Strand Literary & Arts Festival

The Strand turns 80 this year and we want to celebrate with our customers. On Saturday, October 13, the Strand will host a day-long Literary & Arts Festival where our patrons can get up close and personal with authors and artists. The schedule of appearances is listed below; all participants will be happy to chat and sign copies of their books.

At 5:00, we will toast our customers and unveil The Strand 80, a list of our customers' 80 favorite books. We will also draw the winners of the Strand 80 promotion; if you voted for your five favorite books, be here at 5:00 to see if you won the entire library of 80 books!

For more information about the Strand Festival, please contact Christina Foxley

All Festival events will take place at our 12th and Broadway location only

The Strand thanks these contributing partners:

 

• The Nation presents... Laura Flanders, Blue Grit

  

  October 13 12:00PM - 12:45PM

  Flanders is the host of "RadioNation" heard on Air America Radio and syndicated to non-commercial affiliates nationwide. She will be sitting at The Nation table with fellow author, Jonathan Schell.
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• Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost; A Search for Six of Six Million

  

  October 13 12:00PM - 12:45PM

  Meet Daniel Mendelsohn and chat with him about his book which won him the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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• Charles Morris, The Surgeons; Life and Death in a Top Heart Center

  

  October 13 12:00PM - 12:45PM

  Morris embedded himself for six months in the elite cardiac surgery center at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in NYC.
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• Joseph Berger, The World in a City; Travelling the Globe Through the Neighborhoods of the New New York City

  

  October 13 01:00PM - 01:45PM

  New York Times reporter Joseph Berger offers hope to an increasingly polarized world, addressing issues of immigration and acculturation--demonstrating that we can indeed live in harmony.
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• Children's Author Michael Buckley, Sister's Grimm

  

  October 13 01:00PM - 01:45PM

  Meet Michael Buckley, author of the well-loved Sister's Grimm series, in the Children's Department!
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• Sigrid Nunez, A Feather on the Breath of God

  

  October 13 01:00PM - 01:45PM

  The "master of psychological acuity" (The New Yorker) will talk to her fans about her body of work.
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• The Nation presents...Gabriel Thompson, Calling All Radicals; How Grassroots Organizers Can Help Save Our Democracy

  

  October 13 01:15PM - 02:45PM

  Gabriel Thompson draws upon his own experience of working within local communities to demonstrate its immediate impact. He argues that everyone is capable of community organizing.
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• The Nation presents... Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Dictionary of Republicanisms

  

  October 13 01:15PM - 02:45PM

  Ms. Vanden Heuvel has been the editor of The Nation since 1995 and the publisher since 2005. She will be hosting The Nation table with authors Jeremy Scahill and Gabriel Thompson.

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• Arthur Nersesian, The Swing Voter of Staten Island

  

  October 13 02:00PM - 02:45PM

  Nersesian's boldest novel yet is set in a reproduction of NYC (in Nevada) and explores the real with the surreal, the psychological with the psychedelic.
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• WQXR presents...Children's Author Lloyd Moss, Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin

  

  October 13 02:00PM - 02:45PM

  Lloyd Moss has created a playful, musical stream of rhyming couplets that seamlessly, slyly teaches the names of myriad musical groups. Lloyd will share his story with the children in the children's department.
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• Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

  

  October 13 02:00PM - 02:45PM

  Filled with stunning inventiveness and heart, this book, voted by San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune as the Best Book of the Year, introduces a radiant new writer.
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• Jennifer Belle, Little Stalker

  

  October 13 02:00PM - 02:45PM

  Belle's third novel will provide the necessary fix for those addicted to the chick-lit genre...this book reveals that "her sensibility sparkles with offbeat humor." (Publishers Weekly)
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• WQXR presents...David Dubal, The Essential Canon of Classical Music

  

  October 13 03:00PM - 03:45PM

  Professor of piano literature at Juilliard, Dubal gives himself the difficult challenge of addressing two audiences simultaneously: listeners new to classical music and more experienced listeners who would like a guide to creating a "lifetime listening plan." Dubal will join WQXR announcers at the WQXR table.
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• David Kamp, United States of Arugula; The Sun-Dried, Cold Pressed, Dark Roasted, Extra Virgin Story of the American Food Revolution

  

  October 13 03:00PM - 03:45PM

  The book is a rollicking, revealing stew of culinary innovation, food politics and kitchen confidences chronicling how gourmet eating in America went from obscure to pervasive--and became the cultural success story of our era.
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• Harold Schechter, Devil's Gentleman; Privilege, Poison and the Trial that Ushered in the Twentieth Century

  

  October 13 03:00PM - 03:45PM

  True-crime historian Schechter delivers a thrilling account of a murder case that rocked Manhattan at the turn of the 20th century. This is a riveting tale of murder, seduction and tabloid journalism run rampant in a New York not so different from today's.
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• Larry Fink, Somewhere There's Music

  

  October 13 03:00PM - 03:45PM

  This book collects photographer Larry Fink's mostly unpublished black-and-white jazz photographs from the 1950s to the 1970s.
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• Gina DePalma, Dolce Italiano; Desserts from the Babbo Kitchen

  

  October 13 03:00PM - 03:45PM

  Stop by and get some treats from Gina DePalma, pastry chef at Mario Batali's Italian restaurant Babbo!
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• David Friedman, The Immortalists; Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever

  

  October 13 03:00PM - 03:45PM

  Friedman shares this cautionary tale about two heroic men. Charles Lindbergh, after his pioneering 1927 nonstop transatlantic flight, thought he was a god and committed himself to exploring the science of eternal life. He joined forces with Nobel Laureate Alexis Carrel and the pair embarked on an immortality project at the Rockefeller Institute.
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• Alan Madison, Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly

  

  October 13 03:00PM - 03:45PM

  Learn about how Velma's life changes when she visits a butterfly conservatory in first grade! Alan Madison will tell his story in the children's department.
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• Dan Brown, The Great Expectations School; A Rookie Year in the New Blackboard Jungle

  

  October 13 04:00PM - 04:45PM

  The book traces the author's turbulent first year working as a teacher of disadvantaged students in the Bronx. Brown shares his unique experiences with the students and addresses the problems of America's educational system.
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• Christian Jungersen, The Exception

  

  October 13 04:00PM - 04:45PM

  Interspersing the narrative with factual reports on the psychology of evil that spawned concentration camps in Germany and genocide in Bosnia, and shifting the point of view among four women, Jungersen steadily builds up both tension and paranoia. A best-seller in Europe, this thought-provoking page-turner offers a unique spin on office politics.
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• David Markson, The Last Novel

  

  October 13 04:00PM - 04:45PM

  Markson's latest is a "real tour de force" (The New York Times). The postmodern novelist claims his later novels are "literally crammed with literary and artistic anecdotes." Come meet Markson who will share stories from his many days of shopping at the Strand...
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• Edmund White, Hotel de Dream

  

  October 13 04:00PM - 04:45PM

  A biographical fantasia, White's latest imagines the final days of the poet and novelist Stephen Crane (The Red Badge of Courage), who died of TB at age 28 in 1900. The world-famous author has retreated to Europe with wife, Cora, in part to avoid gossip about her ignominious past as the proprietress of the Florida bordello, the Hotel de Dream...
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• Bruce Davidson, Circus

  

  October 13 04:00PM - 04:45PM

  One of the world's most influential photographers, Bruce Davidson takes readers inside three mid-century big tops in images that are poetic, realistic and profound. Most of these photographs are published here for the first time.
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