Tuesday, September 6, Barnes & Noble, 150 East 86th St. at Lexington Ave., free, 212-369-2180, 7:00
Wednesday, September 7, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, 2920 Broadway, free, 5:00
Thursday, September 8, McNally Jackson Books, 52 Prince St. between Lafayette & Mulberry Sts., free, 212-274-1160, 7:00
Friday, September 9, BookCourt, 163 Court St.
Sunday, September 18, Brooklyn Book Festival, Borough Hall Community Room, free, 10:00 am
www.granta.com
For more than thirty years, UK publisher Granta has been putting out a quarterly trade-paperback-size magazine featuring articles, essays, poems, short stories, and novel excerpts by an international collection of writers on such themes as travel, home, film, aliens, sex, and nature. They often get political, as in such issues as “The Rise of the British Jihad,” “Over There: How America Sees the World,” and “While Waiting for a War.” In their latest publication, Granta 116: Ten Years Later (Grove Press, $16.99), they have put together sixteen stories dealing with the aftereffects of 9/11, with pieces by award-winning authors Pico Iyer and Nicole Krauss, former Guantanamo prisoner Ahmed Errachidi, U.S. Marine Corps veteran Phil Klay, foreign correspondents Anthony Shadid and Declan Walsh, photojournalist Elliott Woods, and translator Linda Coverdale, among others, writing about life around the world since the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Granta will be holding a series of special free events this month in conjunction with the publication of the new issue and the tenth anniversary of 9/11, beginning tonight with “The Fireman’s Family and the Soldier,” a reading and discussion at the 86th St. Barnes & Noble hosted by Peter Carey, executive director of Hunter College’s creative writing MFA program, who will introduce two of his students, Klay and Samantha Smith. On September 7, Granta teams up with Voices of Witness and the South Asian Journalists Association for “Islamophobia, the Media, and Echoes of 9/11” at the Columbia School of Journalism, with Granta 116 contributor and law professor Lawrence Joseph, journalist Todd Gitlin, civil rights attorney Alia Malek, and Granta editor John Freeman. On September 9, Granta 116 contributors Klay, Joseph, Krauss, and Jynne Martin will be at BookCourt with Freeman for the official Brooklyn launch of the new issue. Freeman will be back in Brooklyn on September 18 for the Brooklyn Book Festival, when he will be joined by Madison Smartt Bell, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, and others for the program “Conflict, Trauma and Writing: How We Tell Stories After a Crisis.”