Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:02 p.m.
Neil Strauss loves to rock. He realizes this love in a series of books worshiping the celebrity of such incendiary rockers as Motley Crue, Marilyn Manson and of course, America’s favorite legend Dave Navarro!
Strauss also loves the ladies. He realizes this love in one of his most famous works, “The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists.”
The Rolling Stone/New York Times rock journalist will be in the District tomorrow, Thursday, March 12, promoting his recent book, “Emergency,” part of which takes place in Washington, D. C.
The signing will take place between 6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. at Borders at 1801 K Street.
Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009 1:36 p.m.
Mark your return to the District this Monday, Jan. 12, with a book signing hosted by Jonah Lehrer, Rhodes Scholar and magazine editor. Lehrer will discuss the intersection of science and art, drawing from research published in his book, ‘Proust was a Neuroscientist.’
According to The Corcoran:
THE SCIENCE OF ART
Monday, January 12, 2009 7:00 PM
Book signing
Do you think art and science don’t go hand in hand? Think again. Rhodes Scholar and editor-at-large of Seed Magazine, Jonah Lehrer proves otherwise. After working along Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel and in the kitchens of top New York City restaurants Le Cirque 2000 and Le Bernardin, Lehrer presents his research and the idea behind the use of art as a means to investigate the mind. Considering the methods behind writers Marcel Proust and Walt Whitman, painter Paul Cezanne, and 19th-century chef August Escoffier, to name a few, Lehrer describes the mind from the inside. Lehrer explains his discoveries and more in his most recent book, Proust Was a Neuroscientist. A book signing follows the talk.
Members: $15.00 Public: $20.00
Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009 12:56 p.m.
Read New York magazine’s Adam Sternbergh as he reignites the age-old New York v. New Yorker magazine stylistic divide in a review of New Yorker writer David Denby’s “Snark: It’s Mean, It’s Personal, and It’s Ruining Our Conversation.”
Says Stenbergh in his critique:
Snark, as it’s usually understood, is irony’s bastard offspring. It’s irony curdled into something even worse. But irony’s critics were wrong then, just as snark’s critics are wrong today.
