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What's happening at WORD?
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A young Flash, keeping the bookstore safe for civilians, at
our Superheroes event with Dennis Shealy.
We've made it through the February doldrums -- is it just us, or is there some spring in the air? Maybe it's just us, or maybe it's the battle brewing between camps Bowtie and Fuzzy Hat, inspired by two of Melville House's new releases: The Polyglots and A Country Doctor's Notebook! Our staff have already weighed in here and here, but we want to hear from you. Come by the store to pose or send in a picture with your vote, and at the end of the month we'll have a special prize for one lucky person from each camp.
We've got a full month of events for you, covering topics from the circus to poetry to Prince and beyond. All details are below, and on our website. See you in the store!
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This month's featured event:
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For your inner child and your grown-up self, we present Circus Now! In honor of Duncan Wall, circus-college graduate and author of The Ordinary Acrobat: A Journey into the Wondrous World of the Circus, Past and Present, we're hosting a night of performance and presentation at Public Assembly ( 21 and up). The evening will include everything from juggling and clowns to the history of the NYC circus scene, courtesy of Wall and friends from City Park Family Programming, Ars Nova, and Fly by Night. While tickets will be available at the door, we encourage you to get yours ahead of time!
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 This month at WORD!
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 For detectives-in-training:
Sunday, March 3, 4 p.m.
Stephan Pastis and Timmy FailureBestselling author and cartoonist Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine) introduces his first kids book, Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made, with a multimedia presentation and signing for all ages! Please note: the author will be signing books only.
Take eleven-year-old Timmy Failure - the clueless, comically self-confident CEO of the best detective agency in town, perhaps even the nation. Add his impressively lazy business partner, a very large polar bear named Total. Throw in the Failuremobile -- Timmy's mom's Segway -- and what you have is Total Failure, Inc. Stephan Pastis will get you snorting with laughter with this first installment of his new series.
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For our fellow SF/F geeks:
Wednesday, March 6, 7 p.m.
Dragons in Space
at Housing Works, 126 Crosby St., New York
Explore the past, present, and future of fantasy and science fiction with authors Peter V. Brett (The Daylight War), Myke Cole (Fortress Frontier), and Ellen Kushner (Thomas the Rhymer,The Privilege of the Sword), in discussion with Singularity & Co's Cici James. They'll discuss magic in the military, demons both internal and external, swashbuckling, space travel, and the state of SF/F, as well as sign books and take questions from the audience. Co-sponsored by Housing Works and WORD in a team-up of epic proportions.
  
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  For readers far and near:
Thursday, March 7, 7 p.m.
BookTalk Nation: Will Schwalbe and Emily Gould
Will Schwalbe will be in conversation with fellow author Emily Gould (And the Heart Says Whatever) about his moving memoir The End of Your Life Book Club on BookTalk Nation. Please note: this is a virtual event; full details are available on the BookTalk Nation site.
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 For fans of the samba and the future:
Tuesday, March 12, 7 p.m.
Brooklyn Launch: Alaya Dawn Johnson
WORD is delighted to welcome local author Alaya Dawn Johnson and her new YA novel, The Summer Prince. A heart-stopping story of love, death, and technology, set amid the lush tropics of a futuristic Brazil, The Summer Prince follows June and Enki as they explore the boundaries between art and rebellion. Join us for a reading, Q&A, and signing, followed by refreshments!
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  For indie readers and rockers:
Thursday, March 14, 7 p.m.
Brooklyn Arts Press Night
Brooklyn Arts Press hosts a reading featuring Jared Harel (The Body Double), Joe Fletcher (Already It Is Dusk), Dominique Townsend, and Martin Rock. The house band for the night is Brooklyn's own The Dust Engineers.
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For theater geeks:
Saturday, March 16, 5 p.m.
Bookshop Workshops: Eudaemonia
Jerry Lieblich presents a reading of his play Eudaemonia, which follows three twentysomethings searching for identity and connection amidst the isolation of urban life. Bookshop Workshops is a not-for-profit organization that produces developmental workshops of plays in independent bookstores across Connecticut and New York.
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For teens and teens-at-heart:
Tuesday, March 19, 7 p.m.
The Only Way Out is Through: Engaging Truth through YA
Join five visiting YA authors for a discussion of what it's like to engage with the messy truths of adolescence, and how to craft them into a story with some kind of form. Panelists: Crissa Chappell, Tim Decker, Ellen Hopkins, Amy McNamara, Jessica Verdi; moderated by David Levithan.
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For fans of the spoken word:
Wednesday, March 20, 7 p.m.
Performance and Prose with Mike Albo, Ronna Lebo, Rev. Jen, and Boni Joi
Join us for a night of storytelling, reading, and poetry with four performers/authors. Writer Mike Albo (The Underminer), poet Boni Joi (Before During or After Rainstorms), author Reverend Jen (Elf Girl), and poet Ronna Lebo (Prolapse) will each perform, followed by a Q&A and signing.
   
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 4 fans of dancing in bookstores:
Friday, March 22, 7 p.m.
I Would Die 4 U: A Prince Dance Party with Touré and Ali Shaheed Muhammad
at Housing Works, 126 Crosby St., New York, NY
Celebrate Touré's new book I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon with a dance party featuring a night of Prince music spun by Ali Shaheed Muhammad from A Tribe Called Quest.
We'll be on hand selling I Would Die 4 U (and dancing our feet off). 100% of ticket sales will go to Housing Works to support their fight against homelessness and AIDS.
Price: $5 general admission, $26.76 general admission + a book
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  For fans of words and music:
Tuesday, March 26, 7 p.m.
Largehearted Lit: Michelle Orange and Teddy Wayne
Essayist Michelle Orange (This Is Running for Your Life) and novelist Teddy Wayne (The Love Song of Jonny Valentine) will share the stage, along with a guest musician. Come for the reading and music; stay for the pastries provided by the Brooklyn Baker!
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  For fans of glitz and glamor:
Wednesday, March 27, 7 p.m.
Anna Godbersen and Rachel Shukert
Do you love golden-age film? The glitz and glamour of Los Angeles? How about jazz-age New York? Come discuss teens and the old-times with Anna Godbersen (the Bright Young Things series) and Rachel Shukert (Starstruck)!
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 For feminists of all stripes:
Thursday, March 28, 7 p.m.
Is Feminism Sexy? with Jennifer Armstrong, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Jessica Wakeman, and Jamie A. Wilson
Sexy Feminism's Jennifer Armstrong will be discussing what feminism means to young women today with erotica writer/editor Rachel Kramer Bussel, The Frisky blogger Jessica Wakeman, SexyFeminist.com contributor Britt Gambino, and feminist media activist Jamie A. Wilson.
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 For fans of other languages:
Friday, March 29, 7 p.m.
Fluent City presents the Art of Translation
(rescheduled from February)
Join Fluent City and WORD for a lively panel on the art of translating literature and learn what it truly takes to make a book or poem universal in several different languages. Panelists include author Lila Zemborain, an Argentine poet and curator of the KJCC Poetry Series at NYU, and translator Manuel Fihman. The event will be moderated by poet and translator Jordan Lee Schnee. Fluent City offers adult language classes in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and Hebrew.
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All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
Facebook RSVPs appreciated but certainly not mandatory.
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Book groups
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Discussions this month:
- Saturday, March 2, 12 p.m. Book Group: Salvage the Bones
- Saturday, March 2, 2:45 p.m. Romance Book Group: Dark Desires After Dusk
- Saturday, March 9, 12 p.m. Classics Book Group: The Walk
- Saturday, March 9, 3 p.m. Music Writing Book Group: Red Rock: The Long, Strange March of Chinese Rock & Roll
- Sunday, March 24, 3 p.m. Wodehouse Book Group: Enter Jeeves, pt. 2
    
Reading for next month: - Book Group: In Cold Blood (discussion 4/6, 12 p.m.)
- Romance Book Group: TBA (discussion 4/6, 2:45 p.m.)
- Classics Book Group: Chess Story (discussion 4/13, 12 p.m.)
- Music Writing Book Group: Let Me Clear My Throat (discussion 4/13, 3 p.m.)
- Wodehouse Book Group: TBA (discussion 4/28, 3 p.m.)
  
As always, all book group picks are 10% off in the month before their discussion. And if you need help remembering to mark your calendar, or can't make the discussion but still want to complain about that thing that happened on page 210, you can join our Facebook groups! There's one for the regular group, one for Classics, and one for Music Writing.
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WORD's February bestsellers
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 Man in the Empty Suit, Sean Ferrell (ebook available) - One Good Earl Deserves a Lover, Sarah MacLean (ebook available)
- Tenth of December, George Saunders (ebook available)
- Drinking With Men, Rosie Schaap (ebook available)
- Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Karen Russell (ebook available)
- Exercises in Style, Raymond Queneau (ebook available)
- Refugee Hotel, Gabriele Stabile & Juliet Linderman
- La Boutique Obscure, Georges Perec (ebook available)
- Scarlet, Marissa Meyer (ebook available)
- The Walk, Robert Walser
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