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Brooklyn Voices
St. Joseph's University, New York opens its doors to the area's foremost writers, musicians, actors and artists every semester through Brooklyn Voices.
Created in collaboration with Greenlight Bookstore, the aim of the Brooklyn Voices series is to promote and enhance the creative vitality of our home neighborhoods of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill by providing local writers, artists and intellectuals with a forum in which to discuss and present their works to our neighbors, patrons and students.
Through lectures, forums, performances and public discussion, Brooklyn Voices seeks to make a meaningful contribution to the thriving intellectual culture of the neighborhood and ensure that our community remains a stimulating place in which to live, learn and do business.
Brooklyn Voices Lineup
Fall 2024 Events
Ayana Mathis
Ayana Mathis presents The Unsettled, winner of the Gabe Hudson Prize
In conversation with Akhil Sharma and Gary Shteyngart
IN-PERSON: Live at St. Joseph's University!
Thursday, December 12, 7:30 p.m.
Celebrate Ayana Mathis, winner of the Inaugural Gabe Hudson Prize, conferred by McSweeney's, where the late Hudson was an editor at large. Prize committee members Akhil Sharma and Gary Shteyngart will introduce Mathis, who will read from the novel. Q&A, book signing, and brief reception to follow.
Photo by Beowulf Sheehan.
Tickets: Free (book not included)
Spring 2025 Events
Liz Pelly
Book launch: Liz Pelly's Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
In conversation with Max Alper
IN-PERSON: Live at St. Joseph's University!
Tuesday, January 7, 7:30 p.m.
Wine reception to follow
Co-presented with The Baffler
Greenlight is happy to partner with The Baffler for a reading and discussion celebrating the release of Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist. Drawing on over a hundred interviews with industry insiders, Mood Machine is an unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, as well as the inner workings of today’s highly consolidated record business, lifting the veil on a notoriously opaque industry. Pelly describes what has changed as music has become increasingly playlisted, personalized, and autoplayed; yet, for all of the inequities exacerbated by streaming, she also finds hope in chronicling the artist-led fight for better models. Joining Pelly onstage is composer, educator, and writer Max Alper aka La Meme Young, for an in-depth discussion on the book, followed by an audience Q&A and signing. Copies of Mood Machine and issues of The Baffler will be available for purchase. The United Musicians and Allied Workers will also be tabling.
Ticket options:
Free — General admission (book not included)
$28.99 — Book bundle ticket
Chris Hayes
Chris Hayes presents The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
IN-PERSON: Live at St. Joseph's University!
Monday, February 10, 7:30 p.m.
Greenlight is proud to welcome Emmy Award–winning TV host and New York Times bestselling author Chris Hayes back to St. Joseph's to present his newest work of cogent cultural criticism. The Siren's Call is a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society. We all feel it—the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. Hayes argues that we are in the midst of an epoch-defining transition whose only parallel is what happened to labor in the nineteenth century: attention has become a commodified resource extracted from us by, and from which we are increasingly alienated. The Sirens’ Call is the book that snaps everything into a single holistic framework so that we can wrest back control of our lives, our politics, and our future. Hayes presents his book with a reading and discussion, followed by a book signing.
Photo credit: MSNBC.
Tickets: $32 (book included)
SAVE THE DATE: Check back soon for ticket information.
Colum McCann
Colum McCann presents Twist
IN-PERSON: Live at St. Joseph's University!
Wednesday, March 26, 7:30 p.m.
SAVE THE DATE — more information coming soon.
Previous Seasons of Brooklyn Voices
Fall 2024
Jeff VanderMeer
Thursday, October 24, 7:30 p.m.
Jeff VanderMeer presents Absolution: A Southern Reach
In conversation with Emily St. John Mandel
Emily St. John Mandel
Friday, September 20, 7:30 p.m.
Emily St. John Mandel presents Station Eleven Ten-Year Anniversary Celebration!
In conversation with Jenny Jackson
Spring 2024
Lev Grossman
Monday, July 15, 7:30 p.m.
Lev Grossman presents The Bright Sword
Tommy Orange
Tuesday, March 5, 7:30 p.m.
Tommy Orange presents Absolution: Wandering Stars
In conversation with Ethan Hawke
Michael Ondaatje
Tuesday, April 2, 7:30 p.m.
Michael Ondaatje presents A Year of Last Things: Poems
In conversation with Sonali Deraniyagala
Maurice Ashley
Monday, April 8, 7:30 p.m.
Maurice Ashley presents Move by Move: Life Lessons On and Off the Chessboard
In conversation with Levy Rozman
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Wednesday, May 15, 7:30 p.m.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil presents Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
In conversation with Roxane Gay
Voyage Into Genre LIVE
Friday, May 17, 7:30 p.m.
Andrea Hairston, promoting The Archangels of Funk
Veronica Roth, promoting When Among Crows
Rebecca Thorne, promoting Can't Spell Treason without Tea
Nghi Vo, promoting The Brides of High Hill
Moderator: P. Djeli Clark
Julia Phillips
Tuesday, June 25, 7:30 p.m.
Julia Phillips presents Bear
Fall 2023
Heather Cox Richardson
Wednesday, September 27, 7:30 p.m.
Heather Cox Richardson presents Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
IN-PERSON: Live at St. Joseph's University!
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Wednesday, October 18, 7:30 p.m.
Viet Thanh Nguyen presents A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial
In conversation with Lisa Hsiao Chen
IN-PERSON: Live at St. Joseph's University!
Jhumpa Lahiri
Monday, November 6, 7:30 p.m.
Jhumpa Lahiri presents Roman Stories
IN-PERSON: Live at St. Joseph's University!
Spring 2023
Colm Tóibín
Wednesday, January 25, 7:30 p.m.
Colm Tóibín presents A Guest at the Feast
IN-PERSON: Live at St. Joseph's University!
Lucy Foley
Monday, February 27, 7:30 p.m.
Lucy Foley presents The Paris Apartment
In Conversation with Andrea Bartz
TJ Klune
Wednesday, March 29, 7:30 p.m.
In conversation with audiobook narrators Kirt Graves, Daniel Henning, and Michael Lesley
Co-presented with Libro.fm and Macmillan Audio
IN-PERSON: Live at St. Joseph's University!
Alicia Mountain
Wednesday, April 12, 7:30 p.m.
In conversation with Brenda Shaughnessy
Moderated by Ariel Yelen
IN-PERSON: Live at St. Joseph's University!
Blythe Roberson
Wednesday, April 19, 7:30 p.m.
Blythe Roberson presents America the Beautiful?
In conversation with Phoebe Robinson
IN-PERSON: Live at St. Joseph's University!
Cleyvis Natera
Wednesday, May 3, 7:30 p.m.
Cleyvis Natera presents Neruda on the Park
In conversation with Robert Jones Jr.
IN-PERSON: Live at St. Joseph's University!
Brandon Taylor
Wednesday, May 24, 7:30 p.m.
Brandon Taylor presents The Late Americans
IN-PERSON: Live at St. Joseph's University!
Fall 2022
Andrew Sean Greer
Wednesday, September 28, 7:30 p.m.
Andrew Sean Greer presents Less Is Lost
In conversation with Sloane Crosley
Lydia Millet
Wednesday, October 12, 7:30 p.m.
Lydia Millet presents Dinosaurs
In conversation with Jenny Offill
Fatimah Asghar
Wednesday, October 12, 7:30 p.m.
Fatimah Asghar presents When We Were Sisters
In conversation with Angel Nafis, José Olivarez, and Jess Sn
Eileen Myles
Wednesday, October 12, 7:30 p.m.
Eileen Myles presents Pathetic Literature
Featuring Fred Moten, Carmen Boullosa, Nicole Eisenman, Sarah Nicole Prickett and Will Farri
Summer 2022
Anthony Marra
Tuesday, August 2, 7:30 p.m.
Anthony Marra presents Mercury Pictures Presents
In conversation with Amor Towles
Mohsin Hamid
Wednesday, August 3, 7:30 p.m.
Mohsin Hamid presents The Last White Man
Spring 2022
Bernardine Evaristo
Tuesday, January 18, 7:30 p.m.
Bernardine Evaristo presents Manifesto
In conversation with Rumaan Alam
Marlon James
Tuesday, February 15, 7:30 p.m.*
Marlon James presents Moon Witch, Spider King
Interviewer To Be Announced!
Jennifer Egan
Tuesday, April 5, 7:30 p.m. (doors 6:30 p.m.)*
Jennifer Egan presents The Candy House
In conversation with Susan Choi
Emily St. John Mandel
Thursday, April 7, 7:30 p.m. (doors 6:30 p.m.)*
Emily St. John Mandel presents Sea of Tranquility
Spring 2021
Hermione Lee
Wednesday, February 24, 5 p.m.
Hermione Lee presents Tom Stoppard: A Life
In conversation with Tom Stoppard
Tickets $45-50 (Includes access to the event, a hardcover copy of Tom Stoppard: A Life and a bookplate signed by Hermione Lee. Note pickup and shipping options when purchasing tickets.)
Naima Coster
Thursday, March 4, 7:30 p.m.
Naima Coster presents What’s Mine and Yours
In conversation with Elizabeth Acevedo
Carol Edgarian
Monday, March 8, 7:30 p.m.
Carol Edgarian presents Vera
In conversation with Jennifer Egan
Amy Solomon
Tuesday, March 16, 7:30 p.m.
Amy Solomon presents Notes from the Bathroom Line: Humor, Art, and Low-grade Panic from 150 of the Funniest Women in Comedy
Featuring Catherine Cohen, Tien Tran, Sydnee Washington, Sunita Mani, Aya Cash, Atsuko Okatsuka, Punam Patel, Rachel Sennott, and more to be announced!
Craig Taylor
Tuesday, March 23, 7:30 p.m.
Book Launch: Craig Taylor presents New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time
Featuring special guests to be announced!
Edward Hirsch
Monday, April 5, 7:30 p.m.
Edward Hirsch presents 100 Poems to Break Your Heart
With special guests Victoria Chang and Vijay Seshadri
Rachel Kushner
Thursday, April 8, 7:30 p.m.
Rachel Kushner presents The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020
In conversation with Hari Kunzru
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Monday, April 19, 7:30 p.m.
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro presents Names of New York: Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names
In conversation with Matt Weiland
Quiara Alegría Hudes
Wednesday, April 28, 7:30 p.m.
Quiara Alegría Hudes presents My Broken Language: A Memoir
In conversation with Daphne Rubin-Vega
Summer 2020
Betsy Bonner — VIRTUAL EVENT
Monday, August 17, 7:30 p.m.
Betsy Bonner presents The Book of Atlantis Black: The Search for a Sister Gone Missing
In conversation with Christopher Castellani
Spring 2020
Ezra Klein
Sunday, February 2, 4:30 p.m.
Ezra Klein presents Why We're Polarized
In conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates
Erik Larson
Monday, February 24, 7:30 p.m.
Book Launch: Erik Larson presents The Splendid and the Vile
In conversation with Maria Konnikova
Robert Reich — VIRTUAL EVENT
Tuesday, March 31, 7:30 p.m.
Robert Reich presents The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
In conversation with Anand Giridaradas
Kathy Valentine — VIRTUAL EVENT
Monday, April 20, 7:30 p.m.
Kathy Valentine presents All I Ever Wanted: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Memoir
In conversation with Lizz Winstead
Mikel Jollett
Monday, May 4, 7:30 p.m.
Mikel Jollett presents Hollywood Park
Masha Gessen
Wednesday, June 3, 7:30 p.m.
Masha Gessen presents Surviving Autocracy
In conversation with Tim Snyder
Fall 2019
Dan Rather
Tuesday, September 3, 7:30 p.m.
Paperback launch: Dan Rather presents What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism
In conversation with Sally Kohn
Ann Patchett
Thursday, September 26, 7:30 p.m.
Ann Patchett presents The Dutch House
Eric Foner
Sunday, September 29, 4:30 p.m.
Eric Foner presents The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
In conversation with Chris Hayes
Mark Bittman
Wednesday, October 2, 7:30 p.m.
Mark Bittman presents How to Cook Everything – Completely Revised Twentieth Anniversary Edition: Simple Recipes for Great Food
In conversation with Melissa Clark
Lindy West
Thursday, November 7, 7:30 p.m.
Lindy West presents The Witches are Coming
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