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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240223T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240223T170000
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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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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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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240123T173000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240121T140000
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240109T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240109T150000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240106T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240106T123000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231118T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231118T140000
DTSTAMP:20260429T183504
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SUMMARY:Best American Essays 2023 with Jillian Barnet
DESCRIPTION:The Best American Essays is a yearly anthology of the very best essays published in the United States during the prior year. The guest editor for 2023\, Vivian Gorick\, renowned essayist and celebrated feminist writer\, has chosen twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form. Among them is an essay by local author\, Jillian Barnet. The Best American Essays anthology will be released in November. Jillian will read from her essay\, “Any Kind of Leaving\,” at Buffalo Street Books on November 18 at 1:00 p.m. This essay was one of the first selected by Gornick to appear in the anthology. Robert Atwan\, editor of the Best American series wrote\, “I loved reading it.” \nJillian Barnet’s poems and essays have appeared in North American Review\, New Letters\, Nimrod\, Image\, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts\, is a Pushcart Prize nominee\, and the author of the poetry chapbook\, Falling Bodies. Having taught writing and literature at Pennsylvania State University and Chatham University\, she now lives on a tiny farm in the Finger Lakes where she is at work on a memoir.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/best-american-essays-2023-with-jillian-barnet/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231111T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231111T150000
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SUMMARY:Launch Party - Thriving Futures: A Liberation Coloring Book with Reflections\, Practices and Poems
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the publication of Elan Shapiro’s Thriving Futures: A Liberation Coloring Book with Poems\, Reflections\, and Practices at this interactive\, challenging\, and fun event. Refreshments included. This event will feature an overview and a short poetry reading from the book. Participants will then choose an image printed out from the book\, to reflect upon and/or color in\, with a partner. The images and words playfully integrate the worlds of personal and collective liberation. \nElan Shapiro is a local activist\, artist\, community educator/facilitator\, and mindfulness practitioner\, who co-founded Sustainable Tompkins\, the Building Bridges network\, and TC SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice). He supports beloved community and earth connection as keys to transforming the current planetary crisis into a society where ALL can thrive.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/launch-party-thriving-futures-a-liberation-coloring-book-with-reflections-practices-and-poems/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231105T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231105T150000
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SUMMARY:Salamanders in Winter - Reading and Q&A with Joanna Green
DESCRIPTION:Join Joanna Green at Buffalo Street Books for the launch of her debut collection of poems\, “Salamanders in Winter”\, just published by Cayuga Lake Books. Her work explores the conundrum of living life fully in the midst of societal collapse. Before turning to writing and music upon retirement\, Green was a pioneer in the field of sustainable agriculture at Cornell University\, fighting against the continuing industrialization of farming and the impoverishment of rural communities. In 2010 she founded the non-profit Groundswell Center for Local Food and Farming\, one of the nation’s first farmer training programs to confront the deep racial inequities embedded in our agriculture and food systems. She now sings and plays vibes and violin in two local jazz bands\, and writes regularly as a member of the Cascadilla Writers Group. \nThis event is free and open to the public. Book signing and reception to follow the reading.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/salamanders-in-winter-reading-and-qa-with-joanna-green/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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SUMMARY:Catharine\, Queen of the Tumbling Waters - Reading and Q&A with Cynthia G. Neale
DESCRIPTION:Cynthia G. Neale\, author of historical novels\, cookbooks\, essays\, and screenplays\, will be at Buffalo Street Books to read from her latest novel\, Catherine\, Queen of the Tumbling Waters. Join us for an evening of historical literature and tasty treats! \n“I’m not like your white women who lose their tongues and wits in a house full of men.” \nSo says Catharine Montour to her white captive during the Indian depredations of the 1750s. Catharine Montour\, a métis\, born during Pennsylvania’s Long Peace\, is nurtured by her grandmother\, the celebrated Madame Montour\, an interpreter for the British colonies. Her uncle\, Andrew Montour\, is also an interpreter and sits on the Council of the Iroquois. The Montours are an unconventional\, yet highly regarded family who host diverse and fascinating assemblies of fur traders\, missionaries\, Indians\, and colonial leaders in their home. \nAs the Long Peace ends and the French and Indian War\, and eventually the American Revolution occur\, Catharine\, desiring only to live quietly by a waterfall in New York\, becomes a fearless\, determined\, and passionate leader who demands loyalty to peace in her village and for all. And then in 1779 when General John Sullivan leads the campaign to destroy all Iroquois villages\, Queen Catharine\, heroically guides her people to Fort Niagara. \nToday as American exceptionalism prevails against the recognition of indigenous peoples\, Catharine’s relevant and fact-based story spans two wars and enlightens and makes visible the unwritten truths of early American history.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/catharine-queen-of-the-tumbling-waters-reading-and-qa-with-cynthia-g-neale/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231101T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231101T130000
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SUMMARY:House of Caravans with Shilpi Suneja
DESCRIPTION:Kick off the month of November with a reading and Q&A with Shilpi Suneja from her debut novel\, House of Caravans. Suneja will be in conversation with Natasha Raheja\, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University. \nThis book is a marvelous debut novel exploring the fractures caused by the Partition of India\, as well as the legacy and contemporary parallels of sectarian violence around the world. \nLahore\, British India. 1943. As World War rages\, resentment of colonial rule grows\, and with it acts of rebellion. Animated by idealistic dreams of an independent India\, Chhote Nanu agrees to plant a bomb intended for the British superintendent of police. Some four years later\, following a torturous imprisonment\, Chhote flees the city as it descends into violence. Carrying the young son of his murdered wife through scenes of unspeakable bloodshed\, he encounters his brother\, Barre Nanu\, the two of them caught between a vanishing past in the new nation of Pakistan and a profoundly uncertain future in India. \nKanpur\, India. 2002. Following the death of his grandfather\, Barre Nanu\, Karan Khatri returns from New York to join his sister in their childhood home\, which has been transformed by the embittered Chhote Nanu into a hostel for Hindu pilgrims. When their mother arrives from Delhi\, Karan and Ila learn that their fathers were two different men—one Hindu\, one Muslim—relationships with both of whom were doomed by familial bias and prejudice\, the siblings resolve to reconnect\, and to understand the painful twist and turns in the family’s story. \nMoving back and forth from the tumultuous years surrounding Partition to the era of renewed global sectarianism following 9/11\, this extraordinary historical novel\, “Tolstoyan in its scope” (Ha Jin)\, portrays a family and nations divided by the living legacy of colonialism. Richly evocative and timely\, House of Caravans will endure in the ways only the best literature does.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/house-of-caravans-with-shilpi-suneja/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T150000
DTSTAMP:20260429T183504
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SUMMARY:Nightbitch: Rachel Yoder in conversation with Melanie Conroy-Goldman
DESCRIPTION:About the Event \nRachel Yoder will be at BSB to discuss her fantastical novel\, Nightbitch. \nOne day\, the mother was a mother\, but then one night\, she was quite suddenly something else… \nAn ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son\, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years later\, she steps into the bathroom for a break from her toddler’s demands\, only to discover a dense patch of hair on the back of her neck. In the mirror\, her canines suddenly look sharper than she remembers. Her husband\, who travels for work five days a week\, casually dismisses her fears from faraway hotel rooms. \nAs the mother’s symptoms intensify\, and her temptation to give in to her new dog impulses peak\, she struggles to keep her alter-canine-identity secret. Seeking a cure at the library\, she discovers the mysterious academic tome which becomes her bible\, A Field Guide to Magical Women: A Mythical Ethnography\, and meets a group of mommies involved in a multilevel-marketing scheme who may also be more than what they seem. \nAn outrageously original novel of ideas about art\, power\, and womanhood wrapped in a satirical fairy tale\, Nightbitch will make you want to howl in laughter and recognition. And you should. You should howl as much as you want. \nAbout the Author \nRachel Yoder is a founding editor of draft: the journal of process. She holds M.F.A’s from the University of Arizona (fiction) and the University of Iowa (nonfiction)\, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. Her stories and essays have been published in literary journals such as The Kenyon Review and The Missouri Review\, as well as national outlets such as The New York Times\, The Sun\, and Lit Hub. She lives in Iowa City with her husband and son.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/nightbitch-rachel-yoder-in-conversation-with-melanie-conroy-goldman/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T160000
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SUMMARY:Vicious is my Middle Name: Reading and Q&A with Kevin Dunn
DESCRIPTION:About the Event \nJoin Kevin Dunn at BSB to hear him read from his novel\, Vicious is my Middle Name. \nVicious is My Middle Name is an inspiring YA/Middle Grade novel of female self-empowerment and environmental engagement informed by DIY punk activism. Winner of the Whippoorwill Award for Rural Young Adult and Middle Grade readers and finalist for the NEIA Book Award\, the Foreword Indie Book of the Year Award in juvenile literature\, and the Eric Hoffer Award in the Middle Grade category. \nAbout the Author \nKevin C. Dunn is a Professor at Hobart & William Smith Colleges in Geneva\, NY. He is author and editor of almost a dozen academic books on topics ranging from African politics\, international relations\, and global punk culture. He is also a novelist\, a musician\, and a documentary film-maker. He’s a community activist and cultural producer. Ultimately\, he is a lifelong contributor and defender of DIY punk culture. He can be reached at DUNN at HWS dot EDU.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/vicious-is-my-middle-name-reading-and-qa-with-kevin-dunn/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231019T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231019T180000
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SUMMARY:Reading Widely Book Club: Now Is Not the Time to Panic
DESCRIPTION:About the Event \nJoin Chris Holmes at Buffalo Street Books and discuss Kevin Wilson’s latest novel\, Now Is Not the Time to Panic. This staff favorite is a hilarious read that’s a perfect addition to any book self. \nAbout the Book \nSixteen-year-old Frankie Budge–aspiring writer\, indifferent student\, offbeat loner–is determined to make it through yet another summer in Coalfield\, Tennessee\, when she meets Zeke\, a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother’s house and who is as awkward as Frankie is. Romantic and creative sparks begin to fly\, and when the two jointly make an unsigned poster\, shot through with an enigmatic phrase\, it becomes unforgettable to anyone who sees it. When the posters begin appearing everywhere\, people wonder who is behind them and start to panic. The rumors won’t stop\, and soon the mystery has dangerous repercussions that spread far beyond the town. Twenty years later\, Frances Eleanor Budge gets a call that threatens to upend her carefully built life: a journalist named Mazzy Brower is writing a story about the Coalfield Panic of 1996. Might Frances know something about that? \nAbout the Author \nKevin Wilson is the author of two collections\, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth (Ecco/Harper Perennial\, 2009)\, which received an Alex Award from the American Library Association and the Shirley Jackson Award\, and Baby You’re Gonna Be Mine (Ecco\, 2018)\, and three novels\, The Family Fang (Ecco\, 2011)\, Perfect Little World (Ecco\, 2017) and Nothing to See Here (Ecco\, 2019)\, a New York Times bestseller and a Read with Jenna book club selection. His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares\, Southern Review\, One Story\, A Public Space\, and elsewhere\, and has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2020 and 2021\, as well as The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012. He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony\, Yaddo\, and the KHN Center for the Arts. He lives in Sewanee\, Tennessee\, with his wife\, the poet Leigh Anne Couch\, and his sons\, Griff and Patch\, where he is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Sewanee: The University of the South.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/reading-widely-book-club-now-is-not-the-time-to-panic/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231014T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231014T160000
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SUMMARY:Dharma Talk: Reading and Q&A with John Brehm
DESCRIPTION:About the Event \nJoin award-winning poet and Cornell MFA alum John Brehm for a reading from his new book of poems\, Dharma Talk. In addition to three previous books of poems\, Brehm is the editor of the bestselling anthology\, The Poetry of Impermanence\, Mindfulness\, and Joy\, and the author of a book of essays\, The Dharma of Poetry: How Poems Can Deepen Your Spiritual Practice and Open You to Joy. The reading will be followed by a brief Q&A. \nA new volume of original poetry from the bestselling creator of Poetry of Impermanence\, Mindfulness\, and Joy. \nIn Dharma Talk\, award-winning poet John Brehm explores the perennial themes of aging\, compassion\, emptiness\, nonseparation\, and more. At once poignant and humorous\, Brehm’s gentle\, wry poems remind us that the personal and the universal are not different—and point us to the Dharma of everyday life. \nAbout the Author \nJohn Brehm was born and raised in Lincoln\, Nebraska and educated at the University of Nebraska and Cornell University. He is the author of three full-length books of poetry\, Sea of Faith\, Help Is on the Way\, and No Day at the Beach\, all from the University of Wisconsin Press\, and a chapbook\, The Way Water Moves\, from Flume Press. His collection of essays\, The Dharma of Poetry\, was recently released by Wisdom Publications and is a companion to his acclaimed anthology\, The Poetry of Impermanence\, Mindfulness\, and Joy\, also from Wisdom Publications. His poems have appeared in Poetry\, The Gettysburg Review\, The Sun\, The Southern Review\, Plume\, Gulf Coast\, The Missouri Review\, New Ohio Review\, The Writer’s Almanac\, Poetry Daily\, Verse Daily\, The Best American Poetry\, The Norton Introduction to Literature\, and many other journals and anthologies. \nJohn teaches for Mountain Writers Series in Portland\, Oregon\, and for The Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver\, Colorado. He offers a monthly Poetry as Spiritual Practice gathering and with his wife\, Alice Boyd\, leads mindfulness retreats that incorporate Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons\, guided meditations\, and mindful poetry discussions. He lives in Portland\, Oregon.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/dharma-talk-reading-and-qa-with-john-brehm/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231013T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231013T170000
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SUMMARY:How to Have Anti Racist Conversations with Roxy Manning and Martha Lasley
DESCRIPTION:About the Event \nRoxy Manning will be at Buffalo Street Books with Martha Lasley to discuss and read from her book\, How to Have Antiracist Conversations: Embracing Our Full Humanity to Challenge White Supremacy and it’s companion text\, The Antiracist Heart: A Self-Compassion and Activism Handbook. \nAbout the Author \nRoxy Manning\, PhD is a clinical psychologist and certified Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) trainer. She brings decades of service experience to her work interrupting explicitly and implicitly oppressive attitudes and cultural norms. Dr. Manning has worked\, consulted\, and provided training across the US with businesses\, nonprofits\, and government organizations wanting to move towards equitable and diverse workplace cultures\, as well as internationally in over 10 countries with individuals and groups committed to social change. She also works as a psychologist in San Francisco serving the homeless and disenfranchised mentally ill population. \nShe is the author of How to Have Antiracist Conversations: Embracing Our Full Humanity to Challenge White Supremacy and the co-author with Sarah Peyton of the companion text\, The Antiracist Heart: A Self-Compassion and Activism Handbook.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/how-to-have-anti-racist-conversations-with-roxy-manning-and-martha-lasley/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231006T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231006T190000
DTSTAMP:20260429T183504
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SUMMARY:Goblin Market at Buffalo Street Books
DESCRIPTION:About the Event \nJoin us on this month’s First Friday for Goblin Market!!! Get into the spirit of everyone’s favorite creepy-crawly season with crafts and treats made by local artists. Vendors include Oracle Chocolates\, Graace Paints\, Everything Peach Pottery\, Beads of Hope\, Little Ram Bakery\, and many more!!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/goblin-market-at-buffalo-street-books/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231004T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231004T140000
DTSTAMP:20260429T183504
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SUMMARY:Memory Wars - Reading with A. Lynn Smith
DESCRIPTION:About the Event \nA. Lynn Smith will be at Buffalo Street Books to discuss her book Memory Wars: Settlers and Natives Remember Washington’s Sullivan Expedition of 1779. Memory Wars explores how commemorative sites and patriotic fanfare marking the mission of General John Sullivan into Iroquois territory during the Revolutionary War continue to shape historical understandings today. Sullivan’s expedition was ordered by General George Washington at a tenuous moment of the Revolutionary War. It was a massive enterprise involving thousands of men who marched across northeastern Pennsylvania into what is now New York state\, to eliminate any present or future threat from the British-allied Iroquois Confederacy. Sullivan and his men carried out a scorched-earth campaign\, obliterating more than forty Iroquois villages\, including homes\, fields\, and crops. For Indigenous residents it was a catastrophic invasion. For many others the expedition yielded untold bounty: American victory over the British along with land and fortunes beyond measure for settlers who soon moved onto the razed village sites. \nThe Sullivan Expedition has long been fixed on the landscape of Pennsylvania and New York by a cast of characters\, including amateur historians\, newly formed historical societies\, and local chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Asking how it is that people continue to “celebrate Sullivan” in the present day\, Memory Wars underscores the symbolic value of the past as well as the dilemmas posed to contemporary Americans by the national commemorative landscape. \nAbout the Author \nDr. A. Lynn Smith is a historical anthropologist whose research explores settler colonialism\, memory and forgetting\, colonialism and place-loss. She is professor of anthropology at Lafayette College\, Easton\, PA. Her new book\, Memory Wars: Settlers and Natives Remember Washington’s Sullivan Expedition of 1779\, contrasts the official story of a Revolutionary War expedition with that told by Seneca and other Native American leaders and at Haudenosaunee cultural centers. Previous publications consider colonial nostalgia with the award-winning Colonial Memory and Postcolonial Europe: Maltese Settlers in Algeria and France (2006); the silencing of Native and Latino voices in local history museums in the American southwest; and the role of place-loss in community identities in the aftermath of forced removal in Rebuilding Shattered Worlds: Creating Community by Voicing the Past (2016).
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/memory-wars-reading-with-a-lynn-smith/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230929T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230929T180000
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SUMMARY:How to Turn Your Life into a Novel: Jimin Han in conversation with Jinjee Denner
DESCRIPTION:About the Event: \nJoin Jimin Han and her daughter Jinjee Denner at Buffalo Street Books as they talk about family stories\, how they made their way into The Apology\, and how others can find ways to do the same with their life stories. \nAbout the Author: \nJimin Han was born in Seoul\, South Korea\, and grew up in Providence\, Rhode Island; Dayton\, Ohio; and Jamestown\, New York. Her work has been supported by the New York State Council on the Arts. She is\nthe author of A Small Revolution and has written for American Public Media’s Weekend America\, Poets & Writers\, and Catapult\, and other media outlets. She teaches at The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College\, Pace University\, and community writing centers. She lives outside New York City with her husband and children. \nAbout the Book: \nIn South Korea\, a 105-year-old woman receives a letter. Ten days later\, she has been thrust into the\nafterlife\, fighting to head off a curse that will otherwise devastate generations to come. \nJeonga Cha has always shouldered the burden of upholding the family name. When she sent her\ndaughter-in-law to America to cover up an illegitimate birth\, she was simply doing what was needed to\npreserve the reputations of her loved ones. How could she have known that decades later\, this decision\nwould return to haunt her—threatening to tear apart her bond with her beloved son\, her relationship\nwith her infuriatingly insolent sisters\, and the future of the family she has worked so hard to protect? \nPart ghost story and part family epic\, The Apology is an incisive tale of sisterhood and diaspora\, reaching\nback to the days of Japanese colonialism and the Korean War\, and told through the singular voice of a\ndefiant\, funny\, and unforgettable centenarian.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/how-to-turn-your-life-into-a-novel-jimin-han-in-conversation-with-jinjee-denner/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230923T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230923T150000
DTSTAMP:20260429T183504
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SUMMARY:Ally Condie - The Only Girl in Town
DESCRIPTION:About the Event: \nNew York Times Best Selling Author Ally Condie will be at Buffalo Street Books to read from her latest YA novel\, The Only Girl in Town. This book takes place in the fictional city of Lithia\, which Condie based on Ithaca. There will be time after the event to ask questions\, chat with the author\, and get your books signed! \nAbout the Author: \nAlly Condie is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Matched trilogy and co-author of the Darkdeep middle grade series. She is also the author of the novel Summerlost\, an Edgar Award Finalist. A former English teacher\, Ally lives with her family outside of Salt Lake City\, Utah. Ally has an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts\, and is the founder and director of the nonprofit WriteOut Foundation. \nAbout the Book: \nWhen teen July Fielding discovers everyone in her hometown disappeared\, her only chance to unravel the mystery is a series of objects\, each a reminder of the people she loved most.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/ally-condie-the-only-girl-in-town/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T180000
DTSTAMP:20260429T183504
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SUMMARY:Reading Widely Book Club: On Fragile Waves
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a small group discussion of E. Lily Yu’s “On Fragile Waves” on Thursday\, September 21st at 5:00 p.m. Conversation will be led by Joan Marcus\, assistant professor of Writing at Ithaca College! Book club titles are 10% off in the store and online. \nThe haunting story of a family of dreamers and tale-tellers looking for home in an unwelcoming world. This exquisite and unusual magic realist debut\, told in intensely lyrical prose by an award winning author\, traces one girl’s migration from war to peace\, loss to loss\, home to home. \nE. Lily Yu is the author of On Fragile Waves (2021) and Jewel Box (forthcoming 2023) and the librettist of Stars Between\, with composer Steven K. Tran\, for the Seattle Opera’s 2021 Jane Lang Creation Lab. She received the Washington State Book Award for Fiction in 2022\, the Artist Trust LaSalle Storyteller Award in 2017\, and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer in 2012. More than thirty of her stories have appeared in venues from McSweeney’s to Tor.com\, as well as thirteen best-of-the-year anthologies\, and have been finalists for the Hugo\, Nebula\, Locus\, Sturgeon\, and World Fantasy Awards.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/reading-widely-book-club-on-fragile-waves/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230909T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230909T180000
DTSTAMP:20260429T183504
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SUMMARY:Anne Carolyn Klein at Buffalo Street Books
DESCRIPTION:About the Event \nJoin Anne Klein at Buffalo Street Books as she discusses her book\, “Being Human and Buddha Too: Longchenpa’s Sevenfold Mind Training for a Sunlit Sky.” \nAnne C. Klein is a professor and former chair of the religion department at Rice University. She is also a lama in the Nyingma tradition and a founding director and resident teacher of Dawn Mountain\, a center for contemplative study and practice in Houston. Her publications include Path to the Middle; Unbounded Wholeness\, coauthored with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche; Knowledge and Liberation; and most recently a translation of Khetsun Rinpoche’s Strand of Jewels. \nAbout the Book \nThis first volume in the House of Adzom series centers on Longchenpa’s seven trainings in bodhicitta\, our awakened mind\, the ultimate purpose of our practice and training. Anne Klein’s original composition masterfully weaves in Adzom Paylo Rinpoche’s commentary and Jigme Lingpa’s five pith practices and commentary on the trainings\, in keeping with Longchenpa’s skillful integration of sutra\, tantra\, and Dzogchen\, to resolve our most challenging questions about what awakening involves and how it relates to the truth of our human situation right now. As foundational teachings for Dzogchen practitioners\, the seven trainings are framed as contemplations on impermanence\, the adventitiousness of happiness and its short duration\, the multiple causes of death\, the meaninglessness of our worldly activities\, reliance on the Buddha’s good qualities\, the teacher’s pith instructions\, and\, ultimately\, nonconceptual meditation on bliss and emptiness\, clarity and emptiness\, and reality itself.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/anne-carolyn-klein-at-buffalo-street-books/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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SUMMARY:Ithaca is Books Festival
DESCRIPTION:Mark your calendars for the third annual Ithaca is Books Festival! From August 10-13\, there will be readings\, open mics\, and opportunities to buy books from some of your favorite local authors. This festival is made possible by our friends from Odyssey Bookstore\, PM Press\, Story House Ithaca\, TCPL\, and Buffalo Street Books. \nKeep your eyes open for this year’s schedule at https://www.buffalostreetbooks.com/ithaca-books-book-fest
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/ithaca-is-books-festival/
LOCATION:Downtown Ithaca\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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SUMMARY:Reading Widely Bookclub -Summerwater
DESCRIPTION:About the Event \nJoin us for a small group discussion of Sarah Moss’s Summer-Water on Thursday\, July 27th at 5:00 p.m. Conversation will be led by Priya Sirohi\, assistant professor at Ithaca College and bookseller here at BSB! Book club titles are 10% off in the store and online. \nAbout the Book \nOn the longest day of the summer\, twelve people sit cooped up with their families in a faded Scottish cabin park. The endless rain leaves them with little to do but watch the other residents. \nA woman goes running up the Ben as if fleeing; a retired couple reminisce about neighbours long since moved on; a teenage boy braves the dark waters of the loch in his red kayak. Each person is wrapped in their own cares but increasingly alert to the makeshift community around them. One particular family\, a mother and daughter without the right clothes or the right manners\, starts to draw the attention of the others. Tensions rise and all watch on\, unaware of the tragedy that lies ahead as night finally falls. \nAbout the Author \nSarah Moss is the award-winning author of six novels: Cold Earth\, Night Waking\, selected for the Fiction Uncovered Award in 2011\, Bodies of Light\, Signs for Lost Children and The Tidal Zone\, all shortlisted for the prestigious Wellcome Prize\, and her new book Ghost Wall\, out in September 2018. \nShe has also written a memoir of her year living in Iceland\, Names for the Sea\, which was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize in 2013. \nSarah Moss is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Warwick in England.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/reading-widely-bookclub-summerwater/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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SUMMARY:Kate Doyle in conversation with Jennifer Savran Kelly
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Buffalo Street Books as we welcome our very own Kate Doyle back to Ithaca and discuss her new collection of stories\, I Meant it Once. \nThis sharp and original debut collection captures precisely that time of life when so many young women are caught in between\, preoccupied by nostalgia for past relationships—with friends\, roommates\, siblings—while trying to move forward into an uncertain future. In “That Is Shocking\,” a college student relates a darkly funny story of romantic humiliation\, one that skirts the parallel story of a friend she betrayed. In others\, young women long for friends who have moved away\, or moved on. In “Cinnamon Baseball Coyote” and other linked stories about siblings Helen\, Evan\, and Grace\, their years of inside jokes and brutal tensions simmer over as the three spend a holiday season in a whirl of rivalry and mutual attachment\, and a generational gulf widens between them and their parents. Throughout\, in stories both lyrical and haunting\, young women search for ways to break free from the expectations of others and find a way to be in the world. I Meant It Once is a luminous and witty collective portrait of young women on the cusp of becoming.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/kate-doyle-in-conversation-with-jennifer-savran-kelly/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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