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« January 21, 2010 - February 20, 2010 »
 
01 / 21
Start: 7:00 pm


The Oblong Book Group meets to discuss The Wapshot Chronicle.


If you're interested in joining our book group, email Suzanna Hermans

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02 / 7
Start: 4:00 pm

Please join us for a reading with Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

Rebecca Skloot is an award-winning writer, and a contributing editor at
Popular Science magazine. She has worked as a correspondent for NPR’s RadioLab and PBS’s Nova ScienceNOW, and her writing appears in The New York Times Magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine, Discover, Columbia Journalism Review, Prevention, and many others. 

“Skloot’s book is wonderful -- deeply felt, gracefully written, sharply
reported. It is a story about science but, much more, about
life.”—SUSAN ORLEAN, author of The Orchid Thief

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks brings to mind the work of
Philip K. Dick and Edgar Allan Poe. But this tale is true. Rebecca
Skloot explores the racism and greed, the idealism and faith in science
that helped to save thousands of lives but nearly destroyed a family.
This is an extraordinary book, haunting and beautifully told.”—ERIC
SCHLOSSER, author of Fast Food Nation 

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02 / 8
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02 / 11
Start: 7:30 pm

Please join us for a reading with Randy Susan Meyers, author of The Murderer's Daughters.

Randy Susan Meyers spent eight years as assistant director of Common Purpose, a batterer intervention program where she worked with both batterers and domestic violence victims. Previously, she was director for the Mission Hill Community Centers where she worked with at-risk youth. She is the co-author of the nonfiction book Couples with Children. Her short fiction has been published in Perigee, Fog City Review, and Grub Street Free Press. She currently teaches fiction-writing seminars at the Grub Street Writers’ Center in Boston, Massachusetts.

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02 / 12
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02 / 14
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm

Peter McCarty will sign copies of his newest picture book, Henry in Love.

Peter is the author and illustrator of T Is for Terrible, Little Bunny on the Move and Hondo and Fabian, for which he won a Caldecott Honor. He lives with his wife and two children in the Hudson Valley.

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Start: 7:30 pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joshua Ferris, author of The Unnamed, and Jami Attenberg, author of The Melting Season, read from their new works.

 

Joshua Ferris's first novel, Then We Came to the End, has sold in 20 countries and was shortlisted for the National Book Award and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Granta, Tin House, New Stories From the South, Best New American Voices, The Guardian, The Iowa Review and Perairie Schoonr. He attended the University of Iowa and the University of California, Irvine. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.

 

Jami Attenberg has written about sex, technology, design, graphic novels,
books, television, and urban life for The New York Times, Jane,
Print, New York, Nylon, Radar, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, Salon,
Plenty, Nextbook, Time
Out NY
, eWeek, and
others. Her fiction has been published by Nerve, Five Chapters, Smokelong Quarterly, 3: AM Magazine, and
Spork
. She recently appeared in the anthologies Sex for America, Future Misbehavior, Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone, and Love Is a Four-Letter Word: True Stories of Breakups, Bad Relationships, and Broken Hearts.
Her debut collection of stories, Instant Love, was published by Crown/Shaye Areheart Books in June 2006. The Kept Man
was published by Riverhead Books in January 2008, and is now available
in paperback. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

 

 

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02 / 18
Start: 7:00 pm


The Oblong Book Group meets to discuss Netherland.


If you're interested in joining our book group, email Suzanna Hermans

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02 / 19
02 / 20
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm

Diane Zahler will sign copies of The Thirteenth Princess from 12pm-2pm.

Diane Zahler is the author of a novel for middle-grade readers, The Thirteenth Princess (HarperCollins, 2010), which is based on the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale "The Twelve Dancing Princesses." She has also written two nonfiction books for high-school students, The Black Death and Than Shwe's Burma, both published by Lerner Books. She lives with her husband and dog in New York's Harlem Valley. 

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