Announcin the next NYRB Salon!

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Our popular monthly reading group, the NYRB Salon (curated by Peter Orner and reading titles from the New York Review of Books Classics series) is taking off the month of August. We will however return Sunday September 2nd where we'll be discussing Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling. 

From the books back: Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good—a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary confinement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle class—married, fathered a son, acquired a business and a mistress. But neither Jack nor Billy can escape their troubled pasts, and they will meet again in San Quentin before their strange double drama comes to a violent and revelatory end.

Come pick up your copy today while we still have it on remainder, and be sure to come out for a wonderful evening of literary discussion!

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