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GALT NIEDERHOFFER
The Romantics
(St. Martins 2008)
Thursday, July 10th, 7PM
Former Chelsea neighbor, producer of over twenty films and longtime friend of 192 Books reads from her latest novel, The Romantics. Niederhoffer creates, in this marvelous novel, a pitch-perfect group of characters and a winning novel about friendship, class and love.
"The Romantics is a smart, edgy novel that is wickedly insightful about class and privilege, amusingly cynical about love and friendship, and thoroughly entertaining throughout. Galt Niederhoffer is an elegant prose stylist and a shrewd social observer."—Tom Perrotta
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Meg Cranston
Good Morning Evil Genius/Hot pants in a Cold Cold World
(Artspace/clouds and Jrp Ringier/2nd Cannons 2008)
Thurssday, July 17, 7PM
California writer, painter and sculptor Meg Cranston will make her first appearance at 192 Books to read from her two latest books. Good Morning Evil Genius is a tragic and humorous roman a clef which chronicles the adventures—or misadventures—of the unnamed Evil Genius and is accompanied by a series of drawings derived from a children’s coloring book. Hot Pants in a Cold Cold World is a survey of Cranston’s work and writing from 1987 to the present. Cranston, a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, creates work which encompasses object making, writing, performance, theatre and mixed media installation and, in these books, is for the first time lavishly surveyed in text and images. In her words, “the fundamental problem of art is finding a suitable form—a shape for your philosophy, a form that is as persuasive as language.”
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Rachel Kushner
Telex From Cuba
(Scribner 2008)
Wednesday, July 23, 7PM
"TELEX FROM CUBA exerts the mysterious pull of a super-saturated postcard from a distant land, sent to you by a stranger. Kushner brilliantly transforms her family history—and history—into a page-turning, elegantly intelligent, and politically enlightening novel that rings as true as anything. Hers is an epic achievement.”
—Heidi Julavits, author of The Uses of Enchantment
“Imagination and intelligence luxuriate in Rachel Kushner’s fascinating first novel. I marvel at how Kushner blends psychological and political realities, corporate America and insurgent Cuba, into a vivid diptych of the days before Castro’s revolution. Rich in compelling characters and historical events, TELEX FROM CUBA is a revelatory, tenderhearted, and powerful work.”
—Lynne Tillman, author of American Genius, A Comedy
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Books purchased at the reading will be signed by the author!
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