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Saturday, May 25, 2013
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe presents
Colum McCann
We'll have to until June 4: that's when Colum McCann's new book TransAtlantic is out. The author of Let the Great World Spin sets TransAtlantic, as the title indicates, between two continents, from 1845 to now, focusing on four generations of women and historical characters from Frederick Douglass to Senator George Mitchell. The author will be at Symphony Space on June 5.
Poetry Reading with Edward Hirsch at Cooper Union
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News in the world of Science Fiction
Kickstarted last year, Singularity & Co., 18 Bridge [John] in DUMBO, sells science fiction books, some new, mostly old, and is rescuing select titles, getting them into ebook form.The Torch and Doomsday Morning are the first two. Vintage books under consideration are here. For more sci-fi books, Forbidden Planet, 832 Bway [12th/13th] 212.473.1576
The New York Review of Science Fiction holds their reading series at the Soho Gallery for Digital Art, 138 Sullivan [Houston/Prince] generally on a Tuesday of every month—June 11th, the authors are Sabrina Vourvoulias and Barbara Krasnoff. On July 2, Kate Elliot.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
STEPHEN POLICOFF WINS DZANC MID-CAREER NOVELIST AWARD
May 20, 2013, Ann Arbor, MI-Dzanc Books is pleased to announce that Stephen Policoff is the winner of our 2012 mid-career novelist award. Policoff's manuscript,Come Away, was selected from nearly 100 submissions. This collection will be published in October 2014.
Dzanc co-founder and
publisher, Steven Gillis said of the manuscript: "Stephen Policoff's Come Away is the sort of book that leaves you in awe of
the way the universal subject of love and parenting and the complexities of
human relationships can be handled here in such a new and inspiring way. By
refusing to rely on pyrotechnics, though with just enough hint of magic realism
and a post-modern narrative, Policoff more than ever burns onto the reader's
consciousness a full and new wonderful understanding of what it means to be
completely vulnerable to and unconditionally loving and exposed by the things
closest to us. Dzanc is excited to have Policoff's Come Away named as the winner of our mid-career novelist
award and look forward to publishing this amazing novel in October 2014."
ABOUT STEPHEN POLICOFF
Stephen Policoff's first
novel,Beautiful Somewhere Else, won the James Jones Award and was published by Carroll & Graf
in 2004. His essay, "Music Today?" about his disabled daughter's
experience in music therapy, won the Fish Short Memoir Award, and was published
in
Fish Anthology 2012 (West Cork University
Press, Ireland). It also appears in the current issue of the new parenting
magazine, Kindling. His essays and fiction
have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including The Rumpus, Otis Nebula,
Provincetown Arts, and Family Fun. He teaches writing in Global Liberal Studies
at NYU, and lives in New York with his two daughters.
ABOUT DZANC BOOKS
Dzanc Books was created
in 2006 to advance great writing and to impact communities nationally with our
efforts to advance literary readership and our advocacy of creative writing
workshops and readings. As a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization, Dzanc Books not
only publishes literary fiction, but works in partnership with literary
journals to advance their readership at every level. Dzanc is also fully
committed to developing educational programs in schools.
For more information on
Dzanc Books and its mission, imprints, books, authors, awards, and programs,
please visit www.dzancbooks.org.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Thalia Book Club: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
The author of the critically acclaimed Half of a Yellow Sun and Purple Hibiscus presents her newest novel Americanah, a story of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria facing challenges in the countries they come to call home.
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Stories of Family, Hope, Loss, and Healing
The Spirit of the Heart by Ismael N. Nuno, M.D.
Review: As I approached this collection of stories from Dr. Nuno, I could not help but think that this is such a beautiful book that should be shared with someone you love and passed on to from friend to friend. Nuno not only tells us "stories", but he reminiscences, contemplates, and philosophizes life and death. You can tell by his passionate speaking that he must be a magnificent surgeon and a wonderful human being. This can serve as a self help manual for those who are dealing with loss and looking to "let go". Each section whether it be "Family", "Loss/Letting Go", "Healing/Connection", or "Spirit" has a little something for everyone. His personal experiences with family and colleagues are so genuine and refreshing that you feel as if you are on a journey with a long loss friend. I highly recommend this to anyone who is in the medical profession and anyone who is looking for short upbeat stories that can lift their spirits.
Biography: Doctor Nuño was born in Mexico in 1950. He received his undergraduate education at UCLA and obtained a BA in Zoology in 1972. He received his MD degree in 1976. Dr. Nuño received his training in General Surgery at UCSD and his training in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. He is certified by both the American Board of Surgery and The American Board of Thoracic Surgery. He is a member of many professional societies like The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, The American College of Cardiology, The Western Thoracic Surgical Association and The American College of Surgeons.
Doctor Nuño was in the United States Army for a period of ten years. He served as Chief of Surgery in Heidelberg, Germany and Seoul, South Korea. He was also on the teaching staff of the Uniformed Services University for the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. His duties included being adjunct surgeon for the White House in 1990. He was Deputy Commander of the 5th MASH Unit during Desert Storm in the Middle East. He left the military with the rank of Lt. Colonel.
Doctor Nuño went on to receive further training in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, Texas with Dr. Denton Cooley. He then became a member of the teaching staff at UCI before moving to Los Angeles and establishing his private Practice at Huntington Memorial Medical Center. He joined the Keck School of Medicine at USC in 1995. He is was the Chief of Cardiac Surgery at the LAC+USC Medical Center. His hospital appointments included the USC-University Hospital, Huntington Memorial Medical Center and the LAC+USC Medical Center. Dr. Nuño's expertise lies in the surgical treatment of bacterial endocarditis, the treatment of multiple valve defects, coronary artery revascularization, circulatory assist support and surgery for diseases of the aorta.
Albert Camus' "The Algerian Chronicles"
Thursday, May 9, 7PM
"Discussion of Albert Camus' Algerian Chronicles"
(First English translation by Arthur Goldhammer, Harvard University Press, 2013)
(First English translation by Arthur Goldhammer, Harvard University Press, 2013)
With Editor of the new edition
ALICE KAPLAN
and staff writer at The New Yorker ADAM GOPNIK
Harvard University Press will release the first English translation of The Algerian Chronicles this May. First published in 1958, it's a fascinating collection of Camus' writings on the issues surrounding French/ Algerian relations, as he approaches the pressing issues of poverty and corruption, terrorism and injustice, family and colonialism - with a very reflective, well researched, but also sensitive journalistic eye. The book gives us insight into the personal basis for much of Camus' political thought, and is a beautiful example of a thinker grappling with nearly impossible situations (very similar to many global situations today).
"Believe me when I tell you that Algeria is where I hurt at this moment," Camus writes, "as others feel pain in their lungs."
Alice Kaplan is the Editor of this new publication, and has written a wonderful, insightful introduction. She will be in conversation with Adam Gopnik, author and staff writer at The New Yorker.
Saturday, May 4, 2013
“Live an orchard life then pulp it for another.”
Andrew Seguin is a poet and photographer. His chapbook, Black Anecdote, is a past winner of the Poetry Society of America’s New York Chapbook Fellowship, and he is the recipient of a 2013 Emerging Poets Fellowship from Poets House. Andrew’s most recent photographic work, The Whale in the Margin, is a series of cyanotypes inspired by Moby-Dick. For more information, please visit andrewseguin.com
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