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09.08: Jonathan Franzen
2015-08-14 23:03:15| Powells Books Events Calendar
In his new novel, Jonathan Franzen imagines a world of vividly original characters and follows their intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Internet and as ancient as the war between the sexes. Purity (Farrar Straus Giroux) is a magnum opus for our morally complex age and the most daring and penetrating book yet by one of the major writers of our time.
09.08: Science Fiction Book Group
2015-08-14 23:03:15| Powells Books Events Calendar
This month we meet to discuss Dies the Fire by S. M. Stirling. Join us!
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09.08: Kate Harding
2015-08-14 23:03:15| Powells Books Events Calendar
From Congressman Todd Akin's "legitimate rape" gaffe to the high school rapists of Steubenville, Ohio, sexual violence has been so prominent in recent years that the feminist term "rape culture" has finally entered the mainstream. But what, exactly, is it? And how do we change it? In Asking for It (Da Capo Lifelong), Kate Harding answers those questions in the same blunt voice that has made her a powerhouse feminist blogger. Combining in-depth research with practical knowledge, Asking for It makes the case that 21st-century America supports rapists more effectively than victims. Harding will be joined in conversation by Andi Zeisler, cofounder and editor of Bitch magazine.
09.08: Dear Luke, We Need to Talk, Darth
2014-08-18 20:39:23| Powells Books Events Calendar
We all know how Darth Vader shared his big secret with Luke Skywalker, but what if he had delivered the news in a handwritten note instead? In the riotously funny collection Dear Luke, We Need to Talk, Darth (Three Rivers Press), John Moe finally reveals these lost notes alongside all the imagined letters, emails, text messages, and other correspondences your favorite pop culture icons never meant for you to see. From The Walking Dead to The Wizard of Oz, from Billy Joel to Breaking Bad, no reference escapes Moe's imaginative wit and keen sense of nostalgia. Like a bonus track to a favorite CD or a deleted scene from a cult movie, Moe's book offers a fresh twist on the pop culture classics we thought we knew by heart. You already know part of their story — now find out the rest.
09.08: Stuart Rojstaczer
2014-08-18 20:39:23| Powells Books Events Calendar
When the greatest female mathematician in history passes away, her son, Alexander "Sasha" Karnokovitch, just wants to mourn his mother in peace. But rumor has it the notoriously eccentric Polish émigré has solved one of the most difficult problems in all of mathematics and has spitefully taken the solution to her grave. As a ragtag group of mathematicians from around the world descends upon Rachela's shiva, Sasha must come to terms with his mother's outsized influence on his life. Stuart Rojstaczer's The Mathematician's Shiva (Penguin) is an unexpectedly moving and uproariously funny novel that captures humanity's drive not just to survive, but to achieve the impossible.
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