Tuesday
March 19th
6:30pm

 
McNally Jackson Soho
 

Prize-winning author Katya Apekina’s Mother Doll is a sharp and visceral nesting doll of a novel, about four generations of mothers and daughters and the inherited trauma cast by Russian history.

“In this remarkable novel, Katya Apekina unpacks a dizzying nested series of intergenerational traumas and intergenerational gifts. Spellbinding, hallucinatory, and very funny, Mother Doll feels at once deeply researched, deeply felt, and deeply imagined—a rare achievement.” —Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot


 
Tuesday
March 19th
6:30pm

 
McNally Jackson Seaport
 

Is anyone ever truly lost in the internet age? A moving, original memoir of a young woman reckoning with her parents’ absence, the virus that took them, and what it means to search for meaning in a hyperconnected world.

“Brilliantly innovative . . . syncing a narrative of profoundly personal emotion with the invention and evolution of today’s cyberspace.”—William Gibson, author of Neuromancer and The Peripheral


 
Wednesday
March 20th
6:30pm

 
McNally Jackson Seaport
 

From the national bestselling novelist and essayist, a groundbreaking collection of brand-new pieces about the role of cultural criticism in our ever-changing world.

"Brisk, honest and soaring with élan. Oyler persuasively advocates clear thinking through doing it herself with such poise. Her critical approach isn't currently common sense, but it should be, and soon enough maybe it will." — Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times and The Happy Couple


 

Saturday
March 23rd
1pm
McNally Jackson Seaport
 
A family goes on a trip from the city to the sea in search of renewal in this “lively and lovely . . . beautiful” (Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming) picture book that’s an ode to sisterhood, nature, and being present. 
 
Meet the incredible Karen Goode Marable, author of Yaya and the Sea, for a dynamic storytime launch. We'll be in front of our McNally Jackson Seaport store at 4 Fulton, weather permitting, or upstairs in our children's section. Karen will be reading, signing, and answering all our questions about this extraordinary book. Inspired by Yaya and the Sea, we'll use watercolors and pastels to create our own evocative ocean worlds. We're starting at 1 p.m., just after the Seaport Holi Celebration ends. For more information about celebrating Holi at the Seaport: Holi Celebration

 
Monday
March 25th
6:30pm

 
McNally Jackson Seaport
 
The Love of Singular Men is the gripping English debut of the famous and hugely talented Brazilian writer Victor Heringer, who died tragically young.

"When you read something genuinely new it's hard to describe it - you end up settling for comparisons - and The Love of Singular Men is truly a singular novel. It's ingenious like Cortazar or Nabokov, elliptical like Grace Paley, funny like Donald Barthelme. Upon finishing it you want to immediately meet the young man who wrote it, shake him vigorously by the hand and congratulate him on the beginning of a brilliant career. But Victor Heringer is gone. He left this beautiful book behind." —Zadie Smith


 
Wednesday
March 27th
6:30pm

 
McNally Jackson Seaport
 

How, in a time of vibrant need, do you surface what is repressed societally — lodged in the political unconscious? By translating it, Jacqueline Feldman has found.

"What does it take to translate a short story? Two minds, two languages, two lives? One text becomes two, becomes many, spirals, crumbles, is rebuilt. Jacqueline Feldman's unfolding of the involvement of one work, one life, in another, through words, is a high-wire performance of autocriticism." —Joanna Walsh, author of Girl Online and Vertigo 


 
Friday
March 29th
7pm
 
McNally Jackson Seaport
 
 

Join us at the McNally Jackson Seaport bar, Manhattan’s own coastal refuge, as we present an evening featuring a range of brilliant minds from NYC's poetry scene.


 
Tuesday
April 2nd
6:30pm

 
McNally Jackson Seaport
 

A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent.

"This is a radical and important book. Along with the brilliance of the prose and the range of consideration, there is the steady coherence of Becca Rothfeld's argument: in these essays, she stages passionate duels between egalitarianism and distinction, abstinence and appetite, control and disproportion, and wins the battle, beautifully and eloquently, for the side of expansiveness and mess and desire. It's a thrilling struggle, thrillingly prosecuted."
James Wood, author of Serious Noticing: Selected Essays

"In this brilliant debut, Becca Rothfeld dismantles our assumptions about politics and culture, urging us to embrace restorative excess in place of a meagre (and mistaken, in her view) puritanical asceticism. All Things Are too Small is a riveting book from one of our subtlest critics."
Meghan O'Rourke, author of The Invisible Kingdom
 


 
Wednesday
April 3rd
6:30pm

 
McNally Jackson Seaport
SOLD OUT— email events@mcnallyjackson.com to join the waitlist
 

An indispensable collection of more than four decades of profound, luminous poetry from acclaimed poet Marie Howe.

Characterized by “a radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose, along with a fearless interest in autobiography and its tragedies and redemptions” (Matthew Zapruder, New York Times Magazine), Marie Howe’s poetry transforms penetrating observations of everyday life into sacred, humane miracles.


 
Thursday
April 4th
6:30pm
McNally Jackson Seaport
 
Told in three distinct voices, Short War brings together a rapturous teenage love story set in Chile, the hunt for the author of an eye-opening literary detective story, and a complex reckoning with American political intervention in South America.

"A stellar roller coaster of a debut." —Megan McDowell, National Book Award winning translator