Bring a book about a Saint, drink some wine, leave with a different book.
Reading and Signing: 6:30 PM, FREE, optional RSVP hereīookswap: 8:00 PM, $15 admission (includes food, drinks, swag). She has contributed essays and criticism to The New York Times, Real Simple, Elle, The Washington Post, and many other publications. Jami Attenberg is the author of a story collection, Instant Love, and three additional novels, The Kept Man, The Melting Season, and The Middlesteins which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction with her fourth SAINT MAZIE coming out this June from Grand Central Publishing. Tickets to Bookswap must be purchased in advance. At 8, we'll have a Bookswap! $15 gets you the opportunity to have a drink and some food, hang with Jami, talk books in a bookstore all to yourself, and get some swag. Join us for a (free) reading and signing by Jami Attenberg at 6:30. Mazie is credited with saving a lot of lives that the city would rather have forgotten, and we're excited to celebrate her life: especially here, especially now.Īttenberg is everywhere right now: Jezebel, Buzzfeed (with Judy Blume!), The Rumpus, Bustle, The Millions, Tumblr's Reblog Book Club, and so many more it's absurd, and you get the pleasure of chilling with her in a closed bookstore over some wine. It's based on the true story of Mazie Phillips, a Bowery movie theater proprietress who almost single-handedly dispensed money, cheer, and unsolicited advice to the down-and-out of the lower East side.
Bookswap is BACK to celebrate the release of Jami Attenberg's incredible new novel, Saint Mazie, the story of a loud-mouthed mensch in depression-era Manhattan who saves the city one soul at a time from behind the glass at The Venice.
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