Tuesday, June 8, 2010
7:30-9pm, 126 Franklin Street
Since the 50s, album covers have offered designers a unique and highly visible space to experiment. Tonight at WORD, award-winning designers Spencer Drate and Judith Salavetz will show-and-tell their new book, Five Hundred 45s – a collection of seven-inch record sleeves that they've created over the years. They have designed for artists such as U2, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Talking Heads, Joan Jett, and Bon Jovi.
In her new book, journalist Kathryn Schulz asserts that it is wrongness, not rightness that can teach us who we are. Join her tonight as she reads from and discussion Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error. In the book, she examines how we make mistakes, how our errors change us, and how we react when we have been wronged.
Former Greenpoint resident Jenny Hollowell will be at WORD tonight celebrating the release of her new book, Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe. In the book, Hollowell, shows us the cruelty of Hollywood through the life of Birdie Baker, a woman who at 22-years-old walked out on her pastor husband and deep evangelical parents in search of a glamorous acting life. We meet Birdie nine years after this, and her life is far from the golden dream she hoped for.
Greenlight Bookstore: Jennifer Egan
7:30-8:30pm, 686 Fulton Street
Fort Green author Jennifer Egan launches her new book A Visit from the Good Squad tonight at her neighborhood bookstore. Egan’s new book follows two characters, kleptomaniac Sasha and her music producer boss, Bennie. She weaves together scenes of their lives from New York City in the 1990s, the Los Angeles music scene in the 1970s, the American desert in the near future, examining how and why people change.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
7:30-8:30pm, 686 Fulton Street
Full Spectrum presents a panel of four individuals who unearthed family secrets in the name of story telling. Meet the conversationalists: Doug Block, whose documentary 51 Birch Street chronicles his discovery about the truth of his parents’ marriage; Paula Bernstein, who wrote a memoir with her twin sister about they were separated at birth; Leah Carroll, a Brooklyn author working on a book about her mother, who was violently murder, and her father who committed suicide; and June Cross, whose mother gave her away to be raised by someone else.
For the second installment of his movie series at Freebird, author Nathan Ward brings you the 1957 movie Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. Based on the memoir of former Assistant District Attorney Bill Keating, the movie takes you inside the murder of longshoreman Andy Hintz. Another dockworker has information on the killers, but refuses to help the police, keeping with dockyard tradition.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Greenlight Bookstore: Max Watman and Gable Erenzo
3-4pm, 686 Fulton Street
What could be better than books and booze on a Sunday afternoon? Mac Watman, author of Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur’s Adventures in Moonshine, joins distiller Gable Erenzo at Greenlight today for a conversation about whiskey culture. Afterwards, join the men across the street at The Greene Grape, where Erenzo’s Tuthilltown beverages will be available to taste.
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Monday, June 14, 2010
7pm, 163 Court Street
The Slow Food movement has given impetus to choosing foods that are healthier for us and for our environment, but often there are questions left unanwsered: What about people who do not have the money to make the often-pricier choices about where and how to get food? How can healthier foods be available for everyone? Food activist and journalist examines these and other overlooked questions in his book Closing the Food Gap, which will be discussed tonight at BookCourt.
8-10pm, 766 Franklin Avenue
To kick off the summer season, Franklin Park hosts three authors and two performers at tonight for their monthly reading series. Zetta Elliot will read from her book A Wish After Midnight, a story about a 15-year-old girl from Brooklyn who time travels to the borough during the Civil War. Matt Gallagher, a former soldier and current Crown Heights resident, will share excerpts from his memoir about the Iraq War, and award-winning poet Hila Ratzabi will read from her new chapbook. Plus: the world premiere of a multimedia performance about Michael Jackson, God and swimming goggles. Intrigued?
Greenlight Bookstore: Glen David Gold and Ron Hogan
7:30-8:30pm, 686 Fulton Street
For their monthly author/blogger pairings series, Greenlight brings you literary blogger Ron Hogan and one of his favorite authors, Glen David Gold. The two will discuss Gold’s most recent novel, Sunnyside, a story about Charlie Chaplin. Hogan describes the book as “a novel of ideas that still delivers on narrative delight.”
