
McNally Jackson Books Caroline Hamel's amazing icon photo was taken in our poetry section. We're famous!
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McNally Jackson Books Andrew Porter, one of the country's great young short story writers, will be here tonight. In fact his luggage already is.

McNally Jackson Books Also next week, on Tuesday, Julie Powell is in to read for us from Cleaving, her latest memoir. I've you've never heard her in person, don't miss this.

McNally Jackson Books Other highlights of our events this month: next week we feature Maaza Mengiste, whose debut novel Beneath the Lion's Gaze was just given a nice review in the Times this past weekend.
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An Ethiopian-born novelist recreates her homeland during and after the reign of Haile Selassie.

McNally Jackson Books We're kicking off our events season tonight with Linda Gordon, NYU professor and author of a biography of photographer Dorothea Lange. She's here to talk about the book, the woman, and some of the political aspects of her life and work. It all goes down at 7pm.

McNally Jackson Books Our intrepid photographer Yvonne Brooks braved the winter's first big snowfall to take these images of our storefront.
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Also this month we have Julie Powell coming in. That’ll be the evening of January 12th. Can you tell I’ve been working on our event publicity today? An...

Mary Jo Bang and Susan Wheeler will be reading for us on January 14th, about two weeks from now. Bang was just reviewed in the NYTBR, but more interesting, to me, is this piece from a summer issue of Bookforum about Wheeler’s recent Assorted Poems. ...

McNally Jackson Books Merry Christmas to you and yours from all of us here at the store. We hope your day is full of love, and maybe a happy moment spent with friends and family. Let us know, any new recipes that worked out for you?Any book gifts that went over well? Any that flopped?

McNally Jackson Books New on our front tables today for last minute gift buyers: McSweeney's 33, Jakov Lind's ERGO, still more Herta Muller and The Chomsky Notebooks. Show people that you're confident in their intelligence and taste.

McNally Jackson Books How did I not mention this here? People, our cafe is now serving STUMPTOWN COFFEE: the coffee purveyors so serious they sent their experts in to retrain our baristas. Try the espresso, it's amazing.

McNally Jackson Books Was just asked how I choose which books are faced out in our poetry section. The answer? It's books I like. Not as complicated as you'd think, eh?

McNally Jackson Books Garrison Keillor reads for us tomorrow. He's the real reason we remodeled our cafe. We just want him to like us!

McNally Jackson Books This is a week old now but I cannot not link to it. This is a missed connection from a reading last week and it's amazing. Somebody get in touch with this woman before I do!
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Intriguing tall, dark and handsome intellectual stranger who made eye contact with me around the books, and then sat behind me during the lecture tonight.Without even knowing you, I wanted to press you up against the wall in the rain and taste your mouth.And then find out what books you are reading.

McNally Jackson Books Just a reminder, Mark Danner is in to speak tonight. He's one of our country's preeminent war reporters, and his new collection manages to be gripping and insightful and enraging simultaneously. Here's an example from a recent NYRB: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22614
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An article by Mark Danner from The New York Review of Books, April 30, 2009

















