\nKGB Bar\n85 East 4th Street\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n UID:B7C185C2-C866-4F23-B607-EE502272F21A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090417T190000 DTSTAMP:20090119T182309Z SUMMARY:LV Emerging Writers Series CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090417T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Student Book Sale \nFeaturing books by the following authors :\nJeffrey McDaniel\nJim Lewis\nAnne Landsman\nTao Lin\nOne author TBA\n \nPratt Institute \nBrooklyn Campus\n200 Willoughby Ave UID:408C6895-A878-497A-B0A8-1483C7824901 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080905T120000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204824Z SUMMARY:Student Book Sale Pratt Institute\, Brooklyn CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080905T133000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Stephen Wolf\nI Speak of the City: Poems of New York \n(Colu mbia U Press\, $25)\n2:30PM\nFREE\n\n"A rich poetic hymnal to New York\, with an excellent breadth of poets." -- Natalie Whittle\, "Financial Ti mes Weekend Magazine" \n\nMid Manhattan Library\n40th St and 5th Ave\n6t h Floor\n UID:A0B388D7-742B-4735-999A-270B727A2AA9 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080412T143000 DTSTAMP:20080325T181327Z SUMMARY:Stephen Wolf CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080412T163000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:The last show EVER At Happy Ending \n\nReader TBA\n\nHAPPY E NDING BAR\n302 Broome St\nBtw.Forsyth and Eldridge\n UID:B96A052F-DD5F-4F27-95A8-5C67F0DB4F33 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081217T200000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204835Z SUMMARY:Happy Ending CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081217T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Cave Canem and the New School Writing Program will host a re ading and discussion with prize-winning poets Major Johnson and Suji Kwo ck Kim. \n\n55 W 13th St\n2nd floor\n\nFree UID:5D7C698F-49CE-40F1-98E8-A96D7CC3620B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081106T183000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204828Z SUMMARY:New School Poets on Craft CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081106T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Kim Addonizio\nLucifer at the Starlight\nNorton\, $23.95\n\n A lyrically intense fifth collection from "one of the nation's most prov ocative and edgy poets" (San Diego Union-Tribune).\n\nBar 13\n35 E. 13th Street\n7:30 pm\n\n UID:C6E03E34-7B13-4A65-ACF8-7A8C00928157 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091012T193000 DTSTAMP:20090520T205851Z SUMMARY:louderARTS Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091012T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Fiction Forum\nNew School Fiction\n\nPeter Trachtenberg\, wi ll read and discuss his new book The Book of Calamities: Five Questions about Suffering and its Meaning.\n\nSwayduck Auditorium\n65 5th Ave\n\n$ 5\; Free for students/alumni UID:23E7CCF2-85D9-4F65-9EB9-9C4D89B45CEA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080917T183000 DTSTAMP:20080730T010612Z SUMMARY:New School Fiction CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080917T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Deborah Landau\nOrchidelirum\nAnhinga Press\, $12\n\n "With depth\, assurance\, and astonishing savoir faire Landau makes ORCHIDELIR IUM a genuine orchid of a book\, a vivid and riveting new bloom in Ameri can letters"--Molly Peacock.\n\nKate Knapp Johnson\n\n\n\nBryant Park Re ading Room\nBryant Park 42nd st. side\, under burgandy umbrellas UID:E869C3AF-35BD-4155-A720-34D171DB03F7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090602T193000 DTSTAMP:20090526T173618Z SUMMARY:Word for Word Poetry CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090602T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Betsy Lerner & Susan Morrisin\nThirty Ways of Looking at Hil lary: Reflections by Women Writers \n(Harper\, $24)\n7PM\nContact mediab istro.com to register\n\nMorrison\, editor at "The New Yorker\," brings together a stellar group of writers\, including Deborah Tannen\, Susan C heever\, Lorrie Moore\, and others\, to offer a compelling multidimensio nal look at the woman who might the Americas first female president.\n\n Cooper Union\nCooper Union Great Hall\n 7 East 7th Street UID:F55611D1-203C-4D40-AD40-4953A8E7D45C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080611T190000 DTSTAMP:20080331T193219Z SUMMARY:Susan Morrison CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080611T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Matthew Parker\nPanama Fever: The Epic Story of One of the G reatest Human Achievements of All Time-- The Building of the Panama Cana l (Doubleday\, $30)\n7:00 pm\n\nA tale of exploration\, conquest\, money \, politics\, and medicine\, "Panama Fever" charts the challenges that m arked the long\, labyrinthine road to the building of one of the greates t engineering feats in human history.\n\nThe New York Explorer's Club\n4 6 East 70th Street\n212-628-8383 \n UID:87AF5EC6-1A90-40E6-9AE0-C2B13AA1C223 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080324T190000 DTSTAMP:20080306T224706Z SUMMARY:Explorer's Club CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080324T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Between A&B reading series\nwww.readab.com\n\nAnne Carson\nD ecreation: Poetry\, Essays\, Opera\n(Vintage $15)\n\nGraham Foust\n\nMis ty Harper\n\n11th St Bar\n510 E 11th St UID:D395BB69-4B69-4FCB-BFCB-25371BD2C301 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080505T193000 DTSTAMP:20080424T200757Z SUMMARY:Between A&B reading series CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080505T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Douglas J. Feith\nWar and Decision\; Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism\n(Harper Collins\, $28)\n12PM\n$50 per ticket(lunch included)\n\nOf all the players in the planning and evoluti on of the Bush Administration's war on terrorism\, few were more integra l--or more controversial--than Douglas Feith\, the chief strategist on D onald Rumsfeld's Pentagon policy team. Feith is the first inside player to reveal the inner workings of the Pentagon\, at a time when history hu ng in the balance.\n\nWeil\, Gotshal & Manges\, LLP\n767 5th Ave (btn 58 th/59th)\n25th Floor\n\n UID:14A8F796-C75C-49BF-B86C-8063D1D9FE7D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080508T120000 DTSTAMP:20080325T180048Z SUMMARY:Douglas J. Feith CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080508T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:The Middle East Forum provides a non-partisan platform to co nsider the controversial issues of a volatile region from the perspectiv e of a leading actor - heads of state\, ministers\, leading parliamentar ians\, mayors\, and others - or a respected analyst - such as historians or journalists.\n\nAndrew McCarthy\nWillful Blindness: Memoir of the Ji had\n(Encounter $26)\nA government prosecutor takes readers back to the real beginning of the war on terror--not the atrocities of September 11\ , but the first bombing of the World Trade Center in February 1993\, whe n radical Islamists effectively declared war on the U.S.\n\nFor informat ion contact Eric Bergel\nbergel@meforum.org\n215.546.5406 x20 UID:AEEA2008-BD67-4AB1-8745-5050EA4B44BD TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081006T120000 DTSTAMP:20080730T004615Z SUMMARY:Middle East Forum CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081006T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Daniel Asa Rose\nLarry's Kidney\nWilliam Morrow & Co\, $25.9 9\n\n A wild-and-crazy memoir\, "Larry's Kidney" chronicles the author's trip to Beijing to help his black-sheep cousin receive an illegal kidne y transplant\, collect a mail-order bride\, and restore East-West relati ons while they're at it.\n\nHalf King\n505 W. 23rd Street\n7:00 pm\nFree \n\n\n UID:EF7888E7-4C5B-4471-8F12-8554A8319A12 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090713T190000 DTSTAMP:20090615T181523Z SUMMARY:Half King CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090713T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:AAP Rooftop Events\n6:30PM\nFREE - RSVP @ rsvp@parks.nyc.gov \n\nJenny Boully\nThe Book of Beginnings and Endings \n(Sarabande\, $15) \n\nGregory Pardlo\nTotem\n(American Poetry Review\, $14)\n\nG.C. Waldre p\nDisclaimer\n(BOA\, $16)\n\nroof of the Arsenal Building at entrance o f Central Park\, 64th St at 5th Ave UID:505F7222-4EE8-4434-B3BE-198A8BC3A87F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080701T183000 DTSTAMP:20080611T190923Z SUMMARY:AAP Rooftop Events CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080701T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:Everything you want to know about graphic novels and more. F eaturing Movers and Shakers from the Graphic Novel Universe\, including Scott McCloud\n\nThe SPLAT! Symposium: an enjoyable\, intensive educatio nal forum for the publishing community\, educators\, librarians\, and pe ople eager to find out more about the comics universe\, with a unique op portunity for prospective creators to learn what it takes to be a graph ic novelist. Three different tracks of panels\, seminars\, and workshops \, followed by the SPLAT! Reception with Scott McCloud.\n\nCenter For In dependent Publishing @ 20 West 44th Street UID:07FABD09-341F-454F-9497-75FF27E5F87A TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.nycip.org/graphicnovelsymposium/ DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080315T080000 DTSTAMP:20080310T032415Z SUMMARY:Graphic Novel Symposium CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080315T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Amelie Nothomb\nTokyo Fiancee\nEuropa Editions\, $15\n\nAmli e is a young language teacher living in Tokyo. When she succumbs to the attentions of a student--the shy\, wealthy\, and oh-so-Japanese Rinri--t he lovers find themselves swept along by an affair that is as unusual as it is tender.\n\nLa Maison Francaise\n16 Washington Mews\n7:00 pm\nFree \n\n\n\n UID:B13E736A-2DE4-4322-99E7-D1D9C47D4624 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090211T183000 DTSTAMP:20090121T182507Z SUMMARY:Maison Francaise CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090211T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:The Jack Burstyn memorial Lecture\nDelivering this year's sp ecial leture\,\nCarol Gilligan is an international acclaimed psychologis t and profile writer.She is also considered by many feminists to be a pi oneer in the feminist movement.Her important work on examining the devel opment of woman's self-identities and values in a society dominated by p atriarchal standards can be found in her esteemed publications\,In a dif ferent Voice: Psychological Theory and Woman's Development and meeting a t the Crossroads:Woman's Psychology and Girl's Development.Her first nov el Kiara\,her recently been published.\n\nfree\n\nMarymount\nRegina Peru ggi Room\n221 East 71st Street\n212 774-0780 UID:6DCDAE51-D5DC-445B-9845-879AD4241109 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081022T190000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194959Z SUMMARY:Marymount\,Irish Voices CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081022T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Québécois Writers in the U.S.A French Perspective\n7:00 pm\n \nThree celebrated Québécois writers living south of the Canadian border —journalist and novelist Richard Hétu (The Lost Guide: The Man Behind th e Lewis and Clark Expedition) and authors Aimée Laberge (Where the River Narrows) and Madeleine Monette (Doubly Suspect)—will discuss their work in the context of French Canadian culture. Presented during the Semaine de la francophonie and on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the foundation of Québec City by Samuel de Champlain and the inauguration of French-language culture in North America. Maxime Blanchard (CUNY) will introduce and moderate.\n\nTo register\, please send an email to: cultur e@americas-society.org.\n\nAmericas Society\n680 Park Avenue\n UID:8AAD4CDA-0AB6-499D-8FE4-6B1C82B80ACF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080318T190000 DTSTAMP:20080303T231120Z SUMMARY:Qebecois Writers CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080318T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Smith Magazine - The Six World Memoir\n7PM\nFREE\n\nSMITH Ma gazine and KGB Nonfiction host a 6 Word Memoir Slam based on the book No t Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obsc ure. The book grew out of the response when SMITH Magazine—an online pub lication that celebrates storytelling—challenged their readers to write their six-word memoirs. \n\nKGB Bar\n85 East 4th Street\n UID:175BCA84-7ACC-4021-9090-C5F19772FA55 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080325T190000 DTSTAMP:20080314T192556Z SUMMARY:KGB Nonfiction CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080325T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:At Happy Ending\n\n\n\nHarvey Frommer\nRemembering Yankee St adium: An Oral and Narrative History of "The House that Ruth Built"\nSte wart\, Tabori & Chang\nS45\n\nBuster Olney\nThe Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty: The Game\, the Team\, and the Cost of Greatness\nHarper Perenn ial\n$15\n\nDave Zirin\nA People's History of Sports in the United State s: 250 Years of Politics\, Protest\, People\, and Play \nNew Press\n$27\ n\nFREE\n8 PM\n\nHappy Ending\n302 E. Broome Street\n UID:350228A8-E039-4D32-923E-6FB00542A3D9 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080904T200000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204824Z SUMMARY:Varsity Letters CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080904T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:The World According to Chip Kidd\n6:30PM\n$10 in advance\, $ 15 at door\n212 223 3332 for tickets\n\nChip Kidd\nThe Learners: The Boo k After the Cheese Monkeys \n(Scribner\, $26)\n\nFrom the famed graphic designer and author of "The Cheese Monkeys" comes a remarkable new novel that shows his writing is\, once again\, every bit as original\, stunni ng\, and memorable as his celebrated book jackets.\n\nFIT Katie Murphy A mpitheatre\n27th St & 7th Ave\n\n\n\n UID:A9851E9C-1E41-4960-A613-DBFABDD3F96E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080422T183000 DTSTAMP:20080421T200237Z SUMMARY:Chip Kidd CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080422T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Annual Breakfast for the Woman of the Sister Hood with\n\nEr in Einhorn talking about her book \n\nThe Pages in Between: A Holocaust Legacy of Two Families\, One Home\nIn this extraordinarily moving memoir \, Einhorn finds the family in Poland that had saved her mother from the Holocaust and stumbles upon a decades-old land dispute that leads her t o ask: How far should one go to rectify the past? 8-pages of b&w photos. \n(Touchston Books\,$25)\n\nTempel Emmanu-el of Closter\n180 Piermont Rd \nCloster\, NJ. UID:92AD5536-3C7C-4FAE-8A5B-E1B4266597AD TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081214T213000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194957Z SUMMARY:Erin Einhorn at Temple Emmanu-el of the Closter CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081214T233000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:In Conversation: Lore Segal\n\nLore Segal\nShakespeare's Kit chen: Stories\nNew Press\, $14.95\n\n The 13 interrelated stories in Seg al's deeply moving work concern the universal longing for friendship\, a nd evoke the subtle drama and humor of the outsider's loneliness\, the c omfort and charm of familiar companionship\, and the bliss of being in l ove.\n\nBrooklyn Library\nDweck Center\nGrand Army Plaza\n4:00 pm\nFree\ n\n\n UID:197EDEC5-229B-46DC-833D-F0213D57CBEC TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090314T160000 DTSTAMP:20081217T213746Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090314T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Warren Adler\nFunny Boys\nPenguin\, $25\nWar of the Roses\nN Y Echoes\n\n\nFREE 4 pm\n\n\nDweck Auditorium\nGrand Army Plaza \n UID:B7791C0D-1D85-4651-93D8-AD8DF41BF62C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080927T160000 DTSTAMP:20080824T201702Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080927T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Glenn Greenwald\nGreat American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics \n(Crown\, $25)\nTickets $12.50\n7:30PM\n\ nFrom "New York Times" bestselling author Greenwald comes an excoriating election-year slam of Republican political tricks. He observes that the right's marketing apparatus is so persuasive because it invokes the ico nic themes that Americans hold dear.\n\nLizz Winstead's Shoot the Messen ger\n2 Locations!\nFirefly\n54 Spring St.\nfor an hour then walk over to :\nThe Green Room Theater\n45 Bleecker St. UID:4461D629-E0BE-469A-9FB9-9427DEDB42F6 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080609T183000 DTSTAMP:20080602T214012Z SUMMARY:Lizz Winstead's Shoot the Messenger CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080609T230000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:FREE\n\nJanice Erlbaum - Have You Found Her\nNeal Pollack - Alternadad\nJohn Marks - Reasons to Believe\n\nhttp://www.kgbbar.com/cal endar/event/2008-02-26_non_fiction_jan.html\n\nKGB BAR\n85 East 4th Stre et UID:4F6CA813-7205-463F-8AD6-AED346C4BAE0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080226T190000 DTSTAMP:20080218T193948Z SUMMARY:KGB Nonfiction CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080226T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Happy Ending Reading Series\n\nThe last season ever before m oving to Joe's Pub for a monthly show.\n\nAmmon Shea\nThe author of two previous books on obscure words\, "Depraved English" and "Insulting Engl ish" (written with Peter Novobatzky). He read his first dictionary\, Mer riam Websteras Second International\, ten years ago\, and followed it up with the sequel\, Websteras Third International.\n\nMarion Winik\nA lon gtime \ncontributor to National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" a nd the author of "Telling\, First Comes Love\, " and "The Lunch-Box Chro nicles." She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and their children.\ n\nJoan Wickersham\nThe author of the novel "The Paper Anniversary\," He r work has appeared in the Best American Short Stories series. An excerp t from "The Suicide Index" earned her the" "2007" Ploughshares" Cohen Aw ard for Best Short Story. She lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts.\n\nWit h Music from \nJenny Scheinmann\nShow starts at 8pm. /door open at 7 pm \n\nHAPPY ENDING BAR\n302 Broome St\nbtw.Forsyth and Eldridge UID:93AE05D1-6AD2-4DB2-BA36-33163B94248C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081210T200000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204826Z SUMMARY:Happy Ending CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081210T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Nigel Hollis \n"The Global Brand"\nPalgrave Macmillan\, $24. 95\n\nA top executive at one of the world's leading marketing firms\, sh ows how to strengthen global brands.\n\nGetty Images Studio\n200 Hudson St\, 2nd Floor\n6:00 pm UID:ED318529-9EFA-455A-8B05-96E141BCE75D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090616T180000 DTSTAMP:20090616T042146Z SUMMARY:Getty Images Studio CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090616T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:New Issues Poets \nReading by\n\nSandra Beasley :Theories of Falling\nMyronn Hardy :The Headless Saints and Approching the center\nA lexander Long: Vigil\nElaine Sexton : Causeway and Sleuth\nMatthew Thorn burn : Subject to change\n\nConelia Street Cafe\n29 Cornelia St\nbtw Ble ecker-W.4th St. UID:6AAD7581-6789-4CA4-8F6D-90323D64F17C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090329T180000 DTSTAMP:20090326T173632Z SUMMARY:New Issue Poets CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090329T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Edgar Allan Poe's 200th Birthday Party\n\nVarious Edgar Alle n Poe Titles\n\nPoe: 19 Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe\nSolaris\, $15 \n\nCompiled by multi-award winning editor\, Ellen Datlow\, this collect ion commemorates the second centenary of Edgar Allan Poe's birth. It fea tures Poe-inspired tales by some of the finest talents in the field.\n\n South Street Seaport's main building\n12 Fulton Street\n4th floor\n6:30 pm\n UID:321AD9BA-9DC5-402C-8E88-F06AEEFA5810 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090106T183000 DTSTAMP:20090106T181411Z SUMMARY:Edgar Allan Poe's 200th Birthday Party CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090106T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Michael Lally started out playing piano and reading his poet ry in coffeehouses and bars in 1959. In 1962 he joined the Air Force\, w here he spent four years as an enlisted man\, and later used the G.I. Bi ll to attend the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. Lally moved from M anhattan to L.A. in 1982 to find work acting in movies and TV\, while hi s writing found its way into several movies. \n\n Terence Winch\n\nFree\ n\nKGB Bar\n85 East4th St.\n\n UID:D578EBB3-D2A2-4518-B383-3B73367EF4AA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081006T193000 DTSTAMP:20080904T171506Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry Reading Series@KGB Bar CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081006T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Christopher Buckley\nLosing Mum and Pup: A Memoir\nTwelve\, $24.99\n\nBestselling author Buckley's most personal and transcendent wo rk--the tragicomic true story of the year in which he lost both of his p arents. The author offers consolation\, wit\, and warmth to those coping with the death of a mother or father.\n\nBryant Park\n42nd and 5th\n12: 30 pm\n\n UID:F6E6878F-622A-419C-AE24-9203BFA8E808 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090603T123000 DTSTAMP:20090327T190717Z SUMMARY:Word for Word CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090603T143000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Gaby Triana\nThe Temptress Four\n(Harperteen\, $18)\nFREE\n4 :30PM\n\nFour best friends\, one graduation cruise\, a week of partying. \nEight days of strife and storms . . It's supposed to be the best eigh t days of their lives. Bonds will be broken...\n\nNYPL\nMott Haven Branc h\n321 East 140th Street UID:2C531A68-C1C3-4334-B6A2-0AEF0CF584AF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080625T160000 DTSTAMP:20080603T222603Z SUMMARY:Mott Haven Branch\, NYPL CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080625T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Performance: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson\n\nBooks TBA\n\nTh e Public Theater\n425 Lafayette Street\n7:45 pm UID:01B36D5E-3FFC-42AC-A5C5-261DB96EED02 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090505T194500 DTSTAMP:20090119T185254Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090505T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:EXACT TIME TBA \n\nDanielle Ofri\, editor\nThe Best of the B ellevue Literary Review\nBellevue Literary Press\, $16.95\n\nFounded jus t six years ago\, Bellevue Literary Review is already widely recognized as a rare forum for emerging and celebrated writers-among them Julia Alv arez\, Raphael Campo\, Rick Moody\, and Abraham Verghese-on issues of he alth and healing. Gathered here are poignant and prizewinning stories\, essays\, and poems\, the voices of patients and those who care for them\ , which form the journal's remarkable dialogue on "humanity and the huma n experience."\n\nThis Full Green Hour\nThe One O'Clock Poets\nSonopo Pr ess\, $15\n\nBellevue Hospital\n462 1st Ave at 28th Street\n\nEXACT TIME TBA \n\n\n\n UID:CB3BBB97-ECBD-4CE3-9042-76E0E3926185 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090503T170000 DTSTAMP:20090415T203146Z SUMMARY:Bellevue Hospital CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090503T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Christopher Dickey\nSecuring the City\nSimon and Schuster\, $26\n\nDickey\, who has reported on international terrorism for than tha n 25 years\, takes the reader into the secret command center of the coun terterrorism division and onto the streets with cops ready for urban com bat\, whose job is to keep cities from becoming another Ground Zero.\n\n City Bar Association\n42 West 44th Street\n6:30 pm UID:4198CE83-A5B3-43F6-84AB-7F2344F127A7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091008T183000 DTSTAMP:20090612T200842Z SUMMARY:City Bar CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091008T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Bluegrass: A True Story of Murder and Family in Small-Town K entucky\nA seasoned journalist exposes the truths and injustices that pl ague a small Kentucky town after it is ripped apart by a shocking crime. b&w photographs.\nFree Press : $24\n\n\n\nUnion Pool\n484 Union Ave\nBr ooklyn\nBar Ph : 718 609 0484 UID:115DB803-7B58-4E10-8739-2452BE7C5928 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090108T200000 DTSTAMP:20081211T202336Z SUMMARY:William Van Meter at Union Pool CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090108T230000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:NYU Alumni Reading\n\nDaphne Beal\, Paula Bohince\, Fredrick Feirstein\, Tsipi Keller\, Mari L’Esperance\, Sabra Loomis\, and Jeffre y Ethan Lee\nAlumni writers from the NYU Creative Writing Program read f rom their recent publications.\n\nLillian Vernon Writers House\n58 West 10th Street\n7:00 pm\nFree\n UID:CDEB8AE3-0955-4720-BCCB-F4C6A059D057 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090327T190000 DTSTAMP:20090119T181617Z SUMMARY:LV Writers House CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090327T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Paula Bernstein & Elyse Schein\nIdentical Strangers\nRandom House\, $15\n\nElyse Schein had always known she was adopted\, but it wa sn't until her mid-thirties while living in Paris that she searched for her biological mother. What she found instead was shocking: She had an i dentical twin sister. What's more\, after being separated as infants\, s he and her sister had been\, for a time\, part of a secret study on sepa rated twins.\nPaula Bernstein\, a married writer and mother living in Ne w York\, also knew she was adopted\, but had no inclination to find her birth mother. When she answered a call from her adoption agency one spri ng afternoon\, Paula's life suddenly divided into two starkly different periods: the time before and the time after she learned the truth. \nAs they reunite\, taking their tentative first steps from strangers to sist ers\, Paula and Elyse are left with haunting questions surrounding their origins and their separation. And when they investigate their birth mot her's past\, the sisters move closer toward solving the puzzle of their lives.\n\nHillcrest Library\n187-05 Union Turnpike\nFlushing\, Queens UID:83ADC91D-CE3D-4784-9BBE-911DA2D1F81B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081108T143000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194958Z SUMMARY:Paula Bernstein & Elyse Schein at Queens Library CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081108T163000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Authors TK\n\nHappy Ending\n302 Broome Street\n8:00 pm UID:976FAD3A-9A9F-44C9-859B-3445BADC26DB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090820T200000 DTSTAMP:20090623T171921Z SUMMARY:In the Flesh Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090820T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:8:00 pm\nFREE\n\nA superstar erotica evening celebrating the release of two hot new anthologies. Featuring Stephen Elliott\, editor of Sex for America: Politically Inspired Erotica\, along with contributo r Nick Flynn (Another Bullshit Night in Suck City) and New York Times be stselling author Zane (Addicted\, The Heat Seekers) celebrating the rele ase of Succulent: Chocolate Flava II\, along with Succulent contributors Michelle Robinson and In The Flesh host/curator Rachel Kramer Bussel (B est Sex Writing 2008\, He's on Top\, She's on Top). Free candy and cupc akes will be served.\n\nHappy Ending\n302 E Broome\n\n UID:A44644C0-9C91-4A83-96B4-055C0CC3A401 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080221T200000 DTSTAMP:20080214T192041Z SUMMARY:In The Flesh CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080221T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Tyler Colman\nA Year of WIne: Perfect Pairings\, Great Buys\ , and What to Sip for Each Season\nSimon Spotlight Entertainment\, $24\n \nAward-winning and critically acclaimed wine blogger Colman\, a.k.a. Dr . Vino\, encourages his readers to drink different in this lively\, info rmative guide to a year of wine enjoyment and appreciation. Illustration s throughout.\n\nJames Beard House\n167 West 12th Street\n12:00 pm\n UID:753ECDB4-9AC7-455F-A194-28B931E6C670 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090715T120000 DTSTAMP:20090326T202024Z SUMMARY:Beard on Books CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090715T130000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Archer\nA Prisoner of Birth\n(St Martin's\, $28)\n\n International bestseller and masterful storyteller Lord Archer is best k nown for the shocking twists and turns in his more than eighteen suspens e novels. The Los Angeles Times calls Archer “one of the top ten storyte llers in the world”\, and Time Magazine says “Archer is a master enterta iner.” The event is free to members. \n\n@ The Princeton Club\n15 W 43rd Street\n UID:CC747D24-24E3-48F9-8286-541D7B01DB4D TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oxoniansociety.com/ DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080315T114500 DTSTAMP:20080310T032659Z SUMMARY:Oxonian Society CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080315T134500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:KGB Nonfiction Series\n\nMickey Hess\nBig Wheel at the Crack er Factory\nGarrett County Press\, $13.95\n\nBig Wheel at the Cracker Fa ctory is about choosing what you want to be when you grow up\, and findi ng out you still have to wait tables on the weekends. The book follows o ne year in the life of an adjunct instructor who takes on side jobs as a n ice cream man\, stand-up comedian\, haunted house character\, and Bill y Graham Crusader.\n\nKGB Bar\n85 East 4th Street\n7:00 pm\nFree\n UID:9C112A2D-8363-41E3-B4D4-6F7FCA41021F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090310T190000 DTSTAMP:20090108T163733Z SUMMARY:KGB Nonfiction CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090310T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Institute for Comparative Literature and Society \n\nAdrienn e Rich\nA Human Eye\nW.W. Norton and Co\, $24.95\n\nOne of America's mos t distinguished poets explores the complex relationship between art and social justice.\n\nAntjie Krog\nCountry of My Skull\nThree Rivers Press\ , $16\n\n\nColumbia University\n420 West 118th Street\nAltschul Auditori um\n8:00 pm\n UID:F1449427-95AF-4715-8F44-AFB4E339D4AD TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090428T200000 DTSTAMP:20090423T204236Z SUMMARY:Columbia University CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090428T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:14 DESCRIPTION:Chuck Klosterman\nDowntown Owl\nScribner\, $15\n\nLike a col der\, Reagan-era version of "The Last Picture Show" fused with "Friday N ight Lights\, Downtown Owl" is the unpretentious\, darkly comedic story of how it feels to exist in a community where rural mythology and violen t reality are pretty much the same thing.\n\nNick Flynn\nAnother Bullshi t Night in Suck City\nNorton\, $13.95\n\nIn bold\, dazzling prose\, Flyn n tells the story of two lives and the trajectory that led him and his f ather into a homeless shelter\, onto Boston's streets\, and finally to e ach other.\n\nRivka Galchen\nAtmospheric Disturbances\nPicador\, $14\n\n At once a moving love story\, a dark comedy\, a psychological thriller\, and a deeply disturbing portrait of a fracturing mind\, this highly inv entive debut explores the mysterious nature of human relationships.\n\nC ake Shop\n152 Ludlow Street\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n UID:F4C95704-FA2D-4BB3-B1F5-3F5B048F84DB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090617T190000 DTSTAMP:20090518T173221Z SUMMARY:Mixer Series CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090617T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Beauty and the Book\nFREE\n7PM\n\nPoppy King\nLessons of a L ipstick Queen: Finding and Developing the Great Idea That Can Change You r Life \n(Atria\, $23)\n\nKathleen Baird-Murray\nFace Value\n(Berkley\, $14)\n\nSpace NK\n99 Greene St. UID:E07E7D51-B27F-4670-8952-12790C139516 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080603T190000 DTSTAMP:20080514T202219Z SUMMARY:Beauty and the Book CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080603T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:An evening with Steven Pinker and Yael Goldstein\n\nPair one of the world's greatest cognitive scientists and thinkers\, straight fr om Harvard and MIT with Yael Goldstein\, the novelist daughter of his ph ilosopher girlfriend\, Rebecca Goldstein\, and you get an evening of int ellectual and linguistic fun.\n\nMarymount Manhattan College\n221 East 7 1st Street\n7:00 pm\nFree\n UID:66969C53-320B-4060-87AE-3EAFC3D65F69 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090413T190000 DTSTAMP:20090316T174800Z SUMMARY:Marymount Manhattan CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090413T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature\n(Prince ton University Press$ 29.95) \n\nD. Graham Burnett is an assistant profe ssor in the Honors College and a member of the history of science progra m at the University of Oklahoma\n\nCUNY Graduate Center\nRecital Hall\n3 65 5th Avenue @ 34th St. UID:2E861FCF-579B-482D-A5C1-2DBFB8EFFC89 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081007T183000 DTSTAMP:20080917T183636Z SUMMARY:CUNY CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081007T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Dr. Jeffrey B. Perry\nHubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem R adicalism 1883-1918\nColumbia University Press\, $37.50\n\nDr. Jeffrey B . Perry talks about the Caribbean-born\, Harlem-raised Harrison\, a bril liant intellectual and race radical.\n\nBrooklyn Library\nDweck Center\n Grand Army Plaza\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n UID:38D06B77-CCFE-4BA4-951F-619544D0E001 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090318T190000 DTSTAMP:20081217T214414Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090318T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Leslie Day\, author of Field Guide to the Natural World of N ew York City\, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press\, is an e nvironmental and life science educator at The Elisabeth Morrow School an d an adjunct faculty member at Bank Street College of Education. Leslie created and taught the City Naturalists Institute for Teachers program f or the Central Park Conservancy. She has a doctorate in science educatio n from Teachers College Columbia University. Leslie and her husband hav e lived in a houseboat on the Hudson River in Manhattan since 1975.\n\n\ nNew York Public Library-Science Library\n188 Madison Avenue UID:9294CA0A-1167-47C4-9585-AED710F481AF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081030T183000 DTSTAMP:20080901T210840Z SUMMARY:Talks with LeslieDay CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081030T193000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:15 DESCRIPTION:Isaiah Berlin\n\nAgainst the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas\nPrinceton University Press\, $28.95\n\nIn this outstanding col lection of essays\, Isaiah Berlin\, one of the great thinkers of the twe ntieth century\, discusses the importance in the history of thought of d issenters whose ideas still challenge conventional wisdom--among them Ma chiavelli\, Vico\, Montesquieu\, Herzen\, and Sorel. With his unusual po wers of imaginative re-creation\, Berlin brings to life original minds t hat swam against the current of their times.\n\nThe Power of Ideas\nPrin ceton University Press\, $24.95\n\nThe essays collected in this new volu me reveal Isaiah Berlin at his most lucid and accessible. He was constit utionally incapable of writing with the opacity of the specialist\, but these shorter\, more introductory pieces provide the perfect starting-po int for the reader new to his work. Those who are already familiar with his writing will also be grateful for this further addition to his colle cted essays.\n\nThe Proper Study of Ideas\nFSG\, $20\n\n"The Proper Stud y of Mankind" brings together Berlin's most celebrated writing. Here rea ders will find his penetrating portraits of contemporaries\; his essays on liberty and his exposition of pluralism\; his defense of philosophy a nd history against assimilation to scientific method\; and his studies o f intellectual originals.\n\nCUNY Center for the Humanities\n365 Fifth A venue\nElebash Recital Hall\n4:30 pm\n\n\n UID:69D1FFD4-8C22-4853-A14F-944D47601509 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090310T163000 DTSTAMP:20090115T164537Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090310T183000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Joe Stiglitz\nThe Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost o f the Iraq Conflict \n(W.W. Norton)\n$23\n5PM\nEvent Coordinator\nevents @sorosny.org\nSeating will be limited. Please RSVP.\n \nNobel Prize winn er Joseph E. Stiglitz discusses the true cost of the Iraq War\, casting a spotlight on expense items that have been hidden from the U.S. taxpaye r\, at this OSI event.\n\nOpen Society Inst\n400 W 59th St\n\n UID:574A595A-FB10-4DC6-AF76-43637D7DBD11 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080407T170000 DTSTAMP:20080325T175314Z SUMMARY:Joe Stiglitz CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080407T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Christine LeClerc\nCounterfeit\nCUE Publishing\, $15\n\nCoun terfeit illuminates a poetic landscape populated by\nan absurd cast of c haracters. Whimsical\, poignant\, and\noften metaphysical\, the poems le ap boldly from screen-\nplay to lyric to prose.\n\nRose Live Music\n345 Grand Street\nWilliamsburg\, Brooklyn\n8:00 pm\n\n\n\n UID:991C9217-A45A-4F28-B053-0828DB03A7CB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090424T200000 DTSTAMP:20090319T170834Z SUMMARY:Earshot CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090424T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:21 DESCRIPTION:Pacific Standard Fiction Series\n\nPaul Beatty\n\nSlumberlan d \nBloomsbury Publishing\, $24.99\n\nTuff\nAnchor Books\, $13\n\nThe Wh ite-Boy Shuffle\nPicador USA\, $14\n\nMatt Sharpe\n\nJamestown\nHarvest Books\, $14\n\nThe Sleeping Father\nSoft Skull Press\, $14\n\nGarth Hall berg\n\nA Field Guide to the North American Family\nMark Batty\, $19.95\ n\nPacific Standard \n82 4th Avenue\nBrooklyn\n(btw St.Marks & Bergen St .)\n7:00 pm\nFREE\n UID:925FADCB-AC7F-44CE-9B60-C504B4B97F3F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081021T190000 DTSTAMP:20081002T144125Z SUMMARY:Reading Series at Pacific Standard CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081021T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Douglas Blackmon\nSlavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavemen t of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II \n(Doubleday\, $ 30)\nFREE\n7PM\n\nBlackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chap ters in American history\, the late 1870s through the 1940s when thousan ds of African-American men were arbitrarily arrested\, hit with fines\, charged for room and board in state and county jails\, and then forced t o work off the debt as unpaid laborers.\n\nGrace\n114 Franklin St UID:0F372CF7-1DA4-43CD-AC9D-849B9E02C923 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080428T190000 DTSTAMP:20080418T193507Z SUMMARY:Douglas Blackmon @ Grace CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080428T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Anne Wright\nDissent: Voices of Conscience \n(Koa Books\, $1 8)\n\nTara McKelvey\nMonstering: Inside America's Policy of Secret Inter rogations and Torture in the Terror War \n(Basic Books\, $17)\n\nYvonne Latty\nIn Conflict: Iraq War Veterans Speak Out on Duty\, Loss\, and the Fight to Stay Alive \n(Polipoint\, $24)\n\nAlso appearing: Jen Hogg\, K elly Dougherty\n\nWomen Center Stage Festival\nThe Puffin Room\n435 Broo me St UID:642F25B4-4A26-4133-B658-57A305456BB0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080414T190000 DTSTAMP:20080331T174001Z SUMMARY:Women Center Stage Festival CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080414T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:James Goldgeier and Derek Chollet\nAmerica Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11: The Misunderstood Years Between the Fall of the Berl ing Wall and the Start of the War on Terror \n(Public Affairs\, $28)\n7P M\n\nChollet and Goldgeier examine how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9\, 1989\, and the collapse of the Twin Towers on September 11\, 2001\, shaped the events\ , arguments\, and politics of the modern world.\n\nLOCATION TBA\n UID:9D063EDA-AFFE-4A36-A734-95167C9E0A6B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080625T190000 DTSTAMP:20080605T131538Z SUMMARY:Young Professionals in Foreign Policy CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080625T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Reading featuring:\n\nHarry Matthews\nMarcel Benabou\nIan Mo nk\nHerve Le Tellier\nAnne Garreta\nJaques Roubaud\n\nPierogi Gallery\n1 77 North 9th Street\nWilliamsburg\, Brooklyn\n7:00 pm\n UID:4CC6E55F-84A3-4D91-9223-9456D33E0B45 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090403T190000 DTSTAMP:20090306T160941Z SUMMARY:Oulipo Reading CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090403T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Dr. Isabel\nLa Cancion de Gabriela\n(Harper Collins\, $13)\n 5PM\nFREE\n\nMeet Dra. Isabel as she reads her book\, “LA CANCIÓN DE GAB RIELA: ¿Cómo me adapto a un lugar nuevo?" to celebrate Day of the Child/ Day of the Book from 5:15-5:45 PM\, 2nd floor children’s meeting room. A workshop in Spanish for adults\, "Dra. Isabel’s Love\, Success and Happ iness\," follows at 6 PM in Auditorium. Dra. Isabel is the radio host of the most popular advice show on Univision’s Radio WADO and best-selling author. Books will be available for sale and signing. \n\n35-51 81 Stre et\nJackson Heights\, NY 11372\n(718) 899-2500\n UID:5AF3394A-DB37-43AF-BE10-694F97C7312F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080430T170000 DTSTAMP:20080328T225433Z SUMMARY:Dr. Isabel\n CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080430T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:This OPC Book Night will include a panel discussion with bat tle veteran Fred Haynes\, retired AP correspondent Hal Buell and Larry S mith\, the author of Iwo Jima: World War II Veterans Remember the Greate st Battle of the Pacific. \n\nSmith is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Beyond Glory and The Few and the Proud. He previously worke d for the New York Times\, retired as Managing Editor of Parade magazine and was an OPC President from 1992 to 1994.\n\n40 W 45th St.\n\nRSVP 21 2-626-9220\ninfo@opcofamerica.org UID:FB9CDF2D-03B8-4938-87C8-7BBDE33B62F6 TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.opcofamerica.org/component/option,com_jcalpro/I temid,30/extid,22/extmode,view/ DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080910T173000 DTSTAMP:20080730T003300Z SUMMARY:Overseas Press Club CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080910T193000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:James Morrow\nThe Philosopher's Apprentice\nHarper\, $15.99\ n\nFor Mason Ambrose\, a failed philosopher with lots of smarts but not much common sense\, the prospect of tutoring a lonely adolescent for a s mall fortune seems irresistible. But all is not as it seems\, in this be guiling book from one of America's premier satirists.\n\nShambling Towar ds Hiroshima\nTachyon Publishing\, $14.95\n\nLaird Barron\nThe Imago Seq uence & Other Stories\nNight Shade Books\, $16.95\n\n To the long tradit ion of eldritch horror pioneered and refined by writers such as H.P. Lov ecraft\, Peter Straub\, and Thomas Ligotti\, comes Laird Barron\, an aut hor whose literary voice invokes the grotesque\, the devilish\, and the perverse with rare intensity and astonishing craftsmanship. Collected he re for the first time are nine terrifying tales of cosmic horror\, inclu ding the World Fantasy Award-nominated novella "The Imago Sequence\," th e International Horror Guild Award-nominated "Proboscis\," and the never -before published "Procession of the Black Sloth." Together\, these stor ies\, each a masterstroke of craft and imaginative irony\, form a shocki ng cycle of distorted evolution\, encroaching chaos\, and ravenous insec toid hive-minds hidden just beneath the seemingly benign surface of the Earth.\n\nKGB Bar\n85 East 4th Street\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n UID:622E58C3-CFB3-4C1D-A9D1-1700753DDA23 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090218T190000 DTSTAMP:20090126T174529Z SUMMARY:Fantastic Fiction CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090218T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:Sarah Manguso\nThe Two Kinds of Decay\nPicador\, $14\n\nAt 2 1\, Manguso was faced with a wildly unpredictable disease that appeared suddenly\, paralyzing her for weeks at a time. In this captivating story \, she recalls her nine-year struggle with arduous blood cleansings\, co llapsed veins\, multiple chest catheters\, addiction\, and depression.\n \n\nDan Albergotti\nThe Boatloads\nBOA Editions\, $16\n\n\nPerhaps the m ost distinctive aspect of "The Boatloads" is its overt references to chu rch and Christianity. Dan Albergotti's references are not mere proselyti zing\, though. In fact\, the first poem in the book\, "Vestibule\," tell s the story of the author's teenage experience making love to his girlfr iend in a university chapel\, saying: "Lord of this other world\, let me recall that night. / Let me again hear how our whispered exclamations / near the end seemed like rising hymnal rhythm / and let me feel how tho se forgotten words came / from somewhere else and meant something."\n\nP acific Standard\n82 4th Avenue\nBrooklyn \n7:00 pm\nFree\n UID:BC062F5B-67CE-4636-98B0-493426DB9151 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090618T190000 DTSTAMP:20090511T185819Z SUMMARY:Chin Music Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090618T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Word for Word Poetry series\nGibert H. Muller\nWilliam Culle n Bryant: Author of America\n(State U of NY Press\, $30)\n6:30PM\nFREE\n \na panel of experts will discuss the works of William Bryant\, his life and works\n\nBryant Park\n42nd St side\nunder burgundy umbrellas UID:02CAA3E1-151F-4370-8144-9917A1C8B8A9 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080812T183000 DTSTAMP:20080424T203206Z SUMMARY:Word for Word Poetry CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080812T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Clotilde Dusolier\nClotilde's Edible Adventures in Paris \n( Broadway\, $18)\nFREE\n6PM\n\nDusoulier\, a native Parisian and passiona te explorer of the city's food scene\, has won a tremendous following on line with her insider reports and wonderful recipes. In her latest work\ , Dusoulier reveals her all-time favorite food experiences in her native city.\n\nSpotlight Live\nPenthouse\n736A 7th Ave\n UID:17CE1C0D-0BC3-4758-AEBD-50BACB93E227 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080605T180000 DTSTAMP:20080602T210648Z SUMMARY:Edible Adventures CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080605T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Democratic Leadership Organization\n\n\n\nTed Sorensen\nCoun selor: A Life at the Edge of History\nHarper \n$28\n\nLocation TBA\n UID:D4D77DA9-3483-428C-BC12-C3F93054A54A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080904T190000 DTSTAMP:20080818T212938Z SUMMARY:Democratic Leadership Organization CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080904T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Fiction Forum\n\nScott Heim\nWe Disappear\nHarper\, $13.95\n \nFrom the acclaimed author of "Mysterious Skin" comes this dark and com pelling novel of addiction\, obsession\, love\, and family.\n\nMatthew S harpe\nJamestown: A Novel\nHarvest Books\, $14\n\nA group of "settlers" (more like survivors) arrive in Virginia from the ravished island of Man hattan\, intending to establish an outpost\, find oil\, and exploit the Indians controlling the area. But nothing goes quite as planned (one set tler\, for instance\, keeps losing body parts). At the heart of the stor y is Pocahontas\, who speaks Valley Girl\, Ebonics\, Old English\, and A lgonquin--sometimes all in the same sentence. And she pursues a heated r omance with settler Johnny Rolfe via text messaging\, instant messaging\ , and\, ultimately\, telepathy. \nDeadly serious and seriously funny\, M atthew Sharpe's fictional retelling of one of America's original myths i s a history of violence\, a cross-cultural love story\, and a tragicomic commentary on America's past and present.\n\nThe New School\n66 West 12 th Street\nRoom 510\n6:30 pm\n$5\n\n\n\n\n UID:C6C95EB8-2762-47E2-8FC6-A4F35F7FBC6F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090415T183000 DTSTAMP:20090106T193638Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090415T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:85 E 4th St.\n\nAuthors TBA UID:95A75029-B4AB-4D16-9961-BF26EBB3DF00 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090412T190000 DTSTAMP:20090205T172140Z SUMMARY:KGB Fiction CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090412T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Poetry: From Conflict to Discovery\n\nMartin Espada\nThe Rep ublic of Poetry\nNorton\, $13.95\n\nDemetria Martinez\nConfessions of A Berlitz-Tape Chicana\nUniversity of Oklahoma Press\, $16.95\n\nJavier Ca mpos\nThe Woman Who Looked Like Sharon Stone\n\nAmericas Society\n680 Pa rk Avenue\n7:00pm UID:7DCE4574-F0F5-4758-B27E-32FE3D2AA2E3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090507T190000 DTSTAMP:20090126T184444Z SUMMARY:Americas Society CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090507T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Zinc Bar Poetry Book Party\nFREE\n9PM\n\nCecily Parks\nField Folly Snow\n(U of Georgia\, $17)\n\nAaron Baker\nMission Work\n(Mariner \, $13)\n\nJennifer Chang\nThe History of Anonymity\n(U of Georgia Press \, $17\n\nZinc Bar\n90 W Houston UID:D8279BD1-3765-4175-AD5F-EC51E816DE79 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080508T210000 DTSTAMP:20080415T193437Z SUMMARY:Zinc Bar Poetry Book Party CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080508T230000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Authors TBA\n\nHappy Ending\n302 Broome Street\n8:00 pm\nFre e\n UID:95A0869E-EBAD-4BF9-AB50-93309BAF97AF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090507T200000 DTSTAMP:20090217T162832Z SUMMARY:Varsity Letters CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090507T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:P.D. Cacek\nNight Prayers\n(Mass Market\, $7)\n\nJack Ketchu m\nHide and Seek\n(Gauntlet\, $17)\n\n7PM\nFREE\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E 4th St\ n\n\n UID:038E13CF-E4AB-4F62-B726-8C238599C27C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080416T190000 DTSTAMP:20080327T182753Z SUMMARY:KGB Fantastic Fiction CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080416T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:The 2007 Story Prize Award featuring the three finalists:\nT essa Hadley - Sunstroke and Other Stories (Picador\, $13)\nVincent Lam - Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (Weinstein Books\, $24)\nJim Shepard - Like You’d Understand\, Anyway (Knopf\, $23)\n7:30 pm\nTickets $16 (Free for New School Students) \n\nThe three finalists will read from their w ork and converse \nonstage with the director of The Story Prize\, Larry Dark. \nThe evening will culminate in the naming of the winner \nof The Story Prize.\n\nNew School's Tishman Auditorium\n66 West 12th Street\nht tp://www.thestoryprize.org/news.html\n UID:EF2EE379-6C29-45A3-86D0-7B72A0DB4398 TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.thestoryprize.org/news.html DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080227T193000 DTSTAMP:20080218T195516Z SUMMARY:Story Prize Finalists CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080227T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Arthur Brooks\nGross National Happiness: Why Happiness Matte rs for America--And How We Can Get More of It\n(Basic Books\, $27)\nMEMB ERS\n12PM\n\nIn this provocative new book\, Brooks explodes the myths ab out happiness in America. As he did int he controversial "Who Really Car es\," Brooks examines vast amounts of evidence and empirical research to uncover the truth about who is happy in America\, who is not\, and why. \n\nHarvard Club\n35 W 44th\n UID:FB5ED1BD-00AB-49CE-AC3F-EE7CB9339340 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080521T120000 DTSTAMP:20080515T171220Z SUMMARY:Happiness at the Harvard Club CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080521T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Dr. Oliver Sacks was born in London in 1933 and was educated in London\, Oxford\, California\, and New York. His concern has always been with individuals\, as they cope with extraordinary neurological dif ficulties\, and lately this concern has widened to embrace communities\, such as the deaf\, and their collective and creative adaptations to bio logical predicaments. Dr. Sacks lives in New York\, where he is Professo r of Neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.\n\nMusicophil ia: Tales of Music and the Brain \n (Vintage Books USA\,$14.95)\nFrom th e legendary neurologist and bestselling author of "Awakenings" and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" comes a book that examines the power of music and how it affects the brain.\n\nCooper Union\nCooper Union Fo undation Building\n7th St (btw3rd-4th AVE)\n\n UID:EAB8281E-5641-4108-9A84-660F5F3D444C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080924T183000 DTSTAMP:20080904T191513Z SUMMARY:MUSICOPHILIA CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080924T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Sunday Best Reading Series\n\nFriends and Neighbors Reading and party.Poetry\, fiction\, memoir\, food\, drink\, and more.Stand-up c omedians?\nSinger songwrites? \nMC:Peter martin\n\n$7 Suggested Donation \n\nThe Lounge\nHudson View Gardens\nPinehurst Avenue and 183rd\n\n\n\n UID:A3D60346-5BD0-4535-AD5E-C567A4B02922 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081207T160000 DTSTAMP:20080910T174857Z SUMMARY:Sunday Best CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081207T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Food Writing Forum\n\nAmanda Hesser\nEat\, Memory: Great Wri ters at the Table\nNorton\, $24.95\n\n"New York Times Magazine"-food edi tor Hesser has showcased the food-inspired recollections of some of Amer ica's leading writers. "Eat\, Memory" collects the 26 best stories and r ecipes from some of the playwrights\, novelists\, and journalists featur ed in her column.\n\nHesser will appear with Henry Alford\, Dan Barber\, and Alex Prud'homme.\n\nThe New School\nWollman Hall\n65 West 11th Stre et\n6:40 pm\n$5\n UID:F919D775-1857-4A05-8257-7635E920C3AC TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090218T183000 DTSTAMP:20090107T192829Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090218T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Kelly McMasters\nWelcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomi c Town\n(Public Affairs\, $25)\n7PM\n\nMcMasters' account of growing up in a cursed town and loving it anyway is told in an engaging voice\, bal ancing the bitter with the sweet\, the funny with the infuriating\, in a story of working class Long Island.\n\nNational Arts Club\n15 Grammercy Park South\n UID:023D33D9-C2CE-46DD-9C0A-DA92985DA375 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080421T190000 DTSTAMP:20080331T181932Z SUMMARY:Kelly McMasters CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080421T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Nonfiction Forum\n\nTracy Daugherty\nHiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme\nSt. Martin's Press\, $35\n\nDaugherty examines the life of Donald Barthelme\, who came to prominence as the leader of the Postmodern movement in the 1960s. Some of Barthelme's works include the short stories "Me and Miss Mandible" and "A Shower of Gold" and the nove l "Snow White.\n\nThe New School\n66 West 12th Street\nRoom 510\n$5\n\n\ n UID:6BC50778-96D9-452D-98B0-83151263E936 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090226T183000 DTSTAMP:20090106T185917Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090226T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:167 W 12th St\n\nDavid Kamp-The United States of Arugula UID:9DCA5F44-F48A-4D98-9A06-A33C8F0525EF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070207T120000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195246Z SUMMARY:* Beard House-Beard on Books CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070207T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:167 W 12th St\n\nGael Greene-Insatiable UID:CE31229D-C9FA-11DB-9D27-000D93514BC8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/Montreal:20070606T120000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195243Z SUMMARY:Beard House-Beard on Books CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/Montreal:20070606T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:United for Peace and Justice is throwing book event for Anto nia Juhasz\nAntonia Juhasz is a leading oil industry\, international tra de\, and finance policy expert and the author of "The Bush Agenda". A fe llow with Oil Change International and the Institute for Policy Studies\ , she has served as an aide to two members of Congress and holds a maste r's degree in public policy from Georgetown University. Juhasz is an awa rd-winning writer and frequent media commentator and her work has been f eatured in dozens of publications\, including the "New York Times"\, "In ternational Herald Tribune"\, "Los Angeles Times"\, and "Petroleum Revie w Magazine"\, as well as Alternet.org. She has appeared on "Kudlow & Com pany"\, National Public Radio's "Diane Rehm Show" and "Marketplace"\, "W ashington Journal"\, "Hannity & Colmes"\, and "Democracy Now!"\, among m any other shows. She lives in San Francisco\, California.\n\nThe Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry--And What We Must Do to Stop It \nIn the tradition of "An Inconvenient Truth" comes a chilling and i mportant expos of the modern American oil industry--and what citizens ca n do to take power back.\n(William Morrow & Company: $ 26.95)\n\nThe Puf fin Room\n435 Broome St. UID:EDD8FF5C-A3CA-4E55-B01D-7D24C8C6C689 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081006T183000 DTSTAMP:20080929T164811Z SUMMARY:The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry--And What We Must Do to Stop It CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081006T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Nonfiction Forum\n\nGeorge Packer\nThe Assassin's Gate: Amer ica in Iraq\nFSG\, $15\n\nNamed one of the Best Books of 2005 by "The Ne w York Times\, The Washington Post Book World\, The Boston Globe\, The C hicago Tribune\, The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review\," and more\, t his volume recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq.\n\nT he New School\n66 West 12th Street\nRoom 510\n$5\n\n UID:AE283A40-876B-44C8-AB5D-B26A35C69C87 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090302T183000 DTSTAMP:20090106T190315Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090302T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:2007 National Book Critics Circle Awards Ceremony: Announcem ent of Winners\n6PM\n\nEvery year the NBCC presents awards for the fines t books and reviews published in English. \n\nNew School University Tish man Auditorium\n66 W 12th St\nhttp://www.bookcritics.org/\n\n\n UID:7BC42443-B5E6-4910-8B8C-789C8DA08A33 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080306T180000 DTSTAMP:20080229T222608Z SUMMARY:2007 National Book Critics Circle Awards CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080306T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Molly Haskell\nFrankly\, My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisit ed\nYale University Press\, $24\n\nProlific film reviewer Haskell delive rs an accessible and entertaining analysis of Gone with the Wind&apos\;s enduring popularity. Recommended for all collections. Background: The n ovel and the film versions of Gone with the Wind are American icons\, an d Haskell (From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies) nimbly breaks down the complicated network of stereotypes\, archetypes\ , and mythology at the heart of the story that keep it so captivating an d controversial. \n\nNYPL Riverside Branch\n127 Amsterdam Avenue\n6:00 p m\n UID:52412F9D-BDCA-4DBA-93F7-147584E3D144 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090507T180000 DTSTAMP:20090402T201536Z SUMMARY:New York Public Library CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090507T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Ben Karlin with special guests: Tom Shillue\, Will Forte\, E ric Slovin\, Fountains of Wayne and more.\nThings I've Learned from Wome n Who've Dumped Me ( Grand Central\, $24)\n7:30 pm\nAdmission $5\n\nAn h our-long comedy show on the subject of failed relationships and the stuf f we endure to make them work. Sprung from the book of the same name – a n anthology of essays and short humor pieces by men. The live show will feature a blend of read and performed pieces from the book\, stand-up co medy\, live music\, special guests and other material wrapped around the theme of relationships gone bad.\n\nUpright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre\n 307 West 26th Street\n UID:38328A53-BB72-4FA7-8CFA-74E1591B54FB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080221T193000 DTSTAMP:20080214T191658Z SUMMARY:Ben Karlin CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080221T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Reading\, Q&A\, and Book Signing:\n\nMargaretta Jolly\, from the University of Sussex in England\, will read from and discuss her ne w book In Love and Struggle: Letters from Contemporary Feminism (Columbi a\, $40)\n\nDuring the women's movement of these 1970s and 1980s\, femin ists in the U.S. and Britain reinvented the image of the woman letter wr iter. They wrote passionate letters to one another\, exploring questions of sexuality\, separatism and strategy as well as their intimate and fa mily relationships. Margaretta Jolly provides the first cultural study o f these letters\, from the height of the women's movement to today's e-m ail networks. Books will also be available for purchase.\n\nLight refres hments will be served. \n\nThis event is FREE!\n\n484 14th Street\nPark Slope\, Brooklyn UID:8B66E16A-2BE7-4FC0-87B7-7BAFE52567A9 TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:www.lesbianherstoryarchives.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080331T193000 DTSTAMP:20080310T030640Z SUMMARY:Lesbian Herstory Archives CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080331T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Performance: Tales of an Urban Indian \n\nDarrell Dennis\nTw o Plays: Tales of an Urban Indian & The Trickster of 3rd Avenue East\nPl aywrights Canada Press\, $17.95\n\n "Dennis is a writer and performer to keep your eye on. Sparked by anger but suffused with humanity and humil ity\, his Tales are worth telling-and watching."- "NOW Magazine"\n\nThe Public Theater\n425 Lafayette Street\n7:45 pm\n UID:4717C883-7EBC-4C7E-8B13-558EC3D6EFAE TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090227T194500 DTSTAMP:20090119T184009Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090227T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:David O. Stewart\nThe Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented t he Constitution\n(Simon & Schuster\, $14)\nFREE\n7:30PM\n\nA true-life s uspense story\, "The Summer of 1787" takes readers into the sweltering r oom in which delegates struggled for four months to produce the flawed b ut enduring document that had come to define the nation\, then and now.\ n\nFraunces Tavern\n54 Pearl St UID:B0FE5CF1-F56D-452C-BF98-48C32CDC464B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080612T193000 DTSTAMP:20080603T221506Z SUMMARY:Fraunces Tavern CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080612T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:\nMarcus DuSuatoy\nThe Music of the Primes: Searching to Sol ve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics \n(Harper Perennial\, $14)\n\nSym metry: A Journey Into the Patterns of Nature \n(Harper\, $26)\n\n\nALL D AY EVENT\nMOBILE LIBRIS AVAILABLE DURING AUTHOR TALK\n10:45AM\nContact O xfordna.org\n\nOne of the world's leading mathematicians offers an illum inating and engaging look at the newest\, most cutting-edge adventure in mathematics and beyond--the search for symmetry. Illustrated.\n\nOxford North American Reunion\nWaldorf Astoria Hotel\n301 Park Ave UID:31D5E045-9985-4C56-B5E6-8C92EC4B4471 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080405T104500 DTSTAMP:20080327T191539Z SUMMARY:Marcus Du Suatoy CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080405T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Maryse Conde and Elizabeth Nunez\n\nMaryse Conde\n\nSegu\nPe nguin Books\, $17\n\nWindward Heights\nSoho Press\, $15\n\nThe Story of the Cannibal Woman\nWashington Square Press\, $14\n\nWho Slashed Celanir e's Throat? A Fantastical Tale\nWashington Square Press\, $13\n\nElizabe th Nunez\nProspero's Daughter\nBallantine Books\, $13.95\n\nStories from Blue Latitudes: Carribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad\nSeal Press \, $16.95\n\nCUNY Center for the Humanties\n365 Fifth Avenue\nMartin E. Segal Theater\n7:00 pm\nFree\n UID:3F480F03-4CAC-40B3-938C-3B22F80C5AF2 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090128T190000 DTSTAMP:20090115T174630Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090128T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:16 DESCRIPTION:Nick Flynn\nBlind Huber\nGraywolf Press\, $14\n\nMark Doty\n Fire to Fire\nHarper\, $15.99\n\nMarie Howe\nThe Kingdom of Ordinary Tim e\nNorton\, $23.95\n\n\nBryant Park Reading Room\nBryant Park 42nd st. s ide\, under burgandy umbrellas\n\n UID:6E720EE3-80C2-43BB-8890-D277D3BDF8FE TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090616T193000 DTSTAMP:20090526T173202Z SUMMARY:Word for Word Poetry CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090616T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Michael and Elizabeth Norman\nTears in the Darkness:\nThe St ory of the Bataan Death March and its Aftermath\nFSG $30\n\nThis major n ew work about World War II exposes the myths of military heroism as shal low and inadequate. "Tears in the Darkness" makes clear\, with great lit erary and human power\, that war causes suffering for people on all side s.\n\nPhillipine Center\n556 Fifth Avenue\n6:30 pm UID:0CA143AD-8022-4AFB-933C-83CD05B0F7F7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090616T183000 DTSTAMP:20090616T042241Z SUMMARY:Phillippine Center CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090616T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:NYU Furman Hall\n245 Sullivan St\n\nGeoffrey Stone- Top Secr et: When our Governments Keep Us In the Dark\n\npay UID:3535BE3A-78B2-448C-882C-70F28B7638B1 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071115T173000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195247Z SUMMARY:Brennan Center CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071115T193000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:14 DESCRIPTION:Jonny Steinberg\nSizwe’s Test (Simon and Schuster\, $26)\n5: 30 pm\n\nAn award-winning South African journalist leads readers into th e heart of his country's AIDS crisis\, exploring the perspectives of tho se who are infected\, those who are trying to help\, and those who rejec t any help offered them.\n\nCouncil on Foreign Relations\n58 E. 68th Str eet\nCall for more information: 1-212-434-9400\n\n\n UID:764C039B-19C5-4687-9FE9-A92ED89DB9A3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080219T173000 DTSTAMP:20080213T231520Z SUMMARY:Sizwe's Test CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080219T193000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:15 DESCRIPTION:Priscilla Sneff\nO Woolly City\nTupelo Press\, $16.95\n\n"Pr iscilla Sneff is a brilliant new poet who writes poems of intensity\, pa ssion\, visionary depth\, and great musical and compositional feel\, not just for a first book\, but any book."-David Baker\, editor of the The Kenyon Review\n\nRebecca Wolff\nThe King: Poems\nNorton\, $24.95\n\nA bo ld\, lyrical invention by an award-winning poet whose "gift for the gorg eous" won praise from Robert Pinsky.\n\nLytton Smith\nThe All-Purpose Ma gical Tent\nNightboat Books\, $14.95\n\n\nArsenal Building Rooftop\nCent ral Park\, 64th and 5th Ave\n6:30 pm\nFree\n\n\n UID:56B465E9-68D4-4975-B9BA-92B28EA8C665 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090709T183000 DTSTAMP:20090529T151623Z SUMMARY:Poetry from the Rooftops CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090709T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:DeLana R.A. Dameron\nHow God Ends Us\nUniversity of South Ca rolina Press\, $14.95\n\nDLana R. A. Dameron searches for answers to spi ritual quandaries in her first collection of poems\, How God Ends Us\, s elected by Elizabeth Alexander as the fourth annual winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize. Damerons poetry forms a lyrical conversation with an ominous and omnipotent deity\, one who controls all matters of the living earth\, including death and destruction. The poets acknowledg ement of the breadth of this power under divine jurisdiction moves her b y turns to anger\, grief\, celebration\, and even joy. From personal to collective to imagined histories\, Damerons poems explore essential\, pe rennial questions emblemized by natural disasters\, family struggles\, r acism\, and the experiences of travel abroad. Though she reaches for con clusions that cannot be unveiled\, her investigations exhibit the creati ve act of poetry as a source of consolation and resolution.\n\nRose Live Music\n345 Grand Street\n8:00 pm\n$5/1 Free drink\n\n UID:8D456ACA-AE66-4254-B295-8A86AFE48490 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090612T200000 DTSTAMP:20090520T145501Z SUMMARY:Earshot CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090612T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team's Passion\ , Creativity\, and Productivity\nEmployee disengagement is a widespread malady in American organizations. Stallard shares the three key actions necessary to transform even a lethargic\, disconnected organization or o ffice into an impassioned\, innovative\, and thriving workplace. \n\nAut hor : Michael Lee Stallard\n\nPenn Club of NY\n30 W.44th St UID:A1213F2B-6B4F-4DA7-A330-84A9A40DBC7B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081006T183000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194958Z SUMMARY:Penn Club CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081006T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke\nTim othy Snyder\n\nThe Ukrainian Institute is pleased to invite you to a boo k presentation by Yale University historian Timothy Snyder\, who will re ad from and sign copies of his critically acclaimed book The Red Prince. The book is a historical biography of Wilhelm von Habsburg (1895-1949)\ , also known as Vasyl Vyshyvanyi.\n\nConsulate General of the Republic o f Poland\n233 Madison Ave@37th St. UID:F7BC75B0-5672-4B78-BBA6-945D2D989F83 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081023T193000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194955Z SUMMARY:The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke\nTimothy Snyder\n CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081023T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:PEN World Voices Reading\nMore to come\n\nBrooklyn Library\n Dweck Center\nGrand Army Plaza\n4:00 pm UID:24A7DA8A-DC48-4346-AF4A-045D12034408 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090502T160000 DTSTAMP:20090302T170647Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090502T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:The Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction\n\nParticipants: Di ck Cluster\, Alvaro Enrigue\, Guillermo Fadanelli\, and Olivia Sears\n\n Moderator: Martin Riker\n\nFrom Octavio Paz to Coral Bracho\, Carlos Fue ntes to Juan Rulfo\, the Mexican literary tradition has birthed and infl uenced many of our generation's masters. But too many modern Mexican voi ces go unheard in the US\, as lack of translation and publication opport unities present a literary checkpoint. This event will celebrate a land mark new bilingual anthology in which sixteen of Mexico's leading writer s deliver a glimps of the rich tapestry that is contemporary Mexican fic tion.\n\nInstituto Cervantes\n211-215 East 49th Street\n1:00 pm UID:1D7D94CE-C6A5-4926-87EC-883619343C6C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090501T130000 DTSTAMP:20090402T173358Z SUMMARY:PEN World Voices Festival CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090501T143000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:Home of Denise and Robbie Alder\n345 W 13th St\, 5E\n\nJanic e Eidus-War of the Rosens UID:950C7E54-298A-11DC-B9A5-000D93514BC8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/Montreal:20070929T180000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195249Z SUMMARY:Private Party CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/Montreal:20070929T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:James Hannaham\nGod Says No\nMcSweeney's Books\, $24\n\nGary Gray marries his first girlfriend\, a fellow student from Central Flori da Christian College who loves Disney World as much as he does. They are 19 years old\, God-fearing\, and eager to start a family\, but a week b efore their wedding Gary goes into a rest-stop bathroom and lets somethi ng happen. "God Says No" is his testimony -- the story of a young black Christian struggling with desire and belief\, with his love for his wife and his appetite for other men\, told in a singular\, emotional voice. Driven by desperation and religious visions\, the path that Gary Gray ta kes -- from revival meetings to "out" life in Atlanta to a pray-away-the -gay ministry in Memphis\, Tennessee -- gives a riveting picture of how a life like his can be lived\, and how it can't.\n\nFlying Saucer Cafe\n 494 Atlantic Avenue\nBrooklyn\n8:00 pm\nFree\n UID:C17FB3A1-9F9C-4D8B-9119-7FBE2C2993AB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090630T200000 DTSTAMP:20090304T155309Z SUMMARY:Other Means Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090630T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Gothic Picnic at Green-Wood Cemetar celebrating the release of Gothic Charm School!\n\nJillian Venters\nGothic Charm School: An Esse ntial Guide for Goths and Those Who Love Them\nHarper\, $13.99\n\nFrom t he creator of the online advice forum about how to be strange and unusua l\, comes the ultimate guide to dark decorum and etiquette for goths and the non-goths who love them. Illustrations throughout.\n\nGreen-Wood Ce metary\nBrooklyn \n(Exact location within the cemetery to be announced)\ n1:00 pm\n\n UID:E1E0A806-D7E0-48A2-A488-72AAAAA83DC1 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090718T130000 DTSTAMP:20090623T160055Z SUMMARY:Green-Wood Cemetery CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090718T160000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:John Bolton\nSurrender Is Not an Option: Defending America a t the United Nations\n(Threshold\, $27)\nMEMBERS ONLY\n\nJohn Bolton\, m ost recently President Bush's ambassador to the United Nations\, and Str obe Talbott\, President Clinton's deputy secretary of state and now pres ident of the Brookings Institution\, have some things in common. Both at tended Yale in the troubled 1960s: Talbott as a classmate of George W. B ush\, Bolton two years later. Both are baby boomers who did not serve in the Vietnam War: Talbott went to England as a Rhodes scholar\, while Bo lton made a "cold calculation that I wasn't going to waste time on a fut ile struggle."\n\nUniversity Club\n1 W 54th St\n\n UID:8776963E-61B0-4640-85E0-E0C664628767 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080318T120000 DTSTAMP:20080304T235852Z SUMMARY:John Bolton CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080318T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:13 DESCRIPTION:Glenn Kurtz\nPracticing: A Musician's Return To Music\nVinta ge Books USA\, $13.95\n\nIn a remarkable memoir written with insight and humor\, Glenn Kurtz takes us from his first lessons at the age of eight to his acceptance at the elite New England Conservatory of Music. After graduation\, he attempts a solo career in Vienna but soon realizes that he has neither the ego nor the talent required to succeed and gives up the instrument\, and his dream\, entirely. \nBut not forever: Returning to the guitar\, Kurtz weaves into the narrative the rich experience of a single practice session. "Practicing" takes us on a revelatory\, inspir ing journey: a love affair with music.\n\nDavid Rothenberg\nThousand Mil e Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound\nBasic Books\, $27.50\n\nThe man w ho plays music with animals returns with a fascinating exploration of an alien intelligence in our midst: whales and their profoundly mysterious music. Includes bound-in music CD. Illustrated.\n\nFlying Saucer Cafe\n 494 Atlantic Avenue\nBrooklyn\n8:00 pm\nFree\n\n\n UID:76816766-E691-419D-86DE-1CCDCA99D827 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090428T200000 DTSTAMP:20090304T154250Z SUMMARY:Other Means Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090428T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:Etgar Keret\nThe Girl on the Fridge\n(Farrar Straus Giroux\, $12)\nFREE\n7:30PM\n\nA birthday-party magician whose hat tricks end in horror and gore\; a girl parented by a major household appliance\; the possessor of the lowest IQ in the Mossad--such are the denizens of Keret 's dark and fertile mind. This collection contains the best of Keret's w ork over the last decade.\n\nAfter Party for Jellyfish (dir. Etger Keret ) - movie at Angelica\n200 Hudson St.\n UID:DC270809-3788-436D-88DE-FF2BF7D814F9 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080404T193000 DTSTAMP:20080402T191819Z SUMMARY:After Party for Jellyfish (dir. Etger Keret) CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080404T223000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:The Public Theater will be putting on a new play by Suzan-Lo ri Parks. More information to come.\n\nThe Public Theater\n425 Lafayett e Street\n7:45 pm UID:76EC8F3F-E752-4095-849C-0ECA2BF8A624 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090619T194500 DTSTAMP:20090320T201240Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090619T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Best American Poetry\nNew School Poetry\n\nDavid Lehman\, se ries editor of The Best American Poetry and poetry coordinator of the Ne w School MFA’s program\, will introduce poets chosen by Charles Wright f or the 2008 volume of the Best American Poetry.\n\nFree\n\nTishman Audit orium\n66 W 12th St UID:93D2B682-60B7-41E0-820B-F5361D7C6A89 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080925T190000 DTSTAMP:20080730T011419Z SUMMARY:New School Poetry CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080925T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Half King Reading Series\n\nAuthor TBA\n\nThe Half King\n505 West 23rd Street\n7:00 pm\nFree UID:BE0630E7-A24F-4CC9-9E94-59BCBA1F1360 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090323T190000 DTSTAMP:20090112T210302Z SUMMARY:Half King CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090323T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Steven Cosson \nI Am Nobody's Lunch/Gone Missing \n(Oberon B ooks\, $19)\n8PM\nTickets $10\n\nMOBILE LIBRIS IS SELLING MICHAEL COSSON 'S BOOK PRIOR AND DURING THE PLAY "PARIS COMMUNE" AT THE PUBLIC\nIn 1871 \, working class Parisians overthrew the French government\, declared Pa ris autonomous and launched an attempt to radically reinvent society. In this musical play\, a versatile company of performers bring this explos ive event to life. With revolutionary songs from the period and survivin g first person records\, Paris Commune reanimates the past and provokes our thinking about the present in a dynamic and raucous cabaret style. S ince its founding in 2001 by Artistic Director Steven Cosson\, the award -winning company The Civilians has created several original shows includ ing the Off-Broadway hits (I Am) Nobody’s Lunch and Gone Missing.\n\nPub lic Theater\nShiva Theater\n425 Lafayette Street \n\n UID:9FF875B2-DBBA-4104-8A05-651636F23F07 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080419T190000 DTSTAMP:20080407T164736Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080419T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Sunday Best Reading Series\nTerrain of Fiction with\n\nCarol Goodman\nThe author of The Lake of Dead Languages\, The Seduction of Wa ter\, The Drowning Tree\, and The Ghost Orchid. The Seduction of Water w on the 2003 Hammett Prize\, and her other novels have been nominated for the Dublin/IMPAC Award and the Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Awar d. Her fiction has been translated into eight languages. She teaches wri ting at the New School University in New York City.\n\nMermer Blakeslee \nThe author of the novel Same Blood.\nShe lives in Roscoe\, New York.\n \nMarcia Golub\nA novelist\, short story writer\, and editor who teaches writing workshops at Writer's Voice in New York City\n\n\n$7 Suggested Donation \nThe Lounge\, Hudson View Gardens\nPinehurst Avenue and 183rd\ n\n\n\n UID:64F57207-5F03-4FFA-9051-0AE1652ED3F1 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081005T160000 DTSTAMP:20080910T174857Z SUMMARY:Sunday Best CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081005T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 TRANSP:OPAQUE UID:8F92FE82-C9C7-452C-BB6C-453001C7DC7D DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071112T183000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195246Z SUMMARY:**Office EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20071217T183000 EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20071224T183000 CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071112T213000 RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;INTERVAL=1;UNTIL=20071225T045959Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:no work 11/19\n UID:8F92FE82-C9C7-452C-BB6C-453001C7DC7D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071119T183000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195251Z SUMMARY:**Office CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071119T213000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20071119T183000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Culinary Historians Reading Series\n\nNancy Carlisle\nAmeric a's Kitchens\nTilbury House\, $34.95\n\nIt is amazing what this one room - at times a harried workspace and at others the sentimental heart of t he home -has meant to people over the course of more than four centuries . America's Kitchens tells the story of this important room and features New England hearths\, detached kitchens on southern plantations\, Spani sh colonial kitchens of the Southwest\, elaborate nineteenth-century kit chens in the Midwest\, and middle-class open-plan homes of 1950s suburbi a. The book traces technological developments such as the introduction o f the cast-iron cookstove\, the efficiency of the Hoosier cabinet\, and the impact of the frozen food industry to suggest how these innovations have transformed kitchen work and changed women's lives.\n\nMount Vernon Hotel Museum\n421 East 61st Street\n6:00 pm\n\n\n UID:763A2CD0-1D4B-4E7E-8837-BA9DBD9761B5 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090121T180000 DTSTAMP:20090113T191526Z SUMMARY:Culinary Historians CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090121T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Get Yours!: How to Have Everything You Ever Dreamed of and M ore\n\nAMY DuBOIS BARNETT is the deputy editor in chief of "Harper's Baz aar\," When Amy was appointed managing editor of "Teen People\," she bec ame the first African American woman to head a major mainstream magazine . The former editor-in-chief of "Honey" magazine\, she has also been a w eekly pop-culture commentator for CNN. She lives in New York City with h er family.\n\n520 \n8th Ave\nbtw 36th-37th Sts. UID:BEA9BD76-142A-4033-A719-E728EDA6FA84 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081017T180000 DTSTAMP:20081018T195000Z SUMMARY:Get Yours!: How to Have Everything You Ever Dreamed of and More CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081017T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:D. Nurkse \nThe author of eight previous books of poetry. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship\, the Whiting Writers' Award\, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships\, two grants from the New Y ork Foundation for the Arts\, a Tanne Foundation award\, and two awards from "Poetry "magazine. He has also written widely on human rights. He l ives in Brooklyn.\n\nNathaniel Bellows\nAlso a novelist ("On This Day") and a visual artist\, Nathaniel Bellows lives in New York City\n\n\nPac ific Standard Bar\n82 Fourth Avenue in Park Slope\, \nBrooklyn\, betwee n St. Marks and Bergen Streets UID:C90D6FBD-A3D1-4A74-AC5D-DD0D6BD795F5 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081009T190000 DTSTAMP:20081018T195000Z SUMMARY:Chin Music Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081009T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Sonata for Miriam\nOlsson's first novel\, "Astrid & Veronika \," introduced readers to the author's extraordinary understanding of hu man relationships. With her second work\, she once again charts that ter rain in a haunting tale of loss\, love\, and human connection.\nPenguin Books : $ 15.00\n\nAstrid and Veronika \nWith extraordinary emotional po wer\, Olsson's stunningly well-crafted debut novel recounts the unusual and unexpected friendship that develops between two women. Set against a haunting Swedish landscape\, this is a lyrical and meditative novel of love and loss.\nPenguin Books : $ 14.00\n\nLinda Olsson was born in Stoc kholm\, Sweden. She has lived in Kenya\, Singapore\, Britain\, and Japan .\n\nNew York Public Library\nMulberry Street Branch\n10 Jersey St.\nBtw Mulbeery-Lafayette St.\n UID:48E196B2-90E8-4A48-A84C-6489413B212D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090330T183000 DTSTAMP:20090326T173624Z SUMMARY:Linda Olsson @ New York Public Library CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090330T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:David Gilmoure\nThe Film Club\n(Twelve\, $22)\n7PM\nFREE\n\n Gilmour offers his 15-year-old son an unconventional deal: Jesse can dro p out of school\, but he must watch three movies a week of his father's choosing. Through their film club\, father and son discuss everything fr om love to drugs--and their own lives change in surprising ways.\n\nNY F ilm Academy\nRobert K Hartman Screening Room\n100 East 17th Street UID:079FDFF1-417C-45D8-A344-AB01C7F9417E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080512T190000 DTSTAMP:20080424T202449Z SUMMARY:The Film Club CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080512T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:A.M. Homes\nThe Mistress's Daughter \n(Penguin\, $14)\n8:30\ nFREE\n\nBefore A.M. Homes was born\, she was put up for adoption. "The Mistress's Daughter" is the story of what happened when\, 30 years later \, her birth parents came looking for her.\n\nWorkspace for Writers Even t @\nClay \n25 West 14th Street \n\n UID:F63FE3FA-9F9B-4947-8653-3CB80FFF1B0E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080418T203000 DTSTAMP:20080326T205018Z SUMMARY:A.M. Homes CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080418T223000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Allen Guelzo \nLincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America (Simon and Schuster\, $26)\n6:30 pm\n\nFrom the two-time winner of the prestigious Lincoln Prize comes a brilliant account of the most famous open-air debates in American history--those between Stephen A. Do uglas and Abraham Lincoln. \n\nCooper Union\nWollman Auditorium\n51 Asto r Place\n\n UID:FB27E71C-8F9C-4137-93C7-54DCF5C68246 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080221T183000 DTSTAMP:20080214T190425Z SUMMARY:Cooper Union CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080221T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:2020 Visions\nNoelle Sickels \nThe Medium (Five Star\, $27)\ n7:00 pm \nFREE\n\nNoelle Sickels will read from her new novel The Mediu m\, joined by actors Pauline Boyd\, John Boyd\, and Erin Brueggeman. The Medium is the story of a young woman struggling to understand and best use her powerful psychic abilities while at the same time facing the cha llenges of life on the northern New Jersey home front during World War I I. Sickels lives in Los Angeles\, but she grew up in New Jersey. She isn ’t psychic herself\, but she says she did see a ghost once. The Medium i s her third historical novel.\n\nTeachers and Writers\n520 8th Ave #2020 \n\n UID:A9925CEC-4601-4AC8-9C33-55FE5E2D108D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080313T190000 DTSTAMP:20080228T213436Z SUMMARY:2020 Visions CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080313T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Between the Folds: The Art & Science of Origami\n\nMore info to come\n\nCUNY Grad Center\nRecital Hall\n365 Fifth Avenue\n6:30 pm UID:8812D016-AA68-40CD-8809-51AAB1C012D7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090511T183000 DTSTAMP:20090327T202757Z SUMMARY:CUNY Science & Art CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090511T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Native Theater Festival\n\nPublic Theater\n425 Lafayette St\ n\ndetails TK UID:3C29DB1C-3AC8-4823-8938-D414B5333EA8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081112T200000 DTSTAMP:20080621T015836Z SUMMARY:Native Theater Festival EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20081116T200000 EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20081114T200000 CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081112T220000 RRULE:FREQ=DAILY;INTERVAL=1;UNTIL=20081117T045959Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Ron Mallett\nTime Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission t o Make Time Travel a Reality\nThunder's Mouth Press\, $16.95\n\nGuggenhe im Museum\n1071 5th Avenue\n7:00 pm UID:1CB07310-2347-4AB5-BBFB-526572FBDBF7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090106T190000 DTSTAMP:20090105T215315Z SUMMARY:Guggenheim Museum CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090106T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Reading at New School\n \n\nJeffery Renard Allen\, reads and discusses his latest work\, Holding Pattern. UID:3183D3E7-E465-4E7C-93B7-6DAC58E333A0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080915T183000 DTSTAMP:20080730T010250Z SUMMARY:New School Fiction CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080915T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:DAniel Wallace\nMr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician\n(Ancho r\, $14)\nFREE\n8PM\n\nFrom the dazzling mind of the bestselling author of "Big Fish" comes a spellbinding tale of love and illusion.\n\nClay\n2 5 W 14th St\n UID:702868C3-61B3-4DBF-9CA5-F768153D0507 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080718T200000 DTSTAMP:20080611T194748Z SUMMARY:Daniel Wallace at Paragraph CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080718T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Mort Gerberg\nLast Laughs: Cartoons about Aging\, Retirement ...and the Great Beyond \n(Scribner\, $23)\nMEMBERS\n7PM\n\nFeaturing ma ny of "The New Yorkers" most talented cartoonists\, this wicked collecti on is designed to amuse\, inspire\, and scintillate anyone obsessed with the perennially compelling topics of old age\, retirement\, and yes\, d eath.\n\nHArvard Club\n27 West 44th St UID:8D4130D1-7D62-4E77-9194-2194D0C9D432 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080731T190000 DTSTAMP:20080402T181926Z SUMMARY:Mort Gerberg CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080731T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:The New Traditional: Reinvent - Balance - Define Your Home \ nKnown for seamlessly mixing the modern with the classical\, Carter pres ents a comprehensive guide to creating a home that balances individual c omfort with a timeless aesthetic.\n\nClarkson N Potter Publishers: $ 45. 00\n\nDarryl Carter is a leader in the design world\, recognized for his restrained\, distinguished\, and livable environments. Known for seamle ssly mixing the modern with the classical\, Carter presents a comprehens ive guide to creating a home that balances individual comfort with a tim eless aesthetic. \nComfort is the essential element of a successful inte rior\, but also the most elusive. Too often our design decisions are dri ven by others. In "The New Traditional\," Darryl Carter encourages you t o be true to your own lifestyle. More than a stunning book\, this is an accessible resource for making an elegant\, inviting home\, responsive t o the people who live in it every day. \nA fresh take on American design \, Carter's work has been lauded as the New Traditional for effortlessly blending classic and modern elements to create personal environments. P atinated furniture\, subtle textiles and lighting\, and chalky washes of color are among the details that transform a house into a home. Carter explains how you can translate these details into inspired and always ca lming surroundings. Ignore the obvious. Redefine a dining room so that i t doubles as a library by lining the walls with bookshelves and using wi ng chairs in lieu of dining chairs. Stain wood floors white to create a greater sense of space. Build rooms around art. Carter shows that design ing your home is a process to be enjoyed.\n\nPier 94\nNear seminar space \n711 12th Ave\nBtw 55th -56th St. UID:DB19FA1E-F4A6-45B6-9512-38857073DE1A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090328T160000 DTSTAMP:20090326T173626Z SUMMARY:Darryl Carter CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090328T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Peter Carey \nHis Illegal Self (Knopf\, $25)\n\n\nRaised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother\, Che is the precocious son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late 1960s. Yearning for his famous outlaw parents\, he bravely confronts his life\, learning that nothing is what it seems.\n\nLillian Vernon Creative Writers House \n58 W 10th St \n\n UID:8DF514B5-D2F5-4D9A-BDD9-3A47963407E5 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080221T190000 DTSTAMP:20080214T190741Z SUMMARY:Peter Carey CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080221T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Cosmopolis: Peter Carey\n\nPeter Carey\nHis Illegal Self\nVi ntage Books USA\, $14.95\n\nRaised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother\, Che is the precocious son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late 1960s. Yearning for his famous outlaw parents\, he bravely confronts his life\, learning that nothing is what it seems.\n\n Brooklyn Library\nDweck Center\nGrand Army Plaza\n4:00 pm\nFree\n\n UID:0604B26F-D9EC-4401-BA6E-68E7D159D87C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090307T160000 DTSTAMP:20081217T212501Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090307T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:16 DESCRIPTION:Samuel R. Delany\nDark Reflections\nCarroll & Graf\, $15.95\ n\nArnold Hawley\, a gay\, African-American poet\, has lived in NYC for most of his life. "Dark Reflections" traces Hawley's life in three secti ons -- in reverse order. Part one: Hawley\, at 50 years old\, wins the a n award for his sixth book of poems. Part two explores Hawley's unhappy marriage\, while the final section recalls his college days. "Dark Refle ctions\, " moving back and forth in time\, creates an extraordinary medi tation on social attitudes\, loneliness\, and life's triumphs.\n\nJack W omack\nGoing\, Going Gone\nGrove Press\, $13\n\nPublishers Weekly has ca lled Jack Womack a "futurist wunderkind . . . fast-moving\, hipper-than- hip." In his latest novel it's 1968\, and Walter Bullitt\, part-time U.S . government freelancer\, stays busy testing new psychotropics on himsel f and unsuspecting citizens. Walter's conscience never interferes with h is work -- until he's asked to help sabotage Bobby Kennedy's presidentia l campaign. The ghosts who've moved into his apartment aren't much comfo rt. Then two outre femmes fatales show up and frog-march Walter out of M ax's Kansas City before the Velvet Underground can finish their first so ng. The ladies have a mission. They need to save New York -- both his an d theirs. Called "infernally clever" by Locus\, Going\, Going\, Gone is a deeply entertaining novel that closes Jack Womack's acclaimed Ambient series and serves up an apt diagnosis of modern America.\n\nCat Rambo\nT he Surgeon's Tale\nPrime Books\, $9.99\n\n In a world where magic is fad ing and science begun to ascend\, a young surgeon in medical school expe riences an obsession so forbidden that its realization will change him f orever. "She looked as if she were asleep\, still with that slight smile \, floating on the thick sargassum\, glowing from the emerald tincture t hat would keep the small crabs and other scavengers from her. She looked otherworldly and beautiful." Sometimes life is not enough. Also includi ng five more stories of dark wonder from Rambo and VanderMeer\, from "Th e Dead Girl's Wedding March" to "The Farmer's Cat." Enter a world of rat suitors\, severed arms\, and Fungi Et Fruits de Mer\, served up with pr ose both appetizing and uncanny. Dark fantasy has never been quite so de cadent . . .\n\n\nwith Kris Dikeman and Rajan Khanna\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4 th Street\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n\n\n UID:441C6C82-0232-4731-ADF3-74B0779806B4 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090715T190000 DTSTAMP:20090623T142920Z SUMMARY:Fantastic Fiction CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090715T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door\n\nKaufman has written Doris Day's incredible\, previously untold story. While Day symbolized virtuous America to the rest of the world\, she was in many ways the opposite of her image as "the girl next door."\n(Virgin Books\, $30)\n\n"The New York Times "praised David Kaufman's first book\, "Ridic ulous: The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam\, "as "informed a nd passionate." Kaufman\, a long-time theater critic and contributor to "The New York Times\, The Nation\, "and "Vanity Fair\, "lives in New Yor k City.\n\nJohn Jay College\n899 10th Ave btw 58th-59th\nRoom203P(2nd Fl oor) UID:F429C27D-601D-4825-8D26-C3D1D61C43FF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080921T120000 DTSTAMP:20080917T163719Z SUMMARY:Doris Day Events CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080921T130000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Alan Lightman\nEinstein's Dreams\n(Vintage\, $13)\n8PM\nCall 1-212-817-7000\n\nAn imaginary re-creation of Einstein's discovery of t he nature of time\, this novel takes readers through the young patent cl erk's many dreams depicting compelling conceptions of time.\n\nGraduate Center at CUNY\n365 Fifth Avenue\n UID:66227D89-4271-438C-AA2A-72A0FE967C81 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080529T200000 DTSTAMP:20080429T204203Z SUMMARY:Alan Lightman at CUNY CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080529T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:NALINI JONES /ESTHER COHEN will be reading at the New York I s Book Country event in Central Park.\n\nWHAT YOU CAN CALL WINTER\nThis collection of interconnected stories takes place in an India that is unf amiliar to most American readers. But the tales of the characters relati onships\, ambitions\, and concerns are altogether universal\, capturing the expectations\, joys\, and losses experienced by families everywhere. \n(Anchor Books\,$14.95)\n\nNalini Jones was born in Newport\, Rhode Isl and\, graduated from Amherst College\, and received an M.F.A. from Colum bia University. She is a Stanford Calderwood Fellow of the MacDowell Col ony\, and has recently taught at the 92nd Street Y in New York City and at Fairfield University in Connecticut. She lives in Norwalk\, Connectic ut.\n\nDON'T MIND ME...And Jewish Lies\nIn this small book that packs a big punch\, Cohen has compiled the first-ever list of subtle\, sly\, and hilarious Jewish lies--but lies that imply their opposite meaning and\, as much as possible\, induce guilt.\n(Hyperion\,$16.95)\n\nEsther Cohen is the executive director of Bread and Roses\, the nonprofit cultural a rm of Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union\, the larg est union in the United States\, representing 1.8 million low-wage worke rs. Bread and Roses is the leading working people's cultural program in the country. The photography exhibition entitled unseenamerica has been featured in the "New York Times\, Washington Post\, " and "Fast Company" \, on "ABC World News Tonight" and NPR\, and in many other media outlets . Cohen is also the author of the novel "Book Doctor". She lives in New York City.\n\nNew York is Book Country Fair\nat the bandshell @72nd St.\ n UID:6F2A6154-6FFC-409E-87AB-AD1D77C5C42C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080921T150000 DTSTAMP:20080912T170401Z SUMMARY:New York is Book Country Fair CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080921T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Haywood Gould\n\nFurther details TBA UID:C5A05981-4BD6-458E-8224-6D9014BC151B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090506T193000 DTSTAMP:20081117T202412Z SUMMARY:Marymount Manhattan CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090506T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Performance: Tales of an Urban Indian \n\nDarrell Dennis\nTw o Plays: Tales of an Urban Indian & The Trickster of 3rd Avenue East\nPl aywrights Canada Press\, $17.95\n\n "Dennis is a writer and performer to keep your eye on. Sparked by anger but suffused with humanity and humil ity\, his Tales are worth telling-and watching."- "NOW Magazine"\n\nThe Public Theater\n425 Lafayette Street\n7:45 pm\n UID:7AF27D98-21B2-49DE-A6AB-D840430FA735 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090224T194500 DTSTAMP:20090119T183949Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090224T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:NO APPLAUSE\, JUST THROW MONEY:\nTHE SHOW THAT MADE VAUDEVIL LE FAMOUS\n\nWritten by TRAV S.D.\n\nBased on Trav S.D. ‘s popular book No Applause\, Just Throw Money: the Book That Made Vaudeville Famous (Fa ber & Faber\, 2005)\, No Applause…The Show is an original variety revue with sketches and songs by Trav S.D.\, a core cast that includes Maggie Cino\, Leela Corman\, Gyda Arber\, Danny Bowes\, Michael Criscuolo\, Rog er Nasser\, Mike Rutkoski\, Scott Stiffler\, Art Wallace\, and special g uest stars from the cream of New York’s variety scene\, including Todd R obbins (Carnival Knowledge)\, Raven Snook\, Goddess Pearlman (Nice Jewis h Girls Gone Bad)\, the Maestrocities\, the Main Squeeze Pigtail Orchest ra\, and Mark Mitton. In addition\, the production will feature fight ch oreography by Qui Nyugen of the Vampire Cowboys. Set and costume design is by Julianne Kroboth.\n\nPerformances will be Thursday through Saturda ys at 8pm\, Sundays at 3pm\, September 18 through October 5. Tickets wil l be $12.\n\nAbout Trav S.D.: In addition to writing No Applause (which Margo Jefferson of the New York Times called “a must for your bookshelf” )\, Trav S.D. is the author of 50 plays which have been produced from Se attle to London\, including such venues as Joe’s Pub\, LaMama\, Theater for the New City and the Portland Stage Company. He has published 200+ a rticles in such publications as the Village Voice\, Time Out New York\, American Theatre\, the New York Sun\, Reason\, and many others. He also hosts the popular Indie Theatre Now! podcast on nytheatre.com. Since 199 6\, his American Vaudeville Theatre has presented hundred of top variety acts and other performing artists\, including Todd Robbins\, the World Famous Bob\, Dirty Martini\, Lizzie West\, Reverend Billy\, Howard Fishm an\, Rev Jen\, Red Bastard\, Jennifer Miller\, Bindlestiff Family Cirkus \, et al\, at venues such as Galapagos\, New-York Historical Society\, S urf Reality\, and countless others.\n\nTheater for the New City\n155 Fir st Avenue\n(between 9th and 10th Streets)\nRSV : (212) 254-1109\n\n\n \n \n\n\n UID:01827C76-E88E-4129-874D-028150020377 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080919T200000 DTSTAMP:20080915T161108Z SUMMARY:No Applause--Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Fam ous CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080919T230000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Matt Madden \; Cristy Roads\nwith richard Nash\nComics witho ut sperheroes get called alternative but what does that mean?\nThree pra ctitioners of the form present their alternative sty\;es\,from Matt Madd en : Exercises inStyle\;Cristy Road:Bad habits.\n\nFREE\n\nBrooklyn Libr ary\nDweck Auditorium\nGrand Army Plaza UID:870A88E3-DB49-4630-9E05-FA39D53038E4 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081217T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204825Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Independents CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081217T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Foster Hirsch\nOtto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King \n( Knopf\, $35)\nMEMBERS\n5:15PM\n\nThe first full-scale life of the contro versial\, greatly admired yet often underrated director/producer who was known as Otto the Terrible--a biography that reveals him as a complex\, paradoxical\, wholly fascinating figure. Illustrated.\n\nUniversity Clu b\n1 W 54th St at 5th Ave UID:2E492F5E-A64C-4458-BF73-04FF12ACF533 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080521T171500 DTSTAMP:20080508T214145Z SUMMARY:Foster Hirsch at University Club CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080521T193000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 TRANSP:OPAQUE UID:9D5193B8-68B1-11DC-8ECB-000D93514BC8 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070925T183000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195246Z SUMMARY:**Office CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070925T213000 RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;INTERVAL=1;UNTIL=20071113T045959Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Novella Carpenter\nFarm City: The Education of an Urban Farm er\nPenguin Press\, $25.95\n\n\nBryant Park\n42nd and 5th Avenue \n12:30 \n\n UID:D8FC72D1-F6C5-45C0-B4E2-8DE28D563FF4 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090715T123000 DTSTAMP:20090327T192658Z SUMMARY:Word for Word CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090715T143000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Writer's Voice Series\nGary Kowalski\nRevolutionary Spirits: The Enlightened Faith of America's Founding Fathers (Bluebridge\, $22)\ n8:00 pm\nFREE\n\nBringing to life the complex creeds and personalities of Americas Founding Fathers\, this book confronts many of the myths abo ut the religious views of some of the most notable figures in history.\n \nWest Side YMCA\n5 W 63rd\n\n\n\n UID:9ECB16BF-8BF1-4BEF-AD9A-96DA13B80F7A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080222T200000 DTSTAMP:20080214T200815Z SUMMARY:Writer's Voice CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080222T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Mary Gaitskill\nDon't Cry: Stories\nPantheon Books\, $23.95\ n\nFollowing the extraordinary success of her novel "Veronica\," Gaitski ll returns with a luminous new collection of stories--her first in more than 10 years.\n\nThe International Center\n50 West 23rd Street\n7th Flo or\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n UID:61A79CC7-F333-4442-A17F-1C479012E0EF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090610T190000 DTSTAMP:20090518T183233Z SUMMARY:International Center CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090610T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:Gabriel Cohen \nStorms Can't Hurt the Sky\n(Da Capo Lifelong Books\, $15)\n\nTrey Ellis \nBedtime Stories: Adventures in the Land of Single-Fatherhood\n(Modern Times\, $25)\n7PM\nFREE\n\nGABRIEL COHEN run s the Sundays at Sunny's Reading Series in Red Hook\, Brooklyn. His debu t novel Red Hook was nominated for the Edgar award for Best First Novel\ , and he is also the author of the novels The Graving Dock and Boombox. He has written for The New York Times and Time Out New York\, and taught writing at New York University. He will read from his newest book\, Sto rms Can't Hurt the Sky: A Buddhist Path Through Divorce. A confirmed ske ptic\, writer Gabriel Cohen never thought he'd find himself embracing Bu ddhism. But when his marriage fell apart\, he discovered that its insigh ts were surprisingly relevant and useful\; they offered him a positive p ath through anger\, resentment\, loss\, and grief. Learn more at www.gab rielcohenbooks.com\n\n\nTREY ELLIS is a novelist (Platitudes\, Home Repa irs\, Right Here\, Right Now)\, Emmy and PEN nominated screenwriter\, bl ogger on the Huffington Post\, NPR commentator and Assistant Professor o f Screenwriting in the MFA program at Columbia. He will read from his m ost recent book\, Bedtime Stories: Adventures in the Land of Single-Fath erhood\, which charts a period in his life when his partner of twelve ye ars\, wife of eight\, suddenly decides to leave him and their then three -year-old daughter and eight-month-old son. His once storybook romance a nd jet-setting life with a famous beauty (and novelist herself) was inst antly blown to bits. Check out this excerpt in Salon: http://www.salon.c om/mwt/feature/2008/02/07/trey_ellis/\n\n\nKGB Bar\n85 East 4th Street UID:6402C6F2-7CB8-4ECC-A4B1-A766AC6692FC TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080408T190000 DTSTAMP:20080324T154912Z SUMMARY:KGB Nonfiction CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080408T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Robert Vare\nThe American Idea: The Best of The Atlantic Mon thly\n(Broadway Books\, $18)\n6PM\nRSVP at 212 475 3424\n\nhe Atlantic M onthly was founded in 1857 by a remarkable group that included some of t he towering figures of nineteenth-century intellectual life: Ralph Waldo Emerson\, Oliver Wendell Holmes\, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow\, and Jame s Russell Lowell.For 150 years\, the magazine has continued to honor its distinguished pedigree by publishing many of America’s most prominent p olitical commentators\, journalists\, historians\, humorists\, storytell ers\, and poets.\n\nNational Arts Club\n15 Gramercy Park South\n\n UID:37AB9BC9-62D1-4509-9689-3082860946FA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080410T180000 DTSTAMP:20080331T185738Z SUMMARY:Best of the Atlantic Monthly CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080410T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:14 DESCRIPTION:Great Issues Forum\nPower and Fashion\nwith Guy Trebay\, Gab i Asfour\, and Isabel Toledo\, Eugenia Paulicelli\n\nHazel Clark\nThe Fa bric of Cultures: Fashion\, Identity\, and Globalization\nRoutledge\, $3 7.95\n\nGuy Trebay\nIn the Place to Be\nTemple University Press\, $26.95 \n\nCUNY Center for the Humanities\n365 Fifth Avenue\nElebash Recital Ha ll\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n\n\n\n\n UID:D41882EE-1F83-40AC-ACB7-F2ED8CC70BAF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090324T190000 DTSTAMP:20090115T171415Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090324T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Evan Wright\nHella Nation\nPutnam Adult\, $25.95\n\nFrom his work as a reporter at "Hustler" magazine\, to his National Magazine Awa rdawinning writing for "Rolling Stone" and "Vanity Fair\," Evan Wright h as always had an affinity for outsidersawhat he calls athe lost tribes o f America.a The previously published pieces in this collection chart a d eeply personal journey\, beginning with his stark but sympathetic portra yals of sex workers in Porn Valley\, through his raw portrait of a Holly wood A1/4beragent-turned-war documentarian and hero of Americaas far rig ht. Along the way\, Wright encounters runaway teens earning corporate do llars as skateboard pitchmen\; radical anarchists plotting the overthrow of corporate America\; and young American troops on the hunt for terror ists in the combat zones of the Middle East. His subjects are people for whom the American dream is either just out of grasp\, or something they ave chosen to reject altogether. Sometimes frightening\, usually profane \, and often darkly comic\, Hella Nation is Evan Wrightas meticulously o bserved tour of the jagged edges of all those other Americas hiding in p lain sight amid the nationas malls and gated communities. The collection also includes an all-new\, autobiographical introductory essay by the a uthor.\n\nHalf King\n505 West 23rd Street\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n UID:36FBB926-7BC1-4284-BE90-88634E7D4A64 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090413T190000 DTSTAMP:20090310T205542Z SUMMARY:Half King CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090413T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:0 DESCRIPTION:PEN event at Deutsches Haus\n8PM\nFREE\nwww.nyu.edu/deutsche shaus\n\nDaniel Kehlmann\, Michael Kruger\, Juttta Richter\, Bernhard Sc hlink\, Evelyn Schlag\, Erika Stucky\, Sasa Stanisic\, Ingo Schulze\n\nD eutsches Haus @ NYU\n42 Washington Mews\n UID:593D88DC-63CF-4F86-BA48-1AB34AEBAEC2 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080503T200000 DTSTAMP:20080426T005800Z SUMMARY:Deutsches Haus at NYU CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080503T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:George Motz\nHamburger America: One Man's Cross-Country Odys sey to Find the Best Burgers in the Nation \n(Running Press\, $20)\nFREE \n7PM\n\nMotz has made it his personal mission to preserve the nation's hamburger heritage by traveling across the country in search of the best burger joints--those that have survived outside the fast-food mainstrea m--and has documented the rich local color behind them all.\n\nWater Tax i Beach\nLIC Queens\n2 Borden Ave\, behind the Midtown Tunnel Airshaft\n UID:E8F3F710-F0D7-453E-B97A-2F9A9F849A43 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080429T190000 DTSTAMP:20080417T201212Z SUMMARY:Hamburger America CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080429T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Fiction Forum\n\nCaryl Phillips\,author of Foreigners\n\nJef f Allen\,moderator\n\n66 W 12th St\nroom 510\n\n$5\; free for students/a lumni\n UID:7D6E17DE-2F58-4809-86A1-E44CC70277DB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081021T183000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204836Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081021T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:2 events: \nPoetry Reading 7-8:30\n\nA cast of international poets present a reading: Fuad Rifka from Beirut\, Nicole Brossard from Quebec\, the Catalan pet Narcis Comadira\, Janos Terey from Hungary\, Uw e Kolbe from Germany\, and Wayne Koestenbaum from the US.\n\nBowery Poet ry Club\n308 Bowery\n7:00 pm\n UID:20A9076D-6EC9-474D-8FC5-59F446F4626E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090501T190000 DTSTAMP:20090416T193533Z SUMMARY:PEN World Voices Festival CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090501T230000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Konop-Baker\, Gail \nCancer Is a Bitch: Or\, I'd Rather Be H aving a Midlife Crisis \nAn intimate\, funny\, brutally honest account o f the author's brush with breast cancer\n(Da Capo Lifelong Books\,$22.00 )\n\nMichael J Agovino\nThe Bookmaker: A Memoir of Money\, Luck\, and Fa mily from the Utopian Outskirts of New York City \nRecalling "The Tender Bar\, The Bookmaker" is a memoir of sons\, a gambling father\, and the ups and downs of life in the Bronx during the 1970s.\n(Harper:$24.95)\n\ nAgabian\, Nancy\nA poet and performance artist and author of Princess F reak (Beyond Baroque Books 2000). She has created and performed several one-woman shows in Los Angeles\, and collaborated to form the folk-punk duo Guitar Boy. She traveled to Armenia in 2006 as a Fullbright Scholar. She teaches writing at Queens College.\nMe as Her Again: True Stories o f an Armenian Daughter \n(Aunt Lute Books\,$12.95)\n\nCorson\, Trevor\nT he author of "The Secret Life of Lobsters"\, Trevor Corson has studied p hilosophy in China\, resided in Buddhist temples in Japan\, and worked o n commercial fishing boats off the Maine coast. He has written for the " Atlantic Monthly" and the "New York Times" and is the only "sushi concie rge" in the United States. He lives in New York City.\nThe Story of Sush i: An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice\nIn this richly reported docume ntary Corson\, journalist and author of "The Secret Life of Lobsters\," shadows several American sushi novices as well as a master Japanese chef to give readers an in-depth\, behind-the-scenes look at the elusive art of cooking without cooking.\n\nFREE\n7 pm\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E.4th Street UID:D8CC73EE-1D08-483F-B245-6D2373686FED TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081007T190000 DTSTAMP:20080904T171506Z SUMMARY:KGB Non-Fiction CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081007T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:I am going to speak of hope/Voy a Hablar de la Esperanza\nIn ternational Poetry Symposium Celebrating the work of Cesar Vallejo\n\n\n Americas Society\n680 Park Avenue\n212-249-8950 UID:EDCA0BD6-501D-4C39-8868-0A996EF40F9C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081029T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204832Z SUMMARY:I am going to speak of Hope CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081029T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends\n(Penguin\,$14) \n\n\nGallery Andre Schlechtriem Contemporary\n600 Washington St.(At Mor ton)\n212 929-61119 UID:D4215B7E-72BE-4F44-889B-E23BD975E0A0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080912T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204833Z SUMMARY:Curious World of Drugs Book Party CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080912T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Fred Kaplan\nDaydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wreck ed American Power (Wiley\, $26)\n\nThis series features James F. Hoge\, editor\, and Peter G. Peterson chair of Foreign Affairs\, chairman of th e International Center for Journalists\, and CGA advisory board member\, in conversation with leading journalists\, authors\, and filmmakers. Ev ents are followed by book signings and a light reception.\n\nThe Center for Global Affairs \nWoolworth Building \n15 Barclay Street\, 4th Floor (Between Broadway and Church Street) \n(212) 992-8380 \n\n UID:7B3F1894-CE66-459D-B37A-806BA8BF4BDB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080221T183000 DTSTAMP:20080218T165045Z SUMMARY:Fred Kaplan CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080221T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Join Jill Kargman in celebration of her latest novel\nThe Ex Mrs.Hedgefund\nDutton Books: $ 25.95\n\nJill Kargman is the author of M omzillas and the coauthor of Wolves in Chic Clothing and The Right Addre ss\, which were both New York Times and BookSense bestsellers. She has w ritten for Vogue\, Harper's Bazaar\, Interview\, Town & Country\, Britis h GQ\, Elle\, Teen Vogue\, Style.com\, and Travel & Leisure. She grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and now lives there with her family .\n\nFrederic Fekkai FIfth Avenue\n712 5th Ave.\n@W.56th St. UID:21853FFD-D572-4ABF-B585-48D3D38B2E7D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090420T183000 DTSTAMP:20090326T173630Z SUMMARY:Jill Kargman : The Ex Mrs.Hedgefund CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090420T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Harold Schecter-\nThe Devil's Gentleman: Privilege\, Poison\ , and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century \n(Ballantine\, $2 6)\nFREE\n7PM\n\nThis gripping story of an aristocratic serial killer wh o terrorized New York City at the turn of the 20th century offers a stun ning nonfiction narrative by one of Americas foremost historians of true crime.\n\nCity Bar\n42 W 44th UID:6329902A-439B-4CEE-BC8D-8D1E5E730EF9 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080527T190000 DTSTAMP:20080424T202751Z SUMMARY:Harold Schecter CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080527T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Betsy Krebs and Paul Pitcoff - Beyond the Foster Care System : The Future for Teens\n(Rutgers U Press\, $24)\n11:30AM - \nKrebs and P itcoff contend that the primary goal of foster care for teenagers should be rigorous preparation for a fully productive adult life and that the standard life skills curriculum currently in place is woefully inadequat e for this purpose.\n\nSt. John's Manhattan Campus\, Saval Auditorium lo cated at 101 Murray Street\n\n UID:C5B29BBA-9FFA-449E-A3FC-CBBE3A65372A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080328T113000 DTSTAMP:20080318T211932Z SUMMARY:St John's Campus CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080328T133000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:John Kao\nInnovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innov ation Edge\, Why It Matters\, and What We Can Do to Get It Back \n(Free Press\, $26)\n4PM\n\nNYC & Company event - official marketing and touris m org for NYC\n\n Kao\, author of the "Business Week" bestseller "Jammin g\," argues in this provocative new book for a bold national strategy to regain this countrys innovation edge and to restore its preeminence in the 21st century.\n\nCipriani\n55 Wall St\n\n\n\n UID:CC64063F-0D10-457D-9086-DD045C3584A9 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080512T160000 DTSTAMP:20080428T202832Z SUMMARY:John Kao for NYC & Co. CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080512T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Jane Berentson\nMiss Harper Can Do It\nViking Books\, $25.95 \n\nTwenty-four-year-old elementary school teacher Annie Harper is left behind in Tacoma\, Washington\, when her boyfriend David\, an army lieut enant\, is shipped overseas. Struggling with the complex emotions tied t o his absence\, she begins writing a confessional memoir\, imagining it as a moving account of athe woman at home.\n\nFlying Saucer Cafe\n494 At lantic Avenue\nBrooklyn\n8:00 pm\nFree\n\n UID:334F7AEB-D14E-44EF-BC45-04829BEC8F87 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090526T200000 DTSTAMP:20090304T154927Z SUMMARY:Other Means Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090526T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:The One O' Click Poets\n\nMichelle Brule\,\nTennessee Jones\ ,\nMarina Kaganova\n\n\nAdmission$5.00+one free drink\n\nEarshot\nLucky Cat \n245 Grand Street \n(b/w Driggs & Roebling)\nBrooklyn UID:F20820D5-7220-43D2-8282-86FDEC7815CB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081212T200000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194956Z SUMMARY:Ear Shot Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081212T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:If the model is the exhibitionist\, then I am the voyeur--Ri chard Kern. In "Looker\," Kern's models proceed through their daily priv ate lives\, seemingly unaware of the camera in this stunningly erotic\, silently exuberant portrayal of intimacy and mystery.\n\nRichard Kern (b . 1954) has lived and worked in New York City since 1979. In the 1980s\, he produced a series of short films that now are recognized as the cent ral works of the movement now known as the Cinema of Transgression. In t he 90s he switched to photography full-time and has directed music video s for bands like Sonic Youth and Marilyn Manson amongst others. \n\nFeat ure\, INC.\n276 Bowery\nJust south of Houston UID:3302CBA4-E905-4BC0-84A1-DE1FF159E9AA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081002T180000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194959Z SUMMARY:Richard Kern's Exhibition CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081002T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:Darin Strauss\nChang and Eng\nPlume\, $15\n\nNow in paperbac k comes the brilliant reimagining of the remarkable lives of the origina l "Siamese Twins". Sweeping from the Far East and the court of the king of Siam to the shared intimacy of their lives in America\, "Chang and En g" rescues one of the 19th century's most fabled human oddities from the sideshow of history.\n\nMore Than it Hurts You\nPlume\, $15\n\nThe accl aimed author of "Chang and Eng" returns with a beautifully realized nove l that at its heart is the story of a woman who will risk everything to feel something and a man who suddenly realizes that being a good husband and father can no longer comfortably coexist.\n\nSana Krasikov\nOne Mor e Year\nSpiegel & Grau\, $15\n\nAnse Chesed\n251 West End Ave at 100 th Street\n8:00 pm\n\n\n\n UID:AFBF9BE6-819B-477B-9402-BB032779E555 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090810T200000 DTSTAMP:20090603T195349Z SUMMARY:Scribblers on the Roof CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090810T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Comicon\n3PM-8PM\nREGISTER at\nwww.nycomiccon.com\n\nNew Yor k Comic Con is the East Coasts’ biggest and most exciting event. An enor mous exhibit floor plays host to top industry exhibitors who all have th e latest and greatest in comics\, graphic novels\, anime\, manga\, video games\, toys\, movies and television\, and so much more! New York Comic Con gives you access to the top industry talent\, panels\, and autograp h sessions as well as sneak peaks at upcoming movies and television! Fan s create the buzz with eye-catching costumes all weekend long whether it is for fun\, or to participate in Cosplay contests and Anime sessions. TCG\, RPG and video games can be found on and off the show floor through out the weekend. With dedicated trade professional hours\, New York Comi c Con brings the business together to further enhance the industry.\n\nK ean Soo\nJellaby\n(Hyperion\, $19)\n4PM-5:30\n\nMisako Rocks!\nRock and Roll Love \n(Hyperion\, $8)\n6PM - 7:30\n\nComicon\nJavitz Center\n655 W est 34th Street\n\n UID:C4AB3D9D-AAC6-4618-A9B2-80468662F301 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080418T150000 DTSTAMP:20080402T194905Z SUMMARY:Comicon CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080418T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Francisco Goldman\nThe Art of Political Murder: Who Killed t he Bishop? \n(Grove\, $15)\n\nAnne Landsman\nThe Rowing Lesson\n(Soho\, $23)\n\nCeridan Dovey\nBlood Kin\n(Viking\, $24)\n\nThe Pacific Standard Fiction Series: Art\, Politics\, and Murder\nhosted by Garth Risk Hallb erg\n7PM\nFREE\n\nPacific Standard Bar\n82 4th Ave in Brooklyn\n UID:AF6AE4E9-AD15-4ECE-A71B-53798C6D081D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080429T190000 DTSTAMP:20080325T183027Z SUMMARY:Pacific Standard Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080429T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Professor Priscella Ferguson\nAccountingFor Taste: The Trium ph of French Cuisine\n(University of Chicago Press\, $23)\n6:30\nFREE\n\ nTo Brillat-Savarin's famous dictum--"Animals fill themselves\, people e at\, intelligent people alone know how to eat"--Priscilla Ferguson adds\ , and "Accounting for Taste" shows\, how the truly intelligent also know "why" they eat the way they do. \n\nColumbia Club\n15 W 43rd St NY NY 1 0036\n212.719.0380\ncolumbiaclub.org\n\n\n UID:937069D4-C9DC-4F96-9AEA-526694298B8A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080507T183000 DTSTAMP:20080424T200917Z SUMMARY:French Cuisine at Columbia Club CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080507T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Between A&B\n\nMarilyn Nelson\nThe Cachoeira Tales\, and Oth er Poems \n(Louisiana State University Press\, $27)\n\nSoaring images\, rhythmic language\, and wry humor come together in these three narrative poems that explore travel from an African American historical and socia l perspective. A cab ride turns into an amazing encounter with the drive r\, whose ideas about space and time travel spark the poet's musings on chutzpah and artistic ambition. A trip to Triolet leads the poet to pond er the past and present as she reflects on the ironic complexities of th e slave trade and its legacy. And in "The Cachoeira Tales"--a rollicking \, sensual exploration of spirit and community\, with a nod to Chaucer a nd to traditional Trickster tales--the poet finds herself among fellow p ilgrims in Brazil's Bahia. Using her remarkable ability to educate and i nspire\, Marilyn Nelson demonstrates the power of travel to transform ou r imaginations.\n\nA Van Jordan\nQuantum Lyrics\n( W. W. Norton & Compan y\, $24)\n\nThis provocative\, ambitious collection explores the interse ction of the infinite world of physics with the perplexities of the huma n condition. \nEmploying both narrative and cinematic structure\, A. Van Jordan re-creates the lives of his subjects: Albert Einstein\, Richard Feynman\, comic-book superheroes (The Green Lantern\, The Atom)\, along with aspects of himself revealed in poems of recollection and loss. With lyric intensity he suggests that contemporary physicists are also metap hysical poets.\n\n11th St Bar\n510 E 11th St UID:74677DE7-F351-4AE6-9EEB-8D5ED7118AF9 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080324T193000 DTSTAMP:20080306T230842Z SUMMARY:Between A&B CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080324T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Irish Voices: The Clementina Santi Flaherty Lecture Series\n \nJoseph O'Neill has been nominated for the 2008 Mann-Booker Prize for h is novel Netherland\, which was published to rave notices\, including th e cover review of the New York Times Book Review. In addition to other novels and stories\, his nonfiction book Blood-Dark Track: A Family Hist ory was a New York Times Notable Book for 2002\n\nNetherland\nRandom Hou se $24\n\nBlood-Dark Track: A Family History\nIPG $18\n\n221 East 71st S treet\n212 774-0780 UID:5CD8D9D2-090D-4A29-BEDE-C2D27ED4790F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080917T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204830Z SUMMARY:Marymount : Irish Voices CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080917T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:John Edgar Wideman\nFanon (Houghton Mifflin\, $24)\n1:30 pm\ nFREE\n\nFanon\, John Edgar Wideman’s first novel in a decade\, weaves t ogether a postmodern pastiche of fiction\, biography\, history\, politic s\, and memoir to evoke the life and message of Frantz Fanon\, the influ ential author of The Wretched of the Earth.\n\nCentral Branch\nGrand Arm y Plaza\nDweck Auditorium UID:25B29277-ECDE-45EE-A56C-82F9B94807BC TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080309T133000 DTSTAMP:20080226T233002Z SUMMARY:John Edgar Wideman CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080309T153000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Fiction Reading and Conversation: Joan Silber\, in conversat ion with Chuck Wachtel\n\nJoan Silber\nThe Size of the World\nNorton\, $ 23.95\n\nSilber's richly imagined novel--set in wartime Vietnam\, Thaila nd\, Mexico\, Sicily\, and contemporary America--follows men and women w hose jolting encounters with the unfamiliar force them to realize how ma ny levels there are to being human.\n\nLillian Vernon Writers House\n58 West 10th Street\n5:00 pm\nFree\n\n\n\n\n UID:822AE562-1E05-4310-BFAD-DF1B7E7E0A74 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090424T170000 DTSTAMP:20090119T182808Z SUMMARY:LV Writers House CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090424T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Happy Ending Reading Series\n\nThe last season ever before m oving to Joe's Pub for a monthly show.\n\nSadia Shepard\nA documentary f ilmmaker\, photographer\, and writer whose work on the Bene Israel commu nity of Western India includes a photo-essay and documentary film\, made possible by a Fulbright Scholarship and grants from the Jeremiah Kaplan Foundation and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. She is a gra duate of Wesleyan University and the graduate program in documentary fil m and video at Stanford University.\n\nBen Markovits\nMarkovits will be a 2008-9 Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. Alongs ide his fiction\, he also contributes to the "New York Times"\, the "Lon don Review of Books"\, the "Times Literary Supplement"\, the "Guardian"\ , and other publications.\n\nSana Krasikov\nBorn in the Ukraine and grew up in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia and in the United States. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop\, she is the recipient of an O. Henry Award and a Fulbright Scholarship. She lives in New York City\n\nW ith Music from \nRandy Kaplan\nShow starts at 8pm. /door open at 7 pm\n \nHAPPY ENDING BAR\n302 Broome St\nbtw.Forsyth and Eldridge UID:89CCA64D-DC82-4681-8B3D-1936F6725206 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081112T200000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204826Z SUMMARY:Happy Ending CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081112T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Ben Katchor - \nThe Dairy Resturant\n(Schocken\, $20)\n7PM\n FREE\n\nFrom the origins of the blintz to the role of dairy products in the Russian Revolution\, MacArthur Award-winning author Katchor relates the fascinating history of Jewish eating.\n\nIn conversation with Lawren ce Weschler\n\nLillian Vernon Creative Writers House\n58 W 10th St \n\n UID:9F05CB3E-A754-43F4-B9A6-CF1F4B21C45A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080403T190000 DTSTAMP:20080327T190451Z SUMMARY:LV Writers House CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080403T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Debby Applegate\nThe Most Famous Man in America: The Biograp hy of Henry Ward Beecher \n(Three Leaves\, $17)\n7PM\nFREE\n\nHistorian Debby Applegate won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for her riveting biography o f Henry Ward Beecher\, the Brooklyn preacher Abraham Lincoln called "the most influential man in America." More than a historical account\, Appl egate's work is a study of what happens when religion\, passion\, and po litics converge.\n\n2001 Oriental Blvd\, B'lyn\n UID:DFAF0300-3254-487E-BFB4-BF6A5DEB85BC TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080416T190000 DTSTAMP:20080327T194042Z SUMMARY:Kingsborough College CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080416T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:New York\, NY: A Helluva Town... To Die In\n\nJoin moderator Peggy Ehrhart and a stellar panel to discuss the role NYC plays in the murder mystery genre.\n\nFeaturing: Peggy Ehrhart\, Charles Ardai\, Thom as O'Callaghan\, Jason Pinter and Gammy Singer.\n\nNew York Public Libra ry\nMid-Manhattan Branch\n40th St and 5th Ave\n6th floor\n\nFREE UID:B672C2A4-34E1-458C-A0E7-7BC3432133A8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080318T183000 DTSTAMP:20080318T210058Z SUMMARY:Mid Manhattan Library Reading Event CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080318T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Heather B. Armstrong\nThings I Learned about My Dad: (In The rapy) Humorous and Heartfelt Essays \n(Kensington\, $19)\nFREE\n5:30PM\n \nPerfectly timed for Father's Day\, this collection of hilarious storie s by some of the brightest and most outrageous bloggers celebrates the j oys (and otherwise) of fatherhood.\n\nSoda\n629 Vanderbilt Ave\n(Vanderb ilt and St. Mark's Brooklyn)\n UID:DD91E07E-5DF1-4816-8F03-0ACBB90C317D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080507T173000 DTSTAMP:20080506T170152Z SUMMARY:Heather Armstrong @ Soda CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080507T193000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Of all the players in the planning and evolution of the Bush Administration's war on terrorism\, few were more integral--or more con troversial--than Douglas Feith\, the chief strategist on Donald Rumsfeld 's Pentagon policy team. Feith is the first inside player to reveal the inner workings of the Pentagon\, at a time when history hung in the bala nce.\n(Harper\,$28)\n\nIn the years since the attacks of September 11\, 2001\, journalists\, commentators\, and others have published accounts o f the Bush Administration's war on terrorism. But no senior Pentagon off icial has offered an inside view of those years\, or has challenged the prevailing narrative of that war--until now.\n\nDouglas J. Feith\, the h ead of the Pentagon's Policy organization\, was a key member of Donald R umsfeld's inner circle as the Administration weighed how to protect the nation from another 9/11. In "War and Decision\," he puts readers in the room with President Bush\, Vice President Cheney\, Rumsfeld\, Paul Wolf owitz\, Condoleezza Rice\, Colin Powell\, General Tommy Franks\, and oth er key players as the Administration devised its strategy and war plans. Drawing on thousands of previously undisclosed documents\, notes\, and other written sources\, Feith details how the Administration launched a global effort to attack and disrupt terrorist networks\; how it decided to overthrow the Saddam Hussein regime\; how it came to impose an occupa tion on Iraq even though it had avoided one in Afghanistan\; how some of ficials postponed or impeded important early steps that could have avert ed major problems in Iraq's post-Saddam period\; and how the Administrat ion's errors in war-related communications undermined the nation's credi bility and put U.S. war efforts at risk.\n\nEven close followers of repo rting on the Iraq war will be surprised at the new information Feith pro vides--presented here with balance and rigorous attention to detail. Amo ng other revelations\, "War and Decision" demonstrates that the most far -reaching warning of danger in Iraq was produced not by State or by the CIA\, but by the Pentagon.It reveals the actual story behind the allegat ions that the Pentagon wanted to "anoint" Ahmad Chalabi as ruler of Iraq \, and what really happened when the Pentagon challenged the CIA's work on the Iraq-al Qaida relationship. It offers the first accurate account of Iraq postwar planning--a topic widely misreported to date. And it pre sents surprising new portraits of Rumsfeld\, Rice\, Powell\, Richard Arm itage\, L. Paul Bremer\, and others--revealing how differences among the m shaped U.S. policy.\n\nWith its blend of vivid narrative\, frank analy sis\, and elegant writing\, "War and Decision" is like no other book on the Iraq war. It will interest those who have been troubled by conflicti ng accounts of the planning of the war\, frustrated by the lack of first hand insight into the decision-making process\, or skeptical of conventi onal wisdom about Operation Iraqi Freedom and the global war on terroris m--efforts the author continues to support\n\nWomen's National Republica n Club\n3 W.51st St. UID:1B784AFC-7F2E-41C4-8C8A-7388FFFC2D7A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080918T190000 DTSTAMP:20080910T161552Z SUMMARY:War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080918T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Jack Mitchell\nHug Your People: The Proven Way to Hire\, Ins pire and Recognize Your Employees and Achieve Remarkable Results (Harper \, $20)\nFREE\n6:30PM\n\nIn Hug Your Customers\, Jack Mitchell showed bu siness readers how to keep their customers happy---and their profits boo ming. In Hug Your People\, he elaborates on his big secret: hiring\, mot ivating\, and keeping your biggest asset---great employees!\n\nCole Haan \nRockefeller Plaza\n50th @ 5th Ave\n\n UID:6CC48EB6-8B96-4320-AC2F-0228F5345C75 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080528T183000 DTSTAMP:20080512T215237Z SUMMARY:Jack Mitchell at Cole Haan CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080528T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Comfort: A Journey Through Grief \nHood offers a moving and remarkable memoir about the sudden death of a daughter\, surviving grief \, and learning to love again.\n(Norton:$20)\n\nAnn Hood is the author o f nine books\, including the novel "The Knitting Circle". Her work has a ppeared in "The Paris Review\, Tin House"\, and "O Magazine". She lives in Providence\, Rhode Island.\n\n\nPete's Candy Store\n709 lorimer stree t \nwilliamsburg\, Brooklyn UID:546E1E68-3FFD-4480-BE65-A0BA67E84868 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081113T193000 DTSTAMP:20081018T195000Z SUMMARY:Ann Hood at Pete's Candy Store CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081113T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Graphic Novelists Read & Show\n7:00 pm\nFREE\n\nJason Little \, Julia Wertz\, Liz Baille\, Sam Henderson\, Tom Hart\n\nhttp://www.kgb bar.com/calendar/event/2008-03-23_graphic_novelis.html\n\nKGB Bar\n85 Ea st 4th Street UID:FF5DBB1E-5726-4C5D-B471-1320BCD2B0BA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080323T190000 DTSTAMP:20080229T201339Z SUMMARY:KGB Fiction CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080323T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Lhasa\n\nColumbia University lecturer in modern Tibetan stud ies who's taught at Tibet University and written extensively about Tibet \, Barnett has no intention of explaining Tibet to anyone. After all\, f or more than a century\, foreigners have described the Tibet they though t they knew\, propagating either unwitting or deliberate misapprehension s. So it's with reluctance and some negativity ("Lhasa was not in every way an otherworldly place") that Barnett attempts "to scrape a little of the topsoil off the affective history of a city\, Lhasa\," to discover its "inner language." The book's chapters have loose themes -foreigners' views of Tibet\, Lhasa's geomantic layout\, evolving architectural styl es -and are usually spliced with diary accounts from Barnett's visit dur ing the 1987 protest riots. Much of the book contains passages Barnett w rote for other publications in other languages\; now revised and transla ted\, they produce an uneasy flow. The illustrations -edgy line drawings of unidentified and often unidentifiable subjects -ensure the generally obscure mood\, as do the lack of a modern map of Lhasa or Tibet\, or a clear drawing of the types of buildings Barnett describes. Alas\, even p atient readers\, dutifully consulting the hefty endnotes and glossary\, may give up before reaching the final five-page chapter\, where Barnett finally speaks plainly about Lhasa's architecture. "(Mar.)" Copyright 20 05 Reed Business Information. \n(Columbia U Press\,$25.50)\n\nRobert Bar nett is lecturer in modern Tibetan studies at Columbia University and a former teacher at Tibet University. He is the editor or author of "Resis tance and Reform in Tibet\; A Poisoned Arrow: The Secret Petition of the 10th Panchen Lama"\; and other works. He has also worked as a journalis t for the BBC\, the "South China Morning Post\," the "Independent\," and other publications.\n\n\nHarvard Club\,W27 44th St. UID:8C8381B3-D930-4B64-95E2-B362C19DAF42 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080911T190000 DTSTAMP:20080903T152254Z SUMMARY:Harvard Club CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080911T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Happy Ending Reading Series\n8PM\nFREE\n\nElizabeth Hand\nGe neration Loss\n(Harvest\, $14)\n\nSteven Gillis\nGiraffes\n(Atomic Quill \, $14)\n\nCynthia Kaplan\nLeave the Building Quickly: True Stories\n(Ha rper Perrenial\, $14)\n\nHappy Ending\n302 Broome UID:9DD450E8-22A3-4A7E-B736-C6F1ECD2E92F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080528T200000 DTSTAMP:20080509T171503Z SUMMARY:Happy Ending reading series CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080528T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Derek Chollet \nAmerica Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11: The Misunderstood Years Between the Fall of the Berling Wall and the St art of the War on Terror\n(PublicAffairs\, $28)\nMEMBERS ONLY\nNOON\n\nY oung Professionals in Foreign Policy event\n\nChollet and Goldgeier exam ine how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the B erlin Wall on November 9\, 1989\, and the collapse of the Twin Towers on September 11\, 2001\, shaped the events\, arguments\, and politics of t he modern world.\n\nHarvard Club\n27 W 44th UID:420D8583-B78D-4A8C-932F-D476232F25F0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080623T120000 DTSTAMP:20080610T203640Z SUMMARY:Young Professionals in Foreign Policy CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080623T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:14 DESCRIPTION: Breaking Free\nHerschel Walker \n(Touchstone\, $25)\n6:15PM \n\nThis book chronicles the football star's personal story of his battl e to overcome Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Walker shares his be lief that God's destiny for him is to use his fame to spread awareness o f the largely unpublicized and widely misunderstood disorder.\n\nPrincet on Club\n15 West 43rd Street\n\n UID:9C6F5785-68CF-4A60-893E-7D715C2D2F4F TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oxoniansociety.com/ DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080416T181500 DTSTAMP:20080313T211525Z SUMMARY:Oxonian Society CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080416T201500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss: The Early Days of Snl fr om Someone Who Was There \nA seriously funny and irreverent memoir that gives an insider's view of the birth and rise of "Saturday Night Live\," this work features laugh-out-loud stories about some of its greatest pe rsonalities--Al Franken\, John Belushi\, Bill Murray\, and Chris Farley. \nGrove Press : $24\n\nTom Davis is a four-time Emmy winner from twelve seasons at Saturday Night Live\, including the first five years. He was half the comedy team of Franken and Davis from high school in 1968 until he and Al broke up in 1990. The first-time author now lives alone in th e woods in upstate New York. \n\n92Y Tribeca\n200 Hudson St\n\n UID:D37E348F-F88E-4318-82B9-0E07096B800B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090326T193000 DTSTAMP:20090326T173625Z SUMMARY:Tom Davis@92Y Tribeca CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090326T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:\nWarren Adler - Funny Boys\nNina Siegel - A Little Trouble With the Facts\n\n7PM - FREE\n\nKBB Bar\n85 East 4th Street\n UID:35A69ABE-96D5-4383-A88F-53DE0AD8AAF3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080316T190000 DTSTAMP:20080303T230451Z SUMMARY:KGB Fiction CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080316T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Gail Satler\nFrank Lloyd Wright's Living Space: Architecture 's Fourth Dimension\nNorthern Illinois University Press\, $22\n\nSatler is Associate Professor and Teaching Fellow of Sociology at Hofstra Unive rsity.\n\nMyron Marty\nCommunities of Frank Lloyd Wright: Taliesin and B eyond\nNorthern Illinois University Press\, $45\n\nMarty presents an in- depth look at a less discussed aspect of Frank Lloyd Wrights life and ca rrerthe Taliesin Fellowship. The original Taliesin\, located in Spring G reen\, Wisonsin\, was Wrights summer house but later was transformed int o a residential community which he and his second wife named the Taliesi n Fellowship. Its purpose was to provide a means for apprentices to lear n of architecture and life in beautiful natural surrounding. Marty begin s with Wrights arrival in Chicago in the late 1880s and follows his expe rience with assistances\, apprentices\, and other architects through the official founding of the Fellowship in 1932.\n\nGuggenheim Museum\n5th Avenue & 89th Street\n10:30 am\n\n\n UID:3AA12635-07E1-4F62-A629-A4612E8C42CA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090620T103000 DTSTAMP:20090602T151756Z SUMMARY:Guggenheim Museum CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090620T113000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Dr. David Harrison\nWhen Languages Die\nOxford University Pr ess\, $18\n\n\n\nDavid Harrison's book is the first to focus on the esse ntial question\, what is lost when a language dies? What forms of knowle dge are embedded in a language's structure and vocabulary? And how harmf ul is it to humanity that such knowledge is lost forever?\n\n40th Street and 5th Avenue UID:6E3B6DA9-34C6-4B84-9850-8FF118566FDB TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:www.nypl.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080922T183000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204836Z SUMMARY:Mid-Manhattan Library CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080922T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Writing and Reading Multilingual Haiti - 1-2:30 pm\n\nPoet\, Novelist\, Dramatist and painter Franketienne\, writers Dany Laferriere and Madison Smartt Bell are representative of the many voices of contem porary Haitian literature. Writing in standard Creole\, vernaculars\, E nglish or French\, they will discuss the Haitian Literary Scene and the way multilingual and multicultural contexts of Haiti have affected their experiences as writers. \n\nFranketienne: Haitian Identity 3-4 pm\n\nDo n't miss renowned Haitian poet\, novelist\, dramatist\, and painter Fran ketienne for a discussion about how his decision to stay in Haiti and cr eate from his homeland influenced his work as an artist\, placing him at the centre of study and debate on the Creole identity. \n\n\nKrik? Krak ! 5-6 pm\n\nNo literary series on Haiti would be complete without a cele bration of Haiti's vivid oral culture. Participants will engage in a se ssion of Krik? Krak! - a Haitian storytellers' ritual warming up of thei r audiences by asking "Krik?" and taking the collective response "Krak!" as their cue to begin telling stories and jokes.\n\nFIAF\n22 East 60th Street\n1:00 pm UID:847D9B6D-CBD0-4DCE-B85C-167B45783360 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090502T130000 DTSTAMP:20090402T193357Z SUMMARY:PEN World Voices Festival CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090502T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Or der\n(Random House\, $29)\n\nGeorgetown Club of Metropolitan NY event\n\ nKhanna takes readers on a thrilling global tour\, one that shows how Am erica's dominant moment has been suddenly replaced by a geopolitical mar ketplace where the European Union and China compete with the United Stat es to shape world order on their own terms.\n\nWilliams Club\n24 E 39th St UID:ABEA8EDB-E647-477A-93E3-8CD556FCB780 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080424T183000 DTSTAMP:20080412T154023Z SUMMARY:Parrag Khanna at the Williams Club CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080424T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Sean Wilsey\nOh The Glory of it All\n(Penguin\, $15)\nFREE\n Noon - 1:30\n\nIn what may become the most talked-about memoir of the ye ar\, the founding editor of "McSweeney's" takes readers on an exhilarati ng tour of life in the strangest\, wealthiest\, and most grandiose of fa milies.\n\nPratt\nMemorial Hall\n200 Willoughby Avenue\n UID:0BF6A53E-A8F7-495F-8B70-2F8F6225A11A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080418T120000 DTSTAMP:20080408T213531Z SUMMARY:Sean Wilsey CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080418T133000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Happy Ending Reading Series\n\nThe last season ever before m oving to Joe's Pub for a monthly show.\n\nDeb Olin Unferth\n\nCristy Roa d\nThe author\, illustrator of Indestructible and has self-published Gre enzine for the last ten years. She currently resides in Brooklyn\, NY\n\ nKeith Lee Morris\nMorris is assistant professor of creative writing at Clemson Univer\n\nWith Music from \nBronwen Exter\nShow starts at 8pm. /door open at 7 pm\n\nHAPPY ENDING BAR\n302 Broome St\nbtw.Forsyth and E ldridge UID:04AD1BD4-0C8A-4253-9348-E3E773297E1A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081022T200000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204825Z SUMMARY:Happy Ending CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081022T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Josh Kilmer-Purcell\nCandy Everybody Wants\n(Harper Perennia l\, $14)\nFREE\n12:30PM\n\nFrom the critically acclaimed author of "I Am Not Myself These Days" comes the very odd adventures of a starry-eyed y oung man from the Midwest seeking fame and fortune in the flamboyant sur reality of New York\, Los Angeles . . . and everywhere in between.\n\nBr yant Park\n42nd and 5th Ave\n UID:6D49616A-20E6-4F98-A5C3-EFA91D3821A8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080625T123000 DTSTAMP:20080505T214848Z SUMMARY:Word for Word author CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080625T134500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Mid-Manhattan Branch\n455 5th Ave\n\nKatherine Newman-Missin g Class UID:08F61E58-E2D2-4D37-936E-230CA4BA08AE TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071210T183000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195251Z SUMMARY:NYPL CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071210T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:KGB Nonfiction Series\n\nPamela Newkirk\nLetters from Black America\nFSG\, $30\n\nThe first-ever narrative history of African Americ ans told through their own letters\, this book includes the thoughts of politicians\, writers\, and entertainers\, as well as those of slaves\, servicemen\, and domestic workers.\n\nPatrick McCloskey\nThe Street Stop s Here: A Year at a Catholic High School in Harlem\nUniversity of Califo rnia Press\, $27.50\n\n"The Street Stops Here "offers a deeply personal and compelling account of a Catholic high school in central Harlem\, whe re mostly disadvantaged (and often non-Catholic) African American males graduate on time and get into college.\n\nSamuel Freedman\nBOOK TBA\n\nK GB Bar\n85 East 4th Street\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n\n\n UID:CC45440A-BB3F-4780-905E-E769E8BF645E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090324T190000 DTSTAMP:20090108T164443Z SUMMARY:KGB Nonfiction CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090324T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:1 Clarkson St @ 7th Ave S\n\nNovelist Kevin Baker reads from and talks about his work. UID:F418ABCC-7453-4C4E-ADBB-E89812EF94F7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070503T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195249Z SUMMARY:Dapolito Center CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070503T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:13 DESCRIPTION:Fordham University Poets Out Loud\n\nAlicia Ostriker is the author of seven volumes of poetry\, as well as "Vision and Verse in Will iam Blake" and an annotated edition of Blake's "Complete Poems\," Her wo rk as a feminist critic includes "Writing like a Woman" and the widely i nfluential and controversial "Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Wo men's Poetry in America.\n\nThe Volcano Sequence\n(University Of Pittsbu rgh Press\, \n$12.95)\n\nNo Heaven\n(University Of Pittsburgh Press\, \n $12.95) \n\nDancing at the Devil's Party: Essays on Poetry\, Politics\, and the Erotic\n(University Of Michigan Press\,$14.95)\n\nFREE\n7.00 PM \nMcNally Amphitheater\nFordham University\n113 W.60th St. UID:7E035749-EFB3-4639-8252-A4AFB09F569E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080915T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204834Z SUMMARY:Poets Out Loud CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080915T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:A Conversation about Cultural Power\n\nTom Stoppard\,Derek W alcott\n\nModerated by David Nasaw\n\nRegistration required\n\nProshansk y Auditorium\nCUNY Graduate Center for the Humanities\n365 5th Ave @ 34t h St\n212 817-2005\n UID:7BCD375E-A114-43CE-891F-33B631F2297C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081110T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204829Z SUMMARY:Great Issues Forum CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081110T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:13 DESCRIPTION:20/20 Visions Series\n\nV.V.Ganeshananthan\nLove Marriage \n In war-torn Sri Lanka\, there are two kinds of marriage: the Arranged Ma rriage and the Love Marriage. An American-born daughter of Sri Lankan im migrants is caught between the tradition of her ancestors and the modern world in which she lives\, in this stunning first novel by an accomplis hed young writer.\n(Random House Trade\,$14)\n\nPhillis Levin is the aut hor of three previous books of poetry and the editor of The Penguin Book of the Sonnet. Her many honors include a Fulbright Scholarship\, a Gugg enheim Fellowship and a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She is a professor of English and poet-in-residence at Hofstra Universi ty and also teaches in the graduate creative writing program at New York University.\n\nMercury\n(Penguin poet\,$16)\n\nMay Day \nA work of a vi sionary imagination. In tones playful and celebratory\, in gestures both intimate and international\, Levinas poems explore how tenderness and v iolence change our lives. From a flood overtaking the Prague zoo to the joy of a maypole dance\, from a mural of the Trojan War in a Greek diner in New York to the anoiseless explosionsa of time in the opening of a f lower\, these poems are rhapsodies of the senses and the intellect\, dis closing new thresholds of meaning.\n(Penguin Poet\,$16)\n\nFREE\n6:30 pm \nCenter for Imaginative Writing at Teachers & Writers Collaborative\n52 0 Eighth Avenue \n(btw 36th and 37th Streets)\n Suite 2020 UID:4E20CCAF-3662-4280-A81C-64C264520FEF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080926T183000 DTSTAMP:20080914T182827Z SUMMARY:Teachers and Writers CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080926T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:14 DESCRIPTION:Carol Dunlap and Ann McLean \nAutonauts of the Cosmoroute (A rchipelago Books\, $20)\n7:00 pm\nFREE\n\nAutonauts of the Cosmoroute is a love story\, an irreverent travelogue of elaborate tales and snapshot s detailing Julio Cortazar and Carol Dunlop's thirty-three-day voyage on the Paris-Marseilles freeway in 1982. Uncovering the freeway's hidden u nderbelly\, they push life and literature to surreal extremes. This shot of sun is a satire on modern travel and the great explorers\, and an in timate look at one of the greatest literary spirits of our time.\n\nBroo klyn Public Library\nGrand Army Plaza\nDweck Auditorium UID:68ED4612-CD69-4960-9976-EE1049970DD5 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080221T190000 DTSTAMP:20080214T193935Z SUMMARY:Autonauts of the Cosmoroute CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080221T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Bjorn Lomborg\nCool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Gui de to Global Warming\n(Random House\, $21)\nnyyc.com\n8AM\n\nLomborg\, a political scientist and economist with a conservative approach to envir onmentalism\, presents a work that's likely to garner as much acclaim an d disdain as his first book\, 2001's The Skeptical Environmentalist. Thi s "Guide to Global Warming\," while thoroughly referenced and convincing ly argued\, ignores many climate studies and assumes that climate change will continue at a steady rate (not necessarily the case). From this va ntage\, Lomborg suggests workable solutions beyond "hysteria and headlon g spending\," proposing a tax on CO2 "at the economically correct level of about two dollars per ton\, or maximally fourteen dollars per ton" an d that "all nations should commit themselves to spending 0.05 percent of GDP in R&D of noncarbon-emitting energy technologies." Gross simplifica tion\, however\, leads to misleading generalizations and questionable ar guments\, such as Lomborg's claim that a reduction in global cold weathe r-related deaths that outweighs the rising number of heat-related deaths means global warming is good for humanity. Though he argues passionatel y\, Lomborg's efforts seem more about pushing his opponents' buttons tha n facing honestly the complexities of global climate change. \n\nNew Yor k Yacht Club\n37 W 44th St\n\n UID:10447478-5BF3-4B87-A4A4-FFE9382550A5 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080410T080000 DTSTAMP:20080402T175100Z SUMMARY:Bjorn Lomborg CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080410T100000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Knowing Pains\nEd Gabrielle Sayz\n\nFREE\n7pm\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4th Street UID:8717D234-3553-4444-AA58-412F65B2C32F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081209T190000 DTSTAMP:20080903T172329Z SUMMARY:KGB Non Fiction CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081209T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:Anthony Lappe \nShooting War (Grand Central\, $22)\n7:00 pm \n\nThis scary-smart graphic novel is a bold\, irreverent\, unflinching spoof of network news\, the war in Iraq\, and the burgeoning citizen jou rnalism movement set in 2011.\n\nThink Coffee\n248 Mercer Street\nBetwee n 3rd and 4th Streets\, Lower Level\n UID:FF3405BF-E8B6-4D11-AD1D-9AB0F038F5EB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080304T190000 DTSTAMP:20080219T191644Z SUMMARY:Anthony Lappe CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080304T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:State Of Union\nPoetry Reading co-sponsored by Wave Books\n\ nJohn Ashbenj\, \n\n\nEileen Myles\nA novelist\, poet\, and performance artist. She lives in New York City\n\nCaroline Knox\nThe winner of the 2 005 Maurice English Award and the author of six collections of poetry\, most recently He Paves the Road with Iron Bars (Verse Press\, 2004). Her poems have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement\, Paris Review\, a nd elsewhere. She has received awards from the NEA\, Ingram Merrill Foun dation\, Massachusetts Cultural Council\, and Poetry magazine.\n\nJames Gallery\nCUNY Graduate Center for the Humanities\n365 5th Ave @ 34th St\ n212 817-2005 UID:140E761B-FEA2-4FAF-ABD9-12E5152FD9AB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081030T183000 DTSTAMP:20081018T195002Z SUMMARY:CUNY CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081030T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:A Conversation about Economic power \n\nHernando de Soto\,na omi Klien\,Joseph Stiglitz\nModerated by David Harvey\n\nRegristration r equired\n\nProshansky Auditorium\nCUNY Graduate Center for the Humanitie s\n365 5th Ave @ 34th St\n212 817-2005 UID:7B2F1840-452E-4246-B76B-5B04A43205EC TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081020T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204832Z SUMMARY:Great Issues Forum CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081020T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:General Ricardo Sanchez\nWiser at Battle\, A Soldier's Story \n(Harper\, $27)\ncontact oxoniansociety.com to REGISTER\n6:15PM\n\nIn W iser in Battle Lt. Gen Ricardo S. Sanchez offers the story of his life\, including his humble beginnings in a proud\, but destitute Hispanic fam ily in South Texas\, and his tenure as commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq. Sanchez provides firsthand accounts of events ranging from Saddam Hussein's capture to the battle of Fallujah and the Abu Ghraib prison ab use scandal. Lt. Gen. Sanchez also discusses how: The U.S military was c ompletely unprepared for an extended deployment in the aftermath of majo r combat during Operation Iraqi Freedom. After Bush's "Mission Accomplis hed" speech it would take months to convince Washington that a war was s till going on. The Department of Defense was aware that prisoners had be en tortured (and killed) in Afghanistan\, but nothing was done to correc t the practrive before it reached Iraq. \n\n3West Club\n3 West 51st St ( btn 5th and 6th)\n UID:65B3010A-F357-4223-AE1A-ABA6B37D5454 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080507T181500 DTSTAMP:20080428T205540Z SUMMARY:Oxonian Society Reading Event CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080507T201500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:NEWSCHOOL\nJohn Yau\,author of a Thing Among A Things:The Ar t of Jasper johns\n\nRobert polito\,moderator\n\n66 W 12th St\nroom 510\ n\n$5\; free for students/alumni\n UID:95C8F636-BD29-4433-9FDC-58756138C542 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081201T183000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204834Z SUMMARY:Non FIction Forum CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081201T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Ph.D.program in English\nMichael Denning analyzes contemporary and 20th Century representations of workers\,the unemployed\,and the imaginative crisis of "global labor".\nMichael Denni ng is the William R.Kenan Jr.Professor of American Studies at Yale Unive rsity\,and the Director of the Innitiative on Labor and culture.Among hi s publications are Culture in the Age of Three Worlds and the Culture Fr ont: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century.\n\n\nRoo m4406(English Lounge)\nCUNY Graduate Center for the Humanities\n365 5th Ave @ 34th St\n212 817-2005 UID:B9616B3B-01F4-4A08-B70A-7373D58FDD0C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081114T160000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204835Z SUMMARY:The Spectre of Wageless Life:Michael Denning CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081114T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Renard Allen\nHolding Pattern\nGraywolf Press\, $15\ n\nThe world of Jeffery Renard Allen's stunning short-story collection i s a place like no other. A recognizable city\, certainly\, but one in wh ich a man might sprout wings or copper pennies might fall from the skies onto your head. Yet these are no fairy tales. The hostility\, the hurt\ , is all too human.\nThe protagonists circle each other with steely dete rmination: a grandson taunts his grandmother\, determined to expose her secret past\; for years\, a sister tries to keep a menacing neighbor awa y from her brother\; and in the local police station\, an officer and pr isoner try to break each other's resolve.\n\nIn all the stories\, Allen calibrates the mounting tension with exquisite timing\, in mesmerizing p rose that has won him comparisons with Joyce and Faulkner. "Holding Patt ern "is a captivating collection by a prodigiously talented writer.\n\nB rooklyn Library\nDweck Center\nGrand Army Plaza\n4:00 pm\nFree\n\n UID:DEE12C10-2AA6-4E5D-A1E9-CA1D90206281 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090208T133000 DTSTAMP:20081217T205315Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090208T153000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:\nStefan Block - The Story of Forgetting\n(Random House\, $2 5)\n8PM\nFREE\n\n Three narratives intertwine to create a story that is by turns funny\, smart\, introspective\, and revelatory. Through the fus ion of myth\, science\, and storytelling\, this novel offers the hard-le arned truth that only through loss can one understand the value of what remains.\n\nRocky Sullivan's\n34 VanDyke @ Dwight\nBrooklyn\n UID:EA27A5F4-65AF-4760-9CED-3BAB10438FE7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080407T200000 DTSTAMP:20080317T224722Z SUMMARY:Stefan Block CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080407T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Peter Cameron in discussion with Helen Schulman\nSomeday Thi s Pain Will Be Useful to You (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\, $16)\n\n6:00 pm\n\nTickets $5\n \nIn the tradition of The Catcher in the Rye and The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Booklist has hailed Cameron as “one of the best writers about middle-class youth since Salinger”)\, Peter Cameron p aints an indelible portrait of a teenage hero holding out for a better g rownup world.\n\n\nThe New School\n66 West 12th Street Room 510 UID:3CE782F3-1E35-4432-B620-E7E9F1D2ADF5 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080303T183000 DTSTAMP:20080219T185503Z SUMMARY:Peter Cameron CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080303T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:16 DESCRIPTION:\n\nLeft/Right Literature: The Politics of Taking Up the Pen - 1:00 - 2:30 \n\nParticipants: Nadeem Aslam\, Norbert Gstrein\, Narike n Jongman\, Khet Mar\, and Domenico Starnone\n\nThe image of the writer as revolutionary is certainly one of the most enduring and romantic ones \, but what about the writer as archconservative\, defender of the statu s quo? An esteemed international panel take on this discussion of writi ng and politics.\n\nThis Critical Moment! - 3:00 - 4:30\n\nParticipants: Eric Banks\, Rigoberto Gonzalez\, Laila Lalami\, Kevin Prufer\n\nModera tor: Jane Ciabattri\n\nTo celebrate the National Book Critics Circle's 3 5th Birthday\, a panel of critics - board members of the NBCC and a fina list for this year's NBCC Balakian award fro criticism - provide context and commentary on this year's World Voices authors\, including Bernardo Atxaga\, Alvaro Enrique\, Nawal El Saadawi\, Peter Weber\, and Uljana W olf. \n\n\nSeason of Migration to the North: The Work of Tayeb Salih - 6 :00 - 7:30\n\nParticipants: Elias Khoury \, Laila Lalami\, Bruce Robbins \, and Raja Shehadeh\n\nSudanese author Tayeb Salih\, who died earlier t his year\, was a towering figure in modern Arabic literature. His Maste rpiece\, Season of Migration to the North\, dramatizes the unpredictable sometimes deadly interactions of politics\, religion\, historical memor y\, and sexual desire in the post-colonial era. An international group of contemporary writers will read and discuss his work.\n\nScandinavia H ouse\n58 Park Avenue\n1:00 pm\n\n\n UID:B25DAE0B-57A0-4430-9F6D-0C6F56AE14EC TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090501T130000 DTSTAMP:20090402T185702Z SUMMARY:PEN World Voices Festival CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090501T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Fritz Haeg\nEdible Estates\; Attack on The Front Lawn\n(Metr opolis\, $25)\n\nAuthor will be discussing his book at the design fair i n Dumbo.\n\nBrookyln Designs\nSt. Ann's Warehouse\n38 Water St\, Bkln UID:7B71DED9-660A-4E60-9D7C-49CF6CFEE17C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080510T120000 DTSTAMP:20080428T215711Z SUMMARY:Fritz Haeg at Brooklyn Designs CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080510T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Katherine Henderson\nHalf Humankind: Contexts and Texts of t he Controversy about Women in England\, 1540-1640 \n(University of Illin ois\, $24)\n7PM\nhttp://cultureproject.org/index.php?option=com_content& task=view&id=10\n\nAlso appearing: Lena Alhusseini\, Tenaz Dubash\, Anna Henriques\, Noa Nessim\, Susan Sparks\, Alexie Torres-Flemming\, Meggan Waterson\, Melissa Weintraub\n\nGod's Troublemakers\nWomen Center Stage Festival\nThe Puffin Room\n435 Broome St.\n UID:9E866C30-2ECD-49C7-A0AA-A601A548BE83 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080416T190000 DTSTAMP:20080331T173813Z SUMMARY:Women Center Stage Festival CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080416T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Barry Glassner \nThe Gospel of Food\n(Ecco\, $26)\n\nFrom th e author of the national bestseller "The Culture of Fear" comes a rallyi ng cry to abandon food fads and myths for calmer and more pleasurable ea ting.\n \n\nUSC Alumni Relations Office\nLocation TBA\n\n UID:AFBCA85A-3663-48FC-9355-36890952B154 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080417T180000 DTSTAMP:20080328T230401Z SUMMARY:USC Alumni Event CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080417T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:In the Flesh Reading Series\n\nReaders TBA\n\nHappy Ending\n 302 Broome Street\n8:00 pm UID:4D865591-271F-4FDE-94DD-A14AE410C94D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090219T200000 DTSTAMP:20090107T213857Z SUMMARY:In the Flesh Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090219T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Nonfiction Forum\n\nKyoko Mori\nPolite Lies: On Being a Woma n Caught Between Cultures\nBallantine\, $13.95\n\nTwelve penetrating\, p ainful essays explore the author's codes of silence\, deference\, and ex pression that govern Japanese and American women's lives and the images of the body that make sex seem foreign to Japanese women and ever-presen t to Americans.\n\nThe New School\n66 West 12th Street\nRoom 510\n6:30 p m\n$5\n\n\n UID:5AC4B45D-83DE-4ACC-B9A1-7261479DF94A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090429T183000 DTSTAMP:20090106T195230Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090429T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Staceyann Chin\nThe Other Side of Paradise\nScribner\, $24\n \nFrom the iconic and charismatic star of "Russell Simmons' Def Poetry J am" comes this brave and fiercely candid memoir about growing up in Jama ica by performer\, activist\, and writer Chin.\n\nRumsey Playfield\nCent ral Park\n4:00 pm\n UID:2F3201AA-8ECD-42C7-8151-34DDB6B41AC2 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090620T144500 DTSTAMP:20090612T172509Z SUMMARY:Summerstage CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090620T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Walter Scheib\nWhite House Chef: Eleven Years\, Two Presiden ts\, One Kitchen\nJohn Wiley & Sons\, $24.95\n\nAs Executive Chef of the White House from 1994 to 2005\, Walter Scheib completely revolutionized the classic French-based food program to give it a distinctly American flavor. Now he tells the story of his White House years\, offering a fas cinating behind-the-scenes look at the Clintons and the Bushes.\n\nThe J ames Beard House\n167 West 12th Street\n7:00 pm\n$125 for members\n$165 for the general public UID:11B39DE9-D3D2-40BB-AAC1-C0744A1B2840 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090115T190000 DTSTAMP:20090106T184402Z SUMMARY:James Beard House CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090115T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Half King Reading Series\n\nAram Roston\nThe Man Who Pushed America to War\nNation Books\, $16.95\n\nFrom an Emmy Award-winning inve stigative reporter comes an explosive biography that tells the untold st ory of the man most responsible for the war in Iraq: Ahmad Chalabi\, a w ealthy exile who spent most of his life outside of Iraq. \n\nThe Half Ki ng\n505 West 23rd Street\n7:00 pm\nFree\n UID:1DEFA26D-F6A7-4886-BBE5-76B494E95439 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090302T190000 DTSTAMP:20090112T210513Z SUMMARY:Half King CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090302T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:David Tutera\nBig Birthdays: The Party Planner Celebrates Li fe's Milestones (Bulfinch\, $30)\n\nLifestyle expert Tutera offers pract ical tips from his television show for throwing extraordinary yet easy a nd affordable birthday parties for all ages.\n\nNew York Weddings Magazi ne's Showcase\n\nThe Metropolitan Building\n18th Street between 6th & & 7th Avenues\n UID:D7D79AC1-9B01-4E7C-B0C0-2696877A9002 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080402T200000 DTSTAMP:20080319T200203Z SUMMARY:The Metropolitan CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080402T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Yusef Kommunyakaa\nFlashback Through the Heart: The Poetry o f Yusef Komunyakaa \n(Susquehanna University Press\, $42)\n7PM\nFREE\n\n This volume seeks to address the conundrum of reading African American p oets as racial spokespeople\, and to model alternative ways of addressin g their work. It examines Yusef Komunyakaa's literary career and his fou r most recent volumes of poetry. By addressing Talking Dirty to the Gods \, it examines the cues Komunyakaa left for readers through its organiza tion and themes. Other chapters discuss the civil rights movement\, the Klan's presence in the Louisiana of Komunyakaa's youth\, and the war in Vietnam as they appear in Komunyakaa's work. Angela M. Salas is an Adjun ct Research Associate at Southeast Missouri State University.\n\nTeacher s and Writers\n520 8th Ave #2020\n UID:C9B66C54-ED12-40FB-9C9C-F5B449112685 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080411T190000 DTSTAMP:20080401T185248Z SUMMARY:2020 Visions CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080411T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Fiction Forum: John Edgar Wideman\nFanon (Houghton Mifflin\, $24)\n6:30 pm\nTickets $5\n\nFanon\, John Edgar Wideman’s first novel i n a decade\, weaves together a postmodern pastiche of fiction\, biograph y\, history\, politics\, and memoir to evoke the life and message of Fra ntz Fanon\, the influential author of The Wretched of the Earth.\n\nThe New School\n66 West 12th Street Room 510\n\n UID:2CF2AE40-0206-4E84-998E-6DE92CFA8816 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080310T183000 DTSTAMP:20080228T192940Z SUMMARY:Fiction Forum: John Edgar Wideman CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080310T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Innocence and Guilt: Domenico Starnone in Conversation with Antonio Monda\n\nThe questions Machiavelli posed about agency and morali ty persist today\, both despite and because of technological advances. Confronted with evil or with abuses of power\, are we as accountable for our inaction as we are for our actions\, and what is our responsibility to our fellow citizens? Domenico Starnone\, Italian writer\, screenwrit er\, journalist\, and novelist\, and Antonio Monda\, author and director of the Rom film festival will discuss these topcs and more in an intima te conversation.\n\nIstituto Italiano di Cultura di New York\n686 Park A venue\n6:00 pm UID:A7D025FD-0098-45A0-A566-E4D84CE18770 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090501T180000 DTSTAMP:20090402T182755Z SUMMARY:PEN World Voices Festival CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090501T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Alex Prud'Homme\nMy Life in France (w/ Julia Child)\n(Anchor \, $15)\n\nKim Sunee\nTrail of Crumbs: Hunger\, Love\, and the Search fo r Home\n*Grand Central Pub\, $25)\n\nAlready hailed as "brave\, emotiona l\, and gorgeously written" by Frances Mayes\, this is a unique memoir a bout the search for identity through love\, hunger\, and food.\n\nMontau k club\n25 8th Ave (Bkln)\n\n UID:E9CA7F49-0562-4CA4-8286-C4A278329C00 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080423T190000 DTSTAMP:20080319T202819Z SUMMARY:Montauk Club Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080423T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Biography Fellows' Colloquium\n\nMolly Peacock\nMary Anne We aver\n\nMore info to come\n\nCUNY Center for the Humanities\n365 Fifth A venue\nMartin E. Segal Theater\n2:00 pm\nFree\n UID:432005C9-8DDB-4575-B820-80E83B55EBED TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090304T140000 DTSTAMP:20090115T175125Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090304T160000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:KGB Poetry Reading Series\n\nElaine Equi\nRipple Effect\nCof fee House Press\, $18\n\nRipple Effect showcases thirty years of Elaine Equi's investigations into our cultural obsessions. Vivid\, savvy\, and accessible\, her poems can transform almost anything-a list\, a diary en try\, advertising speak-into sophisticated\, germane elixirs of pop cult ure and high art. Widely published\, these poems have appeared in The Ne w Yorker\, The American Poetry Review\, and numerous volumes of The Best American Poetry.\n\nJason Schneiderman\nSublimation Point\nFour Way Boo ks\, $14.95\n\nKGB Bar\n85 East 4th Street\n\n\n\n UID:EC11DC35-F13A-4847-ADDD-A82423E22704 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090302T193000 DTSTAMP:20090203T175138Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090302T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:The Cup & Pen Presents the Best of the Bellevue Literary Rev iew\n\nThe Bellevue Literary Review is a literary magazine that publishe s works of fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry that touch upon relationshi ps to the human body\, illness\, health and healing. The Best of the Be llevue Literary Press Review collects the finest literary moments of the journal into one volume that appeals to a wide-ranging audience. The a nthology contains stories\, essays\, and poems from emerging writers as well as established authors. Rick Moody\, Alicia Ostriker\, and Rachel Hadas will read their work.\n\nThink Coffee\n248 Mercer Street\n8:00 pm\ nFree UID:EB7D6F50-004C-45D3-9046-DB4931D5A2C3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090121T200000 DTSTAMP:20090115T185230Z SUMMARY:Cup & Pen CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090121T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Perry\nHubert Harrison\nColumbia University Press\, $37.50\n\nThis first full-length biography of Harrison offers a portrait of a man ahead of his time in synthesizing race and class struggles in the U.S. anda leading influence on better known activists from Marcus Ga rvey to A. Philip Randolph.\n\nAmerican Heritage Center in the Macon Lib rary \n361 Lewis Avenue\nBrooklyn\n6:30 pm\n\n UID:3B0CC5B4-A776-48FF-965F-9C0116332742 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090623T183000 DTSTAMP:20090612T195413Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Public Library CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090623T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:\nJane Ganahl\, Naked on the Page\nKevin Keck\, Are You Ther e God\, It's Me\, Kevin \n\n7PM FREE\n\nKGB Bar\n85 East 4th Street\n UID:254E7F48-2C8E-4AF3-9A70-40F281AEA956 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080318T190000 DTSTAMP:20080303T231021Z SUMMARY:KGB Nonfiction Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080318T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:\n\nRoxana Robinson\,author os Cost\n\nHelen Schulman\,moder ator\n\n66 W 12th St\nroom 510\n\n$5\; free for students/alumni\n UID:4761B144-9339-49F2-A9A6-9337D42587AB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081022T183000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204832Z SUMMARY:New School Fiction Forum CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081022T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Performance: Knives and Other Sharp Objects\n\nBook TBA\n\nT he Public Theater\n425 Lafayette Street\n7:45 pm UID:5B5ED877-0417-4F30-81DA-8064967AD325 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090403T194500 DTSTAMP:20090119T184923Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090403T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Edward Sullivan-Continental Shifts: The Art of Edouard Duval Carrie\n(Diego Costa Peuser\, $100)\n7PM\nFREE\n\nEdward J. Sullivan is dean of the humanities and professor of fine arts at New York Universit y and the Institute for Fine Arts. He is the author of several books on Latin American art\, including the popular textbook Latin American Art i n the Twentieth Century.\n\n16 Washington Mews\n UID:6DAD96A1-0DE6-45AA-8A64-9556F5F418D2 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080327T190000 DTSTAMP:20080319T194450Z SUMMARY:Maison Francaise CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080327T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:The Moth Storytelling Competition\nThe Moth\, a not-for-prof it storytelling organization\, was founded in New York in 1997 by poet a nd novelist George Dawes Green\, who wanted to recreate in New York the feeling of sultry summer evenings on his native St. Simon's Island\, Geo rgia\, where he and a small circle of friends would gather to spin spell binding tales on his friend Wanda's porch. After moving to New York\, Ge orge missed the sense of connection he had felt sharing stories with his friends back home\, and he decided to invite a few friends over to his New York apartment to tell and hear stories. Thus the first "Moth" eveni ng took place in his living room. Word of these captivating story nights quickly spread\, and The Moth moved to bigger venues in New York.\n\nSa ra Barron\nPeople Are Unappealing: Even Me\nThree Rivers Press\, $13.95\ n\nThe Bitter End\n147 Bleecker Street\n7:30 pm\n UID:8FC05DBA-076F-478E-960A-73A7AFC8CCDF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090330T193000 DTSTAMP:20090210T152745Z SUMMARY:The Bitter End CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090330T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Public Theater\n425 Lafayette St\n\nA Stray Dog UID:1F0E6371-ADBC-469E-A883-F90D6AF86C82 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071207T200000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195249Z SUMMARY:Native Theater Festival CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071207T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Eric Sanderson\nMannahatta: A Natural History of New York\nA brams\, $40\n\nFilled with 120 full-color illustrations that show what M anhattan looked like 400 years ago\, this natural history of New York Ci ty is a groundbreaking work that offers a window into the past and inspi ration for green cities and wild places of the future.\n\nAIA \n536 LaGu ardia Place\n6:00 pm\n UID:6CFE0889-B80C-46FC-B7B1-851145D476F4 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090616T180000 DTSTAMP:20090610T182406Z SUMMARY:AIA CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090616T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Robert Knightly and contributors \nQueens Noir (Akashic Book s\, $16)\n3:00 pm\nFREE\n\nRobert Knightly is a trial lawyer in the Crim inal Defense Division of the Queens Legal Aid Society. In another life\, he was a lieutenant in the New York City Police Department. President o f the New York chapter of Mystery Writers of America\, he was born and r aised in New York City and lives in Queens.\n\nQueens Public Library Woo dside\, 54-22 Skillman Ave. \n\n UID:9C00A7C1-E231-4C91-81D2-020F7307B00A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080223T150000 DTSTAMP:20080214T202324Z SUMMARY:Queens Noir CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080223T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Paul Auster will appear with the editors of Granta Magazine for at the Lang Center. \n\nCopies of Paul Auster's books will be sold as well as copies of Granta 106\, the summer fiction special.\n\nThe Ne w School\nLang Student Center\n55 West 13th Street\n7:30 pm UID:130AB919-D149-41F4-B47B-58410A0FF431 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090601T193000 DTSTAMP:20090417T200758Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090601T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Nathaniel Mackey\, Four for Glenn\n(Chax PR\, $16)\n6:30PM\n $5\; free to all students and New School faculty\, staff\, and alumni wi th ID\n\nThe Writing Program presents Nathaniel Mackey\, who will read f rom Four for Glenn and discuss his work with Robert Polito\, director\, the Writing Program.\n\n\nPoetry Forum\n66 West 12th Street\nWollman Hal l UID:38589D18-5214-4CC9-B422-47406CC2DE09 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080409T183000 DTSTAMP:20080324T155452Z SUMMARY:Nathaniel Mackey CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080409T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Lecture: Presidential Psychology\n\nStanley Renshon\nIn His Father's Shadow: The Transformations of George W. Bush\nPalgrave MacMill an $16\n\nThe 50% American: Immigration and National Identity in an Age of Terror\nGeorgetown University Press $27\n\nUnderstanding the Bush Doc trine: Psychology and Strategy in an Age of Terrorism\nRoutledge $33\n\n FREE\n\n1:30 pm\n\nDweck Auditorium\nGrand Army Plaza UID:F73662A4-B2ED-4E6D-A06C-CC5E2429DA8A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080928T133000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204830Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080928T153000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Rebecca J. Scott\nDegrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba aft er Slavery\nBelknap Press\, $18.95\n\nTracing the parallel histories of post-slavery Louisiana and Cuba\, Scott uses court cases\, activist prof iles and heartpounding runaway narratives to slowly draw the reader into the lives of slaves\, freedmen and slaveowners (both black and white) o f the late nineteenth century Gulf... Her back and forth cultural contra sts between Louisiana and Cuba are well-crafted...Though similar economi cally (both Cuba and Louisiana had agricultural economies that heavily d epended on slave labor)\, the two areas' divergent political climates at the turn of the century saw Louisiana's blacks continue to lose rights\ , while across the Gulf\, voter rolls swelled.\n\n\nCUNY Center for the Humanities\n365 Fifth Avenue\nHistory Lounge\, Room 5114\n4:00 pm\nRSVP to csmithro@umich.edu\nFREE\n\n\n UID:FAEC068B-6090-4FE4-B27D-0BE52848F9FD TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090220T160000 DTSTAMP:20090115T155438Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090220T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Lee Abbott\nOne of Star Wars\, One of Doom \n(New American P ress\, $8)\n6:30PM\n\nThere is often a glimmer of light in his stories\, and Abbott's absolutely individual voice broadens that glimmer to a gle am as his characters work at finding a way to live. His sense of shape\, and the voice that drives his narrative\, are the achievements of a mas ter of the form. --Frederick Busch \n\n66 West 12th Street \nWollman Hal UID:3986C412-164E-4B9E-A8C7-5254F1D4DC2D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080402T183000 DTSTAMP:20080319T200142Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080402T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Linton Kwesi\nJohnson\nMi Revalueshanary Fren \n(Ausable\, $ 16)\n9PM\n\nWith fiery verse and spellbinding\, often reggae-backed\, pe rformances\, the Jamaican-born\, London-based Johnson helped create the hybrid genre of dub poetry in the late 1970s. \n\nSOB's\n204 Varrick St @ W Houston UID:F091BEBC-786E-4417-A209-3C59182183B9 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080415T190000 DTSTAMP:20080401T193423Z SUMMARY:Linton Kwesi\nJohnson CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080415T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Rob Walker\nBuying in: The Secret Dialogue Between What We B uy and Who We Are \n (Random House\, $25)\nFREE\n6PM\n\nA "New York Time s" Consumed columnist looks at the convergence of marketing and culture in contemporary life. Using profiles of brands old and new\, he demonstr ates the ways in which buyers adopt products\, not just as consumer choi ces\, but as conscious expressions of their identities.\n\nFrog Design\n 325 Hudson St # 7 UID:1DD18222-63B3-4831-9A34-08DD74E1B9D9 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080611T180000 DTSTAMP:20080527T203222Z SUMMARY:Frog Design CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080611T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:The Return: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery\nHakan Nesser\ n(Vintage\, $14)\n\nNesser's latest contemporary police procedural\, set in his Swedish homeland\, is an excellent puzzler that will remind many of the Inspector Morse series. \n\nSwedish American Chamber of Commerce \n570 Lexington\, 20th Flr\n UID:F007A990-4A03-4009-A893-954DAC747C80 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080311T180000 DTSTAMP:20080304T223123Z SUMMARY:The Return\, Hakan Nesser CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080311T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:14 DESCRIPTION:Charlotte Norzuri\nUrban Iran\nMark Batty Publisher\, $27.95 \n\nWriters\, photographers and artists reveal everyday life in contempo rary Iran.\n\nSaid Sayrafiezadeh\nWhen Skateboards Will Be Free\nDial Pr ess\, $22\n\nWith a profound gift for capturing the absurd in life\, and a deadpan wisdom that comes from surviving a surreal childhood in the S ocialist Workers Party\, Sayrafiezadeh has crafted an unsentimental\, fu nny\, heartbreaking memoir.\n\nBowery Poetry Club\n308 Bowery\n6:00 pm\n \n UID:6A40813F-DF9C-49A6-B462-74F7555B3F4B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090617T180000 DTSTAMP:20090602T150725Z SUMMARY:Shab-e She'r Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090617T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Faith\n\nKerry Kennedy\nBeing Catholic Now\nCrown Publishing $25\n\nIn this collection\, Kennedy asks 37 prominent American Catholic s to speak candidly about their own faith--whether lost\, recovered\, or deepened--and about their feelings regarding the way the Church hierarc hy is moving forward.\n\n6:30 pm\nBeacon Restaurant\n25 W 56th Street UID:E2C1F72C-C666-4BE2-AA12-D75FA16CFB97 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080908T183000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204828Z SUMMARY:Book Party CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080908T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Nonfiction Forum\n\nAnnette Gordon-Reed\nThe Hemingses of Mo nticello: An American Family\nNorton\, $35\n\nHistorian and legal schola r Gordon-Reed presents this epic work that tells the story of the Heming ses\, an American slave family and their close blood ties to Thomas Jeff erson.\n\nThe New School\n66 West 12th Street\nRoom 510\n6:30 pm\n$5\n\n \n\n UID:5D4CB384-6C65-4D4D-AA2F-66EC485A88B7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090323T183000 DTSTAMP:20090106T191416Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090323T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Christopher McDougall\nBorn to Run: A Hidden Tribe\, Superat hletes\, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen \nKnopf\, $24.95 \n\nPart adventure story\, part extreme sports\, "Born to Run" is a rive ting story about one journalist's quest to discover the secrets of the w orld's greatest distance runners--a reclusive Indian tribe living deep i n the Copper Canyon of northern Mexico.\n\nTerra PLanta\n260 Elizabeth S treet\n6:30 pm\n\n UID:18056FD8-8D5F-4A03-BC1C-F153CE1CA907 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090624T183000 DTSTAMP:20090617T153041Z SUMMARY:Terra Planta CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090624T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Steven Cosson \nI Am Nobody's Lunch/Gone Missing \n(Oberon B ooks\, $19)\n7PM\nTickets $10\n\nMOBILE LIBRIS IS SELLING MICHAEL COSSON 'S BOOK PRIOR AND DURING THE PLAY "PARIS COMMUNE" AT THE PUBLIC\nIn 1871 \, working class Parisians overthrew the French government\, declared Pa ris autonomous and launched an attempt to radically reinvent society. In this musical play\, a versatile company of performers bring this explos ive event to life. With revolutionary songs from the period and survivin g first person records\, Paris Commune reanimates the past and provokes our thinking about the present in a dynamic and raucous cabaret style. S ince its founding in 2001 by Artistic Director Steven Cosson\, the award -winning company The Civilians has created several original shows includ ing the Off-Broadway hits (I Am) Nobody’s Lunch and Gone Missing.\n\nPub lic Theater\nShiva Theater\n425 Lafayette Street \n\n UID:9B06978C-F453-48F5-8EC9-717DD4A9468C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080406T190000 DTSTAMP:20080326T194458Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080406T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Ben Skinner\nA Crime So Monstrous\n(Free Press\, $26)\nFREE\ n6PM\n\n Based on four years of research in over a dozen countries acros s the globe\, journalist Skinner provides a shocking expos of the inner workings of the modern-day slave trade.\n\nNational Arts Club\n15 Gramer cy Park South\n\n UID:C8A5B627-219F-4FD9-869D-036147C7DB76 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080423T180000 DTSTAMP:20080418T195838Z SUMMARY:NAtional Arts Club CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080423T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Richard Zoglin\nComedy at the Edge\nBloomsbury\, $15\n\nBase d on extensive interviews with club owners\, agents\, producers--and wit h unprecedented and unlimited access to the players themselves--this wor k is a no-holds-barred\, behind-the-scenes look at one of the most influ ential and tumultuous decades in American popular culture.\n\nGotham Com edy Club\n208 West 23rd Street\n7:30 pm\n\n\n UID:F643473F-6C34-42A6-8692-77D3C4193411 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090401T193000 DTSTAMP:20090311T195607Z SUMMARY:Gotham Comedy Club CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090401T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Rachel Cline \nMy Liar\n8:00 pm\nFREE \n\n34 VanDyke @ Dwig ht\nBrooklyn\n\nhttp://www.rockysullivans.com/readings.html\n\n UID:665D06D8-61A2-49C8-A90A-2AA229F92910 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080225T200000 DTSTAMP:20080218T190925Z SUMMARY:Rocky Sullivan's CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080225T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:The Dangerous Book for Dogs: A Parody by Rex and Sparky \nA laugh-out-loud funny\, illustrated guide for--and by--dogs\, this book t eaches canines how to do the very activities that human society says are wrong.\nVillard Books: $ 15.95\n\nThe Devious Book for Cats: A Parody \ nThis parody from the authors of "The Dangerous Book for Dogs" shows how cats can reclaim their devious nature. Written (with help) by cats and for cats\, this book provides insight on everything from laying claim to a cardboard box to the proper method for infuriating allergy sufferers. Illustrated.\nVillard Books : $16\n\nOur Dumb World\nThe Onion\n\nJoe G arden's story of being plucked from the obscurity of a Madison liquor st ore and thrust into the obscurity of byline-free satire writing has beco me legend. He has been a writer for The Onion for ten years.\n\nHappy En ding\n302 Broome St\n\n\n\n\n UID:24A978D2-88D5-48D5-BD95-7F4F99AEBD6F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090326T200000 DTSTAMP:20090326T173631Z SUMMARY:Joe Garden@Happy Ending CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090326T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:New School Poetry Forum\n\nEd Pavlic\nWinners Have Yet to Be Announced\n\nTyehimba Jess\nleadbelly \n\n66 W 12th St\nRoom 510\n$5\; free for students/alumni UID:77D98E57-69C9-4EB0-99D8-EB92CADE6EBF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080903T183000 DTSTAMP:20080730T005731Z SUMMARY:New School Poetry CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080903T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:A "New York Times" journalist discovers a discarded old diar y--a find that introduces her to an extraordinary woman and a glamorous\ , forgotten time. Evocative and entrancing\, "The Red Leather Diary" rec reates the romance and glitter of 1930s New York. Photos throughout.\nAu thor : Lily Koppel\n\nUniversity Club\n1 W 54th UID:8FDF67F8-DABB-4CE1-9CB8-F0C2E0C7C0D4 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090128T171500 DTSTAMP:20081018T194959Z SUMMARY:The Red Leather Diary CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090128T191500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Ila Lane Gross\nAnimal Tales Around the World\n(Leap\, $19)\ nFREE\nNOON\n\nAnimal Tales is part of the acclaimed Global Understandin g book series with stories from around the world. This anthology contain s 12 fully illustrated stories for parents and young children to read al oud. Simple hands-on activities accompany each story giving children a c hance to participate in games\, arts\, and music from around the world. \n\nBryant Park Reading Series\n42nd St side\nunder burgandy umbrellas UID:D8FBB27B-AD02-4E0B-ABF2-78082359F5E3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080628T120000 DTSTAMP:20080611T200558Z SUMMARY:Bryant Park Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080628T130000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Nancy Star\nCarpool Diem\n(5-Spot\, $14)\nbuy tickets to mat inee show online or at theater\n11AM\n\nNancy Star\, who is participatin g in the Broadway play "Secrets of a Soccer Mom" will be selling her new comedy how-to about her family before and after the performance in the lobby of the Snapple Theater. \n\nSnapple Theater\n50th St @ Broadway \n\n UID:9B50E5E8-B971-40C9-B885-D153B42AF38A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080417T110000 DTSTAMP:20080407T163752Z SUMMARY:Nancy Star at Snapple Theater CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080417T130000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Patricia O'Conner\nWoe Is I\n(Riverhead\, $14)\nFREE\n6:30PM \n\nThe author of "Woe Is I\," and other books about language\, offers a nother exploration of the odd misconceptions and spurious etymologies th at have plagued English over the centuries.\n\nMidtown NYPL\n455 Fifth A venue UID:869F6A0D-055D-43D5-B576-14DBC9ABF026 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080528T183000 DTSTAMP:20080515T170707Z SUMMARY:Woe is I CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080528T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:New School\n\nPhillip Lopate\,author of Two Marriages\,\n\nR obert Polito\,moderator\n\n66 W 12th St\nroom 510\n\n$5\; free for stude nts/alumni UID:759C1FEC-2FBD-4415-AD0C-143064FF9AC0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081209T183000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204826Z SUMMARY:Fiction Forum CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081209T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Performance: Tales of an Urban Indian \n\nDarrell Dennis\nTw o Plays: Tales of an Urban Indian & The Trickster of 3rd Avenue East\nPl aywrights Canada Press\, $17.95\n\n "Dennis is a writer and performer to keep your eye on. Sparked by anger but suffused with humanity and humil ity\, his Tales are worth telling-and watching."- "NOW Magazine"\n\nThe Public Theater\n425 Lafayette Street\n7:45 pm\n UID:954192FD-159A-4DB0-B96B-B799CF511FAC TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090314T194500 DTSTAMP:20090119T184333Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090314T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Comicon\n10AM-7PM\nREGISTER at\nwww.nycomiccon.com\n\nNew Yo rk Comic Con is the East Coasts’ biggest and most exciting event. An eno rmous exhibit floor plays host to top industry exhibitors who all have t he latest and greatest in comics\, graphic novels\, anime\, manga\, vide o games\, toys\, movies and television\, and so much more! New York Comi c Con gives you access to the top industry talent\, panels\, and autogra ph sessions as well as sneak peaks at upcoming movies and television! Fa ns create the buzz with eye-catching costumes all weekend long whether i t is for fun\, or to participate in Cosplay contests and Anime sessions. TCG\, RPG and video games can be found on and off the show floor throug hout the weekend. With dedicated trade professional hours\, New York Com ic Con brings the business together to further enhance the industry.\n\n Featuring Dennis Calero\, Larry Doyle\, Evan Dorkin\, Joe Harris\, Stuar t Moore\, Colleen Doran\, Michael Gaydos\, Scott McCloud\, Spike Spradli n\n\nComicon\nJavitz Center\n655 West 34th Street\n\n UID:8E1FE6AD-8AC2-4F16-B3BB-465BF446137D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080419T100000 DTSTAMP:20080414T162153Z SUMMARY:Comicon CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080419T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Each year\, the Leon Levy Center for Biography selects a bio grapher of note to give our annual lecture.The Lecturer speaks on the pr ocess of researching and writing a biography\,with a focus on their curr ent work in progress.This year's lecture will be given by Stacy Schiff\, whose work in progress takes Cleopatra as its subject.Stacy Schiff is th e author of Great Improvisation: Franklin:France\,and theBirth of Americ a which won the 2005 George Washington Book Prize\,the Ambassador Award in America Studies\,and the Institute Francaise's Gilbert Chinard Prize. Schiff received the 2000 Pultzer Prize for Vera(Mrs.Vladimir Nabokov)\,p ublished by Random House.Her first book\,Saint-Exupery(Knof\,1994)was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the recipient of numerous award abro ad.\n\n\nThe Skylight Room(9100)\nCUNY Graduate Center for the Humanitie s\n365 5th Ave @ 34th St\n212 817-2005 UID:0A26DAA6-AD54-40DC-A58A-F0B7A19DFD5C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081105T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204831Z SUMMARY:First Annual Lecture on Biography\; Stacy Schiff CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081105T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:17 DESCRIPTION:Bill Green\nWater\, Ice and Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes \n(Bellevue\, $16)\nFREE\n5:30PM\n\nGreen snagged the J ohn Burroughs Medal in Nature Writing for this 1995 volume. In light of the growing global warming issue\, this book\, which unravels the geoche mistry of Antarctica's lakes\, could find a new audience.\n\nScience\, I ndustry and Business Library\nRoom 018\n188 Madison Avenue UID:6FE31F83-0DDA-4F0B-ADC1-70B86BB00883 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080624T173000 DTSTAMP:20080529T204328Z SUMMARY:Bill Green CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080624T193000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Kevin Goodan\nWinter Tenor\nAlice James Books\, $15.95\n\nPa rt pastoral\, part liturgy\, part litany\, and part phenology\, Goodan's poems search for the holy in the ordinary\, for little births in the bo dy of deaths\, for the light in the dark of winter. His poems risk the b ig questions: the nature of death and nature of life\, how closely one r esembles the other\, how one can be found in the other.\n\nOni Buchanan\ nSpring\nUniversity of Illinois Press\, $17.95\n\nA fierce collection of innovative\, emotive poetry.\n\n\nPacific Standard\n82 4th Avenue\nBroo klyn\n7:00 pm\nFree\n UID:EED215FB-A2F9-4B15-9198-2E586197F3C4 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090611T190000 DTSTAMP:20090511T184619Z SUMMARY:Chin Music Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090611T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:The Moth Thriller Series\n\nGeorge Dawes Green\nRavens\nGran d Central Publishing\, $24.99\n\nThe Boatwrights have just won the Georg ia State lottery. Unfortunately\, it's going to be the worst day of thei r lives as the family is taken hostage by two drifters intent on getting half the payout. At once frightening\, comic\, and suspenseful\, "Raven s" is wholly original and utterly compelling.\n\nPlayer's Club\n16 Grame rcy Park South\n7:30\n$25\n UID:305F0AE4-4E2E-4BAB-A5A5-2A369F189BD5 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090715T193000 DTSTAMP:20090511T191915Z SUMMARY:The Moth CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090715T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Friday Forum\n\nDoug Anderson\nBlues for Unemployed Secret P olice\nCurbstone Press\, $12.95\n\nThe Moon Reflected Fire\nAlice James Books\, $13.95\n\nJoshua Ferris\nThen We Came to the End\nBack Bay Books \, $13.99\n\nJoshua Kimball\nDear Everybody\nAlma Books\, $19.95\n\nLaur a Miller\nThe Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia\nLittle\ , Brown & Co. $25.99\n\nMini Book Fair for Pratt's "Friday Forum" Studen ts.\n\nPratt Institute\nExact Location TBA\nFort Greene\, Brooklyn\n12:0 0 pm\n\n\n UID:C589F6A2-4D22-4989-9EE7-D286ABBA6F40 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090123T120000 DTSTAMP:20090115T184444Z SUMMARY:Pratt Institute CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090123T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Lillian Vernon Writers House Emerging Writers Reading Series \n\nGerald Stern\nSave the Last Dance\nNorton\, $23.95\n\nIn "Save the Last Dance\," Gerald Stern gives us a stunning collection of his intimat ely personal--yet always universal\, and always surprising--poems\, rich with humor and insight. Shorter lyric poems in the first two parts cont inue the satirical and often redemptive vision of his last collection\, "Everything Is Burning\," while never failing to carve out new emotional territory. In the third part\, a long poem called "The Preacher\," Ster n takes the book of Ecclesiastes as a starting point for a meditation on loss\, futility\, and emptiness\, represented here by the concept of a "hole" that resurfaces throughout.\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4th Street\n7:00 pm \nFree\n\n UID:5E4CA250-3A6A-4B98-A277-393DB4816924 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090220T190000 DTSTAMP:20090119T172639Z SUMMARY:LV Emerging Writers CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090220T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Caroline Knox is the winner of the 2005 Maurice English Awar d and the author of six collections of poetry\, most recently He Paves t he Road with Iron Bars (Verse Press\, 2004). Her poems have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement\, Paris Review\, and elsewhere. She has re ceived awards from the NEA\, Ingram Merrill Foundation\, Massachusetts C ultural Council\, and Poetry magazine.\n\nFree\n\n85 East4th St. UID:368E29A5-FB46-48BA-823A-CF1AC4BDBBC0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080922T193000 DTSTAMP:20080904T171506Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry Reading Series@KGB CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080922T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:The Women's National Book Association presents\n\nDavid Henr y Sterry and Arielle Ekstut\nPutting Your Passion Into Print: Get Your B ook Published Successfully! \n(Workman\, $15)\n\n\nThis nuts-and-bolts g uide demystifies every aspect of the publishing process and shares a wea lth of experience and insight from people who've been there and done tha t. Includes interviews with hundreds of publishing insiders\, agents\, e ditors\, authors\, and booksellers\; side boxes featuring real-life publ ishing success stories\; and more.\n\nGeneral Society Library\n20 West 4 4th Street\n\n UID:1ECD8BC5-D3B6-4F66-BDAA-09E9BDCDB0D9 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080319T180000 DTSTAMP:20080318T205819Z SUMMARY:WNBA CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080319T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:Stephen Dobyns\nVelocities \nPenguin\, $18\n\nLee Briccetti\ nDay Mark\nFour Way Press\, $14.95\n\nLee Briccetti is the daughter of K eats\, of Maria Callas\, of a mother who read to her first in Italy\, an d then in America. She is both schooled and artisan-like as a maker of p oems and also a bit of a provocateuse\, an experimentalist. In her compa ny we maneuver alongside of someone full of wisdom and experience who is nonetheless continually curious\, thirsty\, lusty\, out on a limb in se arch of more knowledge\, more understanding\, and more visionary ecstasy .\n\nTed Mathys\nForge\nCoffee House Press\, $15\n\nContemporary Ohio\, New York\, and Eastern Europe form the backdrop for the beauty and patho s unleashed in these poems. Using the vernacular of his Rust Belt herita ge\, Mathys builds upon memory and myth in a passionate exploration of c ulture\, faith\, sexuality\, and artistic creation. Reaffirming poetry's place in shaping the perceptions of our world\, these tensile\, incanta tory poems find lyric grace in shaping a poetics amidst the fragmentatio n of society.\n\n\n11th Street Bar\n510 E.11th St\nbtw A-B Avenue\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n\n\n UID:4967A46A-2700-4703-9C7B-9759E8C6E19A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090216T190000 DTSTAMP:20090203T155020Z SUMMARY:Triptych Readings CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090216T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:"Trunk Show"\nwith former Project Runway designer.\n\nThe Ur ban Alchemist Boutique\n343 5th St.(bet5th-6thAves.\nBrooklyn\n\n\n\n\n UID:46D6C717-996B-4F64-B83C-02380B763E8A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080906T200000 DTSTAMP:20080903T212059Z SUMMARY:Denim Mania @ The Urban Alchemist CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080906T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Andy Christie hosts The Liar Show at Bryant Park\nFREE\n12:3 0PM\n\nWith authors Phira Eisenbert\, Eve Lederman\, Alix Strauss\n\nBry ant Park\n42nd and 5th Ave\n UID:C3C8868F-3FAF-47BD-BDC6-4404C18BDC37 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080702T123000 DTSTAMP:20080505T215522Z SUMMARY:Word for Word CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080702T134500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (Cave Canem Antholog y) \n(University of Georgia\, $15)\n7PM\n\n19 University Place\, First F loor Auditorium\n UID:82C0651E-9814-4BE1-9295-B1F7DB6247B8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080425T190000 DTSTAMP:20080424T201846Z SUMMARY:NYU CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080425T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Alex Storozynski\nThe Peasant Prince\nThomas Dunne Books\, $ 29.95\n\nThaddeus Kosciuszko\, a Polish-Lithuanian born in 1746\, was on e of the most important figures of the modern world. Fleeing his homelan d after a death sentence was placed on his head (when he dared court a w oman above his station)\, he came to America one month after the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, literally showing up on Benjamin F ranklin's doorstep in Philadelphia with little more than a revolutionary spirit and a genius for engineering.\n\nPolish Consulate\n233 Madison A venue\n7:00 pm\n\n UID:03EE47C9-EF5C-4934-8C57-16EBBDF8C571 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090430T190000 DTSTAMP:20090310T201213Z SUMMARY:Polish Consulate CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090430T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Rosaray O'Niell\nA Louisiana Gentleman and Other Comedies\na nd\nGhosts of New Orleans\n(Samuel French)\ncall 212 475 3424\n6PM\n\nMa rquis Room of\nThe National Arts Club\n15 Gramercy Park South UID:A6F84FC4-21D5-4AB9-913A-A25A59FDB20C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080509T180000 DTSTAMP:20080424T193232Z SUMMARY:Rosary O'Neill CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080509T193000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:Institute for Comparative Literature and Society \n\nAdrienn e Rich\nA Human Eye\nW.W. Norton and Co\, $24.95\n\nOne of America's mos t distinguished poets explores the complex relationship between art and social justice.\n\nAntjie Krog\nCountry of My Skull\nThree Rivers Press\ , $16\n\n\nColumbia University\n420 West 118th Street\nAltschul Auditori um\n8:00 pm\n UID:820FCC2A-4C8E-43A3-94AB-919D7385530D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090428T200000 DTSTAMP:20090415T142944Z SUMMARY:Columbia University CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090428T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Stacy Horn\nUnbelievable\nEcco\, $24.95\n\nNational Public R adio contributor Horn investigates science's first attempts to prove--or disprove--the existence of the paranormal\, bringing to light a half-ce ntury's worth of ghost stories\, poltergeists\, and paranormal activity. \n\nPolaris North Theatre\n245 West 29th Street\n4th Floor\n3:00 pm UID:A339AAC0-90DA-4FD5-B54C-3F363D18E753 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090628T150000 DTSTAMP:20090602T152152Z SUMMARY:Polaris North Theatre CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090628T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Half King Reading Series\n\nAuthor TBA\n\nThe Half King\n505 West 23rd Street\n7:00 pm\nFree UID:4EDC8F26-EF3C-4CE5-84E4-3ECDBF882E50 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090223T190000 DTSTAMP:20090112T205844Z SUMMARY:Half King CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090223T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Martha Foose\nScreen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook \n(Clarkson N. Potter\, $33)\nFREE\nNOON\n\nWith hu morous and touching tales and useful information on ingredients\, techni ques\, storage\, short-cuts\, variations--and more than 150 recipes--thi s is a must-read for anyone who craves a return to good eating.\n\nCentr al Park\nEast Meadow\nenter at 5th Ave and 97th St\n UID:2067B51E-C3C6-47B7-A1EA-D1B2203A0CFA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080607T120000 DTSTAMP:20080602T211737Z SUMMARY:Mississippi Picnic 2008 CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080607T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Earshot Reading Series\n\nLive Nude Girl\nKathleen Rooney\nU niversity of Arkansas Press\, $22.50\n\nLive Nude Girl: My Life as an Ob ject is a lively meditation on the profession of art modeling as it has been practiced in history and as it is practiced today. Kathleen Rooney draws on her own experiences working as an artistsa model\, as well as t he famous\, notorious\, and mysterious artists and models through the ag es. Through a combination of personal perspective\, historical anecdote\ , and witty prose\, Life Nude Girl reveals that both the appeal of posin g nude for artists and the appeal of drawing the naked figure lie in our deeply human responses to beauty\, sex\, love\, and death.\n\nKyle Mino r\nIn the Devil's Territory\nDzanc Books\, $16.95\n\nA collection of sto ries and novellas about the choices we face and where those decisions le ad us\, including "A Day Meant to Do Less\," a "Best American Mystery St ories 2008 "selection.\n\nRose Live Music\n345 Grand Street\nWilliamsbur g\, Brooklyn\n8:00 pm\n$5/1 Free Drink\n\n\n UID:E4B01D66-DFA3-4287-A8BD-3656FD564FBD TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090220T200000 DTSTAMP:20090126T203349Z SUMMARY:Earshot CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090220T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Ted Sorensen\nCounselor: Life at the Edge of History\nHarpe r\, $28\n\n\n\nIn an intimate\, deeply revealing memoir from John F. Ken nedy's legendary right-hand man\, Sorensen recounts his experience advis ing JFK during some of the most heated moments in history.\n\n58 E. 68th Street UID:F086DDC3-41EC-4D38-8CB8-926B4E2E9FB8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080917T123000 DTSTAMP:20080824T201704Z SUMMARY:Council on Foreign Relations CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080917T143000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:The Book Party for upcoming book by Alan Zweibel Clothing Op tional: And Other Ways to Read These Stories\n(Villards Book\,$22)\n\nAn original Saturday Night Live writer\, Alan Zweibel has won numerous Emm y and Writers Guild awards for his work in television\, which also inclu des It's Garry Shandling's Show (which he co-created and produced)\, PBS 's Great Performances\, and Curb Your Enthusiasm. His many critically ac claimed theater credits include Bunny Bunny: Gilda Radner\, A Sort of Ro mantic Comedy\, which he adapted from his own book\, as well as collabor ating with Billy Crystal on his one-man 700 Sundays. He recently publish ed a children's book titled Our Tree Named Steve\, and his fiction has a ppeared in such diverse publications as Esquire\, The Atlantic Monthly\, and Mad magazine. Alan and his wife\, Robin\, live in Los Angeles and N ew Jersey and have three children\, Adam\, Lindsay\, and Sari.\n\nThe na tional Art Club\n15 Gramercy Park South \n\n**National Arts Club Require s coat and tie for Gentleman. Nicely Dressed for woman UID:10617BE5-D5AA-4415-A8AA-C859C8D29247 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080919T180000 DTSTAMP:20080909T194133Z SUMMARY:Alan Zweibel Book Party CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080919T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:The rollicking true story of British spies who shaped Americ an policy during WWII\, told by the bestselling author of "109 East Pala ce\," \nWhen dashing young RAF pilot Roald Dahl ("that" Roald Dahl) took up his post at the British Embassy in 1942\, his assignment was to use his good looks\, wit\, and charm to gain access to the most powerful fig ures in American political life. He and his co-conspirators David Ogilvy \, Ivar Bryce\, and Ian Fleming ("that" Ian Fleming) called themselves t he Baker Street Irregulars after the band of street urchins in some Sher lock Holmes stories. Their goals: to weaken the American isolationist fo rces\, bring the country into the war against Germany\, and influence U. S. policy in favor of England. Their mastermind: Churchill's legendary s py chief\, William Stephenson\, code name "Intrepid\," who would later s erve as the model for Fleming's James Bond. \nBased on never-before-seen wartime letters\, diaries\, and interviews\, this lively account of dec eit\, doubledealing\, and moral ambiguity is richly detailed\, carefully researched\, and better than any spy fiction. \n(HighBridge\,$34.95)\n\ nJENNET CONANT is a journalist who has written profiles for "Vanity Fair \, Esquire\, GQ\, Newsweek\, " and "The New York Times. " She is the aut hor of the bestselling "Tuxedo Park "and" 109 East Palace. "Conant lives in New York City and Sag Harbor\, New York. \n\nUniversity Club Library \n1 W.54th St.\nMain Dining Room 7th Floor UID:D361A4D8-F357-410F-B8CA-E9584580D908 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081030T180000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204824Z SUMMARY:The Irregulars:Roald Dahl and the British spy Ring in Wartime Wa shington CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081030T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:0 DESCRIPTION:The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (Cave Canem Antholog y) \n(University of Georgia\, $15)\n6:30PM\n$5\n\nThe Theresa Lang Cente r\, Arnold Hall\n55 West 13th Street\, 2nd Floor \n UID:620D8343-32F4-4316-A129-7F117352099C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080429T183000 DTSTAMP:20080426T005800Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080429T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Neil MacFarquhar\nThe Media Relations Department of Hizbolla h Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Mid dle East \nPublicAffairs\, $26.95\n\nA "New York Times" correspondent's affectionate\, irreverent portrait of the Middle East he's known since c hildhood--an unexplored place hidden behind the usual headlines.\n\nHalf King\n505 W.23rd Street\n7:00 pm\nFree\n UID:201BA1C7-F5C6-4DC7-9703-318D8253CF05 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090622T190000 DTSTAMP:20090423T170514Z SUMMARY:Half King CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090622T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:The Paris Review Salon\nColum McCann and Padgett Powell\nThe Paris Review Salon features acclaimed fiction writers Colum McCann and Padgett Powell in a reading hosted by editor Chris Cox.\n\nCo-sponsored by The Paris Review\n\nLillian Vernon Creative Writers House\, 58 West 1 0th Street\, between 5th and 6th Avenues UID:E9B2F54F-5BD4-4F35-A975-BE1AA8B685CD TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090129T190000 DTSTAMP:20090116T153356Z SUMMARY:LV Writers House CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090129T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Sunday Best Reading Series\n\nSpeak Up\, Past!\n\nJune Cross \nSecret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Awa y\nPenguin\, $15\n\nIn this poignant memoir and follow-up to Cross' Emmy Award-winning documentary\, she deftly portrays the strains of a compli cated family structure\, ruptured by race\, secrecy\, and human fallibil ity.\n\nThe Lounge at Hudson View Gardens\nPinehurst Avenue at 183rd Str eet\n$7 Admission gets you 1 free drink\n4:00 pm\n UID:17ED5500-B4FC-490A-AFA7-E77AB2457722 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090308T160000 DTSTAMP:20081219T214129Z SUMMARY:Sunday Best CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090308T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Kate Colby\nUnbecoming Behavior \n(Ugly Duckling Press\, $14 )\n\nMonica de la Torre\nTalk Shows\n(Switchback Press\, $14)\n\nHosted by Laura Cronk and Michael Quattrone\n\nKGB Bar \n5 East 4th Street\n\n UID:CE69464A-6380-40F7-AA85-06D658ACD30A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080414T193000 DTSTAMP:20080324T162018Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080414T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Wilhelmena Rhodes Kelly\nBedford-Stuyvesant\nArcadia Publish ing\, $19.99\n\nThe heart of Bedford-Stuyvesant is still found in the ne ar-forgotten settlement of Brooklynas Bedford Corners\, a Dutch township colonized in 1667\, where ancient Native American trails determined its now major thoroughfares\, and where Colonial patriots fought the Britis h in the countryas struggle for independence. Bedford-Stuyvesant remaine d a quiet farming hamlet until the 1880s when rapid subway transportatio n\, construction of the Brooklyn Bridge\, and the burgeoning population of Manhattan combined to forge one of Americaas first and finest suburba n communities. Bedford-Stuyvesant details the evolution of this neighbor hood\, home to the nationas \nsecond largest African American community\ , and it documents how this urban center is now finally enjoying new reg ard for its wealth of architecture and its notable place in American his tory.\n\nBrooklyn Library\nBrooklyn Collection\nGrand Army Plaza\n7:00 p m\n\n UID:A5CE012C-64A7-44E0-AD0B-2F5E691F742A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090930T190000 DTSTAMP:20090324T191720Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090930T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Robert Zimmerman\nThe Universe in a Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It \n(Princeton U P ress\, $30)\nTickets $20 -PLEASE CALL 212-628-8383\n7PM\n\nZimmerman dem onstrates the importance of vision\, perseverance\, politics\, and good luck in getting this national telescope constructed\, fixed\, and operat ed. He also illustrates\, somewhat poignantly at times\, the human costs and disappointments that came up along the way. \n\nExplorers Club\n46 E 70th St. UID:BCAC21FD-8639-4D41-9DD7-4AAEBC07FB9D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080630T190000 DTSTAMP:20080514T203245Z SUMMARY:The Hubble Telescope CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080630T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:18 DESCRIPTION:Larger than Life - Portraying the Iconic Artist\n\nPatricia Bosworth\nDiane Arbus: A Biography\nNorton\, $18.95\n\nDiane Arbus's uns ettling photographs of dwarves\, twins\, transvestites\, and giants both polarized and inspired\, and her work had already become legendary when she committed suicide in 1971. This groundbreaking biography examines t he private life behind Arbus's controversial art.\n\nMarlon Brando\nViki ng Penguin\, $21.95\n\nMarlon Brando\, best known for his roles as the m otorcycle rebel who epitomized restless youth in The Wild Ones and as th e powerful Don Corleone in The Godfather\, has mesmerized audiences for the last 50 years. Although many biographies have been written on Brando not to mention an autobiography Bosworth (Portrait of Montgomery Clift) offers a fascinating look into his charismatic genius. Though she gives a glimpse into the personal conflicts that influenced his work\, Boswor th focuses her attention on Brando's professional achievements. She crea tes a sensitive portrait of a man so uncomfortable with his celebrity st atus that he embarked on a course of self-destruction.\n\nGreg Tate\nMid night Lightning: Jimi Hendrix and the Black Experience\nLawrence Hill Bo oks\, $18.95\n\n"This is not Everyman's Guide to Jimi Hendrix\," forewar ns Tate\, a longtime staff writer for the Village Voice\; it's a book wi th a racial agenda: "A Jimi book with plantation baggage\, darkskin bias es\, and Black Power axes to grind." Tate avoids the tablature and Clapt onisms that pervade many of the romantic revisions of Hendrix's brief li fe as an influential guitar god. Instead\, he addresses the demographic paradox of Jimi's public image. Although his musical and social roots we re dark black\, Hendrix was marketed as white and seemingly could break\ , with impunity\, as many social taboos as he could musical taboos (e.g. \, dating white girls when similar offenses earned Sammy Davis Jr. death threats). Tate shows how Hendrix's disregard for the race card put him decades ahead in society\, as well as in music. \n\nCUNY Center for the Humanities\nElebash Recital hall\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n UID:DEF4725E-2611-4A92-B9FB-B1580806F529 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090202T190000 DTSTAMP:20090115T152747Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090202T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:23 E 4th St\nStudy\n\nBarry Smith-Questions of Taste: Philos phy of Wine UID:05730DA2-5077-4DBF-B389-C619ED7EC485 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071204T183000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195247Z SUMMARY:Astor Center CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071204T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Lucette Lagnado\nThe Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewi sh Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World\nEcco\, $25.95\n\nThi s poignant and breathtaking memoir from an award-winning "Wall Street Jo urnal" reporter recounts the exile of her family from Egypt and her fath ers heroic and tragic struggle to survive his riches to rags trajectory. \n\n\nBrooklyn Library\nDweck Center\nGrand Army Plaza\n4:00 pm\nFree\n\ n UID:11CAAE3D-01E6-476F-AA55-7AED58BDF164 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090404T160000 DTSTAMP:20090302T164407Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090404T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Mediabistro Circus conference\n\nMobile Libris will be hosti ng a bookstore at the conference\, and selling a variety of authors book over the 2 days.\n\na 2-day summit on media and technology\nvisit media bistro.com to see their schedule of events.\n\nSkylight Studios\n275 Hud son St UID:0C5E6441-586B-449F-8B65-E7D2929D4974 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080520T090000 DTSTAMP:20080422T172618Z SUMMARY:Mediabistro Circus CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080520T233000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Steven Greenhouse\nThe Big Squeeze\n(Knopg\, $26)\n8:30AM\n\ n "The Big Squeeze" takes a probing\, sometimes shocking look at the str esses and strains faced by an alarming number of American workers--white - and blue-collar\, middle- and low-income--as wages have stagnated\, he alth and pension benefits have grown stingier\, and job security has shr iveled.\n\nCUNY\nMurphy Labor Center\n25 W 43rd St \n18th Floor\n UID:58737193-A115-4B49-A53E-CB5DFE71D6F5 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080508T083000 DTSTAMP:20080502T161415Z SUMMARY:CUNY Murphy Labor Center CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080508T103000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Is Equality Secular?\n\nDetails to come.\n\nCUNY Center for the Humanities\n365 Fifth Avenue\nThe Skylight Room 9100\n4:00 pm\nFree UID:F1E85DA2-2023-41C7-81B6-E25E9A85B1BB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090306T160000 DTSTAMP:20090115T162921Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090306T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Trussoni\, Danielle \nFalling Through The Earth: A Memoir\n( Picador\, $14)\nContact (212) 642-2094 for event info\n6PM\n\nDanielle T russoni unflinchingly explores a daughter's love for her flawed father a nd confronts the demons that haunt them both. R"Falling Through the Eart h" is tender and tough\, harrowing and triumphant.S--Jeanette Walls\, au thor of "The Glass Castle."\n\nThe John D. Calandra Italian American Ins titute\n25 W 43rd St\, 17th floor\n \n UID:29F629AE-F45D-44D7-8B84-DDF1F001792E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080417T180000 DTSTAMP:20080410T222948Z SUMMARY:John D. Calandra Italian American Institute CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080417T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:John Reed \nA book editor of Brooklyn Rail.Author of the wh ole\,A small Quiet Voice and Snowball's Choice.He reads from his book: A ll The World's Grave.\n\nDonald Breckenridge \nTHe Fiction Editor of The Brooklyn Rail and Editor of the Brooklyn Rail Fiction Anthology(Hanging Loose Press\,2006) and recently was nominated for a Pen/Nora magid Awar d. In addition\,he is the author of more than a dozen plays as well as t he novella Rockaway Wherein\,and the novel 6/2/95. His second novel Arab esques for Sauquoit is forthcoming from Autonomedia. He reads from his n ovel : YOU ARE HERE-\n\n\nFREE\n7 pm\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4th St.\n UID:62D7C75C-EA1B-4ED9-8EC3-12F4EACB0F31 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081005T190000 DTSTAMP:20080911T161721Z SUMMARY:KGB Fiction CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081005T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Joshua Henkin\nMatrimony \n(Pantheon\, $24)\n6:30PM\nFREE\n\ nIn its emotional honesty\, its luminous prose\, its generosity and wry wit\, "Matrimony" is a beautifully detailed portrait of what it means to share a life with someone-to do it when you're young\, and to try to do it afresh on the brink of middle age. \n\nOne Story Reading Series\nPia nos\n158 Ludlow St.\n\n\n\n UID:E832E790-5D27-4762-8CC3-045207C310EF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080605T183000 DTSTAMP:20080408T215629Z SUMMARY:One Story Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080605T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Reading and Talking Realism: An Evening with Open City and M r. Beller's Neighborhood\n7:00 pm\nTickets $5\n\nThe long reign of reali sm as the dominant mode of writing narrative works shows no end in sight . This event will combine the fun of a typical reading with a rare oppo rtunity for readers and writers to talk about the strength of the realis t mode in fictionin the past\, present\, and future. The two-part eveni ng will feature writers Keith Gessen\, Jenny Davidson\, Frederic tuten a nd Eileen Myles followed by a panel discussion with the writers led by O pen city editor Joanna Yas and Mr. Beller's Neighborhood editor Patrick Gallagher about the tradition of realism in literature and how their wor k both derives and rebels against it. \n\nThe Kitchen\n512 W 19th Stree t\n212-255-5793 UID:7ED933D6-A1BE-4F02-9D37-F1127781D89D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080303T190000 DTSTAMP:20080219T174831Z SUMMARY:Realism Panel CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080303T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:14 DESCRIPTION:Harvey Shapiro\nThe Sights Along the Harbor\nWesleyan Univer sity Press\, $22.95\n\nSusan Wheeler\nAssorted Poems\nFSG\, $25\n\nHugh Seidman\nSomebody Stand Up and Sing\nPartners Publishers\, $14\n\nSelect ed Poems\nMiami University Press\, $20.95\n\nBill Zavatsky\nWhere X Mark s the Spot\n\nKimiko Hahn\nThe Artist's Daughter\nNorton\, $12.95\n\nBow ery Poetry Club\n308 Bowery\n2:00 pm\n\n\n\n UID:0EA08804-A794-4202-9022-2E30E9FACF78 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090502T140000 DTSTAMP:20090223T185734Z SUMMARY:Bowery Poetry Club CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090502T153000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:With wit and charm\, the authors of the bestselling "Hookup Handbook" frankly explore friendship like no one has before--reminding r eaders why best friends are often the most important people in their liv es.\n(Harper Paperbacks\,$14.95)\n\nAndrea Lavinthal is an editor at "Co smopolitan". Jessica Rozler works in book publishing. They are the autho rs of "The Hookup Handbook: A Single Girl's Guide to Living It Up". Both live in New York City.\n\nQueens Library\nSteinway Library\n21-45 31st Sts UID:FA6DA451-BB2A-4A8C-BF67-833F925D45D4 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081023T183000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204833Z SUMMARY:Friend or Frenemy?: A Guide to the Friends You Need and the Ones You Don't CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081023T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Ph.D Program in English and the Center f or the study of Woman and Society\nMarina Warner expores the manifestati ons of tradition magical thought in contemporary culture and media\,spec ifically the reimaging of the metaphor of flight and the terms "talisman " and "shaman" in the cyberage.\n\nMarina Warner is a Professor in the d epartment of literature\,Film and Theatre Studies at the University of E ssex\,and the author of Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions\,Metaphors\,and M edia into the twenty-first Century.\n\nMartin E.Segal Theatre\nCUNY Grad uate Center for the Humanities\n365 5th Ave @ 34th St\n212 817-2005 UID:5319F748-D907-4D79-89B0-E12FF96A9AC5 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081031T160000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204829Z SUMMARY:Enchanted States: The Shaman's Flight in Modern Times\;Marina Wa rner CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081031T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:2008 New York Pest Expo\nVetaran's Day.\n\nJoin us for the f inest pest management training and exposition program in New York.\nGet connected with the area's leading pest control professionals.\nView exhi bits and discuss product features with representatves from the major man ufacturers and business services providers.\nLast chance to earn recerti fication credits in 2008.\nMeet authors and featured speakers Harvey Gol dlantz( Marketing matters) and Dr. Bill Schutt ( Dark Banquet) who will be on hand to sign copies of their latest books.\n\n\nThe Armory Site of the US Track&Field Hall of Fame\n216 Fort Washington Ave.\n(168-169 Sts ) UID:6BF5F758-91FF-4873-8C9C-28AFDC3CDD61 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081111T090000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194956Z SUMMARY:Dr.Bill Schutt : Dark Banquet CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081111T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:The Lost Ravioli\n\n\n\n\n167 W 12th Street\n\nLaura Schenon e - The Lost Ravioli UID:D11540CE-0F58-4171-B7FA-8E7E875C6AEE TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080917T120000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204830Z SUMMARY:Beard on Books CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080917T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Happy Ending Music and Reading Series\nHosted by Amanda Ster n\n8:00 pm\nFREE\n\nSteve Toltz\nMargot Livesey\nChris Adrian\n\nhttp:// www.amandastern.com/happyending.html\n\nHappy Ending\n302 E Broome St\n UID:D6E09941-09FD-45AF-81A5-1F0ECCBCFC37 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080227T200000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204824Z SUMMARY:Happy Ending CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080227T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Benjamin Skinner\nA Crime So Monstrous: Face-To-Face with Mo dern-Day Slavery (Free Press\, $26)\n7:00 pm \nFREE\n\nBased on four yea rs of research in over a dozen countries across the globe\, journalist S kinner provides a shocking expos of the inner workings of the modern-day slave trade. \n\nThe Half King\n505 W 23rd St UID:210AF77B-7FEB-424C-9CD4-C272E1D0EF9A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080407T190000 DTSTAMP:20080321T193729Z SUMMARY:The Half King CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080407T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:EXACT TIME TBA!!!!!!!\n\nPhilip Hook\nThe Ultimate Trophy: H ow the Impressionist Painting Conquered the World \nPrestel Publishing\, $29.95\n\nIn 1892 Degas' painting In the Cafe was sold for a mere 180 g uineas at auction\, with the public hissing as the hammer fell. Less tha n a century later another Impressionist work\, Renoir's Moulin de la Gal ette\, sold at Sotheby's for $78 million\, accompanied by enthusiastic a pplause. In this history-cummemoir Philip Hook\, Senior Director of Soth eby's Impressionist and Modern Art department\, examines the public's ch ange of heart toward Impressionism. Starting with its shocking novelty a nd confounding style\, he traces the impact of the Impressionist paintin g as it spread to Germany\, America\, and Great Britain\, polarizing mod ernists and conservatives. Equally fascinating is the story of Impressio nism's change in status. More than exceptionally pretty pictures\, Impre ssionist works have become a currency in their own right\, being bought and sold like blue-chip stock coveted as much for their monetary worth a s for their intrinsic beauty. Drawn from Hook's own experiences with art collectors and dealers\, this fascinating chapter in art history is nar rated through the lens of today's art market.\n\nSotheby's\n1334 York Av enue\nExact time TBA!\n\n\n\n\n UID:32350DC5-D132-4C13-AC8F-2C300DD7B4D0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090114T180000 DTSTAMP:20090108T185419Z SUMMARY:Sotheby's CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090114T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Adam Gopnik\nThrough the Children's Gate: A Home in New York (Vintage\, $15)\n7:30 pm\nFREE\n\nHear well-known authors talk about th eir approaches to writing and learn the secrets of their success. A ques tions and answer session\, book signing and reception will follow each l ecture. Limited space. RSVP 212-774-0780.\n\nMarymount Manhattan\n221 Ea st 71st Street\n\n UID:C3ACC28F-49CA-42A1-AA6E-46908D67EF18 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080305T193000 DTSTAMP:20080219T194447Z SUMMARY:Adam Gopnik CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080305T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Leslie Day\nField Guide to the Natural World\n(Johns Hopkins \, $25)\n1:30PM\nFREE\n\nLeslie Day\, a New York City naturalist\, revea ls this amazing world in her Field Guide to the Natural World of New Yor k City. Combining the stunning paintings of Mark A. Klingler with a vari ety of photographs and maps\, this book is a complete guide for the urba n naturalist -- with tips on identifying the city's flora and fauna and maps showing the nearest subway stop.\n\nRiver Run Playground\n82nd Stre et near Riverside Drive\n\n\n\n UID:1C391050-E3BB-4C8E-A8BB-B8EB88087758 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080608T133000 DTSTAMP:20080414T153552Z SUMMARY:Leslie Day at Riverside Playground CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080608T153000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Paul Lacy\nBrooklyn Storefronts (Norton\, $18)\n7:00 PM\nFRE E\n\nPhotographer Lacy has managed to capture every conceivable type of shop\, decorated with spectacular and wildly varied songs and displays a nd representing countless ethnic groups.\n\nCentral Branch\nGrand Army P laza\nDweck Auditorium UID:B1A78461-22AE-457E-99EB-42CC4DDC2142 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080326T190000 DTSTAMP:20080218T174030Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Storefronts CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080326T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Erin Einhorn\nThe Pages in Between\nTouchstone Books\, $16\n \nIn this extraordinarily moving memoir\, Einhorn finds the family in Po land that had saved her mother from the Holocaust and stumbles upon a de cades-old land dispute that leads her to ask: How far should one go to r ectify the past? 8-pages of b&w photos.\n\nAlice Feiring\nThe Battle for Wine and Love\nMariner Books\, $13.95\n\nI want my wines to tell a good story. I want them natural and most of all\, like my dear friends\, I w ant them to speak the truth even if we argue\," says Alice Feiring. Join her as she sets off on her one-woman crusade against the tyranny of hom ogenization\, wine consultants\, and\, of course\, the 100-point scoring system of a certain all-powerful wine writer. Traveling through the anc ient vineyards of the Loire and Champagne\, to Piedmont and Spain\, she goes in search of authentic barolo\, the last old-style rioja\, and the tastiest new terroir-driven champagnes. She reveals just what goes into the average bottle--the reverse osmosis\, the yeasts and enzymes\, the s awdust and oak chips--and why she doesn't find much to drink in Californ ia. And she introduces rebel winemakers who are embracing old-fashioned techniques and making wines with individuality and soul.\n\n\n\n UID:28093EE8-006F-4687-B0E0-A8AD1FE8E7B5 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090720T200000 DTSTAMP:20090615T183604Z SUMMARY:Franklin Park CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090720T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Jordan LaRouse and Samantha Sade\nOysters and Chocolate: Ero tic Stories of Every Flavor\nNew American Library\, $15\n\nA mouth-water ing anthology from the creators of the popular online destination for wo menas erotica \nThe naughty masterminds behind OystersandChocolate.com s erve up a tasty anthology like no other. \nIt's for readers who crave th e classic\, creamy taste of smooth vanilla\, for readers who like the st ing of a bittersweet whip of black licorice\, for readers who delight in a cocktail with a dirty twist\, for readers who prefer the succulent ta ste of a sweet-scented oyster. \nFrom the premier source of boundary-pus hing erotica comes an anthology that dares to cross the spectrum of sexu ality and sensuality - from the tenderly romantic to the totally taboo. Whatever youare craving\, "Oysters & Chocolate" fulfills every desire\, no matter how decadent\, how wanton\, or how delicious\n\nThe GLBT Cente r\n208 W. 13th Street\n6:30 pm\n$10\n UID:21C1B064-9E30-4451-AF98-E35C02D43482 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090522T183000 DTSTAMP:20090422T193926Z SUMMARY:The GLBT Center CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090522T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:Bob Luke\nThe Baltimore Elite Giants: Sport and Society in t he Age of Negro League Baseball\nJohns Hopkins University Press\, $29.95 \n\nJeff Pearlman\nThe Rocket that Fell to Earth: Roger Clemens and the Rage for Baseball Immortality\nHarper\, $26.95\n\nThe "New York Times"-b estselling author of "Boys Will Be Boys" and "The Bad Guys Won!" deliver s this explosive account of the rise and fall of Roger Clemens--arguably the best pitcher of all time.\n\nJon Wertheim\nStrokes of Genius: Feder er\, Nadal\, and the Greatest Match Ever Played\nHoughton Mifflin Harcou rt\, $24\n\nExact location TBA\n\n\n\n UID:B382C90F-F892-416E-858B-108B2037E162 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090604T190000 DTSTAMP:20090427T190006Z SUMMARY:Varsity Letters CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090604T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Jews and Power - A Festival of Ideas\nFestival Pass $20\nVIS IT http://nextbook.org/festivals/ny2008.html\n11AM to 5PM\n\nAvivah Zorn berg\, Leon Botstein\, Stephen Greenblatt\, James Shapiro\, Paul Berman\ , Aaron David Miller\, Warren Bass\, Dagmar Herzog\, Stuart Klawans\, Gi deon Lewis-Kraus\, Shalom Auslander\, Rebecca Goldstein\, Sara Ivry\, Cy nthia Ozick\, Ruth Wisse\, Bret Stephens \n\nThe Times Center\n242 W 41 St\n\n\n UID:7EC4C28F-CFB7-4C12-A627-EB593D737298 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080518T110000 DTSTAMP:20080402T190924Z SUMMARY:Jews and Power a Festival of Ideas CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080518T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Arthur Danto\nEric Fischl 1970-2007\n(Monacelli Press\, $85) \nFREE\n6PM\n\nCelebrating a new compendium of paintings by Eric Fischl. \n\nThe New York Academy of Art\n111 Franklin St UID:7E26FEE9-9596-42CA-B39F-EBD7DBAF8416 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080508T180000 DTSTAMP:20080424T192212Z SUMMARY:Eric Fischl book signing CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080508T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Great Issues Forum\nPower and Religion: Christian Thought\n\ nDouglas W. Kmeic\nCan a Catholic Support Him? Asking the Big Questions About Barack Obama\nOverlook Press\, $12\n\nOn April 18\, 2008\, Douglas W. Kmiec was denied Communion at a Catholic Mass in Westlake\, Californ ia. Ironically\, Kmiec had been invited by a Catholic business group to give a dinner address on the Bishop's teaching of Faithful Citizenship. Kmiec had served as head of the Office of Legal Counsel for both Ronald Regan and George H. W. Bush. But now\, he found himself rejected by his faithasimply for endorsing the presidential campaign of Senator Barack O bama. \nIn "Can a Catholic Support Him?\," Kmiec offers us a thoughtful explanation of his rationale. He addresses the difficult questions at th e core of his decision: Can a Catholic support a Pro-Choice candidate? C an there be a reverence for life that embraces a larger set of values? H ow does a Catholic citizen balance his obligations to the Church and to community? In asking these questions\, he challenges those whose partisa n interests are provoking a false rift between the Catholic Church and t he Democratic party. \nThis inquiry could hardly be more timely. Catholi cs have been on the side of the top vote-getter in the last nine preside ntial elections\, and make up roughly one fourth of the electorate. This provocative bookaat once a legal and religious treatise and a sincere a nd personal journey of faithawill be an irreplaceable contribution to th e conversation\, in 2008 and beyond.\n\nCUNY Center for the Humanities\n 365 Fifth Avenue\nMartin E. Segal Theater\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n UID:278B939D-FD4C-47DB-A2BF-03BE3F5C1DCF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090316T190000 DTSTAMP:20090115T175309Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090316T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Sergio Ramirez\nMargarita\, How Beautiful the Sea \n(Curbsto ne\, $16)\n6:30\nCall 212 650 6731 for info\n\nConversation with Sergio Ramrez:\nAuthor of six books fo fiction\, Sergio Ramirez was born in Mas atepe\, Nicaragua in 1942. He was Vice President of Nicaragua during the Sandinista regime. During 2000\, Mr. Ramirez was Writer-in-Residence at the University of Maryland. He is the recipient of numerous honors\, in cluding the Ordre du Chevalier des Artes et Lettres in France. \n\nCity College\nNAC 5/218\n160 Convent Avenue\n\n UID:BF3F42F2-1972-4D1F-9225-4ABF2F6F50FA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080407T183000 DTSTAMP:20080326T204137Z SUMMARY:Sergio Ramirez CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080407T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:The Personal Democracy Forum will be holding its annual conf erence at the Rose Center. Featured speakers include danah boyd\, Jeff Jarvis\, Nate Silver\, David Weinberger and more.\n\nFrederick P. Rose H all\n60th Street and Broadway\n8:00 am\n UID:6241469B-878A-4F41-9D7E-148EA8A55D9E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090630T080000 DTSTAMP:20090609T181730Z SUMMARY:Personal Democracy Forum Conference CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090630T183000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:14 DESCRIPTION:The New Generation in America Jewish Literature\nA Day to Ex plore Jewish Literary Content in American Culture\n\nThe Bronfman Youth Fellowship in Israel will be co-hosting an event with Nextbook\, the pan els will be start from 12-4pm\n\nBYFI alumi and guests morning events\nJ ewish writer's workhop-tips for making a career of it...w/brunch\nDARA H ORN \nA doctoral candidate at Harvard University. Her award-winning nonf iction writing has appeared in several newspapers and magazines. She liv es in New York City.\nDan Kurtz-Phelan\n\nAnya Kamenetz\nReceived her B. A. from Yale in 2002 and writes for New York\, magazine\, Salon\, The Na tion and The Village Voice\, where she earned a Pulitzer Prize nominatio n for her contributions to the series "Generation Debt: The New Economic s of Being Young." She has appeared on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer as a spokesperson on the employment obstacles facing youth.\n\nA New Yiddish :Jewish Writing in America\nProfessor Sheila Jelen\n\nAfternoon Events c onjunction with Nextbook\nRevising the canon: What makes this generation of writers different from all other generations?\nModerator : Daniel S eptimus\nPanelists :\nDara horn\n\nRivka Galchen \nRecieved her MD fr om the Moutn Sinai Shool of Medicine\, having spent a year in South Amer ica working on public health issues. Galchen recently completed her MFA at Columbia University\, where she was a Robert Bingham Fellow. Her essa y on the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics was published i n "The Believer\," and she is the recipient of a 2006 Rona Jaffe Foundat ion Writers' Award. Galchen lives in New York City. This is her first no vel. \n\nJosh Henkin\nThe author of Swimming Across the Hudson\, which w as selected by the "Los Angeles Times" as a notable book fo the year\; h is short stories\, essays\, and reviews have appeared in many journals a nd newspapers. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College\, Brooklyn College\, and the 92nd St. Y in New York City\n\nBabylon and On : Jewish Immigran t Stories from the Middle East\nModerator : Sara Ivry\nConversation : \n Andre' Aciman\nThe author of "Call Me by Your Name\, Out of Egypt\, Fals e Papers"\, and the editor of "The Proust Project". He teaches comparati ve literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and lives with his family in New York City.\n\nDalia Sofer\nBorn in Iran and fled at the age of ten to the United States with her family. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and has been a resident at Ya ddo. A graduate of the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College\, she lives in New York City.\n\nAriel Sabar\nCovered the 2008 U.S. presidential ca mpaigns for the "Christian Science Monitor" and is a former staff writer for the "Baltimore Sun" and the "Providence (RI) Journal". His work has also appeared in the "New York Times"\, the "Washington Monthly\, Mothe r Jones" magazine\, and other publications. He lives with his wife and t wo children in Washington\, DC.\n\nAre Modern Jewish writers shaping sec ular American Culture?\nModerator : Jeremy Dauber\nPanelists :\nItamar M oses\nThe author of several plays\, including "Outrage\, Celebrity Row\, and "The Four of Us\n\nElisa Albert\n\nDanny Fingeroth\nFingeroth was t he editor of Spider-Man comics at Marvel Comics for many years. He helpe d create the Spider-Man animated series in the mid-1990s.\n\n92Y Tribeca \n200 Hudson Street\n(at the Intersection of Canal and Hudson)\n\n\n\n UID:00D07223-FF98-43CC-87B8-EBC854995F1B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081109T103000 DTSTAMP:20080916T161051Z SUMMARY:The Bronfman Youth Fellowships in Israel with Nextbook CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081109T163000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Great Issues Forum\nPower and Law: Immigration Reform\n\nJud y Rabinovitz and others\n\nMore info to come\n\nCUNY Center for the Huma nities\n365 Fifth Avenue\nMartin E. Segal Theater\n7:00 pm\nFree\n UID:EBD6C9CE-2386-470B-92C0-ADA0DA7122F3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090406T190000 DTSTAMP:20090115T172254Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090406T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Kathleen Horan\n\nRelationship Obits: The Final Resting Plac e for Love Gone Wrong\nHarperOne\, $13.99\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4th Street\n 7:00 pm\nFree\n UID:B98CBDBB-BB26-4C0A-BEC3-BE122E901681 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090414T190000 DTSTAMP:20090121T191113Z SUMMARY:KGB Nonfiction CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090414T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:\n\nJohn Capouya 's Book Party for his book Gorgeous George: The Outrageous Bad-Boy Wrestler Who Created American popCulture.\n\n(Ha rper\,$26) \n\nHalf King\n505 W 23rd UID:5A40E5A5-EAA1-425B-8210-6DA81D8F135C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080910T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204833Z SUMMARY:Gorgeous George CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080910T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Ronald Brownstein \nThe Second Civil War: How Extreme Parti sanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America (Penguin Press\, $28)\n\nThe Dr. Marcia Robbins-Wilf Scholar-in-Residence Program present s a discussion by Ronald Brownstein\, columnist and political director\, Atlantic Media Group\; frequent political commentator on "Meet the Pres s\," "This Week" and CNN\; and author of "The Second Civil War: How Extr eme Partisanship has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America\," to di scuss the 2008 Presidential election. The title of his talk is "The Seco nd Civil War: The Partisan Divide\, The Public Good and the 2008 Electio n."\n\nAdmission is free and open to the public with valid photo ID. Ple ase RSVP to events@yu.edu or call 212-960-0189.\n\nSchottenstein Cultura l Center\, 239 East 34th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues UID:CE1788CC-32AD-4226-B173-41ADD130D9B4 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080220T193000 DTSTAMP:20080214T183358Z SUMMARY:Ronald Brownstein CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080220T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Mabida will be hosting a book signing and reading with four remarkable South African authors \;\n\nAnne Landsman\nBorn and raised in South Africa. Her debut novel\, The Devil's Chimney (Soho Press 1997)\, was published in trade paperback by Penguin and was a Book of the Month Club Quality Paperback Selection. She lives in Manhattan with her husba nd and two children.\nwith her book -Rowing Lesson\n\nSheila Kohler\n\nN adia Davids\n\n\nCeridwen Dovey \nGrew up in South Africa and Australia. A graduate of Harvard University\, she is now a doctoral student in ant hropology at New York University. Her stories aVasbyta and aComa Karmaa were selected for the anthology "African Road: New Writing from Southern Africa\," judged by J. M. Coetzee.\nwith her book -Blood Kin\nRarely do es a debut novel attract the sweeping critical acclaim of Dovey's "Blood Kin." Shortlisted for two prestigious awards\, this tale centers around a military coup in an unnamed country\, and three men who perform their mundane tasks and appear unaware of their employer's atrocities.\nPengu in Books : $ 14.00 \n\nMadiba Restaurent \n195 DeKalb Ave.\nBrooklyn\n\n \n\n UID:96D45234-75EC-479B-969E-C060C9E167DE TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090426T193000 DTSTAMP:20090326T173626Z SUMMARY:Madiba Events with Remarkable South African Authors CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090426T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:\nMark Doty \nDog Years \n(Harper\, $14)\n\nMarie Howe - the Kingdom of Ordinary time\n(Norton\, $24)\n\nPhillis Levin \nMay Day\n(P enguin\, $16)\n\nLillian Vernon Creative Writers House\n58 W 10th St \n UID:6FD559EB-9686-4B6A-B16D-CABD064AE88F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080417T190000 DTSTAMP:20080327T195008Z SUMMARY:LV Writers House CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080417T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:14 DESCRIPTION:Marilyn Hacker\nDesperanto\nNorton\, $13.95\n\n"DESESPERANTO refines the themes of loss\, exile\, and return that have informed her work\, interweaving them into ordinary life with wit and brio.\n\nAnnie Finch\nCalendars\nTupelo Press\, $22.95\n\nAnnie Finch's wide reputation precedes her. Her first full book of poems attracted the notice and glo wing approval of Robert Pinsky\, Carolyn Kizer\, the "Bloomsbury Review\ ," and the "Washington Times\," Her poems are resonating\, musical celeb rations of life. Through mastery of rhythm and poetic patterning\, this wonderfully gifted poet liberates and illuminates the sacred in the mund ane\, and gives voice to the earth-centered spirituality of our era.\n\n Janet Kaplan\nThe Glazier's Country\nFordham University Press\, $14.95\n \nThe Glazieras Country is a book of history and ethics. The poems follo w the life of a survivor of Eastern European pogroms\, but the theme is larger: notions of victimhood as an identity\, moral certitude\, and the differences between justice and revenge are questioned and explored. Th e poemsa formal qualities mirror the fractured lives of the people in th em: seemingly disparate voices break in\, words are scattered across the page. But the ultimate message of The Glazieras Country is an insistenc e that we can choose wholeness\, achoose good / solo & each day / over f aith / over clan or country / it is an art / & each day again.a\n\nFordh am University\n113 West 60th Street\n12th Floor Lounge\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\ n UID:6151A81D-5E1E-4BF3-8061-98FB97C273AC TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090406T190000 DTSTAMP:20090203T212506Z SUMMARY:Poets Out Loud CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090406T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Fiction Forum\nNew School \n\nJames Collins\, will read and discuss his new book\, Beginners Greek.\n\nHelen Schulman\, moderator.\n \n\nAdmission $5\n\n\n66 W 12th St\nroom 510 UID:6266015A-D549-4FD8-9DD2-6D782B61AE9E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080924T190000 DTSTAMP:20080730T011217Z SUMMARY:New School Fiction CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080924T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Jason Zweig\nYour Money and Your Brain: How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You Rich \n(Simon & Schuster\, $15)\nFRE E\n8PM\n\nDrawing on the latest scientific research in the field of neur oeconomics\, this entertaining book shows how the brain influences finan cial decisions and can make one rich. \n\nHelmsley Hotel \n212 E 42nd St UID:C9D32614-7CB5-4547-A170-BBDD073412F9 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080530T080000 DTSTAMP:20080516T214806Z SUMMARY:Jason Zweig at Helmsley Hotel CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080530T100000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:13 DESCRIPTION:Michael Cirelli\nLobster with Ol' Dirty Bastard\nHanging Loo se Press\, $16\n\nHettie Jones\nDoing 70\nHanging Loose Press\, $15\n\nR obert Hershon\nCalls From the Outside World\nHanging Loose Press\, $15\n \nBryant Park\n42nd Street and 5th Avenue\nUnder the Burgundy Umbrellas\ n6:30 pm\nFree\n\n\n\n UID:C541C8FE-6F72-4E24-9963-52BA105F5189 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090526T193000 DTSTAMP:20090514T205914Z SUMMARY:Word for Word Poetry CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090526T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Beard on Books reading series\n\nJoyce Goldstein\nMediterran ean Fresh\nNorton\, $30\n\nA treasure trove of salad meals and mix-and-m atch dressings\, "Mediterranean Fresh" features 140 of these delicious\, healthful\, easy-to-prepare dishes for a sensuous and satisfying meal. 34 color photographs.\n\nJames Beard House\n167 West 12th Street\n12:00 pm\n$20 suggested donation for nonstudents UID:A8259704-2F8D-4CC8-B4BA-0CAE50CC2D29 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090204T120000 DTSTAMP:20090107T155754Z SUMMARY:Beard on Books CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090204T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Joseph O'Neill was born in Ireland and raised primarily in H olland. he received a law degree from Cambridge University and worked as a barrister in London. He writes regularly for the Atlantic Monthly and is the author of two previous novels\,This is Life anf the Breezes\, an d a family in new ork City. He reads from his novel : Netherland\n"New Y ork is not what most people imagine it to be. Just as marriage\, family\ , friendship\, and manhood are not. Netherland is suspensefull\,artfull\ , psychologically pitch perfect\, and a wonderful read."\n-Jonathan safr on Foer\n\nKeith Morris reads from his novel the Dart League King\n\n\n\ nFREE\n7 pm\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4th St.\n UID:4BABF92F-5086-4D81-8B2C-6DAEDD492602 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081019T190000 DTSTAMP:20080911T161721Z SUMMARY:KBG Fiction CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081019T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Joshua Henkin\nMatrimony\nVintage Books\, USA $14.95\n\nIn i ts emotional honesty\, its luminous prose\, and wry wit\, "Matrimony" is a beautifully detailed portrait of what it means to share a life with s omeone--to do so when young\, and to try to do it afresh on the brink of middle age.\n\nJoanna Hershon\nThe German Bride\nBallantine Books\, $14 \n\nBerlin\, 1861. Eva Frank\, a sixteen-year-old Jewess\, has her portr ait painted\, which leads to an indiscretion that has devastating conseq uences. Desperate to escape a painful situation\, Eva marries Abraham Sh ein\, an ambitious merchant who has returned home to Germany for the fir st time in a decade since establishing himself in the American West. The young bride leaves Berlin and its ghosts for an unfamiliar life halfway across the world\, traversing the icy waters of the Atlantic and the ru gged\, sweeping terrain of the Santa Fe Trail. \n\nThe Gildhall Hotel\nU pstairs Library\n15 Gold Street\n6:00 pm\nFree\n\nNote: There is a dress code. No jeans or t-shirts please. UID:E6B3C5D6-AA2D-4DF6-A100-CD346CE6FA4C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090512T180000 DTSTAMP:20090220T185132Z SUMMARY:Pen Parentis Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090512T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Poetry Forum\n\nJill Bialosky\,author of Intruder\n\nHelen S chulman\,moderator\n\n66 W 12th St\nroom 510\n\n$5\; free for students/a lumni\n UID:23D25105-2AEB-437A-903D-D38BFDA11075 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081029T183000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204827Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081029T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Mama\,PhD:Woman Write about Motherhood and Academic Life\n\n FREE\n7pm\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4th Street UID:A67F3D47-5908-4E22-BB50-13F45BBC2B27 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081021T190000 DTSTAMP:20080904T171506Z SUMMARY:KGB Non-Fiction CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081021T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Roland Barthes and the Invention of Modernity\n\nParticipant : Bernard Comment\n\nThe work of Roland Barthes\, the French literary th eorist\, philosopher\, and critic influenced schools of theory including semiotics\, existentialism\, Marxism\, and post-structuralism. Don't m iss this special lecture about the constant innovation and "scandal" of Barthes' boooks by Swiss-born French author\, editor\, filmmaker\, and c ritic Bernard Comment.\n\nLa Maison Francaise\n16 Washington Mews\n6:30 pm UID:D11F22E1-B3B4-492C-BA39-C46F24C8C9FB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090429T183000 DTSTAMP:20090402T162421Z SUMMARY:PEN World Voices Festival CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090429T193000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:The Man Who Loved China\nSimon Winchester\nHarper\n$28\n\n\n \nThe "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Professor and the Madm an" and "Krakatoa" returns with the remarkable story of the growth of a great nation\, and the eccentric and adventurous scientist who defined i ts essence for the world.\n\n1 W. 54th Street\n\n UID:197AD25F-B1FD-48AB-BEF8-80E60B164D03 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081106T120000 DTSTAMP:20080818T172818Z SUMMARY:University Club CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081106T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Timothy D. Lytton\nHolding Bishops Accountable\nHarvard U Pr ess\, $35\n\nRather than discussing who is to blame for the widespread s exual abuse of children by Catholic clergy\, this book focuses on the co nflicts that led to litigation and how that litigation assisted both the Church and the victims. Lytton (Albany Law School) gives a short histor y of the clergy sexual abuse litigation. His use of statistics is quite helpful to the reader as he systematically links the data to the legal i ssues he argues became most prevalent in the lawsuits. The book is not e ntirely free of criticism of the Church\, as the author devotes consider able time to explaining that sexual abuse was an institutional failure.\ n\nCity Bar Association\n42 West 44th Street\n6:30 pm\n UID:2B1EAF5E-DB7F-42D0-A755-6ACDF5081C90 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091105T183000 DTSTAMP:20090612T201050Z SUMMARY:City Bar CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091105T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Charles Bardes\nPale Faces: Anemia Unmasked\n(Bellevue\, $20 )\nFREE\n5:30PM\n\nCharles Bardes\, M.D.\, a physician\, professor of cl inical medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College\, will explore the impa ct of both science and culture on the treatment of anemia historically. He will show how the condition varies through history\, art\, literature and clinical practice and how the way doctors think\, influences the pr actice of medicine.\n\nScience\, Industry\, and Business Library\nRoom 0 18\n188 Madison Avenue\n UID:39152A61-82BB-4C99-991F-05DA6AF17C5B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080626T173000 DTSTAMP:20080529T204053Z SUMMARY:Charles Bardes CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080626T193000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Fresh Takes\n6PM\n$15\, SOLD OUT\n\nMichael Kinsley (Slate)\ , Maureen Dowd\, and Frank Rich read - moederated by Sean Wilentz (Princ eton)\n\nMichael Kinsley\nPlease Don't Remain Calm: Provocations and Com mentaries\n(WW Norton\, $26)\n\nMaureen Dowd\nBushworld\n(Berkley\, $15) \n\nNYPL \nResearch Library\nCelest Bartos Forum (ground floor)\n5th Ave and 42nd St.\n\n UID:04A48BBF-94CF-4A15-9859-E39A3F51FD49 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080421T180000 DTSTAMP:20080408T211417Z SUMMARY:Fresh Voices at NYPL CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080421T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Michael Sheehan\nCrush the Cell: How to Defeat Terrorism Wit hout Terrorizing Ourselves\n(Crown\, $25)\nMEMBERS\nNOON\n\nOne of the c ountrys top terrorism experts offers Americans a bracing reality check b y describing federal agencies that arent getting it done and identifying the real perils threatening safety.\n\nCentury Club\n7 W 43rd UID:04765B3A-CB50-41FD-A21C-6A59ADB40C4D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080514T120000 DTSTAMP:20080424T194356Z SUMMARY:Michael Sheehan CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080514T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Andy Borowitz\nHis books include The Republican Playbook and The Borowitz Repport : The Big Book of Shockers\n\nFREE\n\nBrooklyn Lib rary\nDweck Auditorium\nGrand Army Plaza UID:73D25333-9100-4E9D-A1B6-166A51A6A67A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081213T160000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204823Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081213T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:The conversations between French and American authors that c onstitute the eleven one-hour sessions of the Festival of New French Wri ting will pair one French and one American writer\, confronting their re spective experiences and ambitions with respect to literary creation. E ach animated by an American cultural critic familiar with the literature s of the two countries\, the dialogues will explore the singular qualiti es of each author\, national similarities and differences\, as well as t he future of literature.\n\n2:00 pm: David Foenkinos and Stefan Merrill Block\, moderated by Violaine Huisman\n\n3:15 pm: Emmanuel Carrere and F rancine Prose\, moderated by Caroline Weber\n\n4:30 pm: Marjane Satrapi and Chris Ware\, moderated by Francoise Mouly\n\n5:15 pm: Chantal Thomas and Edmund White\n\nTischman Auditorium\nVanderbilt Hall\n40 Washington Square South\n2:00 pm UID:B3A14955-4502-4C39-B37C-EFDE394AEBE3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090228T140000 DTSTAMP:20090115T191204Z SUMMARY:Festival of New French Writing CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090228T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:KGB Nonfiction Reading Series\n\nKate Taylor\nGoing Hungry: Writers on Desire\, Self-Denial and Overcoming Anorexia\nAnchor Books\, $15.95\n\n Twenty writers describe their experiences with anorexia from the distance of recovery\, in this collection that is an important resou rce for parents\, teachers\, teenagers\, and those who want to understan d what goes through the mind of someone struggling with an eating disord er.\n\nKGB Bar\n85 East 4th Street\n7:00 pm\nFree\n UID:AF0650E2-2736-4AFB-84FB-71497710D730 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090127T190000 DTSTAMP:20090108T160904Z SUMMARY:KGB Nonfiction CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090127T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:15 DESCRIPTION:Eileen Pollack\nParadise\, New York\nTemple University Press \, $21.95\n\nParadise\, New York explores the comforts and complexities of American ethnic identity with a charming commitment to laughter and l ove.\n\nIn the Mouth\nFour Way Books\, $18.95\n\n"These are funny\, ruef ul\, wise stories\, steeped in absurdity\, pain\, possibility --the work of a writer who has lived."--Gish Jen\n\nNelly Reifler\nSee Through\nSi mon and Schuster\, $13.95\n\nHeartbreaking and haunting\, the stories in this electrifying debut collectionexplore the deep chasm between expect ations and reality and the ways in whichwe can fragment ourselves and be many people at once.\n\nAnse Chesed\n251 West End Avenue at 100th Stree t\n8:00 pm\n\n\n\n\n UID:C1EBD698-BFBA-4865-BB34-021C97A06A4F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090713T200000 DTSTAMP:20090603T194026Z SUMMARY:Scribblers on the Roof CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090713T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:The Poetry of W.H. Auden: A Lecture by David Lehman\n\nmore details TBA\n\nThe New School\n66 W. 12th Street\nRoom 510\n6:30 pm\n$5 UID:7614DB2D-FF18-46F4-BA89-C3C926E567D5 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090406T183000 DTSTAMP:20090106T192651Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090406T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:J.Robert Oppenheimer : the Man\, the Manager\, the Physicist \n\nDavid Cassidy \nHistorian and author Professor\, Hofstra University\ nBook Title: "J.Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century"\nTalk: Oppe nheimer and his Physics \n\nRobert Crease\nHistorian and author\, Profes sor\, State University of New York\,Stony Brook\nBook Title: "Oppenheime r:A Life"(by Abraham Pais and Robert Crease)\nTalk: Oppenheimer as Scien tific Manager of the Manhattan Project\n\nJeremy Bernstein\nPhysicist an d author New Yorker Contributor and Professor Emeritus\, Stevens institu te of Technology\nBook Title: Oppenheimer: "Portrait of an Enigma"\nTalk : Personal Reflection on Oppenheimer\n\nThe Graduate Center\nElebath Rec ital Hall\n365 5th Ave\n34th St.\n UID:05EFC63D-A7EE-42E4-8F48-A50CFD87F585 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081014T183000 DTSTAMP:20080910T184950Z SUMMARY:CUNY CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081014T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Susan Spicer\nCrescent City Cooking\n(Knopf\, $30)\n6PM\n$25 \n\nA benefit for the Southern Fod and Beverage Museum (SOFAB)\n\nIn her long-awaited cookbook\, one of New Orleans brightest culinary stars mar ries traditional Southern cooking with culinary influences from around t he world\; the result is New Orleans cooking with gusto and flair.\n\nAs tor Center\n399 Lafayette St.\n UID:1AC50961-6E7B-44F9-98E0-ECC92F6896EF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080408T180000 DTSTAMP:20080327T182909Z SUMMARY:Southern Food and Beverage Museum Benefit CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080408T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Sarah Vowell\nThe Wordy Shipmates\nRiverhead Books\, $25.95\ n\nFrom the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Assassination Vacati on" and "The Partly Cloudy Patriot" comes an examination of the Puritans \, their covenant communities\, deep-rooted idealism\, political and cul tural relevance\, and their myriad oddities.\n\nBrooklyn Library\nDweck Center\nGrand Army Plaza\n4:00 pm\nFree\n\n UID:E7F0C754-D1FA-497C-BA62-EC9377B3866D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090328T160000 DTSTAMP:20081217T215128Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090328T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:17 DESCRIPTION:The Other Great Depression: How I'm Overcoming\, on a Daily Basis\, at Least a Million Addictions and Dysfunctions and Finding a Spi ritual (Sometimes) Life\nRichard Lewis\n(Public Affairs\, $15)\nOxonian Society Event\n6:15PM\nVISIT www.oxoniansociety.com TO REGISTER\n\nAt th e age of 44\, renowned comedian Richard Lewis found himself on a gurney in the ER\, toxic with alcohol\, and hallucinating from excess cocaine u se. The same neuroses and dysfunctions that had been the basis for his s uccessful stage persona and inspired his best material had\, it seemed\, turned on him.\n\nHow he got there\, how he finally got on the road to recovery\, and how he copes with being Richard Lewis sober on a daily ba sis are the subjects of this very funny\, deeply honest\, inspiring\, bu t very untreacly book. USA Today called it "candid and inspirational.… A journey through Lewis' personal Inferno to eventual salvation."\n\n\nPr inceton Club\, 15 West 43rd Street between 5th and 6th Aves.\n\n\n UID:53757981-841D-4C68-9760-4A0116A9D8A3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080428T181500 DTSTAMP:20080313T213121Z SUMMARY:Richard Lewis CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080428T201500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:\nNancy Conine\nWriter's Voice Series\nGreenpoint Press Book Release\n\n\nWest Side YMCA\n5 West 63rd\n UID:5C06070D-C74A-456B-A661-AA84F0906B0D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080314T200000 DTSTAMP:20080303T225717Z SUMMARY:Writer's Voice Series CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080314T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Fiction Night \n7:00 pm\nFREE\n\nMartha Southgate \nThird Girl From the Left (Mariner Books\, $13)\n\nLydia Millet \nHow the Dead Dream \n(Counterpoint\, $24)\n\nPacific Standard Bar\n82 Fourth Avenue\ , Brooklyn\, New York (Between St. Marks and Bergen)\n\n UID:2C541745-F924-43F5-9E72-85AFEB3F45C2 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080311T190000 DTSTAMP:20080228T194820Z SUMMARY:Pacific Standard Fiction Night CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080311T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Fred Kaplan\nLincoln: The Biography of a Writer\nHarper\, $2 7.95\n\nIn this intriguing biography\, literary biographer Fred Kaplan a nalyzes Abraham Lincoln's writings\, from the great civic anthems of his presidency to love letters\, legal briefs\, and poems\, and finds a fir st-rate literary talent--a master storyteller with an earthy wit\, sharp logic\, and an ear for poetic phrasing.\n\nCUNY Center for the Humaniti es\n365 Fifth Avenue\nRoom 4409\n4:00 pm\nFree\n UID:B9E808DF-3DA0-4A0B-9146-3D63DC2C48A8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090227T160000 DTSTAMP:20090115T161051Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090227T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:The Global Graphic Novel Straight out of Angoulême\n\nWords Without Borders and Housing Works present the ultimate in Graphic Novel events: Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian\, direct from Paris and sti ll spinning from their recent trip to Angouleme—where the collaborators just won the most prestigious comics award on the globe: the Grand Prix at the International Festival of Comics in Angoulême\, France. Their tal k will be followed by a Q& A\, signing and reception. This event is supp orted by New York State Council on the Arts. \n\nHousing Works Cafe\n126 Crosby Street\n(212) 334-3324 UID:11229E2F-9893-43AE-8A9A-D4B01FA7AF26 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080305T190000 DTSTAMP:20080219T193849Z SUMMARY:The Global Graphic Novel CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080305T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:\nThomas Sayes -Ellis\n\nNicky Dawidoff\n\nMaggie Estep\n\nC ake Shop\n152 Ludlow\n(Stanton/Rivington) UID:0628CBA3-47A7-4204-AE4F-6688BD3C839B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080917T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204830Z SUMMARY:Mixer Series Reading CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080917T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Teachers & Writers Collaborative\n8PM\nFREE\n\nElizabeth Han d\nGeneration Loss\n(Harvest\, $14)\n\nMatthew Sharpe\nJamestown\n(Harve st\, $14)\n\nCenter for Imaginative Writing at Teachers & Writers Collab orative\n520 Eighth Avenue (between 36th and 37th Streets)\n Suite 2020 UID:29AEAD08-16A9-4724-A2EE-4DC071495A99 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080527T183000 DTSTAMP:20080428T211302Z SUMMARY:Teachers and Writers Collab CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080527T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:An Eloquent Beginning\n\n\nBrilliant first paragraphs are as rare in biography as they are in fiction. However\, on occasion\, a bi ographer's masterstroke appears on the very first page. An Eloquent Beg inning\, the inaugural public program of the Leon Levy Center for Biogra phy\, celebrates strong beginnings and the genre of biography with a gro up of distinguished biographers coming together to read their favorite o pening of a biography. Amongt the biographers reading will be James Mat teson\, author of Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and he r Father\, Patricia Bosworth\, biographer of Diane Arbus and Marlon Bran do\, David Levering Lewis\, author of two biographies of W.E.B. and Blan che Wiesen Cook\, biographer of Eleanor Roosevelt.\n\n\nFREE\n7:00 PM\n\ nProshansky Auditorium\n365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street UID:8BF9EDFF-1E6D-4213-816A-CD116AA72E6C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080922T190000 DTSTAMP:20080824T201701Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080922T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:18 DESCRIPTION:Jenny Han\nThe Summer I Turned Pretty\nSimon and Schuster\, $16.99\n\nBelly has spent her summers at the beach house with Conrad and Jeremiah\, who had never noticed her noticing them. Every summer Belly hoped it would be different. This time\, it is. The summer that Belly tu rns pretty is the summer that changes everything--for better and for wor se.\n\nShug\nAladdin Paperbacks\, $5.99\n\nIn this gem of a first novel\ , Han artfully captures the wonder and complexity of that on-the-brink-o f-womanhood age. Twelve-year-old Shug is a clever\, brave\, and true (on the inside) girl who experiencing the angst of junior high.\n\nLisa Gre enwald\nMy Life in Pink and Green\nAmulet Books\, $16.95\n\nWhen the loc al homecoming queen shows up at Lucy Desberg's family's struggling drugs tore with a beauty disaster that Lucy helps to fix\, word gets out\, and Lucy soon has a line of makeover customers. In this funny and sweet deb ut\, Lucy is a girl who knows what she wants\, whether it's great makeup \, a killer business plan\, or a better world.\n\nKatrina Firlik\nAnothe r Day in the Frontal Lobe\nRandom House Trade\, $14.95\n\nThis compellin g tell-all by a brilliant young doctor cracks open the demanding\, fasci nating world of brain surgery\, doing for the neurosurgeon what "Kitchen Confidential" has done for the professional chef.\n\nPart of the "A Day in the Life of A WonderGirl" program\n\n92Y Tribeca\n200 Hudson Street\ n10:00 am\n\n\n\n\n\n \n UID:AB2CDD03-91D8-4779-AD0C-EBEA8FAA31E8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090616T100000 DTSTAMP:20090612T194506Z SUMMARY:92Y Tribeca CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090616T130000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Glenn Kurtz\nPracticing: A Musicians Return to Music\n(Vntag e\, $14)\nFREE\n7PM\n\nIn a remarkable memoir written with insight and h umor\, Glenn Kurtz takes us from his first lessons at the age of eight t o his acceptance at the elite New England Conservatory of Music. After g raduation\, he attempts a solo career in Vienna but soon realizes that h e has neither the ego nor the talent required to succeed and gives up th e instrument\, and his dream\, entirely. \nBut not forever: Returning to the guitar\, Kurtz weaves into the narrative the rich experience of a s ingle practice session. "Practicing" takes us on a revelatory\, inspirin g journey: a love affair with music.\n\nHosfelt Gallery\n531 W 36th St. UID:26FA800A-6612-4F51-894D-CECBEBEA5BC3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080626T190000 DTSTAMP:20080609T215449Z SUMMARY:Glenn Kurtz CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080626T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:7PM\nFREE\n\nSamantha Hunt \nThe Invention of Everything Els e\n(Houghton Mifflin Company\, $24)\n\nAlex Rose\nThe Musical Illusionis t\n(Hotel St George Press\, $15)\n\nPacific Standard\n82 Fourth Avenue\, Brooklyn\, New York (betw. St. Marks and Bergen)\n\n UID:F2E6F1C4-1647-4375-8DA5-C60B921BE33C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080415T190000 DTSTAMP:20080324T163353Z SUMMARY:Pacific Standard CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080415T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Leslie Day\nField Guide to the Natural World\n(Johns Hopkins \, $25)\n7PM\nFREE\n\nLeslie Day\, a New York City naturalist\, reveals this amazing world in her Field Guide to the Natural World of New York C ity. Combining the stunning paintings of Mark A. Klingler with a variety of photographs and maps\, this book is a complete guide for the urban n aturalist -- with tips on identifying the city's flora and fauna and map s showing the nearest subway stop.\n\nProspect Park YMCA\n357 Ninth Stre et Brooklyn\n UID:F8BCFFBA-67D2-4DE6-9DE0-977A0A7CB125 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080505T190000 DTSTAMP:20080414T151957Z SUMMARY:Leslie Day at YMCA CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080505T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the New School Creative Writing Program\n\nC elebrate contemporary poetry and the recipients of the premier collectio n of award for poetry in the United States.The night will include readin gs and presentations by \n\nLucie Brock-Broido is the author of two prev ious collections of poetry\, "A Hunger" and "The Master Letters\," She i s Director of Poetry in the School of the Arts at Columbia University\, and has taught previously at Harvard University\, the Bennington Writing Seminars\, and Princeton University. She has been the recipient of awar ds from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Endowment fo r the Arts\, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in New York City and in Cambridge\, Massachusetts.\n\nLouise GlUck won the Pulitzer Prize for "The Wild Iris" in 1993. The author of eight books of poetry and one collection of essays\, "Proofs and Theories: Essays on P oetry\, " she has received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Po etry\, the William Carlos Williams Award\, and the PEN/Martha Albrand Aw ard for Nonfiction. She was named the next U.S. poet laureate in August 2003. Her most recent book is "The Seven Ages". Louise GlUck teaches at Williams College and lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts.\n\nEamon Grenna n was born in Dublin\, Ireland\, in 1941\, and educated at University Co llege\, Dublin\, and Harvard University. His poems have been published w idely in literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad\, including the "Keny on Review\," "New Yorker\," "Paris Review\," "Poetry Ireland Review\," a nd "Grand Street\," His first U.S. book publication was "What Light Ther e Is "(North Point\, 1989). He is a professor of English at Vassar Colle ge\, and spends his leave-time in Ireland.\n\nBrigit Pegeen Kelly teache s in the creative writing program at the University of Illinois at Urban a-Champaign. She also teaches at numerous writers' conferences in the Un ited States and Ireland. Her poetry collections are Song (BOA Editions)\ , the 1994 Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets and a Finalist for the 1995 Los Angeles Times Book Award\, and To the Place of Trumpets\, selected by James Merrill for the 1987 Yale Series of Youn ger Poets Prize. She is a recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award and the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Let ters\n\nCladia Rankine\,and many others\;a reception will follow\n\nTish man Auditotium\nNew School\n66 W12th Sts. UID:FE8629A3-E481-49D1-81A5-7DF0A0AE91EB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081107T190000 DTSTAMP:20080901T210841Z SUMMARY:Poets Awards Ceremony \; New School Creative Writing Program CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081107T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Earshot\n8:00 pm\n$5 (includes one free drink)\n\nKimiko Hah n \nThe Narrow Road to the Interior (W.W. Norton\, $15)\n\nNicole Coole y \nThe Afflicted Girls (Louisiana State University Press\, $17)\n\nThe Lucky Cat\n245 Grand Street (b/w Driggs & Roebling)\nBrooklyn\n UID:B8AD6951-B058-4BA6-8510-2EB9317C27FC TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080222T200000 DTSTAMP:20080214T200543Z SUMMARY:Ear Shot CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080222T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:13 DESCRIPTION:KGB Nonfiction Series\n\nDebra Gwartney\nLive Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love\nHoughton Miff lin\, $24\n\n"Live Through This"--as emotionally wrenching and ultimatel y redemptive as David Sheff 's "Beautiful Boy"--follows Gwartney's frant ic effort to recover her beautiful\, intelligent daughters from their li ves on the street.\n\nAmy Goldwasser\nRed: Teenage Girls Write About Wha t Fires Up Their Lives Today\nPlume Books\, $14\n\nA strikingly honest\, vividly written collection of personal essays by teenage girls\, this w ork offers a glimpse into the lives of today's MySpace generation. While psychologists have tried to explain the teen girl in recent years\, no book since "Ophelia Speaks" has given her the opportunity to speak for h erself--until now.\n\nKGB Bar\n85 East 4th Street\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n UID:39A73263-E0CF-4E93-B6EA-468564F26C40 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090210T190000 DTSTAMP:20090108T162320Z SUMMARY:KGB Nonfiction CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090210T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Ansche Chesed Temple Readings\nFREE - 212 865 0600\n8PM\n\nM elvin Jules Bukiet \nScribblers on the Roof: Contemporary American Jewis h Fiction \n(Persea\, $16)\n\nCynthia Ozick\nDictation: A Quartet\n(Houg hton Mifflin Company\, $24)\n\nAnsche Chesed\n251 W 100th St UID:7021458F-26A9-45FE-A219-E04F6A887A28 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080804T200000 DTSTAMP:20080513T210847Z SUMMARY:Ansche Chesed reading series CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080804T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Richard mcCann \nMother of Sorrows\n(Vintage\, $13)\n1PM\nFR EE\n\nand April Bernard will be reading from Pirate Jenny three poetry c ollections\, Blackbird Bye Bye\, Psalms and Swan Electric\, and a novel\ , Pirate Jenny. Richard McCann \nAuthor of Mother of Sorrows\, a collec tion of stories\, Ghost \nLetters\, a collection of poems\, and co-edito r of Things Shaped in Passing: More ‘Poets for Life’ Writing from the AI DS Pandemic. \n\nLillian Vernon Creative Writers House\n58 W 10th St UID:251AF3F5-E7D2-475E-B9D9-6B47DA837813 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080418T130000 DTSTAMP:20080401T190418Z SUMMARY:LV Writers House CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080418T150000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:STAR BLACK is a photographer and visual artist\, as well as the author of five collections of poetry\, most recently Ghostwood (New York Poet Series\, 2003). MARK DOTY is the author of several books of po etry and three memoirs. He currently teaches at the University of Housto n.\n\nDaniel Nester is a poet\, editor\, and teacher who lives in Brookl yn\, NY. His work has appeared in such journals as Open City\, Nerve\, a nd Mississippi Review\, and in The Best American Poetry 2003. He is the editor in chief of the online literary journal Unpleasant Event Schedule (www.unpleasantevent schedule.com).\n\nFree\n\n85 East 4th St. UID:74DD4A01-06E8-4D6D-AC56-07535E67E052 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081201T193000 DTSTAMP:20080904T171506Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081201T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Ben Feldman\nButchery on Bond Street\n7:00 pm\nFREE\n\nMore info to come\n\nCentral Branch\nGrand Army Plaza\nDweck Auditorium\n UID:B80538E6-A705-4A6E-BCD8-89B2CDAB78B8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080423T190000 DTSTAMP:20080328T224046Z SUMMARY:Ben Feldman CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080423T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:The winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards will be announced this evening at their Awards ceremony.\n\nMore details to c ome.\n\nThe New School\nTishman Auditorium\n66 West 12th Street\n6:00 pm \nFree\n UID:3E0C5529-D57F-468F-9E19-6977851F1251 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090312T180000 DTSTAMP:20090107T194208Z SUMMARY:National Book Critics Circle Awards Ceremony CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090312T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Leslie Day\nField Guide to the Natural World\n(Johns Hopkins \, $25)\n6:30PM\nFREE\n\nLeslie Day\, a New York City naturalist\, revea ls this amazing world in her Field Guide to the Natural World of New Yor k City. Combining the stunning paintings of Mark A. Klingler with a vari ety of photographs and maps\, this book is a complete guide for the urba n naturalist -- with tips on identifying the city's flora and fauna and maps showing the nearest subway stop.\n\nNYPL Mid-Manhattan Branch\n455 5th Ave\n UID:C01D88A3-EC5B-4545-890A-78BD7D419516 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080319T183000 DTSTAMP:20080317T223704Z SUMMARY:Leslie Day CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080319T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Peter Schuck\nUnderstanding America: The Anatomy of an Excep tional Nation \n(Public Affairs\, $35)\n12PM\nMEMBERS ONLY\n\nWhat is Am erica? Is it a hegemonic superpower\, composed of ruthlessly selfish cap italists? Or is it a land of hope and glory\, a shelter for the huddled masses\, and a beacon of freedom and enlightenment? The definition of th is complex nation has been debated substantially\, yet all seem to agree on one thing: it is unique. The idea of an exceptional America can be t raced all the way back to Alexis de Tocqueville's nineteenth-century obs ervations of a newly formed democracy that seemed determined to distingu ish itself from the rest. Little\, it seems\, has changed.\n\nBuilding o n de Tocqueville's concept of American exceptionalism\, this collection of essays\, contributed by some of the nation's top scholars and thinker s\, takes on the weighty task of sizing up America in a way its people a nd others can comprehend. Far more than simple history\, they outline th e current state of American institutions and policies—from the legal sys tem to marriage to the military to the Drug War—and anticipate where the se are headed in the future.\n\nUniversity Club\n1 W 54th St at 5th Ave\ n UID:B3968086-5421-4FD2-B12D-A1EC31ABFA72 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080424T120000 DTSTAMP:20080313T215844Z SUMMARY:University Club - Peter Schuck CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080424T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Hannah Tinti's short story collection\, Animal Crackers\, wa s a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. She is the editor of One Story magazine.She reads from her novel : the Good Theif\n"Hannah Tinti has w ritten a lightening strike of a novel-beautiful and haunting and ever so bright"\n-Junot Diaz\n\nMichael Kimball is the author of The Way the Fa mily Got Away and How Much of Us There Was. He reads from his novel : De ar Everybody\n"Michael Kimball transforms the familiar ino the strange a gain and tha simplest confessions are made moments of sublime wonder. Ho ld onto this book"\n-Christine Schutt\n\n\nFREE\n7 pm\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4th St.\n UID:90AD742F-FF9B-4509-89EC-FB53AE7AE12E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T190000 DTSTAMP:20080911T161721Z SUMMARY:KGB Fiction CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081012T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Great Issues Forum\nPower and Education\n\nFeaturing James Duderstadt\, Deborah Davis\, Enrique Dussel Peters\, Yu Lizhong\, and Wi lliam Kelly.\n\nCUNY Center for the Humanities\n365 Fifth Avenue\nProsha nky Auditorium\n7:00 pm\nRegistration required - go to www.greatissuesfo rum.org\n UID:35EFF29B-A17D-4E94-A746-7285E1867D3C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090428T190000 DTSTAMP:20090115T173512Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090428T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Anne Sebba\nAmerican Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Ran dolph Churchill \n(W.W.Norton\, $27)\n5:15PM\nMembers only\n\nJennie (Je rome) Churchill was not merely the most talked about American woman in L ondon society\, she was also a dynamic political and social force. Sebba draws on newly discovered correspondences and archives to examine the t empestuous life of the mother of Winston Churchill.\n\nUniversity Club\n 1 W 54th St at 5th Ave\n UID:D1E2AD8D-2CA3-4EF8-BA8B-0E33CE8DA226 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080429T171500 DTSTAMP:20080424T202005Z SUMMARY:University Club Anna Seba CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080429T193000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Happy Ending Season Premiere at its new location\, Joe's Pub !\n\nRichard Price\nLush Life\nFSG\, $26\n\nIn "Lush Life\," Price tears the shiny veneer off the "new" New York to show the underground network s of control and violence beneath the glamour\, in this novel that reads like a movie in prose" ("New York Times").\n\nJoe's Pub\n425 Lafayette Street\n7:00 pm\n$15\n UID:59E5C810-4D94-4E85-8627-1451EBB7BD2A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090107T190000 DTSTAMP:20090106T181056Z SUMMARY:Happy Ending CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090107T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:T.J. English\nHavana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Th en Lost It to the Revolution \n(Tantor\, $25)\nMEMBERS ONLY\n7PM\n\nAn a ward-winning journalist\, screenwriter\, and historian offers the comple te story of how the mob infiltrated Havana in the 1950s\, made a fortune \, and then lost it all to Fidel Castro.\n\nHArvard Club\n 35 W 44th St\ n UID:3771D9AB-C65B-4D4B-9F30-C956161C9D9D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080702T190000 DTSTAMP:20080505T211221Z SUMMARY:T.J. English @ Harvard Club CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080702T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Phil Fried\n\nTitle TBA\n\nThe Half King\n505 West 23rd Stre et\n7:00 pm\nFree UID:748E0DF7-7DC2-4F64-A924-51CCC3010E4D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090216T190000 DTSTAMP:20090112T205811Z SUMMARY:Half King CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090216T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:KGB Poetry Reading Series\n\nJoshua Beckman\nShake\nWave Boo ks\, $12\n\nBeckman's new poems come to us directly and intimately. Comp ulsively readable\, full of fear and persistence\, they resonate with th e wildness and generosity of Ginsberg\, Whitman\, and Ted Berrigan\, tur ning the everyday into an encompassing\, harrowing\, humorous\, necessar y vision. Beckman is\, as "Publishers Weekly" notes\, "the real thing."\ n\nElena Karina Byrne\nMasque\nTupelo Press\, $16.95\n\nIn verse simmeri ng with sensuality\, Elena Byrne eloquently reveals\, then carefully sli ces away\, layer after layer of the masks we wear until our most secret selves are exposed. Pretense is overthrown in her exotic and electric im agery\, irresistibly drawing the reader into an unabashedly intimate int ernal dialogue.\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4th Street\nFree\n\n\n\n UID:B2BC4867-364C-42D2-ACFF-83F4244C4735 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090323T193000 DTSTAMP:20090203T175229Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090323T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:After 2PM performance\, Tracey Scot Wilson\, Kia Corthron an d Keith Joseph Adkins will speak in a discussion round.\n\nTickets $10\n publictheater.org\n1:45PM\n\nThe Good Negro\n\nBy TRACEY SCOTT WILSON \n Directed by LIESL TOMMY\n\nIn a constantly shifting landscape\, a trio o f emerging black leaders try to conquer their individual demons\, the lo cal KKK fights for its old way of life\, and everyday black men and wome n must overcome their fears\, all under the ever-watchful eye of the FBI . One of the first recipients of the Sundance Institute and Time Warner Storytelling Fellowships for The Good Negro\, Tracey Scott Wilson recent ly won the prestigious 2007 Weissberger Award for this play.\n\nPublic T heater\n425 Lafayette UID:FB90A60A-4F3B-4527-A99B-EE24EC135A37 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080531T134500 DTSTAMP:20080527T195547Z SUMMARY:The Good Negro CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080531T164500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Jeffery Rotter\nThe Unknown Knowns\nScribner Book Company\, $25\n\n"The Unknown Knowns"--a reference to a quote from Defense Secreta ry Donald Rumsfeld--combines social satire with paranoid delusions\, in this brilliant send-up of the sometimes tragically comic focus of Americ a's Homeland Security department.\n\nPete's Candy Store\n709 Lorimer Str eet\nWilliamsburg\, Brooklyn\n7:30 pm\nFree\n\n UID:2A1505E1-3D86-42F6-B3C0-D6745FE7DB37 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090416T193000 DTSTAMP:20090303T154811Z SUMMARY:Pete's Candy Store CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090416T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Karen Gurwitz\nThe Well-Rounded Pregnancy Cookbook: Give You r Baby a Healthy Start with 100 Recipes That Adapt to Fit How You Feel \ n(Clarkson N Potter Publishers\, $17)\nFREE\n6:30PM\n\nWith more than 12 5 customizable\, healthy recipes\, this guide to eating well offers preg nant and nursing women the food they crave with the nutrition they need\ , along with helpful tips and options that minimize prep time.\n\nTenjun e\n26 Little West 12th UID:4E8C8CFF-1274-475F-ABBF-03AA2C22084E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080521T183000 DTSTAMP:20080520T200147Z SUMMARY:Well-Rounded Pregnancy Tenjune CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080521T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Writing New York Panel Discussion featuring: \n\nJoseph O'Ne ill\nColum McCann\n\nat least two more authors TBA\n\nBryant Park\n42nd and 5th\n12:30 pm UID:D7533DBA-CD96-42C0-8D7F-4DCF746E7C1C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090708T123000 DTSTAMP:20090327T191930Z SUMMARY:Word for Word CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090708T143000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Carol Dunlap and Ann McLean \nAutonauts of the Cosmoroute (A rchipelago Books\, $20)\n\nAutonauts of the Cosmoroute is a love story\, an irreverent travelogue of elaborate tales and snapshots detailing Jul io Cortazar and Carol Dunlop's thirty-three-day voyage on the Paris-Mars eilles freeway in 1982. Uncovering the freeway's hidden underbelly\, the y push life and literature to surreal extremes. This shot of sun is a sa tire on modern travel and the great explorers\, and an intimate look at one of the greatest literary spirits of our time.\n\nGrand Army Plaza\nD weck Auditorium UID:CD5F4BF0-4AB7-4AF9-87D4-DFB8BCF7ABC4 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080221T190000 DTSTAMP:20080214T193819Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080221T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:First Annual Conference on Biography\n\nMore information to come\n\n\nCUNY Humanities Center\n365 Fifth Avenue\n1:00 pm\nFree UID:8E4D6848-26E4-4FB6-B9D1-79ACBE3936C8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090326T130000 DTSTAMP:20090115T175525Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090326T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:KGB Poetry Reading Series \n\nLarry Felson\n\nLinda Gregg\nA ll of it Singing \nGraywolf Press\, $24\n\nLinda Gregg's abiding presenc e in American poetry for more than thirty years is a testament to the lo ngevity of art and the spirit. "All of It Singing: New and Selected Poem s "for the first time collects the ongoing work of Gregg's career in one book\, including poetry from her six previous volumes and thirty remark able new poems.\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4th Street\nFree\n\n\n UID:1388D1DE-93B4-4DD1-89BD-C4C1B270F268 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090316T193000 DTSTAMP:20090203T175214Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090316T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Nathalie Handal and Tina Chang\nLanguage for a New Century\n Norton\, $27.95\n\nThis landmark anthology celebrates the artistic and c ultural forces flourishing today in the East\, bringing together an unpr ecedented selection of works by South Asian\, East Asian\, Middle Easter n\, and Central Asian poets.\n\nLillian Vernon Writers House\n58 West 10 th Street\n4:00 pm\nFree\n UID:462CE097-D7DF-4942-AC9D-7C9E9D54BF76 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090422T160000 DTSTAMP:20090119T182512Z SUMMARY:LV Writers House CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090422T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Paul Muldoon is Oxford Professor of Poetry and the Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University\n\nJim Ric hardson is a life-long car buff and has been an automotive writer for ma ny years. His work appears regularly in Car Collector\, Special Interest Autos\, Auto Restorer\, and Custom & Classic Trucks. His other books in clude The Classic Car Restoration Handbook and The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Engine and Chassis Detailing. Richardson also appears on My Classic C ar TV and Classic Car Garage. He and his wife divide their time between Long Beach\, California and Tairua\, New Zealand\n\nFree\n\n85 East 4th St. UID:BB238A66-1D19-4FCD-ACED-9A4348391DA5 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081124T193000 DTSTAMP:20080904T171506Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081124T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Mary C. Henderson & Alexis Greene\nThe Story of 42nd Street: The Theaters\, Shows\, Characters and Scandals of the World's Most Noto rious Street\nBack Stage Books\, $40\n\nQuick! In the heart of little ol d New York\, you'll find a thoroughfare--what is it? Forty-second Street \, of course! In this entertaining book\, noted theater historian Mary H enderson traces the rise and fall and rise of the street that symbolizes the Broadway experience. The first theater went up in 1899\, and by 192 0\, there were twelve stretching from avenue to avenue\, plus a flow of trolleys\, a subway stop at each end\, and a never-ceasing bustle of act ivity in between. The 1920s and 1930s were the golden age\, fueled by Ho llywood movies and Damon Runyon stories\; then there were the war years\ , when every American soldier and sailor paid a call. After the war\, th e slow decline of 42nd Street\, lined with peep shows\, symbolized decay . In the 1990s\, as theaters were renovated\, the street was miraculousl y reclaimed. The Story of 42nd Street captures the colorful characters\, shows\, scandals\, and stories of this uniquely American dreamscape.\n\ nCUNY Graduate Center\n365 5th Avenue at 34th Street\nElebash Recital Ha ll \n6:30 pm\n\n UID:E5463E5A-E5D8-4A1D-AA96-9FAFAFE2D932 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090330T183000 DTSTAMP:20090126T181140Z SUMMARY:CUNY Gotham CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090330T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:13 DESCRIPTION:Marymount Reading Series\n7:30PM\nFREE\n\nDonald Westlake\nW hat's So Funny\n(Grand Central\, $8)\n\nHapless crook John Dortmunder is back with all the wrong moves in another tale of larcenous greed from G rand Master of Mystery Westlake.\n\nMarymount\n221 E 71 @ 3rd Ave\n UID:902AA211-449E-4400-8107-1B9527DA8242 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080505T193000 DTSTAMP:20080424T200818Z SUMMARY:Marymount - Donald Westlake CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080505T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Grover Norquist\nLeave Us Alone: Getting the Government's Ha nds Off Our Money\, Our Guns\, Our Lives \n(William Morrow\, $27)\n6PM\n \nNorquist\, president of Americans for Tax Reform\, argues that a new p olitical movement--comprised of taxpayers\, gun owners\, faith communiti es\, and others--now controls much of the Republican Party. In this new book\, he describes how this movement will shape the next century.\n\nGr and Hyatt on 42nd\n(btn Park and Lex) UID:68EB282E-D793-47F3-BE7B-59EA4B09A595 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080512T180000 DTSTAMP:20080508T211624Z SUMMARY:Grover Norquist CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080512T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an exhibition of Photographs and booksign ing of Mark A. Vieira's New Book\nHollywood Dreams made Real Irving Thal berg and the Rise of MGM.\n\nMark A.Vieira\, an acclaimed film historian specializing in the photographic legacy of Hollywood.\nPresented by Fil m Society of Lincoln Center\n\nThe Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery\n(Adjac ent to the Walter Reade Theater \nin Lincoln Center)\n165 W 65th St\n(bt w Amsterdam Ave-Broadway)\n UID:6BA5D406-F12D-49D2-824F-69622EE23604 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081015T180000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194959Z SUMMARY:Hollywood Dreams made Real Irving Thalberg and the Rise of MGM CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081015T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Feautring:\n\nJ. Knox\nLaura Newbern\nJ. Lynch\n\nBryant Par k Reading Room\nBryant Park 42nd st. side\, under burgandy umbrellas\n\n UID:8C0AFD7C-8C6A-4CCE-8390-3251E785FE65 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090609T193000 DTSTAMP:20090526T173624Z SUMMARY:Word for Word Poetry CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090609T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Performance: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson\n\nBooks TBA\n\nTh e Public Theater\n425 Lafayette Street\n7:45 pm UID:E744B6C3-02C6-483D-BA5B-B5CD543240E2 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090509T194500 DTSTAMP:20090119T185319Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090509T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Lily Koppel\nThe Red Leather Diary\n(Harper\, $24)\n6PM\nFRE E\n\nA "New York Times" journalist discovers a discarded old diary--a fi nd that introduces her to an extraordinary woman and a glamorous\, forgo tten time. Evocative and entrancing\, "The Red Leather Diary" recreates the romance and glitter of 1930s New York. Photos throughout.\n\n401 Pro jects\n401 West St\nNY 10014 UID:057EB9F5-50B1-4445-BF32-4E6551DF8C87 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080412T180000 DTSTAMP:20080326T201701Z SUMMARY:Lily Koppel CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080412T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Rachel Sontag\nHouse Rules\n(Ecco\, $25)\nFREE\n7PM\n\n A me moir of a father obsessed with control and the daughter who fights his s uffocating grasp\, "House Rules" explores the complexities of their comp elling and destructive relationship and the fallout that transforms thei r family forever.\n\nBar on A\n170 Ave A @ 11th St\n\n UID:13615502-A98A-4ABC-A8F5-D23997180B9C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080528T190000 DTSTAMP:20080527T200024Z SUMMARY:Rachel Sontag at Bar on A CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080528T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Matthew Zapruder\nThe Pajamaist\nCopper Canyon Press\, $15\n \nThe Pajamaist is an intimate book filled with sly wit and an ever-pres ent\, infectious openness to amazement. Zapruder's poems are urbane and constantly\, curiously searching.\n\nIdra Novey\nThe Next Country\nAlice James Books\, $14.95\n\nCake Shop\n152 Ludlow Street\n5:00 pm\n\n\n UID:ACA1FE57-1A6D-4F60-ABDB-53D0929363E1 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090201T170000 DTSTAMP:20090119T162459Z SUMMARY:Polestar Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090201T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:NYC Housing Authority's Black History Month Celebration\n\nK eynote Speaker: Dr. Deborah Willis\n\nDeborah Willis\nObama: The Histori c Campaign in Photographs\nAmistad Press\, $26.95\n\nTimed to coincide w ith the 2008 presidential election\, this deluxe commemorative photo boo k is filled with 150 full color and black and white photographs that cha rt Obama's historic campaign\, from its idealistic beginnings through hi s triumphant Democratic primary nomination.\n\n90 Church Street\n5th Flo or\n5:30 pm\n UID:2209629E-FCA7-4886-A521-70BF204A8071 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090217T173000 DTSTAMP:20090126T173910Z SUMMARY:NYC Housing Authority CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090217T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Reading Series\n\nJeff Pearlman\nBoys Will Be Boys: The Glor y Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty\nHarper\n$26\n\nKa te Torgovnick\nCheer!: Inside the Secret World of College Cheerleaders\n Touchstone Books\n$25\n\nRalph Vacchiano\nEli Manning: The Making of a Q uarterback: The Incredible Rise of the New York Giants\nSkyhorse Publish ing\n$25\n\nFREE\n8 pm\n\nHappy Ending Lounge\n302 S. Broome Street\n\n UID:FB4EE375-E303-457C-9F74-3BAE11044E2E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081002T200000 DTSTAMP:20080808T181321Z SUMMARY:Varsity Letters CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081002T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Queens Museum of Art Poetry Series\nFREE\n5PM\n\nEleanor Ler man\nThe Mystery of Meteors\n(Sarabande Books\, $13)\n\nerman writes wry ly contemplative soliloquies about surviving all the usual miscalculatio ns of the first half of life only to arrive in the static but unrelentin gly demanding realm of middle age. \n\nQueens Museum of Art\nNYC Bldg\nF lushing Meadows Park UID:4EA3C455-1276-4E32-B221-8F0D48AFF7EB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080622T170000 DTSTAMP:20080602T213000Z SUMMARY:Queens Museum Poetry CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080622T193000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Performance: Tales of an Urban Indian \n\nDarrell Dennis\nTw o Plays: Tales of an Urban Indian & The Trickster of 3rd Avenue East\nPl aywrights Canada Press\, $17.95\n\n "Dennis is a writer and performer to keep your eye on. Sparked by anger but suffused with humanity and humil ity\, his Tales are worth telling-and watching."- "NOW Magazine"\n\nThe Public Theater\n425 Lafayette Street\n7:45 pm\n UID:BD3E6710-2AAE-465B-9AA3-199A42D12A35 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090307T194500 DTSTAMP:20090119T184155Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090307T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Word for Word Reading Series\nFREE\n6:30PM\n\nPhilip Levine\ nBreath Poems\n(Knopf\, $15)\n\n\nBryant Park Reading Room\n42nd St. sid e of Bryant Park\, under burgandy and white umbrellas UID:4AE8141A-04DF-4EE7-A4EF-6CF6044B6253 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080520T183000 DTSTAMP:20080423T170317Z SUMMARY:Philip Levine at Brant Park CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080520T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:A Celebration of New European Poets\n\nA panel discussion\, followed by a reading\, to celebrate New European Poets. Featuring Chri stopher Bakken\, Peter Covino\, Marilyn Hacker\, Rika Lesser\, Murat Nem et-Nejat\, Adam Sorkin\, and Alissa Valles. Hosted by anthology editors Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer.\n\nLillian Vernon Writers House\n58 West 10th Street\n2:00 pm\nFree UID:ECD3B933-21F2-4957-9A99-1E53D5DCDE62 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090502T140000 DTSTAMP:20090119T183313Z SUMMARY:LV Writers House CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090502T160000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Nicole Cooley won the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of A merican Poets. She lives in New Jersey and is an associate professor of English at Queens College\, City University of New York.\n\nKimiko Hahn\ , the author of six books of poetry\, is a recipient of an American Book Award and a Lila Wallace--Reader's Digest Award. She teaches at Queens College\, City University of New York.\n\nFree\n\nKGB BAR\n85 East 4th S t.\n\n UID:A78B0B4C-D8A3-406E-A996-BDD4C6A712EE TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080929T193000 DTSTAMP:20080904T171506Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080929T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Donald Prothero\nEvolution: What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters\nColumbia University Press\, $29\n\nProthero\, a geologist at Oc cidental College ("After the Dinosaurs")\, explains how rich the fossil record has become. His goal is two-fold. First\, he wants to demonstrate the wide variety of transitional forms that have been found\, many with in the past 20 years. Second\, he aims to discredit the creationist move ment.\n\nUniversity Settlement\n184 Eldridge Street at Rivington\n1:00 p m\n UID:64EC417B-6549-49A5-B51A-D6A84FFC29C6 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090110T130000 DTSTAMP:20081215T200459Z SUMMARY:New York Skeptics CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090110T150000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Ben Greenman\nA Circle is a Balloon and Compass Both\nMacAda m/Cage $13\n\nFrom the author of "Superbad" and "Superworse" comes a new collection of stories about giving\, wanting\, and the wonders of love. These are stories about love\, the most elusive and problematic of all phenomena\, and the ins and outs of modern romance.\n\nPianos\n158 Ludlo w\n6:30\n\n UID:291D3DDE-410C-4349-B3AC-ECEDAB9D4A4C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090227T183000 DTSTAMP:20081230T172009Z SUMMARY:One Story CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090227T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:The American Irish\nOne of the nation's most eminent scholar s of the immigrant experience delivers this magisterial history of the I rish in America from the 18th century to the present--the first general- reader's account of the Irish experience in the United States to be publ ished since the 1960s.\n(Bloomsbury Press: $ 30.00)\n\nJay P. Dolan \nPr ofessor Emeritus of History at the University of Notre Dame. He has auth ored or edited several books on the history of American Catholicism\, in cluding his best known work\, The American Catholic Experience: A Histor y from Colonial Times to the Present. He has served as President of\nbot h the American Catholic Historical Association and the American Society of Church History. He was the founder of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame and served as i ts director from 1975 to 1993.\n\n991 5th Ave UID:31CF7CE5-E3BA-49AF-B126-74C3CADF3E58 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081112T183000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194958Z SUMMARY:Bloomsbury Events : The American Irish CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081112T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Leslie Day\nField Guide to the Natural World of New York Cit y \n(John Hopkins\, $25)\nMEMBERS\nNOON\n\nLeslie Day\, a New York City naturalist\, reveals this amazing world in her Field Guide to the Natura l World of New York City. Combining the stunning paintings of Mark A. Kl ingler with a variety of photographs and maps\, this book is a complete guide for the urban naturalist -- with tips on identifying the city's fl ora and fauna and maps showing the nearest subway stop.\n\nNYC Rotary Cl ub event\nat the Harvard Club\n35 W 44th St UID:C9C0C0B0-7383-43A9-9089-EAE94B7D90CB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080602T120000 DTSTAMP:20080519T210653Z SUMMARY:Field Guide to NYC CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080602T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Wartime Decisions and the Atomic Age\n\nMartin J.Sherwin\, P ulitzer Prize-winning author\, Professor of history\, George mason Unive rsity\nTalk: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb\nHarry Lustig\nPr ovost Emeritus\, Professor of Physics\, CCNY\nTalk: Did the Allies Know That The Germans Were not Building and Atomic Bomb?\nGar Alperovitz\nBau man Professor of Political Economy\, University of Maryland\,\nTalk: The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb\n\nThe Graduate Center\nProshansky Audi torium\n365 5th Ave\n34th St.\n UID:C730C3CA-9CD0-4D4F-AD08-62037AAA2299 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081017T183000 DTSTAMP:20080910T184950Z SUMMARY:CUNY Session 2 CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081017T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Happy Ending Lounge\n302 Broome St.\n\nAuthors TK UID:7BEEB9C1-7A21-4E00-A4D9-62F637949DF4 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090521T200000 DTSTAMP:20090521T203358Z SUMMARY:In The Flesh CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090521T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:Susan Jacoby\nAge of American Unreason (Pantheon\, $26)\nSpo nsored by the Center for Inquiry \n6:30 PM
FREE\n\nCombining historical analysis with contemporary observation\, Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon--the addiction to infotainment\, from television to the Web\, which has resulted in a lazy and credulous public.\n\n\nGener al Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen \n20 West 44 th Street UID:C8C09155-535C-411A-80F2-D2FAE6085EA1 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080220T183000 DTSTAMP:20080219T175649Z SUMMARY:Susan Jacoby CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080220T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Frans Lanting\nLife: A Journey Through Time\nTaschen\, $60\n \nIn the year 2000\, world-renowned wildlife photographer Frans Lanting set out on a personal journey to photograph the evolution of life on ear th. He made pilgrimages to true time capsules like a remote lagoon in We stern Australia\, spent time in research collections photographing forms of microscopic life\, and even found ways to create visual parallels be tween the growth of organs in the human body and the patterns seen on th e surface of the earth. The resulting volume is a glorious picture book of planet earth depicting the amazing biodiversity that surrounds us all . Lanting’s true gift lies beyond his technical mastery: it is his eye f or geometry in the beautiful chaos of nature that allows him to show us the world as it has never been seen before. From crabs to jellyfish\, di atoms to vast geological formations\, jungles to flowers\, monkeys to hu man embryos\, LIFE is a testament to the magical beauty of life in all i ts forms and is Lanting’s most remarkable achievement to date. \n\nCUNY Grad Center\n365 Fifth Avenue\n7:00 pm\n$25\n\n UID:D3B3ED7C-E207-4DBD-A1B4-EDAD73396554 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090612T190000 DTSTAMP:20090518T183759Z SUMMARY:World Science Festival CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090612T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:David Batchelor\nColour\n(Mit Press\, $23)\n8PM\nContact htt p://www.norwoodclub.com/ \n\nWritings on color from modernism to the pre sent\, with contributions writers from Baudelaire to Baudrillard\, surve ying art from Paul Gauguin to Rachel Whiteread.\n\nNorwood Club\n241 W 1 4th St\n\n\n\n UID:93678E5E-5175-40C8-A20E-087BD6196EE3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080408T200000 DTSTAMP:20080321T181150Z SUMMARY:Norwood Club CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080408T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Paragraph reading Series\nFREE\n8PM\n\nRoxanna Robinson\nCos t\n(Farrar Straus Giroux\, $25)\n\nRachel Cline\nMy Liar\n(Random House\ , $23)\n\nClay\n25 W 14th St\n UID:C3A3ED0F-0CDB-4FF3-8D39-0EDE2BE3E454 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080606T200000 DTSTAMP:20080603T224653Z SUMMARY:Paragraph Writers Series CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080606T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:The Perfect Baby Handbook: A Guide for Excessively Motivated Parents \nNew parents are more sophisticated than ever\, but they're al so highly competitive. A hilarious satire of child-rearing manuals\, thi s handbook provides much-needed comic relief from the pressures of moder n parenting.\nHarper Paperbacks: $ 16.99\n\nDale Hrabi is a New York bas ed writer and magazine editor who's held top positions at "Details\, Us Weekly\, " and" Radar" magazines\, and contributed to "ELLE\, Wired\, " and" The New York Times"\, among other major publications.\n\nCapucine\, Maternity Boutique\n20 Harrison St\nbtw HUdson-Greenwich St UID:C59C677C-871F-4B22-ACD2-34CB089A6BA3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090331T180000 DTSTAMP:20090326T173631Z SUMMARY:The Perfect Baby Handbook: A Guide for Excessively Motivated Par ents CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090331T210000 LOCATION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Fiction Reading and Conversation: Kwame Dawes and Uwem Akpan \n\nKwame Dawes\nShe's Gone\nAkashic Books\, $15.95\n\nA prominent Jamai can reggae singer falls in love with an African American woman while on tour in South Carolina. The two struggle to forge a relationship across a cultural and psychological divide in a story that spans from Jamaica t o South Carolina to New York City.\n\nUwem Akpan\nSay You're One of Them \nBack Bay Books\, $23.99\n\nFrom a celebrated "New Yorker" writer comes a bold literary debut--a collection of brilliant short stories about ch ildren's lives in crisis in modern America.\n\nLillian Vernon Writers Ho use\n58 West 10th Street\n4:00 pm\nFree\n\n\n\n\n\n UID:0DF54D1E-A064-46DD-9882-BC084AE85555 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090225T160000 DTSTAMP:20090119T173147Z SUMMARY:LV Writers House CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090225T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Steven Greenhouse\nThe Big Squeaze: Tough Times for the Amer ican Worker\n(Alfred A. Knopf\, $26)\n6:30PM\nMEMBERS\n\n"The Big Squeez e" takes a probing\, sometimes shocking look at the stresses and strains faced by an alarming number of American workers--white- and blue-collar \, middle- and low-income--as wages have stagnated\, health and pension benefits have grown stingier\, and job security has shriveled.\n\nNYC Ba r Association\n42 W 44th St\n2nd Floor UID:ED0D4491-93CB-4F3A-AEBD-05760A4423DD TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080418T183000 DTSTAMP:20080415T194913Z SUMMARY:Steve Greenhouse CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080418T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:15 DESCRIPTION:A Tribute To Jane Grigson\nwith Amy Besa & Romy Dorotan\, Gr ace Young\, William Woys Weaver\, Betty Fussell\, Mary Hensley \n\nJoin us for a delicious\, warm and wise day of special meals and presentation s to celebrate the 80th birthday of the late Jane Grigson\, whose conver sational voice and down-to-earth approach\, emphasis on local food sourc es and everyday eating\, and curiosity about the relationship between fo od and culture influenced a generation of chefs\, cooks\, writers and fo od activists. \n\nThe Astor Center\n399 Lafayette Street\n9:00 AM - 4:30 PM\n$95.00 UID:F17FB9F2-F29B-42DF-9E34-6A527D5FF837 TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.astorcenternyc.com/class-a-tribute-to-jane-grig son.ac DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080315T153000 DTSTAMP:20080312T015226Z SUMMARY:Astor Center CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080315T163000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:13 DESCRIPTION:New School\n\nA reading to celebrate the publication of five new poetry titles from Fence Boks\n\nElizabeth Robinson\,author of THe Orphan and its Relations\,\n\nJames Shea\,author of star in The Eye\,\nS asha Steensen\,author of the method\,\n\nRodrigo Toscano\,Auhor of Colla psible Poetics Theater\,\n\nBrian Young\,author of Site Acquisition\n\nR ebecca Wolf\,moderator\n\nfree\n\n66 W 12th St\nroom 510 UID:611BDF17-645A-48CA-A5AF-4E2CD2587E4A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081203T183000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204834Z SUMMARY:Fence Book Reading CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081203T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:447 Broadway\, 5th flr\n\nPeter Nadas-Fire and Knowledge\n\n Péter Nádas is one of Hungary’s leading writers and a major figure in Eu ropean life and letters. To celebrate the release of his acclaimed new b ook Fire & Knowledge\, Mr. Nádas is making his first visit to the United States in over a decade. \n\nBook Launch for Fire and Knowledge \nInter viewed by award-winning author Susan Rubin Suleiman UID:661B632C-A6BB-4C1C-B3F8-0B16FE0CA78F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071107T193000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195246Z SUMMARY:Hungarian Cultural Center CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071107T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Paris Review Summer Salon\n6PM\nFREE\n\nEdward Hirsch\nSpeci al Orders\n(Knopf\, $25)\n\nMonica Youn\nBarter\n(Graywolf\, $14)\n\nLil lian Vernon\n58 W 10th St UID:F25A9531-131B-4B1D-8B88-FC8E70EED069 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080604T180000 DTSTAMP:20080529T200634Z SUMMARY:Paris Review Summer Salon CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080604T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Stacy Horn\nUnbelievable\nEcco\, $24.95\n\nNational Public R adio contributor Horn investigates science's first attempts to prove--or disprove--the existence of the paranormal\, bringing to light a half-ce ntury's worth of ghost stories\, poltergeists\, and paranormal activity. \n\nPolaris North Theatre\n245 West 29th Street\n4th Floor\n3:00 pm UID:67C78DB0-BEBC-497E-BCE8-4CCE21862750 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090927T150000 DTSTAMP:20090622T175721Z SUMMARY:Polaris North Theatre CREATED:20090624T221129Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090927T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Eugene Drucker\nThe Savior (Simon & Schuster\, $23)\n7:00 pm \nFREE\n\nEugene Drucker\, founding member of the eight-time Grammy Awar d-winning Emerson String Quartet and one of our greatest solo violinists \, will speak about his recent novel\, The Savior\, and perform Bach's " Chaconne" which figures in this story. Book signing and refreshments to follow.\n\nMarymount Manhattan College\n221 East 71st Street\nRegina Per uggi Room\nRSVP required. Call 212-774-0780\n\n UID:0CF7E8D7-0013-41A9-9681-5385D8D9A0B3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080221T190000 DTSTAMP:20080214T193042Z SUMMARY:Eugene Drucker CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080221T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Performance: Knives and Other Sharp Objects\n\nBook TBA\n\nT he Public Theater\n425 Lafayette Street\n7:45 pm UID:184C5F1B-B5F4-446F-B4EE-AE860DD9FE9B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090411T194500 DTSTAMP:20090119T185034Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090411T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:The Public Theater will be putting on a new play by Suzan-Lo ri Parks. More information to come.\n\nThe Public Theater\n425 Lafayett e Street\n7:45 pm UID:B693161F-9357-43CA-B8DB-CD9E37176E6C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090627T194500 DTSTAMP:20090320T201307Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090627T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:The Jazz Trumpet on Film \; Krin Gabbard's Book Party\n\nA C elebraions of Hotter Than That:The Trumpet\,Jazz And American Culture.W e'll look at concery footage of important jazz trumpet-players such as R oy Eldridge\,Dizzy Gillespie\,Lee Morgan\,and Wynton Marralis and then t race the strange history of the instrument in Hollywood films.\n(Faber&F aber\,$24)\n\nKrin Gabbard is professor of comparative literature and En glish at Stony Brook University and an amateur trumpet player. He is the author of three previous books\n\nTribecca Performing Arts Center\n199 Chambers Streeet UID:D0673B60-C085-454F-BEAA-0DA6D67449E3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081118T193000 DTSTAMP:20080901T210841Z SUMMARY:Trumpet Jazz and American Culture CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081118T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Martha Hall Foose\nScreen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and T ales from a Southern Cook\nClarkson and Potter\, $32.50\n\nWith humorous and touching tales and useful information on ingredients\, techniques\, storage\, short-cuts\, variations--and more than 150 recipes--this is a must-read for anyone who craves a return to good eating.\n\nCentral Par k\nEast Meadow (5th Ave and 97th Street)\n12:00 pm\n\n UID:1894CE10-EEEB-49F5-B6F7-10121E7812E9 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090613T120000 DTSTAMP:20090601T192502Z SUMMARY:Mississippi Picnic CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090613T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Sip Lit\n8:00 pm\nFREE\n\nMark Svenvold \nEmpire Burlesque ( Ohio State University\, $14)\n\nEdward Mendelson\nhe Complete Works of W . H. Auden: Prose\, Volume III\, 1949-1955 (Princeton University\, $50)\ n\nSip Bar\n998 Amsterdam Ave between 109th and 110th UID:6BCEAF29-3925-46AA-89D4-25B291DF4686 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080220T200000 DTSTAMP:20080214T184122Z SUMMARY:Sip Lit CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080220T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:\n\nThomas Sayers Ellis - The Maverick Room\n(Graywolf\, $14 )\n\nDuriel Harris - Skin of My Palms\nEvie Shockley - A Half-Red Sea\n\ n\n\nFordham U-Lincoln Center Campus\n113 W 60th St UID:9A1A1128-4CE5-4FB2-A6E3-4746C44774C2 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080421T190000 DTSTAMP:20080328T223704Z SUMMARY:Poets Out Loud - Fordam CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080421T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:The Great Comeback: How Abraham Lincoln Beat the Odds to Win the 1860 Republican Nomination\nFrom the ashes of political defeat and great personal disappointment rose one of the greatest leaders in Americ an history: Abraham Lincoln. Teeming with drama and intrigue\, this is t he story of how Lincoln took his first steps toward becoming the legenda ry figure. 8-page b&w photo insert.\n(Thomas Dunne Books: $26) \n\nAutho r: Gary Ecelbarger\n\nCooper Union\nWollman Auditorium\n51 Astor Place. UID:ED2459FE-AEF1-4373-B0E4-AE674D25E2BB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081113T183000 DTSTAMP:20081018T195000Z SUMMARY:Gary's Ecelbarger Talk at Cooper Union CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081113T203000 LOCATION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:The James Brown Reader: Fifty Years of Writing about the God father of Soul \n(Plume\, $17)\nContact membership@norwoodclub.com\n3PM\ n\nGeorge and Leeds have assembled the first comprehensive collection of writings about the late\, great Godfather of Soul\, creating a fascinat ing mosaic of the man and the musician.\n\nAlan Leeds Vernon Gibbs\, Nel son George reading\n\nNorwood Club\n241 W 14th\n UID:9048ECE4-0C99-4833-BF0D-D69C245F39B9 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080503T150000 DTSTAMP:20080408T214955Z SUMMARY:James Brown Reader CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080503T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:KGB Bar 5 East 4th Street\nFREE\n\nHosted by Laura Cronk and Michael Quattrone\n\nBloof Books: Shanna Compton and Jennifer L. Knox\n \nhttp://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-02-25_poetry_bloof_bo.html UID:7D0E4AD5-1103-4C24-BA83-5FFADC78B578 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080225T193000 DTSTAMP:20080218T190526Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080225T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:Terese Svoda\,\nBlack Glasses Like Clark Kent: A GI's Secret from Postwar Japan\n(Greywolf Press\, $14)\n6:30PM\nFREE\n\n“A sense of urgency pervades all of [Svoboda’s] work\, giving the words a pulse\, m aking her language race with insistence.” —Poets & Writers\n\nFiction Fo rum\n66 West 12th Street \nWollman Hall UID:2AFABF2F-734B-42E1-B6D9-5A1D9FA8C8E6 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080324T183000 DTSTAMP:20080305T000403Z SUMMARY:Fiction Forum\, Terese Svoda CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080324T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:23 DESCRIPTION:34 Ave A UID:0A05BBF6-3E80-4015-A673-37372BD1A04A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070709T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195251Z SUMMARY:Mo Pitkins EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20071029T190000 CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070709T203000 RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;INTERVAL=1;UNTIL=20071112T045959Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:34 Ave A\n\nNo Mo's Tonight UID:0A05BBF6-3E80-4015-A673-37372BD1A04A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070827T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195246Z SUMMARY:Mo Pitkins CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070827T203000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20070827T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:22 DESCRIPTION:34 Ave A\n\nNO EVENT TONIGHT UID:0A05BBF6-3E80-4015-A673-37372BD1A04A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/Montreal:20070709T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195250Z SUMMARY:Mo Pitkins CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/Montreal:20070709T203000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20070709T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:34 Ave A\n\nNo Mo's Tonight UID:0A05BBF6-3E80-4015-A673-37372BD1A04A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070820T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195249Z SUMMARY:Mo Pitkins CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070820T203000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20070820T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:17 DESCRIPTION:34 Ave A UID:0A05BBF6-3E80-4015-A673-37372BD1A04A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071008T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195250Z SUMMARY:Mo Pitkins CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071008T203000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20071008T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:34 Ave A\n\nNo Mo's Tonight UID:0A05BBF6-3E80-4015-A673-37372BD1A04A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070806T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195246Z SUMMARY:Mo Pitkins CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070806T203000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20070806T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:19 DESCRIPTION:34 Ave A\n\nChuck Bock-Beautiful Children\nSean Wilsey-Oh th e Glory UID:0A05BBF6-3E80-4015-A673-37372BD1A04A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071022T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195248Z SUMMARY:Mo Pitkins CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071022T203000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20071022T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:34 Ave A\n\nRebecca works tonight. UID:0A05BBF6-3E80-4015-A673-37372BD1A04A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070813T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195249Z SUMMARY:Mo Pitkins CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070813T203000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20070813T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:34 Ave A\n\nNo Mo's Tonight UID:0A05BBF6-3E80-4015-A673-37372BD1A04A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070903T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195247Z SUMMARY:Mo Pitkins CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070903T203000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20070903T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:14 DESCRIPTION:34 Ave A\n\nAlain Mabanckou-African Psycho UID:0A05BBF6-3E80-4015-A673-37372BD1A04A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070924T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195247Z SUMMARY:Mo Pitkins CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070924T203000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20070924T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:34 Ave A\n\nNo Mo's Tonight UID:0A05BBF6-3E80-4015-A673-37372BD1A04A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070730T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195249Z SUMMARY:Mo Pitkins CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070730T203000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20070730T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:20 DESCRIPTION:34 Ave A\n\nJim Shepard-Like You'd Understand\nNicholas Chri stopher-Bestiary UID:0A05BBF6-3E80-4015-A673-37372BD1A04A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071105T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195246Z SUMMARY:Mo Pitkins CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071105T203000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20071105T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:13 DESCRIPTION:34 Ave A\n\nDavid Rsen-I Just Want My Pants Back\nSteve Tolt z-Fraction of the Whole UID:0A05BBF6-3E80-4015-A673-37372BD1A04A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070917T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195249Z SUMMARY:Mo Pitkins CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070917T203000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20070917T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:34 Ave A\n\nTao Lin-Eee Eee Eee\nSam Michel-Big Dogs UID:0A05BBF6-3E80-4015-A673-37372BD1A04A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070910T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195251Z SUMMARY:Mo Pitkins CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070910T203000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20070910T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:17 DESCRIPTION:34 Ave A\n\nDallas Hudgens\nPatrick Hughes UID:0A05BBF6-3E80-4015-A673-37372BD1A04A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071015T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195247Z SUMMARY:Mo Pitkins CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071015T203000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20071015T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:15 DESCRIPTION:34 Ave A\n\nDeb Olin Unferth-145 Stories\nEllen Litman-Last Chicken in America UID:0A05BBF6-3E80-4015-A673-37372BD1A04A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071001T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195249Z SUMMARY:Mo Pitkins CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071001T203000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20071001T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Fiction Salon: Jonathan Lethem w/Darin\n\nNathan Lethem is t he author of the novels "Gun\, with Occasional Music\, Amnesia Moon\, As She Climbed Across the Table\, " and "Girl in Landscape." He lives in B rooklyn\, NY.\n\nfree\n\nLillian Vernon Writers House\n58 W. 10th Street UID:0A5CFDE7-F4BA-4474-8621-8A7BF6575143 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081030T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204828Z SUMMARY:Fiction Salon CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081030T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Word For Word Poetry\n6:30PM\nFREE\n\nCave Canum\n\nBryant P ark\n42nd St side\nunder burgundy umbrellas UID:60850162-EAFE-4414-BF96-77AC1BDDBD0A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080911T123000 DTSTAMP:20080506T184152Z SUMMARY:Word for Word poetry CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080911T134500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Richard Todd\nThe Thing Itself\nRiverhead Hardcover $25\n\n\ nAndrew Sean Greer\nThe Story of A Marriage\nPicador $14\n\n\nThe Confes sions of Max Tivoli\nPicador $14\n\n\nThe Path of Minor Planets\nPicador $14\n\n\nFREE\n8:00 pm\n\nClay\n25 West 14th Street\n\nReception at Par agraph\, 35 West 14th Street UID:0B425066-2B80-4CF4-A546-5DF5E0DEA518 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080912T200000 DTSTAMP:20080824T201705Z SUMMARY:Paragraph CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080912T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:5th Ave @ 40th St\n\nLindsay Pollock-Girl with the Gallery UID:906CBDF9-90B1-4C7F-B58A-5675F4D0186E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071009T183000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195247Z SUMMARY:NYPL-Mid Man Branch CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071009T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Roxana Robinson is the author of three novels\, three collec tions of short stories\, and the biography Georgia O'Keefe : A Life. her woork has appeared in The New Yorker\, Haper's Magazine\, The Atlantic\ , The New York Times an Vogue\,among other publications. She teaches at the New School. She reads from her novel : Cost\n"Roxana Robinson is sur ely one of the most graceful stylist and psychologically perceptive writ ers working. This book shows the extent of Robinson's insights into the whirl\, the generational ironies at work\,and the desperate indulgences to which we turn in our confusion."\n-Robert Stone\n\nTodd Hasak-Lowy re ceived his PhD in Comparative Literature from Berkeley. he is currently professor at the University of Florida where he teaches hebrew language and literature. He is the author of The Task of This Translator\, a coll ection of stories.He lives in Gainsville Florida. He reads from his nove l : Captives\n"There should be no uncertainty about the author's explosi ve originally : a mix of zany wit\,reverse-spin writing and enlarged pur pose. He goes beyond social satire to global concern."\n-Chicako Tribune \n\n\nFREE\n7 pm\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4th St.\n UID:043A3D1C-A974-434B-AB01-E59CC20EF01D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081026T190000 DTSTAMP:20080911T161721Z SUMMARY:KGB Fiction CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081026T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Charlie Ayers\nFood 2.0: Secrets from the Chef who Fed Googl e\n(DK\, $25)\nFREE\n\nIn a cutting edge cookbook for the Internet gener ation\, Google's legendary founding super-chef tells readers what they n eed to know about the newest nutrition buzzword: brainfood. "Food 2.0" o utlines the basics on how the right foods can transform the mind and bod y.\n\nChelsea Market\n9th Ave btn. 15th and 16th\n UID:321080F9-E1B4-4922-98D7-39695975CD37 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080505T180000 DTSTAMP:20080423T175639Z SUMMARY:Google's Chef at Chelsea Market CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080505T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Poetry\n\nA Celebration of Letter to a Stranger\, by Thomas James.\nThomas James (1946-1974) won the Theodore Roethke Prize from Poe try Northwest\, in 1969. Readers are Rigoberto Gonzalez\, Richard Howard \, Tracy K. Smith\, and Mark Wunderlich. Lucie Brock-Broido\, host. \n\ n\nAdmission $5\n\n66 W 12th St\nroom 510 UID:34D3E916-3F5B-4F36-BBCD-59B71686ADD1 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080923T190000 DTSTAMP:20080730T011040Z SUMMARY:New School Poetry CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080923T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Philip Gourevitch\nStandard Operating Procedure (Penguin Pre ss\, $26) \n\nTwo of the country's top moral and political observers hav e produced the first full reckoning of what actually happened at Abu Ghr aib prison\, based on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with the Americans involved.\n\nThis series features James F. Hoge\, editor\, an d Peter G. Peterson chair of Foreign Affairs\, chairman of the Internati onal Center for Journalists\, and CGA advisory board member\, in convers ation with leading journalists\, authors\, and filmmakers. Events are fo llowed by book signings and a light reception.\n\nThe Center for Global Affairs \nWoolworth Building \n15 Barclay Street\, 4th Floor (Between Br oadway and Church Street) \n\n\n UID:C280C418-93FA-44B3-83EC-A62FA8D174B6 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080410T183000 DTSTAMP:20080324T160548Z SUMMARY:Philip Gourevitch CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080410T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Mel Bochner\nSolar System & Rest Rooms Solar System & Rest R ooms: Writings and Interviews\, 1965-2007 Writings and Interviews\, 1965 -2007\n(Mit Press\, $40)\nFREE\n5PM\n\nReviews\, art criticism\, theoret ical texts\, interviews\, catalog statements\, notecards\, magazine inte rventions\, and other writings on art and art in the form of writing by a leading conceptual artist\; many pages reproduced in facsimile.\n\nPet er Freeman Gallery\n560 Broadway Stuite 602 / 603\n\n UID:A9129DF3-48F2-4683-866B-967160C4B1F0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080522T170000 DTSTAMP:20080506T173440Z SUMMARY:Mel Bochner CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080522T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Irish Voices\n\nTony Hendra is the author of many books\,inc lluding The Messiah of Morris Avenue\,The Book of Bad virtues\,and the i nternational best selling Father Joe.\nTony appeared as the British Mana ger Ian Faith in the film This is Spinal Tap and has been editor of The National Lampoon and spy magazine .As a parodist\,he created and publish es Not The New York Times and the recent spoof\,My Wall Street Journal.\ n\nfree\n\nRegina Peruggi Room\n221 East 71st Street\n212 774-0780 UID:0FAEB889-1DD8-440A-B8D3-5ED23AC969D5 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081210T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204830Z SUMMARY:Marymount\, IrishVoices CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081210T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Ching-In Chen\nThe Heart's Traffic\nArktoi\, $21\n\nChen's d ebut book of poetry offers an impassioned record of a girl who grows up without a father\, learning to make do and becoming adept at expressing what she's learned in wordplay ranging from dictionary definitions to nu rsery rhymes.\n\nLyrae Van Clief-Stefanon\nOpen Interval\nUniversity of Pittsburgh Press\, $14.95\n\nDrawing upon intersections of astronomy and mathematics\, history\, literature\, and lived experience\, the poems i n ]Open Interval[ locate the self in the interval between body and name. \n\nArsenal Building Rooftop\nCentral Park\, 64th and 5th Ave\n6:30 pm\n Free \n\n\n UID:0109488C-0F18-4DCF-9829-8419AE3FE930 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090625T183000 DTSTAMP:20090529T143135Z SUMMARY:Poetry from the Rooftops CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090625T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Native Theater Festival\n\nPublic Theater\n425 Lafayette St\ n\ndetails TK UID:0C83C32E-EEE2-4546-80BF-D388A9DF250C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081114T200000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204824Z SUMMARY:Native Theater Festival CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081114T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors\, Forgotten Histories\, and a Sense of Home \n(Penguin Press\,$25.95)\n\nS adia Shepard is a documentary filmmaker\, photographer\, and writer whos e work on the Bene Israel community of Western India includes a photo-es say and documentary film\, made possible by a Fulbright Scholarship and grants from the Jeremiah Kaplan Foundation and the National Foundation f or Jewish Culture. She is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the grad uate program in documentary film and video at Stanford University. This is her first book.\n\nCrazy Good: The True Story of Dan Patch\, the Most Famous Horse in America \n(Simon & Schuster\,$26.00)\n\nCharles Leerhse n\nIn this spirited narrative\, Leerhsen\, an editor at "Sports Illustra ted"\, tells the now-forgotten saga of Dan Patch\, a race horse that at one time drew an estimated 60\,000 people to a single event in 1903. Adm itting from the outset that the events of this book may seem as if they transpired on another planet\, Leerhsen delivers a mesmerizing look into a strange corner of American sports and folk history when Dan Patch bec ame a household word\, earning roughly $1 million a year at a time when\ , Leerhsen notes\, the-highest paid baseball player\, Ty Cobb\, was maki ng $12\,000. The arc of Dan Patch's career involves a range of often uns crupulous entrepreneurs: his first owner\, Dan Messner Jr.\, who overpay s by mistake for an injured pace horse and whose drunken decision to bre ed the pace horse with a wild stallion results in Dan Patch's birth\; th e horse's second trainer\, Myron McHenry\, who despite his conflicts wit h Messner grooms the horse for success\; and M.W. Savage\, the horse's f inal owner\, who makes millions from Patch-related merchandise while ove rworking an obviously tired animal. But the heart of the book is Dan Pat ch himself\, a horse with an almost human capacity for calm and determin ation that deserves to be rediscovered by a modern audience. "(June)" Co pyright 2008 Reed Business Information. \n\n\nFREE\n7pm\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E . 4th Street UID:F20CED0B-0764-4BBC-992F-3EBBA1F49A12 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081014T190000 DTSTAMP:20080903T172329Z SUMMARY:KGB Non Fiction CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081014T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Jordan LaRouse and Samantha Sade\nOysters and Chocolate: Ero tic Stories of Every Flavor\nNew American Library\, $15\n\nA mouth-water ing anthology from the creators of the popular online destination for wo menas erotica \nThe naughty masterminds behind OystersandChocolate.com s erve up a tasty anthology like no other. \nIt's for readers who crave th e classic\, creamy taste of smooth vanilla\, for readers who like the st ing of a bittersweet whip of black licorice\, for readers who delight in a cocktail with a dirty twist\, for readers who prefer the succulent ta ste of a sweet-scented oyster. \nFrom the premier source of boundary-pus hing erotica comes an anthology that dares to cross the spectrum of sexu ality and sensuality - from the tenderly romantic to the totally taboo. Whatever youare craving\, "Oysters & Chocolate" fulfills every desire\, no matter how decadent\, how wanton\, or how delicious\n\nMadame X Loung e\n94 West Houston Street\n7:30 pm\nFree UID:61B513AC-178F-4A30-98E1-5B480DD45A02 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090531T193000 DTSTAMP:20090422T194130Z SUMMARY:Madame X CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090531T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Literary Conversation : "French Literature in the making"\nw ith Benoit Duteurtre\, Writer\, music\,critic\, and author of Gaiete p arisienne \; Le Voyage en France ( Prix Medicis)\nin conversation with O livier Barrot\, Journalist and host of Un Livre un jour( France3 TV) \; publisher of Senso. In French. \n\n16 Washington Mews\n(btw University P l-5th Ave) UID:D66B3D97-3DE7-494B-B2D6-9F5C2631F526 TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.nyu.edu/maisonfrancaise DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081013T190000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194955Z SUMMARY:French Literature in the making CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081013T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Wallace Broecker\nFixing the Climate: What Past Climate Chan ges Reveal about the Current Threat-and How to Counter It\n(Hill & Wang\ , $25)\nFREE\n7:30PM\n\nSecret Science Club\n\n The product of a unique collaboration between a pioneering earth scientist and an award-winning science writer\, this volume takes an unconventional approach to the vit ally important issue of global warming.\n\nSecret Science Club @\nUnion Hall\n702 Unon St\n\n UID:192E7AA3-D4C1-4192-ACF8-4B0DC28958F1 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080507T193000 DTSTAMP:20080422T170632Z SUMMARY:Secret Science Club @ Union Hall CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080507T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Baumbach\nNava Renek\, Steven Schrader\n6PM\nFREE\n \nThe Lounge\, Hudson View Gardens\nPinehurst Avenue and 183rd Street\n\ n UID:6C72EB8F-C040-4DD3-BEDD-D3749DFF4FA2 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080316T160000 DTSTAMP:20080317T215925Z SUMMARY:Sunday Best Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080316T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Carole Maso - \nThe Art Lover\n(New Directions\, $16)\n1PM\n \nWhile her father and best friend are dying\, a young American woman tr ies to find the limits of love and the power of art in the face of the i nevitable. \nWhat is the power of art in the face of death? In "The Art Lover" Carole Maso has created an elegant and moving narrative about a w oman experiencing (and reliving) the most painful transitions of her lif e. Caroline\, the novel's protagonist\, returns to New York after the de ath of her father--ostensibly to wrap things up and take care of necessa ry "business"--where her memory and imagination conspire to lay before h er all her griefs and joys in a rebellious progression. In different voi ces\, employing a collage-like fragmentation\, Maso gently unfolds "The Art Lover" in much the same way the fragile and prehistoric fiddlehead f ern unfolds throughout the novel\, bringing with subtle grace the ever-e ntangled feelings of grief and love into full and tender view. Various i llustrations throughout.\n\nLillian Vernon Creative Writers House\n58 W 10th St UID:D713394C-F75E-4F4B-AE5F-B7EE32083CF2 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080328T130000 DTSTAMP:20080318T213054Z SUMMARY:LV Writers House CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080328T150000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Julie Powell\nJulia and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerousl y\nBack Bay Books\, $14.99\n\nPowell needs something to break the monoto ny of her life. So\, she invents a deranged assignment: She will take he r mother's dog-eared copy of Julia Child's 1961 classic\, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking\," and cook all 524 recipes in the span of just o ne year.\n\nEast River Bar\n97 S 6th Street\nWilliamsburg Brooklyn\n12:0 0 pm\n\n UID:3667233D-0A63-4D88-90E0-EE9CFEB4348A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090628T120000 DTSTAMP:20090623T170457Z SUMMARY:Unfancy Food Show CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090628T150000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Author Celeste Marsella is having a book party for her debut novel.\n\nDEFENSELESS \nIn this stunning debut thriller\, four young fe male assistant attorneys general find themselves at the scene of a heino us crime and must use all their smarts\, savvy\, and loyalty to stop a k iller from taking one of their own. Original.\n(Dell\,$6.99)\n\nOne83\n1 st Ave Btw 83rd-84th Sts UID:092BF8A4-407D-4AA1-9BC6-86EA42BC8400 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081016T180000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204824Z SUMMARY:Defenseless CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081016T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Marcello Simonetta\nThe Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissanc e Mystery Decoded \n (Doubleday\, $26)\nFREE\n6PM\n\nThe attempted assas sination of the Medici brothers is one of the best-known events of the R enaissance. However\, questions have always lingered about who orchestra ted the attack. In this work\, Simonetta reveals a coded letter that imp licates the involvement of Pope Sixtus IV.\n\nItalian Cultural Institute \n686 Park Ave UID:7F6A997B-64DE-4E3B-BFBB-228B959AC6C8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080617T180000 DTSTAMP:20080609T213858Z SUMMARY:Montefeltro Conspiracy CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080617T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Book Signing Event\n\n\n\nPhillips de Pury auction house\n\n 450 West 15th Street UID:48AD0313-528F-4B04-A99E-BABF3C60D360 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080917T180000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204830Z SUMMARY:Book Signing CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080917T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Panel: The Secrets Behind Getting Published\n\nModerator Sus an Shapiro\, an author of five books herself and an instructor at Mediab istro\, has put together a panel of the most distingsuiehd editors and l iterary agents in New York who\, assuming you already have some talent a nd perseverance\, will share with you the real secrets behind selling yo ur work and getting published. A rare opportunity to hear and learn from the best people in the business. In addition\, a portion of your tuitio n will be donated to Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen\, Manhattan's largest so up kitchen.\n\nPanelists: Gail Hochman\, partner at Brandt@Hochman Liter ary Agency\; Daniel Jones\, editor of The New York Times "Modern Love" c olumn\; Julie Just\, children's book editor\, New York Times Book Review \; Susan Morrison\, New Yorker editor\; Adam Moss\, editor in chief\, Ne w York Magazine\; Paul Slovak\, senior book editor\, Viking Penguin. \n\ nMarymount College\, 221 East 71st Street\, The Great Hall\n\nhttp://www .mmm.edu/cgi-bin/MySQLdb?MYSQL_VIEW=/news/view_events.txt\n\n\n\n\n UID:5319862D-B7B7-4E2E-8137-A1ADFCF71BBF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080227T201500 DTSTAMP:20080218T200237Z SUMMARY:Secrets Behind Getting Published CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080227T221500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Standing Before History: Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa 1-2:30 pm \n\nOn Novemebr 10\, 1995\, Nigeria's military dictatorship hanged Ken S aro-Wiwa\, one of the country's most acclaimed and popular writers and t he leader of a grassroots environmental movement in the oil-rich but imp overished Niger Delta. The region still seethes with unrest and many of the issues Saro-Wiwa gave his life to raise will be the subject of a la wsuit opening in New York this week. Join Ken Wiwa and bestselling auth ors for a discussion.\n\nPeter Nadas in Conversation with Daniel Mendels ohn 3-4 pm\n\nWhen the Hungarian censors finally consented to the public ation of Peter Nadas' A Book of Memories\, it was compared to the work o f Marcel Proust and Thomas Mann. After its translation into English more than a decade later\, Susan Sontag called it "the greatest novel writte n in our time\, and one of the great books of the century."\n\nEast-West Storytelling 4:30-6 pm\n\nThe world is more connected than ever\, and h ybrid culture has replaced the never-existant manistream. What do these revolutions hold for the short story? Who is its audience? And how do elements travel across cultures in the story differently than in the nov el?\n\nCUNY Grad Center\n365 Fifth Avenue\n1:00 pm\n\n\n UID:127D3B21-E2FB-42A3-BBBF-9E8DE6CBA784 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090502T130000 DTSTAMP:20090402T194216Z SUMMARY:PEN World Voices Festival CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090502T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Paolo Rivera\nMythos\nMarvel Comics\, $24.99\n\nShowcasing t he origins of the greatest heroes in the Marvel Universe! See how Spider -Man's super-hero career began! Learn how the Fantastic Four became the team they are today! Witness the origin and earliest days of the Hulk an d Ghost Rider! Paul Jenkins tells the tales\, while Paolo Rivera deliver s the beautiful fully painted artwork. Collects Mythos: Spider-Man\, Hul k\, Fantasic Four\, and Ghost Rider.\n\nBrooklyn Library\nDweck Center\n Grand Army Plaza\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n UID:9504AB86-2B29-4D06-9C99-9868C59756BA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090204T190000 DTSTAMP:20081217T204120Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090204T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Steven Cosson \nI Am Nobody's Lunch/Gone Missing \n(Oberon B ooks\, $19)\n7PM\nTickets $10\n\nMOBILE LIBRIS IS SELLING MICHAEL COSSON 'S BOOK PRIOR AND DURING THE PLAY "PARIS COMMUNE" AT THE PUBLIC\nIn 1871 \, working class Parisians overthrew the French government\, declared Pa ris autonomous and launched an attempt to radically reinvent society. In this musical play\, a versatile company of performers bring this explos ive event to life. With revolutionary songs from the period and survivin g first person records\, Paris Commune reanimates the past and provokes our thinking about the present in a dynamic and raucous cabaret style. S ince its founding in 2001 by Artistic Director Steven Cosson\, the award -winning company The Civilians has created several original shows includ ing the Off-Broadway hits (I Am) Nobody’s Lunch and Gone Missing.\n\nPub lic Theater\nShiva Theater\n425 Lafayette Street \n\n UID:9A6C21CE-52B7-454A-8D9F-1D6023259D21 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080413T190000 DTSTAMP:20080326T194948Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080413T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:13 DESCRIPTION:Cave Canem Celebrates National Poetry Month \n\nFeatured Rea ders:\n\nCheryl Clarke\nThe Days of Good Looks\nCarroll & Graf\, $16.95\ n\nJacqueline Johnson\nYou Can't Fool God\nAuthorhouse\, $10.49\n\nKarma Mayet Johnson\n\nWillie Perdomo\nWhere a Nickel Costs a Dime\nNorton\, $14.95\n\nJeffrey Renard Allen\nHarbors & Spirits\nMoyer Bell\, $14.95\n \nThe New School\nTheresa Lang Center\nArhnold Hall\n55 West 13th Street \nFree\n\n UID:21CC1364-EF74-42C6-A7F6-5CE0F3739A6B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090427T183000 DTSTAMP:20090106T194932Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090427T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Fiction Reading: Andrew Sean Greer\n\nAndrew Sean Greer\nThe Story of a Marriage\nFSG\, $22\n\nSet in a climate of fear and repressi on--political\, sexual\, and racial--"The Story of a Marriage" portrays three people trapped by the confines of their era\, and the desperate me asures they are prepared to take to escape it.\n\nLillian Vernon Writers House\n58 West 10th Street\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n\n UID:50DC9748-981F-44DF-A8E8-232BEBBFC038 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090213T190000 DTSTAMP:20090119T171800Z SUMMARY:LV Writers House CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090213T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:David Frum\nComeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again \n(Dou bleday\, $25)\nMEMBERS ONLY\n\nIn his new book\, Frum (The Right Man)\, former speechwriter to President Bush\, offers a conservative blueprint for accommodating challenges central to the next half-century of America n life. \n\nHarvard Club\n35 West 44th Between 5th & 6th\n UID:9C5F7496-A59D-45C4-ABED-C4B1EF618EC5 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080318T120000 DTSTAMP:20080304T235124Z SUMMARY:David Frum CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080318T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:14 DESCRIPTION:Matthew Rohrer\nRise Up\nWave Books\, $14\n\n"Equal parts pu nk rock and pastoral\, [Rohrer has] a voice that seems unearthly in its ability to be detached and simultaneously tender."-American Poet\n\n\nJo hn Yau\nParadiso Diaspora\nPenguin\, $18\n\nAs the anagram of its title suggests\, the poems\, prose\, and memoir in Yau's new collection focus on an inescapable duality. \n\nNo Idea Bar\n30 East 20th Street\n6:00 pm \n\n\n \n UID:3A59AF64-E33A-4E05-A79E-1E5B81D2A8A5 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090531T180000 DTSTAMP:20090505T000819Z SUMMARY:Ladder Poetry Series CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090531T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Martha Collins\nCathy Park Hong\nJo Ann Beard \nScott Spence r\nMusic: BB Gun\n\nCake Shop\n152 Ludlow between Stanton and Rivington\ n UID:2E33F7AF-B243-4BE2-995F-6799119A208E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080416T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204823Z SUMMARY:Mixer Series CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080416T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Susan Choi\nA Person of Interest\nPenguin Books\, $15\n\nInt ricately plotted and emotionally riveting\, "A Person of Interest" asks how far one man can run from his past\, and explores the impact of scrut iny and suspicion in an age of terror.\n\nBrooklyn Library\nDweck Center \nGrand Army Plaza\n4:00 pm\nFree\n UID:956512A5-6A40-4854-A402-0623CCC654D3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090321T160000 DTSTAMP:20081217T214719Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090321T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Porochista Khakpour\nSons and Other Flammable Objects\nGrove Press\, $14\n\nKhakpour delivers a unique and powerful first novel\, wi th rolling storytelling cadences and a wry wit\, that is at once a comed y and a tragedy\, a family history and a modern coming-of-age story with a distinctly timeless resonance.\n\nJohn Wray\nLowboy\nFSG\, $25\n\nSus penseful and comic\, devastating and hopeful by turns\, "Lowboy" is a fe arless exploration of youth\, sex\, and violence in contemporary America \, seen through one boy's haunting and extraordinary vision.\n\n\nThe In ternational Center\n50 West 23rd Street\n7th Floor\n7:00 pm\n\n\n UID:325D77F1-AC37-42B3-8231-6CBFA8165468 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090714T190000 DTSTAMP:20090619T142105Z SUMMARY:International Center CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090714T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World \nEleven years after donating her blue sweater t o Goodwill\, Novogratz spotted a young boy in Africa wearing that very s weater. In that moment\, she realized how all people are connected\, whi ch set the author on a lifelong course to fight poverty worldwide.\nRoda le Press : $ 24.95\n\nAuthor : Jacqueline Novogratz\n\nJapan Society\n33 3 E 47th St\nBtw 1st Ave-2nd Ave.\n\n\n UID:BFEAE02D-AE77-49ED-9BE2-87635B515260 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090512T180000 DTSTAMP:20090326T173626Z SUMMARY:Japan Society CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090512T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Michel Tremblay\nAssorted Candies for the Theatre (Talonbook s\, $16) \nInterview by Eleanor Wachtel\nDialogue in English\; reading i n French and English\n\nMichel Tremblay\, the renowned playwright and no velist\, and Eleanor Wachtel\, host of CBC Radio’s “Writers & Company\,” will converse about the author’s prodigious and wide-ranging career. Tr emblay’s Les Belles-Soeurs\, originally produced in 1968\, was groundbre aking for its use of joual\, the popular speech of urban Québec\, as wel l as for its exploration of gender and class issues. Together with Alber tine in Five Times and Hosanna\, it remains his most popular dramatic wo rk. Tremblay’s oeuvre includes a dozen novels and 27 plays that have bee n produced internationally. Presented in collaboration with the PEN Wor ld Voices Festival of International Literature.\n\nAmericas Society\n680 Park Avenue UID:930890F1-5D26-4DF4-9200-A8B4133C32C2 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080429T190000 DTSTAMP:20080424T202054Z SUMMARY:Americas Society - Michel Tremblay CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080429T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Fiona Maazel\nLast Last Chance\n(Farrar Straus Giroux\, $25) \n\nA.M. Homes\nThe Mistress's Daughter\n(Penguin\, $14)\n\n7:30PM\nFREE \n\nPete's Candy Store\n709 Lorimer street - Williamsburg\, Brooklyn\n\n UID:F310BD92-4A98-4197-9E9D-593888EC4217 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080417T193000 DTSTAMP:20080327T194445Z SUMMARY:Pete's Candy Store CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080417T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Robin Wright\nDeams and Shadow: The Future of the Middle Eas t\n(Tantor\, $40)\n\nThe Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Searc h for Arab-Israeli Peace\nAaron David Miller\n(Bantam\, $26)\n\n7:45AM\n Contact 1-212-434-9400\n\nCouncil of Foreign Relations\n58 E 68th St UID:B3DA2BFE-FCD2-4CA5-92AD-8D083CD67C9C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080402T074500 DTSTAMP:20080326T202922Z SUMMARY:Council of Foreign Relations CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080402T094500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:Earshot Reading Series\n8PM\n$5 (includes 1 drink)\n\n Jen C urrin\n\nearshotnyc.com\n UID:EC674C15-2F0A-4875-A6D2-DBA0C607367A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080404T200000 DTSTAMP:20080229T223307Z SUMMARY:Earshot at Lucky Cat CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080404T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:Amit Chatwani\nDamn\, It Feels Good to Be a Banker: And Othe r Baller Things You Only Get to Say If You Work on Wall Street \nHyperio n Books\, $13.95\n\nAsk any banker under 30 (and quite a few on the othe r side) to name the source of the quote above\, and the recognition woul d be instantaneous: Leveraged Sell-Out! This popular blog\, which receiv es 200\,000 page-views a month\, has set The Street abuzz with its no-ho lds-barred\, decidedly un-PC skewering of the habits\, rituals\, and lif estyles of the young and overpaid. Covering everything from the basics o f the industry (top: private equity/hedge funds\; bottom: consultants) t o the institutions themselves ("Funds under $500 million are little more than glorified piggy banks") and even bankers' music ("John Mayer is th e greatest guitarist EVER")\, Damn\, It Feels Good to Be a Banker is req uired reading for an entire generation of bankers as well as their belea guered friends and family members who seek to understand the madness.\n\ nKaty Lederer\nThe Heaven-Sent Leaf\nBOA Editions\, $16\n\nThe 45 almost -sonnets in this second collection from Lederer ("Winter Sex") meditate on money and commerce (The earth is a dollar and the moon is a silvery c oin)\, wondering how to find meaning as a cog in a capitalist machine.\n \nHappy Ending\n302 Broome Street\n8:00 pm\nFree\n UID:9513FEA4-6B4D-435F-8544-DFE2AFFA014A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090122T200000 DTSTAMP:20090109T211038Z SUMMARY:Non-Motivational Speakers Series CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090122T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Aracelis Girmay\nTeeth\n(Curbstone Pres\, $13)\n\nChristophe r Martin\nSowing Nightshade in the Wastelands of Cities: Poems (Trafford \, $16)\n\n\nHosted by Laura Cronk and Michael Quattrone\n\n\nKGB Bar \n 5 East 4th Street\n UID:4BDA286B-EA85-4223-A0DC-94F5AEB0E105 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080331T193000 DTSTAMP:20080319T195614Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080331T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Theodore Dalyrymple\nNot With a Bang\, But a Whimper\nIvan R . Dee\, $27\n\nThe bestselling author of "Our Culture\, What's Left of I t" takes the measure of cultural decline\, with special attention to Bri tain--its bureaucratic muddle\, oppressive welfare mentality\, and aimle ss youth--all pursued in the name of democracy and freedom\n\nNew York Y acht Club\n35 W. 44th Street\n UID:A7C5F897-5E0D-4030-B7E4-B7BF2139F6BA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080916T120000 DTSTAMP:20080824T201705Z SUMMARY:Manhattan Institute CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080916T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Allison Power\n\nBernadette Mayer\nPoetry State Forest\nNew Directions\, $17.95\n\nBernadette Mayer mixes together nature poems\, pa stiches\, sonnets\, prose poetry\, and epigrams to create "Poetry State Forest."\n\nNo Idea Bar\n30 East 20th Street\n6:00 pm\n\n UID:E0A9F96F-D2F5-4E8C-96E4-2FB375F60BF7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090510T180000 DTSTAMP:20090407T144559Z SUMMARY:Ladder Poetry Series CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090510T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Richard Thaler\nNudge: Improving Decisions about Health\, We alth\, and Happiness \n(Yale\, $26)\n4PM\nph: 212-817-1860\n\nThaler and Sunstein offer a groundbreaking discussion of how to apply the science of choice to nudge people toward decisions that can improve their lives. \n\nCUNY\nGraduate Center's Seigal Theater\n365 Fifth Avenue\n\n\n\n UID:A56BE238-4DC7-46B9-A519-BA231DB7004E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080417T160000 DTSTAMP:20080407T160901Z SUMMARY:Richard Thaler CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080417T183000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Jewish Intellectuals and the Writing Life\n\nCo-sponsored by The Center for Jewish Studies\, \nthe PhD program in English\, and The Leon Levy Center \nfor Biography \nJoin prominent critics and intellectu als as they discuss \nthe relationship between literary reputation\, int ellec- \ntualism\, and Jewish life now and over the course of the \nlast half century. Participants include Morris Dickstein\, \nDistinguished P rofessor at The Graduate Center\, \nCUNY\; Ruth Franklin\, journalist fo r The New Republic\; \nliterary critic\, essayist and novelist Daphne Me rkin\, \nauthor of Dreaming of Hitler\; Edward Rothstein\, \ncomposer a nd cultural critic-at-large for The New York \nTimes\; and Steven Zipper stein\, Daniel E. Koshland \nProfessor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford \nUniversity and author of Rosenfeld’s Lives: Fame\, \nOblivion \, and the Furies of Writing. \n\nCUNY Center for the Humanities\n365 Fi fth Avenue\nSkylight Room 9100\n6:30 pm\nFree\n\n UID:821E2046-C33D-4E71-A10D-7B4CF026CD45 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090429T183000 DTSTAMP:20090115T173907Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090429T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Janet Sylvester\nSusan Wheeler\nKeith Gessen \nMusic: Elizab eth Harper & The Matinee \n\n7PM FREE\n\nCake Shop\n152 Ludlow between S tanton and Rivington\n\n UID:82B0CA24-3E13-4F73-9DC8-B88DA3437DE9 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080319T190000 DTSTAMP:20080318T210456Z SUMMARY:Mixer Series at Cake Shop CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080319T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:THE HOLOCAUST KID\nPilcer carves out a new place in Holocaus t fiction with this fiercely moving\, unexpectedly funny novel of growin g up an only child of Holocaust survivors.\n(Delta : $ 11.95)\n\nAuthor : Sonia Pilcer\n\nYMCA\nWest Side Y\n5 West 63rd Street UID:A95F77D8-577E-4EDE-9ACF-D65183C35EAC TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081004T200000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194956Z SUMMARY:Sonia Pilcer at West Side Y CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081004T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Matt McCarthy\nOdd Man Out: A Year on the Mound with a Minor League Misfit\nViking Books\, $25.95\n\nMcCarthy tells the captivating and hilarious story of his year with as a Minor League baseball pitcher. McCarthy takes readers through the ups and downs of a grueling season f illed with players competing with cutthroat intensity for the ultimate p rize--a call up to the majors.\n\nHappy Ending\n302 Broome Street\n8:00\ nFree\n UID:7B5D17F4-52CF-4464-8FF7-E769FAA77FC7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090402T200000 DTSTAMP:20090217T162525Z SUMMARY:Varsity Letters CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090402T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:13 DESCRIPTION:85 E 4th St.\n\nAuthors TBA UID:6AAA5972-DEEB-4925-B37D-BEA03A61D004 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090208T190000 DTSTAMP:20090205T180443Z SUMMARY:KGB Fiction EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20090412T190000 EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20090329T190000 EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20090322T190000 EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20090614T190000 EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20090208T190000 EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20090405T190000 EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20090419T190000 EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20090621T190000 EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20090215T190000 EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20090301T190000 EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20090315T190000 EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20090222T190000 CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090208T210000 RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;INTERVAL=1;UNTIL=20090622T035959Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Happy Ending Reading Series\n8PM\nFREE\n\nRivka Galchen\nAtm ospheric Disturbances\n(Blackstone\, $24)\n\nEd Park\nPersonal Days\n(Ra ndom House\, $13)\n\nHappy Ending\n302 Broome UID:41094BF1-D0D4-43B3-997C-802E4BBA0C26 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080611T200000 DTSTAMP:20080412T154023Z SUMMARY:Happy Ending CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080611T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:167 W 12th St\n\nGeorgeanne Brennan-Pig in Provence UID:905A9576-C9FA-11DB-9D27-000D93514BC8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/Montreal:20070516T120000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195246Z SUMMARY:Beard House-Beard on Books CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/Montreal:20070516T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Tom Davis\n39 Years of Short Term Memory Loss\nGrove Press\, $24\n\n A seriously funny and irreverent memoir that gives an insider's view of the birth and rise of "Saturday Night Live\," this work feature s laugh-out-loud stories about some of its greatest personalities--Al Fr anken\, John Belushi\, Bill Murray\, and Chris Farley.\n\nUpright Citize ns Brigade Theater\n307 W. 26th Street\n8:00 pm\n UID:A848A507-E1F3-452D-AC82-24A27B24071B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090601T200000 DTSTAMP:20090515T142140Z SUMMARY:Upright Citizens Brigade CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090601T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners D uring the Revolutionary War \nThe Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of "G otham" tells the forgotten story of New York's British prison camps--and the nearly 20\,000 patriots who lost their lives there.\n\nTed Burrows\ n\nRoom9205\nCUNY \n365 Fifth Ave @ 34th St. UID:67C64428-CDD7-480D-896A-561D2371717F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081202T183000 DTSTAMP:20081018T195002Z SUMMARY:Ted Burrows : Forgotten Patriots CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081202T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Paula Giddings\nIda: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and t he Campaign Against Lynching (Amistad Press\, $35)\n\nIDA: A Sword Among Lions by educator and historian Paula J. Giddings is a sweeping narrati ve about a country and a crusader— Ida B. Wells— embroiled in the strugg le against lynching: a practice that not only imperiled the lives of bla ck men and women--but also a nation based on law and driven by race. Met iculously researched and vividly rendered\, IDA also provides compelling portraits of twentieth century progressive luminaries\, black and white \, with whom Wells worked. \n\nCentral Branch\nGrand Army Plaza\nDweck A uditorium\n\n\n UID:E4B2157B-F803-4960-8CCA-ED999EC34161 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080315T160000 DTSTAMP:20080218T173554Z SUMMARY:Paula Giddings CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080315T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Does the State Rely on Sacred Violence? \n\nJoin two preemin ent legal and political theorists as \nthey examine religious threads ru nning through \nmodern secular philosophy\, political theory\, and \nthe state itself. Paul Kahn is Director\, Orville H. \nSchell\, Jr. Center for International Human Rights\, Yale \nUniversity. Austin Sarat is Wil liam Nelson Cromwell \nProfessor of Jurisprudence and Political Science\ , \nAmherst College. Moderated by Jill Stauffer\, Resident \nMellon Fell ow at the Center for the Humanities. special guests from various discipl ines\, are designed \nto expand this dialogue. \n\nCUNY Center for the H umanities\n365 Fifth Avenue\nSkylight Room 9100\n7:00 pm\nFree UID:F850FD7E-B9FD-49D5-9983-3855239B3918 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090511T190000 DTSTAMP:20090115T174351Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090511T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Book Presentation: Puerto Rican Poetry: An Anthology from Ab original to Contemporary Times\n\nDistinguished translator and literary scholar Roberto Márquez presents his authoritative anthology of Puerto R ican poetry. The volume incorporates the work of sixty-four poets\, as w ell as anonymous authors of popular verse forms. Márquez and participati ng poets will discuss and read from the anthology.\n\nTo register\, plea se send an email to: culture@americas-society.org.\n\nAmericas Society\n 680 Park Avenue\n UID:CC2B53D4-C16D-4668-B296-84F6F3B339F3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080508T190000 DTSTAMP:20080424T202334Z SUMMARY:Peurto Rican Poetry CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080508T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:A Tribute To Jane Grigson\nwith Amy Besa & Romy Dorotan\, Gr ace Young\, William Woys Weaver\, Betty Fussell\, Mary Hensley \n\nJoin us for a delicious\, warm and wise day of special meals and presentation s to celebrate the 80th birthday of the late Jane Grigson\, whose conver sational voice and down-to-earth approach\, emphasis on local food sourc es and everyday eating\, and curiosity about the relationship between fo od and culture influenced a generation of chefs\, cooks\, writers and fo od activists. \n\nThe Astor Center\n399 Lafayette Street\n9:00 AM - 4:30 PM\n$95.00 UID:6B2A5051-80FE-4A58-A364-DD9EC4AE2237 TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.astorcenternyc.com/class-a-tribute-to-jane-grig son.ac DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080315T090000 DTSTAMP:20080318T205643Z SUMMARY:Astor Center* CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080315T163000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Varsity Letters\nFREE\n8PM\n\nGeorge Vecsey\nBaseball: a His tory of America's Favorite Game\n(Modern Library\, $22)\n\nSteve McKee\n My Father's Heart: A Son's Journey\n(Da Capo Lifelong\, $15)\n\nShaun Po well\nSouled Out? How Blacks are Winning and Losing in Sports\n(Human Ki netics Publishers\, $23)\n\nGelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns to New York on May 1 at 8 p.m. At this free monthly event at a Lower East Side bar\, hosted by Gelf\, Charles Leerhsen\, Steve McKee\, and Michael Tunison will read from and talk about their work\, and take questions. Leerhsen will revive a forgotten legend of 20th-century sport s\; McKee will recount how his father's death taught him how to live\, a nd to embrace sports\; and Tunison will share writing from his riotous N FL blog.\n\nHappy Ending\n302 E Broome St UID:40ECDDED-A8A2-4327-AF17-C55F7DD82292 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080501T200000 DTSTAMP:20080425T182221Z SUMMARY:Varsity Letters series CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080501T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Word for Word reading series\n6:30PM\nFREE\n\nKGB authors\nL ineup TBA\n\nBryant Park\n42nd St. Side\nunder burgandy umbrellas\n UID:06541433-E028-4F83-A508-0D0AC5AEFA7A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080708T183000 DTSTAMP:20080423T172110Z SUMMARY:Word for Word poetry CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080708T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Meredith Cole\nPosed for Murder\nMinotaur Books\, $24.95\n\n From Publishers Weekly\nCole's entertaining debut\, winner of Minotaur a nd Malice Domestic's Best First Traditional Mystery competition\, introd uces fine art photographer Lydia McKenzie. Before the cheap wine is gone \, the police arrive at Lydia's first New York solo exhibit\, a collecti on of meticulously reconstructed homicide scenes\, to inform her that on e of her models\, a good friend\, has been killed and posed in the same manner as one of Lydia's photos. After another of her models suffers the same fate\, attractive NYPD Det. Daniel Romero warns that Lydia may be next. Lydia begins to investigate\, albeit in amateur fashion.\n\nBay Ri dge Library\n7223 Ridge Blvd. at 73rd Street\n6:30 pm\n\n UID:EC4A18E3-4639-46A7-9609-D3FA122011DF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090602T183000 DTSTAMP:20090521T145305Z SUMMARY:Bay Ridge Library CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090602T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Panel and Reading: Jack Kerouac\n\nRegina Weinreich\nKerouac 's Spontaneous Poetics: A Study of the Fiction\nThunder's Mouth Press\, $12.95\n\nJohn Tytell\nNaked Angels: The Lives and Literature of the Bea t Generation\nIvan R. Dee\, $16.95\n\nJoyce Johnson\nMinor Characters: A Beat Memoir\nPenguin Books\, $15\n\nAmericas Society\n680 Park Avenue\n 7:00 pm\n\n UID:DCACDB0E-A288-4B6B-8FFD-70FBAFC90FF0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090323T190000 DTSTAMP:20090126T182347Z SUMMARY:Americas Society CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090323T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:This World: the Jewish Values Network Presents: \n\nA Steinh ardt Series Event: "Bringing the Erotic to the Everyday" \n\nRabbi Shmul ey Boteach\, Bestselling Author\, and Marianne Williamson\, Spiritual Te acher\, Bestelling Author. \n\nSpend an evening with two of American's m ost dynamic spiritual teachers in conversation on how to keep intimate r elationships exciting and vita\, as they celebrate the launch of Rabbi S hmuley's new book\, the Kosher Sutra.\n\nLimited Tickets available: www. ThisWorld.us \n\nAt Congregation Edmond J. Safra: \n11 East 63 Street \n \n$15 dollars per tickets/$5 with student ID. UID:10D0B74D-BD16-4C87-BFC6-596DA1E34559 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090108T193000 DTSTAMP:20090105T232413Z SUMMARY:Bringing the Erotic to the Everyday CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090108T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Turnstyle Reading Series\n\nDetails to come\n\nCUNY Center f or the Humanities\n365 Fifth Avenue\nMartin E. Segal Theater\n6:30 pm\nF ree UID:4674D0A6-3E96-4F84-9975-65588A6D16D4 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090312T183000 DTSTAMP:20090115T165009Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090312T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Michel Marriott\nThe Skull Cage Key\n(Agate Bolden\, $15)\nF REE\n5PM - 9PM\n\nChinese New Year\, 2042. Armstrong\, an upwardly mobil e Harlem resident\, is out celebrating with his boss (and lover) when th ey're assaulted in her hotel room. She ends up in the Jacuzzi minus her head\; the cops are convinced he's to blame. Armstrong goes on the lam\, dodging the cops while trying to figure out exactly what happened that night. Answers come in the form of Oona\, a sultry sex worker with an un expectedly deep reservoir of information. As Armstrong digs for the whol e story\, a disgraced ex-cop is invited back to the force to combat a po werful designer drug that's all the rage with the young\, rich\, and bor ed. As the two men's paths draw inexorably together\, the story behind t he new drug becomes clearer -- and far more sinister. This absorbing deb ut novel is a dark\, erotic thriller with a powerful sci-fi kick.\n\nB. Smith Restaurant\n320 W 46th \n UID:95137E8A-74EE-4D28-8CC2-999C097204B7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080414T170000 DTSTAMP:20080408T204816Z SUMMARY:B. Smith's Restaurant - Party CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080414T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Michael Kleeberg\nKing of Corsica\n(Other Press\, $25)\n\nIn "The King of Corsica\," Michael Kleeberg-an accomplished prose stylist- draws the portrait of a historical figure caught between the Baroque age and the Enlightenment\, a master of illusion whose preoccupations are a ll too familiar to modern readers: money\, love\, and fame. \n\nGoethe I nstitute\n1014 Fifth Ave UID:4D210EDE-6A1B-4F2B-B01D-EC146A858D92 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080506T190000 DTSTAMP:20080502T161025Z SUMMARY:Michael Kleeberg at Goethe Inst. CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080506T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Terrence Dean\nHiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Ent ertainment Industry--From Music to Hollywood \n(Atria\, $23)\nFREE\n8PM\ n\nIn the tradition of "New York Times" bestsellers "Confessions of a Vi deo Vixen" and "It's No Secret\," an entertainment industry insider pres ents an expos into the down low culture of Hollywood and hip hop\, where straight male celebrities find themselves intimate with other men.\n\nB lack Men's X-Change\n730 Riverside Drive\, Suite 9E\n(entrance on 150th St.)\n\n UID:6BC09E4B-FA2B-48AF-92EC-C16760271BDB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080516T200000 DTSTAMP:20080506T170835Z SUMMARY:Black Men's X-Change CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080516T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:The Galloping Ghost: Red Grange: An American Football Legend \nThis first major biography of the gridiron great Red Grange reveals ho w a gifted athlete and a wily agent gave birth to professional football in America.\n(Houghton Mifflin Company:$ 25.00)\n\nGARY ANDREW POOLE has written for the New York Times\, Time\, GQ\, USA Today\, Wired\, and ot her periodicals. He graduated from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.\n\nA Race Like No Other: 26.2 Miles Through the Streets of New York\nIn a mile-by-mile account of the most popular marathon in t he world\, "New York Times" sportswriter Robbins captures the enormity o f the New York City event by interweaving the stories of a handful of pa rticipants both professional and amateur.\n(Harper: $ 24.95)\n\nLiZ Robb ins has been a sportswriter for seventeen years--the last nine at the "N ew York Times"--having covered marathons\, Olympics\, tennis\, and the N BA. She lives in New York City\, where she frequents the running trails of Central Park.\n\nAnd another author TBA.\n\n\nFree\n\nHappy Ending \n 302 E Broome Street\n UID:A388D86B-1B27-46A8-A323-EEF9E9070137 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081204T200000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194955Z SUMMARY:Varsity Letters CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081204T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:KGB-Fantastic Fiction\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E 4th St UID:CB2F2BE2-A9E7-4CDC-AC9C-448E93EF8F4E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081217T190000 DTSTAMP:20080904T191513Z SUMMARY:KGB-Fantastic Fiction CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081217T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Writer's Voice Series\n8:00 pm\nFREE\n\nSuzanne Cleary \nMa rk Jarman\n\n\nThe West Side YMCA\n5 W 63rd\n UID:5F7BD305-7E76-474B-86E8-C7E469AB7FF5 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080307T200000 DTSTAMP:20080226T231625Z SUMMARY:Writers Voice Series CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080307T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson\nUntil Proven Innocent: Politic al Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Cas e\n(St. Martin's Griffin\, $16)\n7PM\nFREE\n\nCity Bar\n42 W 44th\n\n UID:A52C6E84-CE94-46EA-8224-19BC7407C5A0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080417T190000 DTSTAMP:20080327T194650Z SUMMARY:City Bar CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080417T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Between the Folds: The Art & Science of Origami\n\nMore info to come\n\nCUNY Grad Center\nRecital Hall\n365 Fifth Avenue\n6:30 pm UID:113E232C-3176-40E5-9C5A-0A5D0ED9C389 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090511T183000 DTSTAMP:20090204T162755Z SUMMARY:CUNY Science & Art CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090511T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Evgeny Bunimovich\nYuli Gugolev\nContemporary Russian Poetry : An Anthology (Paperback)\n(Dalkey Archive Press\, $15)\n7PM\nFREE\n\nE lena Fanailova\nThe Russian Version: Selected Poems of Elena Fanailova ( Eastern European Poets ) \n(Zephyr\, $15)\n\nKGB Bar\n85 East 4th Street \n UID:076B2BF2-8FF1-4BDF-8496-1A2F839F059B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080404T190000 DTSTAMP:20080331T175157Z SUMMARY:KGB Bar Contemporary Russian Poery CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080404T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Ed Koch \nThe Koch Papers: My Fight Against Anti-Semitism\n( Palgrave MacMillan\, $25) \n\n6PM\n\nFor more than three decades\, Ed Ko ch has been one of America's most interesting and outspoken political fi gures. In this provocative new book\, Koch with Rafael Medoff guides rea ders through the major battles in his life-long fight against anti-Semit ism. \n\nPrinceton Club\, \n15 West 43rd Street between 5th and 6th Aves .\n\nEd Koch - The Koch Papers UID:C717BA18-5A2C-4B79-95D9-4AB105F02A25 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080319T180000 DTSTAMP:20080303T231502Z SUMMARY:Oxionan Society CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080319T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Martin Wilson Book's party for his debut YA novel.\n\n\n\nLo cation TBA UID:A453C15F-C775-41C3-93E1-59480CDBB460 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080913T190000 DTSTAMP:20080903T163029Z SUMMARY:Book Party CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080913T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Dana Jennings\nSing Me Back Home\n(FGA\, $24 )\n\nAlice Feir ing\nThe Battle for Wine and Love: or How I Saved the World from Parkeri zation\n(Harcourt\, $23)\n\nLiza Monroy\nMexican High\n(Spiegel & Grau\, $22 )\n\nKaren Siplin\nWhiskey Road\n(Washington Square Press\, $13)\n\ nBryant Park Reading Series\nBryant Park (Reading Room - outdoor)\n\n UID:15850C8D-214D-4978-99B5-14F19D3D291B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080626T183000 DTSTAMP:20080601T021757Z SUMMARY:Bryant Park Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080626T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Linda Bilmes & Joseph Stiglitz The Three Trillion Dollar War : The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict (W.W. Norton\, $23)\nPublication Pa rty\n\nApart from its tragic human toll\, the Iraq War will be staggerin gly expensive in financial terms. This sobering study casts a spotlight on expenses that have been hidden from the U.S. taxpayer and measures wh at this money would have produced if it had been invested in the economy .\n\nSundaram Tagore Gallery\n547 West 27th Street UID:7D801122-C668-470F-AD88-32A5176AAF03 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080303T183000 DTSTAMP:20080219T185123Z SUMMARY:The Three Trillion Dollar War CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080303T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Lillian Vernon Writers House Emerging Writers Series\n\nChan g-rae Lee\, Guest Author\n\nChang-rae Lee\nAloft\nRiverhead Books\, $14\ n\nLee's third novel (after "Native Speaker" and "A Gesture Life") "appr oaches the problems of race and belonging in America from a new angle--t he perspective of Jerry Battle\, the semiretired patriarch of a well-off (and mostly white) Long Island family" ("Publishers Weekly").\n\n\nKGB Bar\n85 East 4th Street\n7:00 pm\nFree UID:C4D80827-7405-427A-86AD-A71792241AEF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090313T190000 DTSTAMP:20090119T181427Z SUMMARY:LV Emerging Writers Series CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090313T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Darin Strauss\nMore Than It Hurts You\nDutton Books\n$25\n\n Elaine Equi\nRipple Effect: New and Selected Poems\nCoffee House Press\n $18\n\nFREE\n7 pm\n\nLillian Vernon Writers House\n58 W. 10th Street UID:3724ED02-6551-4274-9360-D1121FED3540 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080905T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204833Z SUMMARY:More Than It Hurts You CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080905T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Beloved teacher and bestselling cookbook author Marcella Haz an tells how a young girl raised in Emilia- Romagna became America's god mother of Italian cooking.\n\nWidely credited with introducing proper It alian food to the English-speaking world\, Marcella Hazan was raised in Cesenatico\, a quiet fishing town on the northern Adriatic Sea. Marcella begins the memoir with her early childhood in Alexandria\, Egypt\, wher e she broke her arm. After nearly losing the arm to poor medical treatme nt\, she was taken back to her father's native Italy for surgery. There the family would remain. Her teenage years coincided with World War II\, and the family relocated temporarily to Lake Garda not anticipating tha t it would be one of the war's greatest targets. After years of privatio n and bombings\, Marcella was fulfilling her ambition to become a doctor and professor of science when she met Victor\, the love of her life. Th ey married and moved to New York City. Marcella knew not a word of Engli sh orwhat's more surprisinga single recipe. She began to attempt to re-c reate the flavors of her homeland. She took a Chinese cooking class in t he early '60s with women who asked her to teach them Italian cooking\, a nd she began to give them lessons. Soon after\, Craig Claiborne invited himself to lunch\, and the rest is history.\n\nAmarcord means "I remembe r" in Marcella's native Romagnolo dialect. Marcella\, now eighty-four\, looks back on the adventures of a life lived for pleasure and a love of teaching. Throughout\, she entertains the reader with stories of the hum orous\, sometimes bizarre twists and turns that brought her love\, fame\ , and a chance to change the way we eat forever.\n\nBiography\nRecipient of two Lifetime Achievement Awards (from the James Beard Foundation in 2000 and the IACP in 2004)\, and a knighthood from her own country\, Mar cela Hazan is the author of six classic cookbooks published over the pas t thirty-five years. Her husband is her lifelong collaborator and writin g partner\, himself an authority on Italian food and wine.\n\nThe Montau k Club\n25 8th Ave\nBrooklyn UID:B2EEE556-FADA-4A62-8D65-48278C863C53 TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.montaukreadings.com DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081010T183000 DTSTAMP:20080915T165018Z SUMMARY:Victor and Marcella Hazan CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081010T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Lansing Lamont'52 : You Must Remember This: A Reporter's Ody ssey from Camelot to Glasnost \n\nJoin us for an evening with Lansing La mont as he discusses his rich narrative memoir\, newly released You mUst Remember This.\nMr. Lamontbring to life many of the significant events of the legendary 1960s. As the national pollitical correspondent for Tim e Magazine during that time\, Mr.Lamont brings an insider's eye to DC. p olitics of the era. This book centers on the transforming events of the period which he covered as Washington correspondent. It focuses on the a ssassination of President Kennedy in 1963 through the shattering events of 1968\, including the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luth er King\,Jr.\, the subsequent riots across the nation\, and the violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Mr.Lamont will contrast tha t epiic time with this year's presidential race forty years later. A gra duate of the Harvard College\, he served as Deputy Chief of TIME'S Londo n Bureau and is a memeber of the Council on Foreign Relations\, and an h onorary of the Harvard Club of New York City.\n(Beaufort Books: $ 25) \n \nJuanita C. Bobbitt\, Jennifer LAN program Committee\n\nHarvard Club\n2 7 W.44th St.\nRSV : 212 827 1202 UID:98EEB217-6757-4C13-905C-67398DCE7A45 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081001T183000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194955Z SUMMARY:Harvard Club with Lansing Lamont CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081001T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:A Debate between Christopher Hitchens and Rabbi David Wolpe\ n\nModerated by Gary Rosenblatt\, Editor and Publisher of The Jewish Wee k\n\nChristopher Hintchens is the author of the best-selling book\, God Is Not Great : How Religion Poisons Eeverything. A prolific writes and p olemicist\, he argues that religion is a toxic force that makes the worl d a more dangerous place. He contributes regularly to Vanity Fair\, Slat e\, and the Atlantic Monthly.\n\nRabbi david Wolpe is the Author of the nw book\, Why Faith Matters. Named the #1 rabbi in America by Newsweek M agazine\, he is the Senoir Rabbi at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles\, and ar gues powerfully for the place of God\, faith\, and religion in modern li fe. He writes for many publications\, including The Jewish Week\, belief NEt.com\, The Jerusalem Post\, and the LA Times.\n\nSponsored by The Jew ish Week in association with Temple Emanu-El\n\nProgram follwed by book signing and reception\n\nMade Possible by the Bert Cohen Family Foundati on\nA Jewish Week Community Forum\n\nFree\, but reservation neccesary. \ n\nTemple Emanu-El\nLeon Lowenstein Auditorium\n10 E66th St.\n5th Ave\n\ n\n\n UID:F080C53E-3D85-4E87-BA08-DAB82F215ECA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081029T193000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194956Z SUMMARY:Is Religion Good For the World? CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081029T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Schwartz offers contemporary versions of thraditional Ashken azi foods--rugulach\,matzoh brei challah\,and brisket.He'll add dash of history lore about individual dishes and the people who nurtured them in America\n\nFREE\n\nBrooklyn Library\nDweck Auditorium\nGrand Army Plaza UID:AD56A5A3-05FD-41BC-AF2D-374BBA64CE16 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081221T133000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204826Z SUMMARY:Arthur Schwartz CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081221T153000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Porochista Khakpour \nSons and Other Flammable Objects (Gro ve Press\, $24)\n7:30 pm\nFREE\n\nKhakpour delivers a unique and powerfu l first novel\, with rolling storytelling cadences and a wry wit\, that is at once a comedy and a tragedy\, a family history and a modern coming -of-age story with a distinctly timeless resonance.\n\nPete's Candy Stor e\n709 Lorimer Street\nBrooklyn\n\n UID:0DF98B86-F626-444D-AF7D-DB2E3EE2F98B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080221T193000 DTSTAMP:20080214T191420Z SUMMARY:Pete's Candy Store CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080221T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Fiction with \n\n\nMs. Hempel Chronicles\nSarah Shun-Lien By num\nHarcourt\n$23\n\nI Am Death\nGary Amdahl\nMilkweed Editions\n$15\n\ nFREE\n7pm\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4th Street\n\n UID:C9D32639-7F76-463A-9F67-61DCC1B036B2 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080907T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204833Z SUMMARY:KGB Fiction CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080907T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Steven Cosson \nI Am Nobody's Lunch/Gone Missing \n(Oberon B ooks\, $19)\n8PM\nTickets $10\n\nMOBILE LIBRIS IS SELLING MICHAEL COSSON 'S BOOK PRIOR AND DURING THE PLAY "PARIS COMMUNE" AT THE PUBLIC\nIn 1871 \, working class Parisians overthrew the French government\, declared Pa ris autonomous and launched an attempt to radically reinvent society. In this musical play\, a versatile company of performers bring this explos ive event to life. With revolutionary songs from the period and survivin g first person records\, Paris Commune reanimates the past and provokes our thinking about the present in a dynamic and raucous cabaret style. S ince its founding in 2001 by Artistic Director Steven Cosson\, the award -winning company The Civilians has created several original shows includ ing the Off-Broadway hits (I Am) Nobody’s Lunch and Gone Missing.\n\nPub lic Theater\nShiva Theater\n425 Lafayette Street \n\n UID:D1E8F8F3-BB8C-4931-BA81-5599CAEECA00 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080411T200000 DTSTAMP:20080326T194814Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080411T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Michael Krondl\nThe Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of Three Great Cities of Spice\n(Random House\, $16)\n6PM\n$40 Non-Members & Guests | $25 Members | $22 Student & Senior Members\n\nMichael Krondl is a chef\, food writer\, and author of Around the American Table: Treas ured Recipes and Food Traditions from the American Cookery Collections o f the New York Public Library and The Great Little Pumpkin Cookbook. He has published articles in Good Food\, Family Circle\, Pleasures of Cooki ng\, and Chocolatier\, and has contributed entries to The Oxford Encyclo pedia of Food and Drink in America. He lives in New York City.\n\nAstor Center\n399 Lafayetter at E 4th St\n2nd Floor\n\n\n UID:624F4BCB-061A-4EF6-A2E8-DF77AE7E6264 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080417T180000 DTSTAMP:20080325T180538Z SUMMARY:Michael Krondl CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080417T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:KGB BAR\n85 E 4th St UID:76FB35FF-F0C6-46C8-919F-9BD8EA3BE608 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081119T190000 DTSTAMP:20080904T191513Z SUMMARY:KGB-Fantastic Fiction CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081119T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Let's get to know a rum dynasty \n\nBacardi and the Long F ight for Cuba\nTom Gjelten\nViking Books\n$28\n\nThis unique history of Cuba is captured in the life and times of the famous rum dynasty. In chr onicling the saga of the remarkable Bacardi family\, Gjelten describes t he intersection of business and power\, family and politics\, community and exile.\n\n2 W. 64th Street\nat Central Park West\n\n UID:2BE51F67-B160-455C-8FB3-20F73190826E TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:www.nysec.org/sitemap/programs-and-events/ DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080912T180000 DTSTAMP:20080818T165753Z SUMMARY:Society for Ethical Culture CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080912T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Ambassador Sichan Siv\nGolden Bones\nHarper\, $26\n\nIn the 1960s and '70s\, Cambodia's dictator Pol Pot ordered the educated and in tellectual of the population to be imprisoned\, enslaved\, and murdered. Young Siv was captured and put to work in a slave labor camp. He relate s how he escaped certain death by fleeing the country for Thailand.\n\nU niversity Club\n\n1 W. 54th Street\n UID:0DDC4B78-7E9C-493A-BC08-960595ACF19B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080916T183000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204825Z SUMMARY:University Club CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080916T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:mystery writer Lawrence Block. Block’s best-selling books fe ature an unforgettable cast of characters including the sleepless spy Ev an Tanner\; the conflicted assassin John Keller\; and the tormented priv ate-eye Matthew Scudder. Block is one of America’s most critically and c ommercially successful mystery writers. A Grand Master of the Mystery Wr iters of America\, he is also a four-time winner of the prestigious Edga r and Shamus awards. Early in his career\, Block worked in the mailroom of a New York publisher\; read unsolicited manuscripts for a literary ag ent\; and wrote risqué paperbacks under assorted pen names. Now the auth or of fifty novels\, his latest book is ''Hit Parade.'' UID:178399D0-AD89-465D-BF8E-BA0B2B5CAE7D TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kingsborough.edu/eventCalendar/index.php?day=21 &month=3&year=2007 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070410T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195249Z SUMMARY:Kingsborough College-Bestselling Authors CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070410T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Ai Weiwei\nOn the Edge\n(Random\, $45)\n6:30-8\n$10 member/ $15 non-member\n\nAi Weiwei - artist\, architectural designer\, critic a nd blogger - is a force to be reckoned with. he was a founding member o f the Stars group (Xing Xing) that held two pivotal exhibitions in Beiji ng in 1979 and 1980. His creative impulses draw from traditional Chines e art and culture and fuse Surrealism\, making him one of China's most e minent artists.\n\nChina Institute\n125 East 65th St \n212-744-8181\n\n UID:6787A5D1-4ED2-40D7-94D8-4B969BB7368A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080307T183000 DTSTAMP:20080304T225916Z SUMMARY:On the Edge - Chinese Designers CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080307T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Our Most Difficult Problem: Race and the Cuban Revolution\n\ nAlejandro de la Fuente\nA Nation for All: Race\, Inequality\, and Polit ics in Twentieth-Century Cuba\nUNC Press\, $27.50\n\nBrooklyn Library\nD weck Center\nGrand Army Plaza\n4:00 pm\nFree\n\n\n\n\n UID:1DBFED07-9C05-4CC7-AF8A-2A2D9A74BA1A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090131T160000 DTSTAMP:20081217T201559Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090131T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Ellen Datlow with contributors John Grant\, Jeffery Ford\, E lizabeth Bear and Nathan Ballingrud\nInferno: New Tales of Terror and th e Supernatural (Tor Books\, $26)\n7:00 pm\nFREE\n\nAward-winning editor Datlow presents 20 original tales of terror from some of the most powerf ul voices in the horror genre. In this aptly titled anthology\, each con tributor approaches fear in a different way\, but all of the stories cha racters toil within their own hell.\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E 4th St\n UID:C5301FA1-9E44-4745-B632-8320D16DBE4E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/Montreal:20080220T190000 DTSTAMP:20080215T192412Z SUMMARY:KGB-Fantastic Fiction CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/Montreal:20080220T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Matt Weiland \nState By State\nEcco\, $29.95\n\nFrom the bes tselling editors of "The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup" comes an American road trip in book form: original writing on all 50 states by 5 0 of America's finest novelists\, journalists\, and essayists.\n\nBrookl yn Library\nDweck Center\nGrand Army Plaza\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n UID:E443D482-7C99-492E-B694-FC2D81F57655 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090211T190000 DTSTAMP:20081217T205805Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090211T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:NY Review of Science Fiction Readings\nand the \nSouth Stree t Seaport Museum\nTickets $5\n6:30PM\n\nKaren Russell\nSt. Lucy's Home f or Girls Raised by Wolves\n(Vintage\, $14)\n\nThomas M. Disch\nThe Word of God: Or\, Holy Writ Rewritten \n(Tachyon\, $15)\n\nSouth Street Seapo rt Museum\nMelville Gallery\n213 Water St. UID:903D0C8E-6D72-42D6-BF07-92692A2A8A23 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080603T183000 DTSTAMP:20080528T204429Z SUMMARY:South Street Seaport Museum CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080603T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:More info to come\n\nBryant Park\n42nd and 5th Avenue\n12:30 pm UID:97FA4100-1649-43EC-9721-56AB0EAF3347 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090624T123000 DTSTAMP:20090327T191431Z SUMMARY:Word for Word CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090624T143000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:The New York City Area Chapter of ILR Alumni Association\nis pleasaed to invite you to a reception with Special Guest Speaker\nNew Y ork Times Reporter STEVEN GREEN HOUSE\non the topic:\n\nThe Big Squeeze on America\,' Workers and What It Mean For This Fall\,'s Election---and Beyond\n\nCornell Club\n6 E44th St UID:225F24DE-5C54-4A3E-BAA0-E41EC14D1730 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080917T183000 DTSTAMP:20080915T154237Z SUMMARY:The Big Squeeze of America CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080917T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Perri Knize\nGrand Obsession\n(Scribner\, $28)\nFREE\n3PM\n\ nAmateur Classical Musicians Association\n\nA fascinating\, beautifully written story\, "Grand Obsession" chronicles one womans obsessive search for the perfect piano. Filled with little-known facts about the instrum ent and its mystique\, this work is as enlightening as it is engaging.\n \nSchool of the Blessed Sacrament\n147 W 70th St UID:FE7B47B7-E374-4E11-B219-B1D50198E1AA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080510T150000 DTSTAMP:20080502T160648Z SUMMARY:Perri Knize CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080510T163000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:James Lasdun\nMoon Walking and Eating in Provence \n(Avalon Travel Publishing\, $19)\n\nSidney Wade \nStroke\n(Persea\, $14)\n\n7:30 PM\nFREE\n\nHosted by Laura Cronk and Michael Quattrone\nKGB Bar \n5 Eas t 4th Street\n\n UID:22AA0FDD-EE03-4DCC-B84C-C985E7AB40AC TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080421T193000 DTSTAMP:20080328T222522Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080421T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Beard on Books Reading Series\n\nSara Jenkins and Mindy Fox\ nOlives & Oranges: Recipes and Flavor Secrets from Spain\, Italy\, Cypru s & Beyond\nHoughton Mifflin\, $35\n\nIn "Olives and Oranges" an accompl ished cook\, who is inspired by tradition but never limited by it "(New York Times)\," shows how an understanding of flavor can produce great di shes from even the most humble ingredients. The recipes are startlingly simple\, but each one has a unique touch.\n\nJames Beard House\n167 West 12th Street\n12:00 pm\n$20 suggested donation for nonstudents\n\n\n UID:B0367EAF-469B-42D4-8FC9-6D1B9C7FF9EF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090513T120000 DTSTAMP:20090107T161040Z SUMMARY:Beard on Books CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090513T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:The Leila Hadley Luce Writer-In Residence-Bruce Jay Friedman \n\nOne's of the American literary icons\,Bruce Jay Friedman is a novel ist\,playwright\,short-story writer\,and Oscar nominated screenwriter.Br uce published his first novel\,Stern\,in 1962 and Established himself as a writer and playwright\,most famously known for his off-Broadway hit\, Steambath\,and his 1978 novel\,The Lonely Guy's book of Life.\n\nBruce h as also published seven other novels and numerous screenplay such as Sti r Crazy and the Oscar nominated Splash.The Heartbreak Kid was based on o ne of Bruce's short stories\,"A Change of Plan"His new book\,Three Balco nies\,is just out.\n\nMarymount\nRegina Peruggi Room\n221 East 71st Stre et\n212 774-0780 UID:4D49149B-F4F5-44D2-B0B7-81E96FCFB1D9 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081021T173000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204835Z SUMMARY:Marymount\,IrishVoices CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081021T193000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Carol Tavris\nMistakes Were Made (But Not By Me): Why We Jus tify Foolish Beliefs\, Bad Decisions\, and Hurtful Acts\n(Harvest\, $15) \n\nWhy do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the p arade of public figures unable to own up when they screw up? Why the end less marital quarrels over who is right? Why can we see hypocrisy in oth ers but not in ourselves? Are we all liars? Or do we really believe the stories we tell? \nBacked by years of research and delivered in lively\, energetic prose\, "Mistakes Were Made (But Not by" Me")" offers a fasci nating explanation of self-deception--how it works\, the harm it can cau se\, and how we can overcome it.\n\nSLC Conference Center\n352 7th Ave\n 16th Fl\n UID:AA0838E6-B85F-477F-AED9-0D0770BED2BD TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080505T190000 DTSTAMP:20080428T204343Z SUMMARY:Carol Tavris @ NYC Skeptics CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080505T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Patrick Corkburn will giving a leture on Iraq/American relat ions.\n\nHe is the author of Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Battle for the Fu ture of Iraq\n\nPatrick Cockburn\, Middle East correspondent for the "In dependent"\, has been visiting Iraq since 1978. He was awarded the 2005 Martha Gellhorn prize for war reporting. He is the author of "The Broken Boy"\, a memoir\, and\, with Andrew Cockburn\, "Out of the Ashes: The R esurrection of Saddam Hussein.\n\nCooper Union\nGreat hall\n7th St (btw3 rd-4th AVE)\n UID:925C0382-A262-4496-97DD-FE0B16E49189 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081022T190000 DTSTAMP:20081018T195000Z SUMMARY:Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Battle for the Future of Iraq CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081022T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Patricia Smith\nBlood Dazzler\nCoffee House Press\, $16\n\nI n her fifth collection\, Smith\, a poetry-slam champion and and recipien t of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award\, presentstoweringtestament to the tragedy ofNew Orleans before\, during\, and after Katrina.\n\nMichael Ci relli\nLobster with Ol' Dirty Bastard\nHanging Loose Press\, $16\n\nBroo klyn Library\nDweck Center\nGrand Army Plaza\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n\n UID:18398FBB-94A1-4531-83BF-1363BC20A19B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090429T190000 DTSTAMP:20090302T170604Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090429T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Cara Hoffman\n\nRebecca Barry\nLater\, At the Bar\nSimon & S chuster\, $12\n\nIn the tradition of Garrison Keillor and Richard Russo comes a warm\, funny fiction debut about the lives and loves of the regu lars at a small-town bar.\n\nThe Gildhall Hotel\nUpstairs Library\n15 Go ld Street\n\nNote: There is a dress code. No jeans and no t-shirts\, pl ease.\n\n\n\n\n UID:CCC55D7B-9917-46CB-A5B8-DF2D6B4A4E69 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090310T180000 DTSTAMP:20090220T183623Z SUMMARY:Pen Parentis Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090310T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Saidiya Hartman\nLose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlan tic Slave Route (FSG\, $14)\nFREE\n\nHartman traces the history of the s lave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana . She considers the effects of slavery on her family’s history.\n\nCentr al Branch\nGrand Army Plaza\nDweck Auditorium\n\n\n\n UID:C71C37DB-C876-42DD-8E7B-74F5F780CDA0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080301T160000 DTSTAMP:20080218T171109Z SUMMARY:Saidiva Hartman CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080301T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Paula Uruburu\nAmerican Eve\nRiverhead Books\, $17\n\nThe st ory of Evelyn Nesbit is one of glamour\, money\, sex\, and murder\, and Uruburu weaves all of these elements into an elegant narrative that read s like the best fiction--only it's all true. Illustrated.\n\nNYPL Tompki ns Square\n331 East 10th Street\n3:00 pm\n\n UID:222BF455-CFB6-4489-86D9-3F3028D3031B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090411T150000 DTSTAMP:20090223T183612Z SUMMARY:New York Public Library CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090411T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:Kent Jones\nPhysical Evidence: Selected Film Criticism (Wesl eyan University Press\, $28)\nModerated by Robert Polito\, director of t he New School Writing Program\nAdmission $5\n\nKent Jones is editor-at-l arge of Film Comment and the American correspondent for Cahiers du Cinem a. He is a frequent contributor to Bookforum and Cinemascope\, associate director of programming at The Film Society of Lincoln Center\, and a p ermanent member of the selection committee for the New York Film Festiva l. He is also the co-writer of My Voyage to Italy and other documentarie s by Martin Scorsese.\n\nThe New School\n66 West 12th Street Room \nWoll man Hall\n\n UID:B0040FBF-8749-44CD-8882-63F65D0EE624 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080220T183000 DTSTAMP:20080214T182347Z SUMMARY:Nonfiction Forum: Kent Jones CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080220T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Music and Reading Series\nFiona Maazel\nLast Last Chance (Fi rst) \n(Farrar Straus Giroux\, $25)\n\nSamatha Hunt\nThe Invention of Ev erything Else\n(Houghton Mifflin Company\, $24)\n\nTod Wodicka\nAll Shal l Be Well\; And All Shall Be Well\; And All Manner of Things Shall Be We ll \n(Pantheon\, $22)\n\n\n\nHappy Ending\n302 E Broome St\n UID:1FD19E94-0618-4A66-87A7-122F88684B0C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080326T200000 DTSTAMP:20080321T192617Z SUMMARY:Happy Ending Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080326T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:Nancy Crampton \nWriter's: Photographs (Quantuck\, $25)\n6: 00 pm\nFREE\n\nNancy Crampton is the official photographer of the Unterb erg Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y\, famous for its literary reading s. Hundreds of book jackets and magazine articles have featured her phot ographs. Former Poet Laureate of the United States Mark Strand is a prof essor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. H e has written ten books of poetry\, and his 1999 book "A Blizzard of One " won him the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. \n\n\nLillian Vernon Writers Hou se\n58 West 10th Street between Fifth and Sixth UID:DCD9898D-3DCE-4DAF-9C9B-53890123A934 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080222T180000 DTSTAMP:20080214T200734Z SUMMARY:Nancy Crampton CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080222T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Michael Kogan\n\nFurther details TBA UID:15DF1E92-6A17-4F09-B175-87848CF75D85 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090423T193000 DTSTAMP:20081117T202044Z SUMMARY:Marymount Manhattan CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090423T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Performance: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson\n\nBooks TBA\n\nTh e Public Theater\n425 Lafayette Street\n7:45 pm UID:FF98FFBB-9F34-4B46-A7A6-1B079AFEC8D0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090508T194500 DTSTAMP:20090119T185308Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090508T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:KGB Poetry Reading Series\n\nFarrah Field\nRising\nFour Way Books\, $14.95\n\nNew Southern poetry in which Field lets loose a Calami ty Jane-like voice loaded with screwball humor\n\nPhilip Fried\nBig Men Speaking to Little Men\nSalmon Publishing\, $22.95\n\nThis collection be gins in World War II Atlanta\, as the poet's birth is disrupted by a hom e run at the local stadium. Myth and history haunt such places as a Huds on Valley high school where Ralph Waldo Emerson is a science teacher\, a Bronx apartment where a boy becomes a mirror for his mother\, and a Par is square where Victor Hugo plays hopscotch to achieve utopia.\n\nKGB Ba r\n85 E. 4th Street\nFree\n\n\n UID:4AB9C60C-133C-4A70-ACB6-599881C730EE TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090406T193000 DTSTAMP:20090203T175032Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090406T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Tania James\nAtlas of Unknowns\nKnopf\, $24.95\n\nPianos\n15 8 Ludlow\n6:30 pm UID:17CD95C6-756B-45FB-9C34-E1B541D5561D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090501T183000 DTSTAMP:20081230T172952Z SUMMARY:One Story CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090501T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Andrey Gritsman\,author most recently of the book of poems P icese.\n\nDavid Lehman\,moderator\n\n66 W 12th St\nroom 510\n\n$5\; free for students/alumni UID:2B705CB2-F7B7-4E2E-A8DA-CF037A274CD6 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081210T183000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204826Z SUMMARY:Poetry Forum CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081210T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Performance: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson\n\nBooks TBA\n\nTh e Public Theater\n425 Lafayette Street\n7:45 pm UID:5D8246E6-B20C-40B7-A952-C8771BDAE005 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090519T194500 DTSTAMP:20090119T185431Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090519T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Adina Hoffman\nMy Happiness Bears no Resemblance to Happines s: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century\nYale University Press\, $27 .50\n\n"From Adina Hoffman''s extraordinary book\, I have not only learn ed about the life of that wise\, sweet\, cunning\, superbly gifted and t otally original Palestinian poet. Taha Muhammad Ali\, but I have learned -more than ever before-about Jewish and Arab history in Palestine. The b ook is heartbreaking\, riveting\, and beautifully written. Moreover it'' s one of a kind\, courageous\, and deeply honest."-Gerald Stern\, Nation al Book Award-winner for This Time: New and Selected Poems\n\n\nCUNY Cen ter for the Humanities\n365 Fifth Avenue\nThe Skylight Room 9100\n7:00 p m\nFree\n\n\n UID:05B6E0B6-5EB8-4C92-B2EE-662E281B398B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090407T190000 DTSTAMP:20090115T172547Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090407T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:\nKate Christensen\, The Great Man \n(Anchor\, $15)\n6:30PM\ n$5\; free to all students and New School faculty\, staff\, and alumni w ith ID\n\nChristensen pens a scintillating comedy of life among the avan t-garde--of theuntidy truths\, needy egos\, and jostling for position be hind the glossy facadeof artistic greatness--in this story of a New York City painter living in theheroic generation of the 1940s and 1950s.\n\n Fiction Forum\nNew School\n66 West 12th Street Room 510\n UID:9C1CBC90-457B-4668-A653-0FBC7223598C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080421T183000 DTSTAMP:20080328T223320Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080421T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Fifth Annual New York Round Table Writers' Conference\n\nKey note Speaker: Wally Lamb\n\nOther speakers include Hannah Tinti\, Arthur Phillips\, Alyse Meyers\, Henry Chang and more.\n\nCenter for Independe nt Publishing\n20 West 44th Street\n9:00 am UID:4E4AD5AF-7FDE-4378-BFC4-736A00D27359 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090424T090000 DTSTAMP:20090202T201228Z SUMMARY:NY Round Table Writers' Conference CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090424T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:Screenwriter's Social\n\nA creative conversation and book si gning with David Levien\, screenwriter of Runaway Jury\, Walking Tall\, Ocean's 13 and author of the new novel City of the Sun.\n\nTribecca Scre ening Room\n54 Varick Street @ Laight\n\nCash bar reception @ 6:30\nProg ram starts promptly @ 7\n\nFree for Think Tank Writers and Alumni\nOther wise $25 (tax deductible) UID:FF4F4752-6B31-4E06-A9A7-07A35A8F2A05 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080331T183000 DTSTAMP:20080331T172836Z SUMMARY:Screenwriting Museum Project CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080331T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Part of the Stonewall Was a Riot! Event. \n\nStaceyann Chin\ nThe Other Side of Paradise\nScribner\, $24\n\nFrom the iconic and chari smatic star of "Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam" comes this brave and fi ercely candid memoir about growing up in Jamaica by performer\, activist \, and writer Chin.\n\nThe Stonewall Inn\n53 Christopher Street\n7:30 pm UID:B7CC6F92-9A18-4AEE-B4C3-2D520503C905 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090622T193000 DTSTAMP:20090529T204015Z SUMMARY:Stonewall Inn CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090622T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:The President and the Cities\n\n\nKenneth Jackson\nEmpire Ci ty: New york Through the Centuries\n\nFREE\n\nBrooklyn Library\nDweck Au ditorium\nGrand Army Plaza UID:57E94A88-FEA0-4F1D-BF6D-C5D4E986CFE9 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081026T133000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204828Z SUMMARY:President and the Cities CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081026T153000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Sip Lit reading series\n\nAnne Landsman\nThe Rowing Lesson\n (Soho\, $12)\n\nTerese Svobodia\nBlack Glasses Like Clark Kent: A GI's S ecret from Postwar Japan \n(Graywolf\, $14)\n\nSip\n998 Amsterdam Ave (1 09th and 110th sts) UID:CC2DEA8F-251A-42B8-98C8-75BA5BA2FA55 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080528T200000 DTSTAMP:20080508T212045Z SUMMARY:Sip Lit reading series CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080528T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Neil DeGrasse Tyson\nThe Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of A merica's Favorite Planet\nNorton\, $23.95\n\nThe "New York Times"-bestse lling author chronicles America's irrational love affair with Pluto. In his typically witty way\, Tyson explores the history of planet classific ation and America's obsession with the "planet" that's recently been jud ged a dwarf.\n\nThe Bell House\n149 7th Street\nGowanus\, Brooklyn\n7:30 pm\n UID:2397E373-6F5E-486C-866D-FD00E32BA9A0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090318T193000 DTSTAMP:20090112T215357Z SUMMARY:Secret Science Club CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090318T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Leslie Day\nField Guide to the Natural World\n(Johns Hopkins \, $25)\n10:30AM\nFREE\n\nAUTHOR WILL DRIVE BOOK SELLER TO AND FROM EVEN T\n\nLeslie Day\, a New York City naturalist\, reveals this amazing worl d in her Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City. Combining th e stunning paintings of Mark A. Klingler with a variety of photographs a nd maps\, this book is a complete guide for the urban naturalist -- with tips on identifying the city's flora and fauna and maps showing the nea rest subway stop.\n\nTenafly Nature Center\n313 Hudson Aveune\nTenafly\, NJ 07670\n(201) 568-6093\n UID:0EB14561-2874-4239-923F-BC883DEB6C78 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080608T103000 DTSTAMP:20080509T174925Z SUMMARY:Leslie Day at Tenafly Nature Center CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080608T123000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Betsy Sussler\n\nPeter Cole: Things on Which I've Stumbled ( New Directions)\;The Dream of the Poem\;\nHirsch books\;How to read a p oem and fall in love with Poetry\n\nFREE\n\nBrooklyn Library\nDweck Audi torium\nGrand Army Plaza UID:3AE485B1-A3D5-49BC-ABD1-B1C4804CECB6 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081022T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204827Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Independents:Ed Hirsch and Peter Cole CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081022T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:\n\nCosmopolis : Dalia Sofer\n\nThe September of Shiraz\n\n\ nFREE\n\nDweck Auditorium\nGrand Army Plaza UID:99F578CA-37B9-4880-BC04-D7FBFD54A47D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081004T160000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204833Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081004T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Dinaw Mengestu\nThe Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears \n(Ri verhead\, $14)\n\nSeventeen years ago\, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopi an Revolution for a new start in the United States. Now he finds himself running a failing grocery store in a poor African-American neighborhood \, longing for his home continent. When a series of racial incidents dis turbs the community\, Sepha may lose everything all over again.\n\nLilli an Vernon Creative Writers House\n58 W 10th St UID:9ED8C440-23AC-4C87-B0D6-1DA6FA08E100 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080404T130000 DTSTAMP:20080324T153528Z SUMMARY:LV Writers House CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080404T150000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:John Ashbery\nJohn Ashbery and You: His Later Books \n(Unive rsity of Georgia Press\, $33)\n6:30PM\n$5\; free to all students and New School faculty\, staff\, and alumni with ID\n\nThe Writing Program pres ents a reading and discussion with renowned poet John Ashbery. Moderated by David Lehman\, poetry coordinator of the Writing Program.\n\nNew Sch ool\n66 West 12th Street \nWollman Hall\n\n\n\n UID:2350C4BD-D7D7-4796-B8C8-2AE887D23E12 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080415T183000 DTSTAMP:20080324T163806Z SUMMARY:John Ashbery CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080415T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Half King Reading Series\n\nStephen Lovely\nIrreplaceable\nH yperion\, $24.99\n\nLovely's debut novel\, a touching journey of the hea rt\, tracks what happens to two Midwestern families after a death and a gift of life. Archeologist Alex Voormann and his plant biologist wife\, Isabel\, had a pleasant enough life in Iowa until Isabel was struck and killed while riding her bicycle. Alex reluctantly complies with her wish to be an organ donor\, which saves the life of Janet Corcoran\, a 34-ye ar-old Chicago art teacher and mother of two. Lovely thoughtfully weaves the tales of these two families together\, tracing the realities of lov e and loss of all kinds as Alex attempts to move on\, the man who was dr iving the truck that killed Isabel begins popping up in unexpected place s\, and Janet seeks out Alex and Isabel's mother to thank them and expre ss her guilt and empathy.\n\nThe Half King\n505 West 23rd Street\n7:00 p m \nFree UID:26CBE7BE-BDD1-4A65-A006-2299B96EDE89 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090209T190000 DTSTAMP:20090112T210432Z SUMMARY:Half King CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090209T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:7:00 pm \nFREE\n\nThe Half King\n505 W 23rd St UID:4B8E1AB9-C385-4F5B-B18F-99D0B5978DB6 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080331T190000 DTSTAMP:20080310T182350Z SUMMARY:The Half King CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080331T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Valerie Yow\nBetty Smith: Life of the Author of a Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Wolf's Pond Press\, $30)\nFREE\n\nBiographer Valerie Yow t ells the story of Smith\, who used her life experience for Francie Nolan \, protagonist of “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\, who grows up in a Williams burgh tenement.\n\nCentral Branch\nGrand Army Plaza\nDweck Auditorium UID:9A14266A-7EFE-44B8-B7D4-701BCE26C402 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080308T160000 DTSTAMP:20080218T172514Z SUMMARY:Portrait of Betty Smith CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080308T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Helen Benedict\nThe Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq\nBeacon Press\, $25.95\n\nAs a 29-year Army and Army Re serve Colonel\, I urge everyone--especially women--to read this importan t book. Through unforgettable stories\, "The Lonely Soldier" explains th e shocking frequency of sexual assault and what can be done--Army Reserv e Colonel Ann Wright.\n\nDavid Vine\nIsland of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia\nPrinceton University Press\, $29.95\n\nThe American military base on the island of Diego Garcia is o ne of the most strategically important and secretive U.S. military insta llations outside the United States. Located near the remote center of th e Indian Ocean and accessible only by military transport\, the base was a little-known launch pad for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and may h ouse a top-secret CIA prison where terror suspects are interrogated and tortured. But Diego Garcia harbors another dirty secret\, one that has b een kept from most of the world--until now.\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4th Street \n7:00 pm\n\n\n UID:13AE2DF1-3A6C-41ED-BF96-16B0A5140106 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090505T190000 DTSTAMP:20090416T194336Z SUMMARY:KGB Nonfiction CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090505T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Greg Sanders\nMotel Girl\nRed Hen Press\, $19.95\n\n"Motel G irl" amounts to an exploration of the contemporary laws of romance\, lon ging and sex\, of how the computerized\, branded universe is now fully i ntegrated into the fabric of our thought and behavior. Join in the journ ey\, a frenetic and disarming joy ride. Taken as a whole\, these stories create a new paradigm for the American short story\, an expansion in na rrative reach\, creative power\, and experimentation.\n\nPete's Candy St ore\n709 Lorimer Street\nWilliamsburg\, Brooklyn\nFree\n UID:D39AA9B9-01D7-4D90-8B5B-A43C1DB38002 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090122T193000 DTSTAMP:20090107T153844Z SUMMARY:Pete's Candy Store CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090122T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:13 DESCRIPTION:George Kimball\n\nFour Kings: Leonard\, Hagler\, Hearns\, Du ran and the Last Great Era of Boxing \nMcBooks Press\, $22.95\n\nTheir n ames are legendary: Sugar Ray Leonard\, Marvelous Marvin Hagler\, Thomas Hit Man Hearns\, and Roberto Duran. They were exceptional boxers with u nique combinations of power and speed. In another era\, with few rivals of equal caliber\, each might have held championship belts for years on end. But as it was\, they matured together in the 1980s and fought each other as middleweights. With unforgettable courage and skill\, they rule d the ring and ushered in the last Golden Age of boxing.\n\nJohn Capouya \n\nGorgeous George: The Outrageous Bad-Boy Wrestler Who Created America n Pop Culture \nHarper\, $25.95\n\nIn this quintessentially American tal e\, Capouya tells the complete story of Gorgeous George\, the platinum b lond\, bad-guy wrestling hero who would go on to inspire Muhammad Ali\, James Brown\, Bob Dylan\, and John Waters. 16-page b&w photo insert.\n\n Seth Wickersham\n\nHappy Ending\n302 Broome Street\n8:00 pm\nFree\n\n\n UID:D296362A-F7B9-401E-B6DE-038B5812DA07 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090109T200000 DTSTAMP:20081223T152116Z SUMMARY:Varsity Letters CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090109T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:11th St Bar\n510 E 11th St\n\nSusan Stewart\nTom Devaney\nSu san Briante\n\nhttp://www.readab.com/cal.html UID:FDFFA312-05E1-4001-9B3D-6418019C162D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080225T193000 DTSTAMP:20080218T190655Z SUMMARY:Between A&B CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080225T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:MYPL Murder and Mayhem at Work\n6:30PM\nFREE\n\nJane Cleland \nAntiques to Die For\n(Thorndike\, $31)\n\nRabbi Ilene Schneider\nChanu kah Guilt\n(Swimming Kangaroo Books\, $17)\n\nRosemary Harris\nPushing U p Daisies\n(Thorndike\, $30)\n\nMidManhattan NYPL\n455 5th Ave at 40th S t\n UID:5904544A-4E46-43F8-9FF6-0C9390B489EB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080617T183000 DTSTAMP:20080605T133843Z SUMMARY:Murder and Mayhem at NYPL CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080617T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:0 DESCRIPTION:Joseph Horowitz\nArtists in Exile: How Refugees from Twentie th-Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts ( Harper\, $28)\n\nHorowitzs sophisticated case studies explore a tension in the art of 20th-century performers who emigrated from Europe or Russi a: they both stayed foreign and became American. A one-time executive di rector of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra\, Horowitz ("Classical Mus ic in America") extends his domain beyond music into other performing ar ts\, examining key exemplars in each discipline such as Igor Stravinsky in music composition\, George Balanchine in ballet\, and Marlene Dietric h and Josef von Sternberg in Hollywood. \n\nCentral Branch\nGrand Army P laza\nDweck Auditorium\n\n\n UID:ADAAFE43-D1E9-49CC-AA91-46FB0E04A85C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080427T133000 DTSTAMP:20080426T005800Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080427T153000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:KGB Poetry Reading Series\n\nRon Padgett\nHow to be Perfect\ nCoffee House Press\, $15\n\nBill Zavatsky\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4th Street\ nFree\n\n\n UID:B0A5AE2A-A3D5-448E-BEC2-8DA43F579FA7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090504T193000 DTSTAMP:20090203T175004Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090504T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Kirsten Sundbeg Lundstrum\nSwimming with Strangers\nChronicl e Books\n$23\n\nFREE\n6:30 pm\n\nPianos\n158 Ludlow UID:A702AC03-406E-4455-897B-70FD3C79DDF9 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081205T183000 DTSTAMP:20080904T191513Z SUMMARY:One Story CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081205T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:JUDY GELMAN and VICKI LEVY KRUPP are book enthusiasts and co oks who came together as friends to coauthor "The Book Club Cookbook: Re cipes and Food for Thought from Your Book Club's Favorite Books and Auth ors\," Both authors live with their families in the Boston area.\nThe Bo ok Club Cook Book and The Kids'Book Club Book\n(Tarcher\,$16)\n\nAnisha Lakhani\nSchooled\nIn the tradition of "The Nanny Diaries" comes this vi brant debut novel about a young teacher in an elite private school who w alks into a windfall--and a world she never could have imagined--when sh e becomes a homework tutor to the children of New York's super-rich.\n(H yperion\,$24)\n\nAlice Mattison\nThe acclaimed author of four story coll ections and five novels\, most recently "Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in B rooklyn". "The Book Borrower" and her collections "In Case We're Separat ed" and "Men Giving Money\, Women Yelling" were named "New York Times" N otable Books. Raised in Brooklyn\, New York\, she teaches fiction in the graduate writing program at Bennington College in Vermont and lives in New Haven\, Connecticut.\nNothing is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn\n(Harpe r)\n\nDalia Sofer\nBorn in Iran and fled at the age of ten to the United States with her family. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Awar d and has been a resident at Yaddo. A graduate of the MFA program at Sar ah Lawrence College\, she lives in New York City.\nThe September of Shir az\nSet in Tehran during the aftermath of the 1979 revolution\, this und erstated\, beautifully told literary debut follows the Amin family as th ey cope with their father's false imprisonment.\n(Harper Perenial\,$14)\ n\nElizabeth Strout\nThe author of Abide with Me\, a national bestseller and Book Sense pick\, and Amy and Isabelle\, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Hea rtland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award an d the Orange Prize in England. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines\, including The New Yorker and O: The Oprah Magazi ne. She is on the faculty of the MFA program at Queens University in Cha rlotte\, North Carolina\, and lives in New York City.\nOlive Kitteridge\ n(Random House Trade\,$14)\n\nAnya Ulinich\nAnya Ulinich was seventeen w hen her family left Moscow and immigrated to the United States. She atte nded the Art Institute of Chicago and received an MFA in painting from t he University of California\, Davis\nPetropolis\nasha Goldberg is the ul timate outsider: sheas a chubby\, biracial Jewish girl from the Siberian town of Asbestos 2. Her father takes off for the United States\, and le aves Sasha to navigate adolescence in a bleak apartment bloc with her ov erbearing mother. Sasha falls in love with an art school drop-out who li ves inside a concrete pipe in the town dump. Following her heart gets he r into trouble at home\, so she flees Russia as a mail-order bride and l ands in suburban Arizona. Sasha manages to escape her Red Lobster-loving fiancA(c) and embarks on a misadventure-filled journey across America i n search of her father.\nAnya Ulinich has crafted an unforgettable story of familial fault lines\, cross-cultural confusion\, and the beguiling allure of new beginnings. "Petropolis" is a funny and poignant debut mar king the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.\n(Viking Books\,$25)\n \nNew York Center for Independent Publishing\n20 W.44th St. UID:CFD8DB13-2CEB-4514-BD4C-A78E6DC0C380 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081027T180000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194956Z SUMMARY:National Reading Group CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081027T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:More information to come\, but event will include Heather St immler-Hall and three or four other authors.\n\nFlute Gramercy Champagne Lounge\n40 E. 20th Street\n5:00 pm UID:94338B58-5E0D-4612-AAB8-807F93F1AE24 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090531T170000 DTSTAMP:20090415T205306Z SUMMARY:Flute Gramercy Champagne Lounge CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090531T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Mark Mazower will talking about his book at the Hellenic Ame rican Chamber of Commerce's Event \n\nMark Mazower is professor of histo ry at Columbia University and Birkbeck College\, London. His books inclu de "Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation\, 1941--44\," w inner of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History and the Longman/Hist ory Today Award for Book of the Year. He lives in New York City.\n\nHitl er's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe \nDrawing on an unprecedented va riety of sources\, Mark Mazower reveals how the Nazis designed\, maintai ned\, and ultimately lost their European empire and offers a chilling vi sion of the world Hitler would have made had he won the war.\n(Penguin P ress:$40)\n\nThe Cultural Center\n337 East 74th St.\n(btw1st-2ndAve)\n\n \n\n UID:21171F88-CCF1-4A3F-94D3-E46127D76073 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081029T193000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194959Z SUMMARY:Hitler's Empire CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081029T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:167 W 12th St\n\nLaura Shapiro-Julia Child UID:7B34BFE4-DBA9-4B14-8DAB-15EEB631A94E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070411T120000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195249Z SUMMARY:Beard House-Beard on Books CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070411T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Barbara Walters\nAudition: A Memoir\n(Knopf\, $30)\nMEMBERS\ nNOON\n\nThe most important woman in the history of television journalis m offers this memoir that is heartbreaking and inspiring\, surprising an d fun\, sometimes startling\, and always riveting. Illustrated.\n\nUnive rsity Club\n1 W 54th St\n UID:AD44AC05-D341-48B3-B2D0-923B999651C0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080626T120000 DTSTAMP:20080508T221840Z SUMMARY:Barbara Walters CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080626T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Kenny Mayne\nAn Incomplete and Inaccurate History of Sport \ n(Tantor\, $20)\nTickets $5\n9:30PM\n\nWisecracking sports broadcaster K enny Mayne keeps dubious score of sports' absurdities\, true and unsubst antiated history\, off-the-wall trivia\, and all things real and possibl y made-up in this hilarious book.\n\nUpright Citizens Brigade\n307 W. 26 th Street UID:4F14183F-6BE7-4D5F-9CE3-B9D902AD004D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080604T213000 DTSTAMP:20080516T205750Z SUMMARY:Kenny Mayne at UCB CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080604T233000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Dana Thomas \nSponsored by The Luxury Marketing Council \nD eluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster (Penguin\, $15)\n\nThomas\, the style and cultural reporter for "Newsweek\," takes a hard-hitting look at the world of new luxury\, and argues that globalization and corporate greed have ensured that old-time manufacturing has bowed to sweatshops and wil d profits to produce mediocre merchandise.\n\nThe 21 Club \n21 West 52nd Street\n(212) 265-1900\n UID:611B09FB-46DF-43F1-9C07-C6AD15BF76B1 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080221T080000 DTSTAMP:20080214T185140Z SUMMARY:Luxury Marketing Council CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080221T100000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Daniel Tomasulo\nConfessions of a Former Child: A Memoir \n( Greywolf\, $16)\n6:30PM\n$5\; free to all students and New School facult y\, staff\, and alumni with ID \n\nPublishing Panel \nDaniel Tomasulo\, author of Confession of a Former Child: A Therapist’s Memoir\; Janet Rei d\, literary agent\, FinePrint Literary Management\; and Fiona McCrae\, publisher of Graywolf Press discuss how to get your work published. Mode rated by Robert Polito\, director\, the Writing Program.\n\nNew School\n 66 West 12th Street Room 510\n UID:BA0766EB-5ABB-49F8-8912-CD83AC952FF2 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080407T183000 DTSTAMP:20080321T193711Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080407T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Steven Cosson \nI Am Nobody's Lunch/Gone Missing \n(Oberon B ooks\, $19)\n8PM\nTickets $10\n\nMOBILE LIBRIS IS SELLING MICHAEL COSSON 'S BOOK PRIOR AND DURING THE PLAY "PARIS COMMUNE" AT THE PUBLIC\nIn 1871 \, working class Parisians overthrew the French government\, declared Pa ris autonomous and launched an attempt to radically reinvent society. In this musical play\, a versatile company of performers bring this explos ive event to life. With revolutionary songs from the period and survivin g first person records\, Paris Commune reanimates the past and provokes our thinking about the present in a dynamic and raucous cabaret style. S ince its founding in 2001 by Artistic Director Steven Cosson\, the award -winning company The Civilians has created several original shows includ ing the Off-Broadway hits (I Am) Nobody’s Lunch and Gone Missing.\n\nPub lic Theater\nShiva Theater\n425 Lafayette Street \n\n UID:EFEDCAA2-BDBE-468F-A26D-4D3FE95A545F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080405T200000 DTSTAMP:20080326T194403Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080405T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Joanne Chen\nThe Taste of Sweet: Our Complicated Love Affair with Our Favorite Treats \n(Crown Publishing Group\, $25)\n6:30PM\nFREE \n\nChen revels in exploring historical sweetscapes in this scientific a nd socioeconomic journey down candy lane for sugarholics\, foodies\, and lovers of pop science and culture.\n\nMarie Belle - Soho\n484 Broome St (btn Wooster/W Broadway)\n\n UID:09AB0B77-BF8E-432A-AD6B-B6E9DD1209C9 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080327T183000 DTSTAMP:20080325T192410Z SUMMARY:Joanne Chen CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080327T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:The Public Theater will be putting on a new play by Suzan-Lo ri Parks. More information to come.\n\nThe Public Theater\n425 Lafayett e Street\n7:45 pm UID:C9ECD93F-5412-4B4A-9139-B3E84141CC74 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090612T194500 DTSTAMP:20090320T201232Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090612T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Peter Maass\nCrude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil\nKnopf \, $26.95\n\nA stunning and revealing examination of oil's indelible imp act on the countries that produce it and the people who possess it. \nEv ery unhappy oil-producing nation is unhappy in its own way\, but all are touched by the "resource curse"--the power of oil to exacerbate existin g problems and create new ones. In "Crude World\, " Peter Maass presents a vivid portrait of the troubled world oil has created.\n\nHalf King\n5 05 W. 23rd Street\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\nhttp://www.thehalfking.com/calendar/ index.html UID:3ACEFBB6-244D-451A-AF6E-104C6A8BAF1F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090928T190000 DTSTAMP:20090812T182052Z SUMMARY:Half King CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090928T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:14 DESCRIPTION:In The Flesh Erotic Reading Series\nFREE\n8PM\n\nRachel Kram er Bussel \nDirty Girls: Erotica for Women\n(Seal Press\, $16)\n\nSarah Thyre\nDark at the Roots\n(Counterpoint\, $15)\n\nSuzanne Portnoy\nThe N ot so Invisible Woman\n(Virgin\, $13)\n\nHoney B\nSexcapades\n(Grand Cen tral\, $20)\n\nMary Morrision\nSweeter Than Honey\n(Dafina\, $15)\n\nSof ia Quintero\nDivas Don't Yield\n(One World\, $14)\n\nHappy Ending\n302 B roome St.\n\n\n\n UID:63F30FA4-14A5-47EF-8978-8C39A6EDA8A4 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080417T200000 DTSTAMP:20080404T153209Z SUMMARY:In the Flesh at Happy Ending CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080417T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Kenny Mayne\nAn Incomplete and Inaccurate History of Sport\n (Crown\, $25)\n9:30PM\ntickets $5\n\nWisecracking sports broadcaster May ne keeps dubious score of the sports' absurdities\, true and unsubstanti ated history\, off-the-wall trivia\, and all things real and possibly ma de-up in this hilarious book that is part "America: The Book" and "The O nion."\n\nUCB\n307 W 26th St\n\n\n UID:BD4F759F-4051-4190-85B7-3722B2298B87 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080430T213000 DTSTAMP:20080407T162311Z SUMMARY:Kenny Mayne at UCB CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080430T233000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:NO APPLAUSE\, JUST THROW MONEY:\nTHE SHOW THAT MADE VAUDEVIL LE FAMOUS\n\nWritten by TRAV S.D.\n\nBased on Trav S.D. ‘s popular book No Applause\, Just Throw Money: the Book That Made Vaudeville Famous (Fa ber & Faber\, 2005)\, No Applause…The Show is an original variety revue with sketches and songs by Trav S.D.\, a core cast that includes Maggie Cino\, Leela Corman\, Gyda Arber\, Danny Bowes\, Michael Criscuolo\, Rog er Nasser\, Mike Rutkoski\, Scott Stiffler\, Art Wallace\, and special g uest stars from the cream of New York’s variety scene\, including Todd R obbins (Carnival Knowledge)\, Raven Snook\, Goddess Pearlman (Nice Jewis h Girls Gone Bad)\, the Maestrocities\, the Main Squeeze Pigtail Orchest ra\, and Mark Mitton. In addition\, the production will feature fight ch oreography by Qui Nyugen of the Vampire Cowboys. Set and costume design is by Julianne Kroboth.\n\nPerformances will be Thursday through Saturda ys at 8pm\, Sundays at 3pm\, September 18 through October 5. Tickets wil l be $12.\n\nAbout Trav S.D.: In addition to writing No Applause (which Margo Jefferson of the New York Times called “a must for your bookshelf” )\, Trav S.D. is the author of 50 plays which have been produced from Se attle to London\, including such venues as Joe’s Pub\, LaMama\, Theater for the New City and the Portland Stage Company. He has published 200+ a rticles in such publications as the Village Voice\, Time Out New York\, American Theatre\, the New York Sun\, Reason\, and many others. He also hosts the popular Indie Theatre Now! podcast on nytheatre.com. Since 199 6\, his American Vaudeville Theatre has presented hundred of top variety acts and other performing artists\, including Todd Robbins\, the World Famous Bob\, Dirty Martini\, Lizzie West\, Reverend Billy\, Howard Fishm an\, Rev Jen\, Red Bastard\, Jennifer Miller\, Bindlestiff Family Cirkus \, et al\, at venues such as Galapagos\, New-York Historical Society\, S urf Reality\, and countless others.\n\nTheater for the New City\n155 Fir st Avenue\n(between 9th and 10th Streets)\nRSV : (212) 254-1109\n\n\n \n \n\n\n UID:84802A93-5B3E-4317-9597-C8DCA5E90D61 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080926T200000 DTSTAMP:20080915T165018Z SUMMARY:No Applause--Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Fam ous CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080926T230000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:7:30PM\nFREE\n\nKevin Prufer\nNational Anthem\n(Four Way\, $ 16)\n\nJ Allyn Rosser\nFoiled Again\; Poems\n(Ivan R. Dee Publisher\, $2 3)\n\nEd Hirsch\nSpecial Orders: Poems\n(Knopf Publishing Group\, $24)\n \n11th St Bar\n510 E 11th St\n\n\n UID:06300E82-1131-47E0-BB46-9CD68DFF0134 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080414T193000 DTSTAMP:20080324T162546Z SUMMARY:Between A&B CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080414T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:13 DESCRIPTION:675 Hudson (@14th)\n\nAmy DuBois Barnett-Get Yours! UID:0708C4AF-3FF6-45E2-BD3E-E594F4166200 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071113T173000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195248Z SUMMARY:Level 5 CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071113T193000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Museum of Art Poetry Series\nFREE\n5PM\n\nTina Chang\nHalf L it Houses\n(Four Way\, $15)\n\nTina Chang is the author of the poetry co llection Half-Lit Houses\, finalist for the Asian American Literary Awar d for Poetry. \n\nQueens Museum of Art\nNYC Building\nFlushing Meadows P ark UID:C8020200-7BE6-4E14-B4F9-878CBE3E0D93 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080615T170000 DTSTAMP:20080602T212558Z SUMMARY:Queens Museum Poetry Series CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080615T193000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Cosmopolis: Colum McCann\n\nColum McCann\nZoli\nRandom House \, $24.99\n\nThe acclaimed author of "Dancer" and "This Side of Brightne ss" delivers a sensuous novel about exile\, belonging\, and survival\, b ased loosely on the true story of the Romani poet Papsuza. It spans the 20th century and travels the breadth of Europe.\n\nBrooklyn Library\nDwe ck Center\nGrand Army Plaza\n4:00 pm\nFree\n\n UID:1BDE78AD-EFF0-43F0-B5AC-4B675E0390AB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090207T160000 DTSTAMP:20081217T204607Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090207T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Allen Guelzo \nLincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America (Simon and Schuster\, $26)\n5:15 pm\n\nFrom the two-time winner of the prestigious Lincoln Prize comes a brilliant account of the most famous open-air debates in American history--those between Stephen A. Do uglas and Abraham Lincoln. \n\nUniversity Club\n1 West 54th Street\nCall for more information: (212) 489-7968\n\n UID:3CFBD26A-7989-4710-A117-19ACF6E8B684 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080220T171500 DTSTAMP:20080213T234551Z SUMMARY:Allen Guelzo CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080220T191500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Doouglas Preston & Mario Spezi\nThe Monster of Florence\n(Gr and Central\, $28)\n\nIn the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt ("Midn ight in the Garden of Good and Evil")\, "New York Times"-bestselling aut hor Preston presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the l ush hills surrounding Florence\, Italy.\n\nBryant Park Reading Room\n42n d and 5th Ave\n\n\n UID:F64E4E47-5A85-4358-8580-ABB1C66FDE34 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080611T123000 DTSTAMP:20080505T214341Z SUMMARY:Word for Word author CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080611T134500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:A Launch's event for the new issue is devoted to the preserv ation journal "Future Anterior"\nThe issue is devotd to the preservation of Soviet modernist buildings\, and the event is also a celebration of the 5th years Anniversary of the journal. \n\nThe Panal will include\nJo rge Otero-Pailos and Annette Michelson\neditor of the journal "October"" \nalso include\nBarry Beergdoll and Jean Louis Cohen\,who guest edited t his issue of "Future Anterior"\n\nStudio X\n180 Varicks St.\n212-989-239 8 UID:9959A7C3-380A-4F54-A355-0B7498D19A20 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081118T190000 DTSTAMP:20080912T180343Z SUMMARY:"Future Anterior" Journal CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081118T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Deborah Baker \nA Blue Hand: The Tragicomic\, Mind-Altering Odyssey of Allen Ginsberg\, a Holy Fool\, a Lost Muse\, a Dharma Bum\, a nd His Prickly Bride\nPenguin Books\, $15\n\nBaker presents a literary e xploration of the Beats' encounter with India in the 1960s\, a journey-- led by Allen Ginsberg--that inspired and influenced generations of Ameri cans and Indians alike.\n\nBowery Poetry Club\n308 Bowery\n2:00 pm\n\n\n UID:A372B0F6-A901-45AE-BC4B-65AC510467A2 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090221T140000 DTSTAMP:20090115T185826Z SUMMARY:Bowery Poetry Club CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090221T153000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:David Lehman\nWhen a Woman Loves a Man: Poems (Scribner\, $1 7)\n\nThese poems capture the romance\, irony\, and pathos of love\; the y movingly chronicle days in post-9/11 New York and bring a fresh perspe ctive to an array of subjects -- from the Brooklyn Bridge to Gertrude St ein to Buddhism. "When a Woman Loves a Man" is playful\, inventive\, and as amusing as it is clever\; it is the work of a poet at the height of his lyrical and reflective powers.\n\nBowery Poetry Club\n308 Bowery\n21 2.614.0505\n UID:DB3F5906-FAC7-47F1-BC44-50940829B176 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080315T140000 DTSTAMP:20080303T225802Z SUMMARY:David Lehman\, Poems CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080315T160000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Varsity Letters\n8:00 pm\nFREE\n\nRoger Director\nI Dream in Blue: Life\, Death and the New York Giants (Harper\, $15)\n \nHappy End ing\n302 E Broome St\n\n UID:A8E90885-82BA-49BD-832B-F63414DDD2FA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080306T200000 DTSTAMP:20080226T230518Z SUMMARY:Varsity Letters @ Happy Ending CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080306T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Jessica Abel\, Judith Hansen\, Dan Nadel\, Christine Norrie\ , Anjali Singh\n6PM\n$10\n\nThe panel will assemble experts- two authors \, a literary agent\, a senior editor and an independent publisher- who can share insights on the creative process and the editorial works invol ved in publishing graphic narratives\; discuss the variety of genres of graphic narratives\; describe the marketplace for graphic works and its various niches\; and offer advice to prospective authors.\nModerated by WNBA members\n\nCenter for Independent Publishing\n20 West 44th St\n UID:A1792093-B938-4BAF-82A6-3BC266B73F18 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080416T180000 DTSTAMP:20080317T223159Z SUMMARY:WNBA: Graphic Narratives CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080416T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Discussions of Contemporary Poetry\nCo-sponsored by the New York University Creative Writing Program\n \n Some of the most import ant poets of our time explore questions central to poetry today.Particip ants in the four intimate panels will include \n\nFrank Bidart's most re cent full-length collections of poetry are "Star Dust "(FSG\, 2005)\, "D esire "(FSG\, 1997)\, and "In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90 "(FSG\, 1990). He has won many prizes\, including the 2007 Bollingen Pr ize in American Poetry\n\nVictor Hernandez Cruz is a two-time World Heav yweight Champion poet featured in Bill Moyers' "Language of Life" series whose most recent collection\, Maraca\, was a finalist for the Lenore M arshall and Griffin Poetry Prizes. Five-years-old when he moved with his family from Puerto Rico to New York\, Cruz now divides his time between Morocco\, Puerto Rico\, and the US.\n\nLouise GlUck won the Pulitzer Pr ize for "The Wild Iris" in 1993. The author of eight books of poetry and one collection of essays\, "Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry\, " s he has received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry\, the William Carlos Williams Award\, and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Non fiction. She was named the next U.S. poet laureate in August 2003. Her m ost recent book is "The Seven Ages". Louise GlUck teaches at Williams Co llege and lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\n\nLyn Hejinian is a poet a nd the author of "Writing Is an Aid to Memory" (1996)\, "The Cold of Poe try" (1994)\, "The Cell" (1992)\, and "My Life" (1987)\, among other boo ks. She has taught at several universities and colleges and was the 1993 Roberta Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry at the University o f California\, Berkeley. \n\nSharon Olds was born in San Francisco. Her poetry has been chosen as the Lamont Poetry Selection and won the Nation al Book Critics Circle Award. She lives in New York City.\n\nRon Padgett \, as Peter Gizzi says\, is "a thoroughly American poet\, coming sideway s out of Whitman\, Williams and New York Pop with a Tulsa twist." His po etry has been translated into over a dozen languages and has appeared in The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry\, The Oxford Book of American Poetry\, and on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac.\n\nCarl P hillips is the author of eight previous books of poems\, including "The Rest of Love\," a National Book Award finalist\; "Rock Harbor"\; and "Th e Tether\," winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. He teaches at Was hington University in St. Louis.\n\nDr. Drew Pinsky hosts the phenomenal ly successful radio show Loveline\, now syndicated in almost 100 regiona l markets across America. For five years he co-hosted the nightly MTV pr ogram of the same name. A regular on "Politically Incorrect" and "The Vi ew\, " Pinsky has been a guest on dozens of national television outlets\ , and has been profiled for "Time\, Premiere" and "Newsweek." In 1998 Pi nsky and Loveline co-host Adam Carolla published "The Dr. Drew and Adam Book: A Survival Guide to Life and Love." Currently\, Pinsky is the medi cal director for the Department of Chemical Dependency Services at Las E ncinas Hospital in Pasadena\, CA. He lives in Southern California with h is wife\, Susan\, and their eight-year-old triplets.\n\nRyan is the poet laureate of intangible surfaces and unclassified states of consciousnes s. A miniaturist in thrall to brevity and pinpoint imagery\, she articul ates a ghostly and unreal universe where life is -the film/ sandwiched/ between twin/ immensities/ of nothing. - Among her favorite domains are interim states of consciousness\, such as the moment between wakefulness and sleep ( -Sometimes before/ going to sleep a person/ senses the give / behind the last given -)\, and the unexplored conceptual territory ben eath common expressions ( -Oh if it were/ only the other/ shoe hanging/ in space before/ joining its mate. If the undropped/ didn't congregate/ with the undropped -). Gently inquiring\, modestly rhymed\, her poems se em whispered rather than spoken\, as if reluctant to disturb the -source less texture - of their subjects. Though an overinvestment in the epheme ral risks preciousness and dissolution\, Ryan offers enough vivid images (the -doily edges of oceans -) and pithy insights ( -A life should leav e/ deep tracks -) to keep readers moving on to the next poem. Recommende d for larger public and college libraries." -Fred Muratori\, Cornell Uni v. Lib.\, Ithaca\, NY" Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.\n\nGary Snyder was born in San Francisco in 1930. He lives near the south fork of the Yuba River in the foothills of the Sierras.\n\nGerald Stern is th e author of fourteen poetry books\, including This Time: New and Selecte d Poems\, which won the 1998 National Book Award. He taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fifteen years\, and he is the recipient of many aw ards\, including the Lamont Poetry Prize\, the Ruth Lilly Prize\, the Wa llace Stevens Award\, and the National Jewish Book Award for poetry\n\nS usan Stewart is the Regan Professor of English at the University of Penn sylvania and a MacArthur Fellow. She is the author of three books of poe ms\, most recently "The Forest\," as well as many works of literary and art criticism\, including "On Longing and Crimes of Writing\n\nEllen Bry ant Voigt has published seven volumes of poetry. She lives in Cabot\, Ve rmont.\n\nC. K. Williams is the author of eight books of poems\, the mos t recent of which\, "Repair\," won the Pulitzer Prize and the" Los Angel es Times" Book Prize. He teaches in the writing program at Princeton Uni versity and lives part of the year in Paris.\n\nand moderators Timothy D onnelly\,James longenbach\,Claudia ankine\,and Tree Swenson\n\nEisner&Lu bin Auditotium\nNew York University\n60 Washington square South\n\n UID:1980718B-ADA2-4436-807E-F0E6D289B05D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081108T100000 DTSTAMP:20080901T210841Z SUMMARY:Poets Forum with New York University Writing Program CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081108T160000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Word for Word Reading Series\nFREE\n12:30\nAugusten Burrough s\nA Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father\n(St. MArtin's\, $25)\n\n\ nBryant Park Reading Room\n42nd St. side of Bryant Park\, under burgandy and white umbrellas UID:CDD3A78B-8C6E-4900-BF99-B4860FE215E7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080521T123000 DTSTAMP:20080505T213459Z SUMMARY:Augusten Burroughs CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080521T134500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Earshot Reading Series\n8PM\n$5 (includes 1 drink)\n\nPrisci lla Becker\n\nearshotnyc.com\n UID:E300EADF-A493-4817-A365-B003BF500044 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080314T200000 DTSTAMP:20080229T223027Z SUMMARY:Earshot at Lucky Cat CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080314T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Off the Rail\n7\;00 pm\nFREE\n\nBen Marcus \nThe Age of Wire and String (Dalkey Archive Press\, $12)\n\nSusan Daitch\nL.C. (Dalkey A rchive Press\, $15)\n\nCentral Branch\nGrand Army Plaza\nDweck Auditoriu m\n\n UID:384B8E75-F9D7-4934-8C81-7F5914EE7D64 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080410T190000 DTSTAMP:20080324T160609Z SUMMARY:Ben Marcus CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080410T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:James Goldgeier and Derek Chollet\nAmerica Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11: The Misunderstood Years Between the Fall of the Berl ing Wall and the Start of the War on Terror \n(Public Affairs\, $28)\nCo ntact: Steve Sokol 212 826 3636\n8:15AM\n\nChollet and Goldgeier examine how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berl in Wall on November 9\, 1989\, and the collapse of the Twin Towers on Se ptember 11\, 2001\, shaped the events\, arguments\, and politics of the modern world.\n\nCentury Association Library\nPlatt Library\n7 W 43rd St \n\n UID:A6F40571-3579-45A8-A341-E04AD1EA3C9C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080625T081500 DTSTAMP:20080605T131443Z SUMMARY:America Between the Wars CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080625T093000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:14 DESCRIPTION:Alan Zweibel\nClothing Optional: And Other Ways to Read thes e Stories \nVillard Books\, $22\n\nRivka Galchen\nAtmospheric Disturbanc es\nPicador\, $14\n\nJosh Weil\nThe New Valley\nGrove Press\, $22\n\nMic hael Muhammed Knight\nBlue Eyed Devil\nSoft Skull\, $14.95\n\nPianos\n15 8 Ludlow Street\n7:30 pm\n\n UID:2FD19BC4-5A2E-46C1-871E-6DE661F6F7A4 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090527T193000 DTSTAMP:20090508T202749Z SUMMARY:Literary Death Match CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090527T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Michael Taeckens\nLove is a Four Letter Word: True Stories o f Breakups\, Bad Relationships\, and Broken Hearts \nPlume Books\, $16\n \nA contemporary collection of true stories of seduction\, heartbreak\, and regret\, "Love Is a Four-Letter Word" gathers essays that capture th e dark side of love.\n\nHalf King\n505 W. 23rd Street\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n UID:FF94E544-ADC1-4BAC-82B5-7360E1D51CC8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090803T190000 DTSTAMP:20090615T182149Z SUMMARY:Half King CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090803T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Fiction Forum\n\nAskold Melnyczuk\nThe House of Widows\nGray wolf Press\, $16\n\nMelnyczuk's ambitious third novel is a soulful noir about the damaging effects of history on one man's psyche. Cynical histo rian James Pak lives in Vienna and is still deeply affected by his fathe r Andrew's suicide 16 years ago\, and his confessional narrative\, told mostly in flashbacks\, fills the reader in on why he's still reeling.\n\ nDouglas Martin\nYour Body Figured\nNightboat Books\, $14.95\n\nRilke\, Balthus\, Hart Crane\, Francis Bacon: Of their lives and work\, and of a lyric examination of the ruthless force of art and the erotic\, Douglas A. Martin has conjured a mesmerizing and disturbing text\, a gorgeous p oem-as-novel set in he wake of the explosive ecstasies of twentieth cent ury art. I have read nothing else like it. --Honor Moore\n\nThe New Scho ol\n66 West 12th Street\nRoom 510\n6:30 pm\n$5\n\n\n UID:82C626AF-815D-4CAF-AB96-BD385052DA3E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090330T183000 DTSTAMP:20090106T192341Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090330T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Piano's\n158 Ludlow St\n\nAndrew Porter\nThe Theory of Light and Matter\nU of Georgia Press\, $25\n\nThese ten short stories explore loss and sacrifice in American suburbia. In idyllic suburbs across the country\, from Philadelphia to San Francisco\, narrators struggle to fin d meaning or value in their lives because of (or in spite of) something that has happened in their pasts. UID:A8E1879F-EEF7-4DF5-9800-1FB79E7A4543 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090306T190000 DTSTAMP:20080822T193447Z SUMMARY:One Story CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090306T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:The Paris Review Salon\nKimiko Hahn & Jesse Ball\n\nFREE\nLi llian Vernon Writers House\n58 W. 10th Street UID:22CA9C35-F8A4-4E5B-804E-EEEFC2E486D4 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081010T170000 DTSTAMP:20080912T152612Z SUMMARY:Paris Review Salon CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081010T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Joyce Carol Oates\nMy Sister\, My Love: The Intimate Story o f Skyler Rampike \n(Ecco\, $26)\nFREE\n12:30PM\n\nIn 1999\, Oates ("The Gravedigger's Daughter") wrote an article discussing and reviewing books on the JonBenet Ramsey case. Here\, she fictionalizes the case to satir ize upper-middle-class status seekers\, media fixation\, and opportunity -grabbing victims. \n\nBryant Park\n42nd and 5th Ave UID:DC09B4FD-4B33-4022-A13F-9508CA018072 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080723T123000 DTSTAMP:20080506T181403Z SUMMARY:Word for Word Authors CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080723T134500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Two Talks:\n\nWorking for the Weekend: Modern Day Salarymen\ n\nParticipants: Kathrin Roggla and Yoshihiro Tatsumi\n\nFrom Kafka's Gr egor Samsa in The Metamorphosis to Richard Ford's Frank Bascombe in The Sportswriter\, writers have explored the everyday realities of working l ife to tell larger stories. Yoshihiro Tatsumi began depicting the lives of Japanese working people in his comics more than four decades ago\, w hile Kathrin Roggla's docu-novel We Never Sleep describes the working ex perience of her European contemporaries. Join them for a discussion abo ut writing the working lives of everyday peopel - East and West.\n\nKafk a in America\n\nParticipants: Lewis Begly\, Norbert Gstrein\, Mark Harma n\, Lynne TIllman\, and Colm Toibin.\n\nModerator: Jonathan Taylor\n\nOf Franz Kafka's three uncompleted novels\, Amerika is likely the least re ad and often thought of as the least characteristic. Join us for this d iscussion of what America meant to Kafka and what Kafka means in America .\n\nAustrian Cultural Forum \n11 East 52nd Street\n4:30 pm UID:1A6E0871-DC87-4944-8989-F472C4762FDE TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090430T163000 DTSTAMP:20090402T164200Z SUMMARY:PEN World Voices Festival CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090430T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:NO APPLAUSE\, JUST THROW MONEY:\nTHE SHOW THAT MADE VAUDEVIL LE FAMOUS\n\nWritten by TRAV S.D.\n\nBased on Trav S.D. ‘s popular book No Applause\, Just Throw Money: the Book That Made Vaudeville Famous (Fa ber & Faber\, 2005)\, No Applause…The Show is an original variety revue with sketches and songs by Trav S.D.\, a core cast that includes Maggie Cino\, Leela Corman\, Gyda Arber\, Danny Bowes\, Michael Criscuolo\, Rog er Nasser\, Mike Rutkoski\, Scott Stiffler\, Art Wallace\, and special g uest stars from the cream of New York’s variety scene\, including Todd R obbins (Carnival Knowledge)\, Raven Snook\, Goddess Pearlman (Nice Jewis h Girls Gone Bad)\, the Maestrocities\, the Main Squeeze Pigtail Orchest ra\, and Mark Mitton. In addition\, the production will feature fight ch oreography by Qui Nyugen of the Vampire Cowboys. Set and costume design is by Julianne Kroboth.\n\nPerformances will be Thursday through Saturda ys at 8pm\, Sundays at 3pm\, September 18 through October 5. Tickets wil l be $12.\n\nAbout Trav S.D.: In addition to writing No Applause (which Margo Jefferson of the New York Times called “a must for your bookshelf” )\, Trav S.D. is the author of 50 plays which have been produced from Se attle to London\, including such venues as Joe’s Pub\, LaMama\, Theater for the New City and the Portland Stage Company. He has published 200+ a rticles in such publications as the Village Voice\, Time Out New York\, American Theatre\, the New York Sun\, Reason\, and many others. He also hosts the popular Indie Theatre Now! podcast on nytheatre.com. Since 199 6\, his American Vaudeville Theatre has presented hundred of top variety acts and other performing artists\, including Todd Robbins\, the World Famous Bob\, Dirty Martini\, Lizzie West\, Reverend Billy\, Howard Fishm an\, Rev Jen\, Red Bastard\, Jennifer Miller\, Bindlestiff Family Cirkus \, et al\, at venues such as Galapagos\, New-York Historical Society\, S urf Reality\, and countless others.\n\nTheater for the New City\n155 Fir st Avenue\n(between 9th and 10th Streets)\nRSV : (212) 254-1109\n\n\n \n \n\n\n UID:61527CDC-5A11-4130-A681-F632D937FC32 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081004T200000 DTSTAMP:20080915T165018Z SUMMARY:No Applause--Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Fam ous CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081004T230000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Aimee Nezhukumatathil was the Middlebrook Poetry Fellow at t he Institute for Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin. She re ceived her B.A. and M.F.A. in poetry and creative non-fiction from Ohio State University. She is currently an assistant professor of English at the State University of New York in Fredonia\n\nFREE\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4th Street UID:16EA2D40-D82B-40D2-8B27-2D2AA2C9719F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081114T190000 DTSTAMP:20080912T153448Z SUMMARY:Writers House at KGB CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081114T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Cody Kimmel\nThe Top Job\n(Dutton\, $17)\nFREE\nNO ON\n\nEvery kid loves to go with his or her parents to work\, no matter what they do for a living. But one girls dad is responsible for changing the light bulbs at the top of the Empire State Building. How cool is th at? Readers will be amazed by the little-known details this book provide s about one of the most recognizable buildings in the world.\n\nBryant P ark Reading Series\n42nd St side\nunder burgandy umbrellas UID:45EAD912-D983-45D6-9208-8F3682E9ADAE TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080705T120000 DTSTAMP:20080423T171928Z SUMMARY:Word for Word Kids series CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080705T130000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Paris Review Summer Salon\n6PM\nFREE\n\nGish Jen\nThe Love W ife\n(Knopf\, $25)\n\nRobert Lennon\nMailman\n(Norton\, $14)\n\nLillian Vernon\n58 W 10th St UID:AC79C9C5-6112-4008-8D91-9A93DE42A463 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080617T180000 DTSTAMP:20080529T201610Z SUMMARY:Paris Review Summer Salon CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080617T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Poetry Salon\n4:00 pm\nFREE\n\nGerald Stern\nSave the Last D ance: Poems (W.W. Norton\, $24)\n\nJean Valentine\nLittle Boat (Wesleyan University Press\, $23)\n\nCentral Branch\nGrand Army Plaza\nDweck Audi torium UID:03CC54A6-2653-4F1B-8767-37B0C25C7734 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080412T160000 DTSTAMP:20080218T180759Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080412T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke\nTim othy Snyder\n\nThe Ukrainian Institute is pleased to invite you to a boo k presentation by Yale University historian Timothy Snyder\, who will re ad from and sign copies of his critically acclaimed book The Red Prince. The book is a historical biography of Wilhelm von Habsburg (1895-1949)\ , also known as Vasyl Vyshyvanyi.\n\nColumbia University\nInternational Affairs Building\n420 W 118th St\nRoom1512 UID:C42EA3AE-CBCF-48F9-A303-15BDE39445C9 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081024T193000 DTSTAMP:20081018T195001Z SUMMARY:The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke\nTimothy Snyder\n CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081024T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot\, Porn\, Pun k Rock\, Pro Wrestling\, Talking Apes\, Evil Bosses\, Dirty Blues\, Amer ican Heroes\, and the Edison\n\nThis hilarious insider look at fringes o f journalism and magazine publishing is written with a gleeful burning-h is-bridges-behind-him vibe. Edison is a child of the 70s who came across "High Times" magazine and immediately recognized that it was a miracle of lifestyle journalism. A daily high school pothead\, he delivers an am azingly detailed remembrance of life in New York City after his surprisi ng acceptance into New York University and then\, after dropping out\, C olumbia University\, which leads to jobs working first for the World Wre stling Federation\, then writing porn novels\, before moving on to mens magazines like "Cheri". He shamelessly admits that putting out inconsequ ential slap rags was a lot of fun. After a dalliance with the Raunch Han ds punk group\, Edison is back writing for "Hustler" and "Penthouse"\, u ntil he finally gets an editing job at "High Times". This stintthe bulk of the bookprovides a riotous look at that magazines stoned style\, wher e the staff couldnt arrive on time to planned meetings unless Edison cou ld fold the fabric of the universe onto itself and led the staff through some sort of cosmic wormhole. "(May)" Copyright 2008 Reed Business Info rmation. (Faber & Faber$25.00) \n\nMike Edison is a writer\, editor\, an d musician. He lives in New York City.\n\nFREE\n7pm\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4t h Street UID:8816BB45-F8DB-41BF-84FF-ADCEC8FF0774 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080930T190000 DTSTAMP:20080903T163029Z SUMMARY:KGB Non Fiction CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080930T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Performance: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson\n\nBooks TBA\n\nTh e Public Theater\n425 Lafayette Street\n7:45 pm UID:14B689C8-1861-4208-8ECC-97FF82D65F7E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090516T194500 DTSTAMP:20090119T185400Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090516T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Happy Ending Reading Series\n\nThe last season ever before m oving to Joe's Pub for a monthly show.\n\nRoland Kelts\nA Lecturer at th e University of Tokyo and a co-editor of the New York-based literary jou rnal\, "A Public Space. "His articles\, essays\, and stories have been p ublished in" Zoetrope\, Playboy\, Salon\, The Village Voice\, Cosmopolit an\," and "Vogue\," among others. He currently splits his time between N ew York and Tokyo.\n\nLinda Robertson\nProfessor and director of the Med ia and Society program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.\n\nPorter S hreve\nPorter Shreve is the author of the novels The Obituary Writer\, D rives Like a Dream and When the White House Was Ours. The Obituary Write r was a 2000 New York Times Notable Book\, a Book Sense Pickand a Border s Original Voices Selection. Drives Like a Dream was a 2005 Chicago Trib une Book of the Year\, a People 3Great Reads selection\, and a Britannic a Book of the Year. His most recent novel is When the White House Was Ou rs (2008). He lives with his wife\, the writer Bich Minh Nguyen\, in Chi cago and West Lafayette\, Indiana\, where he directs the Creative Writin g Program at Purdue University.\n\nWith Music from \nHoward Fishman\nSho w starts at 8pm. /door open at 7 pm\n\nHAPPY ENDING BAR\n302 Broome St\ nbtw.Forsyth and Eldridge UID:A13E88D6-6AC8-4DC7-8533-BA0E7B1B3932 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080924T200000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204833Z SUMMARY:Happy Ending CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080924T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Steven Pinker PhD AND YAEL GOLDSTEIN ON LOVE\,LANGUAGE\,AND THE HUMAN CONDITION\n\nPlease join us for unusual opprtunity to hear Ste ven Pinker(Ph.D.'79 and Johnstone Professor of Psychology)\, one of this country most 's important cognitive scientisits\, talk with Yael Goldst ein'00 abot life\, love\, language\, and the human condition.Dr. pinker\ , who taught at M.I.T. for 21 years and now teaches at Harvard\, is the author of The Language Instinct\, and How the Mind Works. Yael Goldstein is the author of th enovel Overture\, and the daughter of philosopher a nd author Rebecca Goldstein.A book signing will follow.\n\nHarvard Club\ n27 W.44St. UID:CD51A50B-C53E-49E0-AADD-80DBED4EDA28 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080918T183000 DTSTAMP:20080912T183716Z SUMMARY:Harvard Club CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080918T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:Raja Sheadeh\,a lawyer in Ramallah\,chronicles six walks in the West Bank between the 1970s and now\,highlighting the increasingly o ocupied nature of the land.On October 15th\,Shehadeh will present "live walk" in Palestine to an audience here at Studio-X.He will take a camera with him on a walk\,film the experience for the duration of the walk \, and we will screen it here.He will join us live from Palestine over Skyp e\,to narrate the experience.This way\,people in NewYork will experience walking in Palestine in an immediate way\,and will be able to "walk" th e land alongside Raja Shehadeh \n\nPalestinian Walks:Forays into a Vanis hingLandscape\n(Scribner\,$15)\n\nStudio-X\nSoho\n180 Varicks St.\n212 9 89 2398 UID:76A59ACA-F9F9-4ADC-8484-B224BC5485F6 TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.arch.columbia.edu/studiox/index2.html DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081016T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204828Z SUMMARY:Palestinian Walks Live@StudioX CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081016T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Bill Tancer\nClick: What Millions of People Are Doing Onlin e and Why It Matters\nHyperion\, $26\n\nTancer searches deep inside the massive database of online intelligence to reveal the naked truth and un expected insights about how people use the Web\, navigate to sites\, and search for information--and what that says about individuals and their buying habits.\n\nChildren's Book Council\n\nAsia Society\n725 Park Aven ue @ 70th Street UID:A7AE2475-8A69-4158-9962-D6ADD427795B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080924T093000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204823Z SUMMARY:Children's Book Council CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080924T113000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:21 DESCRIPTION:Great Issues Forum: Military Power\n\nAlex de Waal\nAIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis - Yet \nZed Books\, $23.95\n\nW hy\, twenty years into the crisis\, are democratic governments performin g so poorly in tackling AIDS in Africa? De Waal argues that existing app roaches are driven by interests and frameworks that fail to engage with African societies' resilience and creativity. Already\, African communit ies have confounded some of the worst predictions of disaster. If adequa tely supported\, they will find ways of sustaining development and democ racy in the midst of HIV/AIDS. \n\nWar in Darfur and the Search for Peac e\nGlobal Equity Initiative\, $24.95\n\n"War in Darfur and the Search fo r Peace" is a series of essays by leading Sudanese and international spe cialists on Darfur\, combining original research and analysis. The book provides in-depth analysis of the origins and dimensions of the conflict \, including detailed accounts of the evolution of ethnic and religious identities\, the breakdown of local administration\, the emergence of Ar ab militia and resistance movements\, and regional dimensions to the con flict.\n\nSamantha Power\nChasing the Flame: One Man's Fight to Save the World\nPenguin Books\, $17\n\nFrom a Pulitzer Prize-winning author come s an epic account--part thriller\, part tragedy--of the political career of humanitarian Sergio Vieira de Mello and his tragic death in 2003 in a terrorist attack on the UN headquarters in Iraq.\n\nA Problem from Hel l: America in the Age of Genocide\nHarper Perennial\, $17.95\n\nIn this pathbreaking interrogation of the last century of American history\, Pow er draws upon her own reporting from the modern killing fields to tell t he story of American indifference and American courage in the face of th e worst massacres of the 20th century.\n\nCUNY Center for the Humanities \n365 Fifth Avenue\nProshanky Auditorium\nRegistration Required - www.gr eatissuesforum.org\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n UID:4547480A-50F3-4767-A7A4-83F578D45E2A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090310T190000 DTSTAMP:20090115T163945Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090310T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Author TBA\n\nThe Half King\n505 W 23rd Street\n7:00 pm \nFr ee UID:2D157DA0-7A31-499E-864C-A2FA938CE968 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090126T190000 DTSTAMP:20090112T210359Z SUMMARY:Half King CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090126T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:A Quiet Adjustment\n(Norton & Company\,$24.95)\n\nBenjamin M arkovits will be a 2008-9 Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard U niversity. Alongside his fiction\, he also contributes to the "New York Times"\, the "London Review of Books"\, the "Times Literary Supplement"\ , the "Guardian"\, and other publications.\n\nSalmagundi Club in NYC\n47 5th Ave UID:0BE23512-1175-4256-AAF5-717C316E6BF6 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080924T180000 DTSTAMP:20080903T163029Z SUMMARY:Salmagundi Club CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080924T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Future of Publishing Panel\n\n\n\nFeaturing:\nJacob Weisberg \nThe Bush Tragedy \nRandom\, $16\n\nSusan Morrison \nThirty Ways of Lo oking at Hillary\nHarper\, $24\n\nSusan Shapiro\nOnly as Good as Your Wo rd\nSeal Press\, $16\n\n7 E. 7th Street UID:1D17CB79-F0C9-4AD1-9FEC-FD02EFB56DCC TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080910T190000 DTSTAMP:20080818T173820Z SUMMARY:Cooper Union CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080910T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:America: Our Next Chapter: Tough Questions\, Straight Answer s \nChuck Hagel\n(Ecco\, $26)\nForeign Policy Association event\n6PM\n(v isit fpa.org to find out more)\n\nPopular and provocative Senator Hagel lays out in honest\, plain-spoken detail what he thinks of the current s tate of American politics\, and what the nation must do to get back on t he right track politically\, morally\, and economically.\n\nSt Regis Hot el\n2 E 55th St\n UID:3FC27801-F633-4F17-8E86-43C54DE2280B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080325T180000 DTSTAMP:20080313T210926Z SUMMARY:Senator Chuck Hagel CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080325T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:The McCourt Brothers: Frank Malachy&Alphie\n\nThe McCourt br others constitute veritable Irish-American writing dynasty\,with Frank having published the much lauded and prize -winning Angela's Ashes\;Mala chy\,A Monk swiming: A Memoir\;and Alphie having written for leading mag azines in both Ireland and the United States\n\nRegina Peruggi Room\n221 East 71st Street\n212 774-0780 UID:A74D4E54-A72C-41D3-97C2-79DCC3B10374 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081014T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204831Z SUMMARY:Marymount CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081014T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:DOG DAYS \nDog Days is a wry and sexy story of the young mov ers and shakers in D.C.-the most engaging\, idealistic\, cynical\, cutth roat\, and hilarious characters you'd ever want to sit next to at a dinn er party-from a stylish new comic voice who knows her turf inside out.\n \nBy Ana Marie Cox. \n\n(Riverhead Books\,$23.95)\n\nHAPPY ENDING BAR\n3 02 Broome St\nbtw.Forsyth and Eldridge UID:A2AFC200-792D-4AA8-B794-0AB06939F1E1 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080925T200000 DTSTAMP:20080904T171506Z SUMMARY:Happy Ending CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080925T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante \n"Woman of Rome" repr esents the first biography of an Italian literary icon who is revered in her native country and admired abroad\, by the National Book Award-winn ing author of "The News from Paraguay." 16-page b&w photo insert.\n(Harp er\,$25.95)\n\nLily Tuck is the author of four novels\, including "The N ews from Paraguay"\, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction\, and "Siam"\, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist\, as well as a collection of sto ries. She divides her time among New York\, an island in Maine\, and Par is.\n\nFree\n\nCasa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo\nNew York University\n24 W.1 2 St.\nbtw 5th-6th Ave. UID:BAFB4A2B-C089-4A62-8DFF-753CD8BB41B8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080923T180000 DTSTAMP:20080915T165018Z SUMMARY:Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080923T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio\nThe Girl's Guide to Kic king Your Career Into Gear\n(Broadway\, $24)\nFREE\n12:30PM\n\nBryant Pa rk\n42nd and 5th Ave\n\n UID:032C9F52-84F9-4485-A4E8-CCECFAC22221 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080604T123000 DTSTAMP:20080505T214045Z SUMMARY:Word for Word Author CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080604T134500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Poets TBA\n\nBryant Park Reading Room\nBryant Park 42nd st. side\, under burgandy umbrellas\n UID:9DB0FFBA-5D60-4E7C-94FE-C95E25E6F419 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090630T193000 DTSTAMP:20090526T173532Z SUMMARY:Word for Word CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090630T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:85 E 4th St.\n\nAuthors TBA UID:7FB72A25-0B34-469D-918A-018075FE4311 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090419T190000 DTSTAMP:20090205T172157Z SUMMARY:KGB Fiction CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090419T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:Earshot Reading Series\n8PM\n$5 (includes 1 drink)\n\nDaniel le Pafunda\n\nearshotnyc.com\n UID:6EDE6DC3-3D0D-4035-B2BB-1A20DCCE9EDA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080425T200000 DTSTAMP:20080229T223426Z SUMMARY:Earshot at Lucky Cat CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080425T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Poetry Forum\n\nLee Upton\nUndid in the Land of Undone\nNew Issues Poetry Press\, $14\n\nLee Upton is a professor at Lafayette Colle ge and wrote\, along with other critical studies\, Defensive Measures.\n \nThe New School\n66 West 12th Street\nRoom 510\n6:30 pm\n$5\n UID:AD721EAC-F4C3-4D7F-BFC7-577ABFFF6820 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090303T183000 DTSTAMP:20090106T190552Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090303T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Douglas Rushkoff\nLife\, Inc.: How the World Became a Corpor ation and How to Take it Back\nRandom House\, $26\n\nIn this captivating book\, cultural theorist Rushkoff reveals how corporations have come to dominate all aspects of life--including our inner lives--and what to do about it. In tracing the roots of corporatism from the Renaissance to t oday\, Rushkoff reveals the way it supplanted social interaction and loc al commerce and came to be regarded as a pre-existing condition of our w orld.\n\nFIT\nHaft Auditorium\n27th street at 7th Ave\n7:00 pm\n\n UID:D6265C20-D500-4B69-8ECF-C04F23252854 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090707T190000 DTSTAMP:20090610T185632Z SUMMARY:NY Tech Meet Up CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090707T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Miles\nDear American Airlines \n(Houghton Mifflin\, $22)\nFREE\n12:30PM\n\n From the cocktails columnist of the New York Ti mes\, a scathingly funny\, deeply moving epistle form a stranded passeng er whose enraged letter of complaint transforms into a lament for a life gone awry.\n\nBryant Park\n42nd and 5th Ave UID:A800E848-3D83-4528-B05D-A7D55A47D878 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080730T123000 DTSTAMP:20080506T182205Z SUMMARY:Word for Word Author CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080730T134500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Johnny Steinberg\nSizwe's Test: A Young Man's Journey Throug h Africa's AIDS Epidemic \n(Simon & Schuster\, $26)\nFREE\n7PM\n\nAn awa rd-winning South African journalist leads readers into the heart of his country's AIDS crisis\, exploring the perspectives of those who are infe cted\, those who are trying to help\, and those who reject any help offe red them.\n\nHousing Works\n126 Crosby\n UID:1F27693C-D818-4B33-85B2-E95BBFC5438D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080506T190000 DTSTAMP:20080331T185032Z SUMMARY:Johnny Steinberg CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080506T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Dennis Cooper\nUgly Man\nHarper Perennial\, $13.99\n\nBryant Park\n42nd and 5th\n12:30 UID:4BE4FBD3-CDD1-4FE7-8B1C-D83ECDB14085 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090527T123000 DTSTAMP:20090327T190837Z SUMMARY:Word for Word CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090527T143000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Stella Rimington\nIllegal Action\n(Knopf\, $25)\nOXONIAN MEM BERS\n6:15PM\n\nThe new installment in Rimington's series of frightening ly authentic ("Chicago Tribune") espionage thrillers features the fierce ly intelligent\, ambitious MI5 officer Liz Carlyle.\n\nCornell Club\n6 E 44th St UID:05E7495B-2B8A-403D-965A-05A7B9E365DB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080709T181500 DTSTAMP:20080611T192841Z SUMMARY:Stella Rimington CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080709T201500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:A.M. Homes\nThe Mistress's Daughter (Viking\, $25)\n7:00 pm\ nFREE\n\nA.M. Homes is the author of the novels This Book Will Save Your Life and The End of Alice\, as well as short story collections (The Saf ety of Objects) and a travel book\, Los Angeles: People\, Places and the Castle on the Hill. Among her many awards are Guggenheim and NEA fellow ships. She is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and has published fic tion and essays in The New Yorker and The New York Times. RSVP required . Call 212-774-0780. \n\nMarymount Manhattan College\nRegina Peruggi Roo m\n221 East 71st Street UID:31FE12A8-B16C-42E5-879D-01BEDAEEDC0C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080313T190000 DTSTAMP:20080228T212139Z SUMMARY:A.M. Homes CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080313T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:KGB Bar \n5 East 4th Street\n7:30PM\nFREE\n\nHosted by Laura Cronk and Michael Quattrone\n\nDorothea Lasky\nAwe\n(WaveBooks\, $14)\n If the book of Revelations had been scribbled in the diary of a precocio us fourteen-year-old girl\, the prophecies might look something like Awe . Dorothea Lasky is a daring truth-teller\, naming names and boldly push ing the boundaries of confession. The secrets she tells are truths we re cognize in ourselves: "Be scared of yourself / The real self / Is very s cary."\n\nBill Rasmovicz\nThe World in Place of Itself \n(Alice James $1 5)\n\nWith fervent physical and metaphysical detail\, and narrating from an unexpected angle of perception\, Bill Rasmovicz plumbs the world gho sting this one\, exposing the true nature of the unconscious-a supercons cious whose language is startlingly apt imagery and ecstatic description .\n\nKGB Bar \n5 East 4th Street\n\n UID:2AABBF0D-BBC7-4A9A-A71B-1806E0279F0B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080324T193000 DTSTAMP:20080306T225823Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080324T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:The Public Theater will be putting on a new play by Suzan-Lo ri Parks. More information to come.\n\nThe Public Theater\n425 Lafayett e Street\n7:45 pm UID:1EDC3593-1056-4019-8428-14C87342C9AD TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090620T194500 DTSTAMP:20090320T201250Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090620T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:The Costs of Counterterrorism:\nA Discussion with Author Lau ra K. Donohue\n\nCo-Sponsored with Demos and the Stanford Alumni Club\n\ nModerated by World Policy Institute Senior Fellow Belinda Cooper\n\nHas America paid too high a price to increase our sense of security in the post-9/11 era? From extended detention\, interrogation\, and anti-terro rist finance\, to phone taps\, watch lists\, and censorship\, Laura K. D onohue\, author of The Cost of Counterterrorism (Cambridge $35)\, examin es laws that have been promoted as increasing security\, but which exact tremendous costs on life\, liberty\, property\, privacy\, and free spee ch.\n\nDemos\n220 Fifth Ave 5th floor \n(@26th st)\n\nFree and open to t he public RSVP strongly recommended\nevents@worldpolicy.org\n212 481 500 5\, Option 2 UID:10B7F262-DB03-43A8-B0AE-B0BBF575FC3C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080909T180000 DTSTAMP:20080730T003604Z SUMMARY:World Policy Insititute CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080909T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:13 DESCRIPTION:Anya Ulnich\nPetropolis \nPenguin\, $14\n\nIn her stunning d ebut novel\, Ulinich delivers a funny and unforgettable story of a Russi an mail-order bride trying to find her place in America. "Petropolis" is a deeply moving story about the unexpected connections that create a fa mily and the faraway places that people end up calling home.\n\nElisa Al bert\nHow This Night is Different\nFree Press\, $13\n\nAnnotation: "Titl ed to reflect the customary question asked at Passover\, these ten stori es by debut writer Albert explore traditional Jewish rituals with youthf ul\, irreverent exuberance as her characters transition into marriage an d child-rearing."--"Publishers Weekly."\n\nThe Book of Dahlia\nFree Pres s\, $14\n\nFrom the author of the acclaimed story collection "How This N ight Is Different" comes a fearless\, arresting\, outrageously funny exp loration of one young woman's terminal illness.\n\nAnse Chesed\n251 West End Avenue at 100th Street\n8:00 pm\n\n\n\n\n\n UID:95DB7B08-73F7-4FC1-8F55-A95376F29D61 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090706T200000 DTSTAMP:20090603T193547Z SUMMARY:Scribblers on the Roof CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090706T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Samantha Power \nChasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello a nd the Fight to Save the World (Penguin Press\, $33) \n\nFrom a Pulitzer Prize-winning author comes an epic tale--part thriller\, part tragedy-- of the political career of humanitarian Sergio Vieira de Mello and his t ragic death in 2003 in a terrorist attack on UN Headquarters in Iraq.\n\ nThis series features James F. Hoge\, editor\, and Peter G. Peterson cha ir of Foreign Affairs\, chairman of the International Center for Journal ists\, and CGA advisory board member\, in conversation with leading jour nalists\, authors\, and filmmakers. Events are followed by book signings and a light reception.\n\nThe NYU Center for Global Affairs \nWoolworth Building \n15 Barclay Street\, 4th Floor (Between Broadway and Church S treet) \n(212) 992-8380 \n\n\n UID:5CCD72D1-2424-42F1-9D4C-AE6BD39D1724 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080310T183000 DTSTAMP:20080228T192614Z SUMMARY:Samantha Power CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080310T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Review 76 Launch\n7:00 pm\n\nIn celebration of Review’s late st issue\, which focuses on contemporary Canadian writing and arts\, ple ase join us for an evening of readings by acclaimed novelists Camilla G ibb (Sweetness in the Belly) and Lawrence Hill (Someone Knows My Name)\, and poet Herménégilde Chiasson (Lectures)\, all of whom are represented in the issue. With comments by the editors of Review 76. The special is sue will be available to order at the event.\n\nReview 76 focuses on cur rents in contemporary writing from throughout Canada\, including literat ure in English and French and aboriginal and immigrant literatures\; the selections presented in the issue provide a glimpse of the multicultura l and multi-generational face of Canadian writing today. \n\nThe issue o pens with a section of scholarly articles developed by Guest Academic Ed itor Sylvia Söderlind (Queen’s University)\; continues with a section of creative work— fiction\, poetry\, essays and drama—developed by Guest C reative Editor Mark Abley (author and former book editor\, Montreal Gaze tte)\; and also features pieces on Canadian art and music as well as rev iews of titles by emerging and iconic authors.\n\nTo register\, please s end an email to: culture@americas-society.org.\n\nAmericas Society\n680 Park Avenue UID:8E570F3F-FDDA-4837-95ED-7BC66052E9D3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080515T190000 DTSTAMP:20080421T210553Z SUMMARY:Americas Society Review 76 CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080515T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Pamela Stone\nOpting Out?: Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home \n(Princeton\, $25)\n6:30PM\n\nNoting a phenomenon that might seem to recall a previous era\, The New York Times Magazine recently po rtrayed women who leave their careers in order to become full-time mothe rs as "opting out." But\, are high-achieving professional women really c hoosing to abandon their careers in order to return home? This provocati ve study is the first to tackle this issue from the perspective of the w omen themselves. Based on a series of candid\, in-depth interviews with women who returned home after working as doctors\, lawyers\, bankers\, s cientists\, and other professions\, Pamela Stone explores the role that their husbands\, children\, and coworkers play in their decision\; how w omen's efforts to construct new lives and new identities unfold once the y are home\; and where their aspirations and plans for the future lie. W hat we learn--contrary to many media perceptions--is that these high-fly ing women are not opting out but are instead being pushed out of the wor kplace. Drawing on their experiences\, Stone outlines concrete ideas for redesigning workplaces to make it easier for women--and men--to attain their goal of living rewarding lives that combine both families and care ers. \n\nHunter College\nTIAA-CREF Building\n730 Third Ave\n\n\n UID:1C31F922-E608-4156-B99A-66606D8D5CC8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080326T183000 DTSTAMP:20080318T202845Z SUMMARY:Hunter College CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080326T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Patricia Beard\nBlue Blood & Mutiny\n(William Morrow\, $27)\ n\nWhat began with a shot over the bow ended in a shocking coup d'etat. In less than four months a group of eight retired executives orchestrate d a stunning revolt within Morgan Stanley\, the venerable and—until rece ntly—most successful financial services firm on Wall Street. Now acclaim ed journalist and historian Patricia Beard brings together the entire be hind-the-scenes story in Blue Blood and Mutiny\, a real-life business th riller exposing the tale that shook high finance.\n\nUniversity Club\n1 W 54th St. UID:CC1C73E0-9289-460A-8BC4-F2D5B6CA0E67 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080325T183000 DTSTAMP:20080304T223819Z SUMMARY:Patricia Beard CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080325T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Harvey Jacobs\nAmerican Goliath\nSt Martin's Press\, $15.95\ n\nThe mythic discovery of the Cardiff Giant"\, a stone man of gigantic proportions\, in 1869 by well-diggers in upstate New York continues to t hrill Americans. And\, after years\, his story proves that it can still pack the house.\n\nCatherynne M. Valente \nPalimpest\nSpectra Books\, $1 4\n\nFrom the author of "The Orphan's Tales" comes an erotic and exotic tale of four lost souls mapping a fantastical city.\n\nKGB\n85 E. 4th St reet\n7:00 pm\n Free\n\n UID:7DE18813-703C-4AAB-9CF4-ADCD55168943 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090121T190000 DTSTAMP:20081216T211855Z SUMMARY:Fantastic Fiction CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090121T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Encyclopedia of Dirty Words\,ed by Ellen Sussman\n(Bloomsbur ry Publishing\,$19.99)\n\nA playful take on bedroom talk--a smart\, funn y encyclopedia with entries written by notable contemporary writers.\nTh is witty reference steps in where time-honored discussions of the birds and the bees typically fall short. All of the 100-some entries are forma lly defined and further explained through reflective and ribald definiti ons\, essays\, and stories by some of today's most exciting writers. Eve rything from celibacy to promiscuity\, hand jobs to sex toys is tackled by everyone's favorite writers including Steve Almond\, Patricia Marx\, Phillip Lopate\, and Antonya Nelson. From sexual relationships (monogamy \, one-night stand\, menage a trois) to sexual positions (doggie style\, 69)\, from age-old practices (prostitution) to contemporary twists (cyb ersex)\, this alphabetical encyclopedia includes everything you need to know about the language of love and more.\n\nEllen Sussman is the author of the novel "On a Night Like This". She has two daughters and lives wi th her husband in Los Altos Hills\, California. She\, too\, is a bad gir l.\n\nFREE\n7pm\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4th Street\n UID:200DC282-5882-402D-9FDA-5F840A045743 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080916T190000 DTSTAMP:20080903T163029Z SUMMARY:KGB Non Fiction CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080916T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Warren Adler \nFunny Boys (Overlook Press\, $25)\n\nFrom th e author of "The War of the Roses" comes a timeless love story and a swe eping American tale told as only Adler can. Smart\, wry\, and beautifull y written\, "Funny Boys" is a dark comedy of errors about success\, the mob\, and true love.\n\nThe Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House\n58 W 10th St UID:E4A2EF1F-94D0-4DEE-A472-2D519EE3759F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080312T130000 DTSTAMP:20080228T202502Z SUMMARY:Warren Adler CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080312T150000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:It's Yo Shower\na hip evening for moms-to-be\nContact tenjun enyc.com\n6:30PM\n\nDr. William Sears\nThe Healthiest Kid in the Neighbo rhood: Ten Ways to Get Your Family on the Right Nutritional Track\n(Litt le Brown\, $14)\n\nTenjune\n26 Little West 12th St UID:98DC672F-8658-4F98-9279-2C398CF08073 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080521T183000 DTSTAMP:20080516T210433Z SUMMARY:Dr. William Sears at Tenjune CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080521T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Go Fiction\n\nEisa Nefertari Ulen\nCrystelle Mourning\n\nMic hael Thomas\nMan Gone Down\n\nSwayduck Auditorium\n65 5th Ave\n\n$5\, Fr ee for students/alumni UID:37237DAD-EC75-4F6E-A171-FBB682CB5350 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080910T183000 DTSTAMP:20080730T005915Z SUMMARY:New School Fiction CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080910T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Peter Eichstadt\nFirst Kill Your Family\nLawrence Hill Books \, $24.95\n\nHalf King\n505 West 23rd Street\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n\n UID:934970AE-2CF6-4FB1-B6E3-ED2D6944DB73 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090420T190000 DTSTAMP:20090310T205728Z SUMMARY:Half King CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090420T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Traveler's story\n\nRolf Potts\nMarco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Lessons from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer \n( Tr avelers' Tales Guides\, $15)\nFREE\n7PM\n\nRolf Potts funded his earlies t vagabonding experiences by working as a landscaper and an ESL teacher. He now writes about independent travel for "National Geographic Adventu re\," and his travel essays have appeared in "Salon\," "Conde Nast Trave ler\, National Geographic Traveler\," and "Best American Travel Writing 2000\," and on National Public Radio.\n\nHalf King\n505 W 23rd UID:C1021407-4C14-4385-8399-36326DD5E39A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081020T190000 DTSTAMP:20080605T142936Z SUMMARY:Half King CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081020T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:My So-Called Family\nCourtney Sheinmel\n(SS $16)\n\n\nLori B ookstein Fine Art\n37 W 57th St. UID:0A5262DA-7C7E-4C0D-90A5-E16F330C9C00 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081022T180000 DTSTAMP:20080904T191513Z SUMMARY:Book Party@Lori Bookstein Fine Art CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081022T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Lee\nThe Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in t he World of Chinese Food \n(Twelve\, $13)\nFREE\n6PM\n\nReaders take an unexpected and entertaining journey through culinary\, social\, and cult ural history in this delightful first book on the origins of the customa ry after-Chinese-dinner treat by "New York Times" reporter Lee.\n\nQueen s Library\, Flushing Branch\n41-17 Main Street UID:61388379-B9F0-4202-B6A9-7ACAF231B6AD TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080602T180000 DTSTAMP:20080418T195243Z SUMMARY:Queens Library\, Flushing CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080602T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Roz Chast\nThe Party After You Left\nBloomsbury\, $18.99\n\n \nBeloved "New Yorker" cartoonist Roz Chast is back with her first colle ction in years. Color and b&w throughout.\n\nBrooklyn Public Library\nDw eck Center\nGrand Army Plaza\n4:00 pm\nFree\n\n UID:6506A5E6-56EE-45E0-8DD9-20A28F4C75DD TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090509T160000 DTSTAMP:20090311T195227Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090509T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Franz Wright\nWheeling Motel\nKnopf\, $26.95\n\n+ more books by Wright\n\nBar 13\n3 E. 13th Street\n2nd Floor\n7:30 pm\n UID:E65AD84C-A573-47EE-A3B5-11578633611D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091026T193000 DTSTAMP:20090617T182831Z SUMMARY:louderARTS Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221129Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091026T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:LIT Magazine launch party\nFREE\n6PM\n\nMobile Libris will s ell the latest issue of LIT Magazine\, as well as books by authors Noell e Kocot and Irena Reyn\n\nSheila C. Johnson Design Center\nKellen Galler y\n5th Ave and 13th St UID:8FB1AF0F-EB39-41EF-AB0C-47C3FEB42B30 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080606T180000 DTSTAMP:20080602T211057Z SUMMARY:LIT Launch Party CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080606T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:The Price of Privelege: How Parental Pressure and Material A dvantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids\nMad eline Levine\n(Harper $14)\n\nIn this groundbreaking book on the childre n of affluence\, a well-known clinical psychologist exposes the epidemic of emotional problems that are disabling Americas privileged youth.\n\n Temple Israel\n75th (Park/Lex) UID:4FBE5B5F-59FC-433C-BB67-A7DF36079A4A TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.parentsleague.org/index.html DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081027T183000 DTSTAMP:20080730T003925Z SUMMARY:Parents League CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081027T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:The Marymount Manhattan College's Writers Conference feature s panels on poetry\, editing\, nonficiton\, humor\, publicity\, suspense \, memoir and more! J. Peter Scoblic is this year's keynote speaker.\n\ nMarymount Manhattan College\n221 East 71st Street\n9:00 am\n UID:7565DC5A-8A49-47CD-9930-0A50DCB4EB8E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090604T090000 DTSTAMP:20090512T194109Z SUMMARY:MMC Writers' Conference CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090604T173000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Philip Alcabes\nDread\nPublicAffairs\, $26.95\n\nAlcabes per suasively argues that people's anxieties about epidemics are created not so much by the germ or microbe in question--or the actual risks of cont agion--but by the unknown\, the undesirable\, and the misunderstood. b&w illustration insert.\n\nHalf King\n505 W. 23rd Street\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\ n\n UID:58DFB30D-4E15-41F5-9031-C81278047C6D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090810T190000 DTSTAMP:20090615T182417Z SUMMARY:Half King CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090810T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:The Leila Hadley Luce Writer-In Residence-Bruce Jay Friedman \n\nOne's of the American literary icons\,Bruce Jay Friedman is a novel ist\,playwright\,short-story writer\,and Oscar nominated screenwriter.Br uce published his first novel\,Stern\,in 1962 and Established himself as a writer and playwright\,most famously known for his off-Broadway hit\, Steambath\,and his 1978 novel\,The Lonely Guy's book of Life.\n\nBruce h as also published seven other novels and numerous screenplay such as Sti r Crazy and the Oscar nominated Splash.The Heartbreak Kid was based on o ne of Bruce's short stories\,"A Change of Plan"His new book\,Three Balco nies\,is just out.\n\nMarymount\nRegina Peruggi Room\n221 East 71st Stre et\n212 774-0780 UID:C24FBD42-18A6-4FDB-B9BB-A2BAA32BF375 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081202T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204826Z SUMMARY:Marymount\,Irish Voices CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081202T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Pete's Candy Store Lit Series\nFREE\n7:30PM\n\nSusan Choi\nA Person of Interest\n(Viking\, $25)\n\nBrendan I. Kramer\nNow the Hell W ill Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War I I\n(Penguin\, $27)\n\nPete's Candy Store\n709 Lorimer Street\nBrooklyn UID:6514A573-CC85-45C3-9BE9-7E152A860FA4 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080529T193000 DTSTAMP:20080508T213442Z SUMMARY:Pete's Candy Store Lit CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080529T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Ansche Chesed Temple Readings\nFREE - 212 865 0600\n8PM\n\nJ ay Neugeboren\n1940\n(Two Dollar Radio\, $14)\n\nAdam Mansbach\nThe End of the Jews \n(Spiegel & Grau\, $24)\n\nAnsche Chesed\n251 W 100th St UID:DD55910B-F50E-4337-80B0-E290C9FB5275 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080721T200000 DTSTAMP:20080513T210412Z SUMMARY:Ansche Chesed reading series CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080721T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:KB Poetry\nHosted by Laura Cronk and Michael Quattrone\n7:30 PM\nFREE\n\nCraig Morgan Teicher \nBrenda Shaughnessy\n\nKGB Bar \n5 Eas t 4th Street\n UID:3398B4BE-9D43-4695-BFC9-5E02FAC493A5 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080317T193000 DTSTAMP:20080306T224347Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080317T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Performance: Knives and Other Sharp Objects\n\nBook TBA\n\nT he Public Theater\n425 Lafayette Street\n7:45 pm UID:111B4C5B-3B84-42AE-8D38-2221DA56BFF1 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090410T194500 DTSTAMP:20090119T185022Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090410T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:(Re)Writing History \n\nWhat do artists and historians owe t o history? Two \nplaywright/librettists and a historian meet to dispute \nthe nature of the debt the living owe the dead. \nParticipants will in clude the playwright David Henry \nHwang whose work includes M. Butterfl y\, Golden Child\, \nand Golden Gate\, and an adaptation of Flower Drum \nSong\; librettist Michael Korie\, author of Grey \nGardens\, The Grape s of Wrath\, and Harvey Milk\; and \nDavid Nasaw\, Arthur M. Schlesinger \, Jr. Professor of \nHistory\, the Graduate Center\, CUNY. Moderated by \nplaywright William Hoffman\, author of As Is and The \nGhosts of Vers ailles\, and Professor of Theatre \nat Lehman College. \n\n\nCUNY Center for the Humanities\n365 Fifth Avenue\nMartin E. Segal Theater\n6:40 pm\ nFree UID:25402C93-CAC9-4EED-98BA-10A9D3FEC65B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090427T183000 DTSTAMP:20090115T173222Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090427T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Fuleen Seafood Restaurant\n11 Division St\n\nChinatown New Y ork: Portraits\, Recipes and Memories\n\npay UID:C800CB0B-F71E-453E-94B4-5DC707E42209 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071114T170000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195247Z SUMMARY:Book Party CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071114T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Final Theory\nMark Alpert\nTouchstone Books\n$24\n\nScientif ic American editor Mark Alpert introduces his debut novel\, Final Theory \, a spellbinding thriller about Albert Einstein and a long-hidden set o f equations that could destroy the world. The book is already a global p henomenon\, with publishers in Europe\, Asia and Latin America snapping up rights in 23 languages. He will use it as a launching point to talk a bout larger issues such as the direction of 21st-century physics and the increasingly blurry border between physics and metaphysics.\n\nSLC Conf erence Center\n352 7th Avenue\n16th Floor\n\n\n\n UID:B1524D4E-0B4F-4DB1-8A1F-DE977C37DA7A TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:www.nycskeptics.org/events/markalpert DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080908T190000 DTSTAMP:20080902T164430Z SUMMARY:New York Skeptics\,Final Theory CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080908T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:13 DESCRIPTION:If you're looking to spend an extra special Saturday with yo ur kids\, do we have the event for you. Join Role Mommy and the Ritz-Ca rlton\, New York\, Battery Park\, where you and your kids will get to me et a celebrity nanny and more!\n\nLaura Wattenberg\nThe Baby Name Wizard \nBroadway Books\, $12.95\n\nUsing groundbreaking computer research to i dentify name trends and styles and direct parents along their personal p aths to the ideal name\, this innovative guide helps readers understand every aspect of a baby's name\, from its image and history to nicknames and variants as well as popularity and usage trends.\n\nAbby Pecorriello \nCrafty Mama\nWorkman Publishing\, $12.95\n\nA unique idea in DIY\, thi s full-color guide is filled with baby-related projects\, essential tech niques\, tips on how to form a group\, wisdom\, inspiration\, and camara derie.\n\nMari Mancusi\nGamer Girl\nDutton\, $16.99\n\nAfter Maddy's par ents divorce\, she's stuck starting over at a new high school. Friendles s and nicknamed Freak Girl\, Maddy finds refuge in the interactive onlin e game Fields of Fantasy. This fresh\, geeky/cool novel includes online chats and exciting gaming\, and features Maddy's manga-style artwork. \n \nThe Ritz-Carlton\nTwo West Street\n11:00 am\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n UID:0E974879-A61B-4777-AC59-CCECC7B26A6F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090124T110000 DTSTAMP:20090105T214456Z SUMMARY:Rolemommy CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090124T150000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Beard on Books\nJames Peterson\nCooking (Ten Speed\, $40)\n\ nJames Peterson\, one of the countrys most revered cooking teachers\, pr ovides the confidence-building instructions home cooks need to teach the mselves to cook consistently with ease in success. This instructional ma nual details techniques\, teaches basic recipes\, and includes hundreds of photos.\n\nThe James Beard House\n167 West 12th Street UID:3941CFAC-2F89-44B8-8C90-9FA8CD3767E3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080312T120000 DTSTAMP:20080228T202131Z SUMMARY:James Peterson CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080312T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Peter Terzian\nHeavy Rotation\nHarper Perennial\, $14.99\n\n Bryant Park\n42nd and 5th\n12:30\n\n UID:BE8F38EE-CE13-4D48-BCAC-93EE64B0AC76 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090701T123000 DTSTAMP:20090327T191644Z SUMMARY:Word for Word CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090701T143000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Sunday Best Reading Series\n\nBorder-Crossing Poets:\n\nMich elle Valdaran\nStephen Stepanchev\nAnca Pedvis\n\nThe Lounge At Hudson V iew Gardens\nPinehurst Ave and 183rd Street\n$7 admission gets you 1 fre e drink UID:E3CDD835-4F79-4C78-A2FE-8C4993702B6C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090208T160000 DTSTAMP:20081211T191240Z SUMMARY:Sunday Best CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090208T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:Good Words Reading Series\n\nJami Attenberg\nThe Kept Man\nR iverhead Books\, $15\n\nA riveting debut novel from a rising literary st ar\, this story tells of a young woman whose husband has fallen into a c oma\, and her discovery of evidence that casts doubt on their marriage.\ n\nInstant Love\nThree Rivers Press\, $13\n\nSexy\, edgy\, and startling ly revealing\, this novel follows three young women and the exact moment s when they fall in and out of love.\n\n\nWendy McClure\nI'm Not the New Me\n$14\n\nWhen McClure\, a 33-year-old children's book editor from Chi cago\, creates a Web site to chronicle losing weight\, she contemplates possible names for it. She rejects My Weight Loss Journey\, Soon To Be S lender\, My Body Journal and Funky Flesh\, which she decides "has bad B. O. connotations\," before choosing Pound (its Web address is www.poundy. com because www.pound.com wasn't available). In this funny\, likable mem oir\, McClure offers sardonic commentary on both projects—her struggle t o shed pounds and the creation and growth of Pound.\n\nGood World Bar & Grill\n3 Orchard Street\n5:00 pm UID:F003BCBF-AAB2-4076-9305-04F3D4F018FB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090111T170000 DTSTAMP:20090106T164734Z SUMMARY:Good Words Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090111T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:La breve y maravillosa vida de Oscar Wao\nRendering with war mth the endless human capacity to persevere\, this Pulitzer Prize-winnin g work is the long-awaited first novel from the unmistakable voice behin d the short story collection "Drown."\n(Vintage Espanol/Random House\,$1 4)\n\nJunot Daaz's fiction has appeared in "The New Yorker\," "The Paris Review\," and "The Best American Short Stories\," His debut story colle ction\, "Drown\," was a publishing sensation of unprecedented acclaim\, became a national bestseller\, won numerous awards\, and is now a landma rk of contemporary literature. He was born and raised in the Dominican R epublic\, and now lives in New York City and Boston\, where he teaches a t MIT.\n\n\n680 Park Avenue\n212-249-8950\n UID:774F28EE-9500-4584-AC9B-4FA8A23BDA7A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081017T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204833Z SUMMARY:Americas Society with Junot Diaz CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081017T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Happy Ending Lounge\n302 Broome St.\n\nAuthors TK UID:040C3584-87E4-4E4D-9FA8-41E1BAC2EB15 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090716T200000 DTSTAMP:20090422T200528Z SUMMARY:In The Flesh CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090716T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Book Presentation: Spain\, Take This Chalice from Me\, and O ther Poems\n\nRenowned translator Margaret Sayers Peden and scholar Ilan Stavans speak about this major new bilingual edition of the work of Cés ar Vallejo—one of Latin America’s best-known twentieth-century poets. Th e collection includes more than eighty poems spanning the arc of Vallejo ’s career.\n\nAmericas Society\n680 Park Avenue\n212-628-3200\nhttp://as .americas-society.org/calevent.php?id=258 UID:06114497-6EA5-47C0-938B-EC3194BB0969 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080403T190000 DTSTAMP:20080319T200415Z SUMMARY:Americas Society CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080403T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Heather Christle\n\nMaurice Manning\n\n\nFree\n\n85 East 4th St.\n\n UID:39440666-29FF-41B6-907B-037BBC33B8C1 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081208T193000 DTSTAMP:20080904T171506Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081208T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Le arned \nRufus Phillips gives an extraordinary inside history of the most critical years of American involvement in Vietnam. Describing what went right and then wrong\, he argues that the U.S. missed an opportunity to help the South Vietnamese develop a political cause as compelling as th at of the Communists by following a big war strategy based on World War II perceptions.\nUS Naval Institute Press : $ 38.95\n\nColumbia Universi ty\nSaltzman Institute\n420 W.118th St.\n\n\n UID:9DC47DA9-CFA0-4218-B86C-AB0F2299C5BD TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090423T120000 DTSTAMP:20090326T173627Z SUMMARY:Why Vietnam Matters CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090423T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Ansche Chesed Temple Readings\nFREE - 212 865 0600\n8PM\n\nR obert Cohen\nBrian Morton\n\nAnsche Chesed\n251 W 100th St UID:D0620C41-97B6-4BAD-B08F-D16138AA8557 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080630T200000 DTSTAMP:20080513T205646Z SUMMARY:Ansche Chesed readings CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080630T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Honor Moore\nThe Bishop's Daughter\nNorton\, $16.95\n\nPaul Moore's vocation as an Episcopal priest took him from prominence as an a ctivist to two decades as the bishop of New York. "The Bishop's Daughter " is a daughter's story of that complex\, visionary man\, in a memoir th at engages the reader in the great issues of life. 22 photographs.\n\nTh e White Blackbird\nNorton\, $17.95\n\nAn icon of avant-garde art in the 1920s\, Margarett Sargent is nearly unknown today. In a haunting and evo cative weave of biography and memoir\, her granddaughter unearths for th e first time the life of this spirited and brilliant woman\, who was com mitted to self-expression--even at the cost of marriage and family. \n\n Pete's Candy Store\n709 Lorimer Street\nWilliamsburg\, Brooklyn\n7:30 pm \n\n UID:DA072E96-E3E9-49C0-84DE-1D3C18F28A68 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090528T193000 DTSTAMP:20090302T163129Z SUMMARY:Pete's Candy Store CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090528T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Every lawyer is aware of the terrible injustice donr to the Scottsboro Boys\, who were falsely accused of rape while riding the rail s in Alabama in 1931.Ellen Feldman has imagined the story from the point of view of accusers-two white girls whose lies spark a tragic criminal trial in the Jim Crow South -with sadly predictable consequences for the defendants. In her new book\, Mr. Feldman Combines historical fact with her fictional take on this well-known slice of legal history.\n(Norton\ ,$24.95)\n\nSpeaker : Ellen Feldman\nThe author of the novels "Lucy" and "The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank". She writes for the "American Heritage" Web site and is a sought-after speaker. She lives in New York City with her husband.\n\nNew York City Bar\n42 W.44th St. UID:D480BC59-9AA6-41F4-AADF-419DFAAAE7BB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081023T190000 DTSTAMP:20080912T180343Z SUMMARY:Scottsboro CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081023T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:David Baldacci\nSimple Genius (Grand Central\,$27)\n7:30pm
F REE

David Baldacci's mysteries and thrillers have been published in mor e than 40 languages in 80 countries\, with 50 million copies in print wo rldwide. He has thirteen blockbusters to his credit\, including Absolute Power (made into a movie starring Clint Eastwood)\, Total Control\, The Winner and Saving Faith. Reservations required: 2 per person. \n\nKings borough Community College
2001 Oriental Boulevard
Brooklyn\, NY\n718-368 -5051 UID:EC77032D-34C0-4FA9-A154-8BD347909EE0 TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kbcc.cuny.edu/kcc_arts/free_bestselling.html DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080304T183000 DTSTAMP:20080219T190607Z SUMMARY:David Baldacci CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080304T203000 LOCATION:Kingsborough Community College END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:KGB Fiction Series\n\n\nJonathan Segura\nOccupational Hazard s\nSimon & Schuster\n$14\n\nElaine Szewcyzk\nI'm With Stupid\n5 Spot\n$1 4\n\nFREE\n7 pm\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4th Street\n UID:2559122A-96E0-4CC0-BA73-A2AB121C24A6 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080928T190000 DTSTAMP:20080808T181321Z SUMMARY:KGB Fiction CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080928T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Marie Ponsot\nSpringing\nKnopf\, $17\n\nFrom the award-winni ng author of "The Bird Catcher\," this life-spanning volume offers the d elight of both discovery and re-discovery\, as Ponsot tends the unruly g arden of her mind with her customary care and passion. The book opens wi th a group of new poems\, including "What Would You Like to Be When You Grow Up?"--a question that has kept Ponsot's work vital for more than fi ve decades. Throughout the selections from her four earlier books and a trove of previously unpublished work covering the years 1946 to 1971\, s he offers us a "lost haven in a springing world." Sometimes sharp in her self-perception\, but always listing toward pleasure and elegance\, una fraid of grief and the passage of time\, Ponsot continually refreshes he r language and the spirited self from which it emerges.\n\nCatherine Bar nette\nInto Perfect Spheres Such Holes are Pierced\nAlice James Books\, $13.95\n\n11th Street Bar\n510 E.11th St\nbtw A-B Avenue\n\n\n\n\n UID:5244A993-8D82-48C6-B59E-223364D229B6 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090330T190000 DTSTAMP:20090323T201240Z SUMMARY:Triptych Readings CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090330T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Maryanne Wolf\nProust and the Squid: The Story and Science o f the Reading Brain (Harper Collins\, $26)\n\nThis event is part of the Margot Marek Book Award Ceremony for the New York Branch of the Internat ional Dyslexia Foundation.\n\nDevelopmental psychologist\, neuroscientis t\, and dyslexia expert Wolf probes the question\, How do we learn to re ad and write? This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassio ned look at reading\, its effect on our lives\, and explains why it matt ers so greatly in a digital era.\n\nThe Marriott Marquis\n1535 Broadway @45th Street UID:097BCD18-FA15-413E-A657-849055CA1C7F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080308T100000 DTSTAMP:20080215T205039Z SUMMARY:Maryanne Wolf CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080308T120000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:Joshua Clark\nHeart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life i n Its Disaster Zone (Free Press\, $16)\n7:00 pm\nFREE\n \nJoshua Clark n ever left New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina\, choosing instead to ban d together with fellow holdouts in the French Quarter\, pooling resource s and volunteering energy in an effort to save the city they loved. \nWi th lyrical sympathy\, humility\, and humor\, Heart Like Water marks an a stonishing and important national debut.\n \nThe Half King\n505 West 23r d Street UID:1FD9FC2E-8BB8-4406-96F0-0436D6C2A5EE TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:http://thehalfking.com/readings/ DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080218T190000 DTSTAMP:20080213T221454Z SUMMARY:The Half King: Joshua Clark CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080218T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:\n\nMindy Lewis\nDirt: The Quirks of Keeping House\nSeal Pre ss\, $15.95\n\nThis is a collection to which everyone can relate: a mult idimensional look at the universal challenge of keeping our stuff\, our dwellings\, and our personal space clean and uncluttered. How we feel ab out keeping house speaks volumes about who we are\, our roots\, relation ships\, and our outlook on life.\n\nWest Side Y\n5 West 63rd Street\n7:0 0 pm\n\n\n UID:ACE0C66F-149B-4FF8-ABFE-1224B4FF8D22 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090501T190000 DTSTAMP:20090401T180649Z SUMMARY:West Side Y CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090501T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Chelsea Handler\nAre You There Vodka\, It's Me\, Chelsea\n(S imon Spotlight Ent\, $25)\n9:30PM\nTo make reservations for this show\, please call Carolines at 212-757- 4100\n\nIn a word: hilarious. . . . Th ese are some of the funniest stories I have ever read and they're also s ome of the most unexpectedly heartfelt--Laura Zigman\, author of "Animal Husbandry."\n\nCaroline's\n1626 Broadway UID:7A89D4B3-1C00-4400-8D70-4B51CC9572B3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080422T213000 DTSTAMP:20080412T154023Z SUMMARY:Chelsea Handler at Caroline's CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080422T233000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir\nPaul Moore's vocation as an Episcopal priest took him from prominence as an activist to two decades as the bishop of New York. "The Bishop's Daughter" is a daughter's stor y of that complex\, visionary man\, in a memoir that engages the reader in the great issues of life. 22 photographs.\n(Norton & Company\,$25.95) \n\nHonor Moore\, author of "Darling"\, lives and teaches in New York at The New School and Columbia University.\n\nTwo Kinds of Decay\nAt 21\, Manguso was faced with a wildly unpredictable disease that appeared sudd enly\, paralyzing her for weeks at a time. In this captivating story\, s he recalls her nine-year struggle with arduous blood cleansings\, collap sed veins\, multiple chest catheters\, addiction\, and depression.\n(Far rar Straus Giroux: $22.00)\n\nSARAH MANGUSO \nThe author of The Captain Lands in Paradise (2002). With Jordan Davis she coedited the anthology F ree Radicals: American Poets Before Their First Books (2004). She lives in Brooklyn\, New York\, and teaches at the Pratt Institute. Her poems a nd prose have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, The Believer\, Bo ston Review\, The London Review of Books\, McSweeney's\, the New Republi c\, The Paris Review\, and three editions of The Best American Poetry se ries\n \n\nThe Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order \nSixte en years ago\, Wickersham's father's suicide made a mystery of his entir e life. Using an index--that most formal and orderly of structures--the author explores this chaotic and incomprehensible reality.\n(Harcourt$25 .00 )\n\nJOAN WICKERSHAM is the author of the novel "The Paper Anniversa ry\," Her work has appeared in the Best American Short Stories series. A n excerpt from "The Suicide Index" earned her the" "2007" Ploughshares" Cohen Award for Best Short Story. She lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts .\n\nFREE\n7pm\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4th Street UID:31509175-2098-48CE-9F99-EBD8F722A834 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081118T190000 DTSTAMP:20080904T171506Z SUMMARY:KGB Non-Fiction CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081118T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Tommy Chong \nCheech & Chong: The Unauthorized Autobiography \n(Simon Spotlight\, $24)\nFREE\n12:30PM\n\nBryant Park\n42nd and 5th A ve UID:FCB7996D-79EA-432D-AA9E-EF4D37178122 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080813T123000 DTSTAMP:20080506T183104Z SUMMARY:Word for Word Author CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080813T134500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:16 DESCRIPTION:Nick Flynn\nAnother Bullshit Night in Suck City\nNorton\, $1 3.95\n\nIn bold\, dazzling prose\, Flynn tells the story of two lives an d the trajectory that led him and his father into a homeless shelter\, o nto Boston's streets\, and finally to each other.\n\nBlind Huber: Poems\ nGraywolf Press\, $14\n\nSome Ether\nGraywolf Press\, $14\n\nWinner of a "Discovery"/"The Nation" Award\nWinner of the 1999 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry \n\nSung J. Woo\nEverything Asian\nThomas Dunne\, $23.9 5\n\nYou're twelve years old. A month has passed since your Korean Air f light landed at lovely Newark Airport. Your fifteen-year-old sister is m iserable. Your mother isn't exactly happy\, either. You're seeing your f ather for the first time in five years\, and although he's nice enough\, he might be\, well--how can you put this delicately?--a loser. \nYou ca n't speak English\, but that doesn't stop you from working at East Meets West\, your father's gift shop in a strip mall\, where everything is ne w. \nWelcome to the wonderful world of David Kim.\n\n\nHappy Ending\n302 Broome Street\n7:30 pm\n UID:6B353FF7-D077-43AC-A510-C6D64BB6621F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090625T193000 DTSTAMP:20090615T184637Z SUMMARY:Happy Ending CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090625T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Performance: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson\n\nBooks TBA\n\nTh e Public Theater\n425 Lafayette Street\n7:45 pm UID:0C7F156F-1D9D-4EDC-8078-F5411C459EBA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090517T194500 DTSTAMP:20090119T185416Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090517T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Jennifer 8 Lee\nThe Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food \n(Twelve\, $13)\nFREE\n5:30PM\n\nJennifer 8 Lee\, the daughter of Chinese immigrants and a fluent speaker of Mandari n Chinese herself\, grew up eating her mother's authentic Chinese food i n her family's New York City kitchen before graduating from Harvard in 1 999 with a degree in Applied Mathematics and economics and studying at B eijing University. At the age of 24\, she was hired by the New York Time s\, where she is a metro repoter and has written a variety of stories on culture\, poverty\, and technology. \n\nTime Life Building\n1271 Ave of Americas\n UID:CBA6C2A6-4C48-437C-B82E-6BEB629CC1E8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080519T173000 DTSTAMP:20080506T172745Z SUMMARY:Jennifer 8 Lee CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080519T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Haile\nHeld at a Distance: My Rediscovery of Ethiopi a\n(Academy Chicago Publishers\, $18)\n6PM\nFREE\n\nHaile's memoir trace s her family's emigration from Ethiopia to the United States in the mid- 1970s\, a journey that led to her return 25 years later. The author's fa ther was an academic who served in the Ethiopian parliament after the co up that toppled Emperor Haile Selassie. However\, he was persecuted unde r the new regime\, which forced him and his family (Haile was 11 years o ld at the time) to flee to the United States and eventually to central M innesota. The book is chiefly about Haile's return to Ethiopia\, as she attempts to reconcile and process the harsh realities and issues that st ill plague the country and her relatives who continue to live there. \n\ nQueens Library\nFlushing Branch UID:B6983C6B-15CA-459B-87ED-8DDBF8A51697 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080421T180000 DTSTAMP:20080328T222046Z SUMMARY:Queens Library CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080421T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:\n\nMichael Thomas\;Man Gone Down\n\nNicky Dawidoff \;The Cr owd Sounds happy\;The Catcher was the Spy\n\nand \nKevin Baker\;Sometime s You see it coming\n\nFREE\n\nBrooklyn Library\nDweck Auditorium\nGrand Army Plaza\n UID:ADF97F45-E0CB-4DD4-BF1E-68F5374B414F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081112T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204833Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Independents CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081112T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Simon Van Booy\nLove Begins in Winter\nHarper Perennial\, $1 3.99\n\nBinnie Kirshenbaum\nThe Scenic Route\nHarper Perennial\, $13.99\ n\nBryant Park\n42nd and 5th Avenue\n12:30 pm\n\n\n UID:018B2838-6B91-4D6F-A9F5-C13976B590C2 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090610T123000 DTSTAMP:20090327T191120Z SUMMARY:Word for Word CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090610T143000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Ben Karlin with special guests: John Oliver\, Tom McCarthy\, Todd Hanson\, Fountains of Wayne\, & more!\nThings I've Learned from Wo men Who've Dumped Me ( Grand Central\, $24)\n7:30 pm\nAdmission $5\n\nAn hour-long comedy show on the subject of failed relationships and the st uff we endure to make them work. Sprung from the book of the same name – an anthology of essays and short humor pieces by men. The live show wil l feature a blend of read and performed pieces from the book\, stand-up comedy\, live music\, special guests and other material wrapped around t he theme of relationships gone bad.\n\nUpright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre \n307 West 26th Street UID:017A89B2-788D-430C-9F86-C31AB7348981 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080228T193000 DTSTAMP:20080219T183450Z SUMMARY:Ben Karlin CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080228T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:The Business of Giving: Jacqueline Novogratz in Conversation with Matthew Bishop\n\nJacqueline Novogratz\nThe Blue Sweater\nRodale P ress\, $24.95\n\nEleven years after donating her blue sweater to Goodwil l\, Novogratz spotted a young boy in Africa wearing that very sweater. I n that moment\, she realized how all people are connected\, which set th e author on a lifelong course to fight poverty worldwide.\n\n92 Y Tribec a\n200 Hudson Street\n6:30 pm\n UID:846D1323-74EB-409A-A3DD-BF41F9BCE31B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090624T183000 DTSTAMP:20090615T183938Z SUMMARY:92Y Tribeca CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090624T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Joseph Horowitz\nArtists in Exile: How Refugees from Twentie th-Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts \ n(Harper\, $28)\nRSVP 212 744 1400 x214\n6PM\n\nhere are many reasons wh y the performing arts flowered in twentieth-century America\, among them \, as Horowitzs well-researched\, gracefully written book points up\, th e influx of gifted\, energetic directors\, actors\, dancers\, composers\ , and musicians during the interwar years. George Balanchine\, Arnold Sc hoenberg\, Marlene Dietrich\, Fritz Lang\, Ernst Lubitsch\, Kurt Weill\, Bertolt Brechtall leaders in their respective fieldstransplanted to Ame rican soil and set about transforming the scenes they found there\, rais ing the stakes and shaking America out of provincial slumber\; for insta nce\, by creating modern American danceBalanchines achievement.\nHouse\n 1 E 65th St (btn 5th Ave/Madison)\n\n\n UID:90C80162-27BC-4A42-97D4-2A386D816A57 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080514T180000 DTSTAMP:20080428T205001Z SUMMARY:Joseph Horowitz CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080514T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Rob Walker\nBuying in: The Secret Dialogue Between What We B uy and Who We Are \n (Random House\, $25)\nFREE\n6PM\n\nA "New York Time s" Consumed columnist looks at the convergence of marketing and culture in contemporary life. Using profiles of brands old and new\, he demonstr ates the ways in which buyers adopt products\, not just as consumer choi ces\, but as conscious expressions of their identities.\n\nArt Directors Club \n106 West 29th Street UID:49B97EE7-646E-4D0E-837D-EB6D71F9ECC7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080613T183000 DTSTAMP:20080527T211015Z SUMMARY:Buying In at Art Directors Club CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080613T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Dick Morris\nFleeced: How Washington Insiders\, Foreign Lobb yists\, Subprime Lenders\, Credit Card Companies\, Iraq Reconstruction C ontractors...\n(Harper\, $27)\nTO REGISTER: oxoniansociety.com\n6:15PM\n \nOxonian Society event.\nPossibly the most prominent American political consultant\, Dick Morris is almost universally credited with piloting B ill Clinton to a stunning comeback re-election victory in 1996 after the president lost Congress to the Republicans two years before. Called the most influential private citizen in America by Time Magazine\, Morris i s considered a shrewd expert on polls and trends. \n\nCornell Club\n6 E 44th St. UID:B4318939-35A0-41BC-99A2-005F6177DE59 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080630T181500 DTSTAMP:20080407T170046Z SUMMARY:Dick Morris\n CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080630T201500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:The Moth Revolution: Stories of Change\n\nParticipants: Salw a Al Neimi\, Jonathan Ames\, Petina Gappah\, Laszio Garaczi and Salman R ushdie\n\nPEN World Voices joins forces once again with The Moth\, a New York-based arts organization dedicated to the art of storytelling\, cal led "New York's hottest and hippest literary ticket" by the Wall Street Journal. Celebrating its 12th year\, The Moth has sold out every show s ince its inception\, and this show promises to do the same!\n\nTickets $ 30\n\nGalapagos Arts Space\n16 Main Street\nBrooklyn\nDoors at 7:00 pm UID:E3D8C12D-0B89-4F8B-816F-2705FD9AD578 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090430T190000 DTSTAMP:20090402T165650Z SUMMARY:PEN World Voices Festival CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090430T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Public Theater\n425 Lafayette St\n\nWings of NIght Sky\, Win gs of Morning Light UID:6EBFDEE2-8B89-4287-9562-A815C3408041 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071208T180000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195249Z SUMMARY:Native Theater Festival CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071208T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Dishwashers\, Neurosurgeons\, and Nannies\n\nAndrew Hacker\n Mismatch: The Growing Gulf Between Men and Women\nSimon & Schuster\, $16 \nTwo Nations: Black and White\nSimon & Schuster\, $15\n\nFREE \n4 pm\n\ nDweck Auditorium\nGrand Army Plaza UID:1F2008BB-725A-416C-809A-B9EA79101BF3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080928T160000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204827Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn library \,Dweck Auditorium CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080928T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Arther Brooks\nGross National Happiness: Why Happiness Matte rs for America--And How We Can Get More of It\n(Basic\, $27)\nMEMBERS\nT IME TBA\n\nIn this provocative new book\, Brooks explodes the myths abou t happiness in America. As he did int he controversial "Who Really Cares \," Brooks examines vast amounts of evidence and empirical research to u ncover the truth about who is happy in America\, who is not\, and why.\n \nThe Manhattan Institute\n52 Vanderbilt Avenue UID:FDEE8F15-9B14-4F5B-A34F-82BC713301C1 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080521T120000 DTSTAMP:20080508T215922Z SUMMARY:Arthur Brooks CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080521T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:James Goldgeier\nDerek Chollet\nAmerica Between the Wars: Fr om 11/9 to 9/11 the Misunderstood Years Between the Fall of the Berlin W all and the Start of the War on Terror\n(PublicAffairs\, $28)\nMEMBERS\n 5:30PM\n\nChollet and Goldgeier examine how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9\, 1989\, an d the collapse of the Twin Towers on September 11\, 2001\, shaped the ev ents\, arguments\, and politics of the modern world.\n\nCouncil on Forei gn Relations\n58 E 68th St UID:1FAC0E0C-8603-4822-949B-94160A7E59BE TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080623T173000 DTSTAMP:20080506T171751Z SUMMARY:Council on Foreign Relations book event CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080623T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:520 8th Ave\, #2020\n\nDonald Revell-Thief of Strings UID:AFAA8DC0-0D05-4791-84B9-3E77E5A38F8A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070914T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195246Z SUMMARY:Teachers and Writers CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070914T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Katie Lee Joel\nThe Comfort Table\n(Simon Spotlight Entertai nment\, $23)\nFREE\nNoon\n\nEmphasizing local\, seasonal\, and organic i ngredients\, this collection features a mouthwatering assortment of reci pes from Joel's childhood spent growing up on a farm in West Virginia. F ull-color photos throughout.\n\nCafe 57\nHearst Building\n951-969 Eighth Ave at W47\nLobby UID:4017F4FC-A67E-411A-951A-691C68A7D3E3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080429T120000 DTSTAMP:20080410T230334Z SUMMARY:Katie Lee Joel CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080429T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Poetry\nRauan Klassnik's HOLY LAND is not a book for the fai nt of heart. His poems--dreamlike fables that conflate the domestic and quotidian with the dangerous and the perverse--are bathed in tears and b lood: a trip to the bank becomes a journey to Auschwitz\; bullets and go re find equivalence in rivers\, birds and lush grass. In Klassnik's star tling vision\, 'the world knows what you want\, and it knows what you ne ed. It brings you bodies. And it brings you a gun"--Gary Young. Rauan Kl assnik was born in Johannesburg\, South Africa. In his early teens he mo ved to Dallas\, Texas with his family. Much of his time is now spent in Mexico.\n\nHoly Land\nRauan Klassnik\n($12.95) \n\nThe Lucky Cat\n245 Gr and Street \n(b/w Driggs & Roebling)\n(718) 782-0437 UID:B82B0BF4-C100-4250-98E4-C5C037125091 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080912T200000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204823Z SUMMARY:Earshot's First Event CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080912T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION: Marie Carter\nThe Trapeze Diaries\n(Hanging Loose Press\, $ 16)\n8PM\n$5 (includes 1 drink)\n\n"A quiet meditation on loss and recov ery...the narrator s poignant voice has great clarity as she explores a new life far away from home while recovering from the death of her fathe r. This is a brave and heartwarming book." Donald Breckenridge\, author of 6/2/95 and fiction editor of THE BROOKLYN RAIL \n\nThe Lucky Cat\n245 Grand Street (W'Berg)\nearshotnyc.com UID:40D61CF1-D457-4CBD-8CA3-EA4E96D7D962 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080328T200000 DTSTAMP:20080317T235236Z SUMMARY:Earshot at Lucky Cat CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080328T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Mark Penn \nMicrotrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes (Twelve\, $26)\n\nThe advisor to Senator Hillary Clinton\, Bill Gates\, and President Bill Clinton proves that small is big by iden tifying 75 hidden-in-plain-sight trends\, revealing that the nation is n o longer a melting pot but a collection of communities with individual t astes and lifestyles.\n\nThe Harvard Club\n35 West 44th Street\nPrivate Club\n\n UID:8CAA7534-3F6B-4B0D-9643-5950B61492A3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080226T190000 DTSTAMP:20080218T194700Z SUMMARY:Microtrends CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080226T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Matadora\nSarah Gambito is the author of a previous collecti on\, "Matadora". Her poems have appeared in "The Iowa Review\, The New R epublic\, Fence" and other journals. She is co-founder and Executive Dir ector of Kundiman\, an organization that promotes Asian American poetry. She lives in New York City.\n\nInstrumetality\nLanguage for a new centu ry.\nRavi Shankar \nThe world's foremost sitar player who spearheaded th e international spread of Indian culture. His masterful play inspired th e sitar boom in the 1960s\, influencing musicians such as George Harriso n and the Beatles\, Yehudi Menuhin\, and Philip Glass. \n\nCommon\nUnder Flag\n\nMyung Mi Kim\nA Professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. Her three previous books of poetry are "Under Flag\, " winner of the 1991 Multicultural Publishers Book Award\, "The Bounty "(1 996)\, and "Dura "(1998)\n\nFREE\n7.00 PM \n\n\nFordham University\n12th Floor Lounge\n113 W.60th St. UID:209E1FF3-0DF0-4A43-B982-B4DC0AF34E4C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081008T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204833Z SUMMARY:Poets Out Loud CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081008T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:All The World's A Grave\nJohn Reed reconstructs the works of Shakespeare into a new five-act tragedy. The language is Shakespeare's\ , but the drama that unfolds is as fresh as the blood on the stage.\n\nJ ohn Reed (1887-1920)\, poet and journalist\, was the hero of a generatio n of radical intellectuals in the United States. He was a correspondent during the Mexican revolution\, World War I\, and the Russian revolution of 1917. Among his most famous work is Ten Days that Shook the World\, which became the basis of the movie "Reds." \n\nBoxcar Lounge\n168 Ave B \n(Btw E.10th-11th.) UID:666D7330-6141-4103-9678-65ADC3749E3C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080927T191500 DTSTAMP:20081018T195000Z SUMMARY:The Litcrawl Events CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080927T211500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Pacific Standards Reading series with :\n\nIndecision \nA yo ung man plagued by chronic indecision is "pfired" by Pfizer and journeys to Ecuador in pursuit of an old flame.\nRandom House Trade: $ 12.95\n\n Benjamin Kunkel grew up in Colorado. He has written for "Dissent\," "The Nation\," and the "The New York Review of Books\," and is a founding ed itor of "n+1 magazine\,"\n\nAtmospheric Disturbances\nAt once a moving l ove story\, a dark comedy\, a psychological thriller\, and a deeply dist urbing portrait of a fracturing mind\, this highly inventive debut explo res the mysterious nature of human relationships.\n Picador USA : $ 14.0 0\n\nRivka Galchen recieved her MD from the Moutn Sinai Shool of Medicin e\, having spent a year in South America working on public health issues . Galchen recently completed her MFA at Columbia University\, where she was a Robert Bingham Fellow. Her essay on the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics was published in "The Believer\," and she is the r ecipient of a 2006 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. Galchen lives i n New York City. This is her first novel.\n\nA Field Guide to the North American Family \nSixty-three entries and photographs comprise a unique collaborative portrait of two fictional families.\nMark Batty Publisher : $ 19.95\n\nGarth Hallberg\, Worldwide Director of Differential Marketi ng at Ogilvy & Mather\, is one of the few people in the industry with ex tensive experience in both media advertising--at J. Walter Thompson--and direct marketing--at Ogilvy Direct. His clients have included such lead ing marketers as Kraft\, Unilever\, Seagram\, Kimberly-Clark\, Sears\, a nd Ford\n\nPacific Standard Bar\n82 Fourth Avenue\nBrooklyn\n7:00 pm\nFr ee\n\n UID:78AD7895-BF84-431B-B8C6-D70D2922E495 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090505T190000 DTSTAMP:20090326T173632Z SUMMARY:Pacific Standards CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090505T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Reader to be announced\n\nHalf King\n505 W. 23rd Street\n7:0 0 pm\nFree UID:7EDF9F98-C5DC-47DC-BADF-142EE60867F3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090720T190000 DTSTAMP:20090615T181635Z SUMMARY:Half King CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090720T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Andrea di Robilant\nLucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Nap oleon (Knopf\, $25)\nBook Party\n6:00 pm\n\nThe author of the widely pra ised "A Venetian Affair" gives readers a portrait of history as dazzling drama\, in the story of the fall of Venice and the rise of a new age as seen through the eyes of 16-year-old Lucia. 8-page color illustrations. \n\nItalian Cultural Institute of New York\n686 Park Avenue @ 68th Stree t\n UID:67F58F4B-64E9-42FF-957B-A7822F3AE1AC TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080221T180000 DTSTAMP:20080215T192017Z SUMMARY:Italian Cultural Center CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080221T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Gregory Sanders\nMotel Girl\nRed Hen Press\, $19.95\n\n"Mote l Girl" amounts to an exploration of the contemporary laws of romance\, longing and sex\, of how the computerized\, branded universe is now full y integrated into the fabric of our thought and behavior. Join in the jo urney\, a frenetic and disarming joy ride. Taken as a whole\, these stor ies create a new paradigm for the American short story\, an expansion in narrative reach\, creative power\, and experimentation.\n\nRose Live Mu sic\n345 Grand Street\n8:00 pm\n$5/1 free drink\n\n UID:3348CEA7-441D-4DD4-8F53-D2C9420AB919 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090522T200000 DTSTAMP:20090427T190724Z SUMMARY:Earshot CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090522T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:David Sirota\nThe Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Popu list Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington (Crown\, $26)\nVisit www. dl21c.org to RSVP\n6:30PM\n\n The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Hostile Takeover" gives an all-access pass to the populist insurrectio n brewing across the country.\n\nRed Sky\n47 E 29th St.\n UID:493B8E3E-D985-46C6-8695-9DCF1B90620C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080602T183000 DTSTAMP:20080519T210047Z SUMMARY:David Sirota at Red Sky CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080602T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Jesse Browner is a writer and translator who lives in New Yo rk. He is the author of the novels "Conglomeros" (1992) and "Turnaway "( 1996)\, and of "The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down\," a widely praised hi story of hospitality in Western civilization. He has been a contributor to the" New York Times Book Review\," "Food and Wine" magazine\, "Nest " magazine\, "New York "magazine\, and others\n\nThe Uncertain Hour\n(Bloo msbury\,$23.95)\n\nMarion Nestle is Professor and Chair of the Departmen t of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University. Author of Nutrit ion in Clinical Practice (1985)\, she has served as a nutrition policy a dvisor to the Department of Health and Human Services and as a member of nutrition and science advisory committees to the U.S. Department of Agr iculture and the Food and Drug Administration. "She is the author of "Sa fe Food: Bacteria\, Biotechnology\, and Bioterrorism "(California\, 2003 ).\n\nPet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine \n(University of California Press\,$18.95)\n\nJACQUELINE M. NEWMAN is a retired Professo r in the Family\, Nutrition\, and Exercise Department of Queens College\ , Flushing\, New York\, and the editor of Flavor and Fortune\, a quarter ly about the science and art of Chinese food.\n\nCooking from China's Fu jiian Province\n(Hippocrene Books)\n\nFRANCINE SEGAN is a cultural histo rian who has appeared on numerous radio and TV programs\, including Mart ha Stewart Radio\, NPR\, NBC's Today Show\, CBS's Early Show\, and Sunda y Morning with Charles Osgood. In addition she has done several specials for the History and Discovery channels and the Food Network. Segan writ es a monthly column on travel and food for the Tribune Media Syndicates\ , which reaches over 65 newspapers across the country. She has published four books including Shakespeare's Kitchen (2003) and Opera Lover's Coo kbook (2006)\, which was nominated for both James Beard and IACP awards. In addition to teaching at Sarah Lawrence College\, Segan lectures on v arious topics\, including art history\, throughout the country for organ izations such as the Smithsonian Museum\, Dahesh Museum\, Virginia Fine Arts Museum\, Norman Rockwell Museum\, Museum of Natural History\, and N ewport Historical Association. \n\nThe Opera Lover's Cookbook: Menus for Elegant Entertaining \n(Hachette\,$35)\n\nPat Willard is author of Pie Every Day and A Soothing Broth. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York.\n\nAme rica Eats!: On the Road with the WPA: The Fish Fries\, Box Supper Social s\, and Chitlin Feasts That Define Real American Food \n(Hachette\,$26)\ n\nUnited mothodist Church\nClark Hall\,3rd Floor\n106 park Ave\n(btw Pa rk-Lexington)\n\n\n\n UID:D4DBCF17-078D-4620-848A-3D2533348B04 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080924T190000 DTSTAMP:20080905T193301Z SUMMARY:Culinary Historians September Program CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080924T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Tonight\, Gelf Magazine debuts its Non-Motivational Speaker Series\, presenting views alternative and overlooked on subjects that de fine our curiously postmodern life.\n\nTonight's topic: Comedy.\nfeaturi ng Kumail Nanjiani\, Chicago Comedy's 2007 Best Comedian\; Patrice Evans \, aka The Assimilated Negro\; and Todd Hanson\, contributor to The Onio n and co-author of Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth \, 73rd edition.\n\nHappy Ending Lounge\n302 Broome St\n(between Forsyth and Eldridge)\n\nDoors open at 7:30\nReadings start at 8pm sharp\nFREE UID:FF3431D9-4403-471C-B2A6-C10532702540 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080327T200000 DTSTAMP:20080309T021422Z SUMMARY:Non-Motivational Speaker Series CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080327T220000 LOCATION:Happy Ending END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Writing for Children Forum\nCharlie Price\n(Square Fish\, $8 )\n\nMurray is a loner who talks to the dead and comforts them in their lonely graves. After Nikki\, a murdered cheerleader\, asks for help\, Mu rray and Pearl\, the daughter of the cemetery caretaker\, try to prove t hat Nikki is closer than anyone thinks.\n\nNew School\n66 West 12th Stre et \nRoom 510\n UID:A758E901-AA05-46AB-86D2-372AA8BE4065 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080506T183000 DTSTAMP:20080424T200842Z SUMMARY:New School Charlie Price CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080506T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Poets Forum Reading\n\nSome of the most acclaimed poets of o ur day read together on one stage.\n\nThe Times Center\,242 W 41st St.\n UID:A1061B64-ECB0-4FEA-A096-A73A322088DF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081106T190000 DTSTAMP:20080901T210841Z SUMMARY:Poets Forum CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081106T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Michelle Goldberg\nThe Means of Reproduction\nPenguin\, $25. 95\n\nIn this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism\, the auth or of the "New York Times" bestseller "Kingdom Coming" exposes the globa l war on women's reproductive rights and its disastrous and unreported c onsequences.\n\nBabeland\n43 Mercer Street\n8:00 pm\n\n\n UID:4D29548D-08DC-481F-8507-9208E3A7822D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090630T200000 DTSTAMP:20090605T191821Z SUMMARY:Planned Parenthood of NYC CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090630T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Cosmopolis : Junot Diaz \n\nLeslie Schwartz\nThe brief Wondr ous Life od Oscar Wao\,Drown\n\nFREE\n\nBrooklyn Library\nDweck Auditori um\nGrand Army Plaza UID:C5118616-EF2C-4447-9E00-A9809DF1A190 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081101T160000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204824Z SUMMARY:Cosmopolis : Junot Diaz CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081101T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Brian Jay Jones\nWashington Irving: An American Original\n(A rcade\, $30)\n6PM\nwww.salmagundi.org\n\nPolicy analyst and speechwriter Jones traces the life of Americas first bona-fide best-selling author\, following Washington Irving (17831859) through his childhood in a relig ious home in New York\, his entry into law\, the death of his fiancée\, his years abroad and\, of course\, his writing career.\n\nSalmagundi Clu b\n47 5th Ave (11th and 12th sts) UID:EFA3A707-746A-4A36-8215-69FCBEDEC50C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080418T180000 DTSTAMP:20080326T202331Z SUMMARY:Brian Jay Jones CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080418T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Please joins our special events at Tea Lounge\n\nSleep is fo r the Weak: The Best of the Mommybloggers Including Amalah\, Finslippy\, Fussy\, WouldaCoulda Shoulda\, Mom-101 and More!\nChicago Review Press\ n $12\n\nEach month\, more than half a million readers turn to the 25 mo mmyblogs featured in this collection for advice and a sense of camarader ie. Written to be read during the mind-bogglingly short breaks parents g et during their busy days\, these pieces will help moms find solace in a wide range of viewpoints and issues not often discussed in mainstream m agazines and other parenting books.\n\nSponsored by Graco.\n\n837 Union Street\nPark Slope\, Brooklyn\nFREE\n\n UID:5FAA7BF6-AAC8-4A5D-8477-6C2F6DD57706 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080912T160000 DTSTAMP:20080818T164618Z SUMMARY:Tea Lounge CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080912T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Women Writing Lives\n\nHow has the writing of women's biogra phy changed over time? Join award-winning artists\, scholars\, and writ ers for a series of conversations on writing family\, writing relationsh ips\, and creating icons.\n\nFeaturing Rachel Cohen\, Blanche Wiesen Coo k\, \nPaula Giddings\, Farah Jasmine Griffin\, Brenda Wineapple\n\nCUNY Center for the Humanities \n365 Fifth Avenue\nElebash Recital Hall\n1:0 0 pm\nFree UID:CD443228-22C2-456C-91C8-969558D1E73C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090320T130000 DTSTAMP:20090115T175331Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090320T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:Writing for Children Forum: Getting Published Panel: Sarah D avies\, literary agent\, Greenhouse Literary\; Kenneth Wright\, literary agent\, Writers House\; Harold Underdown\, author of The Complete Idiot 's Guide to Publishing Children's Books \nDeborah Brodie\, moderator.\n\ n$5 tickets\n6:30PM\n\nNew School\n66 W 12th St Room 510\n UID:1DC1C3D1-A0D8-47F7-A135-35954EA2DE05 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081028T183000 DTSTAMP:20080508T222854Z SUMMARY:New School : Writing for children CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081028T193000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:John Edgar Wideman\n God's Gym\n(Mariner\, $13)\n7PM\nFREE\n \nThe first story collection in more than a decade from one of the most celebrated African-American authors of modern-day literature contains st ories that move from the intimate to the political\, from shock to trans cendence.\n\nThe Emerging Writers Reading Series\n\nKGB BAR\n85 East 4th Street\n\n\n UID:59A56447-4919-4A22-932B-86D4B7E7764E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080418T190000 DTSTAMP:20080327T195448Z SUMMARY:KGB - Emerging Writers CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080418T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Join Us At Housing Works for this Special Event\n\nCringe\nS arah Browne\nCrown Publishing\, $23\n\nInspired by the highly publicized monthly diary reading series in New York\, "Cringe" is a kitschy\, gut- spilling saga of adolescent angst.\n\nHousing Works Book Cafe\n126 Crosb y St UID:7A89EADA-F186-40AB-B01B-40EA2D7FE408 TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.livefromhome.org/events DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080903T190000 DTSTAMP:20080821T151834Z SUMMARY:Housing Works CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080903T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Walter Scheib\nWhite House Chef: Eleven Years\, Two Presiden ts\, One Kitchen\nJohn Wiley & Sons\, $24.95\n\nAs Executive Chef of the White House from 1994 to 2005\, Walter Scheib completely revolutionized the classic French-based food program to give it a distinctly American flavor. Now he tells the story of his White House years\, offering a fas cinating behind-the-scenes look at the Clintons and the Bushes.\n\nThe J ames Beard House\n167 West 12th Street\n12:00 pm\n$20 Suggested Donation for nonstudents\n\n\n UID:C4341D19-223A-4453-A476-4E16232CA093 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090114T120000 DTSTAMP:20090106T171225Z SUMMARY:Beard on Books CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090114T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Machado and His Times\n\nJoaquim Maria Machado de Assis (183 9-1908)\, the descendent of African slaves\, is considered one of the gr eatest Latin American authors of the last century. His novels include Th e Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas\, and Dom Casmurro.\n\nGregory Rabass a is the preeminent American translator of Spanish and Portuguese\, whos e works include One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas.\n\n680 Park Avenue\n212-249-8950 UID:152E7833-4590-4CAA-ADB2-27011CD88836 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080915T190000 DTSTAMP:20080730T013336Z SUMMARY:Americas Society CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080915T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Performance: Knives and Other Sharp Objects\n\nBook TBA\n\nT he Public Theater\n425 Lafayette Street\n7:45 pm UID:94449C09-0A25-4226-A773-64A593FD6D29 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090331T194500 DTSTAMP:20090119T184905Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090331T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:505 W 23rd St\n\nNeal Pollack - Alternadad UID:072FD014-081C-4869-9F79-67D0CE7916EB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080225T190000 DTSTAMP:20080215T195538Z SUMMARY:The Half King EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20080310T190000 EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20080317T190000 CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080225T210000 RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;INTERVAL=1;UNTIL=20080324T035959Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Charles Bock\nBeautiful Children (Random House\, $25)\n7:00 pm \nFREE\n\nCapturing Las Vegas with unprecedented scope and nuance\, t his debut novel not only rushes toward a climax of heartache and redempt ion\, but provides a deviously funny and unyielding portrait of a traged y readers are sure to recognize as their own.\n\nThe Half King\n505 W 23 rd St UID:072FD014-081C-4869-9F79-67D0CE7916EB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080303T190000 DTSTAMP:20080215T201055Z SUMMARY:The Half King CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080303T210000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20080303T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:19 DESCRIPTION:John Strausbaugh\nSissy Nation: How America Became a Culture of Wimps & Stoopits (Virgin Books\, $17)\n7:00 pm \nFREE\n\nPraised by the "New York Times Book Review" for being persuasive [and] provocative\ , Strausbaugh reveals in furious\, funny\, and ferocious prose how Ameri cans became sissified\, soft\, and scared--and offers unforgettable solu tions on how to snap out of it.\n\nThe Half King\n505 W 23rd St\n\n UID:072FD014-081C-4869-9F79-67D0CE7916EB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080225T190000 DTSTAMP:20080215T201141Z SUMMARY:The Half King CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080225T210000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20080225T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Sip Lit monthly reading series\nFREE\n8PM\n\nRoxana Robinson \nCost\n(FSG\, $25)\n\nPamel Ryder\nCorrection of Drift: A Novel in Stor ies \n(Fiction Collective Two\, $17)\n\nCraig Morgan Teicher\nBrenda Is in the Room: And Other Poems (Colorado Prize for Poetry ) \n(University of Colorado\, $16)\n\nSip\n998 Amsterdam Ave (109th/110th) UID:7C0B941C-71B2-4D19-A13B-9C525245DDA2 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080423T200000 DTSTAMP:20080424T195935Z SUMMARY:Sip Lit reading series CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080423T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Author TBA\n\nBryant Park\n42nd Street and 5th Avenue\n12:30 pm UID:53F09808-DFD6-4A0B-834F-9BC0C04EABD5 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090722T123000 DTSTAMP:20090327T200723Z SUMMARY:Word for Word CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090722T143000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Charla Krupp\nHow Not to Look Old: Fast and Effortless Ways to Look 10 Years Younger\, 10 Pounds Lighter\, 10 Times Better \n(Spring board\, $26)\n9AM\ncall 212-302-5511\n\nKnown to national audiences from her ten years on NBCs "Today" show\, style expert Krupp dishes out her secrets in this "ultimate" to-do list for looking hip and fabulous--no m atter what your age.\n\nFGI Headquarters\n8 W 40th St\n7th Floor\n\n\n UID:21190972-70C2-43D6-AF65-2C0BF80D7072 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080503T090000 DTSTAMP:20080424T191404Z SUMMARY:How Not to Look Old CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080503T110000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Ruth Stone Poetry\n\n\nRuth Stone Poetry reading with B. Sto ne\n\nFREE\n7 pm\n\nLillian Vernon Writers House\n58 W. 10th Street UID:34083603-E0E6-4534-B21B-EEC08BE3F3DD TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080912T170000 DTSTAMP:20080808T181321Z SUMMARY:Lillian Vernon CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080912T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Charles Bock\nBeautiful Children\n(Random House Trade\, $14) \nFREE\n6:30PM\n\n Capturing Las Vegas with unprecedented scope and nuan ce\, this debut novel not only rushes toward a climax of heartache and r edemption\, but provides a deviously funny and unyielding portrait of a tragedy readers are sure to recognize as their own.\n\nMid-Manhattan Lib rary\n41st and 5th UID:1F133B48-6152-4AAE-B57E-D8AF3D36B801 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080610T183000 DTSTAMP:20080603T221146Z SUMMARY:Charles Bock CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080610T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:A Panel at NYPL\n\nJane K. Cleland \nOnce owned a New Hampsh ire-based antiques and rare-books business\, and now lives in New York C ity with her husband. Her first novel\, "Consigned to Death\," is an Ind ependent Mystery Booksellers Association bestseller and was nominated fo r the Macavity\, Agatha\, and David book awards. She is president of the New York chapter of the Mystery Writers of America and chair of the Wol fe Pack's literary awards. Visit her on the Web at www.janecleland.net. \n(Antiques to Die For\, Deadly Appraisal & Consigned To Death)\n\nLinda Fairstein\, America's foremost prosecutor of crimes of sexual assault a nd domestic violence\, led the Sex Crimes Unit of the District Attorney' s Office in Manhattan for twenty-five years. Her first novel\, "Final Je opardy\, " which introduced the character Alexandra Cooper\, was publish ed in 1996 to critical and commercial acclaim. She lives with her husban d in Manhattan and on Martha's Vineyard. \n(Death Dance\,Bad Blood)\n\nW ENDY CORSI STAUB is a best-selling writer of adult fiction\, regularly a ppearing on the "USA Today "and "New York Times "best-seller lists. She grew up near the town of Lily Dale\, and has had personal experiences wi th psychics in the town. Her adult best-seller\, "In the Blink of an Eye " also took place in Lily Dale. Wendy lives with her family in Katonah\, New York. Visit her Web site at www.wendycorsistaub.com\n(Dying Breath\ , Dont Scream\, and the Final Victim)\n\nfree\nMid-Manhattan Library\nTh e New York Public Library\n40th St and 5th Ave\n6th Floor\n212-340-0837 UID:ED9E6E52-46BC-47C7-A22B-CA85220B0A2F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090114T183000 DTSTAMP:20081018T195001Z SUMMARY:Mid-Manhattan Library\,New York Public Library CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090114T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:19 DESCRIPTION:Biography Fellows' Colloquium\n\nJames C. Davis \nCommerce i n Color: Race\, Consumer Culture\, and American Literature 1893-1933\nU Michigan Press\, $24.95\n\nThulani Davis\nMy Confederate Kinfolk: A Twen ty-First Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots\nBasic Civitas Books\, $ 15\n\nBeloved novelist and playwright Thulani Davis takes a journey thro ugh her ancestral history--and finds tartan plaid\, unlikely lovers\, an d Confederate soldiers.\n\nWinds Can Wake Up the Dead: An Eric Walrond R eader\nWayne State University Press\, $29.95\n\nCUNY Center for the Huma nities\n365 Fifth Avenue\nMartin E. Segal Theater\n2:00 pm\nFree\n\n UID:CF7B095E-8517-4583-B62C-AB936F3F9F22 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090224T110000 DTSTAMP:20090115T160457Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090224T120000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:For Celebrate the publication of Charles Darwin's Beagle Le tters 1831-1836\n\nCharles Darwin's voyage on the HMS Beagle is a grippi ng adventure story\, and a turning point in the making of the modern wor ld. Brought together here in chronological order\, the letters he wrote and received during his trip provide a first-hand account of a voyage of discovery that was as much personal as intellectual. We follow Darwin's adventures as he prepares for his travels\, lands on his first tropical island\, watches an earthquake level a city\, and learns how to catch o striches from a running horse. We witness slavery\, political revolution \, and epidemic disease\, and share the otherworldly experience of landi ng on the Galapagos Islands and collecting specimens. His letters are co unterpoised by replies from family and friends that record a comfortable \, intimate world back in England. Original watercolors by the ship's ar tist Conrad Martens vividly bring to life Darwin's descriptions of his t ravels. \n(Cambridge University Press\,$32)\n\nCambrigde in America prom otes interest in and support for the University of Cambridge and its con stituent Colleges among alumni and friends in the United States\n\n\nCam bridge in America\n100 Avenue of Americas\n4th Floor UID:4483C45F-3712-433C-8741-D9CE68925666 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081111T180000 DTSTAMP:20080902T164810Z SUMMARY:Charles Darwin CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081111T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Poetry Forum New School\n\n\nLydia Davis\, author of Varieti es of Disturbance: Stories\, a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award .\n\n66 W 12th St\nroom 510\n\n$5\; free for students/alumni UID:7A7CAA80-A20B-4403-8A77-1280CE890C79 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080922T183000 DTSTAMP:20080730T010855Z SUMMARY:New School Poetry CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080922T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Jane Brody\nJane Brody's Guide to the Great Beyond\nRandom H ouse\, $26\n\nBestselling author and trusted "New York Times" health col umnist Brody offers a comprehensive and practical roadmap to end-of-life issues\, from savvy financial planning to a wide array of important med ical issues to the often-overlooked emotional considerations.\n\nBrookly n Library\nDweck Center\nGrand Army Plaza\n7:00 pm\n\n\n UID:682B4767-F37E-41C7-AC71-EC739FBD44B3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090513T190000 DTSTAMP:20090302T171407Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090513T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Raymond Sokolov\nA Canon of Vegetables: 101 Classic Recipes \n(Morrow\, $26)\n6:30PM\nRegister at astorcenternyc.com\n\nA diverse ra nge of 101 tasty vegetable recipes from around the globe from the season ed historian and author of "How to Cook" and the James Beard Award-winni ng "The Cook's Canon."\n\nAstor Center\n399 Lafayette St. \n UID:B5A9CEEC-D39A-4BC1-AA0E-3190F1276EAE TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080423T183000 DTSTAMP:20080331T184448Z SUMMARY:Raymond Sokolov CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080423T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Easter Everywhere: A Memoir \nDarcy Steinke\n8PM \nFREE\n\n" Easter Everywhere" is a rare literary accomplishment--a beautifully craf ted\, riveting personal story with a huge emotional impact as Steinke ch ronicles her struggles with a childhood religion and her slow process to ward a living faith.\n\nHappy Ending\n302 E Broome St UID:11266401-698A-488B-81FF-A967B9C84B00 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080409T200000 DTSTAMP:20080324T155718Z SUMMARY:Happy Ending CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080409T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Alan Black reads from his book\nKick The Balls : An Offensiv e Suburban Odyssey\n\nTold with Black's uproarious Scottish sensibility\ , "Kick the Balls" is a laugh-out-loud\, caustic account of one man's at tempt to coach a peewee soccer team.\n\nAlan Black is the literary manag er of San Franciscoas famous bookish venue Edinburgh Castle Pub. His wor k has been published in the "San Francisco Chronicle\, Salon.com\," and "The Christian Science Monitor\," He is cofounder of the Scottish Cultur al and Arts Foundation and coeditor of "Public House\," an anthology. Th is is his first book.\n\nRocky Sullivan's\n33 Van Dyke St.\n(at Dwight S t)\nBrooklyn UID:AFF289BC-7097-4F33-AF45-CF48065ADD2C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080929T200000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194957Z SUMMARY:Alan Black's Reading CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080929T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Valerie Raleigh Yow has a PhD in history from the University of Wisconsin. She has published two previous academic books and a biogr aphy of North Carolina novelist Bernice Kelly Harris (Louisiana State Un iversity Press\, 1999) and is a psychotherapist in Chapel Hill\, North C arolina.\n\nBetty Smith: Life of the Author of a Tree Grows in Brooklyn\ n(Wolf's Pond Press: $ 29.99)\n\n\nBrooklyn Library\n431 Sixth Ave\nBroo klyn UID:22D922CA-26C4-4AB6-8E80-EE4794A18179 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081029T190000 DTSTAMP:20080903T163029Z SUMMARY:Valerie Yow CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081029T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Charles Bernstein : Formerly the David Gray Professor of Poe try and Letters at the State University of New York\, Buffalo\, Bernstei n is now Professor of Literature at the University Pennsylvania. He live s in New York City.\n\nChristopher Stackhouse\n\n\n11th Street Bar\n510 E.11th St\nbtw A-B Avenue\n\n\n UID:30D7303D-E405-4E3F-8F04-FA53253233F1 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090126T190000 DTSTAMP:20081211T202336Z SUMMARY:11th Street Bar : Triptych Readings CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090126T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Fordham University Poets Out Loud \nReading Series\n\nReader TBA\n\n\nFREE\n7.00 PM \n\nMcNally Amphitheater\nFordham University\n11 3 W.60th St. UID:30A49AB8-666E-48C1-B25F-8A8F7B7443F6 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081105T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204829Z SUMMARY:Poets Out Loud CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081105T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Jason Riley\nLet Them In\n(Gotham\, $22)\nMEMBERS\n7PM\n\n A conservative columnist makes an eye-opening case for why immigration im proves the lives of Americans and is important for the future of the cou ntry.\n\nYale Club\n50 Vanderbilt Ave UID:163051DF-8F53-4FCB-A39A-B96DFC050881 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080527T190000 DTSTAMP:20080521T184339Z SUMMARY:Jason Riley at Yale Club CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080527T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Jim Schlagheck\nCash-Rich Retirement: Use the Investing Tech niques of the Mega-Wealthy to Secure Your Retirement Future \n(St. Marti ns Press\, $25)\n\nYou can enjoy a sound and secure future---just like t he world’s financial elite. Whether you’re already retired\, many years away from retirement\, or a financial professional\, Cash-Rich Retiremen t will help you successfully protect and enlarge your retirement capital .\n\nMicrosoft Offices\n1290 Ave of Americas (at W 52nd St.) 6th Floor\n \n UID:E3E11529-E2B0-4D7B-96B2-865F4FC0EEAC TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080312T183000 DTSTAMP:20080303T225335Z SUMMARY:Cash Rich Retirement CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080312T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Performance: Knives and Other Sharp Objects\n\nBook TBA\n\nT he Public Theater\n425 Lafayette Street\n7:45 pm\n UID:5897334E-7900-4265-9236-7AE653F7B1AC TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090327T194500 DTSTAMP:20090119T184622Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090327T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:World Premiere"A Flame in the Dark"\nThiago de Mello and Ama zon\,With Special Guest Ithamara Koorax and others\n\nJoin Grammy Award- Nominated composer\,arranger and multi-instrumentalist Gaudencio Thiago de Mello for the world Premiere of "A Flame in the Dark"\,his tribute to Sergio Veiria de Mello\,in celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the U niversal Declaration of Human Rights\,Speakers will include The CUNY Gra duate Center President\,BILL kelly\;Charlotte Bunch\,Center for Women's Forum\;Hossein Alizadeh\,International Gay and Lesbien Human Rights Comm ission(IGLHRC)\;and Catherine Albisa\,National Economic and Social Right s Initiative(NESRI).With host Blanche Wiesen Cook\,Disguished Professor of History at the CUny Graduate Ccenter.\n\nProshansky Auditorium\nCUNY Graduate Center for the Humanities\n365 5th Ave @ 34th St\n212 817-2005 UID:BA70BCEF-7E5A-46CC-B24D-2617BD0D0C02 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081210T193000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204827Z SUMMARY:A concert Celebration :60th Anniversary of the Universal Declara tion of Human Rights. CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081210T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Do we live in a secular age? \n\nWhat does it mean to say \n that we do\, and what are the benefits\, and liabilities\, \nto figuring public space as strictly secular? \nBill Connolly\, Krieger -Eisenhower Professor of \nPolitical Science at Johns Hopkins University\, Simon \n Critchley\, Professor of Philosophy at the New School \nUniversity\, and Hent de Vries\, Professor of Philosophy \nat Johns Hopkins University\, will discuss these and \nrelated themes. Moderated by Jill Stauffer\, R esident \nMellon Fellow at the Center for the Humanities. \n\nCUNY Cente r for the Humanities\n365 Fifth Avenue\nElebash Recital Hall\n6:30 pm\nF ree UID:5C826CD3-C5FD-4C97-A856-DD641641D6DD TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090409T183000 DTSTAMP:20090115T172924Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090409T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Cassandra Wilson \,the iconic jazz musician\,vocalist\,songw riter\,and producer discusses her prolific career with Gary Giddins.For the past two decades\,the Grammy -Award winner and Mississippi native ha s captured audiences with her original improvisations and a reportory ra nging from avant-garde jazz to funk.Gary Giddins is the author of nine b ooks\,including Natural Selection:Gary Giddins on comedy\,Film\,Music\;B ing Crosby\,Pocketful of Dreams\;and Visions of Jazz:The First Century\, for which he won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Critism.\n\n The Elebash Recital Hall\nCUNY Graduate Center for the Humanities\n365 5 th Ave @ 34th St\n212 817-2005 UID:97684F5B-6ABD-4473-8FC7-217A3FCD5131 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081009T183000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204834Z SUMMARY:Cassandra Wilson&Gary Giddins CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081009T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Reading Between A&B\n\nBen Lerner\nRick Barot\nSherwin Bitsu i\n\nhttp://www.readab.com/cal.html\n\n11th St Bar\n510 E 11th St UID:CAFC3DA0-6BF9-4252-8C3B-A6DD07EAC76A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080310T193000 DTSTAMP:20080228T193954Z SUMMARY:Reading Between A&B CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080310T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Honor Moore with Tom Healy\n\n\nFREE\n\n\n\nLillian Vernon W riters House\n58 W. 10th Street UID:8A76E6CB-A12A-4A20-BAC1-897B43ABBE25 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080918T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204823Z SUMMARY:Lilian Venon CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080918T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:The Public Theater will be putting on a new play by Suzan-Lo ri Parks. More information to come.\n\nThe Public Theater\n425 Lafayett e Street\n7:45 pm UID:2F041BDA-9314-476B-8B10-E0DD3835F1DC TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090626T194500 DTSTAMP:20090320T201259Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090626T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Furia\, Joseph\nTight Lines: Ten Years of the Yale Angler's Journal\n(Yale U Press\, $28)\n$75 - RSVP\n6PM\n\n9th Annual Yale Angers ' Journal Fundraising Event\n\nFeaturing original artwork\, this antholo gy on the experience of fishing presents a selection of 50 stories\, rec ollections\, essays\, and poems featured in the "Yale Anglers Journal" d uring its first remarkable decade.\n\nYale Club\n4th Floor\n50 Vanderbui lt Ave UID:A5097DC5-2E55-4BAA-9C4C-55FA78D01E38 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080522T180000 DTSTAMP:20080424T202711Z SUMMARY:Joseph Furia at Yale Club CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080522T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Heidi Julavits\nThe Uses of Enchantment (Anchor Books\, $14) \n7:30 pm\nFREE\n\nThe author's third novel is a spooky coming-of-age ta le in which 16-year-old Mary Veal disappears from her school\, only to r eappear a few weeks later claiming to have been abducted. Julavits keeps the reader baffled until the end\, but beneath the mystery is a sophist icated meditation on truth and bias.\n\nPete's Candy Store\n709 Lorimer St\nBrooklyn\n \n\n UID:94551F3A-243F-4E7D-9DD9-D90D166C094F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080515T193000 DTSTAMP:20080424T202513Z SUMMARY:Pete's Candy Store Heidi Julavits CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080515T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Welsh Lit Abroad\n7:00 pm\nFREE\n\nRichard Gwyn \nThe Colour of a Dog Running Away (Anchor Books\, $14)\n\nOwen Sheers \nResistance (Nan A. Talese\, $24) \n\nKGB Bar\n85 East 4th Street\n\nhttp://www.kgb bar.com/calendar UID:4BD1C648-039B-4F94-A6C6-C8FF15465F4F TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080224T190000 DTSTAMP:20080215T222355Z SUMMARY:KGB Fiction CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080224T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Golden Bones: An Extraordinary Journey from Hell in Cambodia to a New Life in America \n In the 1960s and '70s\, Cambodia's dictator Pol Pot ordered the educated and intellectual of the population to be i mprisoned\, enslaved\, and murdered. Young Siv was captured and put to w ork in a slave labor camp. He relates how he escaped certain death by fl eeing the country for Thailand.\n\nAuthor: Sichan Siv\n\nRotary Club of New York\nHarvard Club\n35 West 44th St\n(btw 5th-6th Avenue) UID:B8962902-8330-4BCD-8E83-1413A8257F2E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081027T120000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194954Z SUMMARY:Golden Bone at Rotary Club of New York CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081027T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Ann Lauterbach & John Rybicki\nThe Night Sky: Writings on th e Poetics of Experience by A. Lauterbach\n(Penguin $24)\nWe Bed Down in Water\nJ Rybicki\n(Northwestern UP\, $14)\nFREE\n\nJohn Rybicki offers up an unafraid set of poems in this charged book of verse. We Bed Down I nto Water is rich with imagery of family\, love\, illness\, death\, and\ , indeed\, water\, which seeps in throughout the pages: rivers\, pools\, rain\, and tears. \n\nThe nimble and glimmering essays in The Night Sky offer many insights into Lauterbach's life and poetics. She writes of h er journalist father's early death. She muses on the nature of myth\, an d the difference between information and knowledge.\n\nPeruggi Room\, Ma rymount Manhattan College\n221 E 71st St\n UID:DE26BBBD-F38B-4F0F-B1F6-726B8C107A50 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080429T190000 DTSTAMP:20080304T232104Z SUMMARY:National Poetry Month CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080429T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Word Theatre Reading Series at SoHo House \n\nHosted by Jame s Franco \n\nEdi Gathegi will read a story by John Edgar Wideman\n\nJuli anna Margulies will read a story by Amy Hempel\n\nMore to come\n\nSoHo H ouse\n29-35 9th Avenue\n3:00 pm\n\n UID:49CC25E9-8B42-4724-9B90-094B8A7C6699 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090301T150000 DTSTAMP:20090202T200108Z SUMMARY:Word Theatre CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090301T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:Clay Shirky\nHere Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing W ithout Organizations \n(Penguin\, $26)\n5PM \n\nShirky examines how tec hnology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them\, a nd the resulting long-term economic and social effects.\n\nMarkle Founda tion\n10 Rockefeller Plaza\n16th Floor\n UID:0CED700E-EDE7-4EB3-87C1-FA844E21D728 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080410T170000 DTSTAMP:20080313T214850Z SUMMARY:Clay Shirky CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080410T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:536 LaGuardia Place\n\nWitold Rybczynski-The Last Harvest UID:777DBE78-7339-453C-807D-A0E2F1B606E1 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070427T180000 X-WR-ITIPSTATUSML:UNCLEAN DTSTAMP:20080220T195248Z SUMMARY:AIA-Book Party ATTENDEE;CN="50";CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL:mailto:invalid:nomail CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070427T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Best-selling Author Series: Walter Mosley \nBlonde Faith (Gr and Central\, $26)\n7:30 pm\nFREE\n \nHear well-known authors talk about their approaches to writing and learn the secrets of their success. A q uestions and answer session\, book signing and reception will follow eac h lecture. Limited space. RSVP 212-774-0780. \n\nMarymount Manhattan\n2 21 East 71st Street UID:AC6E1117-5B7E-47B4-A7D8-1C90D1C9A3A6 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080219T183000 DTSTAMP:20080213T221745Z SUMMARY:Walter Mosley CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080219T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:13 DESCRIPTION:Yusef Komunyakaa\nWarhorses\nFSG\, $24\n\nThis powerful new collection of Yusef Komunyakaa's poetry delves into an age of war and co nflict\, both global and internal\, racial and sexual. "Sweetheart\, was I talking war in my sleep / again?" he asks\, and the question is hardl y moot: "Sometimes I hold you like Achilles' / shield\," and indeed all relationships\, in this telling\, are sites of violence and battle. His line is longer and looser than in "Taboo "and "Talking Dirty to the Gods \," and in long poems like "The Autobiography of My Alter Ego" he sounds almost breathless\, an exhausted\, desperate prophet. "Warhorses "is th e stunning work of a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who never ceases to cha llenge and delight his readers.\n\nHermine Pinson\nDolores is Blue/Dolor ez is Blue\nSheep Meadow Press\, $12.95\n\nAracelis Girmay\nTeeth\nCurbs tone Press\, $13\n\n11th Street Bar\n510 E.11th St\nbtw A-B Avenue\n\n\n \n\n UID:6B3B84E3-FF8D-4A6C-8A85-422A305C0131 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090413T190000 DTSTAMP:20090323T201914Z SUMMARY:Triptych Readings CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090413T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Nathan Englander\nThe Ministry of Special Cases. \n(Vintage \, $15)\n7PM\nFREE\n\nFrom the author of the literary sensation "For the Relief of Unbearable Urges" comes a spectacular debut novel set at the height of Argentina's Dirty War.\nIn conversation with Darin Strauss.\n\ nLillian Vernon Creative Writers House\n58 W 10th St UID:CA5EF3BC-39E3-4914-9B5A-72540470D80F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080411T190000 DTSTAMP:20080324T161009Z SUMMARY:Nathan Englander CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080411T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Word for Word Kids\nFREE\nNOON\n\nEric Carle\nThe Rabbit and the Turtle\n(Orchard\, $17)\n\nBeloved artist Carle brings to life Aeso p's fables with his gorgeous illustrations and charming retelling of the se classic stories. Beautifully reissued\, this new book has all the enc hantment of Carle's art plus traditional morals of the fables.\n\nBryant Park Reading Series\n42nd St. side\nunder burgandy umbrellas\n UID:C3F0DB80-5795-4E9F-A396-D76CA9D22659 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080726T120000 DTSTAMP:20080423T173232Z SUMMARY:Word for Word kids series CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080726T130000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Mixer Music & Reading Series\n\nMichael Dahlie\nA Gentleman' s Guide to Graceful Living\nW.W. Norton & Co\, $23.95\n\nIn this darkly hilarious and moving novel\, a bumbling Manhattan blueblood must rebuild his life after his marriage and business fail.\n\nKathleen Peterson\nTh is One Tree\nNew Issues Poetry Press\, $14\n\nWinner of the 2005 New Iss ues Poetry Prize.\n\nCake Shop\n152 Ludlow\n7:00 pm\n UID:4AE6DF64-E31D-49F8-A95E-6CFA3710FB05 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090121T190000 DTSTAMP:20090109T211837Z SUMMARY:Mixer Series CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090121T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Writing for Children Forum\n\nLeonard S. Marcus\nMargaret Wi se Brown: Awakened by the Moon\nHarper\, $15.95\n\nForty years after her death\, the author of the classics "Runaway Bunny" and "Goodnight Moon" remains a legendary figure in the world of literature and an enigma to many who knew her. This vivid biography offers a thoughtful portrait of this complex woman. of photos.\n\nThe New School\n66 West 12th Street\nR oom 510\n6:30 pm\n$5\n\n\n UID:5BDAD1EA-3E9D-411C-8F5C-482589FF597D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090505T183000 DTSTAMP:20090106T212102Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090505T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Half King Reading Series\n\nAuthor TBA\n\nThe Half King\n505 West 23rd Street\n7:00 pm\nFree UID:77F986A7-F9DF-4077-8AD3-176B40B621FE TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090316T190000 DTSTAMP:20090112T210229Z SUMMARY:Half King CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090316T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Paris Review Summer Salon\n6PM\nFREE\n\nDavid Baker\nTreatis e on Touch: Selected Poems\n\nDan Chiasson\nWhere's the Moon\, There's t he Moon\n\nLillian Vernon\n58 W 10th St UID:C28F9077-10A1-4D62-813C-C55375F1E739 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080609T180000 DTSTAMP:20080529T201035Z SUMMARY:Paris Review Summer Salon CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080609T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Into the Future: Trends in Children's Book Publishing\n\nPan elists: Jean Feiwel\, Mariann Donato\, Barbara Genco\, Anna Olswanger a nd Vicky Smith\n\nWhat’s next after Harry Potter? Come learn from the pr os! What are publishers\, editors\, sales and marketing mavens\, librari ans\, and agents looking for in new properties? How do publishers get be hind good books and cultivate new treasures? What can authors and illust rators do to create new trends\; or should they simply focus on creating quality children’s books? What are kids reading today? The answers may surprise you!\n\nCenter for Independent Publishing \n20 West 44th Street \n212-208-4629 UID:94806484-5DF7-4D1F-81E6-E7FB1DE02472 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080221T180000 DTSTAMP:20080214T190132Z SUMMARY:WNBA Children's Book Panel CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080221T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Women\, War and Pornography with Tara McKelvey\, Ada Calhoun and Laura Frost—contributors to One of the Guys.\n7:00 pm\nFREE\n\nClic k here for more information:\nhttp://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008- 03-04_non_fiction_wom.html\n\nKGB Bar\n85 East 4th Street UID:67CEE477-60E8-4851-AAC3-E4F72499AD86 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080304T190000 DTSTAMP:20080219T192113Z SUMMARY:KGB Nonfiction CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080304T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Sandra Simonds\,\nCiaran Berry\,\nAnn Podracky\,\nBianca Sto ne\,\nCarter Edwards\n\n\nAdmission$5.00+one free drink\n\nEarshot\nLuck y Cat \n245 Grand Street \n(b/w Driggs & Roebling)\nBrooklyn UID:5A969C93-2155-42CB-81A1-AE7A7335B122 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090109T200000 DTSTAMP:20081018T195002Z SUMMARY:Ear Shot Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090109T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Robert Roper\nNow the Drum of War\nWalker & Co\, $28\n\nDraw ing on the searing letters that Walt Whitman\, his brother George\, thei r mother Louisa\, and their other brothers wrote to each other during th e Civil War\, this work chronicles the experience of an archetypal Ameri can family enduring its own long crisis alongside the anguish of the nat ion\n\nBrooklyn Library\nBrooklyn Collection\nGrand Army Plaza\n7:00 pm\ nFree\n\n UID:BDC06FEB-3478-4F88-912D-23B6F867A6AF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090429T190000 DTSTAMP:20090324T191104Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090429T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:\nGarden Readings\n\nParticipants: Laila Lalami\, Morten Ram sland\, and Peter Weber\n\nJoin us under the trees in the beautiful cour tyard of Deutches Haus for a lunchtime reading with international guests of the festival.\n\nDeutches Haus\n42 Washington Mews\n12:30 pm UID:9691FF02-892D-4A82-88B6-71F5E84F71B3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090501T123000 DTSTAMP:20090402T171150Z SUMMARY:PEN World Voices Festival CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090501T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:The Knot Book of Wedding Lists: The Ultimate Guide to the Pe rfect Day\, Down to the Smallest Detail \nWith the most essential to-do lists in one easily accessible and portable spot\, this collection of Th eKnot.coms famous timelines and checklists is the ultimate organizing to ol brides-to-be are sure to turn to throughout the wedding planning proc ess.\nClarkson N Potter Publishers : $ 12.95\n\nCarley Roney is the co-f ounder and editor-in-chief of The Knot (www.theknot.com). Her fresh\, te ll-it-like-it-is approach to weddings has made The Knot the nation's fav orite wedding planning resource\, used by millions of couples each year. Carley has taken the hip style and up-to-date advice that made The Knot the #1 wedding website and launched "THE KNOT Weddings" magazine\, five popular wedding books\, and a television show\, "Real Weddings from The Knot\," Carley appears regularly on national television shows from "Opr ah "to NBC's" Today" to ABC's "The View\,"\n\nThe Roosevelt Hotel\n45 E. 45th St\nShow Floor\nbtw Madison Ave-Vanderbilt Ave.\n UID:9449A1D4-CE6D-4D66-B879-F505A5192BF2 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090323T173000 DTSTAMP:20090326T173624Z SUMMARY:Carley Roney : The Knot Book of Wedding Lista CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090323T183000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Karen Stabiner\nThe Empty Nest: 31 Parents Tell the Truth ab out Relationships\, Love\, and Freedom After Children Fly the Coop (Hype rion\, $24)\n\nA heartwarming\, wry\, and often surprising collection of essays from 31 writers about the next rite of passage for Baby Boomers: what happens when the kids leave home.\n\nBard High School\n525 E Houst on\n UID:65F9D8F9-8E90-4627-AF2B-33FC43B2A75E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080228T184500 DTSTAMP:20080226T224911Z SUMMARY:Karen Stabiner CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080228T204500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Half King\n\n\nTom Piazza\nCity of Refuge\nHarper\n$25\n\nFR EE\n7 pm\n\n\n505 W. 23rd UID:9EFE1891-D5E7-4C2F-B8EA-C16743DF9C26 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080908T190000 DTSTAMP:20080808T181321Z SUMMARY:Half King CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080908T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Carol Gilligan is an internationally acclaimed psychologist\ , feminist\, and writer who is considered a pioneer of the fiminist move ment. Her seminal work on gender studies\, in a Different voice\, which Harvard University Press described as "the little book that started a re volution\," has been traslated into many languagues and is studied in mo st universities.This year\, she publlished her first novel\, kyra\, to e xcellent reviews and is working on another novel. She holds distinguishe d positions at Harvard and N.Y.U. Ms. Gilligan will talk about fiction\, why she turned in this direction\, and about her afforts in writing Kyr a. there will be a book signing following her talk.\nCarol Gilligan rece ived her B.A. from Swathmore College summa cum laude in 1958 a master's degree in clinical psychology from Radcliff College in 1961\,\nand her d octorate in 1964 from Harvard University.She began her teaching career a t Harvard in 1967\, receiving tenure with the harvard Graduate School of Education in 1986\, and was appointed to Harvard's Patricia Alberg Grah am Chair in gender Sudies in 1997. Dr.Gilligan left Harvard in 2002 to t each at N.Y.U.\n\n\nHarvard Club\n27 w.44th St. UID:B3C714C1-BC12-46DD-82D6-7682CCE78324 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081029T183000 DTSTAMP:20080909T204205Z SUMMARY:Harvard Club with Carol Gilligan CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081029T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:\nMark Crispin Miller\n\nAuthor of The Bush Dyslexicon: Obes ervatons on a National Disorder\;Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New Wo rld Order.\n\nFREE\n\nBrooklyn Library\nDweck Auditorium\nGrand Army Pla za UID:E01B8520-CFF1-4045-A25E-433831A95F9F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081019T133000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204826Z SUMMARY:The American Presidency: Presidental Rhetoric CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081019T153000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Writing for Children Forum\n\nKate McMullan\nPearl and Wagne r: One Funny Day\nDial Books\, $14.99\n\nWagner tells Pearl an embarrass ing secret\, Pearl tells Wagner a surprising secret\, and Lulu tells Wag ner a secret that turns out not to be a secret at all. Pearl and Wagner learn that while some secrets can bring friends closer\, they can also c ause trouble. Full color.\n\nThe New School\n66 W. 12th Street\nRoom 510 \n6:30 pm\n$5\n\n\n UID:3347C672-B327-424D-8777-4B3F12C18573 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090210T183000 DTSTAMP:20090106T184642Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090210T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Half King Reading Series\n\nGreg Sanders\nMotel Girl\nRed He n Press\, $19.95\n\n"Motel Girl" amounts to an exploration of the contem porary laws of romance\, longing and sex\, of how the computerized\, bra nded universe is now fully integrated into the fabric of our thought and behavior. Join in the journey\, a frenetic and disarming joy ride. Take n as a whole\, these stories create a new paradigm for the American shor t story\, an expansion in narrative reach\, creative power\, and experim entation.\n\nThe Half King\n505 West 23rd Street\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n\n\n\ n UID:D2C9215B-F759-4FF1-86C8-EB0690960DA4 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090112T190000 DTSTAMP:20090107T153536Z SUMMARY:Half King CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090112T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Ken Wells\nTravels with Barley: The Quest for the Perfect Be er Joint \n(Berkley Publishing Group\, $15)\n5PM\nFREE\n\nEntertaining\, enlightening\, and written with Wells's trademark verve\, "Travels with Barley" takes readers down the $70 billion river flowing through the he art of the nation's commerce to provide an engrossing look at beer--a po tent force in American culture.\n\nBlind Tiger\n281 Bleecker (@ Jones)\n \n UID:3211B113-952F-4BFF-8368-A6BC83043C96 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080415T170000 DTSTAMP:20080331T171948Z SUMMARY:Ken Wells CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080415T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Amanda Hesser\nEat\, Memory: Great Writers at the Table\nNor ton\, $24.95\n\n"New York Times Magazine"-food editor Hesser has showcas ed the food-inspired recollections of some of America's leading writers. "Eat\, Memory" collects the 26 best stories and recipes from some of th e playwrights\, novelists\, and journalists featured in her column.\n\nB rooklyn Library\nDweck Center\nGrand Army Plaza\n4:00 pm\n UID:090B4C90-F50C-430D-BDB5-2773664974AC TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090124T160000 DTSTAMP:20081217T201112Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090124T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:The Abstinence Teacher \nElegantly and simply written\, "The Abstinence Teacher" illuminates the powerful emotions that run beneath the placid surface of modern family life\, and explores the complicated spiritual and sexual lives of ordinary people.\n\nTom Perrotta is the au thor of five previous works of fiction: Bad Haircut\, The Wishbones\, El ection\, and the "New York Times" bestselling Joe College and Little Chi ldren. Election was made into the acclaimed 1999 movie directed by Alexa nder Payne and starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon. Little Children was released as a movie directed by Todd Field and starring Kat e Winslet and Jennifer Connelly in 2006. Perrotta lives outside of Bosto n\, Massachusetts.\n\nPete's Candy Store\n709 Lorimer St.\nWilliamsburg\ ,Brooklyn\n UID:EE5B5699-C4F1-4EDE-931F-093BEE80DC56 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081016T193000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194958Z SUMMARY:Tom Perrotta at Pete's Candy Store CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081016T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:New School \n\nBrenda Wineapple\,Author of White Heat\;The F riendship of Emily Dickinson and thomas Wenworth Higginson\n\nRobert Pol ito\,moderator\n\nLocation TBA\n\n$5\; free for students/alumni UID:621FD25E-1692-4998-A502-7002BD2A77A8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081020T183000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204835Z SUMMARY:Non Fiction Forum CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081020T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Power and Sex\nAmerica's War on Sexual Rights\n\nFaye Wattle ton\nKatha Pollitt\nDazmar Herzoz\n\nProshansky Auditorium\nCUNY Graduat e Center for the Humanities\n365 5th Ave @ 34th St\n212 817-2005 UID:811100CA-077F-422B-9659-797B89E7C9DA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081117T193000 DTSTAMP:20081018T195002Z SUMMARY:CUNY CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081117T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Denise Duhamel\nKa-Ching!\nUniversity of Pittsburgh Press\, $14.95\n\n"Ka-Ching!" is a book of poems that explores America's obsessi on with money. It also includes a crown of sonnets about e-bay\, sestina s on the subjects of Sean Penn and the main characters of fairytales\, a pantoum that riffs on a childhood riddle\, and a villanelle inspired by bathroom grafitti.\n\nTwo and Two \nUniversity of Pittsburgh Press\, $1 4\n\nRanging in subject matter from traditional literary matter to Hong Kong action films\, the poems in this collection provide unusual perspec tives on American society.\n\nBar 13\n35 E. 13th street\n2nd floor\n7:30 pm\n\n UID:9FED94D6-7BDB-4620-A21F-8F96E3B14C18 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091207T193000 DTSTAMP:20090617T183251Z SUMMARY:louderARTS Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091207T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:14 TRANSP:OPAQUE UID:C23FCEEE-6422-4B8B-8B8A-5A5C1970294A DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070916T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195250Z SUMMARY:KGB-Fiction CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070916T210000 RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;INTERVAL=1;UNTIL=20071217T045959Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:13 DESCRIPTION:85 E 4th St\n\nWords Without Borders Anthology UID:C23FCEEE-6422-4B8B-8B8A-5A5C1970294A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071028T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195247Z SUMMARY:KGB-Fiction CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071028T210000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20071028T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:85 E 4th St\n\nJeff Parker-Ovenman\nMatt Marinovich-Strange Skies UID:C23FCEEE-6422-4B8B-8B8A-5A5C1970294A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070923T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195249Z SUMMARY:KGB-Fiction CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070923T210000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20070923T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:NO BOOKS TONIGHT UID:C23FCEEE-6422-4B8B-8B8A-5A5C1970294A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070930T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195249Z SUMMARY:KGB-Fiction CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070930T210000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20070930T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:85 E 4th St\n\nJill Bialosky-House Under Snow\nCharles Bock- Beautiful Children UID:C23FCEEE-6422-4B8B-8B8A-5A5C1970294A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195249Z SUMMARY:KGB-Fiction CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T210000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20071014T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:85 E 4th St\n\nElise Blackwell-Grub\nPoroshista Khapour-Sons and Other Flammable Objects UID:C23FCEEE-6422-4B8B-8B8A-5A5C1970294A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071007T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195249Z SUMMARY:KGB-Fiction CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071007T210000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20071007T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:85 E 4th St\n\nJoshua Furst-Sabotage Cafe\nDelia Sofer-Septe mbers of Shiraz UID:C23FCEEE-6422-4B8B-8B8A-5A5C1970294A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070916T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195249Z SUMMARY:KGB-Fiction CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070916T210000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20070916T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:85 E 4th St\n\nHarvard Lampoon Night-Short UID:C23FCEEE-6422-4B8B-8B8A-5A5C1970294A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071021T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195249Z SUMMARY:KGB-Fiction CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071021T210000 RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20071021T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:14 DESCRIPTION:Book Launch for Poets Out Loud Prize Winner: Darcie Dennigan \nCorinna A-Maying the Apocalypse (Fordham University Press\, $19)\n7:0 0 pm\nFREE\n\nCorinna\, A-Maying the Apocalypse simultaneously celebrate s and laments that we are butdecaying. Betraying a love of old poems and symbols and new words and forms\, these are poems where the moons sprit zing its perfumes and the phlegm is thick and fast over cities and Starb ucks and suburbs. The poet is in love with the rhythm of the man-made wo rld\, and the rhythm is so strong sometimes / it blows up the room.\n\nF ordham University\nLincoln Center Campus\n113 W 60th St\nPlaza Atrium\n UID:0EFCCC0B-492C-4CEA-A347-814661B91C5B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080305T190000 DTSTAMP:20080226T230011Z SUMMARY:Poets Out Loud CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080305T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:AAP Rooftop Events\n6:30PM\nFREE - RSVP @ rsvp@parks.nyc.gov \n\nOni Buchanan\nSpring\n(Univ of Illiniois\, $18)\n\nDarcie Dennigan\n Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse \n(Fordham\, $15)\n\nAbraham Smith\nComf ort One Another\n(Westminster John Knox Press\, $20)\n\nroof of the Arse nal Building at entrance of Central Park\, 64th St at 5th Ave UID:DF5C444A-05DF-4EBC-A4F7-3AACAA21498A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080805T183000 DTSTAMP:20080611T191327Z SUMMARY:AAP Rooftop Series CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080805T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:Art of Satire with The Economist and Second City\n\nEnjoy a fresh and hilarious look at politics when the weekly magazine The Econom ist partners with renowned comedy theatre troupe The Second City for a o ne-of-a-kind evening of engaging improv and hands-on cartooning featurin g The Economist's political cartoonist Kevin 'Kal' Kallaugher. Politics will never look the same again.\n\nItems\nSecond City Books and DVDS\nBo oks by Kevin "Kal" Kallaugher\nThe Economist Style Guide\n\nEdison Ballr oom\n240 West 47th Street UID:C0712370-969C-475B-9E1C-1DCF8E7F5854 TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.offthepage.economist.com DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081101T180000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194956Z SUMMARY:Art of Satire : Economist Day 1 CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081101T230000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:7:00 pm\nFREE\n\nHillary Jordan \nMudbound (Algonquin\, $23 )\n\nRachel Cline \nMy Liar (Random House\, $23)\n\nKGB BAR\n85 East 4t h Street UID:25B73C09-786B-446E-854B-BD7DF288E12C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080302T190000 DTSTAMP:20080219T184630Z SUMMARY:KGB Fiction CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080302T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:NAC Book event\n6PM\n6PM\ncontact nationalartsclub.org\n\nJe anne Safer\nDeath Benefits: How Losing a Parent Can Change an Adult's Li fe--For the Better \n(Basic Books\, $25)\n\nRichard Brookhiser\nWashingt on on Leadership\n(Basic\, $26)\n\nNational Arts Club\n15 Gramercy Park South\n UID:FB691F5C-784B-4FD8-9ECD-577CD68B45E6 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080605T180000 DTSTAMP:20080505T210214Z SUMMARY:National Arts Club - Safer and Brookhiser CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080605T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Beard on Books Reading Series\n\nAnnie Hauk-Lawson\, Jonatha n Deutsch and Mitchell Davis\nGastropolis\nColumbia University Press\, $ 29.95\n\nCompiling a portrait that's both fascinating and deliciously fu n\, Gastropolis explores the endlessly evolving relationship between New Yorkers and food.\n\nJames Beard House\n167 West 12th Street\n12:00 pm\ n$20 suggested donation for nonstudents\n\n UID:4E0ED0E0-060F-420B-99E5-0B305A7FAAFD TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090610T120000 DTSTAMP:20090107T161456Z SUMMARY:Beard on Books CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090610T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:13 DESCRIPTION:Poetry Salon\n4:00 pm\nFREE\n\nJohn Ashbery\nA Worldly Count ry: New Poems (Ecco\, $14)\n\nMarcella Durand\nWestern Capital Rhapsodie s\n\nCentral Branch\nGrand Army Plaza\nDweck Auditorium UID:41724B88-A100-4B0A-AAD2-A58DADC211B3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080419T160000 DTSTAMP:20080218T181216Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080419T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Fiction Forum\n\nMary Gaitskill\nDon't Cry\nPantheon Books\, $23.95\n\nFollowing the extraordinary success of her novel "Veronica\," Mary Gaitskill returns with a luminous new collection of stories--her f irst in more than ten years.\nIn "College Town l980\," young people adri ft in Ann Arbor debate the meaning of personal strength at the start of the Reagan era\; in the urban fairy tale "Mirrorball\," a young man stea ls a girl's soul during a one-night stand\; in "The Little Boy\," a woma n haunted by the death of her former husband is finally able to grieve t hrough a mysterious encounter with a needy child\; and in "The Arms and Legs of the Lake\," the fallout of the Iraq war becomes disturbingly rea l for the disparate passengers on a train going up the Hudson--three vet erans\, a liberal editor\, a soldier's uncle\, and honeymooners on their way to Niagara Falls. \nEach story delivers the powerful\, original lan guage\, and the dramatic engagement of the intelligent mind with the cra ving body--or of the intelligent body with the craving mind--that is cha racteristic of Gaitskill's fiction. As intense as "Bad Behavior\," her f irst collection of stories\, "Don't Cry" reflects the profound enrichmen t of life experience. As the stories unfold against the backdrop of Amer ican life over the last thirty years\, they describe how our social cons cience has evolved while basic human truths--"the crude cinder blocks of male and female down in the basement\, holding up the house\," as one c haracter puts it--remain unchanged.\n\nThe New School\n66 West 12th Stre et\nRoom 510\n6:30 pm\n$5\n\n\n UID:74A08B62-74E8-44E3-8675-0594C8A993B1 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090325T183000 DTSTAMP:20090106T191647Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090325T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice \nUniversity of California Press: $ 24.95\n\n Author: Bill Fletcher\n\nMore info to come.\n\n\nCUNY Graduate Center\nP olanski Auditorium\n365 5th Ave.\n@34th St. UID:2189E639-41A4-4787-ADC1-0D301D017810 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090328T100000 DTSTAMP:20090326T173626Z SUMMARY:Black woman and the radical tradition conference. CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090328T120000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Dr. Anne-Renee Testa\nThe Buly in Your Relationship: Stop Em otional Anuse and Get the Love You Deserve\n( McGraw-Hill Companies\, $2 3)\n6:30PM\nFREE\n\nAre you being bullied in your relationship?\n\nMaybe it's your husband\, wife\, partner\, boyfriend\, or girlfriend.\n\nMayb e you feel you're being belittled or berated\, manipulated\, or controll ed.\n\nMaybe you try to shrug it off\, telling yourself it's not so bad. \n\nThe truth is: You are a victim of emotional abuse--but you "don't" h ave to take it anymore.\n\nColumbia Club\n15 W 43rd St NY NY 10036\n212- 719-0380\nwww.columbiaclub.org\n\n UID:0C107577-E248-4362-BE1F-14D170393508 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080407T183000 DTSTAMP:20080229T205541Z SUMMARY:Columbia Club CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080407T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:NO APPLAUSE\, JUST THROW MONEY:\nTHE SHOW THAT MADE VAUDEVIL LE FAMOUS\n\nWritten by TRAV S.D.\n\nBased on Trav S.D. ‘s popular book No Applause\, Just Throw Money: the Book That Made Vaudeville Famous (Fa ber & Faber\, 2005)\, No Applause…The Show is an original variety revue with sketches and songs by Trav S.D.\, a core cast that includes Maggie Cino\, Leela Corman\, Gyda Arber\, Danny Bowes\, Michael Criscuolo\, Rog er Nasser\, Mike Rutkoski\, Scott Stiffler\, Art Wallace\, and special g uest stars from the cream of New York’s variety scene\, including Todd R obbins (Carnival Knowledge)\, Raven Snook\, Goddess Pearlman (Nice Jewis h Girls Gone Bad)\, the Maestrocities\, the Main Squeeze Pigtail Orchest ra\, and Mark Mitton. In addition\, the production will feature fight ch oreography by Qui Nyugen of the Vampire Cowboys. Set and costume design is by Julianne Kroboth.\n\nPerformances will be Thursday through Saturda ys at 8pm\, Sundays at 3pm\, September 18 through October 5. Tickets wil l be $12.\n\nAbout Trav S.D.: In addition to writing No Applause (which Margo Jefferson of the New York Times called “a must for your bookshelf” )\, Trav S.D. is the author of 50 plays which have been produced from Se attle to London\, including such venues as Joe’s Pub\, LaMama\, Theater for the New City and the Portland Stage Company. He has published 200+ a rticles in such publications as the Village Voice\, Time Out New York\, American Theatre\, the New York Sun\, Reason\, and many others. He also hosts the popular Indie Theatre Now! podcast on nytheatre.com. Since 199 6\, his American Vaudeville Theatre has presented hundred of top variety acts and other performing artists\, including Todd Robbins\, the World Famous Bob\, Dirty Martini\, Lizzie West\, Reverend Billy\, Howard Fishm an\, Rev Jen\, Red Bastard\, Jennifer Miller\, Bindlestiff Family Cirkus \, et al\, at venues such as Galapagos\, New-York Historical Society\, S urf Reality\, and countless others.\n\nTheater for the New City\n155 Fir st Avenue\n(between 9th and 10th Streets)\nRSV : (212) 254-1109\n\n\n \n \n\n\n UID:25CFE143-2694-49BE-A540-A116E8F0511C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081003T200000 DTSTAMP:20080915T165018Z SUMMARY:No Applause--Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Fam ous CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081003T230000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Irina Reyn with her 2 books\n\nLiving on the Edge of the Wor ld: New Jersey Writers Take on the Garden State \nOffering a literary di mension to the New Jersey Renaissance\, this anthology of pieces by some of the states best and brightest take readers to just about every corne r of the state\, paying tribute to its unique place in the cultural cons ciousness.\nTouchstones Book\,$14\n\nWhat Happened to Anna K. \nThis deb ut novel--declared as wondrous a feat as I can recall in contemporary fi ction (Darin Strauss\, author of "Chang and Eng")--skillfully retells th e classic tragedy of "Anna Karenina" by setting it in present-day New Yo rk City within a community of Russian-Jewish immigrants\n(Touchstone Boo ks\,$ 24.00)\n\nAdmission$5.00+one free drink\n\nEarshot\nLucky Cat \n24 5 Grand Street \n(b/w Driggs & Roebling)\nBrooklyn\n\n\n\n UID:DFC71FA6-B763-47CE-9308-C7C1552BD23F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080926T200000 DTSTAMP:20080910T174857Z SUMMARY:Earshot CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080926T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:6-7:30\n\nThe Language of Fear: A Pen America Vent\n\nPartic ipants: Guillermo Fadanelli\, Wayne Koestenbaum\, Colum McCann\, Kathrin Roggla\, and Anya Ulinich\n\nFranklin Roosevelt's famous declaration ab out "fear itself" is being quoted more than ever. So how does a climate of fear affect the lives of writers - and the life of literature? The new issue of PEN's award-winning journal\, PEN America\, examines these questions and many others. Several of the journal's recent contributor s reflect on the life of writer and the language of fear at moments of c hange and uncertainty.\n\nCUNY Graduate Center\nMartin E. Segal Theater\ n6:00 pm\n UID:FB374E22-0703-4EFE-ADE0-DD50570EA06B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090501T180000 DTSTAMP:20090402T183427Z SUMMARY:PEN World Voices Festival CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090501T193000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Jana Levin\nA Madman Dreams of Turing Machines \n(Anchor\, $ 14)\n7PM\n\nKurt Godel's Incompleteness Theorems sent shivers through Vi enna's intellectual circles and directly challenged Ludwig Wittgenstein' s dominant philosophy. Alan Turing's mathematical genius helped him brea k the Nazi Enigma Code during WWII. Though they never met\, their lives strangely mirrored one another--both were brilliant\, and both met with tragic ends. Here\, a mysterious narrator intertwines these parallel liv es into a double helix of genius and anguish\, wonderfully capturing not only two radiant\, fragile minds but also the zeitgeist of the era.\n\n LOCATION TBA\n UID:DE2F64E9-51C2-4C68-AA58-B845181A712B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080403T190000 DTSTAMP:20080326T210237Z SUMMARY:Columbia U CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080403T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Matt McAllester\nBittersweet: Lessons from My Mother's Kitch en\nDial Press\, $25\n\nA Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist discovers a portal to the past and a bridge to the future in this tribute to a mothe r who poured her love into everything she cooked and gave her children\, in their first years\, enough to nourish them forever. Family photograp hs and 12 recipes are included.\n\nHalf King\n505 West 23rd Street\n7:00 pm\n UID:1562FE3D-3713-4375-92B5-8777DB04C0C4 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090511T190000 DTSTAMP:20090423T165500Z SUMMARY:Half King CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090511T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Guerilla Lit Reading Series\n\nGreg Sanders\nMotel Girl\nRed Hen Press\, $19.95\n\n"Motel Girl" amounts to an exploration of the con temporary laws of romance\, longing and sex\, of how the computerized\, branded universe is now fully integrated into the fabric of our thought and behavior. Join in the journey\, a frenetic and disarming joy ride. T aken as a whole\, these stories create a new paradigm for the American s hort story\, an expansion in narrative reach\, creative power\, and expe rimentation.\n\nBar on A\n170 Avenue A at 11th Street\n7:30 pm\nFree UID:BEE42D55-D166-463B-B8C6-18ABBA736CB8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090128T193000 DTSTAMP:20090107T154040Z SUMMARY:Guerilla Lit Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090128T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:In the exuberant\, down-to-earth voice that is her trademark \, Black explains how she achieved "the 360 life"--a blend of profession al accomplishment and personal contentment--and how any woman can seize opportunity in the workplace.\n(Three Rivers Press(CA)\,$14.95)\n\nCATHI E BLACK heads Hearst Magazines\, a division of Hearst Corporation. She m anages the financial performance and development of some of the industry 's best-known magazines\, including "Cosmopolitan\,"" Esquire\,"" Good H ousekeeping\,"" Harper's Bazaar\,"" "and" O\,"" the Oprah Magazine\," Bl ack made publishing history in 1979 as the first woman publisher of a we ekly consumer magazine\, New York\, and she is widely credited for the s uccess of "USA Today\," where for eight years\, starting in 1983\, she w as first president\, then publisher. Before joining Hearst\, she also se rved five years as president and CEO of the Newspaper Association of Ame rica. She lives in New York with her husband\, son\, and daughter.\n\n\n \nEcon Woman Conference\nEdison Ballroom\n240 W47th St. UID:E575D995-2F45-4A5A-9D64-518396474201 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081029T150000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204835Z SUMMARY:Basic Black: The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life) CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081029T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:7:00 pm \nFREE\n\nThe Half King\n505 W 23rd St UID:98151B0D-077E-42BF-9E93-CF2576F08926 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080414T190000 DTSTAMP:20080313T002521Z SUMMARY:The Half King CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080414T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Martin Nakell\nA professor of literature at Chapman Universi ty in California\n\nRebecca Goodman\nThe Surface of Motion\n(Green Integ er Series) \n\nSteve Katz\nOne of the most difficult to label American f iction writers\, Steve Katz is the author of the trilogy Wier & Pounce\, Swanny's Way and Florry of Washington Heights. He is currently a profes sor of Creative Writing at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Notably i n a league all his own.\n\nFREE\n7 pm\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4th Street UID:7A7C4D99-E3B2-4E93-95B3-3105FF4FB9D4 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081212T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204832Z SUMMARY:KGB Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081212T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Gary David Goldberg\nSit\, Ubu\, Sit: How I Went from Brookl yn to Hollywood with the Same Woman\, the Same Dog\, and a Lot Less Hair (Harmony\, $24)\n2:00 pm\n\nTelevision scriptwriter and producer Goldbe rg\, the creator of such beloved shows as "Family Ties" and "Spin City\, " recalls the road to his success that took him from Brooklyn to Hollywo od with his longtime partner Diana and their Labrador\, Ubu.\n\nMarks Je wish Community House of Bensonhurst\n7802 Bay Parkway\nBrooklyn\nhttp:// www.jchb.org/\n\n\n\n UID:0CF6E4E5-DAE2-40D7-9C1F-B72978B7654B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080330T140000 DTSTAMP:20080220T202644Z SUMMARY:Marks JCH CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080330T160000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:LAUNCH SEPTEMBER 2008 TO MARK THE \n100 TH ANNIVERSARY OF TH E LAUNCH OF HENRY FORD’’’’S MODEL T \n \nC A R C H I TE C T U R E is a unique compilation of extraordinary cars--industrial "architecture"--and \nworld-class photography\, for a vast audience. Photographers/authors Fredric Winkowski and Frank \nSullivan explore the magnificent machines and their artful components—machines these author/photographers have bee n documenting for more than 25 years. They present gorgeous and volumino us automotive details with great clarity and precision\; details sometim es otherwise \noverlooked: long torpedo bodies\, sweeping clamshell fend ers\, sculpted tail fins\, and distinctive colors and styles that make t he cars here--along with this book\, itself-collector's items and a gift for \nthe automobile aficionado. \nWinkowski and Sullivan discover a ti meless presence in the magnificent machines photographed.Growing up in t he 1950s Winkowski and Sullivan experienced the car-crazed America of th e times. \nThrough their eyes\, these automobiles became a distinct art form during a time when the car began to symbolize expression of self\, and freedom. It was during this time that the automobile became a social commodity\, displayed for purposes of admiration and prestige. The magi cal era in which the authors grew up demonstrates itself through creativ e outlook and appreciation for automobiles. CARCHITECTURE is the first b ook on the market to look at the individual facets of car design as high art.While many books exist on the collector's value or beauty of the ca r itself\, this lens and commentary is much more specific and makes f\no r much more compelling visuals.\n\nAbout the author/photographers: \nFre dric Winkowski and Frank D. Sullivan have collaborated frequently on the subject of transport. \nWinkowski is an art director\, illustrator\, ph otographer\, and author\, and as former art director for books\, he brin gs a focused professional sensibility to both editorial and visual aspec ts of any project. \nFrank D. Sullivan is a designer\, writer\, and phot ographer. Both authors live with their families in New York City. \n\nS pectator Fees $20 per car\n\nThe Vanderbilt Races \n5 Sinclair Martin Dr ive\nRoslyn\,Longisland\n \n UID:ABD42E62-F333-4CC3-BB37-6ECF5DD56BB2 TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/25156/Carchitecture%20Final.pdf DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081019T090000 DTSTAMP:20080908T173740Z SUMMARY:Carchitecture:500Photographs by Fred Winskowski CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081019T160000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:0 DESCRIPTION:Richard Goodman\nThe Soul of Creative Writing \n(Transaction Pub\, $35)\n\nGoodman has written articles and essays for the New York Times\, Vanity Fair\, Commonweal\, Saveur\, Garden Design\, the Michigan Quarterly Review\, Creative Nonfiction\, and Salon.com. He has twice be en the recipient of a MacDowell Colony Residency.\n\nAlane Mason\n(Edito r at Words Without Borders)\nWords Without Borders: The World Through th e Eyes of Writers: An Anthology \n(Anchor Books\, $14)\n\nFeaturing the work of more than 28 writers from upwards of 20 countries\, "Words Witho ut Borders: The World through the Eyes of Writers "transports us to the frontiers of the new literature for the twenty-first century. \n\nRichar d Hoffman\nHald the House\n(New Rivers Press\, $15)\n\nThe hardcover pub lication of this unflinching memoir resulted in the arrest of an alleged child molester and the following headline: "Author's Writing on Abuse B rings New Victims Forward." In a new afterword to this tenth-anniversary edition from New Rivers Press\, Richard Hoffman writes about the events his book set in motion\, the cries for help he received from men across the country\, and the talk he had with an 11-year-old boy who thanked h im "for making it stop."\n\n4PM\n$7 DONATION\n\nHudson View Gardens\nThe Lounge at Hudson View Gardens\nPinehurst Ave @ 183rd St.\n\n\n UID:261BE88E-459B-4DE8-8386-7ED728E2B21D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080615T160000 DTSTAMP:20080426T005801Z SUMMARY:Sunday Best Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080615T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Our Bodies\, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth (Touchstone Book s\, $15)\n\nJudy Norsigian will take part in a discussion of birth today sponsored by Brooklyn College. \n \nBrooklyn College Grad Center\n25 Br oadway\nLower Manhattan UID:246B88D7-6D4C-4DBD-8E69-E52FF555050D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080303T173000 DTSTAMP:20080215T210417Z SUMMARY:Our Bodies\, Ourselves: Pregnancy CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080303T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:TONY ROTHMAN \nA physicist and writer. He is the author of s even other critically acclaimed science books and a frequent contributor to leading science publications\, including Scientific American and Dis cover.\n\nEverything's Relative: And Other Fables from Science and Techn ology\nThe surprising truth behind many of the most cherished "facts" in science history\nMorse invented the telegraph\, Bell the telephone\, Ed ison the light bulb\, and Marconi the radio . . . right? Well . . . the truth is slightly more complicated. The history of science and technolog y is riddled with apocrypha\, inaccuracies\, and falsehoods\, and physic ist Tony Rothman has taken it upon himself to throw a monkey wrench into the works. Combining a storyteller's gifts with a scientist's focus and hardheaded devotion to the facts-such as they may be-Rothman breaks dow n many of the most famous "just-so" stories of physics\, astronomy\, che mistry\, biology\, and technology to give credit where credit is truly d ue. From Einstein's possible misunderstanding of his own theories to act ress Hedy Lemarr's role in the invention of the radio-controlled torpedo \, he dredges his way through the legends of science history in relating the fascinating stories behind some of the most important\, and often u nsung\, breakthroughs in science.\nTony Rothman\, PhD (Bryn Mawr\, PA)\, is a Research Associate at Bryn Mawr College. He is the author of seven other critically acclaimed science books and a frequent contributor to leading science publications\, including Scientific American and Discove r. \n(Wiley\,$25)\n\n\nInstant Physics: From Aristotle to Einstein\, and Beyond \nFor everyone who breaks out in a sweat at the thought of therm odynamics or quantum mechanics\, now there's a concise and comprehensive text that's the ideal remedial remedy--guaranteed to produce advanced r esults. Filled with features such as chapter summaries\, a who's who lis t\, and biographical and historical tidbits\, plus illustrations\, photo s\, equations\, and diagrams.\n(Random\,$13)\n\nThe Bell House\n149 7th Street\nBetween 2nd and 3rd Aves\nGowanus\, Brooklyn\n UID:3CD787B8-082B-4C8A-AE2F-FF60D9E39A6D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081001T200000 DTSTAMP:20080912T184305Z SUMMARY:Secret Science Club CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081001T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Reading & panel discussion by the following authors -\n\nLor e Segal : Shakespeare's Kitchen\n\nBruno Schwebel : As Luck Would have i t. My Exile in France and Mexico. Recollections and Stories \n\nLeo Spit zer : Hotel Bolivia\n\nEva Kollisch : The Ground under my feet\n\nCarol Ascher : Afterimages\n\nAustrian Cultural Forum\n11 E 52nd St.\nbtw 5th - Madison Ave.\n UID:FC02D1F8-1FD0-46AA-8951-CC6BA358D716 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090205T183000 DTSTAMP:20081211T215717Z SUMMARY:Panel discussion at Austrian Cultural Forum CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090205T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Fred Opie\nHog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America\ nColumbia University Press\, $24.95\n\nMid Manhattan Library\n455 5th Av enue\n6:30 pm\n UID:27E689FC-EDBD-462F-A0D7-53688B76069F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090615T183000 DTSTAMP:20090528T160215Z SUMMARY:Mid-Manhattan Library CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090615T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Andrew Rice\nThe Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forg et: Murder and Memory in Uganda\nMetropolitan Books\, $26\n\nFrom Rwanda to Sierra Leone\, African countries recovering from tyranny and war are facing an impossible dilemma: to overlook past atrocities for the sake of peace or to seek catharsis through tribunals and truth commissions. I n this work\, Rice reports on Idi Amin's legacy and the limits of reconc iliation.\n\nHalf King\n505 West 23rd Street\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n\n\n UID:FF0F86CB-A70B-4517-B085-838043EE0BD7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090608T190000 DTSTAMP:20090423T170203Z SUMMARY:Half King CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090608T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Adrienne Aurichio \nA Time It Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixt ies \n(HNA\, $30)\nRSVP at 212 677 5031\n6PM\n\nRenowned "Life" photogra pher Eppridge followed and photographed Robert Kennedy during his early campaign days up to his untimely death. "A Time It Was" features dynamic images of the public Kennedy\, as well as rare\, intimate photographs\, some never before published.\n\nBathhouse Studio\n540 E 11th St UID:61DFDB21-BD7B-476F-8E91-9D11AE057D5B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080604T180000 DTSTAMP:20080522T194353Z SUMMARY:Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080604T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Poetry Forum\n\nMichael Dumanis\nMy Soviet Union\nUniversity of Massachusetts Press\, $14.95\n\nThe speaker of the simultaneously fu nny and devastating poems in this remarkable first collection comes from a country that\, like the Soviet Union\, no longer exists\, a place he treats with a mixture of nostalgia\, disdain\, and bewilderment as he st rives to achieve a sense of order in his current disordered environment\ , a post-apocalyptic landscape with striking similarities to our own.\n\ nThe New School\n66 West 12th Street\nRoom 510\n6:30 pm\n$5\n UID:6D253B2D-6E31-4335-BC27-7085A295BA64 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090414T183000 DTSTAMP:20090106T211943Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090414T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Resonances: Writers on the Great Works\n\nParticipants: Muri el Barbery\, Salwa Al Neimi\, Jose Manuel Prieto\, George Packer\, and A ntonio Tabucchi\n\nEsther Allen\, Moderator\n\nHow does literature stay alive? How does writing from the past persist\, influence\, and spark c ontemporary writers and their work? Join us for a discussion about the voices of the long-dead and how they continue to whisper to readers and writers and exert their presence from the grave.\n\nBaruch College\nWil liam and Anita Vertical Campus\n55 Lexington Avenue\n2:30 pm UID:BBF53D03-2DA7-47D9-B585-1D9EE1D01BEF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090428T143000 DTSTAMP:20090402T161823Z SUMMARY:PEN World Voices Festival CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090428T160000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:The 30-Day Diabetes Miracle Cookbook: Stop Diabetes with an Easy-To-Follow Plant-Based\, Carb-Counting Diet (Perigree\, $20)\n\nThe Grand Prospect Hall\nChopin Ballroom\n263 Prospect Avenue\nBrooklyn UID:6F9E7927-F2A4-4662-AACF-D3423DF0F08C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080313T180000 DTSTAMP:20080228T211138Z SUMMARY:30-Day Diabetes Miracle Cookbook CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080313T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:WNBA Panel: Food Books for Every Food Lover's Palate\n\nJane Murphy\nThe Great Big Burger Book\nHarvard Common Press\, $15.95\n\nCat hy Kaufman\nCooking in Ancient Civilizations\nGreenwood Press\, $45\n\nL ara Vapnyar\nBroccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love\nPantheon Books\, $20\n\nJefferson Market Library\n425 6th Avenue at 10th Street\n6:30 pm \n UID:AC0881FA-3D69-40E0-96D9-2548710F4091 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090415T183000 DTSTAMP:20090212T200831Z SUMMARY:Food Books for Every Food Lover CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090415T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:FUSE CONFERENCE\n8:45AM - 5:15PM\n\nMalcolm Gladwell\nBlink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking \n(Back Bay\, $16)\n\n\n Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology\, the author shows how the difference between good and bad decision-making has nothing to do with h ow much information can be processed quickly\, but on the few particular details on which people focus.\n\n\nMilton Glaser\nArt is Work\n(Overlo ok\, $45)\n\nTwenty years after "Milton Glaser Graphic Design"\, the lon gest-selling design book in publishing history\, the distinguished desig ner looks to the future. Examples of well-known projects abound\, from n ewspapers and magazines to toys\, textiles\, interiors\, posters\, and C D covers.\n\nDebbie Millman\nThe Essential Principles of Graphic Design\ n(How\, $35)\n\nFrom the basic principles of good design and the specifi c building blocks of graphic design to research methods and best practic e in project management\, readers will learn about the wide ranging area s of design\, and find out about options for employment that are out the re. The book includes chapters on illustrations and photographs\, includ ing advice about sourcing images and the vital issues of usage and copyr ight.\n\nFUSE Conference\n\nPier 60\n60 Chelsea Piers\nNew York\, NY 100 11\n(212) 336-6060\n\n UID:D2F47F79-BC23-47EF-A3E8-6473A2919056 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080415T084500 DTSTAMP:20080319T204456Z SUMMARY:FUSE Conference CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080415T171500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Jeffery Deaver\nThe Bodies Left Behind\nSimon & Schuster\, $ 26.95\n\nAn original cast of characters and ticking-bomb suspense highli ght this thriller that is both a virtual cat-and-mouse chase in real-tim e and a harrowing look at the consequences of heartless evil.\n\nMarymou nt Manhattan College\n221 East 71st Street\nRegina Peruggi Room\n7:30 pm \n\n UID:1C5D481D-7461-4EB7-A2F5-64EB125F00B6 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090319T193000 DTSTAMP:20081117T201408Z SUMMARY:Marymount Manhattan CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090319T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:NYU Torch Club\n\nFace to Face Face to Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World \n(Fireside Books\,$14.95)\n\nSusan RoAne is a highly sought-after keynote speaker and the bestselling author of "How To Work a Room "and "The Secrets of Savvy Networking\," She has been quoted in the "New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, Washington Post\, Financial Times of London\, Chicago Tribune\, Entrepreneur\, Newsweek\, Working Mo ther\, Cosmopolitan\, "and "Maxim\," She's appeared on CNN\, CNBC\, NPR\ , Bloomberg Radio\, CBC\, and BBC. She lives outside San Francisco.\n\nN YU Torch Club\n18 wavely Place UID:9267ACFA-7A0E-416C-B189-72ECF46CF39F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081028T183000 DTSTAMP:20080917T193657Z SUMMARY:Face to Face Face to Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081028T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Womanhood Passage: Meet the Women Hip-Hop Pioneers\n\nThembi sa Mshaka\nPut Your Dreams First\nBusiness Plus\, $16.99\n\nIn this high ly informative guide\, Mshaka uses her 15 years of experience in the mus ic industry to expose the hidden truths that women need to know as they aspire toward entertainment careers\, including how to avoid compromisin g one's self-respect and the little-known fact that women run a large pa rt of the business.\n\nThe evening will feature hip-hop notables includi ng Monie Love\, Roxanne Shante\, and more!\n\nKimmel Center\nRosenthal P avilion\nNYU\n60 Washington Sq. South\n7:00 pm\n\n UID:D811BBEC-A067-405B-9AE2-9EE10B247510 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090625T190000 DTSTAMP:20090612T195824Z SUMMARY:Womanhood Passage CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090625T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:8PM\nFREE\n\nStefan Fatsis\nAnatomy of Baseball\n(Southern M ethodist University Press\, $23)\n\nSTEFAN FATSIS is a staff reporter fo r the Wall Street Journal \nand a regular commentator on NPR's All Thing s Considered.\n\nJonathan Mayo\nFacing Clemens: Hitters on Confronting B aseball's Most Intimidating Pitcher \n(Lyons Press\, $17)\n\nA fascinati ng look at Roger Clemens\, in the words of those who have had to face hi m at various times in his career\, from All Stars (Cal Ripken\, Jr.\, To rii Hunter) to rookies and even Clemens' eldest son.\n\nCait Murphy\nCra zy '08: How a Cast of Cranks\, Rogues\, Boneheads\, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History \n(Collins\, $15)\n\n"Crazy '08" recounts the Chicago Cubs' 1908 season--the year of the greatest pennant race the National League has ever seen. In addition to telling the exci ting story of a great season\, this work also chronicles the forces that created modern baseball and the America that produced it.\n\nHappy Endi ng Reading Series\n302 E Broome St UID:DB9603FA-72A2-4F2D-A73E-7B25605584DA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080403T200000 DTSTAMP:20080324T153739Z SUMMARY:Varsity Letters CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080403T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:William Doyle\nAn American Insurrection: James Meredith and the Battle of Oxford\, Mississippi\, 1962\n(Anchor\, $16)\nMEMBERS\n7PM\ n\nIn 1962\, James Meredith tried to integrate the University of Mississ ippi and ignited an armed white rebellion. This riveting book recreates the day the country went to war against itself. 16-page photo insert.\n\ nCity Bar\n42 West 44th Street UID:4EBB77A0-F085-416A-8BA7-462298AD3967 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080618T190000 DTSTAMP:20080527T212102Z SUMMARY:William Doyle at City Bar CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080618T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:14 DESCRIPTION:Review 78 Launch Party\n\nNelly Rosario\nSong of the Water S aints\nVintage\, $12.95\n\nCristina Garcia\nA Handbook To Luck\nVintage\ , $13.95\n\nMonkey Hunting \nBallantine Books\, $13.95\n\nFrancisco Gold man\nThe Divine Husband\nGrove Press\, $14\n\nThe Art of Political Murde r: Who Killed the Bishop? \nGrove Press\, $15\n\nGustavo Perez Firmat\nS car Tissue\nBilingual Review Press\, $12\n\nTongue Ties: Logo-Eroticism in Anglo-Hispanic Literature\nMPS\, $30\n\nAmericas Society\n680 Park Av enue\n7:00 pm UID:4ADE9178-B706-4211-A6E3-C8485BC1E8F1 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090514T190000 DTSTAMP:20090126T185408Z SUMMARY:Americas Society CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090514T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Word Theatre Reading Series \n\nBrian Cox will host and read "The Problem of Human Consumption" by Steve Almond\n\nTBA will read "Sh epherdess" by Dan Chaon\n\nTBA will read a story by Susan Orlean\n\nMore to come.\n\nSoHo House\n29-35 9th Avenue\n3:00 pm UID:FDC5541A-55D0-4727-8562-2EBE1D699D1A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090503T150000 DTSTAMP:20090202T200440Z SUMMARY:Word Theatre CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090503T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:Producer and Writer Linda Hoaglund screens her film Wings of Defeat.\n\nRobert Polito\,moderator\n\n66 W 12th St\nroom 510\n\n$5\; f ree for students/alumni\n UID:F5E55BCA-3356-43D6-90E6-251DFD1B1EA1 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081110T180000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204832Z SUMMARY:New School Forum CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081110T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:True Crime\n\nT.J. English\nHavana Nocturne\nWilliam Morrow & Co\, $27.95\n\nAn award-winning journalist and historian offers the co mplete story of how the Mob infiltrated Havana in the 1950s\, made a for tune--and lost it all to Fidel Castro. 16-page b&w photo insert.\n\nBroo klyn Library\nDweck Center\nGrand Army Plaza\n1:30 pm\nFree\n UID:A4F10586-AC73-40E4-B532-971B19A9D227 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090322T133000 DTSTAMP:20081217T214913Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090322T153000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:13 DESCRIPTION:72 Things Younger Than John McCain \n\n"I have the courage\, the wisdom\, the experience\, and most importantly\, the oldness necess ary."\n\n-- John McCain\, "Saturday Night Live\," May 17\, 2008\n\nJohn McCain may have been joking during his guest appearance on Saturday Nigh t Live\, but it is true that\, if elected\, at age 72 he will have more oldness on his side than any person ever inaugurated as a first-term pre sident of the United States.\n\n"72 Things Younger Than John McCain" tak es a lighthearted look at all that's come into existence since John McCa in was born so many\, many\, many years ago\, including:\n\nThe Jefferso n Memorial\nDuct Tape\nNachos\nChocolate-Chip Cookies\nArea Codes\nSocia l Security\n\nBased on Joe Quint's popular blog\, "72 Things Younger Tha n John McCain" also contains humorous photos and interesting trivia that highlight the events\, milestones\, inventions\, and people that make u p American pop-culture history since McCain was born on August 29\, 1936 . There's also a bonus section (albeit a very short one) of Things Older Than McCain!\n\nAuthor : Joe Quint \n\nJoe Quint will be a special gues t interviewed by comics follow by Stand up / Presentation interview and then get into debate.\n\n\nfree admission\n\nThe Tank@DCTV\n87 Lafayette St. \nbtw Walker and White. UID:1130CB8B-E82C-4A74-957A-542FA8BA8A9E TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:http://thetanknyc.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080926T193000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194959Z SUMMARY:Laughing Liberally CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080926T213000 LOCATION:The END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:KGB Fiction\n7:00 pm\nFREE \n\nJoshua Cohen \nA Heaven of Ot hers\n\nKeith Gessen \nAll the Sad Young Literary Men\n\nhttp://www.kgb bar.com/calendar/event/2008-03-09_fiction_keith_g.html\n\nKGB Bar\n85 Ea st 4th Street\n\n UID:DFB6579F-53D1-43F1-A82E-92D57938BF75 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080309T190000 DTSTAMP:20080226T233601Z SUMMARY:KGB - Fiction CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080309T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:NO APPLAUSE\, JUST THROW MONEY:\nTHE SHOW THAT MADE VAUDEVIL LE FAMOUS\n\nWritten by TRAV S.D.\n\nBased on Trav S.D. ‘s popular book No Applause\, Just Throw Money: the Book That Made Vaudeville Famous (Fa ber & Faber\, 2005)\, No Applause…The Show is an original variety revue with sketches and songs by Trav S.D.\, a core cast that includes Maggie Cino\, Leela Corman\, Gyda Arber\, Danny Bowes\, Michael Criscuolo\, Rog er Nasser\, Mike Rutkoski\, Scott Stiffler\, Art Wallace\, and special g uest stars from the cream of New York’s variety scene\, including Todd R obbins (Carnival Knowledge)\, Raven Snook\, Goddess Pearlman (Nice Jewis h Girls Gone Bad)\, the Maestrocities\, the Main Squeeze Pigtail Orchest ra\, and Mark Mitton. In addition\, the production will feature fight ch oreography by Qui Nyugen of the Vampire Cowboys. Set and costume design is by Julianne Kroboth.\n\nPerformances will be Thursday through Saturda ys at 8pm\, Sundays at 3pm\, September 18 through October 5. Tickets wil l be $12.\n\nAbout Trav S.D.: In addition to writing No Applause (which Margo Jefferson of the New York Times called “a must for your bookshelf” )\, Trav S.D. is the author of 50 plays which have been produced from Se attle to London\, including such venues as Joe’s Pub\, LaMama\, Theater for the New City and the Portland Stage Company. He has published 200+ a rticles in such publications as the Village Voice\, Time Out New York\, American Theatre\, the New York Sun\, Reason\, and many others. He also hosts the popular Indie Theatre Now! podcast on nytheatre.com. Since 199 6\, his American Vaudeville Theatre has presented hundred of top variety acts and other performing artists\, including Todd Robbins\, the World Famous Bob\, Dirty Martini\, Lizzie West\, Reverend Billy\, Howard Fishm an\, Rev Jen\, Red Bastard\, Jennifer Miller\, Bindlestiff Family Cirkus \, et al\, at venues such as Galapagos\, New-York Historical Society\, S urf Reality\, and countless others.\n\nTheater for the New City\n155 Fir st Avenue\n(between 9th and 10th Streets)\nRSV : (212) 254-1109\n\n\n \n \n\n\n UID:07149E7D-2755-4262-87E5-8A0B6A3BEABE TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080920T200000 DTSTAMP:20080915T165018Z SUMMARY:No Applause--Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Fam ous CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080920T230000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Jayne Anne Phillips\nLark & Termite\nKnopf\, $24\n\nPhillips 's first novel in nine years is a rich\, many-layered work. Set in the 1 950s in West Virginia and Korea\, it is a story of the power of loss and love\, the echoing ramifications of war\, family secrets\, dreams and g hosts\, and the unseen\, almost magical bonds that unite and sustain fam ilies.\n\nBinnie Kirshenbaum\nThe Scenic Route\nHarper\, $13.99\n\nKGB \ n85 E. 4th Street\n7:00 pm\nFree UID:429F8594-CE52-47F5-AB43-4684B775C5C8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090118T190000 DTSTAMP:20081216T210515Z SUMMARY:KGB Fiction CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090118T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Liza Monroy\nMexican High\nSpiegal & Grau\, $14\n\nMonroy's memorable debut novel is an eye-opening\, coming-of-age story about iden tity\, belonging\, and first love. In a setting rife with sex\, drugs\, and political corruption\, it is also a revealing look at elite Mexican society and its freedoms and excesses.\n\nRoots & Vines Cafe\n409 Grand Street at Clinton\n7:30 pm\nFree\n\n UID:2FA6AC95-6987-4CD9-AA0F-252D9DEECBC3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090709T193000 DTSTAMP:20090612T200050Z SUMMARY:Roots & Vines Cafe CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090709T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Gritty Mysteries Set in New York City\n\nFive award-winning and bestselling authors of crime and mystery discuss the way the greates t city of them all becomes a character in their books\n\n\nFeaturing:\nP aul LaRosa\nPeter Blauner\nCarol Higgins Clark\nAnnette Meyers\nElizabet h Zelvin\n\nNew York Mid-Manhattan Library\n40th Street and 5th Avenue\n 212-340-0837 UID:EA16A893-AE58-49A2-AA02-0EF5813B9451 TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:www.nypl.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080916T183000 DTSTAMP:20080818T174720Z SUMMARY:Mid-Manhattan Library CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080916T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Happy Ending Reading Series with several authors :\n\nJenny Block\nOpen : Love\, Sex\, and Life in an Open Marriage \n\nRachel Krame r Bussel \nSpanked : Red-Cheeked Erotica\nThe Mile High Club : Plane Sex Stories\nDonot DIsturb : Hotel Sex Stories\n\nKyria Abrahams\nI'm a per fect you're Doomed\n\nEmily Farris\nCasserole Crazy\n\nMegan Hart\nStran ger \nDirty\n\nSarah Wendell\nBeyond Heaving Bosoms\n\nHappy Ending\n302 Broom St\n\n UID:E0386940-B4C1-4B00-814E-0CDD67917A2D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090416T200000 DTSTAMP:20090326T173632Z SUMMARY:Happy Ending Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090416T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Launch party for the \nTCM International Film Guide 2008\n\n 6-9PM\nFREE\n\nBar 13\n35 E 13th St. UID:27BC92BF-AF9D-4C3D-A9E0-A73964F5B28F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080429T180000 DTSTAMP:20080415T193824Z SUMMARY:TCM Launch party @ Bar 13 CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080429T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Jack M. Balkin\nThe Constitution in 2020\nOxford University Press\, $19.95\n\nThe Constitution in 2020 is a powerful blueprint for i mplementing a more progressive vision of constitutional law in the years ahead. Edited by two of America's leading constitutional scholars\, the book provides a new framework for addressing the most important constit utional issues of the future in clear\, accessible language. Featuring s ome of America's finest legal minds--Cass Sunstein\, Bruce Ackerman\, Ro bert Post\, Harold Koh\, Larry Kramer\, Noah Feldman\, Pam Karlan\, Will iam Eskridge\, Mark Tushnet\, Yochai Benkler and Richard Ford\, among ot hers--the book tackles a wide range of issues\, including the challenge of new technologies\, presidential power\, international human rights\, religious liberty\, freedom of speech\, voting\, reproductive rights\, a nd economic rights. The Constitution in 2020 calls on liberals to articu late their constitutional vision in a way that can command the confidenc e of ordinary Americans.\n\nOpen Society Institute \n400 W. 59th Street\ n6:00 pm UID:6949B5D0-E944-4864-BD98-3858AF90B973 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090707T180000 DTSTAMP:20090623T203045Z SUMMARY:Open Society Institute CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090707T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Discovery of the DAY\n\n\n\nGreat Issues Forum Event\nReligi on & Power: The African-American Church and American Politics\n\nJane Kr amer\nDiscovery of the Day\n$25\n\nWalter Veltroni\n\nFREE\n7:00 pm\n\nE lebash Recital Hall\n365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street UID:DD0387C1-5119-4C02-A76D-77F01E654392 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080915T190000 DTSTAMP:20080821T151834Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080915T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:The Moth Storytelling Competition\nThe Moth\, a not-for-prof it storytelling organization\, was founded in New York in 1997 by poet a nd novelist George Dawes Green\, who wanted to recreate in New York the feeling of sultry summer evenings on his native St. Simon's Island\, Geo rgia\, where he and a small circle of friends would gather to spin spell binding tales on his friend Wanda's porch. After moving to New York\, Ge orge missed the sense of connection he had felt sharing stories with his friends back home\, and he decided to invite a few friends over to his New York apartment to tell and hear stories. Thus the first "Moth" eveni ng took place in his living room. Word of these captivating story nights quickly spread\, and The Moth moved to bigger venues in New York.\n\nSa ra Barron\nPeople Are Unappealing: Even Me\nThree Rivers Press\, $13.95\ n\nThe Bitter End\n147 Bleecker Street\n7:30 pm\n UID:E0D4C73A-B241-4F7B-B63D-E6C0E764C4DE TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090427T193000 DTSTAMP:20090210T152734Z SUMMARY:The Bitter End CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090427T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:The New Salon: Poets in Conversation\n\nMajor Jackson\nHoops \nNorton\, $14.95\n\nIn "Hoops\," Major Jackson continues to mine the so lemn marvels of ordinary lives: a grandfather gardens in a tenement back yard\; a teacher unconsciously renames her black students after French p ainters. The substance of Jackson's art is the representation of America n citizens whose heroic endurance makes them remarkable and transcendent .\n\nLillian Vernon Writers House\n58 West 10th Street\n7:00 pm\nFree\n UID:6CB4A945-720C-47D1-86B7-A5DD5C718EFA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090305T190000 DTSTAMP:20090119T180436Z SUMMARY:LV Writers House CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090305T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Jill Bloomfield\nGrow It\, Cook It!\n(DK\, $15)\n11:30AM\nFR EE\n\nShowing how to grow plants and then how to use them in delicious k id-appealing recipes\, "Grow It\, Cook It" is more than a cookbook--it o ffers a fresh approach to healthy eating by getting children involved in food right from the start.\n\nChelsea Market\n9th Ave btn 15th and 16th \n UID:5345DA61-BC42-4517-9B74-AD4AE3754526 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080525T113000 DTSTAMP:20080423T181241Z SUMMARY:Chelsea Market CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080525T133000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Word for Word Kids\nFREE\nNOON\n\nKira Wiley\nDance for the Sun: Yoga Songs for Kids\n\nKira Wiley sings\, and Mobile Libris will se ll an assortment of yogic books!\n\nBryant Park Reading Series\n42nd St. side\nunder burgandy umbrellas\n UID:E4DEC039-424A-42D4-A130-AAA25B3CB510 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080712T120000 DTSTAMP:20080423T172458Z SUMMARY:Word for Word Kids series CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080712T130000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners D uring the Revolutionary War \n\nThe Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of "Gotham" tells the forgotten story of New York's British prison camps--a nd the nearly 20\,000 patriots who lost their lives there.\n\nThe Old St one House\n3rd St@5th Ave\nBrooklyn\nRSV Suggested : 718 768 3195 UID:786A5260-4CCA-4BA4-8807-E65C64B6396A TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.theoldstonehouse.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081113T190000 DTSTAMP:20080917T193657Z SUMMARY:Forgotten Patriots : Edwin Burrows CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081113T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Red State\, Blue State\, Rich State\, Poor State: Why Americ ans Vote the Way They Do \nPrinceton University Press\,$ 27.95\n\nAndrew Gelman\, Columbia University\, New York\, New York. \n\nNYU\nThe Kimmel Center\nRoom 802\n60 Washington Square\n(South at the LaGuardia PLace) UID:9FECC34A-E514-435D-94FB-CAA589195448 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081014T220000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194955Z SUMMARY:Red State\, Blue State\, Rich State\, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081014T230000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Clifford D. Conner\nArthur O'Connor: The Most Important Iris h Revolutionary You May Have Never Heard Of\niUniverse.com $23.95\n\nAlt hough Arthur O'Connor has not become an icon of romantic legend in Irela nd\, his revolutionary career was full of color\, drama\, and controvers y. He was a skilled conspirator and a charismatic orator who was capable of charming the likes of Charles James Fox\, Richard Brinsley Sheridan\ , and Napoleon Bonaparte. Many of his allies expected-and his rivals fea red-that O'Connor would have become Bonaparte's anointed king of Ireland if the French had succeeded in driving the British out.\n\n34 Van Dyke Street\nBrooklyn\n7:00 pm\n\n UID:7025FD52-9D72-4E81-973E-8D53DF377A3F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090427T190000 DTSTAMP:20090327T202421Z SUMMARY:Rocky Sullivan's CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090427T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:Sunday Best Reading\n\nHot tickets with .....\nLore Segal\nT he author of the novels "Other People's Houses\, Her First American" (bo th available from The New Press)\, and "Lucinella" and several books for children. A recipient of the American Institute of Arts and Letters Awa rd\, she has been a contributor to "The New Yorker"\, among other public ations. She lives in New York City.\n\nJeffrey Remnard Allen\nA graduate of the doctorate program in creative writing at the University of Illin ois at Chicago\, Dr. Jeffrey Renard Allen is the author of Harbors and Spirits (Moyer Bell\, 1999)\, a collection of poems\, and the novel Rail s Under My Back (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\, 2000)\, which won the Chic ago Tribune's Heartland Prize for Fiction. His other writing awards incl ude: The 21st Century Award Chicago Public Library\, The John Farrar Fel low - Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference 2001 and The P.E.N Discovery Prize- 1989. A writer who believes in the power of teaching\, he works at Quee ns College\, the New School for Social Research\, and is presently a fel low at the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers.\n\ nPhilip Miller\nSpent the last 38 years in business. He is Master Practi tioner and Certified Trainer of NLP\, specializing in running training c ourses on the use of NLP in business. He is the Visiting Fellow of Small Business Development at Cranfield University School of Management in En gland.\n\n\n UID:7FEB2F63-A92E-42C5-8517-926F283BC550 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081109T160000 DTSTAMP:20080910T174857Z SUMMARY:Sunday Best CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081109T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Performance: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson\n\nBooks TBA\n\nTh e Public Theater\n425 Lafayette Street\n7:45 pm UID:CD1DFC14-DD82-4C32-8976-21C4B582EA98 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090523T194500 DTSTAMP:20090119T185503Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090523T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:The Public Theater will be putting on a new play by Suzan-Lo ri Parks. More information to come.\n\nThe Public Theater\n425 Lafayett e Street\n7:45 pm UID:37D7C89D-6F48-4E2A-8458-824921482E43 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090605T194500 DTSTAMP:20090320T201434Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090605T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Kathryn Joyce\nQuiverfull\nBeacon Press\, $25.95\n\nFlying S aucer Cafe\n494 Atlantic Avenue\nBrooklyn\n8:00 pm\nFree\n\n\n UID:C42D263C-DB17-414F-9BD3-7CD11DB82F9F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090331T200000 DTSTAMP:20081124T194329Z SUMMARY:Other Means Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090331T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Cultural Power: Peggy Ahwesh and Eileen Myles in conversatio n\n\nMore info to come\n\nCUNY Center for the Humanities\n365 Fifth Aven ue\nThe Amie and Tony James Gallery\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n UID:260CCD75-A7B7-4AD1-853A-252C9572D7D8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090303T190000 DTSTAMP:20090115T175115Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090303T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Poetry Forum\n\nAllan Michael Parker\nAuthor of Elephants&Bu tterflies.\n\nRobert Polito\,moderator\n\n66 W 12th St\nroom 510\n\n$5\; free for students/alumni UID:FDB6B57E-DC22-4CA1-8A5C-BDC34D1314BA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081013T183000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204828Z SUMMARY:New School Poetry CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081013T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America\nTor Classics\, $14.95\n\nAn in candescent and topical second book from the author of critically acclaim ed debut novel "Spaceman Blues"\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4th Street\n7:00 pm\n\ n UID:FE912789-B2D2-44F8-829C-43BE34D20687 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090617T190000 DTSTAMP:20090522T143905Z SUMMARY:Fantastic Fiction CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090617T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:Anne Waldman\nManatee/Humanity\nPenguin Poets\, $18\n\nAnne Waldman's new investigative hybrid-poem explores the nuances of inter-sp ecies communication and compassion. \n\nMartin Espada\nThe Republic of P oetry\nNorton\, $13.95\n\nThe eighth collection by "the Pablo Neruda of North American authors" (Sandra Cisneros) was a finalist for the 2007 Pu litzer Prize.\n\n\n UID:83E636C6-D696-4C7B-B963-FE56B2589362 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090422T190000 DTSTAMP:20090302T165731Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Library CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090422T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Linton Kwesi\nJohnson\nMi Revalueshanary Fren \n(Ausable\, $ 16)\n6PM\nwww.terranovacollective.org\n\nWith fiery verse and spellbindi ng\, often reggae-backed\, performances\, the Jamaican-born\, London-bas ed Johnson helped create the hybrid genre of dub poetry in the late 1970 s. \n\nZipper Theatre\n336 W 37th St\n\n\n UID:16B2B748-3ACE-46F5-BEC2-6759AFCE9209 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080413T180000 DTSTAMP:20080324T164747Z SUMMARY:Linton Kwesi\nJohnson CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080413T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Beard on Books Reading Series\n\nBetty Fussell\nRaising Stea ks\nHarcourt\, $26\n\nFussell ("My Kitchen Wars"\; "The Story of Corn") follows beefsteaks from cattle pens in 17th-century Manhattan to Brookly n's Peter Luger Steak House today. On her visits to an independent Vermo nt butcher\, ranching couples in Colorado and Oregon and feedlot owners in Kansas\, Fussell critiques the polemical meat writing of Michael Poll an and the mythology of a rare\, bloodied he-man food by giving an evenh anded look at the many sides of beef.\n\nJames Beard House\n167 West 12t h Street\n12:00 pm\n$20 suggested donation for nonstudents\n\n UID:4AF263F6-750F-4197-B8D2-94544418BDFE TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090916T120000 DTSTAMP:20090107T161715Z SUMMARY:Beard on Books CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090916T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:P. W. Singer\nWired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Con flict in the 21st Century\nPenguin\, $29.95\n\nA military expert reveals how science fiction is fast becoming reality on the battlefield\, chang ing not just how wars are fought\, but also the politics\, economics\, l aws\, and ethics that surround war itself.\n\nNYU\nVanderbilt Hall\nGree nberg Lounge\n40 Washington Square South\n2:00 pm\n\n UID:5B328039-43B3-4868-ADC7-E1AB231405B9 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090129T140000 DTSTAMP:20090115T184801Z SUMMARY:NYU CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090129T160000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Cornelius Eady\nHardheaded Weather\n(Putnam Adult\, $14)\n6: 30PM\n$5\n\nCornelius Eadyas new poems show him in full control of his c onsiderable talents and displaying a rich maturity as he enters midlife. His poems are sly\, unsentimental\, and witty\, full of truths that are intimate and profound. \n\n66 West 12th Street \nWollman Hall\n\n UID:52DC46B4-82EF-4F7D-9A99-4270805B3F23 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080423T183000 DTSTAMP:20080424T200027Z SUMMARY:New School - Cornelius Eady CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080423T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Walter Russel Mead\nGod and Gold: Britain\, America\, and th e Making of the Modern World \n(Vintage\, $17)\nFREE\n5PM\n\n"Walter Rus sell Mead has written yet another fascinating\, thought-provoking book a bout America's global role. Mead weaves together history\, theology\, ec onomics and politics to tell the story of the rise of the English speaki ng peoples and the world that they made. Churchill would have approved." \n-Fareed Zakaria \n\nSt. Mark's Episcopal Church\nParish Hall\n33-50 82 nd St\nJackson Heights\n UID:D42B41EA-D55E-4295-98B1-7BD51913C15C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080622T170000 DTSTAMP:20080609T222351Z SUMMARY:Walter Mead at St. Mark's CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080622T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:14 DESCRIPTION:Tim McLouglain\n\nBrooklyn Noir\nAkashic Books\, $15.95\n\n New York's punchiest borough asserts its criminal legacy with all new st ories from a magnificent set of today's best writers\, each presenting a brand new story set in a distinct neighborhood.\n\nBrooklyn Noir 2: The Classics\nAkashic Books\, $15.95\n\nThis second volume digs deeper into the criminal history of New York's punchiest and most alluring borough\ , offering brilliant and chilling stories set among the Russian\, Jamaic an\, Puerto Rican\, Italian\, and Irish communities.\n\nJane Cleland\nAn tiques to Die For\nSt. Martins Minotaur\, $23.95\n\nAgatha-nominated Cle land returns to New England for a cozy mix of antiques and murder.\n\nJe fferson Market Branch NYPL\n425 6th Avenue\nWilla Cather Reading Room\n6 :30 pm\n\n\n\n\n\n UID:5C654034-694A-42E3-A00D-1921A6D49198 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090218T183000 DTSTAMP:20090106T182922Z SUMMARY:Solving It: Mystery Readers & Writers Panel CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090218T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:\nCathy Che\n\nKimiko Hahn\nThe Narrow Road to the Interior\ n(Norton\, $15)\n7PM \nFREE\n\nKimiko Hahn\, "a welcome voice of experim entation and passion" ("Bloomsbury Review")\, takes up the Japanese pros e-poetry genre "zuihitsu"--literally "running brush\," which utilizes ta ctics such as juxtaposition\, contradiction\, and broad topical variety- -in exploring her various identities as mother and lover\, wife and poet \, daughter of varied traditions.\n\n520 8th Ave #2020 UID:7CE61953-7475-40BC-B6D0-2E30902B2D90 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080328T190000 DTSTAMP:20080318T212313Z SUMMARY:2020 Visions CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080328T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Book Presentation\n\nSergio Ramirez\nA Thousand Deaths Plus One\nMcPherson & Co.\n\nAmericas Society\n680 Park Avenue\n7:00 pm UID:B867B3FA-C48B-431F-953A-7C27DF683091 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090428T190000 DTSTAMP:20090126T184025Z SUMMARY:Americas Society CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090428T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Poetry Forum: Joanna Klink \nCircadian (Penguin Poets\, $16) \n6:30 pm\nTickets $5\n\nA beautiful new collection from an acclaimed po et \nThe poems in Joanna Klinks passionate new collection "Circadian" ta ke as their guiding vision circadian clocks. Moved by the presence and w ithdrawal of light\, these internal clocks influence rhythms of sleeping and waking: the opening and closing of flowers\, the speed at which the heart pumps blood\, the migratory cycles of birds. With love poems and wintry prayers\, Joanna Klink offers us patterns of glowing alertness an d shared life\, patterns that speak to the flickering circuit between in ner and outer landscapes\, that bind each beating heart to the pull of t he tides.\n\nThe New School\n66 West 12th Street Room 510 UID:A3E8AB44-BFF3-4BC4-9FE3-BEB317780D0F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080312T183000 DTSTAMP:20080228T203233Z SUMMARY:Poetry Forum: Joanna Klink CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080312T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:Jordan K. Davis\, M.D. a Diplomate of the American Board of Neurological Surgery\, received his medical degree at the University of Alabama/Birmingham and is founder of the Brain and Memory Institute of A merica\, the American Anti-Aging Foundation\, the Spine Care Institute a nd the Florida Back Institute. In his more than thirty years of experien ce observing and treating brain disorders\, he has been affiliated with numerous organizations\, published articles in clinical journals and par ticipated in many seminars and sumposia related to his field.\n\nKaty Le derer\nOriginally from New Hampshire\, KATY LEDERER was educated at the University of California at Berkeley and the Iowa Writers' Workshop\, wh ere she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. Her poems have appeared in Jacket\, Fen ce\, Harvard Review\, and Body Electric: 25 Years of America's Best Poet ry from the American Poetry Review\, among other publications. Since 199 6\, she has edited her own magazine\, Explosive\, as well as a series of limited-edition chapbooks under the imprint Spectacular Books. She live s in New York City.\n\nFree\n\n85 East4th St. UID:E8A17C12-8709-49C2-8BBB-13441BA0F110 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081020T193000 DTSTAMP:20080904T171506Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry Reading Series@KGB CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081020T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:KGB Poetry Reading Series\n\nGeorge Green\n\nBilly Collins\n Ballistics\nRandom House\, $24\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4th Street\nFree UID:212B0082-8089-4345-9D55-DAFF6E532A3A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090427T193000 DTSTAMP:20090203T174907Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090427T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:Bomb Book Talk\nTBA\n\n\nThe Graduate Center\nSkylight Room\ n365 5th Ave\n34th St. UID:D1DA6CB5-F1FE-4145-8DEA-C9E866B73DB1 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081021T183000 DTSTAMP:20080910T194833Z SUMMARY:CUNY :Bomb Book Talk CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081021T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Steven Cosson \nI Am Nobody's Lunch/Gone Missing \n(Oberon B ooks\, $19)\n8PM\nTickets $10\n\nMOBILE LIBRIS IS SELLING MICHAEL COSSON 'S BOOK PRIOR AND DURING THE PLAY "PARIS COMMUNE" AT THE PUBLIC\nIn 1871 \, working class Parisians overthrew the French government\, declared Pa ris autonomous and launched an attempt to radically reinvent society. In this musical play\, a versatile company of performers bring this explos ive event to life. With revolutionary songs from the period and survivin g first person records\, Paris Commune reanimates the past and provokes our thinking about the present in a dynamic and raucous cabaret style. S ince its founding in 2001 by Artistic Director Steven Cosson\, the award -winning company The Civilians has created several original shows includ ing the Off-Broadway hits (I Am) Nobody’s Lunch and Gone Missing.\n\nPub lic Theater\nShiva Theater\n425 Lafayette Street \n\n UID:D75F8198-06B8-4BC9-BCB3-24C7F80DEEA1 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080410T200000 DTSTAMP:20080326T194733Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080410T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Authors TK\n\nHappy Ending\n302 Broome Street\n8:00 pm\n UID:EDA9EC6D-7FE7-4B1D-874E-7E28A62E7225 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090917T200000 DTSTAMP:20090623T172008Z SUMMARY:In the Flesh Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090917T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:Irina Reyn\nWhat Happend to Anna K\nSimon & Schuster\n$24\n\ nFREE\n6:30 pm\n\nPianos\n158 Ludlow UID:778C424F-6426-431B-851A-E7B91302991F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081107T183000 DTSTAMP:20080904T191513Z SUMMARY:One Story at Pianos With Irina Reyn CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081107T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Word for Word Poetry\n6:30PM\nFREE\n\nGerald Stern\nSave the Last Dace: Poems\n(WW Norton\, $24)\n\nJean Valentine\nLittle Boat\n(We sleyan\, $23)\n\nBryant Park\n42nd St Side\nunder burgandy umbrellas\n UID:5860C32B-C228-47A9-B6F3-4B91FA7F1E35 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080624T183000 DTSTAMP:20080423T171239Z SUMMARY:Word for Word Poetry Series CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080624T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:The Scent Marketing Institute presents the first global conf erence on the use of scent in marketing\, branding\, printing & packagin g\, retail & interior design\, the hospitality industry and beyond...\n\ nDrinks & Meet the Authors:\n\nDr. Avery Gilbert\, author of "What the N ose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life" (Crown $24)\, takes a sweeping journey through the intoxicating world of scent highlighting ne w discoveries and revealing a startling new view of the most evocative s ense.\n UID:4CDBF5FD-8C70-474C-B00C-632DBEEA7236 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080630T171500 DTSTAMP:20080626T232348Z SUMMARY:Scent World Expo CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080630T183000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:\nMary Lou and Rober Heiss-\nThe Story of Tea\n(Ten Speed\, $30)\n12PM\nSuggested Donation:\n$20 for nonstudents\n\nA comprehensive\ , fully illustrated connoisseurs guide to tea\, this volume includes a g lobal history\, an encyclopedia of tea varietals\, and guidelines for se lecting\, storing and brewing tea. The latest research on the benefits o f drinking tea is also included.\n\nBeard House\n167 W 12\n\n\n UID:7A24F13C-E727-4F4B-B8A5-FE3961A3985F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080409T120000 DTSTAMP:20080321T195057Z SUMMARY:The Story of Tea CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080409T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:16 DESCRIPTION:Maude Barlow \nBlue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and t he Coming Battle for the Right to Water (New Press\, $25)\n\nScreening o f “FLOW” at the Green Screen Series\n\nIn "Blue Gold\," the authors expo sed how a handful of corporations is gaining ownership and control of th e Earths dwindling water supply. This follow-up describes a powerful res ponse to this trend: the emergence of an international\, grassroots-led movement to have water declared a basic human right.\n\nWalter Reade The atre\, between Amsterdam & Broadway\n165 West 65th St.\, 4Tth Floor\, Fi lm Society of Lincoln Centre\n UID:FDE52AFD-9CCE-4423-8A55-D830FC65596A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080226T183000 DTSTAMP:20080218T193736Z SUMMARY:Maude Barlow CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080226T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:S. Brent Plate\nReligion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creatio n of the World\nWallflower Press\, $22\n\nReligions and films both opera te by recreating the known world and then presenting that alternative ve rsion to their viewers/worshippers. This book brings together religious studies and film studies\, asking how the world on film affects religiou s attitudes\, and how millennia-old myths and rituals alter the ways fil ms are made\, viewed and interpreted.\n\nMuseum of Biblical Art\n1865 Br oadway\n6:30 pm\n\n UID:A253A6F8-E4C9-4AFE-A411-3B0936FF2364 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090507T183000 DTSTAMP:20090422T204705Z SUMMARY:Museum of Biblical Art CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090507T193000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:\nEvan Medeiros - Reluctant Restraint: The Evolution of Chin a's Nonproferation Policies and Practices \n(Stanford U Press\, $65)\n\n Reluctant Restraint examines one of the most important changes in Chines e foreign policy since the country opened to the world: China's gradual move to support the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons\, missiles\, and their related goods and technologies. \n\n\n58 East 68th Street between @ Park Avenue\n UID:05F9652F-D7C4-49D6-9780-932F95D0A00E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080310T123000 DTSTAMP:20080303T224644Z SUMMARY:Reluctant Restraint CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080310T143000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Joyce Carol Oates \nThe Gravedigger's Daughter (Ecco\, $27) \n7:30 pm\nFREE\n\nJoyce Carol Oates is the author of the forthcoming no vel "The Gravedigger's Daughter". She is a recipient of the National Boo k Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She i s also the recipient of the 2005 Prix Femina for "The Falls". She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University\, and she has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.\n\nLillian Vernon Creative Writers House\n58 W 1 0th St \n UID:1B01FD26-8690-4903-8370-E2C9D922586A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080306T193000 DTSTAMP:20080219T195159Z SUMMARY:Joyce Carol Oates CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080306T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Jan Egeland\nA Billion Lives: An Eyewitness Report from the Frontlines of Humanity (Simon and Schuster\, $27)\n6:30 pm\nFREE\n\nJan Egeland of Norway\, who is currently director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs\, was under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator from August 2003 to December 2 006 at the United Nations. From 1999 to 2002\, he was the United Nations secretary-general's special adviser. Egeland co-initiated and co-organi zed the Norwegian channel between Israel and the P.L.O. in 1992\, which led to the Oslo Accord of September 1993.\n\nCooper Union\nWollman Audit orium\n51 Astor Place\n\n UID:B053E67D-7C42-4839-A671-E5B9FF6C1003 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080306T183000 DTSTAMP:20080226T230132Z SUMMARY:Jan Egeland CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080306T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:167 W 12th St\n\nDanny Meyer-Setting the Table UID:E3E0264B-01A7-4DAB-A64D-0F2A64AFA137 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070307T120000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195248Z SUMMARY:* Beard House-Beard on Books CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070307T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Steven Greenhouse\nThe Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the Amer ican Worker\n(Knopf\, $26)\nFREE\n6PM\n\n"The Big Squeeze" takes a probi ng\, sometimes shocking look at the stresses and strains faced by an ala rming number of American workers--white- and blue-collar\, middle- and l ow-income--as wages have stagnated\, health and pension benefits have gr own stingier\, and job security has shriveled.\n\nTamiment Library\nRobe rt F Wagner Archives @ NYU\n70 Wahsington Square South\n10th Floor UID:F90149A1-76FD-49AE-86F6-1B5904189A63 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080522T180000 DTSTAMP:20080512T214205Z SUMMARY:The Big Squeaze CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080522T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Fabio Caramaschi\nZambia: a Story\n(Charta\, $40)\n5:30PM\nF REE\n\nFILM SCREENING and BOOK SIGNING\nFabio Caramaschi lives and works in Rome\, but he leaves as often as he can\, traveling and telling\, in words and images\, the stories of the people he meets: "I no longer kno w if I take photographs in order to travel\, or if I travel in order to take photographs." This voyage in words and images along the Zambesi Riv er--all the way to the lost valley of the Tonga--suggests the ancestral memory of a different life\, one in which time is measured in the rhythm s of nature\, in which the wisdom of the elderly is authoritative and ov er which magic presides. Caramaschi's intense\, delicate\, respectful wo rk offers glimpses of an Africa that might have been\, and describes the beauty and dignity with which those contemporary Africans he encountere d respond to injustice\, misery and disease.\n\nCasa Italiana Zerilli Ma rimo\n24 W 12 St UID:94888560-F9D1-4AB0-B687-0F540F291799 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080515T173000 DTSTAMP:20080321T182409Z SUMMARY:Fabio Caramaschi CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080515T193000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Misako Rocks! will be appearing at the Brooklyn Botanical Ga rdens' Sakura Matsuri Cherry Blossom Festival. She will give a talk and sign books. UID:1F76CAC9-A81E-4BCF-8007-7FA539D3B189 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090502T120000 DTSTAMP:20090406T192224Z SUMMARY:Brooklyn Botanical Garden CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090502T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Tim Kreider\nThe Pain - When Will It End?\nFantagraphics Boo ks\, $14.95\n\nWhy Do They Kill Me?\nFantagraphics Books\, $14.95\n\nTim Kreider will give a talk accompanied by slides of his work from both of his books. The Pain - When Will It End was described as "extremely\, e xtremely fucking good" by David Foster Wallace.\n\nKGB \n85 E. 4th Stree t\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n UID:BEC87044-9F4E-4D91-B1E9-33C58DE5F357 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090111T190000 DTSTAMP:20081216T205914Z SUMMARY:KGB Fiction CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090111T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:13 DESCRIPTION:Dr. Howard Gardner\nFREE\n\nDr. Howard Gardner is one of the world's most foremost authorities on human intelligence and the author of over twenty books and several hundred articles. Best known for his gr oundbreaking work "The Theory of Multiple Intelligences\," Dr. Gardner h as had a profound impact on education by proposing that there are differ ent types of intelligence\, not just the kind measured with IQ tests.\n\ nKingsborough College\n2001 Oriental Blvd\, B'lyn\n UID:2EFD9282-E266-46F8-BEED-F225C34942F5 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080327T190000 DTSTAMP:20080318T211213Z SUMMARY:Kingsborough College CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080327T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:The Manhattan Project: Places\, People and Power\nModerated by Brian Schwartz \nProfessor of Physics and Vice President\, Research & Sponsored programs\, The Graduate Center of CUNY\n\nRachel Fermi and Es ther Samra\nPhotographers\nTalk: Photographs from the Secret World of th e Manhattan Project\n\nHarold Agnew\nFormer Director\, Los Alamos nation al Laboratory \ntalk: Chicago\, Los Alamos\,Tinian Island and the Atomic Bomb\nManhattan project Veterans\n\n\nThe Graduate Center\nProshansky A uditorium\n365 5th Ave\n34th st\n\n UID:1ECD7B9C-3D42-40A6-ACC0-FC54A0890CE5 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081017T150000 DTSTAMP:20080910T184950Z SUMMARY:CUNY Session 1 CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081017T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:KGB Poetry\nHosted by Laura Cronk and Michael Quattrone\n7:3 0 pm\nFREE\n\nBest American Erotic Poems \n(Scribner\, $16)\n\nFeaturing contributors: Marc Cohen\, Janice Erlbaum\, Jennifer L. Knox\, Ross Mar tin\, Cate Marvin\, Noah Michelson\, Rachel Shukert\, Maggie Wells and D avid Lehman \n\nKGB Bar \n5 East 4th Street UID:DB81E6FE-70FE-4E14-AA3E-BFB214B1050C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080310T193000 DTSTAMP:20080228T193638Z SUMMARY:*KGB Poetry CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080310T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Perry\nHubert Harrison\nColumbia University Press\, $37.50\n\nThis first full-length biography of Harrison offers a portrait of a man ahead of his time in synthesizing race and class struggles in the U.S. anda leading influence on better known activists from Marcus Ga rvey to A. Philip Randolph.\n\nHarlem YMCA\n180 W. 135th Street\n7:00 pm \n\n\n UID:3DCC7DF7-0C84-45A5-A355-275E46677CEA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090630T190000 DTSTAMP:20090615T180622Z SUMMARY:Harlem YMCA CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090630T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Davide Lehman\nThe Best American Poetry 2008: Series Editor David Lehman\, Guest Editor Charles Wright \n(Scribner\, $16)\n\nDavid w ill be reading and discussing the anthology as wel as his book When a Wo man Loves a Man.\n\nNew School\nLang Center\n55 E 13th St UID:168AECAC-1FB7-425A-9A35-0682048047B3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081003T130000 DTSTAMP:20080508T212621Z SUMMARY:David Lehman CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081003T143000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Visiting Lecture in Geriatrics and Palliative Care\n5:30PM\n FREE\n\nJane Brody's Guide to the Great Beyond\n\nJane E. Brody\, best s elling author and personal health columnist at NY Times\n\nMort Gerberg\ nLast Laughs: Cartoons about Aging\, Retirement...and the Great Beyond \ n(Scribner\, $23)\n\nGoldwurm Auditorium\nIcahn Medical Institute\n1425 Madison Ave at 98th St\n UID:3908B9DA-3B33-4C7E-90FA-0672F2087FFE TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080506T164500 DTSTAMP:20080428T221027Z SUMMARY:Jane Brody's Guide to the Great Beyond CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080506T184500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:14 DESCRIPTION:Molly Crabapple\nDr. Sketchy's Official Rainy Day Colouring Book\nSepulculture Books\, $20\n\nJoshua Neufeld\nA Few Perfect Hours\nA lternative Comics\, $12.95\n\nTitans of Finance\nAlternative Comics\, $3 .50\n\nWhat goes up must come down. It's a natural law that the New Econ omy just learned all over again. Recent times have been fantastically dr amatic in the cloistered world of American business: Narratives full of larger-than-life characters\, outsized egos\, astonishing hubris\, and l ots and lots of money. It's action-packed. It makes good comics. That's the idea behind Titans of Finance\, a new and groundbreaking merger of r eality - straight from the business pages - and comix. You've never seen anything like it: True tales from the world of big money\, wittily tran slated through America's most populist medium.\n\nJLA Studios\n63 Pearl Street\nBrooklyn\n7:30 pm\nFree\n\n\n UID:9A0682BF-CE00-4F58-8924-065388C33BC9 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090625T193000 DTSTAMP:20090608T200331Z SUMMARY:Non-Motivational Speakers Series CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090625T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:709 Lorimer St\, B'lyn\n\nDavid Rosen-I Just Want My Pants B ack UID:5D75618C-4B10-452C-8245-1C23AD9A887E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071129T200000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195243Z SUMMARY:Pete's Candy Store CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071129T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Greg Foley (Don't Worry Bear - Viking\, $16)\, Jack Lechner (Mary had a Little Lamp - Bloomsberry\, $16)\nand other authors througho ut the day...\n\nChildren's Book Week 2008 Kick Off in Bryant Park\ncbcb ook.org\n\nBryant Park\n42nd and 5th Ave UID:1AD14231-6EAE-45EC-BC6D-B13272674070 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080510T120000 DTSTAMP:20080505T212534Z SUMMARY:Children's Book Week Party CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080510T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:\nFUSE CONFERENCE at PIER 60 - ALL DAY EVENTS\nselling Chipp Kidd Milton Glaser\, Malcolm Gladwell books \n\nat 4:15\nKen Carbone\n\ nPier 60\n60 Chelsea Piers\nNew York\, NY 10011\n(212) 336-6060\n UID:73BF2B62-F6DF-483F-AB98-454A92DEFF61 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080416T084500 DTSTAMP:20080320T205350Z SUMMARY:FUSE Conference CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080416T171500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:DIstinguished Poets Discuss their Lives In The Letters\n\nIn Association with The New School Writing program\,and Cave Canem Foundat ion\,North America's premier"Home for Blaclk poetry"\,will sponsor an ev ening of conversation and poetry with ISHMAEL REED and AL YOUNG .\nThe p rogram is the 15th in a Legacy Conversation series exploring the lives a nd net work of distinguished Black Poets and scolars.Its is supported\,i n part\,by The New York Community Trust\,Lila Wallace Theater Fund\;and Publicfunds from New York City Department of Cultural Afairs.\n\nFree\n6 .30pm\n\nTheresa Lang Center\n55 W13th St.\n2nd floor UID:E0450814-C022-4909-BB59-37324FA5B3CC TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081001T183000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204832Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081001T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Margaretta Jolly discusses In Love and Struggle: Letters in Contemporary Feminism\n(Columbia $40)\n\nJolly uncovers the passionate\, contradictory emotions of both politics and letter writing and sets out the theory behind them as a fragile yet persistent ideal of care ethics \, women's love\, and epistolary art. This fascinating glimpse into wome n's intimate archives illuminates one of feminism's central concerns - t hat all relationships are political - and uniquely recasts a social move ment in very emotional terms.\n\nCUNY Graduate Center\n365 5th Ave\nRoom 9207 UID:B0870166-E2F1-46CF-AD28-3A6AF71044DA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080328T120000 DTSTAMP:20080312T021021Z SUMMARY:CUNY Grad Center* CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080328T120000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:0 DESCRIPTION:Harold Schecter-\nThe Devil's Gentleman: Privilege\, Poison\ , and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century \n(Ballantine\, $2 6)\nFREE\n7PM\n\nThis gripping story of an aristocratic serial killer wh o terrorized New York City at the turn of the 20th century offers a stun ning nonfiction narrative by one of Americas foremost historians of true crime.\n\nCity Bar\n42 W 44th UID:FCA48E7C-E35F-4F65-97C8-52E2E0111C26 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080527T190000 DTSTAMP:20080426T005801Z SUMMARY:City Bar CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080527T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Publishing Triangle Awards \n\nMore info to come \n\n\nNew S chool\n6:30 pm UID:7EE56EC1-329A-43CA-8678-2EFC346B3854 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090507T183000 DTSTAMP:20090330T184410Z SUMMARY:Publishing Triangle Awards CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090507T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Poets on Craft: Cave Canem\n\nMyronn Hardy\nThe Headless Sai nts\nNew Issues Poetry\, $14\n\nMyronn Hardy has written a collection of quietly combustible poems that remind us of just what a gifted poet's d eftly judicious craft can produce in music and emotion.\n\nCathy Park Ho ng\nDance Dance Revolution\nNorton\, $14.95\n\nAdrienne Rich chose Cathy Park Hong's "audacious" ("Los Angeles Times") second book as the winner of the 2006 Barnard Women Poets Prize.Named one of the "Los Angeles Tim es"'s Best Science Fiction Books in 2007\, "Dance Dance Revolution" is a genre-bending tour de force told from the perspective of the Guide\, a former dissident and tour guide of an imagined desert city.\n\nThe New S chool\nTheresa Lang Center\nArnhold Hall\n55 West 13th Street \n6:30 pm\ nFree\n\n\n\n UID:98C63365-93C3-422D-BD62-C877F664408C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090203T183000 DTSTAMP:20090106T183607Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090203T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Jill Jonnes\nConquering Gotham: Building Penn Station and It s Tunnels \n(Penguin Books\, $16)\n5:15\n\nIn this gripping narrative\, Jonnes tells the fascinating story of the struggle to connect New York C ity to the rest of the nation and the high-stakes drama that pitted the money and will of the nation's mightiest railroad against the machinatio ns of labor agitators.\n\nUniversity Club\n1 W 54th St\, NY NY 10019\n\n UID:8CDC56EF-0C5D-40A6-B0DE-64C7A457CB3E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080408T171500 DTSTAMP:20080229T213911Z SUMMARY:University Club CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080408T181500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Lisa R. Cohen\nAfter Etan\nGrand Central Publishing\, $25.99 \n\nA former "60 Minutes" producer unravels the full story of Etan Patz- -a six-year-old boy who disappeared in 1979. Cohen reveals his family's desperate search\, the heroic efforts to bring the kidnapper to justice\ , and the investigation into a decades-long mystery.\n\nCity Bar Associa tion\n42 West 44th Street\n6:30 pm\n UID:AB6915ED-28EF-41B5-966E-3D5BA2959BDC TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090916T183000 DTSTAMP:20090612T200628Z SUMMARY:City Bar CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090916T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Thomas Maier\nMasters of Sex\nBasic Books\, $27.50\n\nCritic ally acclaimed biographer Maier offers an unprecedented look at William Masters and Virginia Johnson\, the famous sex research team who dramatic ally transformed American sexuality yet whose private relationship was j ust as complex and dysfunctional as any of their patients.\n\nJLA Studio s\n63 Pearl Street\n7:30 pm\nFree\n\n\n UID:454F4E0B-CA9E-4FB7-9AA4-DBE3024BCAB8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090521T193000 DTSTAMP:20090514T144842Z SUMMARY:Geeking Out CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090521T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:167 West 12th Street\nMarion Nestle -- What to Eat UID:98414B36-7237-4CD7-A701-28D9217E13C1 TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.jamesbeard.org/education/courses/beard_on_books .shtml DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070117T120000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195247Z SUMMARY:*Beard House-Beard on Books CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070117T130000 LOCATION:ME END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:KGB Nonfiction\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\nEric Weiner\nThe Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World (Twelv e\, $26)\n\nJennifer 8. Lee\nThe Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures i n the World of Chinese Food (Twelve\, $25)\n\nKGB Bar\n85 East 4th Stree t UID:BD246D8A-2940-451D-8421-1F4157D53120 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080311T190000 DTSTAMP:20080228T201506Z SUMMARY:*KGB Nonfiction CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080311T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:A fundraiser Events at Chelsea Art Museum\n\nMore info to co me.\n\nChelsea Art Museum\n451 Broome St\, \n@ Mercer \n UID:0E73F2D6-6D75-478C-950B-7DDA4220F88C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090326T210000 DTSTAMP:20090326T173626Z SUMMARY:Chelsea Art Museum for fundraiser CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090326T223000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Ellen White\nSimply Irresistible: Unleash Your Inner Siren a nd Mesmerize Men\, with Help from the Most Famous and Infamous Women in History\n6:30PM\nFREE\n\n"Ellen T. White's ravishing recap of the world' s heartbreakers\, provides portraits of women who knew how to work it (a nd a few who are still at it)... Dashing\, fun and informative\, the boo k is an spirit-lifting tonic for any woman with a case of the gravity bl ahs." \n-NY Times\n\nNYPL Mid Manhattan\n455 5th Ave @ 40th St\n UID:1844FC08-52E2-4043-817F-EF51E60ED7E3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080325T183000 DTSTAMP:20080314T191823Z SUMMARY:Ellen White - Simply Irrisistable CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080325T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Turnstyle Reading Series\n\nMore info to come\n\nCUNY Center for the Humanities\n365 Fifth Avenue\nMartin E. Segal Theater\n6:30 pm UID:4AE54695-236D-4C61-AD3F-16CC2FCBBE80 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090401T183000 DTSTAMP:20090115T171949Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090401T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Zachary Lazar\nSway\nLittle Brown and Company\, $23.99\n\nT hree dramatic and emblematic stories intertwine in Lazars extraordinary new novel--the early days of the Rolling Stones\; the life of avant-gard e filmmaker Kenneth Anger\; and the community of Charles Manson and his followers.\n\nMichael Shilling\nRock Bottom\nBack Bay Books\, $14.99\n\n Once\, the Blood Orphans--supposedly the next big music sensation--had i t all: a million-dollar recording contract and killer looks. As they stu mble through their final gig together\, the Blood Orphans find themselve s on a comic tour of frustration\, danger\, excitement\, and just possib ly\, redemption.\n\nKGB\n85 E. 4th Street\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n\n UID:6F2A1849-1BFE-4D5A-A511-801150AE8F8F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090125T190000 DTSTAMP:20081216T211323Z SUMMARY:KGB Fiction CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090125T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Henry Urbach\, Editor\nJ. Mayer H.\nHatje Cantz Publishers\, $75\n\nThe members of J. Mayer H. Architects\, founded in Berlin in 199 6 by Jurgen Mayer\, have already won a number of awards for their extrao rdinary work--for example\, their very first building won the Mies van d er Rohe Emerging Architect Prize in 2003. Their structures bulge and pop inorganically in a style that aims to go\, as Mayer puts it\, beyond th e blob." In recent years the firm has created a furor with attention-get ting buildings such as the new commons for the Universitat Karlsruhe\, t he ADA 1 offices in Hamburg and the Metropol Parasol\, a gigantic struct ure for the marketplace in the heart of old Seville. Edited by Henry Urb ach\, this is the first book to present J. Mayer H. Architects' entire o euvre\, tracking the firm's constructions from the research stage throug h design to project development and culminating in the actual building i tself.\n\nStudio-X\n180 Varick Street\n6:30 pm\n\n UID:680546F7-3D00-4662-9C0C-73BDBC52BD20 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090130T183000 DTSTAMP:20090108T184525Z SUMMARY:Studio-X CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090130T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:From Harvey River: A Memoir of my Mother and her Island\n\nI n lush\, vivid prose\, textured with the cadences of Creole speech\, Goo dison weaves together memory and mythology to create a vivid tapestry of her ancestors and the places they called home.\n\n(Amistad/harperCollin s\,$13.95)\n\nLorna Goodison is an internationally recognized poet who h as published eight books of poetry and two collections of short stories. In 1999 she received the Musgrave Gold Medal from Jamaica\, and her wor k has been widely translated and anthologized in major collections of co ntemporary poetry. Born in Jamaica\, Goodison now teaches at the Univers ity of Michigan. She divides her time between Ann Arbor and Toronto.\n\n \n680 Park Avenue\n212-249-8950\n UID:FCC31936-C798-4FA8-8654-64E5B60471D4 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081010T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204832Z SUMMARY:Americas Society CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081010T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:The New Traditional: Reinvent - Balance - Define Your Home \ nKnown for seamlessly mixing the modern with the classical\, Carter pres ents a comprehensive guide to creating a home that balances individual c omfort with a timeless aesthetic.\n\nClarkson N Potter Publishers: $ 45. 00\n\nDarryl Carter is a leader in the design world\, recognized for his restrained\, distinguished\, and livable environments. Known for seamle ssly mixing the modern with the classical\, Carter presents a comprehens ive guide to creating a home that balances individual comfort with a tim eless aesthetic. \nComfort is the essential element of a successful inte rior\, but also the most elusive. Too often our design decisions are dri ven by others. In "The New Traditional\," Darryl Carter encourages you t o be true to your own lifestyle. More than a stunning book\, this is an accessible resource for making an elegant\, inviting home\, responsive t o the people who live in it every day. \nA fresh take on American design \, Carter's work has been lauded as the New Traditional for effortlessly blending classic and modern elements to create personal environments. P atinated furniture\, subtle textiles and lighting\, and chalky washes of color are among the details that transform a house into a home. Carter explains how you can translate these details into inspired and always ca lming surroundings. Ignore the obvious. Redefine a dining room so that i t doubles as a library by lining the walls with bookshelves and using wi ng chairs in lieu of dining chairs. Stain wood floors white to create a greater sense of space. Build rooms around art. Carter shows that design ing your home is a process to be enjoyed.\n\nPier 94\nNear seminar space \n711 12th Ave\nBtw 55th -56th St. UID:0D83D6B6-049C-4887-AF0E-2FF443D1057F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090329T110000 DTSTAMP:20090326T173626Z SUMMARY:Darryl Carter CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090329T130000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:13 DESCRIPTION:The Future of Guantanamo\nAndy Worthington\nThe Guantanamo F iles: The Stories of the 759 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison (Plut o Press\, $25)\n\nIn 2006\, four years after Guantanamo Bay prison opene d\, the Pentagon finally released the names of the 773 men held there\, along with 7\,000 pages of transcripts from tribunals assessing their st atus as "enemy combatants." Andy Worthington is the only person to have analyzed every page of these transcripts.\n\nColumbia University Law Sch ool\nJerome Greene Hall\, Room 107\n435 West 116th Street \n\n\n UID:D9FCCEF8-1EB1-42CD-8C15-59FFF2D07B97 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080310T160000 DTSTAMP:20080303T224713Z SUMMARY:The Future of Guantanamo CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080310T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Marie Ponsot\nSpringing: New and Selected Poems\n(Knopf\, $1 7)\n\nEven when they appear simple\, Ponsot's poems can be difficult\; t hey require both an attentive mind and a sharp ear. Her language is dari ng and playful\, a challenge and a delight: "What would it be to be wate r\, one body of water/ (what water is is another mystery)." \n\nMargo Be rdeshevsky\nBut a Passage in Wilderness (Paperback)\n(Sheep Meadow\, $13 )\n\n"(This first book) is an extraordinary mixture of emotional power a nd beauty. It's not like anything else I have read lately or in the past . So MUCH verbal beauty\, out of the here-and-now\, woven with an extrao rdinary openness to what is precisely NOT beautiful in human life\, maki ng that an intrinsic part of the poem's texture"--Marilyn Hacker \n\nWes t Side Y\n5 W 63rd\nWriter's Voice Series UID:0141EC19-C9B9-4C03-B31C-DA2470072294 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080328T200000 DTSTAMP:20080318T212839Z SUMMARY:West Side Y CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080328T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Dade Hayes\nAnytime Playdate: Inside the Preschool Entertain ment Boom\, Or\, How Television Became My Baby's Best Friend \n(Free Pre ss\, $25)\nPre-Register at 773-509-5510\n8:30AM\n\nThe author of "Open W ide" takes a startling look at the explosion of the multi-billion-dollar preschool entertainment business and its effects on a new generation of children.\n\n411 Theatre\n300 W 43rd St\, 4th Floor UID:8301CBBE-153A-44E6-A81A-1398723A76B7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080619T083000 DTSTAMP:20080605T144131Z SUMMARY:411 Theatre CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080619T110000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Dreaming Green: Eco-Fabulous Homes Designed to Inspire\nDrea ming Green" features Sharkey's brownstone as well as 16 other residences that can inspire readers to reimagine their homes as places that marry environmentalism and beauty. 350 full-color photographs.\nClarkson N Pot ter Publishers : $ 50.00\nLisa Sharkey&Paul Gleicher\nSpecializes in res idential renovations.In the last fifteen years\,he and Lisa(his wife)hav e renovated four spaces(two pre-war apartments and two townhouses).Paul is the founder and president of Gleicher Design Group\,a prestigious arc hitectural and interior design firm in New York City that has completes more than 100 major renovations since 1989\, and has served clients such as Rudolph Giuliani\, Kevin Bacon\, and Kyra Sedgwick.Paul's work has b een featured in Metropolitan Home\, House Beautiful\, and The New York T Imes.THe Gleicher DEsign Group has received 4 1/2 stars out of 5 in the prestigious Franklin Report of Architects.\n\nPier 94\nnear seminar spac e\n711 12th Ave\nBtw 55th -56th St UID:E9E5ACD0-474E-4FB5-9A51-4122494D1DAF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090327T133000 DTSTAMP:20090326T173625Z SUMMARY:Architect Digest Home Show CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090327T160000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Fixing Global Finance\n\nThe latest book from "Financial Tim es" columnist Wolf explains why global imbalances cause financial crises --including the one ravaging the United States right now--and outlines t he steps for ending this destructive cycle.\n(Johns Hopkins University P ress:$24.95)\n\nMartin Wolf is associate editor and chief economics comm entator at the "Financial Times "in London. Formerly senior economist at the World Bank's division for international trade\, he has worked in Ke nya\, Zambia\, and India. He has been visiting professor at Oxford\, Not tingham\, and Rotterdam Universities and fellow of the World Economic Fo rum in Davos\, Switzerland.\n\n\nCouncil on Foreign Ralations\n58 E.68th St.\n UID:68F66E8F-0085-4EAB-97C7-A8F7DFCAB50F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081015T074500 DTSTAMP:20080911T161721Z SUMMARY:Council on Foreign Relations CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081015T090000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:2020 Visions\n7:00 pm\nFREE\n\nDavid Floyd\nAbraham Smith\nB ret Anthony Johnston\n\nhttp://www.twc.org/events\n\nTeachers and Writer s\n520 8th Ave #2020 UID:F7EDACF2-76E2-4A2E-9F34-D6A264548C61 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080314T190000 DTSTAMP:20080228T214502Z SUMMARY:*2020 Visions CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080314T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Amy Cohen\nThe Late Bloomer's Revolution: A Memoir\nHyperion \, $12.95\n\nCohen--after losing her job\, her boyfriend\, and her mothe r to a long bout with cancer--is ready to stop suffering and start growi ng again. Back in the dating pool at the same time as her closest ally\, her dad\, she tries\, fails\, and tries again in her search for love.\n \nColson Whitehead\nSag Harbor\nDoubleday Books\, $24.95\n\nIn this deep ly affectionate and fiercely funny coming-of-age novel\, Whitehead--usin g the perpetual mortification of teenage existence and the desperate que st for reinvention--beautifully explores racial and class identity\, ill ustrating the complex rhythms of the adult world.\n\nJoe's Pub\n425 Lafa yette Street\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n\n UID:DE74D171-5EDB-4FC0-AE1D-A0D5BB7C59AB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090401T190000 DTSTAMP:20090304T192902Z SUMMARY:Happy Ending CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090401T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Bobby Blake\nMy Life in Porn\n(Running Press\, $15)\nFREE\n6 PM\n\nBlake for the first time goes behind the scenes of the sex industr y to reveal intimate stories that are sexy\, fascinating\, and sometimes disturbing.\n\nGay and Lesbian Center\n208 W 13th St. UID:D31DDCE8-01EA-4400-80CA-CA81C13A8282 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080620T180000 DTSTAMP:20080611T200312Z SUMMARY:My Life in Porn CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080620T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies\, Fears\, and Pre monitions of New York's Destruction\n(Yale u Pres\,$38)\n\nMax Page is a ssociate professor of architecture and history\, University of Massachus etts\, Amherst. He is a 2003 Guggenheim Fellow and author of "The Creati ve Destruction of Manhattan\," which received the 2001 Spiro Kostof Awar d of the Society of Architectural Historians. He lives in Amherst. \n\nR ecital Hall\n365 Fifth Ave@34th St. UID:B7E01271-35AD-46D2-8BCD-06185A1D8016 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081124T183000 DTSTAMP:20081018T195000Z SUMMARY:CUNY: The City End CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081124T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Eduardo Garcia Aguilar\nThe Triumphant Voyage\nAliform Publi cations\n\nAmericas Society\n680 Park Avenue\n7:00 pm\n UID:2AA68C24-C6AD-4943-8EB8-63C92F37E8C2 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090402T190000 DTSTAMP:20090126T182836Z SUMMARY:Americas Society CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090402T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Hara Estroff\nA Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive P arenting\n(Broadway Books\, $24)\n6:30PM\nEligible prospective members m ay inquire about upcoming member events by emailing membership@pennclub. org\n\nParents are going to ludicrous lengths to take all the disappoint ment out of childhood\, resulting in a generation of emotionally fragile children. With information on how to foster children's coping skills\, this title is a much-needed tool for parents and educators who want to g ive children the skills they need to succeed.\n\nPenn Club\n30 W 44th St UID:4145104B-169F-435C-9C4C-9BA00BEE85C2 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080414T183000 DTSTAMP:20080324T161452Z SUMMARY:Penn Club of NY CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080414T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Undergraduate Student Reading\nNYU undergraduate students re ad original poetry and fiction\nHosted by MATTHEW ROHRER\n\n\n58 W.10th St.\nbtw 5th-6 Ave. UID:B4277C13-DBBA-4B35-BE9B-3CF8602ED9AF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081205T190000 DTSTAMP:20080912T170402Z SUMMARY:Lillian Vernon CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081205T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Dana Jennings\nSing Me Back Home\n(FGA\, $24 )\n\nAlice Feir ing\nThe Battle for Wine and Love: or How I Saved the World from Parkeri zation\n(Harcourt\, $23)\n\nLiza Monroy\nMexican High\n(Spiegel & Grau\, $22 )\n\n8PM\n\nNational Arts Club Reading\nNAtional Arts Club\n15 Gram ercy Park South UID:89D4080C-F8BA-4A5E-AC24-60B65619989F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080624T200000 DTSTAMP:20080331T192413Z SUMMARY:National Arts Club Reading CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080624T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Michael Lewis\nHome Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood\ nW.W. Norton & Co\, $24.95\n\nThe bestselling author of "Moneyball" and "The Blind Side" offers a perfectly frank and mercilessly funny account of what actually happened immediately after the birth of each of his thr ee children.\n\nThe Cornell Club\n6 East 44th Street\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n UID:CFF743AF-6142-4395-9011-C631E2682A2B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090601T190000 DTSTAMP:20090401T180112Z SUMMARY:Hudson Union Society CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090601T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Staceyann Chin\nThe Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir\nScribn er Book Company\, $24\n\n From the iconic and charismatic star of "Russe ll Simmons' Def Poetry Jam" comes this brave and fiercely candid memoir about growing up in Jamaica by performer\, activist\, and writer Chin.\n \nBronx Academy of Arts & Dance\n841 Barretto Street\nBronx\n8:00 pm\n\n UID:4E25EE60-63FE-4899-83A6-B096857F2290 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090410T200000 DTSTAMP:20090316T181544Z SUMMARY:Bronx Academy of Art & Dance CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090410T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Brian Yaeger\nRed\, White & Brew\nSt. Martin's Griffin $14.9 5\n\n\nPublisher Marketing: "Red\, White\, and Brew" is the ultimate bee r run across the United States\, during which Brian Yaeger visits fourte en breweries of various sizes and talks to founders\, owners\, brewmaste rs\, consumers\, and anyone else he meets on his odyssey and who enjoys the making\, tasting\, and appreciating of brews.\n\n"Red\, White\, and Brew" pursues the roots of brewers who brought their craft with them fro m their homeland and investigates how the tradition is faring today and where it may head in the future. Covering everything from fifth-generati on family-run brewing companies to first-wave microbreweries\, this book is a travelogue\, guide\, and genealogical study of beer families and h omebrewers from Portland\, Maine\, to Portland\, Oregon. It is filled wi th eclectic characters and shrewd businesspeople who populate an industr y as old as the New World\, and who produce liquid philanthropy\, one ke g at a time.\n\nThe Blind Tiger Ale House\n281 Bleecker Street\n6:00 pm\ nFree UID:B110D3D6-9115-4758-8480-2ACC468898A8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081020T180000 DTSTAMP:20081015T202937Z SUMMARY:Red\, White & Brew CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081020T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:14 DESCRIPTION:Benjamin Taylor\nTales out of School\nZoland Books\, $14.95\ n\nA breathtaking debut novel of family and coming of age\, in the tradi tion of Edmund White and David Leavitt. In turn-of-the-century Galveston \, the Mehmets are a privileged\, eccentric family headed for destructio n--with the possible exception of 14-year-old Felix\, whose very salvati on lies in his own self-discovery.\n\nThe Book of Getting Even\nZoland B ooks\, $14.95\n\nSon of a rabbi\, budding astronomer Gabriel Geismar is on his way from youth to manhood in the 1970s when he falls in love with the esteemed and beguiling Hundert family\, different in every way from his own. Over the course of a decade-long drama unfolding in New Orlean s\, Philadelphia\, New York\, Chicago\, and the Wisconsin countryside\, Gabriel enters more and more passionately and intimately into the world of his elective clan\, discovering at the inmost center that he alone mu st bear the full weight of their tragedies\, past and present. Yet The" Book of Getting Even" is funny and robust\, a novel rich in those fundam entals we go to great fiction for: the exploration of what is hidden\, t he sudden shocks\, the feeling at last of life laid bare.\n\nMichael Gre enberg\nHurry Down Sunshine\nOther Press\, $22\n\nThis mesmerizing accou nt tells the story of the extraordinary summer when\, at the age of 15\, Michael Greenberg's daughter\, Sally\, was struck mad. Unsentimental an d deeply humane\, this work chronicles Sally's journey into and out of p sychiatric wards and its effect on those closest to her.\n\nAnse Chesed\ n251 West End Avenue at 100th Street\n8:00 pm\n\n UID:9D24F4C8-1CBB-4E26-8CC3-8BA61F2FB3FC TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090622T200000 DTSTAMP:20090603T191657Z SUMMARY:Scribblers on the Roof CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090622T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:The Public Theater will be putting on a new play by Suzan-Lo ri Parks. More information to come.\n\nThe Public Theater\n425 Lafayett e Street\n7:45 pm UID:D1B46827-0CC0-48B6-A75C-AD0A50119434 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090613T194500 DTSTAMP:20090320T201215Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090613T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Woman\, Girls\,Ladies : A fresh Take on Woman's History Mont h\n\nBlack Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Million aire \n(One World :$14.95)\nElizabeth Gardner Hines\, Ms. Jenkins's daug hter\, is a writer. A graduate of Yale\, with an M.A. in English literat ure from Harvard University\, Ms. Hines is the recipient of several acad emic prizes and fellowships. She lives in New York City.\n\nSend Yoursel f Roses: Thoughts on My Life\, Love\, and Leading Roles \n(Spring board : $14.95)\nGloria Feldt is the President of the Planned Parenthood Feder ation of America. She lives in New York City and Phoenix\, and is marrie d to Alex Barbanell. Between them they have six children\, nine grandchi ldren\, and one great grandchild.?\n\nPerfect Girls\, Starving Daughters : How the Quest for Perfection Is Harming Young Women \n(Berkley Publish ing Group: $ 15.00)\nCourtney E. Martin\, M.A.\, is a writer\, filmmaker \, and teacher. Her work on eating disorders\, perfectionism\, and femin ism has appeared in "The New York Times\, Publishers Weekly\, The Villag e Voice\, The Christian Science Monitor"\, and "Poets & Writers"\, among other national publications (see her website\, www.courtneyemartin.com\ , for a complete list). She has a B.A. from Barnard College in political science and sociology and an M.A. from New York University's Gallatin S chool in writing and social change. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York.\n\ nSisterhood\, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild \nPalgr ave MacMillan: $ 79.95\n\nDEBORAH SIEGEL is the author of Sisterhood\, I nterrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild. She has written for P sychology Today and The Progressive and is a founding editor of The Scho lar & Feminist Online. \nDAPHNE UVILLER is a former editor and current c ontributing writer to Time Out New York. She has been published in the W ashington Post\, the New York Times\, Newsday\, The Forward\, Allure\, a nd Self. Both editors are only children.\n\n92y tribeca\n200 Hudson St. UID:78CCF2FF-48A5-40A4-B7EC-2E4B5472EFDF TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.92ytribeca.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090318T190000 DTSTAMP:20090326T173629Z SUMMARY:Woman\, Girls\,Ladies : A fresh Take on Woman's History Month\n CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090318T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:16 DESCRIPTION:Philip Schulz\nFailure\nMariner Books\, $13.95\n\nThis super b Pulitzer Prize-winning collection gives voice to failure with a wry\, deft touch from one of this country's most engaging and uncompromising p oets. In "Failure\, "Philip Schultz evokes the pleasures of family\, mar riage\, beaches\, and dogs\; New York City in the 1970s\; revolutions bo th interior and exterior\; and the terrors of 9/11 with a compassion tha t demonstrates he is a master of the bittersweet and fierce\, the wondro us and direct\, and the brilliantly provocative. Filled with poems of "h eartbreaking tenderness that [go] beyond mere pity" (Gerald Stern)\, "Fa ilure "is a collection to savor from this major American poet.\n\nGrace Schulman\nThe Broken String\nMariner Books\, $14.95\n\n One of the fines t poets writing today\, Grace Schulman finds order in art and nature tha t enables her to stand fast in a threatened world. The title refers to I tzhak Perlman's performance of a violin concerto with a snapped string\, which inspires a celebration of life despite limitations. For her\, son g imparts endurance: Thelonious Monk evokes Creation\; John Coltrane's i mprovisations embody her own heart's desire to "get it right on the firs t take"\; the wind plays a harp-shaped oak\; and her immigrant ancestors remember their past by singing prayers on a ship bound for New York. In the words of Wallace Shawn\, "When I read her\, she makes me want to li ve to be four hundred years old\, because she makes me feel that there i s so much out there\, and it's unbearable to miss any of it."\n\nTom Sle igh\nSpace Walk\nMariner Books\, $14.95\n\nSpace Walk blasts off into re alms of experience that show the imagination's limitless capacity to be both brutal and uplifting. While many of the poems in this daring collec tion confront head-on our current American realities of empire\, state v iolence\, the endless "crisis chatter" of talking heads\, and the eerie\ , weightless feeling of catastrophe\, they are tethered to the gravitati onal pull of love and hope.\nIn Sleigh's poems\, rocket engines and panc ake houses\, space stations and mom's kitchen\, terrorist organizations and Sundays in a museum are all part of love's galactic amplitude. Haili ng Tom Sleigh's work\, the Los Angeles Times has written that he "stakes a claim on the planet of the imagination." In The New Yorker's words\, he "asserts the importance of poetry itself\," showing us\, in Space Wal k\, its restorative\, recuperative powers.\n\n\n\nBryant Park Reading Ro om\nBryant Park 42nd st. side\, under burgandy umbrellas\n\n\n UID:6E1470BF-5773-4E2F-92C0-48EAAF8CA0A7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090707T193000 DTSTAMP:20090526T173539Z SUMMARY:Word For Word Poetry CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090707T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Personal Democracy Forum\nALL DAY EVENT\nRegister at persona ldemocracy.com\n\nMobile Libris will be selling numerous books during th e event.\n\nTechnology and the Internet are changing politics -- now mor e than ever. Over the last five years\, Personal Democracy Forum (PdF) h as become the seminal gathering place for the growing community of peopl e who understand the effects underway\, and want to make sure they stay on top of what's coming next. This year PdF will be bigger and better th an before--we're expanding to two full days at a spectacular new venue o verlooking Central Park\, at Frederick P. Rose Hall\, the home of Jazz a t Lincoln Center.\n\nRose Hall at Lincoln Center\n60th St and Broadway UID:AB4EEB94-3D78-47FA-90FA-451E8770A898 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080623T080000 DTSTAMP:20080527T205814Z SUMMARY:Personal Democracy Forum CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080623T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:85 E 4th St.\n\nAuthors TBA UID:09CF194A-B9F3-4409-9B35-33A8307FAD2C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090405T190000 DTSTAMP:20090205T172126Z SUMMARY:KGB Fiction CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090405T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Alan J. Friedman\nEinstein as Myth and Muse\n(Cambridge U Pr ess)\n8PM\nCall 1-212-817-7000\n\nAs part of Einstein's week at the Grad Center.\n\nGraduate Center at CUNY\n365 5th Ave\n UID:3AC76B0E-EFC2-4B0F-84A0-A7B8E16B13E6 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080531T140000 DTSTAMP:20080429T205106Z SUMMARY:Alan J. Friedman at CUNY CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080531T160000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nMacondo: Imaginary and Real - 1:00-2:30\n\nParticipant s: Laszlo Garaczi\, Geert Mak\, Santiago Roncagliolo\, and Josep-Maria T erricabras\n\nModerator: Anderson Tepper\n\nMany know the city Macondo a s the vibrant fictional world that became a character in its own right i n Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundreed Years of Solitude. Still others know Macondo as the Austrian refugee camp that\, since 1956\, has provi ded homes to displaced people all around the world. Writers from Europe and Latin America talk about home and migration\, both fictional and rea l.\n\n\nWhat's Taboo? 3:00 - 4:00 pm\n\nParticipants: Salwa Al Neimi\, Z sofia Ban\, Nicole Brossard\, and Rekesh Satyal\n\nModerator: Victoria R edel\n\nThroughout history\, taboos have shaped words and actions\, thou ghts and deeds. Forbidden and profane\, enticing\, dirty\, exciting: Do taboos always remain taboo? Four authors from very different cultures d iscuss how these themes have evolved.\n\nAustrian Cultural Forum\n11 Eas t 52nd Street\n1:00 pm UID:1FEC5676-8C03-4E7C-900E-CC4D8F054826 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090501T130000 DTSTAMP:20090416T193742Z SUMMARY:PEN World Voices Festival CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090501T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Scott Simon\nWindy City: A Novel of Politics \n(Random\, $25 )\nhttp://www.kaufman-center.org/contact.htm\n6PM\n\nFor readers who lov ed "Primary Colors" and "Thank You for Smoking" comes thiswise and funny novel of politics--Chicago-style--from NPR anchor and nationalbestselli ng author Simon.\n\nKaufman Center at Merkin Hall\n129 W 67th St\n\n\n\n UID:39E3D801-8384-4CC4-BB9D-BCF464AD8222 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080408T180000 DTSTAMP:20080402T180804Z SUMMARY:Kaufman Center CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080408T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Princeton Association of New York City\n\nJ ohn Matteson won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for his book Eden ’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father. Matteson not only brings to life a complicated father-daughter relationship in this dual-biography\, but also captures a pivotal moment of American intellec tual life through a cast of characters that includes Alcott family frien ds Henry David Thoreau\, Ralph Waldo Emerson\, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School\, Matteson is associate professor of English at the John Jay College of Criminal Justi ce/City University of New York.\n\nThis event is free for members of the Princeton Association of New York City and $10 for nonmembers.\n\nTeach er's&Writer's Collaborative\n2020 36th St. 8 Ave UID:357F94C3-EF19-4910-9DD4-D5C03B1F3857 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081007T183000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204835Z SUMMARY:Princeton Association with 2008 Pulitzer winning:John Matterson CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081007T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Sen. Arlen Specter\nNever Give In: Battling Cancer in the Se nate\n(Thomas Dunne Books\, $25)\n9AM\nPRIVATE EVENT\n\nA month and a ha lf into his Senate term\, Specter learned he had the most severe grade o f Hodgkin's Disease. In this memoir\, he describes the treatment he rece ived\, the side effects\, and his decisions about how to handle life wit h a potentially fatal disease. \n\n599 Lex\n UID:48B5184D-DBFF-4290-B091-3E93A295BFF8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080325T090000 DTSTAMP:20080319T202125Z SUMMARY:Reed Smith LLP CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080325T110000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Father Richard John neuhaus and philip Gorski discuss the pl ace of religion in contemporary American politics and llife with John To rpey.Father Richard John Neuhaus\,one of Time magazing's 25 Most Influen tial Evangelicals in America\,is the author of\,among other books\,Catho lic matters: Confusion\,Controversy\,and the Splendor of Truth\,and the Editor-in-Chief of first things a monthly publication of the Institute o n Religion and Public Life.\nPhilip Gorski is a professor of Sociology a t yale University and Co-Director (with Julia Adams)of yale's Center for Comparative Research(CCR)\;his most recent book is The Disciplinary Rev olution:Calvinism and the Groth of State Power in Early Modern Europe.Jo hn Torpey is A Professor of Sociology at The CUNY Graduate Center.\n\nTh e Elebash Recital hall\nCUNY Graduate Center for the Humanities\n365 5th Ave @ 34th St\n212 817-2005 UID:B710FD52-C248-4CDE-9504-2B0C7F814168 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081203T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204829Z SUMMARY:CUNY Center for Humanites CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081203T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Harlem Renaissance\nFREE\n12:30PM\n\nBryant Park\n42nd and 5 th Ave UID:68D2C20D-F49E-46D1-9903-F2650E45419F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080910T123000 DTSTAMP:20080506T184045Z SUMMARY:Word For Word - books CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080910T134500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Word for Word Poetry\nReading between A and B series\n\nLINE UP TBA\n\nBryant Park Reading Room\nBryant Park 42nd st. side\, under b urgandy umbrellas UID:F98628C5-BC73-4773-90D1-F07CED04137D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080610T183000 DTSTAMP:20080423T170512Z SUMMARY:Word for Word CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080610T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:Word for Word Kids\nNorman Bridwell\nClifford's Beach Party\ n(Cartwheel\, $7)\n\nBryant Park Reading Series\n42nd St side\, under bu rgandy umbrellas\n UID:84A2761B-38B4-4088-BDF3-3B58B3CD8A01 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080621T120000 DTSTAMP:20080423T170918Z SUMMARY:Clifford at Word for Word CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080621T130000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Sunday Best Reading Series\n\nTranslation\n\nMichael Moore\n \nOther authors TBA\n\nThe Lounge at Hudson View Gardens\nPinehurst Aven ue at 183rd Street\n$7 admission gets you 1 free drink\n4:00 pm UID:2C0B9D28-9C72-470E-9E86-EA32A2720798 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090503T160000 DTSTAMP:20081211T193243Z SUMMARY:Sunday Best CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090503T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Brenda Shaughnessy's first book of poems\, Interior with Sud den Joy (FSG\, 1999) was nominated for the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award and the Norma Farber First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in Best Amer ican Poetry\, Bomb\, Conjunctions\, McSweeney's\, The New Yorker\, The P aris Review and elsewhere. She is poetry editor at Tin House magazine an d lives in Brooklyn.\n\nJohn Yau is an art critic\, poet\, and curator l iving in New York. He has contributed essays to more than 100 exhibition catalogs and published over 250 articles and reviews. His poems and fic tion have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. \n\n\nfree\n85 East 4th St. UID:C6FF16F9-F75C-4D36-9FE0-1F642D340BE7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081117T193000 DTSTAMP:20080904T171506Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081117T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Prison Reform\n\nParticipants: Jose Dalisay\, Hwang Sok-yong \, Khet Mar\, and Susan Rosenberg.\n\nModerator: Jackson Taylor\n\nEven for those with a limited sentence\, the deforming pressure of incarcerat ion affects the mind\, body\, and spirit. Here\, four writers each with personal experiences of the prison system - some as political detainees - will discuss the influence of that exile on their work.\n\nCUNY Gradu ate Center\n365 Fifth Avenue\nMartin E. Segal Theater\n6:00 pm UID:49E7C6BE-CDE7-4264-9BA8-0FB74E0FD764 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090429T180000 DTSTAMP:20090402T162100Z SUMMARY:PEN World Voices Festival CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090429T193000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Darin Strauss\nMore Than It Hurts You\n(Dutton\, $25)\nFREE\ n7PM\n\nThe acclaimed author of "Chang and Eng" returns with a beautiful ly realized novel that at its heart is the story of a woman who will ris k everything to feel something and a man who suddenly realizes that bein g a good husband and father can no longer comfortably coexist.\n\nLillia n Vernon Writers House\n58 W. 10th St.\n UID:5979DE8A-D2CD-4466-88FA-6E6BA899B02E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080623T190000 DTSTAMP:20080527T202549Z SUMMARY:Darin Strauss and John Hodgman CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080623T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Translation and Literary Selfhood\n\nPoet and translator Ros anna Warren\, author of Fables \nof the Self\, hosts four master transla tors reflecting \nupon the alchemy of voice\, style\, and literary selfh ood \nin the art of translation. Participants include Jonathan \nGalassi (Eugenio Montale)\, Edith Grossman (Mario \nVargas Llosa)\, Marilyn Hac ker (Vénus Khoury-Ghata)\, \nand Rika Lesser (Rainer Maria Rilke). The a udience \nwill be invited to join the discussion. \n\n\nCUNY Center for the Humanities\n365 Fifth Avenue\nThe Skylight Room (9100)\n6:30 pm\nFre e UID:B4C9FCD4-80A6-40BC-A020-D6BEA768DAED TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090331T183000 DTSTAMP:20090115T171819Z SUMMARY:CUNY Humanities CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090331T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:When I'm Sixty-Four: The Plot Against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them \n"This is an insightful book on an important topic. Policy makers know that the baby boomers are facing a precarious retirement fut ure. But most baby boomers do not appear to be concerned. Ghilarducci's analysis is a warning call designed to shake up the complacency. She pro poses a bold plan to shore up the eroding economic foundations of retire ment in America."--Laura D'Andrea Tyson\, University of California\, Ber keley\n"At last! A robust\, reliable\, and highly readable reaffirmation of the right to retire. Teresa Ghilarducci is America's leading pension economist\, defender of Social Security\, and scourge of schemes to bil k the elderly. Here she tells it straight: what's right\, what's wrong\, and what should be done."--James K. Galbraith\, University of Texas\, A ustin\n\n"A blockbuster. This book addresses a hot topic. It is timely a nd full of interesting arguments\, materials\, and facts."--Thomas I. Pa lley\, author of "Plenty of Nothing"\n(Princeton University Press\,$29.9 5) \n\nTERESA GHILARDUCCI \nAn economist and Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame\n\nMurphy Institute For Labor\n25 W.43rd St\n18 th Floor UID:8D2AB714-709E-48C6-9579-1AC3EF8EB526 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080926T083000 DTSTAMP:20080917T163719Z SUMMARY:CUNY CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080926T101500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Toobin\nThe Nine\nAnchor Books\n$16\n\n Bestselling author Toobin takes readers into the chambers of the most important--and secret--legal body in the country\, the Supreme Court\, and reveals the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land.\n \n1 W. 54th Street\n UID:43209803-E5A4-45E3-8D14-6753B9FC00F5 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081008T120000 DTSTAMP:20080818T172409Z SUMMARY:Reading with University Club CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081008T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:As you all go off for a fun-filled summer\, we are busy plan ning for our exciting 2008 Fall Conference! For the first time ever\, t his event will be organized with all secondary and elementary level libr arians invited to attend on the same day.\n\nThe theme of this year’s co nference is Media Literacy and our keynote presenter will be Cyndy Schei be\, founder and Executive Director of Project Look Sharp at Ithaca Coll ege. Cyndy Scheibe has been working with K-12 teachers and teacher educa tion faculty around issues of media literacy integration for 10 years. C oncurrent sessions will be offered within the strands of literacy\, inqu iry\, technology and professional issues. You’ll have time to talk to ve ndors and opportunities for \ninteraction with your colleagues.\n\n\n\nB rooklyn Technical High School\, 29 Ft. Greene Place\, Brooklyn UID:C068C5EE-D42E-42F8-896C-237BA1AA1B67 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081104T070000 DTSTAMP:20080901T210840Z SUMMARY:School Library Conference CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081104T150000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Ann Kirschner\nSala's Gift\nFree Press\, $14\n\nFor nearly 5 0 years\, Sala Kirschner kept a secret: she survived five years in Nazi work camps. In 1991\, Sala showed her daughter Ann more than 350 letters and a diary that revealed the astonishing story of her odyssey as a Jew in Hitler's Germany. Includes letter facsimiles and 16 pages of photos. \n\nGerman House\n871 UN Plaza\n7:00 pm\n UID:F9AB8C4A-AE19-4662-9E5A-FC13492BB006 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090428T190000 DTSTAMP:20090223T190246Z SUMMARY:German House CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090428T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Dr. Richard O'Connor\nHappy at Last: A Thinking Person's Gui de to Finding Joy\nSt. Martin's Press\, $24.95\n\nFrom the bestselling a uthor of "Undoing Depression" comes this work on how to get happy and st ay that way. Drawing on the latest scientific research\, O'Connor reveal s how the brain responds to happy stimuli and how the brain can be train ed to be more receptive to happiness.\n\nNorth Forest Park Library\n98-2 7 Metropolitan Ave\nForest Hills\, Queens\n2:00 pm\nFree\n\n\n UID:C879DCFA-5392-476F-9012-84D4070FF671 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090110T140000 DTSTAMP:20081120T182027Z SUMMARY:Queens Library CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090110T150000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Ed. Lynn Sherr\nPeter Jennings: A Reporter's Life \n(PublicA ffairs\, $15)\nMEMBERS ONLY\n7PM\n\nThe words of Peter Jenningss family\ , friends\, and colleagues paint an intimate and comprehensive portrait of the late\, legendary journalist and news anchor.\n\nHarvard Club\n35 W 44th St.\n\n\n UID:045C3C3C-3EB6-4C95-96E0-55CE445E6438 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080410T190000 DTSTAMP:20080404T152034Z SUMMARY:Harvard Club CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080410T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Alex Scordelis\nCausing a Scene\nWilliam Morrow & Company\, $19.99\n\nFrom the infamous No Pants! Subway Ride to the legendary Grand Central Freeze\, Improv Everywhere has been responsible for some of the most original and subversive pranks of the Internet age. In "Causing a Scene\," the group's agents provide a hilarious firsthand account of the ir mischievous antics. Learn how they created a time loop in a Starbucks and gave Best Buy eighty extra employees. Join in on the fun with this irreverent\, behind-the-scenes look at Improv Everywhere's world-famous missions\, and get inspired to create your own memorable mayhem.\n\n\nIm prov Everywhere will be performing an MP3 experiement on Roosevelt Islan d.\n\nRoosevelt Island\n5:00 pm\nMore details to come UID:23B4AB3E-571B-4B28-A305-C19BCC2F92CD TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090523T170000 DTSTAMP:20090514T205048Z SUMMARY:Improv Everywhere CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090523T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Park Ave (83/84)\n\nJoseph Califano-High Society UID:F4E2B108-FD10-4022-9DBB-8F05727EED80 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071029T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195248Z SUMMARY:St Ignatius Loyala CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071029T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Janet Carlson\nQuick Before the Music Stops\nBroadway Books\ , $19.95\n\n Based on a popular piece she wrote for "O\, The Oprah Magaz ine\," this book is Carlson's exuberant story of how dance helped her fi nd her footing as a woman.\n\n174 West 72nd Street\n7:30 pm\n\n UID:9B9113B3-15FC-4138-86CC-BAF41436E2CF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090701T193000 DTSTAMP:20090526T195645Z SUMMARY:Fred Astaire Studios CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090701T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:19 DESCRIPTION:Julie Metz\nPerfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal\nHy perion\, $23.99\n\nThis memoir--moving\, simple\, filled with incandesce nt images--is the story of coming to terms with painful truths\, of rebu ilding both a life and an identity after betrayal and widowhood. Ultimat ely\, it is a story of rebirth and happiness--if not perfection.\n\nLisa Crystal Carver\nDrugs Are Nice\nSoft Skull Press\, $14.95\n\nIn this ey e-opening memoir\, Lisa Crystal Carver recalls her extraordinary youth a nd charts the late-80s\, early-90s punk subculture that she helped shape . She recounts how her band Suckdog was born in 1987 and the wild events that followed: leaving small-town New Hampshire to tour Europe at 18\, becoming a teen publisher of fanzines\, a teen bride\, and a teen prosti tute. "Spin" has called Suckdog's album "Drugs Are Nice" one of the best of the '90s\, and the book includes photos of infamous European shows. Yet the book also tells of how Lisa saw the need for change in 1994\, wh en her baby was born with a chromosomal deletion and his father became v iolent. With lasting lightness and surprising gravity\, "Drugs Are Nice" is a definitive account of the generation that wanted to break every ru le\, but also a story of an artist and a mother becoming an adult on her own terms.\n\nFelicia Luna Lemus\nLike Son\nAkashic Books\, $14.95\n\nS et amidst the outsider worlds of present-day downtown New York\, 1990s L os Angeles\, and 1940s Mexico City\, Like Son is the not-so-simple story of a love-blindness shared between a father and a son. Born a bouncing baby girl named Francisca Cruz\, Frank Cruz is now a post-punk thirty-ye ar-old who has inherited his dead father's wanderlust\, unrequited love\ , and hyperbolic tendencies.\n\nZachary Mexico\nChina Underground\nSoft Skull\, $16.95\n\nCollected through intimate encounters over an impressi ve range of travels\, Mexicos menagerie of voices tell the unique story of contemporary Chinas seismic social shifts from the point of view of t he marginalized and disaffected. A musician and writer\, Mexico is a rem arkably eloquent and perceptive participant-observer.\n\nBowery Poetry C lub\n308 Bowery\n8:00 pm\n\n\n\n\n UID:D419341B-91D4-4E4E-88E4-F82460025ED1 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090625T200000 DTSTAMP:20090622T150532Z SUMMARY:Literary Death Match CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090625T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 TRANSP:OPAQUE UID:E8B30B58-E093-4DFD-8F2D-5B5B86A7C066 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070918T183000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195246Z SUMMARY:Office CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070918T213000 RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;INTERVAL=1;UNTIL=20070925T035959Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Patricia Wells\nWe've Always Had Paris...and Provence: A Scr apbook of Our Life in France \n(Harper\, $27)\n4PM\nFREE\n\nFood journal ist and teacher Patricia Wells reads and discusses her latest book about her culinary life in France.\n\n67 Wines\n179 Columbus Ave\n\n UID:F4493AF1-D3C5-4C43-B400-0559413BF091 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080506T160000 DTSTAMP:20080313T220858Z SUMMARY:Patricia Wells CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080506T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Rakesh Saytal\nBlue Boy\nKensington Publishing Corp\, $15\n\ nThe best fiction reminds us that humanity is much\, much larger than ou r personal world. "Blue Boy" shows us a world too funny and sad and swee t to be based on anything but the truth--Chuck Palahniuk.\n\nSamantha Hu nt\nThe Invention of Everything Else\nMariner\, $13.95\n\nHunt's novel i s a wondrous imagining of an unlikely friendship between theeccentric in ventor Nikola Tesla and a young chambermaid in the Hotel New Yorker\, wh ere Tesla lived out his last days.\n\n\nThe International Center\n50 Wes t 23rd Street\n7th Floor\n7:00 pm\n\n UID:07E9D8C7-CA5B-4AE6-80AE-32EDED2E012C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090902T190000 DTSTAMP:20090619T142743Z SUMMARY:International center CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090902T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Kathleen Rooney\,\nMichael Montlack\,\nBrie Huling\,\nSarah Batkie\,\nScott Cheshire\n\n\nAdmission$5.00+one free drink\n\nEarshot\n Lucky Cat \n245 Grand Street \n(b/w Driggs & Roebling)\nBrooklyn UID:84D3CB20-9A37-4F12-971B-0FFB24958126 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081121T200000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194955Z SUMMARY:Ear Shot Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081121T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Rosalind Resnick\nGetting Rich Without Going Broke \n(Pagefr ee\, $25)\nMEMBERS\n6:30PM\n\nTired of small business self-help books th at over-promise and under-deliver? Then\, Getting Rich Without Going Bro ke is the book for you! For the first time ever\, millionaire entreprene ur and investor Rosalind Resnick shares her secrets of success and shows you how to use luck\, logic and leverage to build your own multi-millio n-dollar business. From mapping out your strategy and targeting your mar ket to raising capital and building the winning team\, Resnick takes you by the hand and coaches you step-by-step on how to minimize your risk a nd maximize your chances of success. An invaluable resource for any aspi ring entrepreneur!\n\nPenn Club\n30 W 44th St UID:ABFA29E0-4448-41E5-94F4-3FA1509651BE TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080924T183000 DTSTAMP:20080521T190547Z SUMMARY:Getting Rich CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080924T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Paris Review Summer Salon\n6PM\nFREE\n\nMark Dow\nAmerican G ulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons \n(UCA Press\, $17)\n\nUzodinma Iw eala\nBeasts of No Nation\n(Harper Perrenial\, $12)\n\nAndrew Rice\nand\ nSaid Sayrafiezadeh\n\nLillian Vernon\n58 W 10th St UID:B29FD978-66F6-4231-B46B-C3E1DBCC37A5 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080624T180000 DTSTAMP:20080529T202057Z SUMMARY:Paris Review Summer Salon CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080624T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Media Bistro to bring about greater community among media pr ofessionals with\nJamie Cat Callan the author of \n\nFrench Women Don't Sleep Alone: Pleasurable Secrets to Finding Love\nNo matter where you we re born\, every woman can now be a little bit French\, thanks to this de lightful book. . . . Callan helps women to look at their love lives and marriages with new eyes\; love and marriage are not jobs but arts--Nahid Rachlin\, author of "Persian Girls." \nCitadel Press: $ 12.95\n\nThe Bu bbles Lounge\n228 W.Broadway\nbtw Moore&White St. UID:ABBF7A61-8B7C-4902-A641-F80CEE2A7BC2 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090324T183000 DTSTAMP:20090326T173633Z SUMMARY:Media Bistro CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090324T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Moustafa Bayoumi\nHow Does it Feel to be a Problem?\nPenguin $25\n\nIn prose that is at once blunt and lyrical\, Bayoumi presents th e story of howyoung Arab and Muslim Americans are forging lives for them selves in a countrythat often mistakes them for the enemy.\n\nFREE\n7:00 pm\n\n16 Beaver Street UID:0D316178-D026-4A04-9222-9B7E1D6410C7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080910T200000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204828Z SUMMARY:Arab and Muslim Americans CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080910T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Tamara Cofman Wittes\nFreedom's Unsteady March: America's Ro le in Building Arab Democracy \n(Brookings Institution\, $27)\nMEMBERS\n 12:15PM\n\n"We ultimately need allies who share our values not just our interests. In Freedom's Unsteady March\, Tamara Cofman Wittes forcefully and articulately reevaluates how we can encourage liberalization in the Middle East. It is a welcome contribution to the ongoing foreign policy debate." --Lee Hamilton\, president\, Woodrow Wilson International Cent er for Scholars \n\nCouncil on Foreign Relations\n58 East 68th Street\n UID:AB239208-177A-4925-9F21-79F58A6BE4EA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080528T121500 DTSTAMP:20080513T213436Z SUMMARY:Tamara Wittes at CFR CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080528T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Rick Barot was born in the Philippines and grew up in the Sa n Francisco Bay. His first book\, The Darker Fall\, was the winner of th e Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry published by Sarabande. In 2001\, he received a poetry fellowship from the NEA. He currently teaches at Warr en Wilson College and at Pacific Lutheran University. \n\nCA Conrad\n\nF ree\n\n85 EAST 4th St. UID:568544ED-979C-465A-BDCE-A897D1405907 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081027T193000 DTSTAMP:20080904T171506Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081027T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:Pen American Center Presents: A Tribute to Chinua Achebe\nTh ings Fall Apart: 50th Anniversary Edition (Anchor\, $11)\n8:00 pm\nTicke ts $15\n\nNigerian writer Chinua Achebe is joined by Toni Morrison\, Chr is Abani\, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\, Edwidge Danticat\, Suheir Hammad\, Ha Jin\, and Colum McCann for this exciting anniversary tribute to Thin gs Fall Apart (1958) -- one of the first African novels written in Engli sh to receive global critical acclaim. The evening features a special pe rformance by the Francesca Harper Dance Project with dancers from the Al vin Ailey School. Presented in collaboration with Vintage Books\n\nThe Town Hall\n123 West 43rd Street\n(between 6th Avenue & Broadway) UID:F4ED6F94-10EA-42A9-BE1E-2AEE1EC3C862 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080226T200000 DTSTAMP:20080218T191713Z SUMMARY:Tribute to Chinua Achebe CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080226T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Performance: Tales of an Urban Indian \n\nDarrell Dennis\nTw o Plays: Tales of an Urban Indian & The Trickster of 3rd Avenue East\nPl aywrights Canada Press\, $17.95\n\n "Dennis is a writer and performer to keep your eye on. Sparked by anger but suffused with humanity and humil ity\, his Tales are worth telling-and watching."- "NOW Magazine"\n\nThe Public Theater\n425 Lafayette Street\n7:45 pm\n UID:D867408A-5344-4D56-99B4-B5DCB843016F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090221T194500 DTSTAMP:20090119T183930Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090221T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Geoff Herbach\nThe Miracle Letters of T. Rimberg\n(Three Riv ers\, $14)\n7:30PM\nhttp://www.thetanknyc.org\n\nThe Miracle Tour Featur ing Geoff Herbach and Sam Osterhout\n\nIn the tradition of novels like " Everything Is Illuminated" and "Indecision\," this darkly comedic debut novel from a new voice follows one man's quest for answers amid a life o f unasked questions.\n\nThe Tank\n279 Church St\n UID:806B52E7-1ED3-4D1C-BF81-501CC65DDCAB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080508T193000 DTSTAMP:20080407T161640Z SUMMARY:Geoff Herbach CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080508T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Chelsea Handler\nAre You There Vodka\, It's Me\, Chelsea\n(S imon Spotlight Ent\, $25)\n9:30PM\nTo make reservations for this show\, please call Carolines at 212-757- 4100\n\nIn a word: hilarious. . . . Th ese are some of the funniest stories I have ever read and they're also s ome of the most unexpectedly heartfelt--Laura Zigman\, author of "Animal Husbandry."\n\nCaroline's\n1626 Broadway UID:B09295FF-1DEF-4D4D-B5B7-DEB4666430CB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080421T213000 DTSTAMP:20080412T154023Z SUMMARY:Chelsea Handler at Caroline's CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080421T233000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Michael Patrick Macdonald\nEaster Rising: A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion (Mariner\, $14)\n8:00 pm \nFREE\n\nhttp://www.rockysulliva ns.com/readings.html\n\nRocky Sullivan's \n34 VanDyke @ Dwight\nBrooklyn \n\n UID:678697F3-C54A-4589-AA08-A6BF96EE2521 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080303T200000 DTSTAMP:20080219T190520Z SUMMARY:Rocky Sullivan's CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080303T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Mark Penn\nMicrotrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's B ig Changes \n(Twelve\, $26)\nMEMBERS ONLY\n7PM\n\nThe advisor to Senator Hillary Clinton\, Bill Gates\, and President Bill Clinton proves that s mall is big by identifying 75 hidden-in-plain-sight trends\, revealing t hat the nation is no longer a melting pot but a collection of communitie s with individual tastes and lifestyles.\n\nHarvard Club\n27 W 44th St UID:AA5C3DC9-A9B5-403C-97AE-2C83D6680A25 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080618T190000 DTSTAMP:20080609T215824Z SUMMARY:Mark Penn at Harvard Club CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080618T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Jennifer 8 Lee\nThe Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food \n(twelve\, $13)\n\nJennifer 8 Lee\, the daug hter of Chinese immigrants and a fluent speaker of Mandarin Chinese hers elf\, grew up eating her mother's authentic Chinese food in her family's New York City kitchen before graduating from Harvard in 1999 with a deg ree in Applied Mathematics and economics and studying at Beijing Univers ity. At the age of 24\, she was hired by the New York Times\, where she is a metro repoter and has written a variety of stories on culture\, pov erty\, and technology. \n\nLunar Stages\n67 Mulberry St\nin Columbus Par k\n UID:864F0978-9737-48D3-AD0B-E4F211A3E3EA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080531T190000 DTSTAMP:20080508T213803Z SUMMARY:Jennifer 8 CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080531T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Fiction with\n\n\nJoe Meno\nDemons in the Spring\nAkashic Bo oks\n$25\n\nArthur Neresian\nThe Swing Voter of Staten Island\nAkashic B ooks\n$23\n\nFREE\n7 pm\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4th Street UID:BCBD7C5B-9470-4229-8938-BC319C5487BC TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080914T190000 DTSTAMP:20080808T181321Z SUMMARY:KGB Fiction CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080914T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Colonel Randall J Larsen\nOur Own Worst Enemy: Asking the Ri ght Questions about Security to Protect You\, Your Family\, and America \n(Grand Central Publishing\, $26)\n11:30AM\nnyyc.com\n\n In this critic al and provocative examination of the deficiencies and oversights in hom eland security\, a leading expert reveals what individual citizens\, com munities\, and business leaders can do to best prepare for some of the n ations most dangerous threats.\n\nNew York Yacht Club\n37 @ 44th St UID:3F3308DC-4AE5-42D3-8ECB-E37713406C9B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080327T113000 DTSTAMP:20080325T174632Z SUMMARY:Colonel Randall J Larsen CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080327T133000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Jon Bowermaster\nDescending the Dragon: My Journey Down the Coast of Vietnam\n(National Geographic\, $25)\nFREE\n7PM\n\n\n\nSometime s the longest journey begins with great patience. When Jon Bowermaster p roposed an 800-mile kayak expedition along Vietnam's northern coastline\ , the country's government initially responded\, "That will be quite imp ossible."\n\nHalf King\n505 W 23rd UID:0F425BD1-A96E-4BC0-9205-E7018B3F9464 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080915T190000 DTSTAMP:20080605T142714Z SUMMARY:Half King CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080915T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Alex Prud'homme \n\nMy life in France(with Julia Child)\n\n\ nFREE\n\nBrooklyn Library\nDweck Auditorium\nGrand Army Plaza UID:CD0CC839-2BF6-4AE3-B54D-9AC2B3434312 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081116T133000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204833Z SUMMARY:My life in France CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081116T153000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Sarah Garland\nGangs in Garden City: How Immigration\, Segre gation and Youth Violence Are Changing America's Suburbs\nNation Books\, $26.95\n\nDrawing back the veil on a hidden\, troubling world\, this gr oundbreaking work of investigative journalism explores the startling gro wth of Central American gangs in the suburbs of America.\n\nHalf King\n5 05 W. 23rd Street\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n UID:FF4129A9-3323-4DF6-A1CC-251266629B26 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090629T190000 DTSTAMP:20090615T181037Z SUMMARY:Half King CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090629T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Roberto Gonzalez\nSo Often the Water Foes to Water Until it Breaks\n(Chicago\, $17)\nFREE\n5PM\n\nRigoberto González is the author o f two poetry collections\, So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water until It B reaks\, a National Poetry Series selection\, and Other Fugitives and Oth er Strangers.\n\nNew York City Building\nFlushing Meadows Corona Park UID:8EFD538A-743C-486D-B77F-41968F27A2C2 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080608T170000 DTSTAMP:20080602T212249Z SUMMARY:Queens Museum Poetry CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080608T193000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:Fence Books Book Launch\n$5\n6:30PM\n\nJibade-Khalil Huffman \n19 Names for our Band\n(Fence\, $15)\n\nKaisa Ullsvik Miller\nUnspoile d Air\n(Fence\, $15)\n\nCarl Martin\nRogue Hemlocks\n(Fence\, $15)\n\nAa ron Kunin\nThe Mandarin\n(Fence\, $15)\n\nNew School\nRoom 510\n66 W 12t h St. UID:16A1C6AE-80A3-4080-863A-9438A7003C77 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080422T183000 DTSTAMP:20080408T205641Z SUMMARY:Fence Books Book Launch CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080422T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Nicholas Johnson\nBig Dead Place\n(Feral\, $17)\n\nCarol Nov ack\n\nHattie Gossett\n \nThe Immigrant Suite: Hey Xenophobe Who You Cal ling a Foreigner? \n(Seven Stories\, $15)\n\n4PM\n$7 DONATION\n\n"Big De ad Place" examines daily life in Antarctica\, with a look at early explo rers\, the local history of the region's two largest U.S. bases\, and th e internal culture of the U.S. Antarctic Program. Working for that progr am\, self-proclaimed "smirking lackey" Nicholas Johnson quickly finds a world far from his preconceived vision of a pristine frontier and a nobl e scientific mission. Photos\, some in color. Illustrations & maps.\n\nW riting from the upper west side of Manhattan\, where Harlem intersects w ith waves of immigrants from the Dominican Republic\, Cuba\, Puerto Rico \, Korea\, Cambodia\, Ivory Coast\, India\, Native America\, and from al l over the globe\, hattie gossett vividly invokes her neighborhood exper ience. With wit and candor\, she questions why so many people are forced from their home countries\, only to be despised as interlopers in the U nited States\; why older immigrants see younger ones as the enemy\; who gets paid a living wage\, who gentrifies their neighborhood\, and who se nds their money back home. From the grocery store to the cleaners to the tenement walk-up and everywhere in between\, gossett captures the voice s overheard and imagined in this breathless immigrant suite.\n\nThe Loun ge at Hudson View Gardens\nPinehurst Ave at 183rd St.\n UID:D3493D88-B57C-4FDA-BFCF-621EFADFAF9D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080420T160000 DTSTAMP:20080317T220545Z SUMMARY:Sunday Best Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080420T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:From the Shadows : Immigrant Writing in the Americas\,Europe \,and Africa\n\nMarjorie Agosin\n\nAmara lakhous\n\nNeil Bissoondath\n\n Suzanne Ruta ( Stalin in the B ronx and other Stories)\n\nAmericas Socie ty\n680 Park Avenue\n212-249-8950 UID:F5B34E5E-A0EE-4272-B61B-DFB767E1E38F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081023T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204828Z SUMMARY:Americas Society: Immigrant writing in America CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081023T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Joseph Nye \nThe Powers to Lead (Oxford University Press\, $22)\n\nNye argues that the hard power approaches of earlier military-in dustrial eras have been largely supplanted by soft power approaches that seek to attract\, inspire\, and persuade rather than dictate. Nye shows that the most effective leaders are actually those who combine hard and soft power skills.\n\nCouncil on Foreign Relations\n58 East 68th Street \nCall for more information: 1-212-434-9400 UID:00560ACE-BC98-456E-AC1E-C5A2243E6D60 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080313T173000 DTSTAMP:20080228T210444Z SUMMARY:Joseph Nye CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080313T193000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Performance: Tales of an Urban Indian \n\nDarrell Dennis\nTw o Plays: Tales of an Urban Indian & The Trickster of 3rd Avenue East\nPl aywrights Canada Press\, $17.95\n\n "Dennis is a writer and performer to keep your eye on. Sparked by anger but suffused with humanity and humil ity\, his Tales are worth telling-and watching."- "NOW Magazine"\n\nThe Public Theater\n425 Lafayette Street\n7:45 pm\n UID:B563096B-8FB7-4B99-B6E1-35FE7A73B013 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090303T194500 DTSTAMP:20090119T184123Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090303T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Three Minutes to a Pain-Free Life - Dr. Joseph Weisberg\n(At ria\, $16)\nEliminate and prevent chronic pain forever with this safe\, simple\, three-minute daily program--a radical and effective new approac h fronted by a highly respected expert and authority in the field of phy sical therapy.\n\nPenn Club of New York\n30 W 44th St. UID:9B3E314A-A83B-4997-B220-75F537B37A57 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080326T183000 DTSTAMP:20080310T024422Z SUMMARY:Penn Club CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080326T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:13 DESCRIPTION:Paul Otremba\nThe Currency\nFour Way Books\, $15.95\n\nThe f inely-sculpted poems of The Currency animate the world of art and archit ecture\, from Caravaggio and Frank Gehry to the contemporary artist Maur izio Cattelan and the filmmaker Jean-Pierre Limosin. Exploring such work s of art for how they lead us to pause for thought and breath--how they infuse mind and body in equal measure\, helping us keep and pass the tim e we spend--Otremba poignantly articulates the hues of familial life.\n\ nAlissa Valles\nOrphan Fire\nFour Way Books\, $15.95\n\nThis remarkable sequence of lyric poems combines to a beautiful\, luminous exploration o f emotional intensity\, of how the body is inhabited by fear\, or love\, or "a cynical knowledge that helps us endure." The images in these poem s will be etched in your mind long after you have put this book down.\n\ nJean-Paul Pecqueur\nThe Case Against Happiness\nAlice James Books\, $14 .95\n\nCake Shop\n152 Ludlow\n5:00 pm\n\n\n UID:23663B7B-6A29-485B-9216-8E9A187E40C6 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090503T170000 DTSTAMP:20090417T142540Z SUMMARY:Polestar Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090503T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Robert Hormats\nThe Price of Liberty: Paying for America's W ars \n(Henry Holt & Company\, $16)\nMEMBERS\n6:30PM\n\nIn this bracing w ork of history\, Robert D. Hormats\, one of America's leading experts on international finance\, argues that the United States must realign its policies on taxes\, defense spending\, Social Security\, Medicare\, and oil dependency to safeguard the nation in the coming decades.\n\nUnivers ity Club\n1 W 54th St\n\n UID:D294DB97-FE84-4A7E-AF24-A0A53EC7C2B3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080625T183000 DTSTAMP:20080508T221431Z SUMMARY:The Price of Liberty CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080625T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Word for Word kids series\nFREE\nNOON\n\nCamp Klutz Craft Bo nanza\n\nMobile Libris will sell an assortment of books in the Klutz ser ies (Klutz Press)\n\nBryant Park\n42nd St side\nunder burgundy umbrellas UID:FEB291C4-D5F7-4831-AB3A-EEACC50269F5 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080816T120000 DTSTAMP:20080423T174408Z SUMMARY:Word for Word kids CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080816T130000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Basic Black: The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work ( and in Life) \nIn the exuberant\, down-to-earth voice that is her tradem ark\, Black explains how she achieved "the 360 life"--a blend of profess ional accomplishment and personal contentment--and how any woman can sei ze opportunity in the workplace.\n(Three Rivers Press : $ 15)\n\nCATHIE BLACK heads Hearst Magazines\, a division of Hearst Corporation. She man ages the financial performance and development of some of the industry's best-known magazines\, including "Cosmopolitan\,"" Esquire\,"" Good Hou sekeeping\,"" Harper's Bazaar\,"" "and" O\,"" the Oprah Magazine\," Blac k made publishing history in 1979 as the first woman publisher of a week ly consumer magazine\, New York\, and she is widely credited for the suc cess of "USA Today\," where for eight years\, starting in 1983\, she was first president\, then publisher. Before joining Hearst\, she also serv ed five years as president and CEO of the Newspaper Association of Ameri ca. She lives in New York with her husband\, son\, and daughter.\n\nJaco b Javitz Center\nRiver Pavillion\n655 W.34th St UID:29F487D8-F2FE-49AE-A60A-559995B5F28A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081119T110000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194956Z SUMMARY:Basic Black by Cathie Black CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081119T150000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Kathleen Townsend\nFailing America's Faithful: How Today's C hurches Are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way \n(Hachette\, $25)\nfor info (212) 662-4315\n7:30AM\n\nBlending inspirational memoir w ith a religious and political rebuke of American Christianity\, the olde st daughter of Senator Robert F. Kennedy delivers a rousing call to arms for spiritual renewal.\n\nWaldorf Astoria \n301 Park Avenue\n\n\n\n UID:2D17897F-377A-4E28-901A-905FB477B83E TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080414T073000 DTSTAMP:20080407T163008Z SUMMARY:Auburn Theological Seminary CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080414T090000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Joseph Caldwell was born in Milwaukee\,Wiscousin but has liv ed most of his life in New York City.A playwright at Yale University's S chool Drama and was awarded The Rome Prize Literature byt The American A cademy of Arts and Letters.\nHis most recent book\,The Pig Did it\,is th e first in a trilogy\n\nFree\n\nMarymount\nRegina Peruggi Room\n221 East 71st Street\n212 774-0780 UID:6A176035-C5C2-46E7-9AC8-DFE2205B2DF2 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081112T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204823Z SUMMARY:IrishVoices CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081112T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Pacific Standard Reading Series\n\nNathaniel Rich\nThe Mayor 's Tongue \nRiverhead Books\, $16\n\nIn this debut novel\, hailed by Ste phen King as terrifying\, touching\, and wildly funny\, the stories of t wo strangers\, Eugene Brentani and Mr. Schmitz\, interweave.\n\nEd Park\ nPersonal Days\nRandom House\, $13\n\nIn an unnamed New York-based compa ny\, the employees are getting restless as everything around them unrave ls. Rich with Orwellian doublespeak\, filled with sabotage and romance\, this astonishing literary debut is at once a comic delight and a narrat ive tour de force.\n\nPacific Standard Bar\n82 Fourth Avenue\nBrooklyn\n 7:00 pm\nFree\n\n\n UID:D94271DF-7F56-40E2-BDEE-2510B55F736D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090421T190000 DTSTAMP:20090303T153400Z SUMMARY:Pacific Standard CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090421T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Andrew Foster Altschul\nLady Lazarus\n(Harcourt\, $25)\nFREE \n6:30PM\n\nOne Story Reading Series\n\nIn this sprawling debut novel\, Calliope Bird Morath is the daughter of legendary punk-rock star Brandt Morath\, whose horrific suicide devastates the world.\n\nPianos\n158 Lud low\n UID:AEADC36E-C847-47A4-BF7B-339C95806AFD TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080613T183000 DTSTAMP:20080408T215951Z SUMMARY:One Story Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080613T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Martha Cooley lives in Brooklyn\, New York\, and teaches at Bennington College's MFA program in creative writing. THIRTY-THREE SWOON S is her second novel.\nThirty-Three Swoons \nWith the assurance\, compl exity\, and depth of a work by Bulgakov\, DeLillo\, or Poe\, Cooley's ex traordinary follow-up to her first novel\, the bestselling "The Archivis t\," is further evidence that she is one of the most gifted writers at w ork today.(BackBayBooks\;$14.99)\nThe Archivist \nA young woman's impass ioned pursuit of a sealed cache of T.S. Eliot's letters lies at the hear t of this emotionally charged novel\, now in paperback.(Back Bay Books:$ 13.99)\n\nBliumis-Dunn\, Sally \nTalking Underwater\nWhat I admire in th is elegant debut collection is how (Bliumis-Dunn) mixes lyrical image wi th plain statement\, creating an idiom that finds figures in meticulousl y observed flora and fauna for her body awareness and her own exactly fe lt emotional life.--Eamon Grennan.(Wind Publications: $15.00)\n\nDaniell e Ofri\, MD\, PhD\, DLitt (Hon)\, is an attending physician in the medic al clinic at Bellevue Hospital\, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine. She divides her time between see ing patients\, teaching medical students and residents\, editing and wri ting. Dr. Ofri is the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of the Bellevue Lit erary Review. \n\nThe Best of the Bellevue Literary Review \nPublisher M arketing: "A kaleidoscope of creativity . . . unsentimental and sometime s unpredictable."-Journal of the American Medical Association\nFounded j ust six years ago\, Bellevue Literary Review is already widely recognize d as a rare forum for emerging and celebrated writers-among them Julia A lvarez\, Raphael Campo\, Rick Moody\, and Abraham Verghese-on issues of health and healing. Gathered here are poignant and prizewinning stories\ , essays\, and poems\, the voices of patients and those who care for the m\, which form the journal's remarkable dialogue on "humanity and the hu man experience."(Bellevue Literary Press$ 16.95)\n\nETC.\n\nBellevue Hos pital\n462 1st Ave@28thStreets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n UID:83026821-66B6-4C22-B65E-9E2F3C2586AD TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081005T170000 DTSTAMP:20081018T195002Z SUMMARY:Bellevue Review Events@Bellevue Hospital CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081005T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Ansche Chesed Temple Readings\nFREE - 212 865 0600\n8PM\n\nP eter Charles Melman\nLandsman\n(Coutnerpoint\, $15)\n\nPeter Manseau\nSo ngs for the Butcher's Daughter\n(Free Press\, $25)\n\nAnsche Chesed\n251 W 100th St UID:B2EC8988-5A6B-4A4F-946F-2D4E0DCC5584 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080714T200000 DTSTAMP:20080513T210122Z SUMMARY:Ansche Chesed reading series CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080714T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:Baseball Book Signing! All about the Mets!\n\nGreg Prince\n Faith and Fear in Flushing\nSkyhorse Publishing\, $24.95\n\nStanley Cohe n\nA Magic Summer\nSkyhorse Publishing\, $14.95\n\nJon Springer\, Matthe w Silverman\, and Howie Rose\nMets By the Numbers\nSkyhorse Publishing\, $14.95\n\nTwo Boots Tavern\n384 Grand Street\n7:00 pm\n\n UID:55D46005-45CB-4F56-8227-AD60434593B5 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090618T190000 DTSTAMP:20090605T190106Z SUMMARY:Two Boots Tavern CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090618T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Senator Chuck Hagel\nAmerica: Our Next Chapter\; Tough Quest ions\, Straight Answers\n(Ecco $26)\n\nPopular and provocative Senator H agel lays out in honest\, plain-spoken detail what he thinks of the curr ent state of American politics\, and what the nation must do to get back on the right track politically\, morally\, and economically.\n\nCornell Club\n6 E 44th St UID:415041A3-B9E9-45A9-B34C-2370F43EA045 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080328T124500 DTSTAMP:20080312T020306Z SUMMARY:Oxonian Society CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080328T124500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Mary Morris\nThe River Queen\nPicador\, $16\n\n\nIn the fall of 2005 acclaimed writer Mary Morris set off down the Mississippi River in a battered old houseboat called The River Queen\, with two river rat s named Tom and Jerry and an ailing\, irascible rat terrier named Samant ha Jean. In this poignant and often humorous memoir\, Morris reclaims t he world of her childhood as she gets a bearing on her future. \n\n\nAyu n Halliday\nNo Touch Monkey\nSeal Press\, $15\n\nFrom taming the wild do g packs of Bali to requiring the services of a bonesetter in Sumatra\, A yun Halliday offers up the best of her itinerant foibles as examples of how not to travel abroad.\n\nLolita\n266 Broome Street\n\n\n\n\n\n UID:486516EC-0A32-4918-A292-AEFA465C3E6C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080927T180000 DTSTAMP:20080818T175749Z SUMMARY:Restless Legs Series CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080927T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Beard on Books\nGreg Patent\nA Baker's Odyssey: Celebrating Time-Honored Recipes from America's Rich Immigrant Heritage (Wiley\, $3 5)\n\nPatent\, a baker\, teacher and James Beard Award winner (for 2002' s Baking in America)\, examines the baking traditions of Iraq\, Norway\, Germany\, India and other countries in order to illuminate the ways in which different cultures bake alike. \n\nThe James Beard House\n167 West 12th Street UID:0FA350AC-762A-4FCC-8CE8-6E80B5D475E7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081029T120000 DTSTAMP:20080904T191513Z SUMMARY:Beard House : Beard On Books CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081029T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Janice Erlbaum is the author of "Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeles s Memoir "and "Have You Found Her\," which was named one of the New York Public Library's 25 Books to Remember. A former columnist for BUST maga zine\, she lives in New York City with her partner Bill Scurry. You can find her at www.girlbomb.com\n\nKevin Young is the author of five previo us collections of poetry. His book "Jelly Roll "was a finalist for the N ational Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and won the Pa terson Poetry Prize. His most recent collection\, "For the Confederate D ead\," won the 2007 Quill Award for poetry. He has also been the recipie nt of a Guggenheim fellowship\, and is currently the Atticus Haygood Pro fessor of English and Creative Writing and curator of the Raymond Danows ki Poetry Library at Emory University in Atlanta.\n\nFREE\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4th Street UID:7B1B7562-5045-4E71-BF0D-44874814562A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080915T193000 DTSTAMP:20080904T171506Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry Reading Series@KGB BAR CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080915T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Paul Auster\nMan in the Dark\n(Henry Holt & Company\, $24)\n \nBrooklyn Writers for Brooklyn Readers\n\nBrooklyn Public Library\nCent ral Branch\nGrand Army Plaza UID:4A0BA733-70D5-46F8-A4E0-974B658DFA00 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080412T140000 DTSTAMP:20080324T163019Z SUMMARY:Paul Auster CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080412T160000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Richard Howard\nProgressive Education\n(Farrar Straus Giroux \, $16)\n8PM\nFREE\n\nSip Bar\n998 Amsterdam Ave\nhttp://www.sipbar.com/ \n\n UID:E8032048-4249-45CB-9901-F46B829ED968 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080319T200000 DTSTAMP:20080229T224043Z SUMMARY:Sip Lit Richard Howard CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080319T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:Susan Nagel - Marie-Therese\, Child of Terror\n(Bloomsbury P ublishing PLC\, $40)\n6PM\nwww.nationalartsclub.org\n\nThe first major b iography of one of France's most mysterious women--Marie Antoinette's on ly child to survive the revolution.\nSusan Nagel\, author of the critica lly acclaimed biography "Mistress of the Elgin Marbles\," turns her atte ntion to the life of a remarkable woman who both defined and shaped an e ra\, the tumultuous last days of the crumbling "ancien regime\," Nagel b rings the formidable Marie-Therese to life\, along with the age of revol ution and the waning days of the aristocracy\, in a page-turning biograp hy that will appeal to fans of Antonia Fraser's "Marie Antoinette" and A manda Foreman's "Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire\," \n\nNational Arts C lub\n15 Gramercy Park South\n UID:10CD974D-4EE3-4181-8431-1A59F638E4E1 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080616T180000 DTSTAMP:20080422T181544Z SUMMARY:Susan Nagel at NAC CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080616T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:Film Screenings & Events\n\nRichard Williams in Conversation with John Canemaker\nIllustrated with clips from Who Framed Roger Rabbi t\, The Charge of the Light Brigade\, A Christmas Carol\, Raggedy Ann & Andy\, the animated titles from The Return of the Pink Panther\, award-w inning commercials\, segments from The Animator's Survival Kit\, and mor e.\n\nA three-time Academy Award winner—for Special Achievement and for Visual Effects as the director of animation of the Walt Disney/Steven Sp ielberg blockbuster Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)\, and for his short f ilm A Christmas Carol (1971)—Richard Williams discusses his long and inf luential career in a conversation with animation filmmaker and historian (and fellow Oscar-winner) John Canemaker. Born in Toronto in 1933\, Wil liams became one of the finest animation filmmakers of the late twentiet h century and has been a mentor to countless others. During the 1970s\, his London-based studio created scores of stunningly crafted\, award-win ning commercials\, titles\, short films\, and television specials. Not c ontent with these successes\, Williams then went on to hire veteran anim ators from the Disney studio's "Golden Age" and from Warner Bros. Cartoo ns\, most notably Grim Natwick (Snow White)\, Art Babbitt (Fantasia)\, a nd Ken Harris (Bugs Bunny). He also learned from his friends Milt Kahl ( Pinocchio\, The Jungle Book)\, and Frank Thomas (Bambi\, Cinderella). A distillation of his acquired knowledge went into the exuberant (and sexy ) animation he directed for Who Framed Roger Rabbit and\, most recently\ , into an unparalleled and indispensable series of instructional DVD mas ter classes based on his bestselling book The Animator's Survival Kit\n\ n\nProgram 100 min.\nTheater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2)\, T UID:5D4B531F-4443-4EDF-BB59-E006A29E1D75 TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.moma.org/calendar/films.php?id=10082&ref=calend a DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080922T190000 DTSTAMP:20080916T180833Z SUMMARY:Film Screenings&Events at MOMA CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080922T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Staceyann Chin\nThe Other Side of Paradise\nScribner\, $24\n \nFrom the iconic and charismatic star of "Russell Simmons' Def Poetry J am" comes this brave and fiercely candid memoir about growing up in Jama ica by performer\, activist\, and writer Chin.\n\nBryant Park\n2:00 pm\n \n UID:D73EF022-8EEA-4162-A3FF-2E64E4E35D3C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090620T140000 DTSTAMP:20090528T174603Z SUMMARY:Heritage of Pride Rally CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090620T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Justin Marks\n\nJeffrey Yang\nAn Aquarium\nGraywolf Press\, $15\n\nFrom "Abalone" to "Zooxanthellae\," Jeffrey Yang's debut poetry c ollection is full of the exhilarating colors and ominous forms of aquati c life. But deeper under the surface are his observations on war\, envir onmental degradation\, language\, and history\, as a father--troubled by violence and human mismanagement of the world--offers advice to a newbo rn son.\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4th Street\nFree\n UID:94B3D007-2A19-4F58-9EC4-DBED2905D62C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090518T193000 DTSTAMP:20090203T174931Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090518T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Lilia Reyes Spindola\nDespierta Tu Conciencia: Como Desarrol lar el Poder de la Atraccion \n(Grijalbo\, $15)\nFREE\n6PM\n\nBronx Libr ary\n310 E Kingsbridge Rd UID:7C61D9F6-E837-4AF1-B5D5-17A1EE621C7A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080610T180000 DTSTAMP:20080520T200611Z SUMMARY:Lilia Sindola at Bronx Library CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080610T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:2020 Visions\n7:00 pm\nFREE\n\nLevie Rubeck\nNick Flynn\nPau l Hlava\n\nFor more information:\nhttp://www.twc.org/events\n\nTeachers and Writers\n520 8th Ave #2020\n UID:A6ED8CDF-21CA-4D04-8166-E416D2428820 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080229T190000 DTSTAMP:20080219T184058Z SUMMARY:2020 Visions CREATED:20090624T221106Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080229T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Senator Arlen Specter\nNever Give In: Battling Cancer in the Senate\n(Thomas Dunne $25)\n\nA month and a half into his Senate term\, Specter learned he had the most severe grade of Hodgkin's Disease. In t his memoir\, he describes the treatment he received\, the side effects\, and his decisions about how to handle life with a potentially fatal dis ease.\n\nPrinceton Club\n15 W 43rd St UID:F02303D5-F0D7-45A0-B3D1-AA87B8398A3A TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080326T181500 DTSTAMP:20080314T192708Z SUMMARY:Senator Arlen Specter CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080326T201500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:Perfect Crime is a puzzling murder mystery that's been runni n for 21 years.It's currently plaing in the heart of Times Square at the Snapple Theatre Center on 50th and Broadway.\nPerfect Crime will be par tner with Mensa\, the High IQ Society to have an audience of Mensa Membe r attend the Perfect Crime. The press angle is\, can a bunch of "geniuse s" figure out the play before it ends? The schedule will include the per formance of the play and the post-performance talkback with the members of the cast\, crew and the a mystery book author. She will speaking abou t why people are fascinated with the psychology of the criminal mind.\n\ nAlison Gaylin\, a journalist who covers arts and entertainment\, is the author of "Hide Your Eyes" and "You Kill Me\," She lives in upstate New York with her husband\, daughter\, and dog. Author websites: alisongayl in.com\; firstoffenders.typepad.com.\n\n\nThe Snapple Theater Center\n21 0 W.50th St. and Broadway UID:46EDF897-0A8A-4BED-B726-2A61AC2FFAC9 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081206T140000 DTSTAMP:20080917T193657Z SUMMARY:Mensa Events CREATED:20090624T221101Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081206T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Book Presentation: Before Saying any of the Great Words\n\nD avid Huerta\nBefore Saying Any of the Great Words: Selected Poems\nCoppe r Canyon Press\, $20\n\nDavid Huerta is one of the leading contemporary poets in Mexico\, and "Before Saying Any of the Great Words "is the firs t comprehensive bilingual anthology of his work. This volume highlights poems from nineteen books and includes the first-ever English translatio n of Huerta's monumental book-length poem "Incurable\," which one critic called "a masterpiece of poetry in Spanish in the twentieth century."\n \nAmericas Society\n680 Park Avenue\n7:00 pm\n\n\n UID:1168AB8E-BF90-4A92-A520-1148F691C225 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090407T190000 DTSTAMP:20090126T183015Z SUMMARY:Americas Society CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090407T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Greg Sanders\nMotel Girl\nRed Hen Press\, $19.95\n\n"Motel G irl" amounts to an exploration of the contemporary laws of romance\, lon ging and sex\, of how the computerized\, branded universe is now fully i ntegrated into the fabric of our thought and behavior. Join in the journ ey\, a frenetic and disarming joy ride. Taken as a whole\, these stories create a new paradigm for the American short story\, an expansion in na rrative reach\, creative power\, and experimentation.\n\nKGB Bar\n85 Eas t 4th Street\n7:00 pm\nFree UID:9403BE16-2DEA-4EE9-92F7-EEC4F4E5B08C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090115T190000 DTSTAMP:20090107T153643Z SUMMARY:KGB CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090115T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Review 77\n\nLucia Melgar\nCarmen Boullosa\nAlvaro Enrigue\n Edmundo Paz Soldan\nNaief Yehya/\n\nTBA\n\n\n680 Park Avenue\n212-249-89 50 UID:62557152-85DA-4ADB-9F1C-0DEDE929B47F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081120T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204832Z SUMMARY:Americas Society CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081120T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Half King Reading Series\n\nAuthor TBA\n\nThe Half King\n505 West 23rd Street\n7:00 pm\nFree\n\n UID:02456C3F-0013-49D8-BF63-871BA3D1E7D7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090309T190000 DTSTAMP:20090112T210144Z SUMMARY:Half King CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090309T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:KGB Poetry Reading Series\n\nSally Ashton\n\nNin Andrews\nSl eeping with Houdini\nBOA Editions\, $16\n\nNin Andrews is arguably the l eading female voice in American prose poetry. In a 2005 feature on Andre ws in Moby Lives\, Denise Duhamel wrote\, "Nin Andrews is a complete ori ginal. Gender-bending and genre-blurring\, Andrews is a fabulous fabulis t. . . . Her work is always surprising\, sharp and wild." In Sleeping wi th Houdini\, Andrews speaks as a little girl who wishes she could vanish at will\, just as Houdini did. As she grows\, Houdini becomes a persona l icon\, a magical being\, a muse\, an ultimate lover\, and a metaphor f or longing.\n\nKGB Bar\n85 East 4th Street\nFree\n\n UID:E96ECEB3-3BE7-4C2F-94CD-D93CC8938455 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090330T193000 DTSTAMP:20090203T175105Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090330T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Elisabeth Eaves\nBare: The Naked Truth About Stripping\nSeal Press\, $14.95\n\nThis riveting\, firsthand account of women in the wor ld of stripping is written by a young feminist journalism major who took it all off in the name of research.\n\nTom Coyne\nA Course Called Irela nd\nGotham Books\, $26\n\nThis hilarious and epic tale is the story of a walking-averse golfer who treks his way around an entire country\, spen ding 16 weeks playing every seaside hole in Ireland and often battling t hrough all four seasons in one Irish afternoon.\n\nLolita Bar\n266 Broom e Street \n7:00 pm\n\n\n UID:83291041-670F-4A55-B008-BEAEF6A64488 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090408T190000 DTSTAMP:20090303T154429Z SUMMARY:Restless Legs Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090408T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:John Domini has recently been given a major 2008 grant from the Iowa Arts Council for his writing and has accepted a visiting positi on in Creative Writing at Grinnell College. \nHe has published fiction i n Paris Review\, Ploughshares\, Threepeny Review\, and anthologies. His second collection\, Highway Trade\, was praised by Alan Cheuse\, of NPR' s "All Things Considered\," as "the way we live now... witty\, biting po rtraits." His first novel\, Talking Heads: 77\, was praised by the Pulit zer winner Robert Olen Butler as "both cutting-edge innovative and splen didly readable... a flat-out delight." Italian publications of his work is arranged through Tullio Pironti Editore\, also the first Italian hous e to translate Don DeLillo.\nDomini has also published essays and other non-fiction in GQ\, the New York Times\, and many other places\, includi ng Italian journals. He is a regular book reviewer with The Believer and other publications. Domini has received grants from the National Endowm ent for the Arts\, the Ingram-Merrill Foundation\, and elsewhere. He has taught across the country\, has been a visiting writer at Harvard\, Lew is & Clark\, and Northwestern\, and is currently based in Des Moines.\n\ nColette Inez is the author of several poetry collections\, including "A live and Taking Names\," "Clemency\," "Colette Inez: Greatest Hits\," an d "The Woman Who Loved Worms\," She is the recipient of the Pushcart Pri ze and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation\, National Endowment for th e Arts\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She is a professor of poetry at Columbia University. She lives in New York City.\n\nFREE\n7 pm\n\nKGB B ar\n85 E. 4th St. UID:E5A3034F-0ED8-4ADA-8751-7A0963371A91 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081024T190000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194957Z SUMMARY:Domini&Inez at KGB CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081024T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Joanna Scott\n\n\nFREE\n7 pm\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4th Street UID:4BAF23E9-9736-4035-925D-BF587474EC4B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080926T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204825Z SUMMARY:Writer House at KGB CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080926T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:The Sweet Melissa Baking Book\nMelissa Murphy\n\n\nFREE\n\nB rooklyn Library\nDweck Auditorium\nGrand Army Plaza\n UID:6F292E74-7188-44D8-BB4C-E18B37ADFE12 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081123T133000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204831Z SUMMARY:The Sweet CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081123T153000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:In Search of the Audiencia : The Future of Spanish-LanguageP ublishing in the U.S.\n\nTBA\n\nAmericas Society\n680 Park Avenue\n212-2 49-8950 UID:06D7CA2B-C1FF-400A-8C5B-0AA1A486DB7B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081106T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204832Z SUMMARY:The Future of Spanish-Language publishing in the U.S. CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081106T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Philip Gourevitch\nWe Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Wi ll Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (Picador\, $15) \n4: 00 pm\nFREE\n\nGourevitch\, Paris Review editor\, discusses ethnic confl icts in Africa. His first book\, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families\, focused on the Rwandan Genocide.\n\nC entral Branch\nGrand Army Plaza\nDweck Auditorium\n\n UID:EA563C6F-299C-4B18-ADA4-45EF11BF56D1 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080224T160000 DTSTAMP:20080215T214519Z SUMMARY:Philip Gourevitch CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080224T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Philip Bobbitt\nTerror and Consent\n(Knopf\, $35)\nMEMBERS O NLY\n6PM\n\n The author of "The Shield of Achilles" brings together hist orical\, legal\, and strategic analyses to understand the idea of a "war on terror." Challenging\, provocative\, and insightful\, this work addr esses the deepest themes of governance\, liberty\, and violence.\n\nThe Century Club\n7 W 43rd St\n UID:D30F1EC5-6C83-47DE-BC16-7319A5272C0C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080425T180000 DTSTAMP:20080424T203436Z SUMMARY:Century Club - Philip Bobbitt CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080425T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Michael Montlack\nMy Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspi re Them\nUniversity of Wisconsin Press\, $24.95\n\nFrom Elizabeth Taylor \, Bette Midler\, and Diana Ross to Queen Elizabeth I\, Julia Child\, an d Princess Leia\, these divas have been sister\, alter ego\, fairy godmo ther\, or model for survival to gay men and the closeted boys they once were. And anyone--straight or gay\, young or old\, male or female--who e ver needed a muse\, or found one\, will see their own longing mirrored h ere as well.\n\nQueens Library\nJackson Heights Branch\n35-51 81st Stree t\nJackson Heights\, Queens\n6:30 pm\n\n\n UID:80AC1FF4-023B-45F5-87B5-3CDE29F68BA8 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090616T183000 DTSTAMP:20090501T150450Z SUMMARY:Queens Library CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090616T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies\n\nJo in the award-wining poet and memoirst Mark Doty for an evening of Poetry .\n\nMark Doty is the John and Rebecca Moores Professor in the graduate program at the University of Houston and the author of seven books of po ems\,most recently School of the Arts\,and the three volumes of nonficti on prose.\n\nRoom9206/07\nCUNY Graduate Center for the Humanities\n365 5 th Ave @ 34th St\n212 817-2005 UID:0DE24C21-56DB-4A84-89A4-69D2CFC37AFC TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081120T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204824Z SUMMARY:CUNY Center for Humanities CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081120T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:9 DESCRIPTION:Thembisa M. Mshaka\nPut Your Dreams First\nBusiness Plus\, $ 16.99\n\nIn this highly informative guide\, Mshaka uses her 15 years of experience in the music industry to expose the hidden truths that women need to know as they aspire toward entertainment careers\, including how to avoid compromising one's self-respect and the little-known fact that women run a large part of the business.\n\nAra Wine Bar\n24 W. 9th Aven ue \n6:00 pm\n\n\n UID:F5A8944A-2E45-4F40-9182-0A297BEFB76B TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090706T180000 DTSTAMP:20090616T204131Z SUMMARY:Supernodes Mixer CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090706T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:998 Amsterdam Ave @ 110\n\nVictoria Redel-Border of Truth UID:2F6C21C7-DFB9-4A7D-A9CC-6DDCCAA88DC3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070919T200000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195249Z SUMMARY:SIP Bar CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070919T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:3 DESCRIPTION:John Perkins\nConfessions of an Economic Hit Man\n(Plume\, $ 15)\nTO REGISTER: oxoniansociety.com \n6:15PM\n\nOxonian Society event- \nPerkins\, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting fi rm\, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years\, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign le aders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.\n\nCornell Club\n6 E 44th St (Mad and 5th Aves)\n UID:5C598E05-DD99-4368-BC5D-27FDE9935B6D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080509T181500 DTSTAMP:20080407T170121Z SUMMARY:John Perkins\, Economic Hit Man CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080509T201500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Performance: Knives and Other Sharp Objects\n\nBook TBA\n\nT he Public Theater\n425 Lafayette Street\n7:45 pm UID:973A4F9C-75B1-4A5D-8B72-F069BADBA622 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090407T194500 DTSTAMP:20090119T185007Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090407T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Olives & Oranges: Recipes and Flavor Secrets from Italy\, Sp ain\, Cyprus\, and Beyond \n\nIn "Olives and Oranges" an accomplished co ok\, who is inspired by tradition but never limited by it "(New York Tim es)\," shows how an understanding of flavor can produce great dishes fro m even the most humble ingredients. The recipes are startlingly simple\, but each one has a unique touch. Houghton Mifflin\n(Houghton Mifflin Co mpany\,$35.00)\n\nSARA JENKINS\, the daughter of a Newsweek foreign corr espondent and the noted food authority and author Nancy Harmon Jenkins\, has received raves for her food at all the New York restaurants where s he has been the chef\, including 50 Carmine\, Patio\, Il Buco\, and I Co ppi. \n\n\nAstor Center\n399 Lafayette St.\n (at East 4th St.) UID:7A71A9AF-4820-4446-AA00-90B48720765F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080913T153000 DTSTAMP:20080904T171506Z SUMMARY:Olives&Oranges CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080913T163000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists \nSusan Neiman is a moral philosopher committed to making the tools of her trade relev ant to real life. In "Moral Clarity\, "she shows how resurrecting a mora l vocabulary--"good "and "evil\, heroism "and "nobility"--can steer us c lear of the dogmas of the right and the helpless pragmatism of the left. In search of a framework for forming clear opinions and taking responsi ble action on today's urgent political and social questions\, Neiman rea ches back to the eighteenth century\, retrieving a set of virtues--happi ness\, reason\, reverence\, and hope--that were held high by every Enlig htenment thinker. She shows that the pursuit of moral clarity is not a m atter of religious faith but is open to all who are committed to these i deals\, believers and nonbelievers alike. And she draws on literature\, evolutionarytheory\, and other contemporary research to show why\, by ke eping before us the distinction between the real and the possible\, thes e ideals continue to guide and inspire.\n\nSUSAN NEIMAN is an American p hilosopher who has taught at Yale University\, Tel Aviv University\, and the Humboldt University of Berlin\, and is currently director of the Ei nstein Forum. She is the author of three previous books\, most recently "Evil in Modern Thought. "She lives with her three children in Berlin.\n \nHarvard Club\n27 W.44th St UID:F134596E-2666-4460-BD7C-B6A4A10311B0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080924T190000 DTSTAMP:20080917T183636Z SUMMARY:Harvard Club : Moral Clarity CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080924T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:13 DESCRIPTION:Angela Ball\nNight Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds\nUniver sity of Pittsburgh Press\, $14\n\nStephen Burt\nClose Calls with Nonsens e\nGraywolf Press\, $19\n\nRodrigo Toscano\nCollapsable Poetics Theater\ nFence Books\, $19\n\nGiao Buu\n\nLe Poisson Rouge\n158 Bleecker Street\ n7:00 pm\nFree UID:CD9E5F67-4A27-4B57-AD32-0684610E7D9F TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090603T190000 DTSTAMP:20090511T191538Z SUMMARY:InDigest 1207 Reading Series CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090603T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Judith Jones\nThe Tenth Muse: My Life in Food (Knopf\, $25) \n\nFrom a legendary editor who has helped to shape modern cookbook publ ishing--the force behind the publication of Julia Childs "Mastering the Art of French Cooking"--comes an evocative and inspiring memoir that inc ludes more than 50 recipes.\n\nTo RSVP\, please call James Beard Foundat ion reservations manager Colleen Vincent at 212.627.2308. \nSuggested do nation $20. Free admission for students.\n\nThe Beard House\n167 West 12 th Street\n\n UID:6C358E85-C022-464D-A5C9-6F3CE46D2184 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080227T120000 DTSTAMP:20080219T181127Z SUMMARY:Cookbook Editor Judith Jones CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080227T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Performance: Knives and Other Sharp Objects\n\nBook TBA\n\nT he Public Theater\n425 Lafayette Street\n7:45 pm UID:73F356E2-D487-4385-ADCE-90057E5C7A62 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090418T194500 DTSTAMP:20090119T185125Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090418T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Bob Powers\nThe Terrible\, Horrible Temp-to-Perm Debacle\nSt . Martin's Press $13.99\n\nJUST WHO DO YOU HAVE TO KILL TO GET HEALTH CA RE AROUND HERE?\n\nIn this book\, you\, the reader get to be the main ch aracter in an exciting tale of blackmail and corporate espionage. You're an alcoholic temp with a dream of one day being a celebrated novelist. Unfortunately\, you drink too much. When you wake up from a blackout\, y ou discover you've been framed for murder. Someone wants you to take a p ermanent job\, and he's ready to blackmail you into doing it. What will you do? Will you turn yourself over to the cops and write a memoir about being wrongly imprisoned? Will you go perm and enjoy the benefits of he alth care? Or will you escape into the sewers and live with the Mole Peo ple? The choice is yours!\n\nMatchless\n557 Manhattan Avenue\nGreenpoint \, Brooklyn\n8:00 pm\n\n\n UID:098C500D-3900-491E-85AC-F567289EFC7D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090710T200000 DTSTAMP:20090623T194438Z SUMMARY:Vol 1. Brooklyn CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090710T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Performance: Tales of an Urban Indian \n\nDarrell Dennis\nTw o Plays: Tales of an Urban Indian & The Trickster of 3rd Avenue East\nPl aywrights Canada Press\, $17.95\n\n "Dennis is a writer and performer to keep your eye on. Sparked by anger but suffused with humanity and humil ity\, his Tales are worth telling-and watching."- "NOW Magazine"\n\nThe Public Theater\n425 Lafayette Street\n7:45 pm\n UID:E74D5B66-1DCF-4351-BEAF-B0007CA45065 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090228T194500 DTSTAMP:20090119T184046Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221109Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090228T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Comicon\n3PM-8PM\nREGISTER at\nwww.nycomiccon.com\n\nNew Yor k Comic Con is the East Coasts’ biggest and most exciting event. An enor mous exhibit floor plays host to top industry exhibitors who all have th e latest and greatest in comics\, graphic novels\, anime\, manga\, video games\, toys\, movies and television\, and so much more! New York Comic Con gives you access to the top industry talent\, panels\, and autograp h sessions as well as sneak peaks at upcoming movies and television! Fan s create the buzz with eye-catching costumes all weekend long whether it is for fun\, or to participate in Cosplay contests and Anime sessions. TCG\, RPG and video games can be found on and off the show floor through out the weekend. With dedicated trade professional hours\, New York Comi c Con brings the business together to further enhance the industry.\n\nC omicon\nJavitz Center\n655 West 34th Street\n\n UID:22FE2A3C-14B3-40B8-A24B-EE2F4379747C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080420T100000 DTSTAMP:20080402T195646Z SUMMARY:Comicon CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080420T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:4 DESCRIPTION:Prof. Edward A Zelinsky\nThe Origins of the Ownership Societ y: How the Defined Contribution Paradigm Changed America\n(Oxford\, $55) \nMEMBERS\n6:15PM\n\n"By placing the current trend away from defined ben efit arrangements and toward defined contribution arrangements in a broa der context\, Zelinsky has enriched the debate and has provided much foo d for thought to all those interested in the challenge of retirement pla nning in an aging society. This\nbook will help frame a more productive debate about how best to improve retirement planning arrangements over t he next two or three decades."--David Pratt\, Professor of Law\, Albany Law School\n\nAssociation of the Bar of the City of New York\n42 W 44th St (btn. 5th and 6th aves)\n\n\n UID:656758AC-D861-4636-9B22-6F1998496F28 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080430T181500 DTSTAMP:20080424T200500Z SUMMARY:Zelinsky at New York City Bar CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080430T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:KGB Poetry Reading Series\n\nFlorence Cassen Mayers\n\nCK Wi lliams\nMy Genesis\nAuthorhouse\, $14\n\nKGB Bar\n85 E. 4th Street\nFree \n UID:1894B035-5930-4118-BF0E-995BD43108AD TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090511T193000 DTSTAMP:20090203T174914Z SUMMARY:KGB Poetry CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090511T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Joy Ladin\nTransmigration\nSheep Meadow Press\, $15.95\n\n T ransmigration explores many kinds of journeys in\, through and after dea th: the journey of a self from one gender to the next\; the journey of t he soul in and out of flesh\; the journey of a marriage into and out of love\; the journey of a body from amputation to wholeness. Boiling human existence down to love\, wish and desperation\, Joy (formerly Jay) Ladi n cobbles many materials-- shreds of Cosmo Girl\, metaphysics and how-to text\, intimate moments and moments of despair--into a halting\, someti mes faltering path from a life that is unlivable to life that is fully l ived.\n\nJanice Erlbaum\nGirlbomb\nVillard Books\, $13.95\n\nAt fifteen\ , sick of her unbearable and increasingly dangerous home life\, Janice E rlbaum walked out of her family's Brooklyn apartment and didn't look bac k. From her first frightening night at a shelter\, Janice knew she was i n over her head. She was beaten up\, shaken down\, and nearly stabbed by a pregnant girl. But it was still better than living at home. As Janice slipped further into street life\, she nevertheless attended high schoo l\, harbored crushes\, and even played the lead in the spring musical. S he also roamed the streets\, clubs\, bars\, and parks of New York City w ith her two best girlfriends\, on the prowl for hard drugs and boys on s kateboards. Together they scored coke at Danceteria\, smoked angel dust in East Village squats\, commiserated over their crazy mothers\, and sle pt with one another's boyfriends on a regular basis. \n\nAmy King\nI'm t he Man Who Loves You\nBlazeVOX\, $14\n\nCake Shop\n152 Ludlow Street\n4: 00 pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n UID:1DAB30C1-B5F1-42F6-A1AC-E5B2B79AAE8C TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090405T160000 DTSTAMP:20090312T191542Z SUMMARY:Polestar CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090405T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070206T190000 DTSTAMP:20080220T195246Z SUMMARY:* Kingsborough CC ATTENDEE;CN="250";CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL:mailto:invalid:nomail DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070206T200000 LOCATION:Goldstein PAC DESCRIPTION:A lively and informal talk by Gay Talese. Talese revolutioni zed American journalism in 1966 by writing “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold\,” an Esquire article describing his futile attempts to interview the singe r and the conversations he had instead with Sinatra’s entourage\, includ ing the man in charge of his toupees. For more than five decades\, Tales e has brilliantly captured the stories of the famous and the obscure\, w hile living a colorful life that occasionally verged on the notorious. H is best-sellers include ''The Kingdom and The Power\,'' a social history of The New York Times\; ''Honor Thy Father\,'' about the Bonanno crime family\; and ''Unto the Sons\,'' a history of his Italian American famil y.\nAdmission:FREE\, Reservations required (718) 368-5051 UID:C1A66607-11B8-46F6-A0B6-7958D53D340F TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kingsborough.edu/eventCalendar/index.php?day=06 &month=2&year=2007 X-WR-ITIPSTATUSML:UNCLEAN CREATED:20090624T221107Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Dr. Robert J. Shapiro\nFuturecast: How Superpowers\, Populat ions\, and Globalization Will Change the Way You Live and Work \n(St. Ma rtin's\, $27)\nFREE\nRSVP at events@whiteandwilliams.com\n8AM\n\nThe for mer Clinton Administration Under Secretary of Commerce presents a vision of the world in the near future\, speculating that three major forces-- globalization\, demographics\, and the rise of a new superpower--will de termine how nations rise and fall.\n\nFour Seasons Hotel\n57 E 57th St. UID:19A226CC-3725-4921-B39B-75978ED85253 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080605T080000 DTSTAMP:20080521T185313Z SUMMARY:Four Seasons hosts Robert Shapiro CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080605T100000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:7 DESCRIPTION:Mark Statman & Pablo Medina\nPoet in New York: A Bilingual E dition (Grove Press\, $14)\n4:00 pm\nFREE\n\nNewly translated for the fi rst time in ten years\, Federico García Lorca’s Poet in New York is an a stonishing depiction of a tumultuous metropolis that changed the course of poetic expression in both Spain and the Americas. Written during Lorc a’s nine months at Columbia University at the beginning of the Great Dep ression\, Poet in New York is widely considered one of the most importan t books Lorca produced. \n\nCentral Branch\nGrand Army Plaza\nDweck Audi torium\n\n\n UID:DA1B6731-43BB-4D63-BBB6-C329A5CE1B07 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080427T160000 DTSTAMP:20080424T201925Z SUMMARY:BPL CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080427T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:12 DESCRIPTION:Misako Rocks!\n\n\nDetective Jermain Vol. 1\nHenry Holt\, $1 0\n\nJermain\, the 16-year-old daughter of famous detective parents\, fi nds herself in a mystery after some of the students and teachers at her school are acting strangely. Between the dangers at school and an unexpe cted love triangle\, what will Jermain do?\n\n96 Street Branch\n112 E. 9 6th Street UID:D7B5ACAF-EEA1-4B08-8841-B2505C41777E TRANSP:OPAQUE URL;VALUE=URI:www.nypl.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080918T160000 DTSTAMP:20080903T211755Z SUMMARY:New York Library CREATED:20090624T221108Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080918T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Word for Word kids series\nFREE\nNOON\n\nNY based theatre co mpany Literally Alive presents an interactive Treasure Island\n\nMobile Library will sell assorted Treasure Island books for different ages\n\nB ryant Park\n42nd St side\nunder burgundy umbrellas UID:9B1BC013-886F-440D-AFE0-748F67210338 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080802T120000 DTSTAMP:20080423T173534Z SUMMARY:Word for Word kids series CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080802T130000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Valerie Plame Wilson\nFair Game: My Life as a Spy\, My Betra yal by the White House \n(Simon & Schuster\, $26)\n3:30PM\n\nThe object of the CIA leak case that resulted in the conviction of the vice-preside nts chief of staff\, Wilson tells not only the real story behind the lea k\, but describes her life at the CIA and what happened when her cover w as blown.\nCosponsored by College Media Advisors Group\n\nMarriott Marqu is\n1535 Broadway\, Westside Ballroom\n\n\n\n\n UID:4CB535A0-A53D-4572-B6A2-CD6905EF3FE7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080316T153000 DTSTAMP:20080229T224205Z SUMMARY:Valerie Plame Wilson CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080316T173000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Lee Daniels\,\nLast Chance\n\nDaniels argues that black Amer ica is facing a moment of crisis: many of the hopes of the Civil Rights Movement have not been realized and crime still disproportionately affli cts black neighborhoods. He challenges black America to make itself hear d now or face a dire future.\n\n($23)\n\n\nHarvard Club\n27 W 44th St. UID:4CDDB31D-4308-4E79-8220-CDD4B34F97E0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080904T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204831Z SUMMARY:Last Chance CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080904T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Darius Rejali \nTorture and Democracy (Princeton\, $40) \nC o-sponsored by Human Right Watch\n\n"Torture and Democracy" exposes the core issues facing every nation whose deepest values of human dignity ar e defiled by its state-sanctioned 'violence workers.' Beyond platitudes\ , this pioneering expert descends into the torture dungeons around the w orld to reveal the strategies and tactics secretly used to break human w ill to resist. A vital book for anyone wanting to understand the whys an d hows of torture being practiced today by our own government. \n\nNew Y ork University\nFurman Hall \n245 Sullivan Street between Washington Squ are and West 3rd Street UID:113D9539-3EA8-46DC-AFB4-98F3469C92AD TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080312T183000 DTSTAMP:20080228T203806Z SUMMARY:Torture and Democracy CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080312T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Poetry Forum\n\nTrevor Winkfield\, Translator\nRaymond Rouss el\nHow I Wrote Certain of My Books\nExact Change\, $15.95\n\nRaymond Ro ussel (1877-1933)\, next-door neighbor of Marcel Proust\, can be describ ed without exaggeration as the most eccentric writer of the twentieth ce ntury. How I Wrote Certain of My Books is the key to his unearthly style \; it is accompanied by selections from all his major works\, translated by John Ashbery\, Harry Mathews\, and others.\n\nThe New School\n66 Wes t 12th Street\nRoom 510\n$5\n\n\n UID:FB0768BC-3693-4CAB-974D-34B7CA27D136 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090224T183000 DTSTAMP:20090106T185453Z SUMMARY:New School CREATED:20090624T221110Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090224T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:Performance: Knives and Other Sharp Objects\n\nBook TBA\n\nT he Public Theater\n425 Lafayette Street\n7:45 pm UID:10DF8248-F4B1-4A5D-817C-F14978AF66BE TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090414T194500 DTSTAMP:20090119T185048Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221059Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090414T214500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:6 DESCRIPTION:Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader\, Have a Richer Life\nT hrough a combination of exercises\, diagnostics\, dialogues\, and experi ments\, readers learn how to redefine and expand their roles as leaders\ , and to enhance performance in all aspects of their lives.\n\nSTEWART D . FRIEDMAN\, of the Wharton School\, was recently identified by Working Mother as one of the 25 most influential men in America on work/life iss ues. JESSICA DEGROOT is a consultant specializing in ways to create chan ge at a personal\, managerial\, and organizational level around work/lif e integration. PERRY M. CHRISTENSEN\, a consultant for WFD Consulting\, has held senior-level positions in human resources at Merck & Co. for 15 years.\n\nPenn Club\n30 W.44th Sts. UID:29CFC3D0-789C-4260-AF48-B722030549EA TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081117T183000 DTSTAMP:20081018T194955Z SUMMARY:Penn Club CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081117T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:The Public Theater will be putting on a new play by Suzan-Lo ri Parks. More information to come.\n\nThe Public Theater\n425 Lafayett e Street\n6:45 pm UID:9F8C55C1-2150-48D0-B825-CEF93FA9B980 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090616T184500 DTSTAMP:20090320T201526Z SUMMARY:Public Theater CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090616T204500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Non Motivational Speaker Series\nFREE\n8PM\n\nDaniel Radosh\ nRature Ready!\n(Scribner\, $25)\n\n\nLouis Ferrante\nUnlocked\n(Harper\ , $26)\n\nHappy Ending Lounge\n302 Broome St. UID:0473D5B6-B5D5-4CE2-B3EB-DEC6A0A33878 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080529T200000 DTSTAMP:20080428T203646Z SUMMARY:Non-Motivational Speaker Series CREATED:20090624T221058Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080529T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Sheila Kohler\nCrossways\n(Other Press\, $14)\n\nBarbara Ens or\nCinderella (As if you Didn't Already Know the Story)\n(Schwartz & Wa de Books\, $13)\n\n8PM\nFREE\n\nFICTION SHEILA KOHLER\, BARBARA ENSOR\, MARTIN KLEINMAN Acclaimed South African author SHEILA KOHLER is the auth or of many novels including\, The Perfect Place\, Bluebird or the Invent ion of Happiness\, Crossways\, Children of Pithiviers and Cracks. About Crossways\, J. M. Coetzee: There is a territory— fictional and psycholog ical—that Sheila Kohler has now marked as her own. I am full of admirati on.--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Kirkus Review: August 15 \, 2004 "Subtle and sharp\, a marvelous portrait of the inner lives of t wo people trapped in an alien world..." San Francisco Chronicle: October "The hypnotic book\, a combination of domestic drama and psychological thriller...hinting at unsettling secrets and later revealing them." O Ma gazine: November 2004 "Sheila Kohler's novel Crossways is the gripping\, often terrifying story of a man who can't suppress his violent impulses " The wildly creative BARBARA ENSOR is the author of Cinderella (As If Y ou Didn't Already Know The Story) and Thumbalina\, Tiny Runaway Bride. M ARTIN KLEINMAN is a fiction writer who lives in Brooklyn. Read his essay \, Borough of Churches\, Borough of Heart.\n\nBrooklyn Reading Works\nOl d Stone House\nFifth Avenue and Third Street in Park Slope UID:93DD6817-C885-489F-8DA0-AD8690F79BCB TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080410T200000 DTSTAMP:20080326T201137Z SUMMARY:Old Stone House CREATED:20090624T221105Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080410T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:8 DESCRIPTION:Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: Why Wo men's Lives Aren't Getting Any Easier--And How We Can Make Real Progress for Ourselves and ...\n\nMixing wit with withering criticism\, Congress woman Maloney exposes where progress for women is being stalled\, even r eversed. Ultimately\, she offers actionable steps--large and small--for women to make real progress and support real family values.\n(Modern Tim es\,$24.95)\n\nAuthor: Maloney\, Carolyn B\n\nClub101\nPark Avenue@40th St. UID:BBA27202-62B3-4202-B7A4-0F85B1664C66 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080915T080000 DTSTAMP:20080904T171506Z SUMMARY:Woman's Leadership Exchange CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080915T100000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:5 DESCRIPTION:A Tribute to Reginald Shepherd\n\nA beloved and admired poet \, critic and teacher\, Reginald Shepherd (1963-2008) inspired many with his passionate commitment to poetry\, an art he viewed as inextricably connected to history\, politics and everyday life. With readings by Timo thy Donnelly\, Marilyn Hacker\, Timothy Liu\, Kevin Prufer\, Evie Shockl ey\, Susan Stewart and Yerra Sugarman\n\nLillian Vernon Writers House\n5 8 West 10th Street\n7:00 pm\nFree UID:80356064-5B61-4583-B894-78B067467A1D TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090312T190000 DTSTAMP:20090119T181046Z SUMMARY:LV Writers House CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090312T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:11 DESCRIPTION:Frank Bidart\nWatching the Spring Festival\nFSG. $13\n\nMatt hea Harvey\nModern Life\nGraywolf Press\, $14\n\nJ. Mae Barizo\n\nLe Poi sson Rouge\n158 Bleecker Street\n7:00 pm\n\n\n UID:C028A81C-B183-4C7E-8808-2205A7BCB5AF TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090527T190000 DTSTAMP:20090514T145850Z SUMMARY:Triptych Readings CREATED:20090624T221107Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090527T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:A Conversation about Political Power\nZbigniew Brzezinski\,N icholas D.Kristof\,Mary Robinson\nModerated by Thomas Weiss\n\nRegistrat ion Requires\n\n\nProshansky Auditorium\nCUNY Graduate Center for the Hu manities\n365 5th Ave @ 34th St\n212 817-2005 UID:5D4CE037-A08B-4C17-8B73-D7BFAAB4D577 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081002T190000 DTSTAMP:20080828T204824Z SUMMARY:Great Issues Forum Event CREATED:20090624T221102Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081002T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Book Party for Anne Mendelson's new book\nMILK\n\n312 E.53rd St UID:21B60C4B-268B-4E10-8325-97E1B2B9E1E7 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081006T183000 DTSTAMP:20080901T210841Z SUMMARY:Milk CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081006T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:10 DESCRIPTION:Alice Mattison\nIn Case We're Separated: Connected Stories ( Harper Perennial\, $14)\nFREE\n\nBrooklyn Writers for Brooklyn Readers: Alice Mattison\nMattison\, who will read from In Case We're Separated\, is the author of five novels\, four short story colelctions\, and a volu me of poetry. WNYC radio personality Leonard Lopate hosts.\n\nCentral Br anch\nGrand Army Plaza\nDweck Auditorium UID:28828C5B-2F54-467B-8257-1F2E7D83CF70 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080308T140000 DTSTAMP:20080218T172106Z SUMMARY:Alice Mattison CREATED:20090624T221100Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080308T160000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:2 DESCRIPTION:Gary Andrew Poole\nThe Galloping Ghost: Red Grange\, an Amer ican Football Legend\nHoughton Mifflin\n$25\n\nLiz Robbins\nA Race Like No Other: 26.2 Miles Through the Streets of New York\nHarper\n$25\n\nOth er Author TBA UID:6CA01B91-4A44-46E4-A2F9-A79A9B1DEDA3 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081205T200000 DTSTAMP:20080904T191513Z SUMMARY:Varsity Letters CREATED:20090624T221103Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081205T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:Mixer at Cake Shop\nThe Competition: a reading by hosts of o ther New York reading series \nAmanda Stern (host of Happy Ending readin g series)\, Nicole Steinberg (host of Earshot reading series)\, and Evan Glasson\, and musical guest Spectacular Bird\n7:00 pm\nFREE\n\nCake Sho p\n152 Ludlow between Stanton and Rivington\n\n UID:80D1D688-E590-4E46-B696-631D461BEF56 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080220T190000 DTSTAMP:20080214T181430Z SUMMARY:Mixer Series CREATED:20090624T221104Z DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080220T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE: