Book Signing: Jimmy Snuka “Superfly”

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Focusing on the superstar who single-handedly influenced the development of sports entertainment, this autobiography highlights the legacy of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) icon Jimmy Snuka. The wrestler’s legendary top-rope maneuvers, innovative high-flying style, and unprecedented [read more]

Author Event: Zadie Smith “NW”

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Bestselling Author ZADIE SMITH will be speaking and signing her new novel, NW. “A boldly Joycean appropriation, fortunately not so difficult of entry as its great model… Like Zadie Smith’s much-acclaimed predecessor White Teeth (2000), [read more]

Book Signing: Nassim Taleb “Antifragile”

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As provocative and counter-intuitive as his bestselling The Black Swan, Talib’s new book proposes that some things benefit from disorder. Just as bones, for example, thrive and strengthen when under stress, so the “antifragile” facets [read more]

Book Signing: Kevin Philips “1775”

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In his fifteenth book, the long-time political and economic commentator argues that 1775, not 1776, was the crucial year for the American Revolution. While the British launched major attacks in 1776, Phillips contends that their [read more]

Author Event: Calvin Trillin “Dogfight”

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What’s an election year without a little levity? Our unofficial light-verse laureate, Trillin, in his latest rhymes puts the campaign in perspective with witty satirical—and metrical—commentary on the candidates, the voters, the pundits, the war [read more]

Author Event: David Nasaw “The Patriarch”

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In this magisterial new work The Patriarch, the celebrated historian David Nasaw tells the full story of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the twentieth century’s most famous political dynasty. Nasaw—the only biographer granted unrestricted [read more]

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