Word bookstore, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, is bridging the gap between books and basketball. If you can answer five simple questions (sample: Who wrote Ulysses?), you might join the store's summer basketball league. Talk on the bench will include jumpshots and the value of magical realism in post-narrative memoir. Bring your A-game.New Yorkers can still sign … Continue reading Trash Talk? I Think Not
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Talking in the Library
Tomorrow night the Library Foundation of Hennepin County (formerly the Friends of the Minneapolis Public Library) continues its "Talk of the Stacks" program. David Plotz is the editor of slate.com. Contributor to the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Rolling Stone, New Republic, Washington Post, and GQ, Plotz won the National Press Club's Hume Award for … Continue reading Talking in the Library
A Debut Novelist
Join us at Magers & Quinn Booksellers on Friday, March 13, at 7:30pm, as Stephen Lovely reads from his first novel Irreplaceable.“Stephen Lovely’s debut novel is wise, heartbreaking, funny, and human in every possible way. In this debut novel, he manages to humanize the sterile world of heart transplants, the faceless victims and lucky receivers … Continue reading A Debut Novelist
Musings from Magers and Quinn 