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SUMMARY:Book Launch: A Myth in Reverse
DESCRIPTION:Join Daphne Solá for the launch of her poetry book A Myth in Reverse. \nAbout the Author \nSolá aside from writing poetry is a printmaker and owned an art gallery. She has been a participant in the Murphy Poetry Workshop\, at Stockton University\, NJ\, in their Florida meetings\, and in Barcelona. She has been a reader at these meetings and in Library Events in Ithaca\, Trumansburg Lansing and Skaneateles\, NY. She has studied poetry and book-making at Wells College Summer Book Arts Institute and produced artist-books as well as several examples of her chapbooks. Her work has been published in The Healing Muse\, Poetry of the Ithaca Times\, in Vol.5\, 6\, of The Finger Lakes Anthology\, in Bluff and Vine and Avocet. A volume of her poetry is now available\, A MYTH IN REVERSE\, published by Kelsay Books. Solá has visited Japan many times and in1983 attended a Papermakers Conference in Kyoto. An exhibit of her paperwork was presented in Nara in 2000. Her prints and paper artwork have been shown in New York\, Copenhagen\, Kyoto\, and Lima\, Peru. When asked about the moves from one art form to another\, she says\, “It’s really all the same thing.”
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/book-launch-a-myth-in-reverse/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240518T160000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch - ODAR Book One: Jido
DESCRIPTION:Denice Peter Karamardian grew up in Ithaca\, New York\, thinking she was Syrian – part of the small Syrian community that co-mingled with Greek\, Italian\, and other 20th century immigrant communities that helped to build the little city from the turn of the 20th century. Although both of her paternal grandparents came from Syria and spoke in Syrian\, she was only half right. At the age of 12\, she learned that her grandfather was actually Armenian and certain mysteries and stories emerged upon his death. Denice spent a lifetime searching for answers and details. \nThe result is a trilogy\, presented as historic fiction but based entirely upon the true story of the Karamardian family across continents\, wars\, and generations. The series is called Odar\, which means “other” in Armenian; sometimes it can mean “stranger” or “foreigner”. The author tracks a parallel narration of her own coming of age as it relates to the discoveries she makes in her search for identity. \nAbout the Book \nHovsep Karamardian is on the precipice of adulthood. Finishing his education\, he awaits a life in the family business that seems to him like a prison. On an errand to market\, an unexpected confrontation forever changes him. After living a life surrounded by family and friends in Kessab\, he is abruptly forced to travel with his brother to start again in the Americas. \nHovsep is odar or other in this new world. Relying on nothing but his own intrepid nature and ability to adapt\, he finds work\, love\, and friendships that will last a lifetime. \nThus begins a story that will span generations and trace the unfolding of improbably linked fates. Denice Peter Karamardian’s Jido explores the honoring of family\, memory\, and legacy even in the midst of new beginnings and evolving identities. \nAbout the Author \nDenice Peter Karamardian owns and operates a regional publication for Finger Lakes wine visitors and is at work on several books. She is retired from a rich tapestry of overlapping careers that spanned over forty plus years and included instructing voice\, host/producer of radio concert broadcast series\, fifty years of music and theater performance\, columnist and reviewer. She currently lives in her hometown of Ithaca\, New York (where she operated a bed and breakfast for two decades) near/with her family.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/book-launch-odar-book-one-jido/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240516T170000
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SUMMARY:Reading Widely Book Club - The Golem of Brooklyn
DESCRIPTION:For this month’s Reading Widely Book Club\, Buffalo Street Books’ Events Coordinator Nora will be leading conversation alongside Khiya Connolly-Sisk on Adam Mansbach’s most recent novel\, The Golem of Brooklyn. \nBook club titles are 10% off when purchased in-store and online. \nAbout the Book \nIn Ashkenazi Jewish folklore\, a golem is a humanoid being created out of mud or clay and animated through secret prayers. Its sole purpose is to defend the Jewish people against the immediate threat of violence. It is always a rabbi who makes a golem\, and always in a time of crisis. But Len Bronstein is no rabbi–he’s a Brooklyn art teacher who steals a large quantity of clay from his school\, gets extremely stoned\, and manages to bring his creation to life despite knowing little about Judaism and even less about golems. Unable to communicate with his nine-foot-six\, four hundred-pound\, Yiddish-speaking guest\, Len enlists a bodega clerk and ex-Hasid named Miri Apfelbaum to translate. Eventually\, The Golem learns English by binging Curb Your Enthusiasm after ingesting a massive amount of LSD and reveals that he is a creature with an ancestral memory; he recalls every previous iteration of himself\, making The Golem a repository of Jewish history and trauma. He demands to know what crisis has prompted his re-creation\, and whom must he destroy. When Miri shows him a video of white nationalists marching and chanting “Jews will not replace us\,” the answer becomes clear. \nAbout the Author \nAdam Mansbach is a novelist\, screenwriter\, cultural critic and humorist. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the F*** to Sleep\, which has been translated into forty languages\, named Time Magazine’s 2011 “Thing of the Year\,” and sold over two million copies worldwide. The 2014 sequel\, “You Have to F****** Eat\,” is also a New York Times bestseller. \nMansbach is the recipient of a Reed Award\, a Webby Award\, and a Gold Pollie from the American Association of Political Consultants for his 2012 campaign video “Wake The F*** Up\,” starring Samuel L. Jackson. He was the 2009-11 New Voices Professor of Fiction at Rutgers University\, a 2012 Sundance Screenwriting Lab Fellow\, and a 2013 Berkeley Repertory Theatre Writing Fellow. His work has appeared in The New Yorker\, New York Times Book Review\, Esquire\, The Believer\, The Guardian\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Boston Globe\, and on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered\, The Moth Storytelling Hour\, and This American Life. Mansbach lives in Berkeley\, California\, and is a frequent lecturer on college campuses.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/reading-widely-book-club-the-golem-of-brooklyn/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240511T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240511T170000
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SUMMARY:Beltane Market
DESCRIPTION:Our Maker’s Market is back! Join us for a full day of browsing products made by local artists and celebrate springtime with our BSB community.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/beltane-market/
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:20240508T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240508T200000
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SUMMARY:Bye Bye Tiberias Screening at Cinemapolis
DESCRIPTION:About the Event \nBuffalo Street Books and Cinemapolis are partnering for another film screening and book sale double feature. Get some popcorn\, check out some books\, and enjoy the screening of Bye Bye Tiberius. \nAbout the Film \nIn her early twenties\, Hiam Abbass left her native Palestinian village to follow her dream of becoming an actress in Europe\, leaving behind her mother\, grandmother\, and seven sisters. Thirty years later\, her filmmaker daughter Lina returns with her to the village and questions for the first time her mother’s bold choices\, her chosen exile and the way the women in their family influenced both their lives. Set between past and present\, Bye Bye Tiberias pieces together images of today\, family footage from the nineties and historical archives to portray four generations of daring Palestinian women who keep their story and legacy alive through the strength of their bonds\, despite exile\, dispossession\, and heartbreak.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/bye-bye-tiberias-screening-at-cinemapolis/
LOCATION:Cinemapolis\, 120 W Green St\, Ithaca\, 14850
CATEGORIES:Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240504T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240504T153000
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SUMMARY:Blood City Rollers
DESCRIPTION:Join V Park Anderson (she/they)\, the creator/writer of debut horror/comedy graphic novel series BLOOD CITY ROLLERS\, and their Alternate Universe (AU) City Podcast co-host Rey Noble (they/he) as they discuss collaborative storytelling\, the graphic novel creation process\, roller derby\, and teamwork as world-saving praxis. Bonus: get your book signed\, win a signed hardcover copy\, and/or learn more about local derby! \nAbout the Book \nAfter ice skater and Olympic hopeful Mina wipes out at her biggest competition\, she gets recruited by a squad of vampires who need a human player to complete their Paranormal Roller Derby team. \nAbout the Author and Illustrator \nVeronica Park (VP) Anderson (she/they) is a neurodivergent\, queer\, feminist millennial writer with a resume that Victor Frankenstein would disown for being “a bit much.” V’s previous job titles include: award-winning community theater actor\, professional lecturer on cruise ships\, indie film producer\, literary agent\, and creative project manager; however\, “writer” is the title that always fits. V plays competitive flat track roller derby as “Scarlet Five” #55 and prefers the pivot role\, aka “surprise jamming.” Born in Alaska and raised in Oregon\, she currently lives with her partner in Upstate NY and has two cats named Skeletor and Bo-Catan. \nTatiana Hill (she/her) is a Black and Latina illustrator by day and roller skater by night. Her art journey began alongside her love for anime in the early 2000s and culminated with a BA in Animation. Receiving awards for Best Art Direction\, she would later apply her skill set in color and design to illustration. Born in Los Angeles and a member of the roller skate community there\, Tatiana enjoys participating in a space that celebrates diversity\, identity\, and found family. She illustrated The Roller World Tarot deck and Blood City Rollers\, her debut graphic novel as an illustrator.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/blood-city-rollers/
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:20240428T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240428T170000
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SUMMARY:Zine-Making Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to design\, print\, and bind zines for your DIY publishing toolkit. Students will be introduced to bookbinding that is ideal for zines and explore ways to write and illustrate their own content. Next\, students will learn how to layout and design their zine and inkjet print 15 copies of their project. Participants will have options to display or sell copies at the Ithaca Book & Zine Fair. Materials will be provided but participants are encouraged to bring any art making supplies they want to use. \nThis class will be facilitated by Adam Bryant and Laura Rowley\, who are both local book artists. Adam Bryant earned his MFA from the University of Iowa Center for the Book in 2021. At UICB\, his areas of study were bookbinding\, book history\, letterpress printing and papermaking. Since 2022\, he has worked as a Senior Conservation Technician in the Cornell University Library Conservation Lab. Laura Rowley earned her MFA from the University of Alabama in 2014. Laura operates Illuminated Press\, a micro press that publishes handmade books. She is also a Library Assistant at the Odessa Library bringing programs to all ages. \nPurchase your tickets here!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/zine-making-workshop/
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:20240427T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240427T180000
DTSTAMP:20260429T065416
CREATED:20240329T203203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240329T203203Z
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SUMMARY:Indie Bookstore Day at Buffalo Street Books
DESCRIPTION:Independent Bookstore Day is a one-day national party that takes place at indie bookstores across the country on the last Saturday in April. This year\, we have a handful of things going on from specific Indie Bookstore Day merch\, to freebies\, to special events going on!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/indie-bookstore-day-at-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:20240420T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240420T150000
DTSTAMP:20260429T065416
CREATED:20240329T203131Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240329T203131Z
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SUMMARY:Reading: Grace Period with Elisabeth Nonas
DESCRIPTION:Join Elisabeth Nonas for a reading from her new novel Grace Period. \nAbout the Book: \nJust as 70-year-old writing professor Hannah Greene walks into her retirement party\, she’s called to the ER because Grace\, her wife of 25 years\, has been in what turns out to be a fatal car accident. This was definitely not part of the plan the two had for their lives\, especially since Grace was ten years younger than Hannah. The plan had been for Hannah to join her art history professor wife on a sabbatical trip to Europe. Grace would do research\, and Hannah would figure out what she wanted to do in her retirement. How does an independent\, feisty lesbian adjust to both her suddenly widowed and newly retired life? How can she survive the loss of the spouse who statistically should have survived her? Grace Period tackles these questions head-on in an intimate\, witty portrayal of a woman grappling with the new and unexpected turn her life has taken. It is a tale of love\, loss\, and survival. \nAbout the Author: \nElisabeth Nonas\, the author of three published novels\, has written several screenplays as well as short stories\, magazine articles\, and essays. She coauthored with Simon LeVay the nonfiction City of Friends: A Portrait of the Gay and Lesbian Community in America. The author taught screenwriting and writing for emerging media at Ithaca College for twenty-five years. Nonas’s three novels focused on how lesbians form community and create family. Given that her first book appeared forty years ago when she was in her mid-30s\, she clearly has different concerns now as she ages and her life continues to unfold. These were what sparked “Grace Period.”Originally from New York City\, she lives in Ithaca\, NY\, with her spouse\, founding publisher and editor of Firebrand Books\, Nancy K. Bereano.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/reading-grace-period-with-elisabeth-nonas/
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:20240419T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240419T190000
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SUMMARY:Board Game Night
DESCRIPTION:Bring your friends down to BSB for board game night! We have a wide selection of games we sell in store from Catan to Concept. Here’s your chance to test out our games and browse our selection after hours! \nLeave your donations here!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/board-game-night/
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:20240416T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T193000
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CREATED:20240401T051312Z
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SUMMARY:Book Tour: Palestine\, Israel\, and the U.S. Empire
DESCRIPTION:A sharp analysis of the struggle for Palestine gets an update following the events of October 7\, 2023. \nPalestine\, Israel\, and U.S. Empire is an essential book for the current moment. Taking a firm anti-Zionist perspective on the history of Palestine and Israel\, it traces the movements of resistance from British colonialism to the fight back in Gaza and the West Bank today. \nFrom the division of the Middle East by Western powers and the Zionist settler movement\, to the founding of Israel and its role as a watchdog for US interests\, to present day conflicts and the prospects for a just resolution—this narrative is firmly rooted in the politics of Palestinian liberation. Here is a necessary contribution to the heroic efforts of the Palestinian people to achieve justice in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. This book contains a complete index and a timeline of developments in the history of Palestine.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/book-tour-palestine-israel-and-the-u-s-empire/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240414T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240414T140000
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SUMMARY:Broken Words with Keyturah Moore
DESCRIPTION:Keyturah Moore will hold a reading and discussion from her chapbook “Broken Words” at Buffalo Street Books. This will be a time to sit down and discuss with the author the story behind “Broken words” and how she used her journey of dealing with depression to find a creative outlet to cope.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/broken-words-with-keyturah-moore/
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:20240407T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240407T160000
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SUMMARY:Green Card Soldier with Sofya Aptekar
DESCRIPTION:Sofya Aptekar is joining us at BSB to read from her memoir Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat \nAbout the Book: \nWhile the popular image of the US military is one of citizen soldiers protecting their country\, the reality is that nearly 5 percent of all first-time military recruits are noncitizens. Their reasons for enlisting are myriad\, but many are motivated by the hope of gaining citizenship in return for their service. In Green Card Soldier\, Sofya Aptekar talks to more than seventy noncitizen soldiers from twenty-three countries\, including some who were displaced by conflict after the US military entered their homeland. She identifies a disturbing pattern: the US military’s intervention in foreign countries drives migration\, which in turn supplies the military with a cheap and desperate labor pool—thereby perpetuating the cycle. \nAs Aptekar discovers\, serving in the US military is no guarantee against deportation\, and yet the promise of citizenship and the threat of deportation are the carrot and stick used to discipline noncitizen soldiers. Viewed at various times as security threats and members of a model minority\, immigrant soldiers sometimes face intense discrimination from their native-born colleagues and superiors. Their stories—stitched through with colonial legacies\, white supremacy\, exploitation\, and patriarchy—show how the tensions between deservingness and suspicion shape their enlistment\, service\, and identities. Giving voice to this little-heard group of immigrants\, Green Card Soldier shines a cold light on the complex workings of US empire\, globalized militarism\, and citizenship. \nAbout the Author: \nSofya Aptekar is Associate Professor of Urban Studies at the City University of New York School of Labor and Urban Studies. She is the author of The Road to Citizenship: What Naturalization Means for Immigrants and the United States.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/green-card-soldier-with-sofya-aptekar/
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:20240407T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240407T130000
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SUMMARY:Drag Story Hour
DESCRIPTION:Parents and kiddos\, our queens are back for Drag Story Hour! Sit in our beautiful butterfly room and enjoy a reading from two of Ithaca’s very best storytellers.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/drag-story-hour/
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:20240406T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240406T130000
DTSTAMP:20260429T065416
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SUMMARY:Turning Back to Ourselves: A Women's Guide to Healing Self-Abandonment and Loving Who We Are
DESCRIPTION:Join Ithaca local Dalya Tamir for the launch of her new book. \nAbout the Book: \nTurning Back to Ourselves explores the pain of self-abandonment\, the mind states of self-judgment\, self-doubt\, and even self-hatred that women too often find themselves experiencing. Drawing on Buddhist practices of mindfulness\, compassion\, and lovingkindness\, and on her experience as a psychotherapist\, Dalya Tamir offers a path for women to turn back and embrace themselves with kindness and love. Through teachings\, stories\, and reflections\, the reader is guided to reconnect with her own innate wisdom\, creativity\, and aliveness\, opening her heart to herself and in growing circles to all living beings. Even though the book was written for women it offers a path for people of all gender identities that have experienced self-abandonment and wish to find their way back to their wise and compassionate self. \nAbout the Author: \nDalya Tamir’s path of transformation began in the small village of Bodh Gaya\, India\, in 1983\, where she participated in a ten-day day silent meditation retreat. Since then\, many years of meditation practice and study of Buddhist teachings taught her about the potential we all have to liberate our hearts from suffering. Her training in social work exposed her to teachings about systems of oppression and ways large systems affect the individual. This understanding strengthened her commitment to social justice\, especially in the areas of women’s liberation and peace building. Dalya has been facilitating meditation circles for women in Ithaca NY and in Israel since 2002. During a two-year sabbatical in Israel\, she led meditation and dialogue groups for Israeli Jews and Palestinians. She has worked as a psychotherapist in community mental health settings as well as in private practice since 2014. In her work she integrates Buddhist practices with experiential methods of psychotherapy. She lives in Ithaca\, NY with her husband and daughters.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/turning-back-to-ourselves-a-womens-guide-to-healing-self-abandonment-and-loving-who-we-are/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T190000
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SUMMARY:Queer Salon
DESCRIPTION:Join us for another rendition of our bi-monthly queer open mic night! Bring a few friends and your poetry\, prose\, stand up\, grocery lists\, little random writings from your notes app\, or any other piece of writing!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/queer-salon/
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:20240405T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T140000
DTSTAMP:20260429T065416
CREATED:20240327T205332Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240327T205332Z
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SUMMARY:Read Aloud with Dr. Esch and Friends
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate spring with BSB board member Susan Eschbach for a read aloud and pop-up poetry event on April 5th.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/read-aloud-with-dr-esch-and-friends/
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:20240324T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240324T150000
DTSTAMP:20260429T065416
CREATED:20240302T023503Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240302T023503Z
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SUMMARY:Picasso's Lovers: a reading with Jeanne Mackin
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading from Jeanne Mackin’s new novel\, Picasso’s Lovers. \nThe women of Picasso’s life are elusive\, existing in the shadow of his fame – until\, in the 1950’s\, aspiring journalist Alana Olsen determines to bring one into the light. Unsure of what to expect but bent on uncovering what really lies beneath the canvas\, Alana steps into Sara Murphy’s well-guarded home to discover a past complicated by secrets and intrigue. \n“A complex\, absorbing portrait.” – People Magazine \nJeanne Mackin is the author of eight historical novels; the most recent is Picasso’s Lovers. Other subjects for her fiction have included Eleanor of Aquitaine\, Marie Antoinette\, and Maggie Fox\, the founder of American spiritualism. Jeanne was the recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society. Her advocacy-based journalism received awards from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education in Washington\, D.C. She has taught creative writing and mentored non-traditional students. Her novels has been translated into eight languages. She is a long-time resident of Ithaca\, New York.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/picassos-lovers-a-reading-with-jeanne-mackin/
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:20240322T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240322T180000
DTSTAMP:20260429T065416
CREATED:20240302T023619Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240302T023619Z
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SUMMARY:Finishing Line Press Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:We love small presses and hope you do too! Join us for a reading featuring Finishing Line Press poets Roger Hecht\, Wren Tuatha\, and Jillian Barnet! \nFeatured Poets: \nRoger W. Hecht is an Associate Professor of English at SUNY\, Oneonta\, where he has taught American Literature and Creative Writing since 2004. He is author of a collection of poems\, Talking Pictures (Cervena Barva Press) and a chapbook\, Lunch at the Table of Opposites (Red Dancefloor Press). His poems have appearedin Denver Quarterly\, Diagram\, Sheila-na-gig\, Puerto del Sol\, Bracken\, and many other journals. When he’s not teaching and writing\, he plays drums in a blues band in Ithaca\, NY\, where he lives with his wife\, daughters\, and myriad animals they call pets. \nWren Tuatha is founding editor of the literary journal\, Califragile. Her poetry has appeared in The Cafe Review\, Canary\, Peacock Journal\, Coachella Review\, Baltimore Review\, Pirene’s Fountain\, Loch Raven Review\, Clover\, Lavender Review and elsewhere. She was previously Artist-in-Residence at Heathcote Community and co-founded Baltimore’s Sunday Salon. Wren studied education at University of Louisville\, and film and poetry at Towson University\, where she minored in Gay and Lesbian Studies. She received grants from Towson University’s Women’s Center and Office of Diversity to perform her slam play\, This Is How She Steps on Snakes\, and other productions. She won a Young Authors Award for Poetry. Wren and her partner\, author/activist C.T. Lawrence Butler\, herd skeptical goats on a mountain in California. \nJillian Barnet’s poetry has appeared in North American Review\, Nimrod\, Image\, California Quarterly and many other literary journals and anthologies. Her work was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the Bellingham Review. Jillian received her MFA from Vermont College in 2003. Links to some of her work and a blog can be found on her website at www.jillianbarnetwrites.com.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/finishing-line-press-poetry-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:20240317T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240317T150000
DTSTAMP:20260429T065416
CREATED:20240302T023531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240302T023531Z
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SUMMARY:Ember Days with Mary Gilliland
DESCRIPTION:Poetry lovers of Ithaca\, come join us for the launch of Mary Gilliland’s new poetry collection\, Ember Days. \nWoolf’s pen runs dry\, Tesla holes up\, Lincoln emerges in yet another bardo\, and the rest of us tunnel through Wednesday’s jammed boulevards\, Friday’s cash worthless\, Saturday’s prodigal feet. The poems of Ember Days feature soldiers under duress\, models transformed to artists\, descendants of forced immigrants\, survivors of hurricanes\, witnesses for peace—stepping up to our world’s disasters\, leveling with its possibilities\, interrogating faith\, justice\, militarism\, madness\, and the perception and affection of intimate relationships. \nMary Gilliland’s award-winning collections are The Devil’s Fools (2022)\, which won the Codhill Press Pauline Uchmanowicz Poetry Award\, and The Ruined Walled Castle Garden (2020)\, with poems anthologized most recently in Rumors Secrets & Lies: Poems on Pregnancy\, Abortion & Choice; Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands; and Wild Gods: The Ecstatic in Contemporary Poetry and Prose. She is a recipient of the Stanley Kunitz Fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center\, a Cornell University Council on the Arts Faculty Grant\, and the 2023 International Literary Seminars Kenya/Fence 1st Prize in Poetry. Look for “In the pool of the sea’s shoulder\,” forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. Mary is a poet\, ecologist\, and occasional essayist in New York’s Finger Lakes Region.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/ember-days-with-mary-gilliland/
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:20240316T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240316T141500
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CREATED:20240302T023552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240302T023552Z
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SUMMARY:Writing Light in these Dark Times
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lively hour-and-a-quarter combined reading and workshop when local poet and craft teacher\, Barbara Regenspan\, author of The Chessmaster’s Daughter\, (2022 Cayuga Lake Books) shares her strategies for “Writing Light in Dark Times.” After a brief reading from her new chapbook-in-progress\, Barbara will lead a voluntary free-write inspired by poets’ recognition of the emotional tension evoked by our desire to experience joy in the ordinary oddities of everyday life without marginalizing the horrors of contemporary global social and environmental devastation. Participants will be invited to read aloud their drafts if they choose to do so.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/writing-light-in-these-dark-times/
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:20240223T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240223T170000
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CREATED:20240129T195321Z
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SUMMARY:Study in Hysteria with Kathleen Collins
DESCRIPTION:Join Kathleen Collins for an in-person reading of her debut novel\, Study in Hysteria. \nIn the middle of 1974\, Flora is privileged and middle-aged in a liberation-hued America\, and feels both compelled by and left out of the women’s movement. She finds it difficult to activate her limited supply of empathy as she contends with a clandestine and unlikely friendship\, a worrisome health scare\, a domineering and philandering psychiatrist husband or her own distant daughter. \nFlora’s secret foray into psychotherapy does nothing to halt the sense that there is a better life for her somewhere else\, in some parallel existence. Through the continuum of psychological diagnoses\, she is lost in the murky place between contentment and discontentment\, normal and abnormal. \nIs her state of mind a clinical\, diagnosable condition\, or common malaise? Perhaps she’ll find out if she stops resisting to share herself with those who love her. \nKathleen Collins is a librarian at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. Her work has appeared in such outlets as the Journal of Popular Film & Television\, Critical Studies in Television\, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly\, and Camera Obscura: Feminism\, Culture\, and Media Studies. She produces and co-hosts a podcast called Indoor Voices. Study in Hysteria is her first novel.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/study-in-hysteria-with-kathleen-collins/
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:20240217T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240217T170000
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CREATED:20240129T194854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T194854Z
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SUMMARY:Live Dead: The Grateful Dead\, Live Recordings\, and Ideology of Liveness
DESCRIPTION:Join John Brackett and Liz Field for a conversation on how live recordings have shaped the history and mythology of the Grateful Dead for more than fifty years. \nThe Grateful Dead were one of the most successful live acts of the rock era. Performing more than 2\,300 shows between 1965 and 1995\, the Grateful Dead’s reputation as a live band was—and continues to be—sustained by thousands of live concert recordings from every era of the group’s long and colorful career. In Live Dead\, musicologist John Brackett examines how live recordings—from the group’s official releases to fan-produced tapes\, bootlegs to “Betty Boards\,” and Dick’s Picks to From the Vault—have shaped the general history and popular mythology of the Grateful Dead for more than fifty years. Drawing on a diverse array of materials and documents contained in the Grateful Dead Archive\, Live Dead details how live recordings became meaningful among the band and their fans not only as sonic souvenirs of past musical performances but also as expressions of assorted ideals\, including notions of “liveness\,” authenticity\, and the power of recorded sound. \nJohn Brackett is an Ithaca College alum\, musicologist\, and writer. He lives in Chapel Hill\, North Carolina.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/live-dead-the-grateful-dead-live-recordings-and-ideology-of-liveness/
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:20240215T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T180000
DTSTAMP:20260429T065416
CREATED:20240130T200944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240130T200944Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Widely Book Club - Sister Outsider
DESCRIPTION:Join Nancy K. Bereano\, founding editor of Firebrand Books and an early publisher of Audre Lorde’s prose\, for a discussion on Lorde’s impact as one of the most influential lesbian-feminist thinkers and writers. \nBook club picks are 10% off at Buffalo Street Books both in store and online. \nIn this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches\, Lorde takes on sexism\, racism\, ageism\, homophobia\, and class\, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive\, unflinching\, and lyrical\, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/reading-widely-book-club-sister-outsider/
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:20240204T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240204T150000
DTSTAMP:20260429T065416
CREATED:20240130T200903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240130T200903Z
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SUMMARY:Here\, Where Death Delights
DESCRIPTION:Join Mary Jumbelic and Joshua Jumbles for a conversation about Jumbelic’s new memoir\, Here\, Where Death Delights. \nMary Jumbelic\, M.D.\, is a board-certified forensic pathologist who performed thousands of autopsies during her 25-year career. She 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. In retirement\, she has published many nonfiction stories\, accounts of her life both in and out of the morgue. This is her first book. She lives with her husband in Central New York. She speaks for the dead. They speak for her. \nMary Jumbelic has been obsessed with death since the demise of her father when she was 13. The why and how of his mortality plagued her. While viewing an autopsy at the age of 15\, she discovered a science that explained the process. For 25 years\, she analyzed corpses and explained to families what had happened to their loved ones\, something that hadn’t been done for her. This daily confrontation challenged her to re-live her own loss. Dr. Jumbelic developed a way to honor people’s lives by speaking for them in courts\, classrooms\, and interviews. How did she finally integrate death into her own life so filled with hope? This is her journey.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/here-where-death-delights/
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:20240123T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240123T183000
DTSTAMP:20260429T065416
CREATED:20240112T040551Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240112T040551Z
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SUMMARY:Black Women Taught Us
DESCRIPTION:About the Event \nJenn M. Jackson–abolitionist\, organizer\, writer\, and professor–will be at Buffalo Street Books with local leaders Shacoya Kidwell and Dr. Nia Nunn to discuss their new book\, Black Women Taught Us. \nAbout the Author \nJenn M. Jackson (they/them) is a genderflux androgynous Black woman\, a lesbian\, an abolitionist\, a lover of all Black people\, and an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University in the Department of Political Science.\nJackson’s primary research is in Black Politics with a focus on racial threat and trauma\, gender and sexuality\, political behavior\, and social movements. Jackson also holds affiliate positions in African American Studies\, Women’s and Gender Studies\, and LGBT Studies. They are a Senior Research Associate at The Campbell Public Affairs Institute at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University\, as well. \nAbout the Book \nThis is my offering. My love letter to them\, and to us. \nJenn M. Jackson\, PhD\, has been known to bring historical acuity to some of the most controversial topics in America today. Now\, in their first book\, Jackson applies their critical analysis to the questions that have long energized their work: Why has Black women’s freedom fighting been so overlooked throughout history\, and what has our society lost because of our refusal to engage with our forestrugglers’ lessons? \nA love letter to those who have been minimized and forgotten\, this collection repositions Black women’s intellectual and political work at the center of today’s liberation movements. \nAcross eleven original essays that explore the legacy of Black women writers and leaders–from Harriet Jacobs and Ida B. Wells to the Combahee River Collective and Audre Lorde–Jackson sets the record straight about Black women’s longtime movement organizing\, theorizing\, and coalition building in the name of racial\, gender\, and sexual justice in the United States and abroad. These essays show\, in both critical and deeply personal terms\, how Black women have been at the center of modern liberation movements despite the erasure and misrecognition of their efforts. Jackson illustrates how Black women have frequently done the work of liberation at great risk to their lives and livelihoods. \nFor a new generation of movement organizers and co-strugglers\, Black Women Taught Us serves as a reminder that Black women were the first ones to teach us how to fight racism\, how to name that fight\, and how to imagine a more just world for everyone.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/black-women-taught-us/
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:20240121T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240121T150000
DTSTAMP:20260429T065416
CREATED:20240106T035247Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240106T174123Z
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SUMMARY:Orchid Trilogy Book Signing with Carol Van Den Hende
DESCRIPTION:Carol Van Den Hende\, award-winning author of the Goodbye\, Orchid series\, will be at Buffalo Street Books signing copies of her trilogy. Come meet Carol\, ask questions about her work\, and get your books signed! \nCopies of the Goodbye\, Orchid series are available to order at Buffalo Street Books.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/orchid-trilogy-book-signing-with-carol-van-den-hende/
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:20240118T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240118T180000
DTSTAMP:20260429T065416
CREATED:20240106T035454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240106T174017Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Widely Book Club - Babel
DESCRIPTION:Join Deedi Brown at Buffalo Street Books for conversation about R.F. Kuang’s Babel\, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions\, colonial resistance\, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. \nBook club books are 10% off. \nAbout the Book \n1828. Robin Swift\, orphaned by cholera in Canton\, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There\, he trains for years in Latin\, Ancient Greek\, and Chinese\, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation–also known as Babel. Babel is the world’s center for translation and\, more importantly\, magic. Silver working–the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars–has made the British unparalleled in power\, as its knowledge serves the Empire’s quest for colonization. For Robin\, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power\, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain\, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress\, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society\, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium\, Robin must decide… \nCan powerful institutions be changed from within\, or does revolution always require violence? \nAbout the Author \nRebecca F. Kuang is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy\, Babel: An Arcane History\, Yellowface\, and Katabasis (forthcoming). Her work has won the Nebula\, Locus\, Crawford\, and British Book Awards. She has been named to the 2023 Time100 Next list and the Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2024. A Marshall Scholar\, she has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford. She is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale\, where she studies Sinophone literature and Asian American literature.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/reading-widely-book-club-babel/
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:20240109T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240109T150000
DTSTAMP:20260429T065416
CREATED:20231229T141653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240106T173826Z
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SUMMARY:Unshrinking - Kate Manne in conversation with Adrienne Bitar
DESCRIPTION:Join Kate Manne and Adrienne Bitar as they discuss Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia. \nFor as long as she can remember\, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day\, the day she became a professor\, the day her daughter was born. She’s been bullied and belittled for her size\, leading to extreme dieting. As a feminist philosopher\, she wanted to believe that she was exempt from the cultural gaslighting that compels so many of us to ignore our hunger. But she was not. \nBlending intimate stories with the trenchant analysis that has become her signature\, Manne shows why fatphobia has become a vital social justice issue. Over the last several decades\, implicit bias has waned in every category\, from race to sexual orientation\, except one: body size. Manne examines how anti-fatness operates—how it leads us to make devastating assumptions about a person’s attractiveness\, fortitude\, and intellect\, and how it intersects with other systems of oppression. Fatphobia is responsible for wage gaps\, medical neglect\, and poor educational outcomes; it is a straitjacket\, restricting our freedom\, our movement\, our potential. \nIn this urgent call to action\, Manne proposes a new politics of “body reflexivity”—a radical reevaluation of who our bodies exist in the world for: ourselves and no one else. When it comes to fatphobia\, the solution is not to love our bodies more. Instead\, we must dismantle the forces that control and constrain us\, and remake the world to accommodate people of every size. \nKate Manne is an associate professor of philosophy at Cornell University\, where she’s been teaching since 2013. Before that\, she was a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Manne did her graduate work in philosophy at MIT and is the author of two previous books\, Down Girl and Entitled.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/unshrinking-kate-manne-in-conversation-with-adrienne-bitar/
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:The Editor is In with Leslie Daniels
DESCRIPTION:Writers! Is your forward motion stalled? Novel in the closet? Poems under the bed? Memoir in your mind? Despair in your creative heart? Bring your questions and issues to this open session with writer\, editor\, and literary agency veteran Leslie Daniels. Get answers and solutions. Leave with momentum and maybe a surprising next step. \nThis event is co-hosted by Story House Ithaca and Buffalo Street Books. All writing conundrums and issues welcomed\, from process to product\, practice to publishing\, for current or future projects. \nClick here to purchase your tickets and see what other events they have going on. \nLeslie Daniels is the author of the novel Cleaning Nabokov’s House. She was the fiction editor for Green Mountains Review and guest edited the Louisville Review. Her stories and essays have been published in multiple literary reviews. \nLeslie has taught at writers’ conferences and graduate writing programs. At the Community of Writers Conference last summer\, she led the legendary Gill Dennis “Finding the Story” workshop. \nWe are expecting this to become a bi-monthly offering\, recurring on the first Saturday of alternate months. Stay tuned for news of future sessions.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/the-editor-is-in-with-leslie-daniels/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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