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Sahar Delijani was born in Tehran's Evin Prison in 1983 and grew up in California, where she graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. Her work has been published in a broad spectrum of literary journals and publications, including The Battered Suitcase, Tryst, Slice Magazine, Prick of the Spindle, Perigee, Border Hopping, Berkeley Poetry Review, and Sangam Review. She was nominated for the 2010 and 2011 Pushcart Prize and was for a time a regular contributor to Iran-Emrooz (Iran of Today) Political and Cultural Journal. She makes her home with her husband in Turin, Italy. Children of the Jacaranda Tree is her first novel. Find out more at... Read full bio
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Tuesday, June 18, 7:00 PM Neil Gaiman presents The Ocean at the End of the Lane at BAM's Howard Gilman Opera House Part of Unbound at BAM: A Literary Series with Greenlight Bookstore

From one of the world’s most beloved storytellers––#1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman (The Sandman, Stardust, Coraline) –– comes his first adult novel in eight years. Wondrous and imaginative, and at times deeply scary, The Ocean at the End of the Lane captures the very essence of childhood fear and uncertainty. In a clash of memory and reality, it is a pitched fever dream of a novel, and could very well be Gaiman’s most accomplished work to date.

LOCATION: Peter Jay Sharp Building BAM Howard Gilman Opera House 30 Lafayette Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11217

RUN TIME: 1 hour (followed by book signing)

TICKETS: $45 and $55, available through the BAM box office or online through BAM.org. Each event ticket includes a copy of The Ocean at the End of the Lane; books will be distributed in the Opera House lobby preceding the event.

SIGNING: Neil Gaiman will sign books for all ticket holders following the event. He will sign and personalize any number of copies of The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and no more than one other title. Gaiman's books will be offered for sale by Greenlight at BAM in the Opera House lobby before and after the reading.

QUESTIONS: please email info@greenlightbookstore.com

Location: Street: 686 Fulton Street City: Brooklyn, Province: New York Postal Code: 11217 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Tuesday, June 18, 7:30 PM Greenlight Fiction Book Group discusses The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai Led by Greenlight general manager Alexis, this book group discusses paperback fiction on the third Thursday of each month. For June, the group discuses Kiran Desai’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Inheritance of Loss. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge’s cook watches over her distractedly, for his thoughts are often on his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another. Kiran Desai’s brilliant novel, published to huge acclaim, is a story of joy and despair. Her characters face numerous choices that majestically illuminate the consequences of colonialism as it collides with the modern world.

Location: Street: 686 Fulton Street City: Brooklyn, Province: New York Postal Code: 11217 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Wednesday, June 19th, 7PM Montclair Public Library Auditorium Play Ball! We're talkin' baseball: The best writing sport in America Local Authors Book Discussion Filip Bondy & Ron Kaplan Filip Bondy is a sports columnist for the Daily News, where he has worked since 1993. He has been cited as one of the top ten sports columnists in America by the Associated Press Sports Editors. Over the years, his articles have appeared in such publications as the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, GQ, and the Village Voice. He has also authored or co-authored six books, including Tip Off: How the 1984 NBA Draft Changed Basketball Forever and Chasing the Game: American and the World Cup. Ron Kaplan is a sports and features writer and editor for the New Jersey Jewish News. His book reviews, author interviews, and articles have appeared in publications such as the Huffington Post, Baseball America, and Mental Floss. He also hosts a blog, ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com, on baseball literature. Montclair Public Library With the Authors Spring/Summer 2013 Author Discussion Series Free Admission No registration required Refreshments served

Location: Street: Montclair Public Library Additional: 50 South Fullerton Avenue City: Montclair, Province: New Jersey Postal Code: 07042-4137 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Wednesday, June 19, 7:30 PM Philipp Meyer presents The Son Philipp Meyer made an impressive literary debut with his critically-acclaimed first novel American Rust, which landed on the Best of the Year lists of the New York Times, Washington Post, and The Economist, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was selected as one of Newsweek’s “Best. Books. Ever.” Meyer’s much-anticipated new novel The Son (already a Greenlight favorite) is a multi-generational epic set in Texas, inspiring comparisons to the work of Larry McMurtry and Cormac McCarthy. Spanning most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the narrative tells the story not just of the settlement of the west, but of the moral cost of America’s rise to power, and of the people and cultures we have displaced along the way. Meyer reads and discusses his book and signs copies tonight.

Location: Street: 686 Fulton Street City: Brooklyn, Province: New York Postal Code: 11217 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)