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About BookCourtHistoryBookCourt was established as an independent neighborhood bookstore in the Fall of 1981. 30+ years later, it's Brooklyn's family-run, literary mainstay, offering an expansive inventory, the most competitive book discounts in NYC, and one of the top events series in the country. In 2012, The Village Voice hailed BookCourt as Best Bookstore 2012.<ul><li>1981 - (Sept. 12) Henry Zook &amp; Mary Gannett open BookCourt in the 163 Court Street storefront location.</li><li>1986 - Store inventory and sales become computerized, which at the time was a big deal.&nbsp;</li><li>1990 - Expansion #1: Downstairs, into what had been a dirt-floor basement in the 163 Court Street location.</li><li>1996 - Expansion #2: 161 Court Street. The neighboring building is taken over and BookCourt becomes a double-storefront. Prior to this, 161 Court existed as a Flower Shop called Albert's. A large greenhouse sat vacant behind 161 Court Street for the following twelve years.</li><li>2008 - (Oct. 8) Expansion #3: The Greenhouse opens. After removing the old greenhouse, a brand new extension behind the 161 Court storefront location was built, this time adding two thousand square feet of additional storage space. The new construction, referred to as the Greenhouse, allows space for our events series.</li><li>The goal has always been to provide our customers with a wide variety of titles including many university and small press books, along with genuine customer service, seldom found online or at any corporate model bookstore.</li></ul><img src="https://bookcourt.com/files/1024/images-store/1653994135942-bc_owners_1981_0.jpg">StaffOur staff are the most dedicated, knowledgeable booksellers in NYC, who thrive on discussing, recommending, and pairing customers with the right books, and developing solid customer servcice relationships.Mary Gannett (Owner, Buyer, Accounts Receivable)Henry Zook (Owner, Buyer, Accounts Receivable)Michael Bender (Bookseller)Bonnie Chau (Bookseller)Hollye Hudson (Bookseller)Mariah Gese (Bookseller)Sarah Goewey (Manager)Sam Gold (Bookseller)Melinda Hung (Bookseller)Marissa Levien (Bookseller)Sam Marques (Inventory)Ted Meyer (Bookseller)Dan Poppick (Bookseller)Brian Ransom (Bookseller)Juan Salcito (Bookseller)John Sherman (Bookseller)Sophie Stewart (Manager / Backlist Buyer)Olivia Sweet (Bookseller)Heidi Tannenbaum (Manager / Kids &amp; YA Events)Glenn Tranter (Bookseller)Andrew Unger (Event Coordinator)Bethany Weber (Bookseller)

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Aleksandra CrapanzanoThe London CookbookFri Oct 21, 7:00PMEvent Type: CookbooksOn the Docket: Reading, Audience Q&amp;A, Book SigningAbout The London CookbookOnce known for its watery potatoes, stringy mutton, and grayed vegetables, London is now considered to be the most vibrant city on the global food map. The London Cookbook reflects the contemporary energy and culinary rebirth of this lively, hip, sophisticated, and very international city. It is a love letter to the city and an insider's guide to its most delicious haunts, as well as a highly curated and tested collection of the city's best recipes. This timeless book explores London's incredibly diverse cuisine through an eclectic mix of dishes, from The Cinnamon Club's Seared Aubergine Steaks with Sesame and Tamarind to the River Cafe's Tagliatelle with Lemon, and from Tramshed's Indian Rock Chicken Curry to Nopi's Sage and Cardamom Gin. Striking the perfect balance between armchair travel and approachable home cooking, The London Cookbook is both a resource and keepsake, a book as much for the well-travelled cook as for the dreaming novice.Praise for The London Cookbook"I can't imagine anyone as perfect as Aleksandra for the task of capturing the amazing spirit (and surprises) of the new gastronomic London. A celebrated food writer in the U.S., she also happens to know our city like the back of her hand, writes beautifully, and has the wit and imagination needed to uncover the city's best kept culinary secrets, its variety, and its flavors. She has great taste--in every sense of the word. It doesn't hurt that she's a great cook, too. This is the moment for her book, and I guarantee it will be the one everybody wants to own." —Ruth Rogers, owner of The River Café"Thank you, Aleksandra, for The London Cookbook. I'm ashamed to admit I once avoided London as a dining destination at all costs - but I am equally proud to acknowledge that it has become my single favorite culinary destination, in no small part due to its remarkable community of hospitality professionals, many of whom are featured in this beautiful book. This winning collection of recipes will keep me yearning - and satisfied -between my trips to London!" —Danny Meyer, Union Square Hospitality Group, New York"When I say this cookbook does justice to one of the world’s most delicious cities, that’s no small feat. Aleksandra Crapanzano deftly captures the pulse and vitality of London’s new food landscape while honoring its culinary architects." —Dan Barber, co-owner and executive chef of Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Barns, and author of The Third Plate"Aleksandra Crapanzano takes you by the hand, leading you on a whirlwind tour of one of the world's great food cities. Irresistible portraits of the fascinating people who are changing the way we eat. And recipes that make you want to run right into the kitchen." —Ruth Reichl, author of Delicious, and former editor in chief of Gourmet magazine"London’s favourite restaurants offering their favourite recipes: what a delicious idea! This is as much about the vibrancy of eating in London as it is a working cookbook. Great stuff!” —Yotam Ottolenghi“Aleksandra Crapanzano’s celebration of the new, vibrant, immensely creative, joyful, London restaurant world, of the best chefs behind it and their glorious dishes, captures so well the spirit and the flavors that have made the city a real capital of food.” —Claudia RodenAuthor BioAleksandra Crapanzano is the recipient of the James Beard Foundation M.F.K. Fisher Award for distinguished writing, and her work has appeared in several anthologies including Best Food Writing 2013. She writes the "A Little Something Sweet" dessert column for the Wall Street Journal and frequently writes their lengthy "Mega Meal" page. She has written about food for the New York Times Magazine, Gourmet, Food &amp; Wine, Saveur, and Travel &amp; Leisure. Now in New York, Crapanzano spent much of her childhood living in London, and continues to visit many times a year.

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Luke Barr <img class="quill-upload-image" src="https://bookcourt.com/files/1024/images-store/1653999879710-barrluke.jpg">Luke Barr is an editor at Travel + Leisure magazine. A great-nephew of M.F.K. Fisher, he was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Switzerland, and graduated from Harvard. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and their two daughters.

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Willy VlautinThe Free <img src="https://bookcourt.com/files/1024/images-store/1653999734415-vlautin-willy-solo-bookpic1.jpg">About The FreeIn his heartbreaking yet hopeful fourth novel, award-winning author Willy Vlautin demonstrates his extraordinary talent for illuminating the disquiet of modern American life, captured in the experiences of three memorable characters looking for meaning in distressing times.Severely wounded in the Iraq war, Leroy Kervin has lived in a group home for eight years. Frustrated by the simplest daily routines, he finds his existence has become unbearable. An act of desperation helps him disappear deep into his mind, into a world of romance and science fiction, danger and adventure where he is whole once again.Freddie McCall, the night man at Leroy's group home, works two jobs yet still can't make ends meet. He's lost his wife and kids, and the house is next. Medical bills have buried him in debt, a situation that propels him to consider a lucrative—and dangerous—proposition.About Willy VlautinWilly Vlautin is the author of The Motel Life, Northline, and Lean on Pete, and the singer and songwriter of the band Richmond Fontaine. He lives outside Portland, Oregon.

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Tim SultanSunny's NightsTim Sultan, once a bartender at the famous Sunny's Bar in Red Hook, Brooklyn, spoke at BookCourt for the launch of his new book Sunny's Nights. In his talk at the store, Tim talked about collecting Sunny's stories throughout his time at the bar, hurriedly scrawling notes as the great raconteur and bar-owner Sunny Balzano retold them to friends and eager listeners. Just a few weeks after Tim's appearance where he spoke warmly to a full house, Sunny passed away.About Sunny's NightsThe first time he saw Sunny’s Bar, in 1995, Tim Sultan was lost, thirsty for a drink, and intrigued by the single bar sign among the forlorn warehouses lining the Brooklyn waterfront. Inside, he found a dimly lit room crammed with maritime artifacts, a dozen well-seasoned drinkers, and, strangely, a projector playing a classic Martha Graham dance performance. Sultan knew he had stumbled upon someplace special. What he didn’t know was that he had just found his new home.Soon enough, Sultan has quit his office job to bartend full-time for Sunny Balzano, the bar’s owner. A wild-haired Tony Bennett lookalike with a fondness for quoting Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett, Sunny is truly one of a kind. Born next to the saloon that has been in his family for one hundred years, Sunny has over the years partied with Andy Warhol, spent time in India at the feet of a guru, and painted abstract expressionist originals. But his masterpiece is the bar itself, a place where a sublime mix of artists, mobsters, honky-tonk musicians, neighborhood drunks, nuns, longshoremen, and assorted eccentrics rub elbows. Set against the backdrop of a rapidly transforming city, Sunny’s Nights is a loving and singular portrait of the dream experience we’re all searching for every time we walk into a bar, and an enchanting memoir of an unlikely and abiding friendship.

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Unfaithful Music &amp; Disappearing InkElvis CostelloBuy Now: Online StoreList: $30.00Publisher: Blue Rider PressPublishing date: October 13, 2015ISBN: 9780399167256Edition: HardcoverBook DescriptionBorn Declan Patrick MacManus, Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, grandson of a trumpet player on the White Star Line and son of a jazz musician who became a successful radio dance band vocalist. Costello went into the family business and had taken the popular music world by storm before he was twenty-four.Costello continues to add to one of the most intriguing and extensive songbooks of the day. His performances have taken him from a cardboard guitar in his front room to fronting a rock and roll band on your television screen and performing in the world's greatest concert halls in a wild variety of company. “Unfaithful Music” describes how Costello's career has somehow endured for almost four decades through a combination of dumb luck and animal cunning, even managing the occasional absurd episode of pop stardom.The memoir, written entirely by Costello himself, offers his unique view of his unlikely and sometimes comical rise to international success, with diversions through the previously undocumented emotional foundations of some of his best known songs and the hits of tomorrow. The book contains many stories and observations about his renowned co-writers and co-conspirators, though Costello also pauses along the way for considerations on the less appealing side of infamy.Unfaithful Music &amp; Disappearing Ink is destined to be a classic, idiosyncratic memoir of a singular man.Author BioElvis Costello is a Grammy award-winning musician whose career spans almost four decades. A prolific singer-songwriter, Costello has released several critically-acclaimed albums, and in 2003 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Adam SternberghNear EnemyWed Jan 14, 7:00 PMEvent Type: FictionOn the Docket: Release PartyReading, Audience, Q&amp;ABook, Signing<img src="https://bookcourt.com/files/1024/images-store/1653999177333-adam-sternbergh-author-photo-credit-marvin-orellana_0.jpg"> About Near EnemyNew York is toxic—decimated by a dirty bomb years ago. The limnosphere is a virtual safe haven—if you’re rich enough to buy in. Spademan is a hit man—box-cutter at the ready.His latest job is to snuff out Lesser, a lowlife lurking around other people’s fantasies. As Spademan is about to close the deal, Lesser comes back from the limn with a wild claim: terrorists are planning to attack New York. Again. This time from the inside out.The warning sends Spademan down a dark path full of unsavory characters and startling revelations. A shadowy political fixer tells him of a long-running power struggle that goes all the way to City Hall. A brilliant Egyptian radical brings Spademan to the mysterious far-reaches of the limn. And a beautiful nurse holds the secret to what, and who, is behind these attacks—and she seems to want to help Spademan stop them. But he works best alone. Or so he thinks.Spademan has always had his share of enemies, but now they’re coming at him from all sides and it’s impossible to know whom to trust. To stay sharp, his only option might be the one thing he swore he’d never do again.Praise"Compelling. . . . Intellectually beguiling. . . . The fight scenes in Near Enemy blend the operatic elegance of Bruce Lee in flight with comic-book-inspired mayhem. . . . Popular fiction that engages one’s heart, mind, and adrenaline the way the Spademan novels do is something to be savored.” —Booklist (starred review)“[A] solid sequel. . . . Sternbergh laces his second cyberpunk voyage with dark humor and eccentric characters.” —Publishers Weekly“[The] action is played out in a postmodern and corrupt world of toxicity, both literal and metaphorical. . . . Other characters return from the first novel and provide a hint of nostalgia and sweetness missing from the dark and mean streets of New York.” —KirkusAuthor BioAdam Sternbergh is a contributing editor for New York magazine and Vulture. Formerly culture editor of The New York Times Magazine, his writing has appeared in GQ and the Times of London and on This American Life. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his family. Near Enemy is his second novel.

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Adam ResnickIn Conversation with Bob OdenkirkSat May 17, 1:00PMEvent Type: NonfictionOn the Docket: Reading, Audience Q&amp;A, Book SigningAbout Will Not Attend: Lively Stories of Detachment and IsolationAdam Resnick, an Emmy Award-winning writer for NBC’s Late Night with David Letterman, has spent his entire life trying to avoid interaction with people. While courageously admitting to being “euphorically antisocial” and “sick in the head,” he allows us to plunge even deeper into his troubled psyche in this unabashedly uproarious memoir-in-essays where we observe Resnick’s committed indifference to family, friends, strangers, and the world at large. His mind shaped by such touchstone events as a traumatic Easter egg hunt when he was six (which solidified his hatred of parties) and overwrought by obsessions, including one with a plastic shopping bag (which solidified his hatred for change), he refuses to be burdened by chores like basic social obligation and personal growth, living instead by his own steadfast rule: “I refuse to do anything I don’t want to do.”Praise“Writing a collection of short stories is a very difficult thing to do. These Adam Resnick stories are great. You read one and think, that was so well done maybe I’ll read another. You think, the next one can’t be as good, and it’s even better. I hope you read this book. It’s funny, smart and thoughtful; and it’s funny, smart and thoughtful. I loved it. I think you will as well. Did I mention I loved it? Happy reading.” —Dave Letterman“Having worked with Adam Resnick many years ago, I can easily recall he was a little nuts, but I completely forgot he was this talented and funny. Damn, this book is good.” —Jon Stewart“Adam Resnick is one of the funniest writers I've ever known, and he proves it big-time in this acid-swaddled memoir. You will laugh reading this book, I swear to Christ Almighty. Adam comes by his misanthropy honestly and bravely—and his continued existence is a tribute to the soul-nourishing qualities of an unrelenting, unforgiving, and hilarious outlook. I will be reading this again and again for the rest of my life like it's the goddamn bible.” —Bob Odenkirk“In the ideal film adaptation of Will Not Attend, second-grader Adam Resnick would be played by a four-foot-tall, fully adult homunculus Resnick, animated by a precocious despair, disdainful of cultural idiocy, and wearing the ever-present scowl of the perpetually put-upon. Undoubtedly, the child Resnick is father of the man Resnick. This is a very funny book, and I would pay decent money to see the movie version, or even to play it in the form of an extremely sad video game.” —Charlie Kaufman“Adam Resnick is like an artist keenly observing the subtleties of light and shadow in the world around us—painting hilariously bleak portraits of the neighbors, friends, and family that we all know and love so dearly. He’s basically our generation’s Norman Rockwell, if Norman Rockwell had ever painted a woman sucking off a horse.” —Chris ElliottAuthor BioAdam Resnick is an Emmy Award-winning writer who began his career at Late Night with David Letterman. He went on to co-create Fox’s Get a Life, starring Chris Elliott, and has written several screenplays, including cult favorites Cabin Boy and Death to Smoochy. Resnick has written for Saturday Night Live, was a co-executive producer and writer for HBO’s The Larry Sanders Show, and created the HBO series The High Life, which was produced by David Letterman’s company, Worldwide Pants. He lives in New York City.Bob Odenkirk is an actor, writer, film director and comedian. He has starred in the Emmy award-winning Breaking Bad and has written for Saturday Night Live and The Ben Stiller Show, amongst others. He writes humor pieces for The New Yorker.

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A Tribute to Paul Kalanithi, M.D.Sisters Lucy Kalanithi and Joanna Goddard in conversationMon Jan 11, 7:00PMEvent Type: NonfictionOn the Docket: Release Party, Audience Q&amp;A, Food &amp; Drinks Served <img src="https://bookcourt.com/files/1024/images-store/1653998751627-event_kalinthi.jpg">Lucy Kalanithi discusses her late husband's life and her experiences as a physician and caregiver with twin sister and Cup of Jo blogger Joanna Goddard.About When Breath Becomes AirAt the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.Praise“Rattling, heartbreaking, and ultimately beautiful, the too-young Dr. Kalanithi’s memoir is proof that the dying are the ones who have the most to teach us about life.” —Atul Gawande“Thanks to When Breath Becomes Air, those of us who never met Paul Kalanithi will both mourn his death and benefit from his life. This is one of a handful of books I consider to be a universal donor—I would recommend it to anyone, everyone.” —Ann PatchettAuthor BioPaul Kalanithi was a neurosurgeon and writer. He grew up in Kingman, Arizona, and graduated from Stanford University with a BA and MA in English literature and a BA in human biology. He earned an MPhil in history and philosophy of science and medicine from the University of Cambridge and graduated cum laude from the Yale School of Medicine, where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha national medical honor society. He returned to Stanford to complete his residency training in neurological surgery and a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience, during which he received the American Academy of Neurological Surgery’s highest award for research. He died in March 2015. He is survived by his large, loving family, including his wife, Lucy, and their daughter, Elizabeth Acadia.Lucy Kalanithi is an internal medicine physician at Stanford and associate fellowship director at Stanford's Clinical Excellence Research Center, where she leads innovative efforts to improve healthcare value. She completed her MD at the Yale School of Medicine, where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society, her residency at the University of California-San Francisco, and her postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford. Her interests include patient engagement and shared decision-making. Lucy Kalanithi wrote the epilogue to When Breath Becomes Air by her late husband Paul Kalanithi.Joanna Goddard was born in Paris and grew up in France, England, and (mostly) the suburbs of Michigan. She is the founder of the award-winning women's lifestyle site Cup of Jo, which covers style, design, food, travel and parenting. Over the past 15 years, she has edited and written for a range of magazines, including Glamour, Budget Travel and New York. She lives in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, with her husband and two sons.

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Wally LambWe Are Water: A Novel<img class="quill-upload-image" src="https://bookcourt.com/files/1024/images-store/1653998569868-lamb_wally_.jpg"> About We Are WaterIn middle age, Annie Oh—wife, mother, and outsider artist—has shaken her family to its core. After twenty-seven years of marriage and three children, Annie has fallen in love with Viveca, the wealthy, cultured, confident Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her professional success.Annie and Viveca plan to wed in the Oh family's hometown of Three Rivers, Connecticut, where gay marriage has recently been legalized. But the impending wedding provokes some very mixed reactions and opens a Pandora's box of toxic secrets—dark and painful truths that have festered below the surface of the Ohs' lives.We Are Water is an intricate and layered portrait of marriage, family, and the inexorable need for understanding and connection, told in the alternating voices of the Ohs—nonconformist Annie; her ex-husband, Orion, a psychologist; Ariane, the do-gooder daughter, and her twin, Andrew, the rebellious only son; and free-spirited Marissa, the youngest Oh. Set in New England and New York during the first years of the Obama presidency, it is also a portrait of modern America, exploring issues of class, changing social mores, the legacy of racial violence, and the nature of creativity and art.With humor and breathtaking compassion, Wally Lamb brilliantly captures the essence of human experience in vivid and unforgettable characters struggling to find hope and redemption in the aftermath of trauma and loss. We Are Water is vintage Wally Lamb—a compulsively readable, generous, and uplifting masterpiece that digs deep into the complexities of the human heart to explore the ways in which we search for love and meaning in our lives.Author BioWally Lamb is the author of four previous novels, including the New York Times and national bestseller The Hour I First Believed and Wishin' and Hopin', a bestselling novella. His first two works of fiction, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, were both number one New York Times bestsellers and selections of Oprah's Book Club. Lamb edited Couldn't Keep It to Myself and I'll Fly Away, two volumes of essays from students in his writing workshop at York Correctional Institution, a women's prison in Connecticut where he has been a volunteer facilitator for fifteen years. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, Christine. The Lambs are the parents of three sons.

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Julie &amp; JuliaJulie PowelPublisher: Back Bay/Little, Brown &amp; Co.Publishing date: 2009ISBN: 9780141043982Edition: PaperbackPhysical description: 5.0"x7.7"x0.9"; 0.3 lb; 320 pages

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Aasif Mandvi with Ayad AkhtarIn ConversationFri Jan 23, 7:00 PMEvent Type: NonfictionOn the Docket: Reading, Audience Q&amp;A, Book Signing<img src="https://bookcourt.com/files/1024/images-store/1653998222375-mandvi_event_0.jpg"> About No Land's ManIf you're an Indo-Muslim-British-American actor who has spent more time in bars than mosques over the past few decades, turns out it's a little tough to explain who you are or where you are from. In No Land's Man Aasif Mandvi explores this and other conundrums through stories about his family, ambition, desire, and culture that range from dealing with his brunch-obsessed father to being a high-school-age Michael Jackson impersonator to joining a Bible study group in order to seduce a nice Christian girl, to improbably becoming America's favorite Muslim/Indian/Arab/Brown/Doctor correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.This is a book filled with passion, discovery, and humor. Mandvi hilariously and poignantly describes a journey that will resonate with anyone who has had to navigate his or her way in the murky space between lands. Or anyone who really loves brunch.Praise"It always bothered me that Aasif was more than merely funny-he's also a great actor. Now I've learned he's an amazing storyteller as well, and I am furious . . . but also grateful. Aasif's movement between cultures and genres is what makes him and his story singularly funny, poignant, and essential." -John Hodgman, author of The Areas of My Expertise and More Information Than You Require"Highly entertaining and engaging" -India West"We need more books like this - or rather, we need to read more books like this - in order to understand the fundamental humanity that we all share, regardless of skin color." -Daily Kos"Mandvi's book No Land's Man is a collection of humorous essays that explore his myriad identities: Indian, Muslim, British, and American...The book is a lighthearted but heartfelt portrait of Mandvi's childhood and his struggles to come to terms with his rather complicated life." -The Boston Globe"Aasif is my favorite Indo-Muslim-British- American Daily Show correspondent ever. I loved No Land's Man!" -Jim Gaffigan, author of Dad Is Fat and Food: A Love StoryAuthor BioAasif Mandvi is a correspondent on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and one of the stars of HBO's upcoming series, The Brink for which he also serves as writer/producer. He won an OBIE award for his one-man play Sakina's Restaurant which he later adapted into the film Today's Special. He has appeared in numerous theater, film, and television productions including The Pulitzer Prize-winning play Disgraced at Lincoln Center, and the films Million Dollar Arm and The Internship. He lives in New York City.Ayad Akhtar was born in New York City and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is the author of American Dervish, published in more than 20 languages worldwide, and a 2012 Best Book of the Year at Kirkus Reviews, Toronto's Globe and Mail, Shelf-Awareness, and O (Oprah) Magazine. He is also a playwright and screenwriter. His play Disgraced premiered in New York at LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater in 2012, won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and is currently on Broadway. His latest plays, The Who &amp; The What (LCT3) and The Invisible Hand (New York Theater Workshop) make their New York premieres in 2014. As a screenwriter, he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay for The War Within. He has received commissions from Lincoln Center Theater and fellowships from The Yaddo Foundation and The MacDowell Colony. Graduate of Brown University and Columbia School of the Arts.

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksRebecca SklootBestseller Price (In-Store): 11.20Publisher: BroadwayPublishing date: 2011-03-08ISBN: 9781400052189Edition: PaperbackPhysical description: 400 pages<img class="quill-upload-image" src="https://bookcourt.com/files/1024/images-store/1653997950882-cover_1400052181.jpg"> Book DescriptionHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons—as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions.Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia—a land of wooden slave quarters, faith healings, and voodoo—to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells.Henrietta’s family did not learn of her “immortality” until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family—past and present—is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of.Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family—especially Henrietta’s daughter Deborah, who was devastated to learn about her mother’s cells. She was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Did it hurt her when researchers infected her cells with viruses and shot them into space? What happened to her sister, Elsie, who died in a mental institution at the age of fifteen? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn’t her children afford health insurance?Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences. Show Less

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Colors for ZenaMonica WellingtonList: 16.99Bestseller Price (In-Store): 11.89Publisher: DialPublishing date: 7/11/2013ISBN: 9780803737433Physical description: Hardcore<img src="https://bookcourt.com/files/1024/images-store/1653993442220-zena.jpg"> Book Description&nbsp;The magic of mixing colors, in a joyous story by a master colorist.Zena's world lacks color, so she sets out to find some. On her walk, she first finds one primary color, then another. But red, blue, and yellow aren't enough—Zena wants more colors! Out pops an orange lion, a green frog, and a purple dragon, a combination of the colors she has seen. Zena and her friends then do some color mixing themselves, creating more colors and a bright painting using them all. Vibrant illustrations and simple text make Monica Wellington’s latest a perfect pick for budding young artists and for fans of classics such as The Color Kittens and Mouse Paint.Author BioMonica Wellington was born in London and lived in Switzerland and Germany as a child. She now lives in New York City, where she teaches at the School of Visual Arts.

Colors for Zena

The Art of You and MeKimberly MarreroList: 23.00Bestseller Price (In-Store): 16.10Edition: Paperback<img src="https://bookcourt.com/files/1024/images-store/1653993224182-art_1.jpg"> Book DescriptionThe Art of You And Me was inspired by the work Kimberly does as a museum educator for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. It was discovered during a series of studies awarded by the United States Department of Education that young students exposed to art observation and the formal language of art become better learners and thinkers as a result. Kimberly believes that every child has this same capacity within them to become inspired and to thrive with the appropriate access to art.It is her sincere wish that this book will offer youngsters and their families the entryway into the wonderful and wondrous world of art! Author BioKimberly Marrero works as a museum educator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. This is her first book.

The Art of You and Me

If I Knew You Were Going To Be This Beautiful, I Never Would Have Let You GoJudy ChicurelBuy Now: Online StoreList: 25.95Bestseller Price (In-Store): 18.17Publisher: Amy Einhorn BooksPublishing date: October 30, 2014ISBN: 9780399167072Edition: Hardcover Book DescriptionIt is the summer of 1972, and Katie has just turned eighteen. Katie and her town, Elephant Beach, are both on the verge: Katie of adulthood, and Elephant Beach of gentrification. But not yet: Elephant Beach is still gritty, working-class, close-knit. And Katie spends her time smoking and drinking with her friends, dreaming about a boy just back from Vietnam who’s still fighting a battle Katie can’t understand.In this poignant, evocative debut collection, Judy Chicurel creates a haunting, vivid world, where conflicts between mothers and daughters, men and women, soldiers and civilians and haves and have-nots reverberate to our own time. She captures not only a time and place, but the universal experience of being poised between the past and the future. Author BioJudy Chicurel’s work has appeared in national, regional, and international publications, including The New York Times, Newsday, and Granta. Her plays have been produced and performed in Manhattan. Chicurel currently lives by the water in Brooklyn.

If I Knew You Were Going To Be This Beautiful | I Never Would Have Let You Go

Edible BrooklynThe CookbookRachel WhartonList: 18.95Bestseller Price (In-Store): 13.27ISBN: 9781402785542 <img class="quill-upload-image" src="https://bookcourt.com/files/1024/images-store/1653992773192-edible-brooklyn-cookbook.jpg"> Book DescriptionBrooklyn, New York, is a down-to-earth, unsnobby feast for foodies--and Edible Brooklyn Cookbook captures that same fun vibe. It features unpretentious recipes from local artisans, chefs, and ordinary folk who celebrate Brooklyn's finest ingredients. And, like the borough's eclectic population--which includes Italian, Asian, Polish, Mexican, Russian, you name it--you never know what you'll find when you turn the page. After all, when was the last time you saw a cookbook with chapters for small plates and snacks and sandwiches, vegetables, pickles, and sides?Part travel guide, part recipe collection, part great read, this volume is the first in a series of four Edible cookbooks--and it offers a deliciously up close and personal view of one of American's most exciting food fests. Author BioRachel Wharton has lived in Brooklyn for 11 years and is the deputy editor of both Edible Brooklyn and Edible Manhattan. She holds a master's degree in Food Studies from New York University, and she won a 2010 James Beard Foundation journalism award for her columns on iconic restaurants in Edible Brooklyn, while her profile of Russ &amp; Daughters inEdible Manhattan was included in the book 2010 Best Food Writing.

Edible Brooklyn

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Alan FurstMission to Paris<img class="quill-upload-image" src="https://bookcourt.com/files/1024/images-store/1653992272157-furst1234.jpg">﻿About the PodcastIt is the late summer of 1938, Europe is about to explode, the Hollywood film star Fredric Stahl is on his way to Paris to make a movie for Paramount France. The Nazis know he’s coming—a secret bureau within the Reich Foreign Ministry has for years been waging political warfare against France, using bribery, intimidation, and corrupt newspapers to weaken French morale and degrade France’s will to defend herself.For their purposes, Fredric Stahl is a perfect agent of influence, and they attack him. What they don’t know is that Stahl, horrified by the Nazi war on Jews and intellectuals, has become part of an informal spy service being run out of the American embassy in Paris.From Alan Furst, the bestselling author often praised as the best spy novelist ever, comes a novel that’s truly hard to put down. Mission to Paris includes beautifully drawn scenes of romance and intimacy, and the novel is alive with extraordinary characters: the German Baroness von Reschke, a famous hostess deeply involved in Nazi clandestine operations; the assassins Herbert and Lothar; the Russian film actress and spy Olga Orlova; the Hungarian diplomat and spy, Count Janos Polanyi; along with the French cast of Stahl’s movie, German film producers, and the magnetic women in Stahl’s life, the socialite Kiki de Saint-Ange and the émigré Renate Steiner.But always at the center of the novel is the city of Paris, the heart and soul of Europe—its alleys and bistros, hotels grand and anonymous, and the Parisians, living every night as though it was their last. As always, Alan Furst brings to life both a dark time in history and the passion of the human hearts that fought to survive it.Praise"In the noble tradition of historical spy fiction that educates as it entertains, Mission to Paris clues readers into the propaganda warfare that the Nazis and their right-wing French sympathizers waged in France, long before conquering tanks rolled down the Champs-Elysees." -The New York Times Book Review"Mission to Paris is the 12th of [Furst's] enormously successful historical spy novels, and one of the best…Furst is a skillful storyteller, writing in two- or three-page scenes that instill a sense of movement and energy in an otherwise loosely episodic plot…Furst writes profoundly realistic books. The brilliant historical flourishes seem to create—or recreate—a world. Because they take place in a desperate time, his plots dig down to human essentials: money, shelter, food and, even as Stahl swivels between women like an uncertain compass, love." -Publishers WeeklyAuthor BioAlan Furst is widely recognized as the master of the historical spy novel. Now translated into eighteen languages, he is the author of Night Soldiers, Dark Star, The Polish Officer, The World at Night, Red Gold, Kingdom of Shadows, Blood of Victory, Dark Voyage, The Foreign Correspondent, The Spies of Warsaw, and Spies of the Balkans. Born in New York, he lived for many years in Paris, and now lives on Long Island.

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Junot DiazIn-Store Event on October 23rd, 2012 <img class="quill-upload-image" src="https://bookcourt.com/files/1024/images-store/1653991818399-diaz04.jpg" data-align="center" style="display: block; margin: auto;"> <h3>About this Podcast</h3>On tour for This Is How Your Lose Her, Junot Diaz stopped by BookCourt. The author fielded questions about MFA's, feminism, and his goals for his newly released, highly anticipated collection of stories. Since the publication of This Is How You Lose Her, Diaz has won a MacArthur Fellowship and maintains a seat as a professor of creative writing at MIT. Enjoy the podcast!

Junot Diaz

Kaitie Roiphe In-Store Event on September 7, 2012 <img class="quill-upload-image" src="https://bookcourt.com/files/1024/images-store/1653989607796-1653975641156-katie-roiphe-author-photo-copyright-anna-schori.jpg"> Katie Roiphe joined us last fall to discuss her newest collection of essays, In Praise of Messy Lives. She read first from an essay on the depictions of sex and relationships in contemporary fiction and followed with a short essay on the backlash she received from Gawker. She embraced the contrarian and often aggressive criticism of her work and offered a series of candid and poignant responses to a vibrant discussion. Visit: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150906004531/http://www.slate.com/authors.katie_roiphe.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Slate</a>

Kaitie Roiphe

Claire Vaye Watkins &amp; Ramona AusubelShort Fiction: Readings &amp; Discussion <img class="quill-upload-image" src="https://bookcourt.com/files/1024/images-store/1653989119595-joint_podcast.jpg" style="" width="322" height="181.125"> About the PodcastAn evening of short fiction ... readings by both authors, followed by a panel discussion about the art of the short story. About BattlebornThe head-turning debut from one of the National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" fiction writers for 2012In ten unforgettable stories, Claire Vaye Watkins takes on the mythology of the American West, fearlessly reimagining it. Her characters orbit around the region’s vast spaces, winning redemption despite—and often because of—the hardship and violence they encounter.The arrival of a foreigner transforms the exchange of eroticism and emotion at a sex ranch. A prospecting hermit discovers the limits of his rugged individualism when he tries to rescue a teenager left for dead in the desert. Decades after she coaxed her best friend into a degrading encounter in a Vegas hotel room, a woman feels the aftershock. Most bravely of all, Watkins revisits—and reinvents—her own troubled legacy, in a story that emerges from the mayhem and destruction of the Manson family. About A Guide to Being BornReminiscent of Aimee Bender and Karen Russell—an enthralling new collection that uses the world of the imagination to explore the heart of the human condition.Major new literary talent Ramona Ausubel combines the otherworldly wisdom of her much-loved debut novel, No One Is Here Except All of Us, with the precision of the short-story form. A Guide toBeing Born is organized around the stages of life—love, conception, gestation, birth—and the transformations that happen as people experience deeply altering life events, falling in love, becoming parents, looking toward the end of life. In each of these eleven stories Ausubel’s stunning imagination and humor are moving, entertaining, and provocative, leading readers to see the familiar world in a new way. In “Atria” a pregnant teenager believes she will give birth to any number of strange animals rather than a human baby; in “Catch and Release” a girl discovers the ghost of a Civil War hero living in the woods behind her house; and in “Tributaries” people grow a new arm each time they fall in love. Funny, surprising, and delightfully strange—all the stories have a strong emotional core; Ausubel’s primary concern is always love, in all its manifestations. Author BioRamona Ausubel is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of California, Irvine. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, One Story, The Paris Review Daily, Best American Fantasy, and elsewhere, and has received special mentions in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. She was a finalist for the Pushcart Prize.Claire Vaye Watkins's work has appeared in Granta, The Paris Review, Hobart, One Story, and Ploughshares. She is an assistant professor at Bucknell University and in 2012 was named one of the National Book Foundation’s "5 Under 35" fiction writers.

Claire Vaye Watkins & Ramona Ausubel

A.M. Homes May We Be Forgiven <img src="https://bookcourt.com/files/1024/images-store/1653974008439-amhomes.jpg"><h3>About May We Be Forgiven</h3> A darkly comic novel of twenty-first-century domestic life and the possibility of personal transformation. Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his younger brother, George, a taller, smarter, and more successful high-flying TV executive, acquire a covetable wife, two kids, and a beautiful home in the suburbs of New York City. But Harry, a historian and Nixon scholar, also knows George has a murderous temper, and when George loses control the result is an act of violence so shocking that both brothers are hurled into entirely new lives in which they both must seek absolution. Harry finds himself suddenly playing parent to his brother’s two adolescent children, tumbling down the rabbit hole of Internet sex, dealing with aging parents who move through time like travelers on a fantastic voyage. As Harry builds a twenty-first-century family created by choice rather than biology, we become all the more aware of the ways in which our history, both personal and political, can become our destiny and either compel us to repeat our errors or be the catalyst for change. May We Be Forgiven is an unnerving, funny tale of unexpected intimacies and of how one deeply fractured family might begin to put itself back together. <h3>Praise</h3> “This novel starts at maximum force -- and then it really gets going. I can't remember when I last read a novel of such narrative intensity; an unflinching account of a catastrophic, violent, black-comic, transformative year in the history of one broken American family. Flat-out amazing.” —Salman Rushdie “I started this book in the A.M., finished in the P.M., and couldn’t sleep all night. Ms. Homes just gets better and better.” —Gary Shteyngart “What if whoever wrote the story of Job had a sense of humor? Nixon is pondered. One character donates her organs. Another tries to grow a heart. A seductive minefield of a novel from A.M. Homes.” —John Sayles “I started reading A.M. Homes twenty years ago. Wild and funny, questioning and true, she is a writer to go travelling with on the journey called life.” —Jeanette Winterson

May We Be Forgiven

<h1>How Literature Saved My Life</h1>Maria Garcia | June 4th, 2021<img class="quill-upload-image" src="https://bookcourt.com/files/1024/images-store/1653972651583-9780307961525_p0_v2_s260x420.jpeg"> How Literature Saved My Life David Shields List: 25.95 Publisher: Knopf Publishing date: Feb 2013 ISBN: 9780307961525 Edition: Hardcover <h3>Book Description</h3>In this wonderfully intelligent, stunningly honest, painfully funny book, acclaimed writer David Shields uses himself as a representative for all readers and writers who seek to find salvation in literature. Blending confessional criticism and anthropological autobiography, Shields explores the power of literature (from Blaise Pascal’s Pensées to Maggie Nelson’s Bluets, Renata Adler’s Speedboat to Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past) to make life survivable, maybe even endurable. Shields evokes his deeply divided personality (his “ridiculous” ambivalence), his character flaws, his woes, his serious despairs. Books are his life raft, but when they come to feel un-lifelike and archaic, he revels in a new kind of art that is based heavily on quotation and consciousness. And he shares with us a final irony: he wants “literature to assuage human loneliness, but nothing can assuage human loneliness. Literature doesn’t lie about this–which is what makes it essential.” Author Bio: David Shields is the author of thirteen previous books, including Reality Hunger (named one of the best books of 2010 by more than thirty publications), The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead (New York Times bestseller), Black Planet (National Book Critics Circle Award finalist), and Remote (winner of the PEN/ Revson Award). He has published essays and stories in dozens of periodicals, including The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, The Village Voice, The Yale Review, Salon, Slate, McSweeney’s, and The Believer. His work has been translated into fifteen languages.

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