With the Lower East Side Protection Initiative, P&T Knitwear is pleased to welcome Margalit Fox to celebrate the paperback release of her book The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: the true story of America's first great organized-crime lord—a nice Jewish mother named Fredericka Mandelbaum.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Margalit Fox retired in June 2018 from a 24-year-career at the New York Times, where she was most recently a senior writer and a member of the newspaper’s celebrated obituary news department. She spent ten years as a staff editor at the New York Times Book Review. She is the author of Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals about the Mind (Simon & Schuster, 2007) and The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2013), Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World’s Most Famous Detective Writer, and the nonfiction thriller The Confidence Men.

Housekeeping notes:

This event is free to RSVP.
Doors open at 6:00pm, with the talk starting around 6:30pm.
Books will be available for purchase at the event.
Cost of a book bundle ticket reflects the total cost of the feature event book (MSRP plus tax). Each book bundle ticket guarantees ticket holders one (1) copy of the feature event book.
The talk will be followed by a book signing. Books signed at P&T Knitwear events must be purchased from P&T Knitwear.
If you would like a signed copy and cannot attend the event, we're happy to take your pre-order. We ship most places!

Margalit Fox presents The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum, with LESPI