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SUMMARY:Esther Kinsky and Claire-Louise Bennett Two writers discuss Grove: A Field Novel
DESCRIPTION:Esther Kinsky and Claire-Louise Bennett join us via Zoom to discuss Grove: A Field Novel (Transit Books). \nThis event is presented in partnership with Brookline Booksmith’s Transnational Literature Series and the Goethe Institute. \nRegistration required. Visit Eventbrite to reserve your spot. \nAbout Grove\nAn unnamed narrator\, recently bereaved\, travels to a small village southeast of Rome. It is winter\, and from her temporary residence on a hill between village and cemetery\, she embarks on walks and outings\, exploring the banal and the sublime with equal dedication and intensity. Seeing\, describing\, naming the world around her is her way of redefining her place within it. In Kinsky’s Grove\, winner of the 2018 Leipzig Book Prize\, grief must bear the weight of the world and full of grief the narrator becomes one with the brittle manifestations of the Italian winter. \n“Grove is a story of an existence stilled by loss\, but the promise of life\, and with it renewal and hope\, pulses gently but steadily at its heart.”—Lucy Scholes\, Financial Times \nAbout the authors\nEsther Kinsky grew up by the River Rhine and lived in London for twelve years. She is the author of three volumes of poetry and four novels\, including River\, and has translated many notable English (John Clare\, Henry David Thoreau\, Iain Sinclair) and Polish (Joanna Bator\, Miron Białoszewski\, Magdalena Tulli) authors into German. Grove won the Leipzig Book Prize and the Düsseldorf Book Prize. \nClaire-Louise Bennett was awarded the inaugural White Review Short Story Prize and went on to complete her debut book\, Pond\, which was published by The Stinging Fly (Ireland) and Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) in 2015\, and by Riverhead (US) in 2016. Pond was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2016.
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Peter Orner and Maggie Brown & Others
DESCRIPTION:In this powerful and virtuosic collection of 44 interlocking stories\, each one “a marvel of concision and compassion” (Washington Post)\, Peter Orner chronicles people whose lives are at inflection points\, gripping us with a series of defining moments. Whether it’s a first date that turns into a late-night road trip to a séance in an abandoned airplane hangar\, or a family’s memories of the painful mystery surrounding a neglected uncle’s demise\, Orner reveals how our fleeting decisions between kindness and abandonment chase us across time. These stories are anchored by a poignant novella that delivers not only the joys and travails of a 40-year marriage\, but an entire era in a working-class New England city. “A master of his form” —The New York Times. Peter Orner reads from and discusses his work\, with bestselling illustrator Paul Madonna. Registration via Eventbrite required to access Zoom. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live on Zoom and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nModerators \n\n \nPaul Madonna\nPaul Madonna is an award-winning artist and writer. He is the creator of three series\, All Over Coffee (San Francisco Chronicle 2004-2016)\, Small Potatoes (Universal Press Syndicate)\, and Quotable City (Nob Hill Gazette 2018-present)\, and the author of four books\, All Over Coffee… Read More →\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nPeter Orner\nPeter Orner\, a two-time recipient of the Pushcart Prize\, is the author of five previous books\, including the novel Love and Shame and Love and the collection Esther Stories\, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His memoir Am I Alone Here? was a finalist for the National Book Critics… Read More →
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Aimee Bender\, The Butterfly Lampshade
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes bestselling author Aimee Bender (The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake) for an online reading and discussion of her first novel in ten years\, The Butterfly Lampshade. “[An] astounding meditation on time\, space\, mental illness\, and family. . . Bender’s masterpiece is one to savor.” —Publishers Weekly\, starred review \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\nOn the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode\, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter\, waiting to take the train to Los Angeles to go live with her aunt and uncle. There is a lovely lamp next to the couch on which she’s sleeping\, the shade adorned with butterflies. When she wakes\, Francie spies a dead butterfly\, exactly matching the ones on the lamp\, floating in a glass of water. She drinks it before the babysitter can see. \nTwenty years later\, Francie is compelled to make sense of that moment\, and two other incidents – her discovery of a desiccated beetle from a school paper\, and a bouquet of dried roses from some curtains. Her recall is exact – she is sure these things happened. But despite her certainty\, she wrestles with the hold these memories maintain over her\, and what they say about her own place in the world. \nAs Francie conjures her past and reduces her engagement with the world to a bare minimum\, she begins to question her relationship to reality. The scenes set in Francie’s past glow with the intensity of childhood perception\, how physical objects can take on an otherworldly power. The question for Francie is\, What do these events signify? And does this power survive childhood? \nAIMEE BENDER is the author of the novels The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake—a New York Times bestseller—and An Invisible Sign of My Own\, and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt\, Willful Creatures\, and The Color Master. Her works have been widely anthologized and have been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in Los Angeles.
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