Name: Book Launch: Darcey Steinke with Ada Calhoun
Start: 2026-02-24T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2026-02-24T20:30:00-05:00
Location: Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene

Book Launch: Darcey Steinke with Ada Calhoun

Founded in October 2009, Greenlight Bookstore is a general independent bookstore in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, which hosts literary events in-store and with partner venues. The mission of Greenlight Bookstore is to create welcoming spaces for discovery, conversation, and connection around books, through curation, programming and service that provides for the needs and interests of our customers and highlights creative work we love and value, based on a commitment to improving equity and sustainability in our company and our community. Through knowledgeable staff, curated book selection, community partnerships, and a robust e-commerce website as well as a beautiful bookstore spaces, Greenlight combines the best traditions of the neighborhood bookstore with a forward-looking sensibility. Greenlight has garnered local, national, and international press coverage for its innovative startup model and its continuing success. More information and details, along with book purchase options, can be found atgreenlightbookstore.com.

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Acclaimed local author Darcey Steinke (Flash Count Diary) returns to Greenlight to launch her new book gets to the heart of pain.

Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene

Book Launch: Darcey Steinke presents This Is the Door: The Body, Pain, and Faith In conversation with Ada Calhoun Food and wine reception to follow Acclaimed local author Darcey Steinke (Flash Count Diary) returns to Greenlight to launch her new book This is the Door, which explores the world of pain for those who suffer and those who love them. One-fifth of Americans live in chronic pain, and pain in some form—chronic or temporary, corporal or emotional—is a state we will all endure. In chapters that trace the body—The Spine, The Heart, The Knees, and more—Steinke gets to the heart of pain through history, philosophy, religion, pop culture, and reporter human experience, with her usual brilliance, humor, and empathy. Local New York Times–bestselling author Ada Calhoun (Crush) joins Steinke for a discussion on pain and its myriad effects, before an audience Q&amp;A and signing.t

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