January 31, 2012
wwnorton:

MCNALLY JACKSON PRESENTS: 
Andre Dubus III in conversation with John Burnham Schwartz Friday, Feb. 3 at 7PM 52 Prince Street, New York, NY
”’Townie’ is the story of how Dubus made the journey to his own writer’s life, and also of how he almost didn’t make it. Unsparing and occasionally brutal, but never bitter, it’s an exceptionally eloquent depiction of something many Americans have experienced in the past three years: what it feels like to be left behind.” —Laura Miller, Salon
Enter to win a free copy of Townie in paperback from Goodreads.

wwnorton:

MCNALLY JACKSON PRESENTS: 

Andre Dubus III in conversation with John Burnham Schwartz
Friday, Feb. 3 at 7PM
52 Prince Street, New York, NY

”’Townie’ is the story of how Dubus made the journey to his own writer’s life, and also of how he almost didn’t make it. Unsparing and occasionally brutal, but never bitter, it’s an exceptionally eloquent depiction of something many Americans have experienced in the past three years: what it feels like to be left behind.” —Laura Miller, Salon

Enter to win a free copy of Townie in paperback from Goodreads.

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January 31, 2012
"When Jezebel launched in spring 2007, I myself was keenly interested in being a woman. I was 20 years old: being a woman was a relatively recent development, and I was curious about the ways it could be done. And I had always enjoyed reading about being a girl."

— While we’re closed, we recommend this piece by Molly Fischer on the ladyblogosphere over at n+1: So Many Feelings

January 31, 2012
Today is Inventory Day

And we are closed. Read the books you already own, browse some ebooks, and, today only, you have our blessing to go to Housing Works.

January 30, 2012
thenotes:

Like to browse before you buy? Drop into McNally Jackson.

thenotes:

Like to browse before you buy? Drop into McNally Jackson.

January 30, 2012

Your week at McNally Jackson:

Tonight!: The Bridge is an ongoing (and by “ongoing” I mean it rules and it’s ongoing) series devoted to literature in translation. Tonight we’ll have Jonathan Cohen and Daniel Borzutzky. Cohen recently put together Word of Mouth, a collection of William Carlos Williams’ (or Bill Carlos Bill, as his friends knew him) translations from the Spanish, and Burzutzky has translated a number of Chileans.

Tomorrow: We will be closed so we can count all the books in the store. Literally every book.

Thursday: Shalom “Lana Del Rey:Lips::Shalom Auslander:Hair” Auslander (catchy nickname, no?) will be talking to the redoubtable Jessa Crispin of Bookslut about Hope: A Tragedy.

Friday: First, read this profile of Andre Dubus III. Then come hear him talk to John Burnham Schwartz about Townie. Easy.

January 28, 2012
Porridge

thedizzies:

General Liddament pondered this assertion for some seconds in resentful silence. He seemed to be considering porridge in all its aspects, bad as well as good. At last he came out with an unequivocal moral judgment.

“There ought to be porridge,” he said.


January 27, 2012
Hard to imagine a better book for a rainy January. (This weather: all the discomfort of winter, none of the snowy beauty.)

Hard to imagine a better book for a rainy January. (This weather: all the discomfort of winter, none of the snowy beauty.)

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January 27, 2012
Weekend New Book Round-Up

Books: We have them. You want them. Sometimes. Now is one of those times, because I am about to tell you what’s new and good.

In paperback:

In hardcover:

  • Life Sentences: Cranky old Gass’ baroque sentences are still the funnest to read, even when they don’t make all the sense.
  • The Flame Alphabet: We’ve got signed copies of this, about language plague.
  • Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty: Deb Olin Unferth, whom I trust, says that “Each page is like throwing open the window in an electrical storm—strange sky, air full of voltage, and inside, a square of brave.”

January 24, 2012
Robert Walser’s Berlin Stories

nyrbclassics:

Today is the publication date for Robert Walser’s Berlin Stories, a collection of his early stories set in Berlin where he followed his elder brother in 1905, all in original translations by Susan Bernofsky. We thought we’d share the first story in the book, titled “Good Morning, Giantess!”:

It’s as if a giantess were shaking her curls and sticking one leg out of bed when—early in the morning, before even the electric trams are running, and driven by some duty or other—you venture out into the metropolis. Cold and white the streets lie there, like outstretched human arms; you trot along, rubbing your hands, and watch people coming out of the gates and doorways of their buildings, as though some impatient monster were spewing out warm, flaming saliva. You encounter eyes as you walk along like this: girls’ eyes and the eyes of men, mirthless and gay; legs are trotting behind and before you, and you too are legging along as best you can, gazing with your own eyes, glancing the same glances as everyone else. And each breast bears some somnolent secret, each head is haunted by some melancholy or inspiring thought. Splendid, splendid.

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January 23, 2012

Your week at McNally Jackson:

Tonight! 7pm: Ben Marcus—author of Flame Alphabet—talks to John Freeman of Granta. As my cotweeter Dustin cotweeted this morning, “Ben Marcus wrote a book about spoken words making people ill and then expects you to come to his reading here tonight.” Heyo!

Also tonight! At the Crosby Street Hotel!: Roy Blount Jr. talks about the brothers Marx and screens their great Duck Soup. Is it too late for tickets? I don’t know! You should call the hotel: 212-226-6400.

Tuesday, 7pm: Susan Cain wrote a book about introverts, and I’d tell you about it, but I have to go into this room alone to pretend to be a monk and quietly keep to myself. She’ll be talking—audibly, hopefully—to Naomi Wolf.

Thursday, 7pm: Liz Moore will be here to discuss Heft, her new novel about a very large man in Brooklyn, with Mary Gordon. 

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