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In the spirit of unfettered exploration of self that great books can prompt, the Feminist Press brings a new reading series for children to the Brooklyn Public Library, featuring classic tales read by drag queens. “Drag Queen Story Hour breaks down our most stifling ideas about gender while lifting up play, fierceness, and femininity for all,” says Jennifer Baumgardner, executive director and publisher of the Feminist Press. Michelle Tea, curator for Feminist Press’s Amethyst Editions, will introduce this story hour and Lil Miss Hot Mess will share a story from Tatterhood.

Lil Miss Hot Mess is a drag queen who has performed at venues ranging from gay bars to universities, SFMOMA to the streets of OccupySF.

Michelle Tea is the author of five memoirs, including Valencia, Rent Girl, and How to Grow Up. Her novels include Rose of No Man’s Land and a trilogy of young-adult fantasy novels. She cocreated the performance tour Sister Spit and founded the literary nonprofit RADAR Productions. Tea is the curator of the Amethyst Editions imprint for the Feminist Press. (FeministPress)… (more)

In his affecting sixth novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours focuses on three characters facing pivotal moments in their lives. Barrett, lonely after many failed relationships, has a vision that leads him to faith. His brother, a musician who dreams of writing an enduring anthem to love, turns increasingly to drugs to fuel his creativity. And his fiancée, seriously ill, struggles to come to terms with mortality. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

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The Snow Queen Michael Cunningham Composed with a “luxuriant ability to imagine his characters’ lives in the round” and a “romantic sense of the adventure of the inner life” (The New York Review of Books), Michael Cunningham’s books are narrative experiments—genre bending tours through time—often in conversation with existing literature. His books include The Hours, a novel which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award and was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film starring Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, and Julianne Moore; A Home at the End of the World, made into a film starring Colin Farrell and Sissy Spacek; Golden Days; Flesh and Blood; Specimen Days; and By Nightfall. In his new novel The Snow Queen, he tackles the three great American subjects: religion, drugs, and politics. Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway) This is a FREE event; no tickets or reservations are required. For more information, please call 215-567-4341, or click here

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Winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award & Pulitzer Prize for The Hours, Michael Cunningham shares his luminous new novel, The Snow Queen. It’s November 2004. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park when he is inspired to look up at the sky; there he sees a pale, translucent light that seems to regard him in a distinctly godlike way. Beautiful and heartbreaking, comic and tragic, The Snow Queen proves again that Cunningham is one of the great novelists of his generation.

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You’re cordially invited to attend our every third Thursday of the month Book Club. This one will be held off site in order to accommodate all those last minute holiday shoppers here at the shop!

This month's book is By nightfall by Michael Cunningham.

Moderated by longtime bookseller Michelle and events gal Suzanne, our book club is multi-generational, friendly, casually well read, and one of the best groups to talk about a book with we've ever met! As always, our club books will be discounted 10% every month. Additionally, if your book club buys 3 or more copies of one title, we’ll happily discount any and all other book club’s titles too!

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