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November 7 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
A Virtual Evening with Mitchell Kaplan & Rachel DeWoskin
Books & Books presents…
A VIRTUAL EVENING WITH MITCHELL KAPLAN & RACHEL DEWOSKIN
discussing
PAUL AUSTER’S
Baumgartner
(Atlantic Monthly Press, $27.00)
Tuesday, November 7, 8 PM ET | LIVE via Zoom
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Books & Books is thrilled to welcome Mitchell Kaplan and Rachel DeWoskin, who will be discussing Paul Auster’s newest novel Baumgartner (Atlantic Monthly Press, $27.00) A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning author and “one of the great American prose stylists of our time”.
This is an exclusive online event at 8pm ET / 7pm CT / 6 PM MT / 5 PM PT on Tuesday, November 7th.
Please RSVP before November 7th to gain access to the event. An email with the event link will be sent on the day of the event to all attendees.
In partnership with Miami Book Fair, Politics & Prose, Books & Books @ The Studios of Key West, Prairie Lights, Community Bookstore, The King’s English Bookshop, Seminary Co-op Bookstore, and Book Passage.
About the Book:
Widely regarded as one of America’s greatest living writers, a new work of fiction from Paul Auster is a literary event. His brilliant eighteenth novel BAUMGARTNER, opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner — phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor – has just forgotten on the stove. What follows is a taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from the best-selling, award-winning author.
Baumgartner’s life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals of memory and reminiscence, delineated in episodes spanning from 1968, when Sy and Anna meet as broke students working and writing in New York, through their passionate relationship over the next forty years, and back to Baumgartner’s youth in Newark and his Polish-born father’s life as a dress-shop owner and failed revolutionary.
Rich with compassion, wit, and Auster’s keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient moments of ordinary life, BAUMGARTNER asks: Why do we remember certain moments, and forget others? In one of his most luminous works and his first novel since the Booker-shortlisted tour-de-force 4 3 2 1, Paul Auster captures several lifetimes.
Praise for Paul Auster:
★“One of the great writers of our time.”—San Francisco Chronicle
★“Contemporary American writing at its best.”—New York Times Book Review, on Invisible
★“A literary original who is perfecting a hybrid genre of his own.”—Wall Street Journal
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About the Author:
Paul Auster is the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Sunset Park, The Book of Illusions, Moon Palace, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. His other honors include the Prix Médicis étranger for Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Burning Boy, and the Carlos Fuentes Prize for his body of work. His most recent novel, 4 3 2 1, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
About the Speakers:
Mitchell Kaplan, a Miami Beach native, founded the independent bookstore chain Books & Books in 1982. Books & Books was named “Publishers’ Weekly Bookstore of the Year” in 2015. He is the co-founder of Miami Book Fair, a former president of the American Booksellers Association (ABA), and received the National Book Foundation’s prestigious “Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community” in 2011. He is the host of the podcast, “The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan” and with his partner Paula Mazur, formed the Mazur/Kaplan film production company to bring books to the screen.
Rachel DeWoskin is the author of absolute animal: poems (The University of Chicago Press, forthcoming, 2023); Two Menus: Poems (The University of Chicago Press, 2020); Banshee (Dottir Press, 2019); Someday We Will Fly (Penguin, 2019); Blind (Penguin, 2014); Big Girl Small (FSG, 2011); Repeat After Me (The Overlook Press, 2009); and Foreign Babes in Beijing (WW Norton, 2005). She is on the core Creative Writing Faculty at the University of Chicago, and affiliated faculty in the Centers for East Asian Studies and Jewish Studies.
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Message From Books & Books
Hello,
Thank you for registering for the Paul Auster event with Rachel DeWoskin. Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, Paul Auster is no longer available.
However, the celebration for his captivating book continues as Books & Books’ founder, Mitchell Kaplan, will take his place.
We thank you for your understanding, and we look forward to seeing you at this virtual event!
Warmly,
The Books & Books Team