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SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Sapsuckers
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the launch of The Sapsuckers by author Sam Farhi\, in conversation with Hardy Griffin! \nAbout the book: “Don’t tell mom.” Those were the last words Rem ever told his little brother Pete in the summer of 2004 before slipping out the door of their trailer with a half-filled backpack\, disappearing into the night forever. Words that haunt Pete almost as much as the ones scrawled over Rem’s lifeless body when the police found him later\, hanging by a gorge in the sleepy upstate college town of Ithaca\, New York. The police declared it a suicide\, but for Pete and his mother Peg\, the truth is something both more complicated and more simple than that. The Sapsuckers is a literary anti-mystery suffused with slow dread\, a compelling exploration of our obsession with true-crime\, and a mesmerizing debut that probes the tenuous connection of bonds that are forged in trauma.  \nAbout the author: Sam grew up in Ithaca\, NY but he is now based in Baltimore. Most recently he’s written the Hourglass films for Daniel Arsham and Adidas. His debut novel\, The Sapsuckers\, will be published by Spuyten Duyvil in Summer 2026. His work has appeared in The Opiate\, PACKET Biweekly\, ThoseThatThis\, Vogue Italia Online\, HBO’s New York Latino Film Festival\, Yale’s Paprika! and The Wall. His zines have been sold at OHWOW Bookclub and aNYthing in downtown Manhattan. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Long Island University. \nAbout the conversation partner: Hardy Griffin recently won The Masters Review’s Summer Fiction Prize\, and his writing has appeared in New Flash Fiction\, Alimentum\, Assisi\, The Washington Post\, American Letters & Commentary\, and others. He wrote the chapter on Voice for The Gotham Guide to Writing Fiction (Bloomsbury).
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/book-launch-the-sapsuckers/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:Hot People Read Book Club ˚˖𓍢ִ໋❀
DESCRIPTION:Did somebody say rebrand? We are switching it up this summer! Different name\, same mission: uplifting Black\, Indigenous\, Latine\, queer\, AANHPI\, disabled and neurodivergent authors. Everyone is welcome! \nJoin us to discuss Before I Let Go by author Kennedy Ryan ˚˖❀ \nA contemporary romance novel about a couple that realizes that love alone can’t save a marriage after a huge loss. It’s a story about healing\, holding on to hope and what it truly means to love another person.  \nJoin Hot People Read for discounts and giveaways throughout the year!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/hot-people-read-book-club-%cb%9a%cb%96%f0%93%8d%a2%d6%b4%e0%bb%8b%e2%9d%80-2/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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SUMMARY:Queer Horror Book Club - Summer Sons
DESCRIPTION:A fan of queer horror? Looking to get into the genre? Join us for a discussion on Summer Sons\, led by BSB staff member Alex. \nBook club attendees get 10% one (1) purchase in-store!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/queer-horror-book-club-summer-sons/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:LET’S READ + TALK ABOUT CLIMATE - CLIMATE LIT DISCUSSION GROUP
DESCRIPTION:Join our community-led conversations about climate change\, as we discuss All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall! \nBook club attendees get a 10% coupon for (1) purchase!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/lets-read-talk-about-climate-climate-lit-discussion-group-7/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Mistranslation
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the launch of Mistranslation by author Madeleine Moss\, in conversation with Eleanor Henderson! \nAbout the book: In upstate New York in 2001\, nine-year-old twins Sabina and Camilla spend the summer weathering the moods of their erratic mother while finding themselves pulled toward diverging interests. Their lives are shaken up by the arrival of an Arab French family across the street. Thrilled by what she sees as a link to the country of her origins\, Sabina attempts to befriend the family’s son\, Khalil\, and is rebuffed for reasons she doesn’t understand. Yet as the twins and Khalil come of age\, they are drawn into a tense and ever-shifting triangular dynamic. Mistranslation is a continent-spanning chronicle of family\, inheritance\, and the reverberations of the choices we do or don’t make. \nAbout the author: Madeleine Moss grew up here in Ithaca\, New York\, and holds a degree in French literature from Cornell University. She received her MFA in fiction from Washington University in St. Louis in 2020. Her debut novel\, MISTRANSLATION\, has been named a “Most Anticipated Book of the Year” by Debutiful. She currently lives in Strasbourg\, France\, where she teaches middle and high school English. \nAbout the conversation partner: Eleanor is the author of the memoir Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage\, which was named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of 2021 by Vogue; and the novels The Twelve-Mile Straight\, and Ten Thousand Saints\, which was named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times and a finalist for the Award for First Fiction from The Los Angeles Times. It was also the basis for the movie adaptation 10\,000 Saints starring Ethan Hawke. A Professor in the Department of Writing at Ithaca College and a 2024 NYFA Fellow in Fiction\, she will publish her next novel\, The Galaxy\, in August 2027.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/book-launch-mistranslation/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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