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SUMMARY:Just in Time: A Broadly Speaking Event
DESCRIPTION:Increasingly\, workers in the restaurant and retail industry are at the mercy of “just in time” scheduling: a system that might seem dreamily flexible for 9-5 jobbers\, but in fact makes already struggling workers even more vulnerable to job insecurity. Such a scheme (in which shifts are scheduled with little advance notice\, and are subject to last-minute cancellation) allows companies to boost profits while removing the possibility of steady pay-checks for employees\, and making childcare\, further education and public assistance even more difficult to arrange. This New America NYCevent brings together Jodi Kantor (New York Times correspondent)\, Liza Mundy (author of The Richer Sex) and Melody Pabon (a former Zara cashier and now retail union member and activist)\, to discuss the challenges inherent in the rise of “just in time\,” and possible policy approaches.
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/just-in-time-a-broadly-speaking-event/
LOCATION:New America NYC\, 199 Lafayette St\, Suite 3B\, New York City\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140915T190000
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SUMMARY:Hot\, Wet and Shaking: Talking About Sex with Kaleigh Trace
DESCRIPTION:Kaleigh Trace is a disabled\, queer\, feminist sex educator with a mission: to promote “safe\, shame-free and consensual sex people of all abilities\, ethnicities\, races\, orientations\, and gender identities.” Among other things\, she co-wrote and appeared in the above music video in response to Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines.” Now\, Trace is down from Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, to promote her new book. Hot\, Wet and Shaking: How I Learned to Talk About Sex is “a book about having sex by yourself\, with one person\, or with twenty people if everyone is down.” It’s a memoir-cum (ha!)-manual that doesn’t skimp on risqué detail. If you still feel like an awkward teenager when it comes to sex talk\, or if (god forbid!) you were under the impression that disabled people aren’t fucking\, come along and wise up.
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/hot-wet-and-shaking-talking-about-sex-with-kaleigh-trace/
LOCATION:Bluestockings\, 172 Allen Street\, New York City
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140915T183000
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SUMMARY:Fiction Forum: Elizabeth Gaffney and René Steinke
DESCRIPTION:Gaffney is the author of When the World Was Young and Metropolis\, while Steinke has penned Friendswood\, The Fires\, and Holy Skirts. The latter’s articles have appeared in the likes of The New York Times\, Vogue\, O: the Oprah Magazine\, and Bookforum\, while the former is currently editor at large of literary rag A Public Space. Join the authors for a forum moderated by School of Writing director Luis Jaramillo.
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/fiction-forum-elizabeth-gaffney-and-rene-steinke/
LOCATION:The New School’s Klein Conference Center\, 66 West 12th Street\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140911T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140911T200000
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SUMMARY:Christian Rudder presents Dataclysm
DESCRIPTION:Christian Rudder is co-founder and President of OkCupid—yes\, the same OkCupid that has rescued your “love” life from the doldrums and is now the only reason you ever leave the house even though sometimes it makes you feel as if the search is futile—and he’s now also the author ofDataclysm. The book is subtitledWho We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking)\, and whether that sounds ominous to you or not probably depends on your stance on the highly controversial personal data mining carried out by the likes of Facebook\, Twitter\, and (yes!) OkCupid. Blithely sidestepping the political ramifications of such practices\, Rudder instead dives enthusiastically into the social science potential of big data. Dataclysm examines what our online lives reveal about who we really are\, focusing intently on the magical potential of the algorithm.
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/christian-rudder-presents-dataclysm/
LOCATION:WORD Bookstore\, 126 Franklin St\, Greenpoint\, New York\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140910T200000
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SUMMARY:Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz at the Morbid Anatomy Museum
DESCRIPTION:First things first: if you haven’t been to Morbid Anatomy Museum yet\, you should probably go ASAP. It’s a hotbed of macabre romance\, and you’re missing out. Now that that’s settled\, why not go along and learn things whilst perusing the petrified remains? Next week\, author and poet Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz will be relating the story of Dr. Thomas Dent Mütter\, the founder of Philidelphia’s heralded Mütter Museum—arguably America’s finest museum of medical oddities. Mütter was a brilliant young surgeon whose compassion-based philosophies were revolutionary for his time\, and whose enthusiasm for collecting paved the way for the museum erected in his name. O’Keefe Aptowicz is a prolific poet and author; Dr. Mutter’s Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine is her second foray into non-fiction.
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/cristin-okeefe-aptowicz-at-the-morbid-anatomy-museum/
LOCATION:Morbid Anatomy Museum\, 424A 3rd Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140909T183000
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SUMMARY:Zakia Salime: Gender and Sexuality in the Arab Uprisings
DESCRIPTION:Zakia Salime is a scholar of sociology and women and gender studies\, whose work focuses on the fascinating intersection of feminist and Islamist politics. Her bookBetween Feminism and Islam: Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco (2011) examines the interplay between global concepts of human rights and localised alternatives. In so doing\, the study reveals how these complex negotiations have led to the feminization of the Islamist movement one the one hand\, and the Islamization of the feminist movement on the other. If you’re sick of reading simplistic arguments about the subjugation or otherwise of Muslim women\, Salime is a breath of fresh air. Her work forgoes the common conception of Islam and feminism as inherently antagonistic doctrines\, and reframes Muslim women as agents negotiating global policies and building alternative understandings of rights.
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/zakia-salime-gender-and-sexuality-in-the-arab-uprisings/
LOCATION:CUNY Graduate Center\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140908T190000
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SUMMARY:Linda Davies and Jon McGoran Reading
DESCRIPTION:Novelists Jon McGoran and Linda Davies will be reading from recent work. McGoran has written about food and sustainability for many years\, but has a burgeoning book-writing business on the side. His recently released second novel Deadout\, injects his passion for environmental issues into a deftly-handled detective story\, complete with genetically modified super bees and dastardly biotech corporations. “McGoran fluidly blends science and suspense in his outstanding second eco-thriller\,” according to Publisher’s Weekly. Davies\, meanwhile\, is a former investment banker\, whose debut novel Nest of Vipers has now sold over 2 million copies. Vipers is a financial industry thriller\, driven by a risk-taking female foreign exchange trader stuck between a rock (the Mafia) and a hard place (the British SIS). The evening will be hosted by Richie Narvaez.
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/linda-davies-and-jon-mcgoran-reading/
LOCATION:KGB Bar\, 85 E 4th St\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140908T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140908T200000
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SUMMARY:Megan Abbot + Chelsea Cain
DESCRIPTION:Who says girls can’t be crime writers? Well\, no one actually\, because that’s clearly not a valid argument. But just in case some loser out there is preparing his talking points\, let me present a succinct rebuttal: Megan Abbott and Chelsea Cain. Abbot is author of recently released The Fever(“a chilling story about guilt\, family secrets\, and the lethal power of desire” set in a small town whose female teenage inhabitant are in the throes of a mysterious plague)\, while Cain has produced numerous best-selling books. Her latest\, One Kick\, is the first in a new series featuring protagonist Kick Lannigan—famously kidnapped as a child\, and now called upon to help solve a new missing child case. These ladies are clearly queens of suspense: The Guardian called One Kick “a dark\, dangerous journey into evil to find the vanished children\, and entirely hide-away-until-you-finish-it gripping\,” while the New York Timesfound The Fever “a gripping and unsettling novel.” See the terrible two in conversation at The Strand.
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/megan-abbot-chelsea-cain/
LOCATION:The Strand\, New York
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140903T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140904T200000
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SUMMARY:Stitched up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion with Tansy Hoskins
DESCRIPTION:And if you thought fashion-talk might offer some light relief from the horrors of the death railway\, think again. Tansy Hoskins’ recently released book Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashiondelves into the grimy underbelly of the beauty-obsessed industry: exposing the class division\, gender stereotyping and wasteful consumption plaguing the world of fashion. If you own a closet and keep garments in it\, it behooves you to take note of this insightful indictment of the distorting priorities of capitalism.
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/stitched-up-the-anti-capitalist-book-of-fashion-with-tansy-hoskins/
LOCATION:Bluestockings\, 172 Allen Street\, New York City
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140903T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140903T210000
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SUMMARY:Readings from Yale Writers’ Conference Faculty
DESCRIPTION:The Yale Writers’ Conference is a rigorous program for “the committed writer” held on the Ivy League University’s leafy-gothic campus. Sounds somewhat terrifying\, if intellectually stimulating. Now\, however\, you can experience the collective genii of the faculty without the hefty tuition fee. JoinEileen Pollack\, Terence Hawkins\, Teddy Wayne\, and David Gorin for an evening of letters\, in the markedly less intimidating environs of the KGB Bar. Creative writing is SO MUCH MORE CREATIVE when there is vodka.
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/readings-from-yale-writers-conference-faculty/
LOCATION:KGB Bar\, 85 E 4th St\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140903T190000
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SUMMARY:Richard Flanagan in Conversation with Patrick McGrath
DESCRIPTION:Richard Flanagan’s latest novel\,The Narrow Road to the Deep North\, is based on the experience of an Australian man in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp on the 1943 Thai-Burma death railway. This sounds fairly grim\, and indeed the novel oscillates “between scenes of relentless violence and the desolations of war’s aftermath” while nevertheless (!) offering the possibility of redemption. This magician-worthy feat\, courtesy of Flanagan’s literary prowess\, has been rewarded with a Booker nomination. The author’s previous works (including Gould’s Book of Fish and The Sound of One Hand Clapping) have also been highly praised. See the man himself in conversation with Patrick McGrath\, a writer of ‘gothic fiction’. Looks to be a cheery evening\, then.
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/richard-flanagan-in-conversation-with-patrick-mcgrath/
LOCATION:McNally Jackson\, 52 Prince Street\, New York City\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140902T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140903T200000
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SUMMARY:Maureen Callahan’s Champagne Supernovas! with Susannah Cahalan
DESCRIPTION:If you’re around my age\, and were an equally uncool child\, the nineties were an unmitigated fashion disaster: stretchy black bellbottoms and puffer-jacket vests\, and indefensibly ugly platform sneakers (seriously\, did you have those in America? Erryone in New Zealand was all about that shit. I blame the Spice Girls). Heck\, even Carrie Bradshaw was making someway out weird fashion choices. But Maureen Callahan clearly has a different recollection of the era\, and has published a book to prove it. In Champagne Supernovas! she presents a look at the “exciting fashion trends” of the 90s (what could this mean? fashion bindis? mood rings?). Callahan focuses her rose-tinted lenses on Kate Moss\, Alexander McQueen and Marc Jacobs: leading lights of the star-studded grunge era\, when—apparently—the alternative went mainstream. Callahan will be defending her thesis against Susannah Cahalan\, author of Brain on Fire.
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/maureen-callahans-champagne-supernovas-with-susannah-cahalan/
LOCATION:The Strand\, New York
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140828T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140828T210000
DTSTAMP:20140828T173625Z
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SUMMARY:An Ecclectic Evening of Poetry and Prose
DESCRIPTION:Brooklyn-based writer Matthew Hodges hosts an evening of readings with a crew of exciting new voices.Lauren Keils is a Brooklyn-based poet (and painter and possibly a psychadelic singer and definitely an amateur taxidermist) from Detroit.Zan de Parry\, too\, hails from Michigan. Elizabeth Mikesch is the owner of Brest Pressand the author of Niceties\, “a subversive text of lingual dissonance in which vocality precedes sense-making operations.” May-Lan Tan—a young poet whose first book was deemed “an excellent debut about loners and outcasts” by The Guardian—will also be reading\, as will Beth Steidle\, whose recently published The Static Herd (a starkly lyrical meditation on death) earned praise from Heavy Feather Review.
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/an-ecclectic-evening-of-poetry-and-prose/
LOCATION:High Horse Saloon\, 103 Havemeyer Street\, Williamsburg\, New York City\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140828T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140828T200000
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SUMMARY:That’s When the Knives Come Down with Dolan Morgan
DESCRIPTION:Greenpointer Dolan Morgan will read on home turf for the Brooklyn launch of his debut collection That’s When the Knives Come Down. A surrealist glance at cities\, relationships and lives gone awry\, the stories are billed as simultaneously “absurd\, harrowing\, and inimitable.” According to Catherine Lacey\, “Dolan Morgan queers the every day and leaves a sinister domestic scene behind.” He’ll be joined in discussion by B.C. Edwards (The Aversive Clause) and Chelsea Hodson (Pity the Animal).
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/thats-when-the-knives-come-down-with-dolan-morgan/
LOCATION:WORD Bookstore\, 126 Franklin St\, Greenpoint\, New York\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140828T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140828T200000
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SUMMARY:Sideshow Goshko
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning storyteller Leslie Goshko (Huffington Post\, Manhattan Monologue Slam Champion) hosts this monthly storytelling show\, which invariably follows the same format. Goshko invites three top writers and storytellers to join her in sharing true\, bizarre tales about their lives for ten minutes apiece. Four challenging trivia questions are asked\, and one lucky audience member will receive a portion of “Sideshow Sauce” (aka a delectable bottle of Trader Joe’s vino). This particular evening’s line-up will include stories from Ryan Britt (The New York Times\, Gotham Writers’ Workshop)\, David Crabb (The Moth\,Bad Kid)\, and Gail Thomas (Funny or Die\, Tribeca Film Festival).
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/sideshow-goshko/
LOCATION:KGB Bar\, 85 E 4th St\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy,Talks + Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140825T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140825T200000
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SUMMARY:Daniel Mendelsohn and Adrian Goldsworthy On Emperor Augustus
DESCRIPTION:If ancient Rome is more your bag than medieval fantasy/sci-fi\, then allow us to recommend this pow-wow on Emperor August (nee Gaius Octavius)\, featuring the inimitable Daniel Mendelsohn—whose expansive critical capacities have bent upon both the Odyssey and Mad Men. Mendelsohn will be discussing Augustus\, the third ofStoner author John Williams’ great novels. Published in 1972\, the book has recently been reissued with an intro by Mendelsohn. The novel\, largely epistolary\, follows the life and career of the first emperor of Rome—and was praised by the Financial Times for its “extraordinary range” and “extraordinary minuteness.” Mendelsohn will be joined by Adrian Goldsworthy\, whose biography Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor has just been published by Yale University Press.
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/daniel-mendelsohn-and-adrian-goldsworthy-on-emperor-augustus/
LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140823T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140823T183000
DTSTAMP:20140821T205022Z
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SUMMARY:How to Overthrow the Illuminati
DESCRIPTION:I almost wish that we could take this one at face value\, and learn in earnest how to combat the shadowy organization that is (obviously!) slowly infiltrating the upper echelons of government\, business and media in order to implement a new world order through a complex system of signs and symbols. Sadly\, that’s not the case. Despite what you might have heard about the nefarious Illuminati connections of Jay-Z\, Beyonce\, Obama\, and Kim Kardashian\, The Base is not here to help us take the mofos down. Instead\, the leftist community organization believes that “Illuminati theory helps oppressed people to explain our experiences in the hood.” So they’ve put together a pamphlet redirecting attention to ways in which citizens can tackle the very real issues of oppression and exploitation. Come along\, and channel your abundant conspiracy theory energy into thinking about social change.
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/how-to-overthrow-the-illuminati/
LOCATION:The Base\, 1302 Myrtle Ave\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140821T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140821T200000
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SUMMARY:Julie Schumacher + Ethan Rutherford
DESCRIPTION:Dear Committee Members\, Julie Schumacher’s eighth novel\, is an epistolary satire of academia that has been earning—as the title of a Slate review puts it\, “Strongest possible endorsement.” Made up of letters of recommendation written by a beleaguered literature professor (whose promising career in fiction is now just a fading memory)\, the book is a bitingly witty portrait of a dying English department and the embittered man who dwells in its decomposing innards. As Professor Fitger writes his oft-counterproductive endorsements\, his letters slowly become more unbalanced and autobiographical\, giving the reader glimpses into his past. Praised as a “mordant minor masterpiece\,” by NPR\, it sounds like the sort of book you should perhaps hurry up and finish during the summer—when the worn-out cynicism of the letter-writing professor seems more removed from the reality of your everyday working life. Schumacher will be joined in discussion by Ethan Rutherford\, author of The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories.
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/julie-schumacher-ethan-rutherford/
LOCATION:The Strand\, New York
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140807T170000
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SUMMARY:Grumpy Cat at B&N
DESCRIPTION:The famous feline meme will no doubt be looking disgruntled at this in-store appearance promoting Grumpy Guide to Life: Observations from Grumpy Cat.
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/grumpy-cat-at-bn/
LOCATION:Barnes & Noble Union Square\, 33 East 17th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140806T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140806T200000
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SUMMARY:The Public Library with Robert Dawson + Diane Caldwell
DESCRIPTION:Since 1994\, California-based photographer Robert Dawson has been travelling across the country\, capturing images of public libraries—those hallowed\, endangered urban oases of learning and contemplation. The result of his eighteen-year pilgrimage have now been collected into a handsome tome\, The Public Library: A Photographic Essay\, which is simultaneously a visual record of America’s libraries\, an examination of the manifold functions such institutions perform\, and an impassioned lamentation over their steady decline from public consciousness. In the book’s foreword\, veteran journalist Bill Moyers writes\, “when a library is open\, no matter its size or shape\, democracy is open\, too.” Dawson\, in effect\, presents a poignant argument for what’s at stake. He’ll be in conversation with Diane Cardwell\, business reporter for The New YorkTimes.
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/the-public-library-with-robert-dawson-diane-caldwell/
LOCATION:The Strand\, New York
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140804T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140804T200000
DTSTAMP:20140801T141911Z
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SUMMARY:Sing in the Morning\, Cry at Night with Barbara J. Taylor & Kaylie Jones
DESCRIPTION:Barbara J. Taylor’s debut novel Sing in the Morning\, Cry at Night draws the reader into Scranton\, Pennsylvania\, which aside from being the setting ofThe Office is America’s least happy region and the author’s hometown. Sing in the Morning is set in the early 20th Century\, two months after a Fourth of July tragedy left little Daisy Morgan dead in a freak firework accident. Daisy’s parents are devastated\, their marriage in tatters\, while younger daughter Violet is weighed down by guilt; members of the small community believe that she is to blame for her sister’s untimely demise. Emotionally wrecked\, Violet starts cutting school with older boy Stanley Adamski\, whose own life was altered by a mining accident. Based on a true story\, the haunting novel culminates in a blizzard and a birth. Taylor will read extracts\, and participate in a discussion with publisher and novelist Kaylie Jones.
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/sing-in-the-morning-cry-at-night-with-barbara-j-taylor-kaylie-jones/
LOCATION:Bluestockings\, 172 Allen Street\, New York City
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140802T210000
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SUMMARY:Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Outline of a Screenplay for a Film about Saint Paul (in the Form of Notes for a Production Director)
DESCRIPTION:Italian Pier Paolo Pasolini was a filmmaker (specializing in the grotesque and the subversive)\, poet\, novelist\, journalist\, playwright\, painter\, actor\, and public intellectual\, as well as both a Catholic and a Marxist\, and—finally—a murder victim. Despite clearly being a man of action\, even Pasolini couldn’t do it all\, and having written a screenplay for a film about St. Paul\, the project fell by the wayside and remained unrealized at the time of the director’s demise (in 1975). \nThe poetic\, revolutionary text has now been translated into English for the first time\, and will here be read by New Yorker staff writer Hilton Als\, among others. Philosopher Alain Badiou\, who wrote the translation’s preface\, notes of the project: “Pasolini’s wager is that the truth of which St. Paul is the divided bearer\, the sacrificed militant\, can make sense in the world of today\, thus providing the latent universality of his thought.”
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/pier-paolo-pasolinis-outline-of-a-screenplay-for-a-film-about-saint-paul-in-the-form-of-notes-for-a-production-director/
LOCATION:Light Industry\, 155 Freeman Street\, New York City
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140801T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140801T220000
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SUMMARY:Natalie Eilbert reads from Conversations with the Stone Wife
DESCRIPTION:Natalie Eilbert is aBrooklyn-based poet\, whose work has appeared in Tin House and Guernica\, among other publications. She’s just finished her first chapbook\,Conversations with the Stone Wife\, and will be reading selections to celebrate the debut. If you’re not an aspiring poet and have no idea what a “chapbook” is\, the word refers to a small selection of poetry\, often saddle-stitched into a manuscript\, making it more amenable to a small print-run. Chapbooks frequently focus on one theme\, circling around a central image. In Eilbert’s case\, that image is supplied by the Venus of Willendorf\, a nubile late-Paleolithic statuette found in Austria over a century ago. The poet uses the fleshy figurine as a starting point for meditations on body dysmorphia and the history of food issues\, producing poems that are “artifacts of neuroses.” Read an extract here. Eilbert will be ably supported by Morgan Parker\, Monica McClure and May-Lan Tan.
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/natalie-eilbert-reads-from-conversations-with-the-stone-wife/
LOCATION:Mellow Pages\, 56 Bogart Street 1S\, Brooklyn\, 11206\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140724T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140724T200000
DTSTAMP:20140717T185436Z
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UID:34256-1406228400-1406232000@bedfordandbowery.com
SUMMARY:Meryl Meisler and A Tale of Two Cities: Disco Era Bushwick!
DESCRIPTION:Meryl Meisler worked as a school teacher in cracked-out\, riot-prone 80s Bushwick—but she also carried a medium format camera everywhere she went\, snapping epic photos of the ‘hood. Now\, she’s collected those pictures\, and placed them alongside her photographs of disco-fevered Manhattan in the same era. Together\, the two sets of images offer a riotous portrait of two different universes in one city—at once hopelessly divided\, and disconcertingly similar. Join Meisler for a special presentation of her work. She’ll also be signing copies.
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/meryl-meisler-and-a-tale-of-two-cities-disco-era-bushwick/
LOCATION:The Strand\, New York
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140724T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140724T190000
DTSTAMP:20140618T040350Z
CREATED:20140618T040350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140618T040350Z
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SUMMARY:The Moth StorySLAM: Cars
DESCRIPTION:Housing Works Bookstore Cafe hosts famed storytelling contest The Moth. Ten participants compete to tell their best stories on the theme “cars.” Get there early to snag a seat.
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/the-moth-storyslam-cars/
LOCATION:Housing Works Bookstore Cafe\, 126 Crosby St.\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140723T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140723T200000
DTSTAMP:20140717T185254Z
CREATED:20140717T185254Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140717T185254Z
UID:34255-1406142000-1406145600@bedfordandbowery.com
SUMMARY:Book reading and signing: Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China with Leta Hong Fincher
DESCRIPTION:Leta Hong Fincher is a sociologist at Beijing’s Tsinghua University\, and has written for the likes of The New York Timesand Dissent. Her new book explores the effects of sustained governmental campaigns that encourage women to marry young\, in order to cut down the surplus of single men in the country. Fincher argues that women—terrified of becoming old maids at 27—are being shamed into matrimony (an institution which in China does little to protect women’s rights). In the process\, female home-ownership and participation in the labor force has declined\, while gendered wealth inequality is increasing. Contrary to the popular myth that women have fared well in China’s economic boom\, Fincher highlights gender-based structural discrimination\, and in doing so elucidates over-arching problems with China’s economy\, politics and development. Join the author for a discussion of her work.
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/book-reading-and-signing-leftover-women-the-resurgence-of-gender-inequality-in-china-with-leta-hong-fincher/
LOCATION:Bluestockings\, 172 Allen Street\, New York City
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140722T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140722T200000
DTSTAMP:20140717T185118Z
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UID:34254-1406055600-1406059200@bedfordandbowery.com
SUMMARY:Brooklyn Launch: Edan Lepucki and California
DESCRIPTION:Imagine the end of the world is nigh\, and you’re pregnant. Now imagine you have fungi growing rampant on your body. All this\, and more\, happens to Frida—the protagonist of Edan Lepucki’s debut post-apocalyptic California. Set\, you guessed it\, in a future\, blighted West Coast\, the novel is already garnering high praise. According to Jennifer Egan\, “Lepucki conjures a lush\, intricate\, deeply disturbing vision of the future\, then masterfully exploits its dramatic possibilities.” Expecting a child\, Frida and husband Cal must leave their defensive isolation and attempt to enter a nearby settlement—forcing them to choose whom they can trust. Join Lepucki\, a staff writer for The Millions\, for a reading and discussion of the epic\, disquieting work.
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/brooklyn-launch-edan-lepucki-and-california/
LOCATION:WORD Bookstore\, 126 Franklin St\, Greenpoint\, New York\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140717T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140717T170000
DTSTAMP:20140717T184856Z
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UID:34253-1405584000-1405616400@bedfordandbowery.com
SUMMARY:Abdi Nazemian and The Walk-in Closet
DESCRIPTION:As a gay American-Iranian\, Abdi Nazemian couldn’t escape the feeling that his viewpoint was not one oft-represented in popular culture. His debut novel\,The Walk-In Closet\, seeks to rectify that—using a straight white female main-character called Kara Walker as an entry point into the lives of the Iranian-American elite. The book traces the close friendship between Kara and Bobby Ebadi—a gay man whose Iranian-American family welcome Kara to the intoxicating fold as Bobby’s girlfriend. Sooner or later\, the truth must emerge—with raucous results. Abdi will be in conversation withStacey Vanek Smith\, a senior reporter at Marketplace.
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/abdi-nazemian-and-the-walk-in-closet/
LOCATION:The Strand\, New York
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140716T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140716T200000
DTSTAMP:20140615T192346Z
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UID:31009-1405540800-1405540800@bedfordandbowery.com
SUMMARY:War Correspondents at BK Brewery
DESCRIPTION:During this series at the Brooklyn Brewery\, which serves as a fundraiser for Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues\, the brewery’s founder Steve Hindy (a former foreign correspondent) interviews the best in his former field. This season’s guests include NPR correspondent Deborah Amos on May 22\, Scott Anderson (Lawrence in Arabia: War\, Deceit\, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East) on June 17; Getty Images photographers Pancho Bernasconi and Sandy Ciric discussing Chris Hondros\, who was killed in a mortar attack in Libya\, on July 16; Philip Gourevitch on the Rwandan genocide\, on September 17; and Sebastian Junger interviewing photographer Susan Meiselas of Magnum Photos on November 19. The $25 ticket buys your first beer.
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/war-correspondents-at-bk-brewery-2/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Brewery\, 79 North 11th Street\, Williamsburg\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140711T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140711T210000
DTSTAMP:20140703T151045Z
CREATED:20140703T151045Z
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UID:32987-1405105200-1405112400@bedfordandbowery.com
SUMMARY:Reading: Love Comes Later With Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar
DESCRIPTION:Love Comes Later is one of the first English language novels to be set in Qatar\, and has become one of a long list of books to be banned in that country. Doha-based author Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar researched and wrote the novel in Qatar\, but will not get to see it reach shelves there despite the fact that the book is hardly overtly political or controversial. Rather\, the plot centers on an arranged engagement between two reluctant cousins\, and the love triangle that develops when one of the betrothed falls for someone else. The novel interrogates the connections between South Asian and Arab cultures and the oppressive potential of cultural expectations. “Rajakumar pulls back the veil on life in Qatar to reveal a glimpse of Muslim life rarely seen by Westerners\,” as per Kirkus Reviews. Join Rajakumar for a reading from the novel.
URL:https://bedfordandbowery.com/event/reading-love-comes-later-with-mohanalakshmi-rajakumar/
LOCATION:Bluestockings\, 172 Allen Street\, New York City
CATEGORIES:Talks + Readings
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