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See Mary Ellen Mark at McNally Jackson in Early December
Filed under: books, events, Mary Ellen Mark, photographs
Mary Ellen Mark's new book of photographs, Seen Behind the Scene: Forty Years of Photographs On Set, sounds very interesting. It's dedicated to film sets; I confess I have ample curiosity about this subject (like lots of other people). She'll be appearing at McNally Jackson to present a slide show, sign copies of the book, and I'm sure speak or take questions. Her photos have been appearing in The New Yorker for years now.
Here's some verbiage from the press release to help assume
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Joshua Henkin: Still Elegant, Soon to Appear in Three Dimensions in SoHo
Filed under: Joshua Henkin, readings
I've expressed my enthusiasm for Joshua Henkin before. It's a year later and I'm no closer to reading one his novels, but—he's still on my list! He'll be speaking at McNally Jackson Books, located at 52 Prince Street, on Tuesday, November 18, at 7pm (7pm being the designated author appearance hour in NYC). If he's half as engaging and insightful as he is on The Elegant Variation, it'll be memorable. (Here's a stretch of recent posts I hadn't even seen yet.) So run, walk, perambulate, etc.
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Emdashes favorite Mike Birbiglia, whose one-man tale of the drowsily unchaperoned, Sleepwalk With Me, has made it to Broadway, gets a swell review in the New York Times. We've seen it and we laughed at the funny parts, laughed at the sad parts (because Mike makes them so funny), and laughed at the parts in between. We suggest you bring your family in town for the holidays. It'll be a heartwarming conversation-starter, and even though we're not phrasing that very freshly, we're not being ironic in the least. —E.G.
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Deadline Poets: Obituaries Panel at the NYPL
Filed under: Ann Wroe, Brooke Astor, Daniel Okrent, Edmund Wilson, events, In Memoriam, Leona Helmsley, New York Public Library, The Economist, The New York Times, Tony Hillerman
Jonathan Taylor writes:
I got a last-minute ticket to Monday's sold-out "Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries" event at the New York Public Library. It's fair to say that The Economist's obituaries editor, Ann Wroe, stole the show, or was smartly handed it by the NYPL's Paul Holdengräber, on a platter of quotes from Aristophanes and Rilke. Wroe and her predecessor, Keith Kolquhoun, have edited the new Economist Book of Obituaries.
The Economist publishes just one substantial, often heroically sympathetic, appreciation a week. Wroe frequently plucks a relatively
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Martin Schneider writes:
Junot Díaz's novel only won the most recent Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and I haven't heard anyone say a bad word about it. I just got my copy of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and I can't wait to read it! Do attend, it looks like a good time and it's for a good cause! Press release follows:
Junot Díaz, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dominican-American author of
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, is coming to Washington Heights!
Junot will be joining CoSMO, Columbia's free student-run primary care
clinic, for a book reading and conversation on Friday, November 7th at
7:30pm. All proceeds go toward prescription medications for
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