'Writing War': The Salon Hosts Reading And Discussion At Book Court

'Writing War' is the theme of a literary evening at BookCourt on Wednesday, September 26th at 7 PM. The free event is hosted by Martin Rowe and Chiwoniso Kaitano-Price. Refreshments will be provided

The Salon: Writing War

A Reading and Discussion Guest Curated by Warscapes Magazine

Wed Sept 26, 7:00PM at BookCourt, 163 Court Street, Brooklyn

Hosts: Chiwoniso Kaitano-Price and Martin Rowe

Please RSVP: the.salon.nyc@gmail.com

Appearing:

Abdourahmane Waberi, Nadifa Mohamed, Christian Parenti

On the Docket: Reading, Book Signing, Panel Discussion

Abdourahman A. Waberi is novelist, academic, poet, and essayist. He was born in Djibouti and went to France in 1985 to study English literature. He is the author of ten novels out of which The Land Without Shadows, United States of Africa, Passage of Tears, and most recently Transit have been translated into English. He was awarded with several honors including the Stefan-Georg-Preis 2006, the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire and, in 2005, he was chosen amongst the “50 Writers of Future” by French literary magazine Lire. He currently teaches at George Mason University in Washington, DC.

Nadifa Mohamed was born in 1981 in Hargeisa, Somalia, and moved to England in 1986. Her debut novel, Black Mamba Boy, was published in 2010 and won the Betty Trask Prize, as well as being shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Prize, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the PEN Open Book Award, and was long-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her upcoming second novel, Milk and Peace, explores the lives of four women caught in the throes of the Somali civil war.

Christian Parenti is a contributing editor at The Nation, a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute, and a visiting scholar at the City University of New York. He has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the London School of Economics. The author of Lockdown America, The Soft Cage, and The Freedom, Parenti has written for Fortune, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Playboy, Mother Jones, and The London Review of Books. He has held fellowships from the Open Society Institute, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Ford Foundation; and has won numerous awards, including the 2009 Lange-Tailor Prize and “Best Magazine Writing 2008” from the Society for Professional Journalists. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

The discussion will be moderated by Bhakti Shringarpure, founder and editor of Warscapes magazine.
BookCourt is at 163 Court Street between Pacific and Dean Street.

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Feasting On Words: A Conversation About Food, Love And Life At BookCourt

photo credit: Max Kelly at Max Kelly Photography

Food, love and life are the theme of a literary evening at BookCourt on Wednesday, March 28th at 6:30 PM. The evening is hosted by Martin Rowe and Chiwoniso Kaitano-Price.

The Salon: Feasting on Words

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

6:30pm until 9:30pm

BookCourt

163 Court Street

www.bookcourt.com

This month we'll be feeding the hungry muse. Join us for a panel discussion, audience Q&A and book signing. We'll be talking about food, love, life, food and memory, the art of writing about food, food in literature, 'cooking' with words and more.

Featuring:

JULIE POWELL (Julie & Julia, Cleaving),

RACHEL WHARTON (Edible Manhattan & Edible Brooklyn)

MICHELLE MAISTO (The Gastronomy of Marriage)

MELISSA VAUGHAN (Author, The New Brooklyn Cookbook)

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Poetry Night At BookCourt With Denver Butson, Jennifer Michael Hecht, and James Tolan

Brooklyn poets Denver Butson, Jennifer Michael Hecht and James Tolan will be appearing at BookCourt for a Poetry evening and book signing this Tuesday. Don't miss it.

Poetry Night 

With Denver Butson, Jennifer Michael Hecht, and James Tolan

Tuesday March 13 at 7:00PM

7at Book Court 

163 Court Street between Pacific and Dean Street.

Denver Butson is the author of three books of poetry: triptych (The Commoner Press, 1999), Mechanical Birds (St. Andrews College Press, 2000) and illegible address (Luquer Street Press, 2003). His poems have also appeared in journals such as The Yale Review, Ontario Review, Field, Willow Springs, knockout, exquisite corpse¸ and The Chattahoochee Review, among others, in anthologies edited by Billy Collins, Garrison Keillor, and Agha Shahid Ali, and on Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac on National Public Radio. A frequent collaborator with artists in other media, Butson has worked with Pietro Costa (on the NYFA-winning Blood Works and on the internationally exhibited grace), Bush-Fellow Photographer Cedric N. Chatterley, and Grammy –nominated violist Mat Maneri. 

Emmy-Award winning filmmaker Eric Maierson is currently working on a film adaptation of Butson’s poem “what she was wearing,” to feature Butson’s wife -- local actress/filmmaker Rhonda Keyser. Butson has recently finished two new manuscripts of poems –the invention of your sleeping body and sixty-five drowning ghazals.

A long-time resident of Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens, Butson lives with Keyser and their daughter, who attends PS 29.

Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of three history books and two volumes of poetry. Her bestseller Doubt: A Historydemonstrates a long, strong history of religious doubt. Hecht’sThe End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology won the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s 2004 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award “for scholarly studies that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.” Her most recent book, The Happiness Myth brings a skeptical eye to modern wisdom about the good life. Hecht’s poetry books are The Next Ancient World which won three poetry awards, and Funny which Publisher’s Weeklycalled “one of the most original and entertaining books of the year.” In 2010 she served as one of the five judges for the Nonfiction category of the National Book Award. Her prose and poetry appear in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post. Hecht earned her Ph.D. in the History of Science from Columbia University in 1995 and now teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at The New School University and the MFA Writing Program of Columbia University. Her new prose book, Stay: A History of Suicide and a Philosophy Against It will be coming out with Yale University Press in 2013 and her new poetry book, Who Said, will also be coming out next year, with Copper Canyon.

James Tolan is author of the chapbooks Red Walls (Dos Madres Press) and Whiskey and the Rake of Mourning (Deadly Chaps). His poems appear in such journals as American Literary Review, Atlanta Review, Fairy Tale Review, Fulcrum, Gargoyle, Indiana Review, Linebreak, and Ploughshares as well as a number of anthologies, including the Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. He is co-editor of the forthcoming New America, an anthology of contemporary literature (Autumn House Press) and an Associate Professor at the City University of New York. He lives a few blocks down Court Street with his wife Holly Messitt, son Junuh, and their five-pound papillon Prue.

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Lou Reed At Book Court On Court Street tonight.

photo courtesy of Book Court

For all those Lou Reed fans in the neighborhood. The Brooklyn -born musician, author and photographer best know as the lead guitarist of the Velvet Underground will be at Book Court  tonight at 7. He will be reading  from The Raven, a book adaptation of his 2003-realeased album by the same name.  The Raven, Lou Reed's nineteenth solo album is inspired by the works of Edgar Allen Poe.

Book Court is at 163 Court Street between Pacific and Dean Street.

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