Brooklyn Rail Fiction Extravaganza June 13 7:30 @ Spoonbill

Thursday 6/13 7:30  Lewis Warsh Dawn Raffel  and a staged reading of Fernando Pessoa’s play The Mariner (a static drama in 1 scene) Spoonbill Books  218 Bedford Ave Williamsburg BK     This second helping of the Rail’s fiction section is that rare collection that is joyfully archival: a work which genuinely spans the globe. It is a dusty-fingered, crypt-cracking dossier of stories that conjure laughter, fear, and awe. It reminds us that anthologies were once anthologia – “collections of flowers” – by forming a garland of wild blossoms, artfully linking Brooklyn-in-bloom to plants of international origin. Fair warning: the Rail’s compiled fiction will send hapless rookies and even a few sage hounds back into dogged, lifelong addiction to thrilling tales and lost yarns. It will return you to that fabled moment when you first entered some back-alley record shop or bookstore in our fair borough and found gatekeepers sorting through stacks of unknown pleasures. Donald Breckenridge and his band of archaeologists are those treasured excavators who stood before you and uttered those magic words, “Have you ever tried this? Because if you like that, this’ll knock you out.” Nick Curley VOL.1 Brooklyn

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Poet JENNIFER BARTLETT at SPOONBILL

Spoonbill & Sugartown, Booksellers welcomes poet Jennifer Bartlett who will reads from her new book from Chax Press: (a) lullaby without any music at 8 PM
on Wednesday, June 12 here at the shop. Admission is Free and light refreshments will be served.

Jennifer Bartlett is the author of

Derivative of the Moving Image (UNM 2007) and

(a) lullaby without any music (Chax 2012). She was co-editor of Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability (Cinco Puntos Press, 2011.) She was a 2008 NYFA Fellow. Her current project is a biography of the poet Larry Eigner.

REVIEWS OF (a) lullaby without any music :

These etched words take flight into the everyday of husbands and birds, crystalline reflection and self-possessed repose. Bartlett’s poems sparkle with unadorned being and sardonic becoming. Till we become ourselves in their reflection, refigured as beauty.
-Charles Bernstein

The crosshatch of love, place and domesticity. A woman wearing, then shedding, the identities of body, mother, wife, daughter, bird and lover. Jennifer Bartlett’s (a) lullaby without any music proves, once again, that she is the nightingale in the city, and we are all richer for it.
-Maryrose LarkinSpoonbill is located at 218 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn NY. Contact: Miles Bellamy: 718-387-7322

Special Event: No Bake Makery

Please join us on Thursday May 9th at 7:30 to celebrate the publication of No Bake Makery by Cristina Suarez Krumsick. No bake treats and wine will be served. Cristina will also talk and sign her book.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cristina Suarez Krumsick is the chef and proprietor of No Bake Makery. From her Brooklyn apartment, she launched her two-bite sweets business with nothing but a blog, a PayPal account, and a bunch of no bake recipes. Cristina’s business has since expanded to cater to parties and events around New York City. From toddlers’ birthday parties to fancy fashion events to wedding dessert tables, Cristina’s no bakems make a cute a delicious statement wherever they are.

By day, Cristina is a publicist at a major publishing house where she works with cookbooks, lifestyle and contemporary fiction titles. She lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with her husband, Jeremy. Contrary to popular belief, their apartment does, in fact, have a working oven.

Lee Ann Bown + Stephen Boyer @ Spoonbill May 13

We are very excited to present an evening of readings with Lee Ann Brown and Stephen Boyer. Please join us on Monday, May 13 at 7:30 at Spoonbill & Sugartown Books at 218 Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg.

In the LaureLs, Caught is a collection of lighthearted, deep-
rooted poems written around the Appalachian region of North Carolina in
Madison County. An adventurous, intellectually restless native, Lee Ann
Brown writes out of attachment but with the slant of a transplanted outsider.
She investigates elements of local language, musicality, material culture, and landscape, using collage, found poetry, and oral history and anecdote.

A Daylily’s blossom
only lasts one day
Binnorie o Binnorie
My grandmother showed me
how to have my say
the glory  o the glory
Now every time I see a faded drooping bud
Binnorie o Binnorie
I deadhead it like she did
so the rest can live on
the story  o the story

Parasite, Stephen Boyer’s debut novel is about a young 17 year old boy, Joshua Boyer, who runs away from his unaccepting Christian parents. Josh finds himself in San Francisco as a sex slave to an older man, but quickly tires of the abuse. He turns to working in the sex industry and searches for true love as he tries to figure out his new life.

Mumbai New York Scranton – Tamara Shopsin

MUMBAI NEW YORK SCRANTON, the debut memoir from well-known graphic designer Tamara Shopsin, moves brilliantly between humor and heartache, revealing the kaleidoscope of emotions that come from a life full of family, marriage, cooking, creativity, and wide-eyed wonder. Or, in the words of Maira Kalman, “A beautifully illustrated memoir full of love, with no bullsh*t.”

In genuine, straightforward, and lighthearted prose, Tamara describes a year in her life: she and her husband and collaborator Jason travel to India. They journey all over the country, taking photos and making the kinds of keen observations only a pair of artists could make. They return home, first to New York, then to Scranton. And then things get very interesting, and they realize life is precious, and that they’re happy to be living a life that is defined by passion, humor, creativity, and love.

TAMARA SHOPSIN is a graphic designer and illustrator whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Good, Time, Wired, and Newsweek. She is the designer of the 5 Year Diary and Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin. Two volumes of her drawings have been published under the titles C’est le Pied! and C’est le Pied II. She is a 2012 Code for America fellow and a cook at her family’s restaurant in New York.

Please join us on Wednesday April 10th, 7:30 PM, at Spoonbill Books for a reading and signing.

 

 

 

 

Night of Tarot at Spoonbill Books

 

 

 

 

 

Tanwi Nandini will be the Tarot Reader

JAMIE LYNN’S DEER, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT & A CALL FOR VISITORS

JAMIE JOHNSTON (1983-) just returned from her native Montana, where she bagged a large white-tailed buck. We are cheered in advance of her January departure from our employ by the scraps she brought us, as a form of consolation, in the form of pieces of jerky derived from the animal pictured above. She kept the choice parts, which she has in her freezer at home.

She has been an excellent book buyer and bookseller, and has kept the shop humming and thriving not least by whipping its owners into some kind of shape on a daily basis. We will miss her dearly. More on her next venture in a future post.

***We have recently secreted into the flowing stock a nice collection of second hand books on FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT. It presently consists of about 150 volumes as well as ephemera from various exhibitions and Wright organizations. Only some of it is on display; the rest can be seen by appointment or will gradually be brought in as space permits.

***We also have a collection of JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY, mostly from the 90’s and after, with many of the heavy hitters but also some more obscure photographers. Again, only some of this is in the shop – the rest is at our SECRET WAREHOUSE, by appt.

****The Holidays appear to be upon us. We think you will be made merry by a visit to the shop – we don’t see how you can’t be. A veritable cacophony of beautiful books have descended in our midst. And it almost goes without saying: We ship books to your distant loved ones anywhere in the States. We have books for (almost) everyone, including your difficult uncle and his children. A few pictures of a very few books below: