Posts tagged “new york city”
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Noam Chomsky at Riverside Church
June 12, 2009
June 12, 7pm, Riverside Church south of Washington Square in Manhattan. For more information, take a look at the Riverside Church website here.
Tags: 9-11, Authors, discussion, government in the future, manhattan, media control, new york city, noam chomsky, riverside church
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Joel Berg at the Milagro Theatre in New York City
June 6, 2009
Saturday, June 6, 8:00 PM at the Milagro Theatre, 107 Suffolk Street, New York City. Tickets are $20, $15 for students and seniors. Joel will be speaking after the play Give Us Bread: The Food Riot Project, conceived and directed…
Tags: All You Can Eat, anthropologists, Authors, Joel Berg, melissa fendell moschitto, milagro theatre, new york city, plays
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Barry Gifford + Wild at Heart screening at The Bushwick Starr
June 3, 2009
Barry Gifford will be reading from his newest work, Imagination of the Heart, at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn. The reading will be followed by a screening of David Lynch’s adaptation of Gifford’s novel Wild at Heart. June 3rd, 7:30p,…
Tags: Authors, barry gifford, brooklyn, bushwick starr, films, imagination of the heart, new york city, readings, wild at heart
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John Talbott at Barnes and Noble in NYC
June 3, 2009
June 3, 6:00 PM, Barnes and Noble, 555 Fifth Avenue between 45th and 46th Street, New York City.
Tags: 86 biggest lies on wall street, Authors, barnes and noble, john r talbott, new york city, q&a, readings, signings
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BookExpo America 2009 in New York City
May 28, 2009
May 28-31 at the Jacob Javits Center, 655 West 34th Street, New York, N.Y. 10001. For more information, see http://www.bookexpoamerica.com/.
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Life imitates art: secret meeting of the superrich in New York City
May 26, 2009
John R. Talbott is no longer the only oracle in the Seven Stories authorial stable. Ralph Nader, author of the upcoming fictional utopia, “Only the Superrich Can Save Us”, successfully predicted the secret meeting of the superrich that took place at Rockefeller University in New York City on May 5th—which eerily resembles the plot of Nader’s first work of fiction.
Tags: bill gates, clandestine meeting, life imitates art, msnbc, new york city, only the superrich can save us, oprah winfrey, philanthrophy, ralph nader, rockefeller university, ted turner, warren buffett
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Howard Zinn on Democracy Now
May 13, 2009
Howard Zinn—author with Rebecca Stefoff of A Young People’s History of the United States, now updated and in paperback, plus many other books—appeared this morning on Democracy Now to discuss, among other things: Barack Obama, the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr, his new book with Seven Stories, the Voices of a People’s History project, and his appearance tonight at the 92nd Street Y in New York. Take a look below.
Tags: 92nd street y, Authors, howard zinn, interviews, new york city, readings, rebecca stefoff, television, voices of a people's history, voices of a people's history of the united states, young people's history of the united states
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Hwang Sok-Yong at Readings From Around the Globe, 92nd Street Y, New York
May 1, 2009
May 1, 7:30pm, 92nd Street Y, Unterberg Poetry Center, 1395 Lexington Avenue, New York.
Featuring Bernardo Atxaga (Spain), Petina Gappah (Zimbabwe), Mariken Jongman (Netherlands), Michael Ondaatje (Sri Lanka/Canada), Daniel Sada (Mexico), Hwang Sok-yong (Korea), Antonio Tabucchi (Italy), and Colm Tóibín (Ireland).
Tickets…
Tags: 92nd street y, hwang sok-yong, new york city, old garden, pen voices, readings
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Hwang Sok-Yong at Defiance: The Spirit of ‘89 in New York City
April 30, 2009
April 30, 9pm, Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, New York City.
Participants: Eszter Babarczy, Jose Dalisay, Nick Flynn, Sergio Ramírez, Hwang Sok-yong, János Térey, and Paul Verhaeghen. Co-sponsored by the ACLU and Joe’s Pub.
June 5, 1989: an unidentified man faces down…
Tags: aclu, hwang sok-yong, joe's pub, new york city, old garden, pen voices, readings, tianamen square
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Hwang Sok-Yong at Prison Deform in New York City
April 29, 2009
April 29, 6-7:30pm, Martin E. Segal Theater, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
Participants: Jose Dalisay, Hwang Sok-yong, Khet Mar, and Susan Rosenberg. Moderated by Jackson Taylor.
Even for those with a limited sentence, the deforming pressure of incarceration…
Tags: Authors, cuny, hwang sok-yong, interviews, new york city, old garden, pen voices, prisons
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Gary Null on Food/Mood Relations at PS/IS 266
April 22, 2009
April 22, 7:30pm, PS/IS 266 in New York City. Free Admission, registration required. For more information, check here.
Tags: be a healthy woman, discussion, food-mood connection, gary null, new york city, seminar
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Left Forum 2009: Erna Paris, David Swanson, Minky Worden
April 18, 2009
April 18, 3-5pm, Left Forum 2009, Pace University (across from City Hall), One Pace Plaza, New York, NY 10038. http://www.leftforum.org/. For more information, click below.
Tags: Authors, china's great leap, david swanson, daybreak, erna paris, left forum, minky worden, new york city, pace university, panels, sun climbs slow
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New York City Anarchist Book Fair
April 11, 2009
April 11, 11am - 8pm, Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South btw. Thompson and Sullivan Streets, New York City. For more details, see http://anarchistbookfair.net/.
Tags: anarchist book fair, judson memorial church, new york city
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Octavia Butler Project at the Brecht Forum
March 25, 2009
March 25, 7-9pm, Brecht Forum, 451 West Street (Between Bank and Bethune), Brooklyn NY. Sliding fee from $6-15.
Tags: brecht forum, brooklyn, discussion, new york city, octavia butler, parable of the talents
“new york city” Posts
- May 28, BookExpo America 2009 in New York City
- May 26, Life imitates art: secret meeting of the superrich in New York City
- May 1, Hwang Sok-Yong at Readings From Around the Globe, 92nd Street Y, New York
- Apr 30, Hwang Sok-Yong at Defiance: The Spirit of ‘89 in New York City
- Apr 22, Gary Null on Food/Mood Relations at PS/IS 266
- Apr 11, New York City Anarchist Book Fair
- Mar 25, Octavia Butler Project at the Brecht Forum
