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Join poets and writers Richard Levine, Claire Trevien Aimee Herman, Jenna Leigh Evans, and Puma Perl for a night of readings, followed by a signing.
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This event will take place at our Brooklyn location.
Essayist Kerry Howley spent three years investigating the world of cage fighting and documented in her debut nonfiction book Thrown. Join her and Jennifer Percy, author of Demon Camp: A Soldier’s Exorcism, for a conversation about violence and culture in America.
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In this darkly funny work of literary nonfiction, a bookish young woman insinuates herself into the lives of two cage fighters--one a young prodigy, the other an aging journeyman.
In 2005 a Chinook helicopter carrying sixteen Special Ops soldiers crashed during a rescue mission in a remote part of Afghanistan, killing everyone on board.
In that instant, machine gunner Caleb Daniels lost his best friend, Kip Jacoby, and seven members of his unit.
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In honor of her new novel Sister Golden Hair, Darcey Steinke will be in conversation with Rick Moody (The Four Fingers of Death, On Celestial Music). Sister Golden Hair follows 12-year-old Jesse as she moves through the summer of 1972 and navigates the gap between childhood and adulthood.
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It's the summer of 1972 and girlhood has never been more fraught, but Darcy Steinke captures all of it with an intimate, startling grace.
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The Greenpoint Writers Group returns with the latest installment of their reading series Local Organic, featuring all new work and free wine to go around. Reading will be Nicholas DiMichele, Crispin Kott, Logan Medland, Luke Ohlson, Danielle Pollack, Vinny Senguttuvan, Hannah Thurman, and Kate Weinberg.
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Thomas Page McBee (Man Alive) and Saeed Jones (Prelude to a Bruise) present a night of readings from their newest work. In his memoir Man Alive, McBee explores what it really means to be a man. In Prelude to a Bruise Jones explores how we reckon our past without being ravaged by it, and how we use people, and their bodies, to express ourselves.
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Winner - Best Transgender Nonfiction - 2015 Lambda Literary Awards
Best Books of 2014 - Publishers Weekly
Best Books of 2014 - NPR Books
Best Nonficton Books of 2014 - Kirkus Reviews
10 Best Transgender Non-Fiction Books - Advocate
Praise for Saeed Jones:
"Jones is the kind of writer who's more than wanted: he's desperately needed."--FlavorWire "This book leaves your body transformed in a way that poetry should." --ElevenEleven
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Alaya Dawn Johnson presents the Brooklyn launch of her newest teen novel, Love is the Drug. NPR dubbed it “a gripping study of identity, sly social commentary, and a chilling glimpse of a dystopia that's just around the corner,” and Kirkus calls it “utterly absorbing.” Join us for a reading, signing, and refreshments.
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Emily Bird was raised not to ask questions. She has perfect hair, the perfect boyfriend, and a perfect Ivy-League future. But a chance meeting with Roosevelt David, a homeland security agent, at a party for Washington DC's elite leads to Bird waking up in a hospital, days later, with no memory of the end of the night.
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Contributors Jessica Machado, Jenny Moore, Aryn Kyle, and Stacy Pershall present a reading and signing of Spent: Exposing Our Complicated Relationships Relationships to Shopping.
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This event will take place at our Brooklyn location.
Authors Hannah Pittard (Reunion, The Fates Will Find Their Way) and Tom Bouman (Dry Bones in the Valley) present a reading, joint Q&A, and signing.
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The author of the highly acclaimed The Fates Will Find Their Way returns with a novel about a far-flung family reunited for one weekend by their father's death.
Winner of the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize
When an elderly recluse discovers a corpse on his land, Officer Henry Farrell follows the investigation to strange places in the countryside, and into the depths of his own frayed soul.
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In honor of his new graphic novel The New York Four Brian Wood will be in conversation with Alex Cox, deputy director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
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Worlds collide when four young women begin college at the prestigious New York University. Shy, literate Riley, overachieving but naive Lona, laid-back West Coaster Ren, and working-class girl Merissa claim newfound freedom living in the big city. But that freedom comes at a price: roommate drama, mysterious love interests, school troubles, and family conflicts. Welcome to adulthood!
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Buzzfeed Books editor Isaac Fitzgerald hosts a conversation with Bailey Prize winner/debut author Eimear McBride (A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing) and novelist Jenny Offill (Dept. of Speculation).
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Winner, Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, 2014
Winner, Desmond Elliott Prize, 2014
Winner, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, 2014
Winner, Goldsmiths Prize, 2013
Finalist for the Folio Prize
Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize
NPR's Best Books of 2014
The New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2014
From the acclaimed author of Last Things comes a slim, stunning portrait of a marriage--a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all.
ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
