The House of Twenty Thousand Books: Author Event
Where: Book Culture on Columbus
450 Columbus Ave.
Price: Free
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On Wednesday 14 October independent bookstore Book Culture welcomes Sasha Abramsky as he discusses his new book The House of Twenty Thousand Books, with Samuel Freedman.
The House of Twenty Thousand Books combines memoir and history in telling the story of the author’s grandfather, Chimen Abramsky, an extraordinary polymath and bibliophile who amassed a vast collection of socialist literature and Jewish history. For more than fifty years Chimen and his wife, Miriam, hosted epic gatherings in their house of books that brought together many of the age’s greatest thinkers.
As the reader moves from room to room, Abramsky brings to life the people, the books and the ideas that filled the house, from gatherings that included Eric Hobsbawm and Isaiah Berlin to books with Marx’s handwritten notes, William Morris manuscripts and woodcuts, an early sixteenth-century Bomberg Bible, and a first edition of Descartes’ Meditations.
The House of Twenty Thousand Books is a wondrous journey through our times, from the vanished worlds of Eastern European Jewry to the cacophonous politics of modernity.
This is a free event and Sasha Abramsky will be available to sign books following the discussion.
Book Culture, 450 Columbus Avenue, New York 10024
Contact: Cody Madsen, Events Manager, phone 212-865-1588 or [email protected]
About the speakers
Sasha Abramsky is a frequent contributor to The Nation and the author of several books, including Obama’s Brain and The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives, a New York Times Notable Book of 2013. He is a Senior Fellow at Demos Think Tank and teaches writing at the University of California, Davis.
Samuel G. Freedman is an award-winning author, columnist, and professor. He is a columnist for the New York Times and a professor at Columbia University and the author of seven acclaimed books, most recently Breaking The Line: The Season in Black College Football That Transformed the Game and Changed the Course of Civil Rights.
About Book Culture
Book Culture on Columbus is the newest of the three Book Culture bookstores in Manhattan. The store feature a wide variety of literature, art books, cooking, lifestyle, and nonfiction, along with an entire floor dedicated to children’s books and toys.
Book Culture has been part of the Morningside Heights community since 1997, with locations on 112th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam and on the corner of 114th and Broadway, where there has been an independent bookstore for over fifty years. The 112th location offers a wide range of publications in the arts, humanities, and sciences. The 114th store carries popular titles and a large collection of children’s books. For more information, visit http://www.bookculture.com/.
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