Adrian Tomine
10/02/2012 7:00 pm
Join McNally Jackson and Drawn & Quarterly for the Manhattan launch for New York Drawings with cartoonist Adrian Tomine. This lavish, beautifully designed volume collects every cover, comic, and illustration that the acclaimed cartoonist as produced for The New Yorker to date, along with an assortment of other rare and uncollected illustrations and sketches inspired by the city. At the launch, Tomine will read from the book and present a slideshow detailing his work for the storied magazine and insight into his artistic process. Signing to follow.
Location:
- Street:
- 52 Prince St
- City:
- New York ,
- Province:
- New York
- Postal Code:
- 10012-3309
- Country:
- United States
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Our Book Clubs
INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE: Led by Sarah McNally, this discussion group meets downstairs the first Monday of every month, at 7pm. On Monday, June 3rd, the book club will be discussing Elizabeth Bowen's The Death of the Heart.
ESSAYS: Co-led by Sarah Gerard and Rachel Hurn, our Essays Book Group meets in the travel section the first Wednesday of every month, at 7pm. On Wednesday, June 5th, the book club will be discussing Joan Didion's The White Album.
POETRY: Led by Brigid Brine, the Poetry Book Group meets upstairs in the travel section the second Thursday of every month, at 7pm. On Thursday, June 13th, the book club will be discussing Eugene Guillevic's Art
Poétique. This month, the book club will be discussing the magic of the line in Guillevic's book. How does he use the line, and how is it different than in the poetry of Mallarmé or Baudelaire?
PHILOSOPHY: Led by Kevin Cassem and Matthew Wagstaffe, our Philosophy Book Group meets in the travel section the first Tuesday of every month, at 7pm. On Tuesday, June 4th, the book club will be discussing Revolution: A Reader, compiled and annotated by Lisa Robertson and Matthew Stadler. Read the essays between p. 487 and p. 632. Come, and make your reading performative.
DRAMA: Led by Matt Pieknik, our Drama book group meets in the travel section the second Monday of every month, at 7pm. On Monday, June 10th, the book club will be discussing Thomas Bradshaw's Mary.
SMALL BUSINESS: Led by Holly Howard, our Small Business Reading Group meets in the travel section the second Tuesday of every month, at 7pm. On Tuesday, June 11th, the book club will be discussing Give And Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success, by Adam Grant.
SPANISH WORKSHOP: Led by Javier Molea, this group meets Saturdays downstairs at 1pm. It's open to all who wish to practice their Spanish while discussing literature. See the Español page for more details.
SPANISH BOOKCLUB: Led by Javier Molea, this group meets once a month at 7pm downstairs. On Friday, June 7th, the book club will be discussing La literatura nazi en América, de Roberto Bolano (Chile). See the Events page for more details.
Our Series
ASK ME ABOUT: Know that classic novel you absolutely should have read by this point in your life? It's time to alleviate your nagging guilt with Ask Me About..., a Time Out New York and McNally Jackson event that's part book club, part lecture series, part show and part social occasion.
CONVERSATIONS ON PRACTICE: Hosted by Glenn Kurtz, Conversations on Practice is an ongoing series devoted to the the daily work of artmaking: how artists, musicians, and authors hone their craft and understand their work.
NEWS FROM UNDERGROUND: Mark Crispin Miller, a professor at NYU and author of many books on politics and cultural history, hosts News from Underground, a monthly series. In these tense times, there are many topics of extreme importance that the corporate media tends to ignore or misreport; the panel discussions of News from Underground are here to deal honestly with these forbidden issues.
REAL CHARACTERS: Real Characters is a monthly storytelling and performance show that combines some of New York’s best storytellers with its funniest, most innovative comedians and writers. So, some of it’s true, some of it feels more than true, and most of it is mostly funny.