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Zoom Book Launch: GHOSTS OF NEW YORK by Jim Lewis

Join us for the return of novelist Jim Lewis, in conversation with Donald Breckenridge, for the release of his fourth novel, Ghosts of New York.

The work of a celebrated novelist and veteran of the art, film, and music scenes in New York and Austin,  Ghosts of New York  explores complex lives through indelible renderings of settings—a bar, a night market, a recording studio—that alternate between familiar and unsettling. The novel interweaves four strands: a photographer newly returned to the neighborhood where she grew up, after years spent living overseas; a foundling raised on 14th Street; a graduate student, his romantic partner, and his best friend entangled in a set of relationships with far-reaching personal and political repercussions; and a shopkeeper suffering from first love late in life. Mixing prophecy, history, and a hint of speculative fiction, its stories are bound together even as they are propelled into stranger territory. And undergirding it all is a song, which appears, disappears, and then resurfaces.

The event is free but you must RSVP here to receive the Zoom link.

Pre-order Ghosts of New York here to support Shakespeare & Co. as well as the author.











When: Fri., Apr. 2, 2021 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Shakespeare & Co.
939 Lexington Ave. (corner of 69th St.)
212-772-3400
Price: Free
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Join us for the return of novelist Jim Lewis, in conversation with Donald Breckenridge, for the release of his fourth novel, Ghosts of New York.

The work of a celebrated novelist and veteran of the art, film, and music scenes in New York and Austin,  Ghosts of New York  explores complex lives through indelible renderings of settings—a bar, a night market, a recording studio—that alternate between familiar and unsettling. The novel interweaves four strands: a photographer newly returned to the neighborhood where she grew up, after years spent living overseas; a foundling raised on 14th Street; a graduate student, his romantic partner, and his best friend entangled in a set of relationships with far-reaching personal and political repercussions; and a shopkeeper suffering from first love late in life. Mixing prophecy, history, and a hint of speculative fiction, its stories are bound together even as they are propelled into stranger territory. And undergirding it all is a song, which appears, disappears, and then resurfaces.

The event is free but you must RSVP here to receive the Zoom link.

Pre-order Ghosts of New York here to support Shakespeare & Co. as well as the author.

Buy tickets/get more info now