Contact:
Rosalind Reisner
Where:
Strand Books
Rare Books Department
828 Broadway & 12th Street
New York, NY 10003-4805
When:
Wednesday October 17, 2012 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
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2012 Official Sponsors
The sponsors and partners of National Reading Group Month are committed to celebrating the joy of shared reading-and to reading groups everywhere. The WNBA thanks them for their invaluable support and generosity.
Gold/Premier Sponsor
HarperCollins Publishers (2007 founding sponsor)
Harper, Harper Paperbacks, HarperPerennial, Amistad, Ecco, Wm. Morrow, Wm. Morrow Paperbacks
Silver Sponsors
Ingram Content Group
Other Press
Friends of National Reading Group Month
Bloomsbury USA
Red Hen Press
Sony Reader Store, Sony Style
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Paid-up WNBA-NYC chapter members attend free of charge and receive a $10 Strand gift card upon arrival at the event. Non-members will need to purchase a Strand gift card for $10 at the door.
For information on membership in WNBA-NYC, please go to our website www.wnba-nyc.org.
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 Please join us for our annual celebration of National Reading Group Month with a great author panel, moderated by NRGM/Great Group Reads Chair, Rosalind Reisner.
Rosalind is the author of Read On. . . Life Stories: Reading Lists for Every Taste and Jewish American Literature: A Guide to Reading Lists.
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Photo credit: Tisa Della-Volpe
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Falling Together, Wm. Paperbacks.
Marisa de los Santos is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning poet with a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing. Marisa lives in Wilmington, Delaware, with her husband, the children's book author David Teague, and their son and daughter.
 My Korean Deli: Risking it All for a Convenience Store, Picador.
Ben Ryder Howe has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and Outside, and his work has been selected for Best American Travel Writing. He is a former senior editor of The Paris Review. He, his wife, and their two children live on Staten Island. This is his first book.
 An Age of Madness, Red Hen Press. David Maine has lived and worked in Rabat, Morocco and Lahore, Pakistan. He is the author of 5 novels and a fantasy novel eBook. His books have been translated into several languages and his first novel, The Preservationist, was nominated for the First Book Award by the Guardian. He currently lives and writes in Massachusetts.  | |
Photo credit: Leonid Knizhnik
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Boundaries, Akashic Books.
Elizabeth Nunez is the author of eight novels and a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College, CUNY. Her novel,
Anna In-Between was also selected for the 2010 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award. She divides her time between Amityville, New York, and Brooklyn.
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Photo credit: Marion Ettlinger
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M�nage, Other Press. Alix Kates Shulman is the author of the feminist classic Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen and three other novels; two previous memoirs, including the award-winning Drinking the Rain; and two books on the political activist Emma Goldman. She lives in New York City.
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