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Bookstore Café Events

  • Bookstore Cafe
  • 126 Crosby Street, New York, NY 10012 :: 212-334-3324

A panel with Shelley Jackson (artist and author, Half Life), Nathaniel Rich (author, The Mayor’s Tongue, senior editor, The Paris Review) Heidi Julavits (novelist and co-editor of The Believer) and Mark Greif (critic, co-editor and co-founder of N+1). Moderated by Justin Taylor (writer and editor of The Apocalypse Reader and McSweeney‘s).

This panel will examine the criteria used to place works of literature into categories like lyric, minimal, narrative, high brow, low brow, etc. It will examine past schools and movements in literature and parse out the impulse we have to categorize and draw lines between types of stories. Presented by Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Fine Art.

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Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

Since opening its doors in 1998, Housing Works’ Bookstore Café has been an unparalleled hotspot for New York’s literary community, hosting countless readings, panels, and parties for every major publisher, as well as magazines from Lucky to The New Yorker. Every dollar from every customer goes to support Housing Works’ mission to end homelessness and AIDS.