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SUMMARY:Books\, Bread & Wine: A Celebration & Fundraiser for Buffalo Street Books
DESCRIPTION:Join BSB for an exciting afternoon with some of Ithaca’s literary luminaries! Local writers will each share a reading while you enjoy wine and baked goods\, provided by our friends at Damiani Wine Cellars and Wide Awake Bakery. \nWe hope you will attend this fundraising event with an afternoon of readings from Jamaica Baldwin\, Mary Gilliland\, Alex Gilvarry\, Charlie Green\, Brian Hall\, Eleanor Henderson\, Roald Hoffmann\, Ishion Hutchinson\, Alexandra Kleeman\, J. Robert Lennon\, Valzhyna Mort\, Raul Palma\, Bob Proehl\, Dan Rosenberg\, Helena Viramontes\, and Jacob White. Join us for short readings\, wine\, and goodies . This is a fundraiser for Buffalo Street Books and will be held in our Reading Room. \nTicket includes attendance\, food\, drink\, and a year of membership with BSB.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/books-bread-wine-a-celebration-fundraiser-for-buffalo-street-books/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:Recovery at Work: Book Launch and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join BSB for a discussion about Recovery at Work: Using Twelve Step Principles for Professional Success. Hear author Amy Newman\, book editor and Cornell Management Communication faculty member Christy McDowell\, and recovery partner Mandy Caughey describe how principles behind Twelve Step programs founded by Alcoholics Anonymous can help anyone find peace and develop resilience at work.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/recovery-at-work-book-launch-and-discussion/
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:Cookie Decorating with Buffalo Street Books!
DESCRIPTION:Escape the cold this weekend and decorate cookies with BSB! We’ll have shortbread cookies baked by Via’s Cookies and hot cocoa from Oracle Chocolates. And\, of course\, fun sprinkles and frosting to decorate with! \n$10 ticket includes two cookies to decorate and a cup of hot chocolate.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/cookie-decorating-with-buffalo-street-books/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241206T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241206T173000
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SUMMARY:Queering Modernism: An Exploration of Psychoanalysis and Dysphoria in Literature
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for conversation between Mat Fournier and Jennifer Spitzer on their recent books\, Dysphoric Modernism and Secret Sharers. They will talk about sexuality and gender in literature\, the influence of psychoanalysis\, and the necessity to engage with canonical texts in contemporary terms.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/queering-modernism-an-exploration-of-psychoanalysis-and-dysphoria-in-literature/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241205T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241205T173000
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SUMMARY:"The Lunatics: Hunter's Moon" with A.M. Leonard
DESCRIPTION:Join BSB for a reading and conversation with author local author A.M. Leonard! on her debut Fantasy novel -Hunter’s Moon!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/the-lunatics-hunters-moon-with-a-m-leonard/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241129T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241129T160000
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SUMMARY:"100 Things to Do in Ithaca" Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Join Buffalo Street Books for a book signing with author Amanda Jaros Champion!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/100-things-to-do-in-ithaca-book-signing/
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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241124T153000
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SUMMARY:"Yield Everything\, Force Nothing" Generative Creative Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:About the Workshop Series: \nYield Everything\, Force Nothing is the title of a Jean Valentine poem and hopefully a blessing over this workshop series. In these three classes\, we will yield to our intuition\, write expansively\, and try to forgo the everyday pressures of linear thinking. I will gently guide you through fun\, multi-step interactive prompts and we’ll engage in playful\, radical revision techniques. You will surprise yourself. The most common feedback I get about my teaching style is “I’ve never taken a class like this before” and “I can’t believe I just wrote this!” \nThese classes are meant for adult writers and humans of all skill levels. \nTo register: https://forms.gle/jTL548EPmMpWL8HXA. You are welcome to join 1\, 2\, or all 3 classes. Sliding scale\, if payment is a barrier for you\, please email nicolevbasta@gmail.com. 50% of all proceeds will go to a family in Gaza.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/yield-everything-force-nothing-generative-creative-writing-workshop-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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241124T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241124T170000
DTSTAMP:20260428T113126
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SUMMARY:"Yield Everything\, Force Nothing" Generative Creative Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:About the Workshop Series: \nYield Everything\, Force Nothing is the title of a Jean Valentine poem and hopefully a blessing over this workshop series. In these three classes\, we will yield to our intuition\, write expansively\, and try to forgo the everyday pressures of linear thinking. I will gently guide you through fun\, multi-step interactive prompts and we’ll engage in playful\, radical revision techniques. You will surprise yourself. The most common feedback I get about my teaching style is “I’ve never taken a class like this before” and “I can’t believe I just wrote this!” \nThese classes are meant for adult writers and humans of all skill levels. \nTo register: https://forms.gle/jTL548EPmMpWL8HXA. You are welcome to join 1\, 2\, or all 3 classes. Sliding scale\, if payment is a barrier for you\, please email nicolevbasta@gmail.com. 50% of all proceeds will go to a family in Gaza.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/yield-everything-force-nothing-generative-creative-writing-workshop/2024-11-24/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241122T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241122T183000
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SUMMARY:"Rooms: The Works and Life of JJ Manford" with Gordon Sander and JJ Manford
DESCRIPTION:Join author and biographer Gordon Sander and artist JJ Manford for a conversation at Buffalo Street Books. \nAbout the Book: When Gordon Sander ’72\, BA ’73\, began an artist residency at Risley Residential College in 2002\, he was returning to familiar ground. The author\, photographer\, and journalist had come back to the Hill twice before to work on books and had a history of hiring Risleyites as assistants. But this time would be different. Not only would Sander end up doubling his planned one-year stay\, he’d also meet a fine arts major who’d go on to become a lifelong friend and collaborator. \nThat student was Jonathan “JJ” Manford ’06—the subject of Sander’s ninth book\, titled Rooms\, to be published by a small Latvian art press in January 2024. “Back at Cornell I envisioned writing a book about JJ at some point\,” admits Sander\, whose byline has appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, and numerous other publications. “The idea was like one of those bubbles at the bottom of a glass of soda.” Now a painter whose work has been mentioned in the New Yorker\, Manford was named by the popular online art marketplace Artsy as one of its most sought-after “emerging” artists in 2022. \nAbout the Artist: JJ Manford’s remarkable work and exquisite style\, which has been described as “psychedelic realism\,” has been featured in The New Yorker\, Art Net and numerous other publications. His “lush interiors\,” to paraphrase The New Yorker\, hang in various museums\, including ICA Miami and Everson Museum of Art of Syracuse\, as well as many distinguished private collections.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/rooms-the-works-and-life-of-jj-manford-with-gordon-sander-and-jj-manford-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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241121T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241121T173000
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SUMMARY:A Book Release in Story and Song: "Waiting for the Steamboat at Lamoreaux Landing"
DESCRIPTION:Join local author David B. Schwartz to celebrate the his new release Waiting for the Steamboat at Lamoreaux Landing. He will be reading from the book and accompanied by local musician\, Richie Stearns.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/a-book-release-in-story-and-song-waiting-for-the-steamboat-at-lamoreaux-landing/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241113T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241113T163000
DTSTAMP:20260428T113126
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LAST-MODIFIED:20241108T210410Z
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SUMMARY:Climate Fiction Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Join Buffalo Street Books in exploring exceptional works of climate fiction! We’ll use a different book each month as a jumping-off point for talking about our collective climate future. If you can’t read each month’s book cover-to-cover\, that’s okay–but the more you read\, the more meaningful the conversation. Led by aspiring climate writer Wendy Skinner\, with guest poets and writers. Free and open to all. \nOrder your books from BSB for a 10 percent discount. \nAbout the Book: The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination\, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate\, postapocalyptic world\, but a future that is almost upon us. Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of the year\, this extraordinary novel from visionary science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson will change the way you think about the climate crisis.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/climate-fiction-discussion-group-3/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241109T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241109T190000
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SUMMARY:"Window of Tolerance" with Susanna Cupido
DESCRIPTION:Susanna Cupido is excited to celebrate the launch of her debut novel\, Window of Tolerance. Please join her at Buffalo Street Books for a short reading and Q&A period.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/window-of-tolerance-with-susanna-cupido/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241109T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241109T153000
DTSTAMP:20260428T113126
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SUMMARY:James Baldwin: A Celebration & Community Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate James Baldwin with us and take home a free copy of a Baldwin book\, donated by Beacon Press! Funds raised support Buffalo Street Books as it transitions to a nonprofit model. \nOur conversation will be led by: \nMwalimu Kofi Acree\, Director for the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library and Curator of Africana Collections for the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections \nAnne V. Adams\, Professor Emerita of Africana\, Women’s\, and Afro-German studies \nKenneth A. McClane\, W.E.B. Dubois Professor of Literature Emeritus
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/james-baldwin-a-celebration-community-conversation/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241102T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241102T160000
DTSTAMP:20260428T113126
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SUMMARY:"The Eighth Moon" with Jennifer Kabat and Chris Holmes
DESCRIPTION:Join Buffalo Street Books for a conversation with Jennifer Kabat and Chris Holmes. They will be discussing Kabat’s debut memoir for a special live recording of the Burned By Books podcast.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/the-eighth-moon-with-jennifer-kabat-and-chris-holmes/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T193000
DTSTAMP:20260428T113126
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SUMMARY:October Game Night with Buffalo Street Books
DESCRIPTION:Looking for a ghostly October game night? Embrace the Halloween season and join us in playing a macabre game of Mysterium! We have a wide variety of board games you can choose from to help you decompress. $5 suggested donation.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/october-game-night-with-buffalo-street-books/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T180000
DTSTAMP:20260428T113126
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SUMMARY:"Feminism Is Alive and Well in the Novel" Jennifer Savran Kelly in conversation with Aggeliki Pelekidis and Aida Zilelian
DESCRIPTION:About the Event: Across genres\, styles\, and forms\, feminism is alive and well in contemporary literature. Aggeliki Pelekidis’s Unlucky Mel (Cornell University Press\, 2024) is a humorous and moving feminist campus novel and Aida Zilelian’s All the Ways We Lied (Keylight Books\, 2024) is a heartfelt family saga focused on four sisters. Please join us for a lively reading and conversation about their stories and publishing journeys. Moderated by Jennifer Savran Kelly\, author of Endpapers. \nAbout the Books: \nAll the Ways We Lied – Set in Queens\, New York\, meet the Manoukians—a dysfunctional Armenian family and the fraying rope that binds them. While a father deteriorates from terminal illness\, three sisters contend with one another\, their self-destructive pasts\, and their indomitable mother as they face the loss of the one person holding their unstable family together. Kohar\, the oldest sister\, is happily married\, yet grapples with fertility issues and\, in turn\, her own self-worth. Lucine\, the middle child\, is trapped in a loveless marriage and haunted by memories of her estranged father. Azad\, the beloved youngest child\, is burdened by an inescapable cycle of failed relationships. By turns heartfelt and heart wrenching\, All the Ways We Lied introduces a cast of tragically flawed but lovable characters on the brink of unraveling. With humor and compassion\, this spellbinding tale explores the fraught and contradictory landscape of sisterhood\, introducing four unforgettable women who have nothing in common\, and are bound by blood and history. \nUnlucky Mel: A Novel –  PhD candidate Melody Hollings is in the final year of her creative writing program in upstate New York. Her dream life of landing the perfect academic job somewhere far away from her small hometown and publishing her first novel is so close to becoming a reality. But first she has to finish writing that book. Oh\, and graduate. To do both\, she needs her good friend Ben to reciprocate all the help she’s given him over the years on his writing. But when Mel’s widowed father starts acting strangely\, she is thrown. After chalking it up to a dramatic attempt to manipulate her into moving back in with him\, she discovers that he really is suffering from dementia. Now she’ll need to stay local to care for him. Her dream is dying and her best option is to win a postgraduation fellowship through her alma mater. Despite all the upheaval in Mel’s life\, rather than helping her\, Ben turns on her in a shocking betrayal. For the first time\, Mel has a nemesis! The stress of caring for her father\, teaching too many students\, and living with so much uncertainty over her future escalates Mel’s desire for retribution–until one night\, she discovers an opportunity to ruin Ben’s reputation. Unlucky Mel is a smart\, funny debut in which Pelekidis explores the lengths we’re willing to go to in order to even the score and the ways in which women are often expected to sacrifice their professional ambitions for the men in their lives.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/feminism-is-alive-and-well-in-the-novel-jennifer-savran-kelly-in-conversation-with-aggeliki-pelekidis-and-aida-zilelian/
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:"A Grand Love: Stories for Grandparents of Transgender Grandchildren" with Janna Barkin
DESCRIPTION:About the Event: Join us to celebrate the release of Janna Barkin’s new book A Grand Love: Stories for Grandparents of Transgender Grandchildren. \nAbout the Book: A Grand Love is a book of personal stories and observations from the perspectives of the author\, grandparents of transgender grandchildren\, and transgender people themselves. Transgender people have never been more visible in our society than right now. There is evidence that transgender and gender diverse people benefit greatly when they have the support\, love\, and acceptance of their parents and families. Grandparents have an opportunity to play a crucial role in family dynamics and contribute to positive outcomes for their loved ones. Grandparents who become aware that their grandchild’s gender identity doesn’t match the sex assigned to them at birth can feel confused and alone. While the field of knowledge in this area is growing at a very fast pace\, many therapists\, counsellors\, teachers\, and school administrators remain unskilled and uninformed when it comes to working with transgender or gender diverse children and their parents\, grandparents\, and other family members. A Grand Love provides consistently positive and uplifting educational guidance. The book includes a glossary of terms\, educational chapters about gender identity and what it means to be transgender\, information on the latest research on gender\, and lists of non-profits and other organizations that support transgender youth and families. Part educational\, part storytelling\, and chock-full of inspiration\, A Grand Love: Stories for Grandparents of Transgender Grandchildren will inform and uplift anyone who reads it.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/a-grand-love-stories-for-grandparents-of-transgender-grandchildren-with-janna-barkin/
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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241013T160000
DTSTAMP:20260428T113126
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SUMMARY:Local Poets for Harris Open Mic with Jon Raimon\, Ian Shapiro\, and Stacey Murphy
DESCRIPTION:About the Event: We are Local Poets for Harris\, a group of writers who want to inspire fellow citizens to support the joyful\, compassionate\, and just vision the Harris and Walz team have for our country. We will have an open mic for local writers to share three minutes of poems related to the importance of standing up for democracy\, rights\, community\, justice\, and joy! We will also have information about how we can all get involved in the campaign\, each in our own way.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/local-poets-for-harris-open-mic-with-jon-raimon-ian-shapiro-and-stacey-murphy/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241013T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241013T140000
DTSTAMP:20260428T113126
CREATED:20241007T135341Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241007T135341Z
UID:10004182-1728824400-1728828000@www.downtownithaca.com
SUMMARY:Stories of Kindness and Resilience
DESCRIPTION:As a part of the United in Kindness Event Series and Domestic Violence Awareness Month\, Advocacy Center Center of Tompkins County is hosting an all-ages story hour!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/stories-of-kindness-and-resilience/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241012T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241012T180000
DTSTAMP:20260428T113126
CREATED:20241007T135319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241007T135319Z
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SUMMARY:"World Headquarters" Reading and Signing
DESCRIPTION:About the Event: Peter Fortunato will read from and sign copies of his new poetry collection World Headquarters. Peter Fortunato has published several other poetry collections\, the novel\, Carnevale (from Fomite Press) and a memoir\, Desert Wind: My Life in Qatar. \nAbout the Book: The three sections of World Headquarters resonate with and reinforce the interconnectedness among the local and universal\, the personal and political\, the human and non-human worlds. Poems comprising Part II\, ad-Dawha\, were begun while Peter Fortunato lived in Doha\, the capital of Qatar. During the rapid modernization of that desert emirate\, Fortunato taught four years at the newly opened Weill Cornell Medicine. But where exactly is the world’s headquarters—these poems dance across the horizons of the mind\, unlimited in its essence\, particular in its myriad expressions.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/world-headquarters-reading-and-signing/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241012T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241012T140000
DTSTAMP:20260428T113126
CREATED:20241007T135408Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241007T135408Z
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SUMMARY:"The Skeleton Flute" Book Signing and Reading
DESCRIPTION:About the Event: Join us for a very fun (and spooky) reading with author Damara Allen! \nAbout the Book: \nThe legend of the Pied Piper meets Sal and Gabi Break the Universe with a touch of Coraline in this spooky and suspenseful middle grade adventure about a boy whose wish goes horribly wrong and his fight to reunite with his real family. \nSam Windsor’s parents and younger siblings\, Grayson and Addie\, are his whole world\, so when his parents announce they’re separating\, Sam is devastated. He’d do anything to make his parents change their minds and keep the family together. When a stranger offers a flute made of bone that supposedly grants the player’s wish\, Sam doesn’t really believe it will work but figures he has nothing to lose. Surprisingly\, the wish on the skeleton flute comes true. The next day\, his parents are happily in love\, with no plans for his dad to leave. But there’s a major problem: his parents’ relationship isn’t the only thing in his life that has changed\, and some of the changes are definitely for the worse. Caught in a world full of unintended consequences and familiar strangers\, Sam has limited options for returning to his old life—worries\, challenges\, and all. Can he track down the mysterious man who gave him the flute and undo his wish?
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/the-skeleton-flute-book-signing-and-reading/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T163000
DTSTAMP:20260428T113126
CREATED:20241007T134825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241007T134825Z
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SUMMARY:Climate-Fiction Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:About the Event: Join us in exploring exceptional works of climate fiction! We’ll use a different book each month as a jumping-off point for talking about our collective climate future. If you can’t read each month’s book cover-to-cover\, that’s okay–but the more you read\, the more meaningful the conversation. Led by aspiring climate writer Wendy Skinner\, with guest poets and writers. Free and open to all. \nOrder your books from BSB for a 10 percent discount. \nAbout the Book: When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s\, California becomes full of dangers\, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything to live to see another day. Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father\, family\, and neighbors\, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk\, she suffers from hyperempathy\, a debilitating sensitivity to others’ emotions. Precocious and clear-eyed\, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores. But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth of a new faith . . . and a startling vision of human destiny.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/climate-fiction-discussion-group-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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241005T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241005T190000
DTSTAMP:20260428T113127
CREATED:20241007T135047Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241007T135047Z
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SUMMARY:"Rooms: The Works and Life of JJ Manford" with Gordon Sander and JJ Manford
DESCRIPTION:About the Event: Author and biographer Gordon Sander will be in store to talk with artist\, and subject of his book Rooms\, JJ Manford. \nAbout the Book: When Gordon Sander ’72\, BA ’73\, began an artist residency at Risley Residential College in 2002\, he was returning to familiar ground. The author\, photographer\, and journalist had come back to the Hill twice before to work on books and had a history of hiring Risleyites as assistants. But this time would be different. Not only would Sander end up doubling his planned one-year stay\, he’d also meet a fine arts major who’d go on to become a lifelong friend and collaborator. \nThat student was Jonathan “JJ” Manford ’06—the subject of Sander’s ninth book\, titled Rooms\, to be published by a small Latvian art press in January 2024. “Back at Cornell I envisioned writing a book about JJ at some point\,” admits Sander\, whose byline has appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, and numerous other publications. “The idea was like one of those bubbles at the bottom of a glass of soda.” Now a painter whose work has been mentioned in the New Yorker\, Manford was named by the popular online art marketplace Artsy as one of its most sought-after “emerging” artists in 2022.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/rooms-the-works-and-life-of-jj-manford-with-gordon-sander-and-jj-manford/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T190000
DTSTAMP:20260428T113127
CREATED:20240909T173108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240909T173108Z
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SUMMARY:"Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth\, from Hagfish to Humans" with Bill Schutt
DESCRIPTION:Join author Bill Schutt in conversation with artist Patricia J. Wynne as they discuss Schutt’s newest release “Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth\, from Hagfish to Humans.”
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/bite-an-incisive-history-of-teeth-from-hagfish-to-humans-with-bill-schutt/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T190000
DTSTAMP:20260428T113127
CREATED:20240905T183352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240905T183352Z
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SUMMARY:"Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth from Hagfish to Humans" with Bill Schutt and Patricia Wynne
DESCRIPTION:Join author Bill Schutt in conversation with artist Patricia J. Wynne as they discuss Schutt’s newest release “Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth\, from Hagfish to Humans. \nAbout the Author: Bill Schutt is a vertebrate zoologist and author of six nonfiction and fiction books\, including Pump: A Natural History of the Heart and the New York Times Editor’s Choice\, Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History. Recently retired from his post as professor of biology at LIU Post\, he is a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History\, where he has studied bats all over the world. His research has been featured in Natural History magazine as well as in the New York Times\, Newsday\, the Economist\, and Discover.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/bite-an-incisive-history-of-teeth-from-hagfish-to-humans-with-bill-schutt-and-patricia-wynne/
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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240912
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240916
DTSTAMP:20260428T113127
CREATED:20240731T190800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240731T190800Z
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SUMMARY:Ithaca is Books Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Ithaca is Books Festival exists to celebrate the authors\, performers\, and storytellers who illuminate our world and introduce us to new ones. \nEvents will be hosted all over town including readings and conversations with Jonathan Letham\, Steven Salvatore\, and Debbie Urbanski. As part of the festival\, the book fair will take place on The Commons on September 14th and 15th. Stay tuned for a finalized schedule. We’ll see you there!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/ithaca-is-books-festival-2/
LOCATION:Ithaca Commons\, E. State Street\, Ithaca\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240911T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240911T163000
DTSTAMP:20260428T113127
CREATED:20240815T173515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240815T173515Z
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SUMMARY:Climate-Fiction Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:About the Event: Join us in exploring exceptional works of climate fiction! We’ll use a different book each month as a jumping-off point for talking about our collective climate future. If you can’t read each month’s book cover-to-cover\, that’s okay–but the more you read\, the more meaningful the conversation. Led by aspiring climate writer Wendy Skinner\, with guest poets and writers. Free and open to all. Order your books from BSB for a 10 percent discount. \nAbout the Book: Willa Marks has spent her whole life choosing hope. She chooses hope over her parents’ paranoid conspiracy theories\, over her dead-end job\, over the rising ocean levels. And when she meets Sylvia Gill\, renowned Harvard professor\, she feels she’s found the justification of that hope. Sylvia is the woman-in-black: the only person smart and sharp enough to compel the world to action. But when Sylvia betrays her\, Willa fears she has lost hope forever. And then she finds a book in Sylvia’s library: a guide to fighting climate change called Living the Solution. Inspired by its message and with nothing to lose\, Willa flies to the island of Eleutheria in the Bahamas to join the author and his group of ecowarriors at Camp Hope. Upon arrival\, things are not what she expected. The group’s leader\, author Roy Adams\, is missing\, and the compound’s public launch is delayed. With time running out\, Willa will stop at nothing to realize Camp Hope’s mission—but at what cost?
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/climate-fiction-discussion-group/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240908T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240908T150000
DTSTAMP:20260428T113127
CREATED:20240815T172715Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240815T173434Z
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SUMMARY:Forensics for Writers: Writing Workshop with Mary Jumbelic
DESCRIPTION:Mystery and True Crime enthusiasts – join us for this exciting workshop with expert forensic pathologist\, Mary Jumbelic! Mary will share her experiences along with the ins and outs of language\, characters\, and writing to provide authenticity to your work! \nAbout the Author: Mary Jumbelic\, M.D. is an author from Central New York\, and former chief medical examiner of Onondaga County. A board-certified forensic pathologist\, Mary has performed thousands of autopsies during her 25-year career. She has received awards for her work from the National Transportation Safety Board and the New York State Senate\, and has been recognized as a trailblazer by the National Organization of Women. As an expert witness\, she has appeared on numerous national broadcasts\, most recently Dateline and 48 hours.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/forensics-for-writers-writing-workshop-with-mary-jumbelic/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240907T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240907T170000
DTSTAMP:20260428T113127
CREATED:20240815T172645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240815T172645Z
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SUMMARY:"And Some Other Third Thing" - Discussion with Authors Ivy Stevens and Tessa Permar
DESCRIPTION:About the Event: Authors Ivy Stevens and Tessa Permar will be in-store to read selections from their book\, and some other third thing\, as well as discuss their creative practice and the philosophy of their group. \nAbout the Book: These three authors met at the National Theater Institute in 2013. They started a writing group at the beginning of Covid as a way to cope/stay engaged/be creative/etc. They generated prompts from conversations\, books of writing prompts\, writing prompt generator websites\, or whatever was inspiring them that week. “Like a lot of folks\, we all started many projects in 2020\, but this is one of the few we all actually kept up with. We never focused on having any kind of final product. Even this book is not the culmination of all our work; it came out of wanting to celebrate what we’d done so far.”
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/and-some-other-third-thing-discussion-with-authors-ivy-stevens-and-tessa-permar/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240906T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240906T200000
DTSTAMP:20260428T113127
CREATED:20240815T172312Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240815T172312Z
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SUMMARY:"The World She Edited" - Amy Reading in Conversation with Emily Hopkins
DESCRIPTION:About the Event: Join author Amy Reading and former New Yorker staffer Emily Hopkins to discuss Katharine Sergeant White and the literary world she curated in her 36-year editorship of The New Yorker. White was the invisible hand behind an impressive cohort of writers and was especially sympathetic to women writers just getting their start. The discussion will include how the book world looks different when read over her shoulder\, her long\, productive marriage to E.B. White\, what happens when an editor decides to become a writer\, and other tales from a rich literary life. \nAbout the Author: Amy Reading is the author of The World She Edited: Katharine S. White Edits The New Yorker and The Mark Inside: A Perfect Swindle\, a Cunning Revenge\, and a Small History of the Big Con. Her recent book has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment of the Humanities and the New York Public Library\, among others. She is the president of the Executive Board of Buffalo Street Books\, on which she has served since 2018.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/the-world-she-edited-amy-reading-in-conversation-with-emily-hopkins/
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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