WEDNESDAY AT 6:00 at the New School, nominees for this ...
If you can't get in, check out the Happy Ending Reading Series. As usual, Amanda Stern hosts and reading this week are Richard Nash, Martha Southgate and Colson Whitehead, a guy who is no stranger to awards himself. It's free to the likes of you and starts at 8.
On Thursday, March 4 at 6 at Coliseum Books, Betsy Lerner (Elizabeth Wurtzel's former editor, if that's any clue) reads from her memoir, Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories, followed by a discussion and book signing. Bank on plenty of "sharing" going on. Also on Thursday, you can listen to Diana Crone Frank and Jeffrey Frank read from, and discuss their book The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen: A New Translation from the Danish, at Scandinavia House. That's $6 a head.
On Friday, March 5 at 6:30 at the Brecht Forum, eat a home-cooked buffet dinner and listen as David Harvey discusses U.S. foreign policy and his book The New Imperialism with Barbara Briggs and Hector Figueroa. It's $20; RSVP required.
Kelly Link, author of the story collection Stranger Things Happen whom we should all read and cherish, is reading at the New School on Monday, March 8 at 6:30 in a "Fiction Forum" moderated by Darcey Steinke?$5 at the door. The same night sees a reading at Sebastian Junger's bar/restaurant, the Half King. The night is dedicated to National Geographic Adventure magazine, and features Dr. Kenneth Kamler, vice president of the Explorers Club, talking about his new book, Surviving the Extremes.
On Tuesday, March 9 at 7 at Housing Works, M.D. Elevitch will read from his new book, Dog Tags Yapping: The World War II Letters of a Combat GI. He'll also show slides of his cartoons and drawings, featured in the book, which chronicles his time in combat during World War II.
Finally, Tuesday also brings us another poetry reading at the New School, moderated by Honor Moore, with Victoria Redel and Donna Masini. The fun starts at 6:30 and runs $5.
?Paul McLeary
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