Bontrager / Hein / Ilgenfritz / Schoenbeck / Vitkova January 2nd, 8pm

Come out to Unnameable Books on January 2nd at 8pm for music by

Nathan Bontrager (cello)
Nicola Hein (guitar)
James Ilgenfritz (bass)
Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon)
Lucie Vitkova (accordion)

Manhattanville Reading Series, Tuesday 12/20

Join us at the bookstore on Tuesday, December 20th at 7:30pm for the season finale of the Manhattanville Reading Series (a Franklin Park Reading Series-affiliated event for emerging writers).


Featured author for the evening is 2016 Whiting Award winner Mitchell S. Jackson, author of The Residue Years. He'll be joined by Liars' League NYC co-host Nancy Hightower, fiction writer and artist Carrie Cooperrider, and Sunday Salon NYC co-host Emily Cementina.


About the Authors:

MITCHELL S. JACKSON is a 2016 Whiting Award recipient and the author of the novel The Residue Years, which won The Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and was a finalist for the Center For Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, the PEN/ Hemingway Award, and the Hurston / Wright Legacy Award. He received an M.A. in writing from Portland State University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from New York University. A Portland, Oregon native, he lives in Brooklyn and serves on the faculty of New York University and Columbia University.

NANCY HIGHTOWER has published short fiction and poetry in journals such as storySouth, Sundog Lit, Gargoyle, and Word Riot. In October 2015, Port Yonder Press published The Acolyte, her first collection of poetry that rediscovers myth and ritual through a surreal, feminist interpretation of biblical narratives. Kinds of Leaving, her short story collection, was shortlisted for the Flann O’Brien Award for Innovative Fiction in 2014. She cohosts the live literary journal Liars’ League NYC with Andrew Lloyd Jones. She teaches at Hunter College.

CARRIE COOPERRIDER is a writer and visual artist who lives in Staten Island. Her work has appeared in New York Tyrant, The Southampton Review, Marginalia, Cabinet Magazine, the Antioch Review, and Artishock

EMILY CEMENTINA received her M.F.A. in fiction from The New School. She teaches first-year writing at CUNY and is a co-host of Sunday Salon, a monthly reading series in the East Village. She has published work in Fwriction and has just completed her first novel.



For more info on the series, visit their tumblr page!

Sarah Schulman: Conflict is not Abuse, 12/10 7pm

Unnameable Books is thrilled to host Sarah Schulman for a reading and discussion of her newest book, Conflict is not Abuse.

Though it's hard to gauge attendance via a Facebook event, we're expecting a big crowd in our *small* space, so *please* arrive early to ensure a seat/place to stand. Hopefully, we won't have to turn anyone away for lack of room. As an alternative, we'll be livestreaming the talk on Facebook-- more on how to access that stream soon! 

More About Conflict Is Not Abuse:
Novelist, playwright and non-fiction writer Sarah Schulman’s latest book is a timely and searing rejection of the cultural phenomenon of blame, cruelty, and scapegoating, revealing how those in positions of power exacerbate and manipulate fear of the “other” to avoid facing themselves. She illustrates how Supremacy behaviour and Traumatized behaviour resemble each other, through a shared inability to tolerate difference.

SARAH SCHULMAN is the author of seventeen previous books, including the novels The Cosmopolitans, Rat Bohemia, and Empathy, and the non-fiction books The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination and Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences. Her latest book is Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair. Her many honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship (Playwriting), a Fulbright Fellowship (Judaic Studies), and the Kessler Award for Lifetime Contribution to LGBT Studies. She is a Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the City University of New York College of Staten Island.

Resist! Film Series: The Black Power Mixtape, 12/7 7pm

Join us for our first installment of the Resist! Film Series, a monthly showcase of films and documentaries that focus on radical resistance, historical and contemporary activist movements, and intersectionality.

Wednesday, December 7th, 7pm:

The Black Power Mixtape
The Black Power Mixtape is a documentary released in 2011 documenting the Black Power movement in the U.S. 

Check out the trailer here.