Events

« June 2013 »
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
						1 Extra Yarn Start: 11:30 am México Reading - Diálogos de novelistas: Alvaro Enrigue y José Manuel Prieto. Moderación a cargo de Elvira Liceaga. Start: 7:00 pm
2 Gotham Writer's Workshop: Travel Writing with Alison Stein Start: 6:00 pm	3 Literature Book Club Start: 7:00 pm	4 Philosophy Book Group Start: 7:00 pm Cotton Tenants: A discussion with John Summers, Adam Haslett, and Daniel Thomas Davis Start: 7:00 pm	5 Puppet Show Cancelled US book launch of Cahier 18: Elfriede Jelinek's "Her Not All Her." With Katie Kitamura and Damion Searls Start: 7:00 pm Essays Book Club Start: 7:00 pm	6 City Lights Poets: Homero Aridjis, A Time of Angels Start: 7:00 pm	7 Spanish Bookclub: La literatura nazi en América, de Roberto Bolaño (Chile) Start: 7:00 pm	8 Dork Diaries Book Launch Start: 11:30 am Amapola Dry en concierto y, además, La Milonga Start: 7:00 pm
9 Come Dance with Author Betsy Bird Start: 2:00 pm	10 Literary BFFs: Elliott Holt and Marie-Helene Bertino Start: 7:00 pm	11 Small Business Book Group Start: 7:00 pm Jasmine Beach-Ferrara in conversation with Chris Adrian Start: 7:00 pm	12 Real Characters with Rosie Schaap, Jason Roeder, and Margot Leitman Start: 7:00 pm	13 A crime fiction panel with Grove Atlantic, Akashic Books, Melville House, and Europa Editions Start: 7:00 pm	14	15 Vintage Father's Day Start: 11:30 am Bloomsday celebration with James Joyce Start: 7:00 pm
16	17 Karen Shepard and Karen Russell in conversation Start: 7:00 pm	18 Teenage Wasteland: YA Characters in a Dystopian World Start: 7:00 pm	19 Openly YA: A panel discussion with moderator David Levithan Start: 7:00 pm	20 GROSS (Get Rid Of Slimy Egos) Book Club Start: 7:00 pm Philipp Meyer: The Son Start: 7:00 pm	21 Watchword, by Pura López Colomé. With Francesca Capone. Start: 7:00 pm	22 Summer Solstice Start: 11:30 am
23	24 An evening with Simon Van Booy Start: 7:00 pm	25 Girls Write Now Anthology Launch Party Start: 7:00 pm	26 Andrew Blum and Virginia Heffernan Start: 7:00 pm You're Going Nowhere: Travel with Lucky Peach, Issue 7 launch Start: 8:00 pm	27 Book Launch & Art Installment Unveiling with Oliver Jeffers Start: 6:00 pm Tao Lin in conversation with Christian Lorentzen Start: 7:00 pm	28 Find Your Inner Red Shoes, by Mariela Dabbah. With David Puente Start: 7:00 pm	29
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A Note on Events

McNally Jackson hosts its events downstairs. Unfortunately, we do not have an elevator. If you are a person with a disability and would like to attend an event, we will--without hesitation--host it upstairs. Email events[at] mcnallyjackson.com to let us know, and if you have any questions.

Our Book Clubs

INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE: Led by Sarah McNally, this discussion group meets downstairs the first Monday of every month, at 7pm. On Monday, July 1st, the book club will be discussing Pat Barker's Regeneration.

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, July 3rd, the book club will be discussing George Perec's La Boutique Obscure.

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, July 9th, the book club will be discussing Revolution: A Reader, compiled and annotated by Lisa Robertson and Matthew Stadler. Read the essays between p. 633 and p. 792. Come, and make your reading performative.

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, July 9thth, the book club will be discussing Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In.

G.R.O.S.S. (Get Rid of Slimy EgoS): Led by Anna Chen and Michael Fentin, this discussion group meets upstairs in the travel section the third Thursday of every month, at 7pm. On Thursday, June 20th, the book club will be discussing Power vs. Force, by David R. Hawkins.

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, July 12th, the book club will be discussing Respiración Artificial, de Ricardo Piglia (Argentina). 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.

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