NOVEMBER EVENTS
Sunday, November 15, 2 pm
Duchess of Whimsy ***Kid’s Event***
Reading with author Randall de Sève and illustrator Peter de Sève
We’re partnering with vendors of the Greenpoint Food Market plus other local businesses to have grilled cheese sandwiches and milk available for storytime. Facebook RSVP here.
Thanks to these folks for making snacks possible:
Plus local breadmakers Sweet Pies Brooklyn and You Can’t Eat Bread?
And there’s more too:
Our Duchess of Whimsey event is part of a special B61 Read and Ride we are doing with Freebird Books – click this link to get all the details.
Wednesday, November 18, 7:30 pm
State by State reading with editor Sean Wilsey and writer Jed Lipinski
Enter our “Neighborhood by Neighborhood” essay contest!
Here’s a contest all writers should sharpen your pencils for — We’re hosting an event to celebrate the paperback release of State by State, a wonderful collection of essays from acclaimed writers, about the states they love. We’re running a contest in the same spirit – called Neighborhood by Neighborhood. Write an essay about your favorite part of NYC: from Washington Heights to Vinegar Hill to, of course – Greenpoint. Send submissions to kelly@wordbrooklyn.com by November 12th to be entered. Winner gets an autographed copy of the book, a gift certificate to WORD and a chance to read their piece at the event. (If you can’t attend the event you can still enter the contest!) Facebook RSVP here.
Sunday, November 22, 2-4 pm
Thankful Giving Crafternoon!
Join Maura Madden, author of Crafternoon, for an afternoon of crafting for a good cause. Crafters of all ages are welcome to help us make Thanksgiving cards and decorations for the food pantry at the Greenpoint Reformed Church. Want to do some crafty homework? Donate a handknit or crocheted hat, scarf, or pair of mittens. And we’ll have some yarn and knitting needles on hand if you need to add a few rows to a scarf or a pompom to a hat. Please bring two cans of food or a handmade winter accessory to the event. And feel free to bring other snacks and beverages to share with your fellow charitable crafters.
Facebook RSVP here.
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Past Events:
Obsolete: An Encyclopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us By discussion with author Anna Jane Grossman plus debate moderated by Brokelyn’s Faye Penn; There will be prizes for the best debator from WORD, Permanent Records and other local businesses., Nov. 12
YA Not? A literary salon for not-so-young adults, featuring: Libba Bray (Going Bovine), Carolyn MacCullough (Once a Witch) and Robin Wasserman (Skinned), Thurs. Nov 5
Daniel Klein and Thomas Cathcart, Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates:
Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife and Everything in Between
with authors, Tuesday, November 3
Guidebook Writers Tell All: The Glamour and The Slogging! discussion with three Rough Guides travel writers: Zora O’Neil (Cancun & Cozumel DIRECTIONS, Mexico), AnneLise Sorensen (Belize, et al) and Sarah Hull (Boston, New England).Strategies for guidebook writing and insider info on the best places to go. Co-sponsored by Jauntsetter, Oct. 29
Tony Fletcher author of All Hopped Up and Ready to Go: Music from the Streets of New York 1927-77 in conversation with Dusty Wright from Culture Catch, Wed. Oct 28
Mara Rockliff, The Busiest Street in Town, Sunday, October 25, 12:30 pm – for kids!
Sex Writing Night hosted by Rachel Kramer Bussel: With Mara Altman, author of Thanks for Coming: One Young Woman’s Quest for An OrgasmDagmar Herzog, author of Sex in Crisis and contributors to Best Sex Writing 2009 Tom Johansmeyer and Debbie Nathan, October 22
YA Not? with Rebecca Stead, author of When You Reach Me
in conversation with Wendy Lamb, Thursday, October 15, 7:30 pm
Forking Fantastic! Put the Party Back in Dinner Party, Sunday, October 11
Mike Edison’s Second Annual Banned Book Party! Join Mike Edison , plus special guests Richard Nash and Lizzie Skurnick for an evening celebrating books that through audacity of thought or language have somehow put a burr in the saddle of the status quo! Edison will read about how to write a pornographic novel from his book I Have Fun Everywhere I Go and then lead a conversation with Nash (Cursor) and Skurnick (Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading) hitting topics such as contemporary obscenity trials, community standards, YA/teen lit plus much more! Discussion to be followed by the “Name That Banned Book Contest”- including music and readings from classic banned and challenged books. Winner gets a prize!!! Thurs, Oct. 1, 2009
Talk About Rock: The Trials, Tribulations, Hardships & Half-truths in Writing about Rock & Roll with David Comfort (Rock and Roll Book of the Dead), Greg Milner (Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music), David Browne (Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth), and Theo Kogan, former lead singer of Lunachicks, Sept. 24
Debate of historic proportions at Diamond Bar: David Farley, author of Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church’s Strangest Relic in Italy’s Oddest Town vs. Tony Perrottet, author of Napoleon’s Privates: 2,500 Years of History Unzipped, Sept. 22
Celebrate the “wondrous waywardness of words” with Alastair Reid, author of Ounce Dice Trice, Sept. 20
**YA NOT? a literary salon for not-so-young adults**
Reading/signing with Frank Portman, author of Andromeda Klein, interviewed by Juliet Linderman, managing editor of The Greenpoint Gazette, September 19
Reading, discussion, comedy act and Clothing Swap with Lauren Weber
In Cheap We Trust: The Story of a Misunderstood American Virtue, September 17
Greenpoint-based author Amy Braunschweiger plus cabbie guests!
Taxi Confidential: Life, Death and 3 a.m. Revelations in New York City Cabs, September 16
Chat about Classic Lit 2.0 with Sarah Schmelling, author of Ophelia Joined The Group Maidens Who Don’t Float: Classic Lit Signs On To Facebook and Kera Bolonik of Bookforum, September 15
Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians, in conversation with
Laura Miller, author of The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia, September 10
Reading, discussion and Cream Puff Contest with Michelle Maisto
The Gastronomy of Marriage: A Memoir of Food and Love
Joining Michelle for a conversation about food and family will be Ben Sargent, THE BROOKLYN CHOWDER SURFER!, September 9
Indie Press Night with Dzanc Books: Readings from contributors to Best of the Web 2009 anthology, Sept. 3, 2009
Love is a Four-Letter WORD: True Stories of Breakups, Bad Relationships, and Broken Hearts, with Jami Attenberg, Michelle Green and Said Sayrafiezadeh, August 6
A Papercraft Crafternoon with Maura Madden, August 2
YA NOT? with Sheba Karim, author of Skunk Girl; interviewed by Abeer Hoque, Thursday, July 30
G Train Salon Reception for Hit Factorie Installation: Reception for our summer window art installation, created by Brooklyn-based group Hit Factorie. Including a hands-on collaborative workshop to make an original Hit Object, Thursday, July 23
Hot and Wicked Botanical Book Night! Readings and conversation with two plant goddesses: Margot Berwin author of Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire; and Amy Stewart author of Wicked Plants: The Weed that Killed Lincoln’s Mother and other Botanical Atrocities, her new book that is also the inspiration for an exhibit currently at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. With moderator, Algonquin editor Andra Miller, Tuesday, July 21
The Show that Smells reading with Derek McCormack and guest Rakesh Satyal, Blue Boy. Moderated by Ben Fama of Akashic Books, Sunday, July 19
Basketball, Brunch & Books Reading: Dave Reidy, author of the new short story collection, Captive Audience, read his short story “Postgame,” after the morning WORD basketball games. July 12, 2009
Indie Press Night with Seven Stories Press: with Douglas A. Martin (Once You Go Back), Lee Stringer (Sleepaway School) and Phong Bui of The Brooklyn Rail. July 9, 2009
Launch party for Jancee Dunn’s latest memoir Why is My Mother Getting a Tattoo? And Other Questions I Wish I Never Had to Ask. June 23, 2009
Reading and signing with Kate Christensen for Trouble; with interview by Maud Newton. With refreshments from local businesses: Dandelion Wine, Wine Cellar Sorbets and Brooklyn Salsa Company, June 18, 2009
Signing with Andrio Abero, Joey Parlett, local designers featured in Gig Posters, June 13, 2009
Signing and tasting with Greenpoint’s own custom baker Sarah Magid, June 11, 2009
Reading, signing and launch party for Emily St. John Mandel’s debut novel, Last Night in Montreal. June 2, 2009
Reading and signing with author Ben Greenman (Please Step Back and Correspondences), in conversation with Shelley Salamensky of the magazine Guilt and Pleasure. May 26, 2009
Reading and signing with Joanna Smith Rakoff for A Fortunate Age. Jami Attenberg (The Kept Man) interviewed Rakoff. May 9, 2009
Celebration of Children’s Book Week with NO BUTTS ABOUT READING! Reading & signing with picture book authors Ayun Halliday (Always Lots of Heinies at the Zoo) and Erica S. Perl (Chicken Butt). May 17, 2009
Signing and discussion with Emmanuel Guibert, illustrator of The Photographer: Into War-Town Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders, w/Carol Fitzgerald, founder/president of The Book Reporter: May 4, 2009
Indie Press Nights with Soft Skull. Reading and signing with authors Pasha Malla (The Withdrawal Method) and Zachary Mexico (China Underground): April 29, 2009
Rick Reid, launch for to be hung from the ceiling by strings of varying lengths: April 14, 2009
Our First YA NOT? with Terra Elan McVoy, author of PURE and her editor Anica Rissi. YA Not? is a new literary salon for not-so-young adults. This series seeks to bring YA writers, editors, librarians, teachers, and other not-so-young adults who love teen fiction all together to talk about fantastic YA books, why we love them, and how we can spread them as far as possible. (Teens welcome too, of course!): Thursday, April 9, 2009
Meredith Cole and Brian Wiprud: March 10, 2009
Indie Press Nights: Calamari Press with Blake Butler, Robert Lopez and Gary Lutz: March 5, 2009
Jami Attenberg and Kate Christensen: March 3, 2009
Indie Press Nights: McSweeneys/The Believer with Deb Olinferth and Ed Park: February 26, 2009
Jeff Gordinier: February 19, 2009
Francis Levy and David Evanier: February 17, 2009
Chip Kidd: February 11, 2009
Toby Barlow: February 5, 2009
Michael Shilling: January 27, 2009
TIN HOUSE NIGHT: Keith Lee Morris, Adam Braver, Jan Elizabeth Watson, Ben Nugent & Rob Spillman.Wednesday: January 21, 2009
Jessica Blau and Karan Mahajan: Thursday, January 15, 2009
Ron Currie Jr.: January 8, 2009
Word and Hexedjournal. com present Vol. 1: live 3d edition at Bar Matchless : December 19, 2008
Cristy C. Road and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: December 10, 2008
Mental Floss Bar Trivia Night at Diamond Bar: November 11, 2008
Booklyn’s Warrior Writers: November 19, 2008
Tony O’Neill: November 3, 2008
Daniel Vosovic: November 2, 2008
Michael Kimball and Sam Lipsyte: October 22, 2008
Maura Madden: October 12, 2008
David Rees: October 10, 2008
Emily Farris: October 7, 2008
Rick Moody and his band: September 24, 2008
Amanda Petrusich and Dana Jennings: September 18, 2008
Arthur Nersesian and Joe Meno: September 13, 2008
Tao Lin and Jen Michalski: September 10, 2008
Courtney Humphries: August 17, 2008
Josh Kilmer-Purcell: August 6, 2008
Leni Zumas: July 16, 2008
Willy Vlautin and Ross Raisin: July 11, 2008
Kate Christensen: June 24, 2008
Adrienne Onofri (Walking Brooklyn): June 21, 2008
Ed Strosser & Mike Prince (Stupid Wars): June 19, 2008
Contributors to Brooklyn Noir 3: June 5, 2008
33 1/3 event featuring Matthew Stearns, Michael Fournier, Amanda Petrusich and Jenny Eliscu: May 22, 2008
Rob Kutner (Apocalypse How): May 21, 2008
Contributors to Brooklyn Was Mine: Philip Dray, Rachel Cline and Joanna Hershon: May 15, 2008
Sean Bryan and Tom Murphy (The Juggling Pug): May 10, 2008
Contributors to Santi: Lives of Modern Saints: James P. Othmer, Greg Downs, author/editor Luca Dipierro and illustrator Rachel Bradley: April 30, 2008
Contributors to Broken Land: Poems About Brooklyn: April 23, 2008
Jon Springer (Mets By the Numbers) and Spike Vrusho (Benchclearing): April 17, 2008
Kevin Somers and Puck (123NY, 123USA, Sounds Funny): April 12, 2008
Anya Ulinich (Petropolis) and Kevin Kinsella (Tristia): April 3, 2008
Elizabeth Crane (You Must Be This Happy to Enter) and Paul Fattaruso (Bicycle): March 30, 2008
Nina Siegal (A Little Trouble with the Facts): March 12, 2008
Kevin Walsh (Forgotten NY): March 6, 2008
Contributors to Queens & Brooklyn Noir: Tim McLoughlin, Arthur Nersesian, Maggie Estep, Robert Knightly and Jillian Abbott: February 21, 2008
Carl Wilson (Celine Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love): January 22, 2008
Sarah Langan (The Missing): January 16, 2008
Cristin O’Keefe with Shappy Seasholtz, Rachel McKibbens and Michael Cirelli (Words in Your Face): January 9, 2008
Bob Eckstein (History of the Snowman): December 18, 2007
Meredith Walters (All You Have to do is Ask) and Uche Nduk (eel on reef): December 6, 2007
Kara Jessella and Marisa Meltzer (How Sassy Saved My Life): November 28, 2007
Hotel St. George event with Aaron Petrovich and Alex Rose: November 16, 2007
Jennifer Bartlett (Derivative of the Moving Image): November 9, 2007
The Brooklynites: November 6, 2007
Jason Roeder (Oh, the Humanity): November 1, 2007
David Rees (Get Your War On): October 26, 2007
Define-a-Thon: October 10, 2007
Mo Willems: October 4, 2007
Hi! I was interested in bringing my son to the Mo Willems reading this Thursday. Do I need to sign up?
Thanks!
Hi there. We’re not taking reservations for the Mo Willems event but try to get here early to be assured a spot. We’ll start handing out numbers at 4:30pm. Thanks!
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