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AUDIO
Coming Soon...
FALL 2015
Fiction by Diya Abdo, Cara Bayles, Stephanie Dickinson, Paul Hadella, Joe Jarboe, Donald Edem Quist, Alison Ruth
Poems by Austin Alexis, Byron Case, Courtney Lamar Charleston, Jessica Greenbaum, Brad Johnson, Don Kimball, Thom Schramm, Hasanthika Sirisena, Judith Skillman, Jack Vian, Catherine Wald, JJ Amaworo Wilson, Paula Yup
Nonfiction by Lyle May
BookTalk: The Number of Missing by Adam Berlin
March 25, 2015
4:15-5:30pm
Conference Room, 9th fl.
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
524 West 59th Street
New York, NY 10019
In the months after 9/11, David and Mel meet to drink, give each other comfort and reminisce about Paul—Mel’s husband and David’s best friend. The memories are not all good for David. Before Paul died, the two friends fought, brutally questioning each other’s lives. Fueled by anger and grief and too much alcohol, David stumbles through the city while holding onto a silent promise he’s made to a dead friend: he will wait for Mel to fall so he can catch her. Like the best post-war novels, where catastrophe is not an easy catalyst for plot, where characters go on living but not really, is about New York during a time when the city seemed dead.
*All book talks are free and open to the public.
Refreshments will be served.
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J Journal jjournal@jjay.cuny.edu Department of English John Jay College of Criminal Justice 524 West 59th Street, 7th Floor New York, NY 10019 |
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