Sunday, October 24, 2010
Five Stories and Two Essays
Taken from Barnes & Noble:
Author of 2666 and many other acclaimed works, Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) was born in Santiago, Chile, and later lived in Mexico, Paris, and Spain. He has been acclaimed “by far the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time” (Ilan Stavans, The Los Angeles Times),” and as “the real thing and the rarest” (Susan Sontag). Among his many prizes are the extremely prestigious Herralde de Novela Award and the Premio Rómulo Gallegos. He was widely considered to be the greatest Latin American writer of his generation. He wrote nine novels, two story collections, and five books of poetry, before dying in July 2003 at the age of 50.
Chris Andrews has won the TLS Valle Inclán Prize and the PEN Translation Prize for his New Directions translations of Roberto Bolaño.
Thalia Book Club: Nicole Krauss' "Great House"
Mon, Nov 15 at 7:30 pm Leonard Nimoy Thalia $25; Member $21; 30 & Under $15 |
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Praise for The Instructions
"A hysterical, heartfelt journey of self-discovery… A book that moves beyond completely transparent influences to reach its own distinct, new, great height."
—Foster Kamer, Village Voice
"Evocative of David Foster Wallace… full of death-defying sentences, manic wit, exciting provocations and simple human warmth."
—Julia Holmes, Rolling Stone
"After The Instructions challenges, charms and betrays you, it might just seduce your soul.… The Instructions is disturbing and romantic and ultimately, heartbreaking, and its questions are not easily parsed, even by Gurion's analytic mind. They are the nagging doubts of our own goodness and faith. But it's worth sticking with this author's debut: This is a wunderkind's master class.… An incredible creation of fiction."
—Katie Moulton, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Levin’s mammoth, riotous, Talmudic, impossibly excessive yet brilliant, mesmerizing, warmhearted, and hilarious work of chutzpah takes place over four feverish days but encompasses the whole of Israel’s battle for existence and the Jewish quest for home and peace."
—Donna Seaman, Booklist
"The Instructions is in fact a vital work of—no getting around it—American Jewish literature because it imagines that the genre is indeed through and asks what can be written in its place."
—Marissa Bostroff, Tablet magazine
Tishani Doshi
So Much Things to Say: 10 Poems from Calabash Poets
"Howl": The Movie
Both the poem and film begin with
Ginsberg's unflinching and provocative lines:
by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets
at dawn, looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient
heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in
the machinery of night
Ugly Duck Presse Events
- [New York, NY]Mon Oct 25, 8:00 PMat The Poetry Project @ St. Mark’s
- [Brooklyn, NY]Fri Oct 29, 6:00 PMat Jodi Arnold
- [New York, NY]Sat Oct 30, 4:00 PMat Bowery Poetry Club
Roxane Gay
There is No “E” in Zombi Which Means There Can Be No You Or We
Taken from Guernica:
The New Brooklyn Cookbook
Literal gut check: Name your favorite restaurant in Brooklyn. Buttermilk Channel. Dumont. Al Di La. Egg. Flatbush Farm. All are in our top picks, and all are included in The New Brooklyn Cookbook, which features hit recipes (and the stories behind them) from 31 of the best and most beloved restaurants in the borough. Authors Melissa and Brendan Vaughan are Brooklynites with quite the combined culinary pedigree — she develops recipes for Saveur, Real Simple, and Daniel Boulud. He's the senior editor atGQ and a previous food writer at Esquire. Celebrate their book's release tonight, with drinks and snacks by other lauded BK institutions: Smith and Vine, the Jakewalk, Sixpoint, and Stinky Bklyn.
- Leah Taylor"The Consequence of Skating" by Steven Gillis
Gillis as only Gillis can: the politics of love, human action as theater, and the dreams we dream and chase forever. The Consequence of Skating, Gillis' fourth novel, blends politics, drama, ice skating, mountain climbing, the music industry and world affairs - not to mention artificial intelligence and G.O.D. - to create an inimitable tour de force. Centering on Mickey Greene, an actor who has fallen from grace, the novel follows Mick as he maneuvers through a series of adventures that set him on a course of reconstructing his life in a way he never before imagined.
Tom Wolfe
2010 National Book Awards Ceremony,
hosted by Andy Borowitz