Iggy Pop and Jeff Gold: Conversation and Book Launch
Friday, November 4, at 6:00 pm
Rizzoli Bookstore
31 W. 57th St.
New York, NY
To celebrate the publication of one of the most anticipated books of the year, TOTAL CHAOS: The Story of The Stooges / As Told by Iggy Pop, Third Man Books is beyond excited to present legendary and legend-making musician Iggy Pop in conversation with author Jeff Gold. This event will be open to the public with admittance first come, first serve.
TOTAL CHAOS: The Story of The Stooges / As Told by Iggy Pop is the first time the story of this seminal band has been told entirely in Pop’s own words and features a cache of never before seen images. Pop’s candid, bare-all account is the incredible tragic and triumphant story of a group who rose from youth, fell prey to drugs, alcohol, and music business realities, collapsed and nearly 30 years later reformed, recording and touring to great acclaim. In 2010 The Stooges—credited with having invented punk rock—were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Their continuing influence can be felt today in the shape and sound of rock-n-roll music.
Admission is free.
Conversations & Readings: 21st Century Latin American Women Writers
Friday, November 4, at 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave
New York, NY
The PhD Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages at the Graduate Center, CUNY, presents two events this fall that recognize the growing number of publications by Latin American women writers. The program will host readings and conversations with writers whose work in Spanish and English challenges critical and literary assumptions. The events will be held in an informal, bilingual format, and will be free and open to the public.
Admission is free.
Europe and America in the Black Literary Imagination
Saturday, November 5, at 5:00 pm
Albertine
972 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10075
This panel will look at how black authors on both sides of the ocean have engaged the country and culture on the other side. Is France an escape for black authors? Is America the land of individual expression and opportunity? After the Second World War, prominent African-American authors such as Richard Wright, James Baldwin and Chester Himes made Paris their home. French authors have themselves long been fascinated by the United States, and New York in particular. This common interest has fed many authors’ writing, both thematically and stylistically. The essayists and novelist Laurent Dubois, Maboula Soumahoro, Darryl Pinckney and Scholastique Mukasonga will reflect on this mutual fascination and ponder how it has impacted their own work and influenced literature more broadly. But how substantive is this connection—is it myth or reality?
Admission is free.
Norman Finkelstein on “The Ratio of Reason to Magic”
Monday, November 7 at 7pm
536 W 112th St
New York, NY
Drawn from nine earlier volumes—nearly forty years of poetry—The Ratio of Reason to Magic provides a rich selection of the work of Norman Finkelstein, whom Lawrence Joseph has called “a master poet writing out and out of our collective poesis.” It also includes the opening movement of Finkelstein’s new serial poem, From the Files of the Immanent Foundation. Equally attuned to the Objectivist tradition and the latter-day romanticism of the New American poetry, steeped in Kabbalah and Gnosticism, Finkelstein’s utopian vision may be seen here to its fullest extent.
Admission is free.