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The Thoughtful Page Turner

Saturday, July 10, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (ET)

New York, NY

The Thoughtful Page Turner

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The Thoughtful Page Turner:

A conversation with authors Paul West and Elizabeth Dembrowsky.

Moderated by Dana Humphrey and Naomi Rosenblatt.

WHAT:  Enjoy an evening of readings and discussion designed to pose questions and create thinking points. The authors - Paul West, author of debut novel First Cause and Elizabeth Dembrowsky, author of My Monk: A Typographic Novel will discuss using fiction to encourage critical thinking and empathy in a lively panel format.

WHEN:   Saturday, July 10, 2010 from 7PM - 9PM

WHERE:    Bluestocking Books, 172 Allen Street, New York, NY 10002,  (212) 777-6028

COST:  FREE

RSVP NOW:  http://readingaboutpossibility.eventbrite.com/  

                   $15 for First Cause

                   $16.95 for My Monk

WEBSITES:
Paul West: http://www.firstcauseproject.com/

Elizabeth Dembrowsky: http://www.dembrowsky.com

MEDIA  & VISUALS: 
Interview opportunities available with Paul West and Elizabeth Dembrowsky. Photos with authors Paul West and Elizabeth Dembrowsky along with an eclectic group of New York readers.  

ABOUT THE BOOKS:
First Cause, the debut novel by Paul West, NYC author, is a gripping work of fiction that explores human possibility. On an ordinary spring day in 2008, a series of orchestrated explosions  sends an already uncertain world, issuing a bizarre announcement and a cryptic threat. Conventional assumptions about human nature and potential are about to be challenged, on a scale not yet seen...

Click here to read the first chapter:   http://www.firstcauseproject.com/ChapterOne.html

My Monk: A Typographic Novel.  A young, idealistic American writing student arrives in England for graduate  school and finds herself involved in an unlikely friendship with a religious and temperamental Romanian poet. Harriet – a liberal atheist – draws closer and closer to her fellow graduate student, attracted to him because of their differences.

Click here to read the first chapter: http://www.dembrowsky.com

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Bluestocking Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY 10002

Saturday, July 10, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (ET)


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Bluestockings is a radical bookstore, fair trade cafe, and activist center in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Through words, art, food, activism, education, and community, we strive to create a space that welcomes and empowers all people. We actively support movements that challenge hierarchy and all systems of oppression, including but not limited to patriarchy, heterosexism, the gender binary, white supremacy and classism, within society as well as our own movements. We seek to make our space and resources available to such movements for meetings, events, and research. Additionally, we offer educational programming that promotes centered, strategic, and visionary thinking, towards the realization of a society that is infinitely creative, truly democratic, equitable, ecological, and free.