Books

Annette Leddy is a fiction writer and curator. These two vocations converge in her novel Earth Still, which tells the story of Patricia, a museum curator and the mother of a young son, who falls for a new neighbor, Rennie, in the aftermath of an alien spaceship’s unexplained landing in present day Los Angeles. Leddy is…

To Defend the Revolution Is to Defend Culture revisits the circumstances which led to the arts being embraced at the heart of the Cuban Revolution. Introducing the main protagonists to the debate, this previously untold story follows the polemical twists and turns that ensued in the volatile atmosphere of the 1960s and ’70s. The picture…

Broomrider’s Book of the Dead purports to be “A book in no genre based on found fragments from the notebooks of Anna Albuquar a.k.a. Anna Plum.” By happenstance the first reader of this book comes upon some poems. A tourist, he would like to believe he is in Bombay for work alone. Not pleasure, he is…

   Based on Margo Perin’s childhood, The Opposite of Hollywood is a riveting novel of a family on the run. Marked by secrecy, false identities, and her father’s criminality, Tosca goes “on vacation” through five countries and two continents as she fights to learn her true identity. Margo Perin is the contributing editor of Only…

Donnelle McGee reads from his novel Ghost Man Novelist Chris Abani notes that “Donnelle McGee writes with an incisive grace and insight. Uncompromising in its exploration of grit and themes of history, weaving noir into the literary, Ghost Man is an exciting and timely book. With some Chester Himes and some Walter Mosley and hints of…

Author Elijah Wald in person at Bird & Beckett, reading from and signing his new book, Dylan Goes Electric! Live music as well, with Elijah performing a few songs with his wife, the clarinettist Sandrine Sheon. On the evening of July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan took the stage at Newport Folk Festival backed by an…