Greenlight Bookstore's March Event Schedule Features Eclectic Mix Of Authors

FORT GREENE, BROOKLYN — Greenlight Bookstore released its March schedule on Monday, which includes an eclectic mix of fiction, philosophy, memoir and social and cultural studies. The bookstore has two locations: One in Fort Greene at 686 Fulton St. and one in Prospect Lefferts Gardens at 632 Flatbush Ave.

The schedule is as follows:

All in-store events are free and open to the public unless otherwise indicated; offsite events may be ticketed on a case-by-case basis. Updated event information is available on our website; all events are listed on the events calendar. For regular updates about upcoming events, please sign up for our email list.

Details for Story Time and other children’s programming at Greenlight Bookstore in March will be announced in a separate press release.

Prospect Lefferts Gardens Store:
Thursday, March 2, 7:30 PM
SHELTER Speaker Series featuring Sady Doyle, Perry Baron Huntoon, and Peter Moskowitz
SHELTER is a speaker series bringing different ideas together under one roof. Each month, three speakers from different disciplines enter into conversation about what is most urgent or overlooked in their work. Greenlight is honored to host the March edition of SHELTER, featuring Sady Doyle, the author of Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear . . . And Why, which The Atlantic declared "will likely join the feminist canon"; Perry Baron Huntoon, a visual artist and creator of the ongoing art project “How I Feel Today"; and journalist Peter Moskowitz, a former staff writer for Al Jazeera America, and the author of How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood. Together, these three speakers offer divergent perspectives on surviving and thriving in America today.

http://www.shelterprojects.net...

Fort Greene Store:
Tuesday, March 7, 7:30 PM
Book launch: Mohsin Hamid presents Exit West
Wine reception to follow
Acclaimed novelist Mohsin Hamid (How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia) returns to Greenlight to launch his newest politically astute and structurally fantastical work. In a city on the brink of civil war, two young people just embarking on a furtive love affair begin to hear whispers about doors—doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. Named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by Time Magazine, The New York Times, Washington Post and The Huffington Post, Exit West is a love story that unfolds across the rapidly changing face of a volatile world. Hamid discusses his work at Greenlight, followed by a wine reception to celebrate the book’s launch.

http://www.mohsinhamid.com/

Prospect Lefferts Gardens store:
Wednesday, March 8, 7:30 PM
PLG Nonfiction Book Group discusses The Last Holiday
Led by PLG store manager Geo, our nonfiction book group in PLG reads and discusses the most fascinating topics in nonfiction, both classic and contemporary, with seasonal themes covering a variety of genres. For March, the book group reads The Last Holiday by Gil Scott-Heron: a memoir that offers remarkable glimpse into Scott-Heron's life and times, from his humble beginnings to becoming one of the most influential artists of his generation. A fitting testament to the achievements of an extraordinary man, The Last Holiday provides a moving portrait of Scott-Heron's relationship with his mother, personal recollections of Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, Clive Davis, and other musical figures, and a compelling narrative vehicle for Scott-Heron's insights into the music industry, the civil rights movement, governmental hypocrisy, and our wider place in the world. The Last Holiday confirms Scott-Heron as a fearless truth-teller, a powerful artist, and an inspiring observer of his times.

Current book group picks are always 15% off at Greenlight, in the store or online.

Prospect Lefferts Gardens Store:
Thursday, March 9, 7:30 PM
Jami Attenberg presents All Grown Up
In conversation with Helen Atsma
Jami Attenberg (The Middlesteins) returns to Greenlight to present her highly anticipated new novel All Grown Up. Presented in a series of gut-wrenchingly honest, mordantly comic vignettes, the novel tells the stories of a thirty-nine-year-old single, childfree woman who defies convention as she seeks connection. Stefan Merrill Block writes, “All Grown Up is one of those rare books in which an author’s unique sensibility meets with the story she was born to tell. This fractured, soulful portrait of a determinedly independent woman is vital reading for women and men alike.” Attenberg discusses her work with her editor Helen Atsma, Editorial Director of Fiction at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

http://www.jamiattenberg.com/

Prospect Lefferts Gardens Store:
Monday, March 13, 7:30 PM
Peter Heller presents Celine
In conversation with Emily St. John Mandel
Peter Heller is the author of the bestselling novels The Dog Stars and The Painter, as well as an award-winning adventure writer and the author of several nonfiction books. His newest novel Celine is a luminous, masterful novel of suspense: the story of an elegant, aristocratic private eye – based on Heller’s own mother – who specializes in reuniting families, trying to make amends for a loss in her own past. Heller discusses his work with Emily St. John Mandel, author of the national bestseller Station Eleven.

http://www.peterheller.net/
http://www.emilymandel.com/

Offsite:
Tuesday, March 14, 7:30 PM
Fort Greene Nonfiction Book Group discusses Walking with Abel
At Greene Grape Annex
Led by Greenlight bookseller Nick, our nonfiction book group in Fort Greene reads and discusses the most fascinating topics in nonfiction, both classic and contemporary, with seasonal themes covering a variety of genres. For March, the book group reads Walking with Abel by Anna Badkhen. Badkhen has forged a career chronicling life in extremis around the world, from war-torn Afghanistan to the border regions of the American Southwest. In Walking with Abel, she embeds herself with a family of Fulani cowboys—nomadic herders in Mali’s Sahel grasslands—as they embark on their annual migration across the savanna. It’s a cycle that connects the Fulani to their past even as their present is increasingly under threat—from Islamic militants, climate change, and the ever-encroaching urbanization that lures away their young. As they cross the Sahel, the savanna belt that stretches from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic, they accompany themselves with Fulani music they download to their cell phones and tales of herders and hustlers, griots and holy men, infused with the myths the Fulani tell themselves to ground their past, make sense of their identity, and safeguard their—our—future.

Greene Grape Annex is located at 753 Fulton Street, across the street from the bookstore. Current book group picks are always 15% off at Greenlight, in the store or online.

Fort Greene Store:
Tuesday, March 14, 7:30 PM
Book Launch: Hari Kunzru presents White Tears
In conversation with Lisa Lucas
Wine reception to follow
Greenlight’s neighbor Hari Kunzru (The Impressionist, Gods Without Men) is widely regarded as one of the most talented fiction writers at work today. His new novel White Tears is the story of two ambitious young musicians who are drawn into the dark underworld of blues record collecting, haunted by a suppressed history of greed, envy, revenge, and exploitation. A ghost story, a murder mystery, a meditation on race, and a love letter to all the forgotten geniuses of American music, Kunzru’s novel brings the secret music of our past and present to life. Kunzru discusses his work with Lisa Lucas, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation.

http://www.harikunzru.com/

Prospect Lefferts Gardens Store:
Tuesday, March 14, 7:30 PM
Book launch: Deepak Unnikrishnan presents Temporary People
In conversation with Mia Alvar
Greenlight joins Brooklyn publisher Restless Books in celebrating the publication of Deepak Unnikrishnan's debut novel Temporary People. The winner of the first Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Temporary People takes on the humanitarian crisis of the so-called "guest workers" of the Gulf with visionary flair; a starred review in Kirkus hails it as "an enchanting, unparalleled anthem of displacement and repatriation." Unnikrishnan discusses his work with fellow immigrant author Mia Alvar, whose debut collection of stories In the Country won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, among other honors. A wine reception follows to celebrate the book’s launch.

http://www.restlessbooks.com/
https://miaalvar.com/

Prospect Lefferts Gardens store:
Wednesday, March 15, 7:30 PM
PLG Fiction Book Group discusses Capital
Led by Greenlight general manager Alexis, our fiction book group in Prospect Lefferts Gardens discusses paperback fiction, reading broadly in contemporary fiction with the occasional diversion into classics. For March, the group reads and discusses Capital by John Lanchester, an epic novel that captures the obsessions of our time. It's 2008 and things are falling apart: Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers are going under, and the residents of Pepys Road, London are receiving anonymous postcards reading We Want What You Have. Who is behind it? What do they want? Epic in scope yet intimate, capturing the ordinary dramas of very different lives, this is a novel of love and suspicion, of financial collapse and terrorist threat, of property values going up and fortunes going down, and of a city at a moment of extraordinary tension.

Current book group picks are always 15% off at Greenlight, in the store or online.

Fort Greene Store:
Thursday, March 16, 7:30 PM
Michael Finkel presents The Stranger in The Woods
Lena Friedrich presents The Hermit
Reading, discussion & visual presentation
The dream of escaping modern life is a common one, but the story of a man who seriously attempted to do so turns out to be strange, illuminating, and full of ironies. Author Michael Finkel and filmmaker Lena Friedrich have both chronicled the remarkable true story of Christopher Knight, a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years, surviving by stealing food and supplies from nearby homes. Both the book The Stranger in the Woods and the film The Hermit ask fundamental questions about solitude and community, and together offer a portrait of a man who was determined to live his own way, as well as those who were affected by his decisions. Finkel presents his book along with a screening of Friedrich’s film at this evening’s event, followed by a discussion with the audience and a book signing.

http://www.thehermitdoc.com/

Prospect Lefferts Gardens Store:
Thursday, March 16, 7:30 PM
Jim Shepard presents The World to Come
In conversation with Joshua Ferris
Beloved author and teacher Jim Shepard, called “the most ambitious story writer in America,” (Daily Beast), returns to Greenlight to present his fifth story collection The World To Come, which spans borders and centuries with unrivaled mastery. In each story the personal is the political as these characters face everything from the emotional pitfalls of everyday life to historic catastrophes on a global scale, and Shepard makes each of these wildly various worlds his own. Shepard discusses his work with author Joshua Ferris, his former student and author of the novels Then We Came to the End, The Unnamed and To Rise Again at a Decent Hour.

https://jimshepard.wordpress.c...
http://www.joshuaferris.com/

Fort Greene Store:
Monday, March 20, 7:30 PM
Book launch: Joselin Linder presents The Family Gene
In conversation with Kate Tellers
Wine reception to follow
New York Post writer and This American Life contributor Joselin Linder’s new memoir The Family Gene chronicles her discovery that her family is the only one to carry a new genetic disease- and that she may be the next carrier. A compelling story of survival and perseverance, The Family Gene an important story of a young woman reckoning with her father’s death, her own mortality, and her ethical obligations to herself, her family, and society. Linder discusses her book with The Moth Senior Producer Kate Tellers, a regular StorySLAM host and contributor to the Moth Radio Hour. A book signing and reception follows the discussion.

Prospect Lefferts Gardens store:
Monday, March 20, 7:30 PM
Elena Passarello presents Animals Strike Curious Poses
In conversation with Rachel Syme
Whiting Award-winning author Elena Passarello, author previously of Let Me Clear My Throat, has been called “one of the best, most important, and most exciting essayists of the 21st century” (Matthew Gavin Frank) and “one our country’s most gifted young prose writers” (Héctor Tobar). Her new book Animals Strike Curious Poses is modeled loosely after a medieval bestiary, with sixteen essays each investigating a different famous animal named and immortalized by humans, traversing history, myth, science, and more. Passarello discusses her work with critic and essayist Rachel Syme.

http://www.rachelsyme.com/

Offsite:
Tuesday, March 21, 7:30 PM
Fort Greene Fiction Book Group discusses The Namesake
At Greene Grape Annex
Led by Greenlight general manager Alexis, our fiction book group in Fort Greene discusses paperback fiction, reading broadly in contemporary fiction with the occasional diversion into classics. For March, the group reads and discusses The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, which deals with the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations. In the story of second generation Indian American Gogol Ganguli, Lahiri reveals not only the defining power of the names and expectations bestowed upon us by our parents, but also the means by which we slowly, sometimes painfully, come to define ourselves.

Greene Grape Annex is located at 753 Fulton Street, across the street from the bookstore. Current book group picks are always 15% off at Greenlight, in the store or online.

Fort Greene Store:
Tuesday, March 21, 7:30 PM
George Prochnik presents Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem
In conversation with Jia Tolentino
Acclaimed biographer of Stefan Zweig (and Greenlight neighbor) George Prochnik returns to Greenlight to present his compelling new biography of the esteemed Kabbalistic scholar and self-described “religious anarchist” Gershom Scholem. Relying on equal parts history and mythos, Stranger in a Strange Land follows Scholem on his path from Berlin to Israel, from socialism to Zionism, skillfully bringing to life a long-overlooked but indispensable intellectual and religious figure and adding new depth to our understanding of Scholem’s story and influence, the birth of Israel, Palestine, and the evolution of humanist thought. Prochnik discusses his work with essayist Jia Tolentino, a contributing writer for newyorker.com.

Prospect Lefferts Gardens store:
Wednesday, March 22, 5:30 PM
PLG Young Readers Book Group discusses The Great Greene Heist
Led by Greenlight receiving manager Grace, our young readers book group in Prospect Lefferts Gardens is geared toward kids ages 9 to 12, and reads great contemporary and classic chapter books. Parents are welcome (but not required) to attend, and pizza is served. For March, the group discusses The Great Greene Heist by Varian Johnson. Jackson Greene swears he's given up scheming. Then school bully Keith Sinclair announces he's running for Student Council president, against Jackson's former friend Gaby de la Cruz. Gaby wants Jackson to stay out of it -- but he knows Keith has "connections" to the principal, which could win him the presidency no matter the vote count. So Jackson assembles a crack team: Hashemi Larijani, tech genius. Victor Cho, bankroll. Megan Feldman, science goddess. Charlie de la Cruz, reporter. Together they devise a plan that will take down Keith, win Gaby's respect, and make sure the election is done right. If they can pull it off, it will be remembered as the school's greatest con ever -- one worthy of the name THE GREAT GREENE HEIST.

Current book group picks are always 15% off at Greenlight, in the store or online.

Fort Greene Store:
Wednesday, March 22, 7:30 PM
Daniel Magariel presents One of the Boys
(A Greenlight First Editions Club selection)
In conversation with Alexandra Schwartz
Daniel Magariel’s riveting and emotionally harrowing debut novel about two young brothers and their physically and psychologically abusive father is already being acclaimed as the arrival of a major new talent. Set in the sublimely stark landscape of suburban New Mexico and a cramped apartment shut tight to the world, One of the Boys conveys with stunning prose and chilling clarity a young boy’s struggle to hold onto the dangerous pieces of his shattered family. Magariel discusses his work with New Yorker staff writer Alexandra Schwartz.

Prospect Lefferts Gardens Store:
Thursday, March 23, 7:30 PM
Book launch: Cortney Lamar Charleston presents Telepathologies
Readings by Camonghne Felix, Paul Tran, Shira Erlichman and Jeremy Michael Clark
Hosted by Angel Nafis
Wine reception to follow
Greenlight is thrilled to host the launch of Cortney Lamar Charleston’s new collection Telepathologies, with a little help from some talented friends! Cortney is a recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem and The Conversation Literary Festival, and his poems have been published widely. His debut collection Telepathologies was selected by D.A. Powell for the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. The book looks unflinchingly at the state of race in twenty-first-century America; it is a shout in the darkness, a plea for sanity in an age of insanity, and an urgent call to action. Fellow poets Camonghne Felix, Paul Tran, Shira Erlichman and Jeremy Michael Clark open for Cortney at tonight’s event, which is hosted by poet and curator Angel Nafis and followed by a wine reception.

Fort Greene Store:
Thursday, March 23, 7:30 PM
Book launch: John Freeman Gill presents The Gargoyle Hunters
In conversation with Liesl Schillinger
Native New Yorker John Freeman Gill is a longtime New York Times contributor and the architecture and real estate editor of Avenue magazine, for which he writes “Edifice Complex,” a monthly column exploring the biographies of historic New York City buildings and their occupants. His debut novel The Gargoyle Hunters revolves around the mystery of a brazen and seemingly impossible architectural heist—the theft of an entire historic Manhattan building—that stunned the city in 1974. Hilarious and poignant, the novel is a love letter to a vanishing city, as well as a deeply emotional story of fathers and sons. John discusses his work with New York Times book critic Liesl Schillinger.

http://www.johnfreemangill.com...
http://www.lieslschillinger.co...

Fort Greene Store
Monday, March 27, 7:30 PM
Panel Discussion: Fiction in Foreign Cultures
Featuring Deborah Clearman, Ben Dolnick, Lauren Sanders, and Iromie Weeramantry
Moderated by Aaron Zimmerman
Wine reception to follow
When writers take themselves or their characters to other countries, especially those not their own, is it cultural appropriation or expanding the reader’s world? How do you get under the skin of another culture without sounding like a tour guide, a do-gooder, or an elitist? These are some of the questions Aaron Zimmerman, founder and director of NY Writers Coalition, will ask of four fiction writers at tonight’s panel. Deborah Clearman is launching Concepción and the Baby Brokers and Other Stories Out of Guatemala. Ben Dolnick’s 2013 novel At the Bottom of Everything is set partly in India. Lauren Sanders’ forthcoming novel The Book of Love and Hate is an intrigue that spans the globe from NYC to Israel. Iromie Weeramantry’s short stories take place largely in her home country, Sri Lanka. A book signing and reception follows the discussion.

Fort Greene store:
Tuesday, March 28, 5:30 PM
Fort Greene Young Readers Book Group discusses Raven in a Dove House
Led by Greenlight receiving manager Grace, our young readers book group in Fort Greene is geared toward kids ages 9 to 12, and reads great contemporary and classic chapter books. Parents are welcome (but not required) to attend, and pizza is served. For March, the group discusses Raven in a Dove House by Andrea Davis Pinkney. It's summer vacation, and twelve-year-old Nell has gone upstate to spend a month with Aunt Ursa and Cousin Foley. Seeing Foley's best friend, Slade, puts a smile on Nell's face, even when she tries to stay cool. Nell is enjoying the lazy days of summer, especially Foley's antics and Slade's flirty talk . . . until the boys surprise her with a frightening request. They want her to hide a pistol in her old dollhouse. Nell doesn't know what to do. Suddenly, she doesn't trust anyone, even herself. But when tragedy strikes, she knows she can't handle it on her own.

Current book group picks are always 15% off at Greenlight, in the store or online.

Prospect Lefferts Gardens Store:
Tuesday, March 28, 7:30 PM
David Shields presents Other People: Takes & Mistakes
In conversation with Phillip Lopate
David Shields is the bestselling author of twenty books, including Reality Hunger and How Literature Saved My Life. His new essay collection Other People is an intellectually thrilling and emotionally wrenching investigation of otherness: the need for one person to understand another person completely, the impossibility of any such absolute knowing, and the erotics of this separation. These seventy-plus essays, written over the last thirty-five years, have been reconceived and recombined to form neither a miscellany nor a memoir but a sustained meditation on otherness. David talks about his work with legendary essayist and teacher Phillip Lopate.

http://davidshields.com/
http://philliplopate.com/

Fort Greene Store:
Tuesday, March 28, 7:30 PM
Book launch: Hannah Tinti presents The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
(A Greenlight First Editions Club Pick)
In conversation with Patrick Ryan
Wine reception to follow
Beloved author and One Story founder and editor-in-chief Hannah Tinti returns to Greenlight to launch her long awaited and highly praised new novel! In The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley, a father tries to protect his daughter from the legacy of his criminal past. Part love story, part coming-of- age, part mystery, part revenge tale, Tinti’s cross-country epic asks how can you live, love, or have a family knowing that every day might very well be your last. Tinti talks about her work with novelist and One Story editor Patrick Ryan, followed by a wine reception to celebrate the book’s launch.

http://hannahtinti.com/

Fort Greene store:
Wednesday, March 29, 7:30 PM
Kyung An presents Who’s Afraid of Contemporary Art?
Reading, discussion & visual presentation
Everybody knows contemporary art can be baffling. But young art professionals Kyung An and Jessica Cerasi are on hand to cut straight to the questions that matter. From museums and biennales to the role of curators and galleries to understanding the next big thing, Who’s Afraid of Contemporary Art? offers concise and pointed insights into today’s art scene. Co-author Kyung An, Assistant Curator at the Guggenheim Museum, welcomes art lovers and would-be collectors to a reading and discussion, plus a visual look at some contemporary art.

Fort Greene store:
Thursday, March 30, 7:30 PM
An Evening with 3 Hole Press
Aleshea Harris presents Is God Is
Alexander Borinsky presents Brief Chronicle (Books 6-8)
Readings by playwrights with performers
Discussion moderated by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
Wine reception to follow
Brooklyn-based drama publisher 3 Hole Press publishes titles that expand notions of what a play is and the possibilities that emerge when we encounter plays on the page. To celebrate the publications of its two newest books, 3 Hole Press presents dramatic readings by the authors and cast. Winner of the 2016 Relentless Award from the American Playwriting Foundation, Aleshea Harris’ Is God Is is a classic revenge tale about two sisters that blends tragedy, typography, the Spaghetti Western, hip-hop and Afropunk. In Brief Chronicle, Books 6–8, Alexander Borinsky delivers a quietly heartbreaking new play that grounds epic themes—unabated longing, violence and imperialism, and the bond between mother and son—in the small ways we hurt and love one another and decide where to go on vacation. Dramatic readings from each play will be followed by a conversation between Borinsky, Harris and 3 Hole Press director Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, and a wine reception to celebrate the launch of these new plays.

http://www.3holepress.org/

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