Barnes & Noble Upper West Side Announces Upcoming Events

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Monday, Feb 1
Start: 7:00 pm
"Black Women, Black Freedom" with Laura Whitehorn, Wonda Jones, Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi Woodard
Description:
Laura Whitehorn, editor of the Black Panther Safiya Bukhari's The War Before, and Bukhari's daughter, Wonda Jones, join Komozi Woodard and Jeanne Theoharis, authors of Want to Start a Revolution? to discuss the unique role of black women activists.

Tuesday, Feb 2
Start: 7:00 pm
My Times in Black and White: Race and Power at the New York Times
with Robin Stone and Jeff Coplon
Description:
Writer Robin Stone, widow of Gerald Boyd, the first black managing editor at the New York Times, discusses her husband's memoir, My Times in Black and White, with Jeff Coplon, whose magazine profile of Boyd won a Newhouse School Mirror Award in 2008.

Wednesday, Feb 3
Start: 7:00 pm
David McConnell, Author of The Silver Hearted, with Edmund White
Description:
David McConnell reads from his latest novel, The Silver Hearted, a compelling thriller and discusses the writing craft with acclaimed author Edmund White.

Monday, Feb 8
Start: 7:00 pm
Devotion
Description:
In her new memoir, Devotion, Dani Shapiro writes about motherhood, daughterhood, sisterhood and midlife anxiety.

Tuesday, Feb 9
Start: 7:00 pm
You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation
Description:
Susannah Gora's You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried takes us back to the era of proms, skinny ties and outcasts in love captured by a filmmaker gone before his time.

Wednesday, Feb 10
Start: 7:00 pm
Curfewed Night
Description:
In his memoir Curfewed Night, young Kashmiri journalist Basharat Peer recounts his youth in the troubled valley during the '80s and '90s.

Tuesday, Feb 16
Start: 7:00 pm
The Year of Loving Dangerously
Description:
Ted Rall's new autobiographical work is an allegory for the economic collapse, graphically showing what can happen to anyone who suffers a run of bad luck.

Thursday, Feb 18
Start: 7:00 pm
Pocket Peace: Gentle Steps to a More Meaningful and Joyous Life
Description
Allan Lokos, Buddhist practitioner and founder of the Upper Westside's Community Meditation Center, discusses his new book, Pocket Peace.

Monday, Feb 22
Start: 7:00 pm
Three Weissmanns of Westport
Description:
Bestselling author Cathleen Schine reads from her new novel, an enchanting modern-day homage to the classic, Sense and Sensibility.

Wednesday, Feb 24
Start: 7:00 pm
This Book Is Overdue!
Description:
Marilyn Johnson, staff writer for Life and an editor at Esquire and Redbook, takes readers on a delightful journey to the underbelly of life as a librarian today.

Thursday, Feb 25
Start: 7:00 pm
Horns
Description:
Joe Hill, author of the acclaimed story collection, '20th Century Ghosts,' reads from Horns, his new horror novel about a man who wakes up with horns growing out of his head.