British Singer-Songwriter Badly Drawn Boy and Eat the Document Author Dana Spiotta Featured in the Next "Upstairs at the Square" on Wednesday, March 7 at the Union Square Barnes & Noble.Journalist Katherine Lanpher Katherine Lanpher, was born May 27, 1959. She graduated with a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and with a master’s degree in American Cultural History from the University of Chicago. Again Hosts the Program NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BKS BKS Barracks BKS Best Kept Secret (gaming) BKS Bildung, Kultur Und Sport (German) BKS Brookside (city) BKS Bergen Kirurgiske Sykehus (Bergen, Norway) ), the world's largest bookseller, today announced the next event in its new series, "Upstairs at the Square," held at the Union Square Barnes & Noble in Manhattan (33 East 17th Street at Union Square). On Wednesday, March 7th, at 7PM, singer-songwriter Badly Drawn Boy Damon Gough (nicknamed Badly Drawn Boy), was born 2 October 1969, in Dunstable, Bedfordshire. He grew up in the Breightmet area of Bolton, Lancashire, England. He is a Mercury Prize-winning indie singer/songwriter. , whose new album is Born in the U.K. (Astralwerks), and Dana Spiotta, whose latest novel, Eat The Document (Scribner, 2006), was a National Book Award finalist, discuss and perform their work. Journalist Katherine Lanpher hosts the program. Admission is free, and no tickets are required. Seating is available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Named by Q Magazine as one of "50 Bands To See Before You Die," Badly Drawn Boy (badlydrawnboy.co.uk), aka Damon Gough, has been on everyone's shortlist short·list also short-list n. A list of preferable items or candidates that have been selected for final consideration, as in making an award or filling a position. Noun 1. since winning the Mercury Prize for his 2000 debut, The Hour of Bewilderbeast. He continues his winning streak of heartfelt, charming, sublimely melodic songs -from the About A Boy soundtrack to Have You Fed The Fish? to One Plus One Is One - with his fifth album, Born in the U.K. Described as honest, often wincingly so, and upfront, Gough is a musician who does things his way. Where One Plus One Is One was an intimate, introspective in·tro·spect intr.v. in·tro·spect·ed, in·tro·spect·ing, in·tro·spects To engage in introspection. [Latin intr album, Born In The U.K., which Gough describes as "the most difficult record I've made to date," is more inclusive. "It is an album with which I want to embrace the wider world," he says. Dana Spiotta (danaspiotta.com) grew up mostly in California. In 1993 she moved to New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . She was the managing editor (with Jodi Davis) of The Quarterly for two years. Scribner published her first novel, Lightning Field, in 2001. It was a New York Times Notable Book of the year and a Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). Best Book of the West. The New York Times called her second novel, Eat the Document, "stunning" and described it as "a book that possesses the staccato ferocity of a Joan Didion essay and the razzle-dazzle language and the historical resonance of a Don DeLillo novel." Katherine Lanpher is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist. Springboard Press recently published her first book, Leap Days: Chronicle of a Midlife Move. The next "Upstairs on the Square" will take place on Wednesday, April 11th, at 7PM, and features author Ian Rankin and musician Aidan Moffatt (formerly of Arab Strap). Audio downloads of all seven previous events are available on Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com/upstairs). About Barnes & Noble, Inc. Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), the world's largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 801 bookstores in 50 states. For the fifth year in a row, the company is the nation's top retail brand for quality, according to the EquiTrend[R] Brand Study by Harris Interactive[R]. Barnes & Noble conducts its online business through Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com), one of the Web's largest e-commerce sites and the number one online bookseller for quality among e-commerce companies, according to the latest EquiTrend survey. General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the Internet by visiting the company's corporate Web site: http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com. |
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