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Tonight! Antonio Ruiz-Camacho will speak with Elizabeth McCracken of the New Writer’s Project about one of our favorite story collections of 2015, BAREFOOT DOGS (now in paperback!) BUT THAT’S NOT ALL, FOLKS: Kate Gavino of @lastnightsreading will be illustrating the event via Skype. We’ll sell her book as well, along with some limited-edition buttons and one-of-a-kind bookplates. See y'all at 7! (at BookPeople)

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Train by Tom Zoellner

An epic and revelatory narrative about the most important transportation technology of the modern world. Zoellner has made himself a veritable Walt Whitman of rail travel.

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The most frequently asked question I get is: “How do you find all these readings you go to?” I think the answer many people want is: “There’s this great website called EveryFreeNYCReading.biz” or “I got a microchip implanted that tells me where to go at 7pm.” But the super sad true story is: “I’m online. Like, all the time.” I don’t think everyone should spend an unhealthy amount of time online like me, so here’s a list of places that host (mostly) free readings in New York City. If you find that you like a place, sign up for their newsletter and follow them on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. to stay updated about upcoming events. Places/events that usually aren’t free are marked with an asterisk (though many have student discounts). Bookstores Manhattan:

Brooklyn:

Queens:

Jersey City

Barnes & Noble:

Organizations and Museums

Libraries

Schools

Reading Series A new reading series pops up every day, so this list is hardly definitive – these are just some of my favorites.

Festivals, Conferences, and Awards

Seasonal:

Add more in the comments – what am I missing?

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Our incredible Penguin Books author Kate Gavino has put together the MOST F*ING ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO BOOK EVENTS IN NYC

Enjoy.

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YOU ARE WHAT YOU READ

Barbara M is not writing about Paris. That’s all I am saying about that. “I love The Expatriates by Janice Y.K. Lee. The story is told in alternating chapters from the perspectives of three American women living in Hong Kong. Mercy, a first generation Korean-American Columbia University graduate is without any purposeful goal for her life. Margaret and Hillary have both followed their husbands to Hong Kong. Margaret is the mother of three and Hilary, who is childless, longs for motherhood. Hong Kong is a small community and this is the story of how the lives of these three women intertwine. This book is a page turner and one you can’t wait to return to.”

You Are What You Read is our “Staff Recommends” GONE WILD and features recommendations from Darien Library staff members. And you don’t have to live in Darien to receive an email with our top picks!

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The Sartorial Side of Grief

Grieving Victorians in upper-middle-class society once wore mourning clothes as a public demonstration of their private losses. The rules on what to wear, and for how long, depended on the relationship of the griever to the grieved. A spouse or a sibling rated higher than a third cousin or a workplace “connection.” This determination was so complex that popular etiquette guides such as “Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management” contained lengthy charts that the grief-stricken might consult.

These rules were primarily for women of the age. Men got off light, with black gloves, cravats and bands on their hats and arms. But a woman who was grieving, let’s say, a departed husband, would begin in “full mourning,” meaning that for “1 year and 1 day” she would wear “bombazine covered with crepe; widow’s cap, lawn cuffs, collars.”

All black, all the time, naturally. Letters were sent on special black-bordered paper and envelopes sealed with black wax.

After the allotted 366 days, she’d move into “second mourning,” a six-month phase that involved slightly less crepe. That would be followed by six more months of “ordinary mourning,” reintroducing fabrics of silk and wool. During the final months, jewelry and ribbons again became permissible, as a segue into the ultimate six months of “half mourning,” when colors such as gray, lavender and mauve would gradually re-enter the wardrobe.

I was fond of showing this chart to my literature students when we reached the Victorian section of the syllabus, hoping to impress upon them the inflexible, even oppressive, social order to which a 6-year-old girl like Alice in “Alice in Wonderland” would soon be expected to conform, as well as the commonplace nature of death and grieving in a society where illness and wars took people, especially the young, at a regular clip.

But after my younger sister, Jennifer, died from cancer at the age of 22, I came to see things differently.

Read More At Salon.com

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