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E-mail for the Week of September 16

Author Events with Audrey Niffenegger, Isabel Wilkerson, Howard Norman, and Robert Reich; NAIBA Legacy Award; Man Booker Shortlist, part 2

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UPCOMING EVENTS IN BRIEF

Thursday September 16
10:30 a.m. Lane Smith - It's a Book; 4:30 p.m. - signing only
7 p.m. Deborah Fallows - Dreaming in Chinese

Saturday September 18
1 p.m. Larry Rohter - Brazil on the Rise
3:30 p.m. Audrey Niffenegger - The Night Bookmobile
6 p.m. Feryal Ali Gauhar - No Space for Further Burials

Sunday September 19
1 p.m. Isabel Wilkerson - The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
5 p.m. Howard Norman - What is Left the Daughter

Monday September 20
7 p.m. Rebecca Traister - Big Girls Don't Cry

Tuesday September 21
10:30 a.m. Erica S. Perl - Dotty
7 p.m. Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker - Promise Me: How a Sister's Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer

Wednesday September 22
7 p.m. Robert B. Reich - Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future

Thursday September 23
3-4:30 p.m. Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay: The Hunger Games, Book 3
7 p.m. David Rakoff - Half Empty

Friday September 24

10:30 a.m. Michael Buckley - Nerds: Book Two: M is for Mama's Boy
7 p.m. Jonathan Franzen - Freedom See below for updated location information.

Saturday September 25
1 p.m. Frederick Reuss - A Geography of Secrets
3:30 p.m. Lorin Stein, ed. - The Paris Review No. 194, Fall 2010 - NEW EVENT
6 p.m. Richard Rhodes - The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons

Sunday September 26
11 a.m. Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer - The Odious Ogre
1 p.m. William Gibson - Zero History
5 p.m. Steve Lerner - Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States


FROM THE NEW ATLANTIC INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLERS (NAIBA)

LETTER FROM BARBARA & CARLA

BARBARA'S BYLINE

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FROM THE CHILDREN AND TEENS' DEPARTMENT

MARKDOWN BOOKS

 

remainders

Jean Hanff Korelitz once held a part-time position at the Princeton admissions office, the setting for her novel, ADMISSION. The book follows Portia Nathan, admissions officer, as she decides the fate of hundreds of hopeful applicants. Along with an astute, inside look at elite universities, the novel also tells a haunting story of secrets and trauma, developing the multiple definitions of "admission." Available in hardcover, $5.98.

Whether writing fiction or nonfiction, Leonard Michaels could be counted on for something at once emotionally powerful and thought provoking. His short stories are artful gems, and the 22 pieces in THE ESSAYS OF LEONARD MICHAELS are also masterpieces of evocative writing.  The book is divided into criticism and autobiography, with the former ranging among literature, philosophy, music, and film, and the latter recounting Michaels's experiences growing up in New York and his later life in California. Available in hardcover, $5.98.

Back in Stock: Rivaling Herodotus for the title of first historian is Thucydides, author of the chronicle of the Peloponnesian War. In his succinct and learned THUCYDIDES: The Reinvention of History, Donald Kagan, himself author of a comprehensive history of The Peloponnesian War, presents the ancient thinker as the first to turn from looking for causation in the gods or fate to the analysis of human social behavior. Kagan fleshes out Thucydides as both a thinker and a product of a particular time and place. Available in hardcover, $9.98.

Click here to browse more remainders that have recently become available.


Laurie Greer

MUSIC NEWS

 

Music

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NEWS FROM THE COFFEEHOUSE

You say cafe, I say coffee bar ...and then there's also coffeeshop, coffeehouse, etc. Adding to the neverending discussion on the place of wi-fi, computers, and the like in coffeeshops, read: The New Coffee Bars: Unplug, Drink, Go - Anna Petrillo

For more news from the coffeehouse, visit the Modern Times blog.

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