Gibson's Live! Novelist John Banville - The Singularities

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Virtual author event, with Booker Prize-winning novelist John Banville, in conversation with Alexandra Kleeman

Virtual author event!Gibson's Bookstore is pleased to join McNally Jackson and other indie bookstores to present a virtual event with author John Banville, for his new novel, <a href="https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/book/9780525655176" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Singularities</a>. From the revered <a href="https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/book/9781400097029" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Booker Prize-winning</a> author comes a playful, multilayered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters as he is released from prison. Banville is joined in conversation by author Alexandra Kleeman.About the author: JOHN BANVILLE, the author of seventeen novels, has been the recipient of the Man Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, and the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. He lives in Dublin.Alexandra Kleeman is the author of Intimations, a short story collection, and the novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, which was a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Zoetrope, Conjunctions, and Guernica, among other publications, and her other writing has appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Tin House, n+1, and The Guardian. Her work has received fellowships and support from Bread Loaf, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Headlands Center for the Arts. She is the winner of the Berlin Prize and the Bard Fiction Prize, and was a Rome Prize Literature Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. She lives in Staten Island and teaches at the New School.Sign up for the events-specific email newsletter from Gibson's Bookstore! Separate from our main store newsletter, this newsletter sends you notices when we book events, and what our upcoming events are! We promise not to sell your email address. <a href="https://signup.e2ma.net/signup/1947324/1359315/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://signup.e2ma.net/signup/1947324/1359315/</a>Event harassment policyWe expect all participants to maintain an atmosphere of respect and fairness. Anyone who violates this standard of behavior, including engaging in any form of harassment, or otherwise disrupts the event, may, at the discretion of the organizers, be immediately removed. Participants removed as a result of their behavior will not receive any refund.

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