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Fifteen years ago, Kathryn Scanlan found a stranger’s five-year diary at an estate auction in a small town in Illinois. The owner of the diary was eighty-six years old when she began recording the details of her life in the small book, a gift from her daughter and son-in-law. After reading and rereading the diary, studying and dissecting it, for the next fifteen years she played with the sentences that caught her attention, cutting, editing, arranging, and rearranging them into the composition that became Aug 9―Fog, a stark, elegiac account of unexpected pleasures and the progress of seasons. Please join us as we welcome Kathryn Scanlan in conversation with Maryse Meijer on Aug 9―Fog. Find details and RSVP HERE.
Tue. 6/18 6pm at the Co-op
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What combination of memory, history, biology, experience, and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us? In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological father; her entire history–the life she had lived–crumbled beneath her. Shapiro's resulting memoir is, in Jennifer Egan's words, “a gripping genetic detective story, and a meditation on the meaning of parenthood and family”; a book about the secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. Please join us as we welcome Dani Shapiro for a discussion of Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love. Find details and RSVP HERE.
Wed. 6/19 6pm at the Co-op
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Writing on the Wall is a selection of more than 100 previously unpublished essays that deliver Mumia Abu-Jamal's essential perspectives on community, politics, power, and the possibilities of social change in the United States. From Rosa Parks to Edward Snowden, from the Trail of Tears to Ferguson, Missouri, Abu-Jamal addresses a sweeping range of contemporary and historical issues. In expert translations, Fullbright Scholar and Professor of History Johanna Fernandez proffers Abu-Jamal's "revolutionary love, revolutionary memory and revolutionary analysis" (Cornel West). Please join us for a conversation between Johanna Fernandez and Page May on Mumia Abu-Jamal's Writing on the Wall. Find details and RSVP HERE.
Wed. 6/19 6pm at 57th Street Books
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Library of Small Catastrophes, Alison Rollins’ ambitious debut collection, interrogates the body and nation as storehouses of countless tragedies. Drawing from Jorge Luis Borges’ fascination with the library, Rollins uses the concept of the archive to offer a lyric history of the ways in which we process loss. “Memory is about the future, not the past,” she writes, and rather than shying away from the anger, anxiety, and mourning of her narrators, Rollins’ poetry seeks to challenge the status quo, engaging in a diverse, boundary-defying dialogue with an ever-present reminder of the ways race, sexuality, spirituality, violence, and American culture collide. Please join us for a conversation between Alison Rollins and Tara Betts on Library of Small Catastrophes. Find details and RSVP HERE.
Sat. 6/22 3pm at the Co-op
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