October 8- Author Event Caitlin Doughty
Strand’s 3rd floor Rare Book Room
828 Broadway at 12th Street
Time: 7:00 pm-8:00 pm
Join Caitlin Doughty, mortician, blogger, and author, to celebrate the paperback release of her hit book, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory. Caitlin is the creator and curator of The Order of The Good Death, a group of fellow morticians as well as artists and intellectuals that investigates our “death phobic culture” and strives to demystify the inevitable end. From funerary rites throughout history to jewelry of hair and bone, follow your guide down into the world of the macabre and mortified–without leaving the Rare Book Room.
Buy a copy of Smoke Gets In Your Eyes or a $15 gift card in order to attend this event. Please note that payment is required for all online event orders at the time of checkout. The event will be located in the Strand’s 3rd floor Rare Book Room at our store at 828 Broadway at 12th Street
For more information click here.
October 9- Book Launch: Upright Beasts by Lincoln Michel in conversation with Porochista Khakpour, co-hosted by Electric Literature and Coffee House Press
The Powerhouse Arena [Dumbo]
37 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Genre-bending stories of bestial transformation, accidental murder, erotically-challenged dictatorship, and other tales of darkness, absurdity, and confusion. Author Porochista Khakpour joins in conversation, and illustrator John Dermot Woods will draw beastly caricatures for guests! Beer will be generously provided by our co-host, Electric Literature.
– See more at: https://www.powerhousearena.com/events/book-launch-upright-beasts-by-lincoln-michel/#sthash.DqV4BPUQ.dpuf
October 12- Sasha Abramsky + Robin Blackburn
Strand’s 3rd floor Rare Book Room
828 Broadway at 12th Street
Time: 7:00 pm-8:00 pm
After chronicling The American Way of Poverty and writing on politics at home and abroad for the New Yorker, Atlantic, Village Voice, and many others, Sasha Abramsky turns his keen eye on his own grandfather in The House of Twenty Thousand Books. A Jewish historian, a socialist, a collector (hence the pentadactylic hoard of the title), Chimen Abramsky’s long life in the short twentieth century (and into the twenty-first) is vividly chronicled and analyzed by Sasha in this tale of a lost leftist.
Sasha will be joined in conversation by Robin Blackburn, former editor of the New Left Review and professor at the New School and the University of Essex.
Buy a copy of The House of Twenty Thousand Books or a $15 gift card in order to attend this event. Please note that payment is required for all online event orders at the time of checkout. The event will be located in the Strand’s 3rd floor Rare Book Room at our store at 828 Broadway at 12th Street.
October 13-The Moth StorySLAM
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
126 Crosby Street New York, NY 10012
Time: 7:00 pm
Cost: $8 online
10 stories, 3 teams of judges, 1 winner. This event always sells out. Please see themoth.org/events.
Please note – new Moth StorySLAM ticketing policy as of August 2015:
- ALL NYC StorySLAM tickets (Premium AND General Admission, for all events) are be available for online, pre-event purchase. Tickets go live 1 week before the show at 3pm EDT, unless otherwise noted.
- Limited seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
- If online tickets have not sold out or space becomes available for sold-out shows, standby tickets will be sold cash-only at the door. To check if tickets are available at the door, please see themoth.org/events and click “Buy Tickets” for the SLAM event you wish to attend.
- Please plan to arrive early and join the line outside the bookstore, south toward Prince Street.
- This event always sells out. Standing in line does not guarantee entry. We do our absolute best to monitor the line and let people know if they might be past our capacity.
- Housing Works does not sell any pre-sale tickets to this event.
October 14- Humans of New York – Stories
Barnes and Noble Union Square
33 East 17th Street
New York, NY 10003
Time: 6:00 pm
Special Instructions:
Must provide proof of purchase from a Barnes & Noble retail location or BN.com to receive a wristband. Brandon will sign previous HONY titles with purchase of the new book. He will personalize with a name only and he will pose for photos.