Events
Translation Launch: Capital vol. I by Karl Marx translated & edited by Paul Reitter edited by Paul North in conversation with Sophie Lewis
With a foreword by Wendy Brown and an afterword by William Clare Roberts, this is a critical edition of Capital for our time, one that faithfully preserves the vitality and directness of Marx’s German prose and renders his ideas newly relevant to modern readers.
Book Launch: The Beads by David McConnell in conversation with Patrick Ryan
Set against a backdrop of late nineties’ Manhattan, The Beads boldly pierces the armor of old money and tries to locate love, if it even exists amid the tangled affectations of a great city.
Book Launch: The Berlin Wall by David Leo Rice in conversation with Lincoln Michel
The Berlin Wall is an allegorical history of the present. It is as if Rice presents an archaeology of time, dusting off human chronology to reveal the multiplicative source of life in all its writhing self-contained logic beneath.
Book Launch: Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel's Tween Empire by Ashley Spencer in conversation with Arianna Davis
The first unauthorized look at the inner workings—and ultimate breakdown—of the Disney Channel machine
Book Launch: Necrology by Meg Ripley in conversation Clay McLeod Chapman
“It’s amazing what the spirit can cope with to preserve the body. My spirit is a mighty oak that just won’t fall.”
Book Launch: The Highest Law in the Land by Jessica Pishko
A leading authority on sheriffs investigates the impunity with which they police their communities, alongside the troubling role they play in American life, law enforcement, and, increasingly, national politics.
Book Launch: A Slippery Beast by Ellen Ruppel Shell in conversation with Carl Zimmer and Robin Marantz Henig
A stunning investigation and indictment of a segment of the United States’ foreign lobbying industry, and the threat to end democracy.
Book Launch: The Women Behind the Door by Roddy Doyle in conversation with Tadhg Hoey
A powerful, moving mother-daughter story filled with struggle and redemption by Booker-Prize winning author Roddy Doyle.
BOMB Magazine Fall Issue Party
Join us to celebrate BOMB Magazine’s Fall issue and kick off our new bundle with their friends at the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Book Launch: Devils Kill Devils by Johnny Compton in conversation with Erin E. Adams
Johnny Compton, critically acclaimed author of The Spite House and master of dread, takes you on a terrifying race of one woman against the hordes of hell.
Book Launch: I Will Do Better by Charles Bock
The novelist Charles Bock was a reluctant parent, tagging along for the ride of fatherhood, obsessed primarily with his dream of a writing career.
Book Launch: It Starts With One by Jason Lipshutz
From the executive director of music at Billboard, an extensive look inside the 20+ year career of mega-selling rock band Linkin Park, featuring new interviews, exclusive quotes, and insights from the band’s associates and collaborators.
Book Party: All Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky with readers Erin Somers, Simon Wu, and Sarah Thankam Mathews
Rachel Kushner meets David Lynch in this fever dream of an LA novel about a young woman who commits a drunken act of violence just before her sister vanishes without a trace.
Book Launch: Love Can't Feed You by Cherry Lou Sy in conversation with Lynn Steger Strong
A beautiful, tender yet searing debut novel about intergenerational fractures and coming of age, following a young woman who immigrates to the United States from the Philippines and finds herself adrift between familial expectations and her own burning desires.
Book Launch: Salt Hank: A Five Napkin Situation by Henry Laporte
Amazing, big-flavor recipes for food-obsessed people from one of social media’s most beloved and popular personalities Henry Laporte a.k.a. @Salt_Hank.
Book Launch: Still Life With Remorse by Maira Kalman
From the critically acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty, My Favorite Things, and Women Holding Things comes a moving meditation in words and pictures on remorse, joy, ancestry, and memory.
Book Launch: Crafting a Better World by Diana Weymar
From beloved craftivist Diana Weymar, creator of the brilliantly subversive Tiny Pricks Project, a collection of projects, actions, and essays to transform your anxiety into action during troubled times.
Book Launch: The Picture Not Taken by Benjamin Swett
An ecologically minded collection of essays in the vein of Rebecca Solnit and Susan Sontag, covering everything from the equipment of photography to the difficulties of perception itself.
Book Launch: Eat the World: A Collection of Poems by Marina Diamandis
For the first time, platinum-certified singer-songwriter Marina shares her singular observations of the human heart through poetry; this collection is essential.
Book Launch: The Italian Daughter’s Cookbook by Cathy Coluccio Fazzolari in convo w/ Photographer Daniel Paterna + Sharon Franke
The Italian Daughter’s Cookbook is an ode to authentic Calabrese cuisine. In this captivating journey through the vibrant and often undiscovered southern regions of Italy, Cathy Coluccio Fazzolari—daughter of the pioneer purveyor of high end and top quality Italian foods in New York City D. Coluccio & Sons—welcomes readers into her family’s kitchen. Through heartfelt familial memories, authentic Calabrese recipes (both with the traditional chili peppers and without), and tantalizing images by Feast of the Seven Fishes author Daniel Paterna, the eclectic essence of Calabrese food comes alive.
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Book Talk: Big Swiss by Jen BeaginBook Launch: Molly by Blake Butler in conversation with Lynne Tillman
Book Launch: Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts by Claire Donato in conversation with Molly Soda, plus additional readings from Abigail Greene and Jaylen Strong and incidental music by Zach Phillips (Fievel is Glauque, Blanche Blanche Blanche)
Book Launch: The Awesome Game by Dave Hill in conversation with Mike Sacks
Book Talk: A Walk Across Dirty Water and Straight Into Murderer’s Row: A Memoir by Eugene S. Robinson in conversation with Lydia Lunch
Book Launch: Continuum by Ivanna Baranova w/ Imogen Xtian Smith and Wendy Lotterman
Book Launch: Bluebeard’s Castle by Anna Biller in conversation with Mina Hamedi
Book Launch and Performance: Naked: On Sex, Work, and Other Burlesques by Fancy Feast
Book Launch: Gentle Chaos by Tyler Gaca a.k.a. Ghosthoney in conversation with Anna Marie Tendler
Book Launch: Project UnLonely: Healing Our Crisis of Disconnection by Jeremy Nobel MD in conversation with Danielle Ofri
The Shining by Dorothea Lasky in reading and conversation with Heidi Julavits
Book Launch: Wonder Boy by Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans