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Just announced! New Yorkers voted and the One Book, One New York winner is Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Over the next several months, the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment will present free public events for New Yorkers to gather in discussion of Americanah, and engage with its poignant and timely themes of immigration, feminism, and race. Learn about upcoming events at NYPL and grab the book now.
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This Week at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe!
We’ve got an AMAZING week this week! Come out!
Tuesday, May 2, 6pm - 7pm PEN World Voices Festival:Queer Representation and the Media
Transwoman and political activist Jennifer Finney Boylan, trans author and boxer Thomas Page McBee, poets Eileen Myles and Saeed Jones, and founder/executive director of Women in Media & News Jennifer Pozner discuss the narratives of transgender issues found—or not seen—in the media.
Tuesday, May 2, 7:30pm - 8:30pm PEN World Voices Festival: Gender, Power, and Faith
A discussion about the intersection of LGBTQ rights and faith with Joy Ladin (the first openly transgender professor at an Orthodox Jewish institution), Amy Butler (Senior Minister, The Riverside Church), Garrard Conley (author of Boy Erased, about going through “Conversion Therapy” in Arkansas and whose father is a minister), Binyavanga Wainaina (Kenyan author and outspoken LGBTQ activist), moderated by Jennifer Boylan.
Wednesday, May 3, 6pm - 7pm PEN World Voices Festival: Forbidden: Too Liberated
A discussion on the ways women are denied equal opportunities. With Sarah Barmak (Closer: Notes from the Orgasmic Frontier of Female Sexuality), Jill Filipovic (The H Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness), Mona Eltahawy (Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution), and Sabrina Jones (Our Lady of Birth Control).
Wednesday, May 3, 7:30pm - 8:30pm PEN World Voices Festival: Forbidden: Too Desirous
A discussion on portraying women’s sexuality in fiction with novelists Yewande Omotoso (South Africa), Abubakar Adam Ibrahim (Nigeria), Malin Persson Giolito (Sweden), and Minae Mizumura (Japan).
Thursday, May 4 #TeachMeYouDid: Celebrating Star Wars Day, National Teacher Appreciation Week, and Movement Leaders
Star Wars Day ("May the 4th be with you") celebrates National Teacher Appreciation Week with an extraordinary evening of storytelling, mentorship, and performances highlighting today’s movement leaders and the next generation of engaged creators and leaders. Brought to you by civic imagination studio, Imagine Better.
Friday, May 5 #OneBookNY Live! A Conversation & Celebration with AMERICANAH
Bim Adewunmi, Naomi Jackson, Ashley C. Ford, Tomi Obaro, and Chinelo Okparanta discuss Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, selected for the first ever #OneBookNY initiative, moderated by Glory Edim (Well-Read Black Girl).Hosted by the NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment and BuzzFeed Books, with Well-Read Black Girl and Housing Works Bookstore Cafe.
Saturday May 6 - Sunday May 7, Monthly 30% Off Sale
30% off the whole store. Members always get an extra 10% off.
This Week’s Store Schedule:
Monday: 9am - 9pm
Tuesday: 9am - 9pm
Wednesday: 9am - 9pm
Thursday: 9am - 9pm
Friday: 9am - 9pm
Saturday - Sunday: 10am - 5pm
Started reading Americanah this week, only a quarter into it, and wow I get it - this is fiction living up to the hype. (What if Franzen could write realistically, from a female perspective, and with sincere empathy?)
William H. Macy shares his pick for the One Book One New York program: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith.
Bonus: lots of shameless puns.
Vote for your pick here.
Not much time left! Vote now! http://qnslib.org/OhOs3096yVU
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Larry is teaming up with the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment for #OneBookNY. This program is encouraging everyone in NYC to read the same book at the same time. There are five books to vote for and Larry’s pick is “The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” Check out his video testimonial above to see why.
Go to the One Book, One NY page to see all the books and to vote.
Spotted on the train this morning
ARE YOU COMING? #onebookny (at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe)
