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From the author of The Highest Tide
Tuesday July 7, 7 PM: Ron Currie Jr., author of Everything Matters!, will read tomorrow at the 82nd Street Barnes and Noble. This Amazon pick for June poses the question, what would happen to a baby boy born with the knowledge of the exact date of the end of the world? Junior Thibodeau, informed about the future by an all-knowing voice, struggles to find meaning in an expiring world. Janet Maslin has said "Mr. Currie is a startlingly talented writer whose book will pay no heed to ordinary narrative conventions."
Tuesday July 7, 7 PM: Katha Pollitt has recently garnered attention for her essays and articles, but she's been a poet all along, praised by the likes of Kay Ryan and Billy Collins. She'll read from her new volume of poetry, The Mind-Body Problem at BookCourt tomorrow night. For her thoughts on the state of modern poetry and her favorite poetry books of all time, check out what she's been writing for wowowow.com.
Wednesday July 8, 12:30 PM: Spend your lunch break on Wednesday at the Bryant Park Reading Room for a panel discussion on the Writers of New York. Moderated by Thomas Beller, the conversation will cover all aspects of choosing New York as an artistic subject. The authors involved are all wonderful: Jonathan Ames (author of The Double Life Is Twice as Good), Alice Mattison (author of Nothing is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn), Colum McCann (author of Let the Great World Spin), and Joseph O'Neill (author of Netherland). The weather looks good for Wednesday - don't miss this one!
Wednesday July 8, 7 PM: Border Songs is the much-awaited new novel from Jim Lynch, author of the best-selling The Highest Tide. This latest work takes on the somewhat unusual topic of the US/Canadian border and the variety of life found on either side. Lynch has said of the border, "It feels arbitrary and, in many ways, nonsensical, which is probably an apt description for most of the borders we erect between each other and between generations, eras and places." He will read from the novel at McNally Jackson tomorrow night.
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