We've declared this the Summer of Indie Presses\, starting with June! Our next pick is Everything Happens Today by local author Jesse Browner\, published by the fabulous Europa Editions. 10% off the month leading up to discussion.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T222132Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120609T160000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120609T160000Z UID:http://www.wordbrooklyn.com/event/classics-book-group-great-granny-webster URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.wordbrooklyn.com/event/classics-book-group-great-granny-webster SUMMARY:Classics Book Group\: Great Granny Webster DESCRIPTION:Next up is Great Granny Webster\, on June 9th. Blackwood was raised in the aristocracy (heiress to the Guinness fortune!) and later in life\, used that experience to produce this dark and witty look at the craziness that only the rich can inhabit. 10% off the month leading up to discussion.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T222132Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120609T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120609T190000Z UID:http://www.wordbrooklyn.com/event/music-writing-book-group-fear-music URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.wordbrooklyn.com/event/music-writing-book-group-fear-music SUMMARY:Music Writing Book Group\: Fear of Music DESCRIPTION:Fear of Music discussion 6/9. Jonathan Lethem's entry in the 33 1/3 series revisits a time and place that he's also covered in his fiction\: New York City in the late 1970s. In June\, we'll talk about Lethem's book\, which covers both this album and his own lifelong relationship with it. 10% off leading up to the discussion.
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Registration required\: $15 (includes materials and workshop)\; $35 (includes materials\, workshop\, and a copy of Concrete Fever).
TICKETS ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE ONLINE. There may be spots left\, please call the store at 718-383-0096 to verify.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T222132Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120621T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120621T230000Z UID:http://www.wordbrooklyn.com/event/david-yoo-conversation-dave-cullen URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.wordbrooklyn.com/event/david-yoo-conversation-dave-cullen SUMMARY:David Yoo in conversation with Dave Cullen DESCRIPTION:Author David Yoo will present his memoir The Choke Artist\, capturing the fears\, insecurities\, and vicious cycles of the anxiety sufferer with insight and a large dose of humor\, in a conversation with journalist Dave Cullen (Columbine).
In this brutally honest collection of often cringe-inducing episodes\, David Yoo perfectly captures the cycle of failure and fear from childhood through adulthood. Whether he's wearing four layers of clothing to artificially beef up his slim frame\, routinely testing highlighters against his forearm to see if he indeed has yellow skin\, or preemptively sabotaging promising relationships to avoid being compared to former boyfriends\, Yoo celebrates and skewers the insecurities of anxious people everywhere.
Facebook RSVP encouraged\, but not required.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T222132Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120626T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120626T230000Z UID:http://www.wordbrooklyn.com/event/launch-party-carissa-halston URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.wordbrooklyn.com/event/launch-party-carissa-halston SUMMARY:Launch Party for Carissa Halston DESCRIPTION:Writer and former New Yorker Carissa Halston presents The Mere Weight of Words\, a novel that chronicles the efforts of a young woman to reinvent her life when faced with ill health\, a career change\, and an estranged father suffering from Alzheimer’s. Facebook RSVP encouraged\, but not required.
When Meredith initially hears that her estranged father has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s\, she says nothing. When Eliot\, a long-time friend of her father’s\, calls and asks her to see him\, she hangs up. But once she runs out of ways to say no\, Mere agrees to visit\, reasoning that he’ll soon lose all memory of their estrangement. He’ll forget about her paralysis. He’ll forget about their fights. He’ll forget that he ever stopped loving her mother and be the person Mere adored. She leaves her house certain she’ll say something she can’t take back and arrives at his knowing he’ll someday forget she visited at all. In language honest and heartfelt\, Carissa Halston presents Mere’s life with and without her father\, and how Mere fills his absence with worry\, wit\, and words.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T222132Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120628T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120628T230000Z UID:http://www.wordbrooklyn.com/event/letter-q URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.wordbrooklyn.com/event/letter-q SUMMARY:The Letter Q DESCRIPTION:More than 50 writers share their struggles and triumphs in The Letter Q\, a compilation for LGBT teens following in the steps of “It Gets Better.” Join the East Coast contributors\, including Nick Burd\, Benoit Denizet-Lewis\, Diane DiMassa\, David Ebershoff\, Paula Gilovich\, Arthur Levine\, David Levithan\, Sarah Moon\, Eric Orner\, Rakesh Satyal\, and Bil Wright\, for a reading and signing. Facebook RSVP encouraged\, but not required.
In this anthology\, sixty-three award-winning authors such as Michael Cunningham\, Amy Bloom\, Jacqueline Woodson\, Gregory Maguire\, David Levithan\, and Armistead Maupin make imaginative journeys into their pasts\, telling their younger selves what they would have liked to know then about their lives as Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual\, or Transgendered people. Through stories\, in pictures\, with bracing honesty\, these are words of love and understanding\, reasons to hold on for the better future ahead. They will tell you things about your favorite authors that you never knew before. And they will tell you about yourself.
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