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The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2007
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STRAND FAMILY HOUR EVENT!
May 17
03:00PM - 04:00PM
For children of all ages and their caregivers...
Charise Mericle Harper will read from her new book, Good Night, Leo; A Swashbuckling Bedtime Adventure. In this clever cut-out board book, Leo removes each piece of pirate garb, to get ready for bed, while readers witness Leo's teddy bear slowly transforming into a pirate himself!
This charming bedtime storybook also teaches colors and object identification as each spread shows everyday objects in their natural color.
Pirate fans everywhere are in for a special swashbuckling bedtime treat!
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Stefan Sagmeister, The Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far
May 19
07:00PM - 08:30PM
Astonishingly, Stefan Sagmeister, one of the most influential graphic designers in the world today, has only learned twenty or so things in his life so far. But he did manage to publish these personal maxims all over the world, in spaces normally occupied by advertisements and promotions: as billboards, projections, light-boxes, magazine spreads, annual report covers, fashion brochures, and, recently, as giant inflatable monkeys. In this presentation Sagmeister throws his diary, a lot of design, and a little art together with a pinch of psychology and a dash of happiness into a blender and pushes the button.
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Leonard S. Marcus, Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature
May 20
07:00PM - 08:30PM
From The New England Primer to The Cat in the Hat to Cormier's The Chocolate War and the phenomenon that is Harry Potter, Marcus, in this animated first-time history, offers a richly informed, witty appraisal of the pivotal books that transformed children's book publishing and brings alive the revealing synergy between books like these and the national mood of their times.
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Walter Mosley and Mike Farrell in Conversation
May 27
07:00PM - 08:30PM
The Nation, The Center for Constitutional Rights and Akashic Books present a dialogue between best-selling author Walter Mosley and television star Mike Farrell ("M*A*S*H," "Desperate Housewives"). With the 2008 presidential election looming, Mosley and Farrell will discuss literature, human rights, American politics... and their new books, The Tempest Tales and Just Call Me Mike: A Journey to Actor and Activist, respectively. The discussion will be moderated by Michael Ratner, adjunct professor of law at Columbia University and president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a non-profit human rights litigation organization based in NYC.
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Sean Wilentz, The Age of Reagan; A History 1974-2008
May 29
07:00PM - 08:30PM
One of the nation's leading historians offers a groundbreaking and provocative chronicle of America's political history since the fall of Nixon. Distinguished Princeton professor Wilentz-winner of a Bancroft Prize for The Rise of American Democracy-makes an eloquent and compelling case for America's Right as the defining factor shaping the country's political history over the past 35 years.
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David Sirota, The Uprising; An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington
June 3
07:00PM - 08:30PM
David Sirota, the political organizer, syndicated columnist and New York Times best-selling author of Hostile Takeover, traveled the country for a year, witnessing firsthand the growing public unrest caused by the take-over of our government by Big Money. Sirota reports on this seething popular discontent on both the Right and Left, which is creating a new political movement.
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Lynda Barry, What It Is
June 4
07:00PM - 08:30PM
How do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? For decades, these types of questions have permeated the pages of Lynda Barry's compositions, with words attracting pictures and conjuring places through a pen that first and foremost keeps on moving. Composed of completely new material, each page of Barry's first Drawn & Quarterly book is a full-color collage that is not only a gentle guide to this process but an invigorating example of exactly what it is: "The ordinary is extraordinary."
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Peter Schjeldahl, Let's See; Writings on Art from The New Yorker
June 10
07:00PM - 08:30PM
Since his inimitable essays began appearing in The New Yorker in 1998, Peter Schjedahl has become one of the most influential writers on art. This engaging volume brings together for the first time seventy-five of Schjeldahl's pieces for The New Yorker, covering subjects drawn from a broad canvas of the history of art, from ancient Greece to Rembrandt to John Currin.
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Matthew Yglesias, Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats
June 12
07:00PM - 08:30PM
In Heads in the Sand, fast-rising political observer and commentator Matthew Yglesias reveals the wrong-headed foreign policy stance of conservatives, neocons, and the Republican Party for what it is-aggressive nationalism, or, to be impolite, a new version of old-fashioned imperialism.
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Simon Winchester, The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
June 17
07:00PM - 08:30PM
In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa, brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China, long the world's most technologically advanced country. The Man Who Loved China is an unforgettable tale of what makes men, nations and, indeed, mankind itself great--related by one of the world's inimitable storytellers.
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Photographer Bill Owens
June 24
07:00PM - 08:30PM
California photographer Bill Owens is best known for his critically acclaimed series Suburbia, which was published as a monograph in 1972, and has long been considered one of the classic photo books of the era. For this influential and evocative project, Owens simply shot friends and acquaintances in his Livermore, California, neighborhood and allowed them to speak for themselves. Ordinary people had rarely been so riveting. A comprehensive monograph, this volume consists of several sections of work from 1969 to the present, opening at the height of flower power, with images of the Beat generation, Woodstock and the protests against Vietnam.
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Richard Hell & Christopher Wool In Conversation
June 25
07:00PM - 08:30PM
Richard Hell is a musician know for his image and his facility with words; Christopher Wool is a painter who first became famous for his words. The two are friends and they have collaborated on the creation of a series of gorgeous word images. These provocative, funny pictures comprise the content of their beautifully designed and printed new book, Psychopts. Barry Schwabsky, a poet and a frequent writer on art for The Nation and co-editor of Artforum's international review section, will moderate a discussion with the artists.
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Eric Roston & Jeffrey Kluger: A Mutual Interview
July 24
07:00PM - 08:30PM
Former TIME journalist Eric Roston and current TIME senior editor Jeffrey Kluger explore how new science is shattering old (and sometimes ancient) ways of thinking about the world. Roston's The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat unifies far-flung parts of our experience, "following the carbon" through its earthy, living and industrial cycles. In Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple), Kluger--author of Apollo 13--illustrates how the new science of simplexity challenges common intuition about how the world works, teasing out nature's beautiful logic.
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Thurston Moore & Byron Coley, No Wave; Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980
July 30
07:00PM - 08:30PM
No Wave is the first book to visually chronicle the collision of art and punk in the New York underground punk rock, new wave, experimental music of 1976 to 1980. Musicians, writers, and archivists Thurston Moore and Byron Coley have selected 150 unforgettable images, most of which have never been published and compiled hundreds of hours of personal interviews into an oral history for this exploration and celebration of No Wave. "Moore and Coley wade into the mire that was No Wave and pull all kinds of order into it, if that could be possible. I've never been part of a scene, though if I were I might have opted for this one" (David Bowie). Moore and Coley will talk about this era and share some of this collection with us.
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