books:

Tumblr, Electric Literature, The New Inquiry, and the Los Angeles Review of Books invite you to celebrate the Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends Opening Night!

Three top web-based literary publications (and Tumblr super-users) invite you meet your internet friends in person for chatting, drinking, and dancing to kick off the most bookish week in Brooklyn. Music from DJs Abby Klein and Doc Delay and free drink specials enhance the East Coast vs. West Coast faceoff — and everybody wins!

Monday 9/17 at 7pm, Public Assembly, 70 N 6th Street, Brooklyn NY. See you there!

Open bar, East Coast + West Coast dance party and, um, books. RSVP here. Or just show up. You’re going to regret it if you don’t. 

Tuesday, March 27
6:30-10:00pm

@ The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street, New York, NY (map)

After party from 10:00-11:30pm at The Half King

Celebrate the release of The New Inquiry Magazine, No. 2: Youth at The Kitchen on Tuesday, March 27 for a screening of one of the buried gems of late 60′s youth-power exploitation cinema, “Wild in The Streets.”

Over four decades before “The 99%,” rock star-turned-President Max Frost told America’s youth they were “The 52%” – a majority that should act like it. In the run up to Occupy Wall Street’s declared May 1 general strike, we’ve assembled a panel to discuss the film, pop music, and revolutionary politics featuring:

Greil Marcus
Legendary rock critic and author of Lipstick Traces, Mystery Train, and most recently, The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years

Sara Marcus
Author of Girls to The Front: The True Story of The Riot Grrrl Revolution

Andrew O’Hehir
Head film critic for Salon.com

Laurie Penny
UK columnist and activist, TNI contributing editor, and author of Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism and Penny Red

Cosmo Bjorkenheim
New York based controversial-film maker and anthropophobe

Moderated by TNI editor Malcolm Harris.

This event is free and open to the public. Drinks are on us.

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And now  you remember why you love this city.

TNI will be here today:

Dissent Magazine: Socialism and Social Democracy Today

Sheri Berman, Robin Blackburn, Michael Kazin, and Michael Walzer will contemplate socialism and social democracy in the age of financial insecurity.

Saturday, May 1 at 2:30 p.m.

Judson Assembly Hall 239 Thompson St, New York, NY (A/B/C/D/E/F/V to W. 4th or the 1 to Christopher St.)

This event is free and open to the public, so please bring your friends RSVP or question: 212-316-3120 or editors@dissentmagazine.org

& here tonight:

N+1 Magazine: Issue 9 Launch Party

177 Livingston Street in Brooklyn.

Reading at 7 pm, party until late.

TNI will be here tonight. Join us.

Monday April 26, 2010 7:00 PM

Barnes & Noble: 86th & Lexington Ave, 150 East 86th Street, New York, NY 10028

Veteran musicologist and music historian Greil Marcus joins novelist Jonathan Lethem for a discussion of the transcendent work of singer and songwriter Van Morrison in this special Writers on Writers event.

TNI will see you there.

TNI will be going here tomorrow. If you live in New York, you might want to do the same.

ithoughtyousaidgoforit:

Tonight we party.

Brooklyn Museum: October 30, 2009–January 31, 2010

Who Shot Rock & Roll is the first major museum exhibition on rock and roll to put photographers in the foreground, acknowledging their creative and collaborative role in the history of rock music. (via Brooklyn Museum: Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present)