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Friday, December 9, at the Strand at 7 p.m.
In his latest collection of essays, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, David Sedaris creates a series of fables about the modern world with animals as his... More >>
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Sunday, December 4 at 2:30 p.m, The Jane Hotel
Walter Mosley, Lydia Davis, Kurt Andersen, Deborah Eisenberg, Francine du Plessix Gray, John Guare, A.M. Homes, Edmund White, Oscar Hijuelos,... More >>
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Bookshelf cower power
By James Hannaham
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant." So said America's first poet, Anne Bradstreet, marking herself as a resident of... More >>
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Tuesday, November 29, at the Union Square Barnes and Noble
Don DeLillo (Libra, Point Omega) and Paul Auster (City of Glass, The Brooklyn Follies, Sunset Park), two fierce examiners of the strangeness of... More >>
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Tuesday, November 15, at 7 p.m.
By Angela Ashman
Who says procrastination can't be productive? During the summer of 2009, when Miranda July was struggling to finish her screenplay for The Future,... More >>
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The novelist takes stage at St. Marks Bookshop and Bookcourt
By ERICA MARTIN
Ben Ehrenreich, author of The Suitors and a onetime Village Voice contributor, recently published his dark and perceptive new novel Ether, which... More >>
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...in his latest book, The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years
By Jason Bailey
Greil Marcus would like to talk about his iPhone.
“Look at the iPhone,” he says, picking it up from next to him on the couch in his... More >>
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Brian Kellow's biography tries to tackle the iconic film critic
By Jason Bailey
No figure in the relatively brief history of American film criticism has proven as iconic, distinctive, or divisive as Pauline Kael, resident... More >>
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October 14 at 7 p.m. at McNally Jackson Booksellers
Musician, actor, writer, DJ, and activist Henry Rollins speaks with Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore about Occupants, Rollins's newest work. The book... More >>
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Wednesday, September 28, at 7 p.m., at Housing Works Bookstore
"Learn the evils of censorship that are attacking you right now!" says the flyer for Mike Edison's Fourth Annual Banned Book Party. In honor of... More >>
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Wednesday, September 21, at the Rubin Museum of Art
This "monumental feminist epic" is the most recent of over 40 books of poetry by Anne Waldman, the New York School poet who has been a... More >>
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I love the tax man
By James Hannaham
There's no typical Lydia Millet book. Oh Pure and Radiant Heart (2006) resurrected physicists Oppenheimer, Fermi, and Szilárd of Manhattan... More >>
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By James Hannaham
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights: Volumes 1-3 Deluxe Boxed Set
By Anonymous, translated/edited by Malcolm C. Lyons, Ursula Lyons, and... More >>
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Francis Levy's comic novel goes whoring in Brazil
By Brian Parks
In Francis Levy’s rather hilarious new novel Seven Days in Rio, an American C.P.A. named Kenny Cantor goes on vacation in Rio de Janeiro to... More >>
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With In Defense of Flogging, Peter Moskos ponders a return to the lash
By Harry Siegel
The modern prison era begins in 1961, the first of eight consecutive years when the incarceration rate plummeted while the crime rate spiked as... More >>
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Rachel Shteir tracks the history of shoplifting
By Jakob Dorof
If you’re like most Americans, you probably know shoplifting as a nervous tic of rich celebrities, something that was hip to do in the... More >>
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David Miscavige Has Much to Worry About
By Tony Ortega
Next month, Janet Reitman's book Inside Scientology will hit bookshelves, and the world of Scientology-watching, and for Scientology itself, will... More >>
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Yes, charts can be beach reading. Plus, summer books picks.
By James Hannaham
Among the casualties of iPhone apps, Google Maps, and automobile GPS systems is that most useful of summer books—the atlas. But these... More >>
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T.J. English looks back at a different city
By Graham Rayman
In his epic new history, The Savage City, T.J. English tells the stories of three men—George Whitmore, Bill Phillips, and Dhoruba Bin... More >>
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Rimbaud, meet Betty White. Plus David Foster Wallace, Tayari Jones, and other spring books picks.
By James Hannaham
Illuminations
By Arthur Rimbaud, translated by John Ashbery, April
Did you write poetry in college? Bet you weren’t no Rimbaud. In 1876, the... More >>
