Name: Book Launch: Rennie McDougall with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Start: 2026-05-07T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-05-07T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene

Book Launch: Rennie McDougall with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

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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Brooklyn writer Rennie McDougall presents Nonstop Bodies, a sweeping cultural history of the dancing that defined New York City.

Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene

Book Launch: Rennie McDougall presents Nonstop Bodies: How Dance Shaped New York City In conversation with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Wine reception to followBrooklyn writer Rennie McDougall presents Nonstop Bodies, a sweeping cultural history of the dancing that defined New York City. Throughout the twentieth century, in theaters, ballrooms, and nightclubs, dancers blazed trails of resistance and revolution. From the exuberant endurance of dance marathons during Prohibition to the militant precision of the Rockettes through WWII and the strait-laced fifties; from the aloof abstraction of the Judson Dance Theater to the explosive energy of hip hop in the South Bronx; from the elated mingling of discos to the commercialized physicality of Broadway, Nonstop Bodies exploratively captures how dance has been both a reflection of the city's culture and a backbone for social change. McDougall reads from and discusses the book with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro (Names of New York) before an audience Q&amp;A and signing.

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