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12
Apr
Tonight, Bill Clegg, author of the new memoir Ninety Days, a sequel to his Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man, which one reviewer described as “a stylish record of his swan dive to rock bottom,” joins us Upstairs at the Square with Rachael Yamagata — join us to find out why she’s only the second guest to be invited back in six years — and host Katherine Lanpher for an evening of performance and discussion at the Union Square Barnes & Noble. Showtime is 7pm sharp, and it’s free.
07
Mar
Please join us this Thursday for Emma Straub and Stephin Merritt “Upstairs at the Square.” Free. Show starts at 7 sharp, with room for everyone. Bring your friends.
02
Feb
Think of “Upstairs at the Square” as the best book club ever. This month, we’re reading THE PATRICK MELROSE NOVELS and listening to REDEMPTION CITY. Join us for a discussion and performance with their creators, and our host Katherine Lanpher on February 15th.
20
Jan
29
Sep
Spanning 32 years, 48 stories, and every piece of fiction Beattie ever published in The New Yorker, [Ann Beattie’s The New Yorker Stories] amounts to a career compendium, a chronological record of a confirmed master’s best work. It starts with twenty- and thirtysomethings languishing in commuter towns, has a fling with New York life, survives the fallout from a few midlife affairs, and settles back into the (now upper-middle-class) suburbs to make labored conversation with grown children in the new millennium.
Along the way, we realize what distinguishes those well-known early stories from her recent work. Beattie started as a writer in the shadow of the liberalizing ’60s and the crush of the recession. Her fiction from this period traced not only the mood of her young cohort but an identity crisis in the middle class: a point when old measures of lifestyle, success, and ambition had been overturned and no new measures had replaced them.
27
Sep
I think I write about things that are mysterious to me. ANN BEATTIE, author of The New Yorker Stories (WITH MARKETA IRGLOVA of Once and the Swell Season, whose new solo album is ANAR), OCTOBER 13, 7PM. “Upstairs at the Square,” with host Katherine Lanpher, Barnes & Noble Union Square, New York, FREE (video online after the show). Last show of the year (series returns January 2012).
