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EVENT PROMOTED BY IICNY: Gianrico Carofiglio in conversation with Sheldon Zenner, a former federal prosecutor and a defense attorney. They will discuss Carofiglio's new novel as well as his career path from anti-Mafia prosecutor to full-time writer.
Join IICNY for a stimulating and lively conversation as we cross the globe --- Gianrico Carofiglio will join from Italy and Sheldon Zenner from Chicago --- to discuss The Measure of Time, Carofiglio's inspiration and writing life, and an inside look at the intricacies of the Italian justice system from two brilliant legal minds.
The Measure of Time is the latest book in Carfofiglio's Guido Guerrieri crime series (just published Spring 2021). It is set in the port city of Bari in Southern Italy. Against his own instincts, Guerrieri takes on an appeal against what looks like an unassailable murder conviction. The alleged perpetrator is the son of a former lover, Lorenza, who he met in 1987 when he had just graduated law school. The novel is both a thriller and a compassionate meditation about the ravages of time, as Guerrieri looks back on his life while investigating and forming a proper defense for his client.
When published in Italy, The Measure of Time remained at the top of the bestseller list for months, and was shortlisted for the 2020 STREGA prize, Italy’s most prestigious literary award. The veracity of Carofiglio’s work is rooted in his past as an anti-Mafia prosecutor in Southern Italy where he prosecuted cases of corruption, organized crime and human trafficking. Carofiglio seasons his plots with enough philosophical spice to satisfy readers who want more from crime fiction than the usual legal thriller rollercoaster. He neatly switches between twist-packed plot-development, well-salted scenic or culinary interludes and reflections on his love life. With the Guido Guerrieri crime series, Carofiglio also deftly contemplates the life of the lawyer and the hard compromises integral in any system of criminal justice.
Gianrico Carofiglio is an award-winning, best-selling novelist. Born in Bari in 1961, he worked for years as a prosecutor specializing in organized crime. He was appointed advisor of the anti-Mafia committee in the Italian parliament in 2007 and served as a senator from 2008 to 2013. Carofiglio is best known for the Guido Guerrieri crime series: Involuntary Witness, A Walk in the Dark, Reasonable Doubts, Temporary Perfections, A Fine Line and now The Measure of Time, all published by Bitter Lemon Press. Two books in the series were made into films for Italian television. Carofiglio’s books have sold five million copies in Italy and have been translated into twenty-four languages worldwide.
Carofiglio's books are transalted into English by Howard Curtis.
Sheldon Zenner is a lawyer who draws on 40 years of combined experience as a federal prosecutor and defense attorney, and who has overseen high-stakes government and internal investigations, regulatory proceedings, all phases of criminal matters and related civil litigation globally. The foundation of Sheldon's white-collar defense practice at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, is his experience as an assistant US attorney in Chicago, where the firm is based. Katten is a full-service law firm with nearly 700 attorneys in locations across the United States and in London and Shanghai.
Event organized by the ICI-NY, in collaboration with the ICI-London and Bitter Lemon Press
LESSICO FAMIGLIARE - RIZZOLI'S INTERNATIONAL SERIES
Incontri in Italiano
Lessico Famigliare e' la nuova serie di incontri con autrici e autori italiani a cura di Livia Senic-Matuglia per Rizzoli Bookstore NYC.
La libreria Rizzoli di NY, fondata nel 1964, rappresenta da sempre un punto di incontro di cultura internazionale. Questa serie di conversazioni letterarie si rivolge a tutti gli amanti della lingua e cultura italiane.
La serie iniziata nel mese di Marzo continua con un fitto programma di incontri per il mese di Aprile. Incontreremo Serena Dandini, Giuseppe Catozzella, Michela Murgia, Rula Jebreal, Teresa Ciabatti e Giulia Caminito. Un viaggio nella cultura e lingua italiane attraverso le parole di autori e autrici del nostro tempo.
“Noi siamo cinque fratelli. Abitiamo in città diverse, alcuni di noi stanno all'estero: e non ci scriviamo spesso. Quando c'incontriamo, possiamo essere, l'uno con l'altro, indifferenti o distratti. Ma basta, fra noi, una parola. Basta una parola, una frase: una di quelle frasi antiche, sentite e ripetute infinite volte, nel tempo della nostra infanzia. [...] Quelle frasi sono il nostro latino, il vocabolario dei nostri giorni andati, sono come i geroglifici egiziani o degli assiro-babilonesi, la testimonianza d'un nucleo vitale che ha cessato di esistere, ma che sopravvive nei suoi testi, salvati dalla furia delle acque, dalla corrosione del tempo. Quelle frasi sono il fondamento della nostra unità familiare, che sussisterà finché saremo al mondo, ricreandosi e risuscitando nei punti più diversi della terra.”
― Natalia Ginzburg, Lessico famigliare
Agli incontri che si terranno online (instagram live e/o zoom) parteciperanno alcuni tra i piu' noti autori di narrativa e saggistica italiana.
Lessico Famigliare is the new series of meetings with Italian authors curated by Livia Senic-Matuglia for Rizzoli Bookstore NYC.
The Rizzoli Bookstore, founded in 1964, has always been the go-to place for international culture. This series of literary conversations is aimed to Italian culture lovers.
The series will host in April: Serena Dandini, Giuseppe Catozzella, Michela Murgia, Rula Jebreal, Teresa Ciabatti and Giulia Caminito. A journey through the italian culture and language.
The events will be online (instagram live and / or zoom) and will be attended by some of the most famous authors of Italian fiction and non-fiction.
LESSICO FAMIGLIARE - RIZZOLI'S INTERNATIONAL SERIES
Incontri in Italiano
Lessico Famigliare e' la nuova serie di incontri con autrici e autori italiani a cura di Livia Senic-Matuglia per Rizzoli Bookstore NYC.
La libreria Rizzoli di NY, fondata nel 1964, rappresenta da sempre un punto di incontro di cultura internazionale. Questa serie di conversazioni letterarie si rivolge a tutti gli amanti della lingua e cultura italiane.
La serie inizia nel mese di Marzo con la presentazione dell'ultimo libro di Aldo Cazzullo, A Riveder Le Stelle, in omaggio all'anniversario dei 700 anni dalla morte di Dante. Iniziamo con il tributo al poeta considerato il padre della lingua italiana perche' crediamo che proprio attraverso la lingua, ciascuno di noi disegni la propria identita'. Da questo spunto prende il titolo questa serie "Lessico Famigliare" , riferendosi al capolavoro di Natalia Ginzburg, Premio Strega 1963, costruito sulla complessita' dei legami famigliari che sono anche legami linguistici.
“Noi siamo cinque fratelli. Abitiamo in città diverse, alcuni di noi stanno all'estero: e non ci scriviamo spesso. Quando c'incontriamo, possiamo essere, l'uno con l'altro, indifferenti o distratti. Ma basta, fra noi, una parola. Basta una parola, una frase: una di quelle frasi antiche, sentite e ripetute infinite volte, nel tempo della nostra infanzia. [...] Quelle frasi sono il nostro latino, il vocabolario dei nostri giorni andati, sono come i geroglifici egiziani o degli assiro-babilonesi, la testimonianza d'un nucleo vitale che ha cessato di esistere, ma che sopravvive nei suoi testi, salvati dalla furia delle acque, dalla corrosione del tempo. Quelle frasi sono il fondamento della nostra unità familiare, che sussisterà finché saremo al mondo, ricreandosi e risuscitando nei punti più diversi della terra.”
― Natalia Ginzburg, Lessico famigliare
Agli incontri che si terranno online (instagram live e/o zoom) parteciperanno alcuni tra i piu' noti autori di narrativa e saggistica italiana.
Lessico Famigliare is the new series of meetings with Italian authors curated by Livia Senic-Matuglia for Rizzoli Bookstore NYC.
The Rizzoli Bookstore, founded in 1964, has always been the go-to place for international culture. This series of literary conversations is aimed to Italian culture lovers.
The series begins in March with the presentation of Aldo Cazzullo's latest book, A Riveder Le Stelle, in celebration of the 700th anniversary of Dante's death. This is a tribute to the poet considered the father of the Italian language. We believe indeed that each of us designs his own identity through the language. The series "Lessico Famigliare" takes its title from this cue, humbly referring to Natalia Ginzburg's masterpiece, Premio Strega 1963, built on the complexity of family ties which are also linguistic ties, pieces of our identity.
The events will be online (instagram live and / or zoom) and will be attended by some of the most famous authors of Italian fiction and non-fiction.
25 Great Writers and Thinkers of our Times
To celebrate the Book Review’s 125th anniversary, The New York Times is dipping into the archives to revisit their most thrilling, memorable and provoking coverage. A beautiful curated gallery of authors and words you don't want to miss to read. Click here to read the full article.
Shop Updates
We’re open for browsing and pickups everyday from 11-7 Mon-Sun.
Online orders are still being processed and shipped/prepared for pickup.
Please for any questions write to bookstore@rizzoliusa.com or call us at +1 212 759 2424
Shipping Deadlines
Due to the volume of orders we're currently receiving and the limited number of staff we have on-site for our safety and yours, it is taking a little longer than usual to process orders. Our phone lines are busy, please write to bookstore@rizzoliusa.com. We will provide you all info you need. Thank you in advance for your patience.
If you've chosen to ship your order, you'll receive a tracking number in a separate email.
Thank you again for your support.
Yours,
Rizzoli Bookstore
Photo credit Issa Rashid
Shop Updates
We’re open for browsing and pickups everyday from 11-7 Mon-Sun.
Online orders are still being processed and shipped/prepared for pickup. We cannot guarantee orders placed after 12/15 will arrive by 12/25 due to increase shipping times.
Holiday Hours
Christmas Eve: 11am to 6pm
Christmas: Closed
Starting Dec 26 our hours will be 11am to 7pm
New Year's Eve: 11am to 6pm
New Year: Closed
Shipping Deadlines
If you are aiming to receive your books by Christmas choose just “In Stock” books and place your orders by 12/15.
Due to the volume of orders we're currently receiving and the limited number of staff we have on-site for our safety and yours, it is taking a little longer than usual to process orders. Our phone lines are busy, please write to bookstore@rizzoliusa.com. We will provide you all info you need. Thank you in advance for your patience.
If you've chosen to ship your order, you'll receive a tracking number in a separate email.
Thank you again for your support. We really look forward to seeing you soon in the store!
Yours,
Rizzoli Bookstore
![Redenzione di [Chiara Marchelli]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41ApSRxRLgL.jpg)
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20TH
5 PM EST
Please join us for a virtual event with italian writer Chiara Marchelli presenting her last book "Redenzione"
We will be presenting this event virtually using Zoom.
“Sembravano grida. E un rumore basso, pauroso.
Mi sono convinta che fosse il respiro della volpe,
il verso che le usciva dai denti azzannando il collo delle galline.
Mia zia diceva che non era possibile e che me l’ero sognato, ma me lo ricordo ancora oggi, chiarissimo: come un rimbombo. Quando mi mandavano in chiesa e il prete parlava del male, io pensavo sempre a quel rumore lì. Come l’acqua sottoterra, hai presente?”
Dopo La memoria della cenere, Chiara Marchelli torna con un romanzo costruito con rara maestria, un’indagine poliziesca intrecciata alle radici storiche della follia. In un racconto mozzafiato, dove il passato sboccia nel presen- te come un fiore velenoso, l’autrice si immerge nella fragilità dell’animo femminile, che nella fame di libertà e perfezione ha sempre cercato il riscatto dall’infelicità e dal male inflitto e subìto.
Chiara Marchelli è nata ad Aosta e si è laureata in Lingue Orientali a Venezia. È autrice di romanzi, una raccolta di racconti e un saggio su New York, la città dove vive. Insegna Letteratura Contemporanea, Traduzione e Italiano alla New York University e Scrittura alla Scuola Holden. Nel 2017 ha pubblicato Le notti blu (Giulio Perrone Editore), selezionato tra i dodici finalisti del Premio Strega. Nel 2019 NNE ha pubblicato il suo romanzo La memoria della cenere.
Please join us for a virtual event with artist Roni Horn in conversation with Ragnar Kjartansson about his last book "ISLAND ZOMBIE: ICELAND WRITINGS"
We will be presenting this event virtually using Zoom. Please Register in advance for this meeting HERE
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Photo © issa Rashid
Dear customers, tomorrow Saturday November 7th, we will be open to the public and resuming our normal hours, Monday-Sunday 11am to 7pm!
Please feel free to visit us in store, shop online at rizzolibookstore.com or call us at 212-759-2424.
Side note: please excuse the temporary window guard. We will be returning to normal operations soon.
Your Rizzoli Booksellers
We are delighted to announce that Rizzoli Bookstore will be now open to public 7 days a week from Monday to Sunday, beginning from Sunday, October 25th. Our Booksellers have worked hard to get ready to welcome you in store every day for new book recommendations.
Our Fall hours will be 11 am to 7 pm Monday through Sunday
If you can’t make it to the store, please visit our website (https://www.rizzolibookstore.com).open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
We can ship directly to your home or offer a curbside pick-up. Just go to our website and indicate what you’d prefer to do at check out. If you choose to go curbside we will email you a link to schedule your pick up.
If you come by the store there’s no need to fret about feeling crowded while you shop. We are constantly working to keep all safety protocols following NYC GOV parameters:
Large glass guards at cash wrap desk have been installed
Hand sanitizers will be available throughout the store
We require staff and shoppers to wear masks
Social distancing will be maintained
We will limit the number of shoppers in our 5,000 square feet store to 20 at time
We look forward to see you in the store everyday and have the chance to recommend plenty of wonderful books for you to read and enjoy.
Rizzoli Booksellers
For any suggestions, you can give us a call (212.759.2424) or write to us at booksellers@rizzoliusa.com.
To support us, please take a look at Rizzoli Bookstore Gift Card and Subscriptions
Rizzoli Bookstore is delighted to join FALL FOR NOMAD PIAZZA
offering Rizzoli New York books at 15% discount to any customer who mentions the “NomadPiazza” in our store on Broadway 1133, NY.
Come to visit us in bookstore to discover all Rizzoli New York Books part of the promotion.
The offer runs through Sunday, November 15, 2020 and is not available for online purchases (in store purchases only)
FALL FOR NOMAD PIAZZA was born out of celebration around Mayor de Blasio's announcement that New York City's Open Restaurants program will be permanent, which makes the much-loved NoMad Piazza a year-round destination.
Four months after shutting our doors we are really happy to see the Rizzoli Bookstore to be open to public beginning today. Your continued support of the store during lockdown has made this day possible.
- Large sneeze guards have been installed at all registers
- Hand sanitizers will be available throughout the store
- We require staff and shoppers to wear masks
- Social distancing will be maintained
- We will limit the number of shoppers in our 5,000 square feet store to 20 at time
- Large sneeze guards have been installed at all registers
- Hand sanitizers will be available throughout the store
- We require staff and shoppers to wear masks
- Social distancing will be maintained
- We will limit the number of shoppers in our 5,000 square feet store to 20 at time
The House on Henry Street: The Enduring Life of a Lower East Side Settlement
By Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier
Published by NYU Press
Today we are proud to partner with our friends at New York University Press to present to you a terrific and important story about our home, the Big Apple.
On a cold March day in 1893, 26-year-old nurse Lillian Wald rushed through the poverty-stricken streets of New York’s Lower East Side to a squalid bedroom where a young mother lay dying—abandoned by her doctor because she could not pay his fee. The misery in the room and the walk to reach it inspired Wald to establish Henry Street Settlement, which would become one of the most influential social welfare organizations in American history.
Through personal narratives, vivid images, and previously untold stories, Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier chronicles Henry Street’s sweeping history from 1893 to today. From the fights for public health and immigrants’ rights that fueled its founding, to advocating for relief during the Great Depression, all the way to tackling homelessness and AIDS in the 1980s, and into today—Henry Street has been a champion for social justice. Its powerful narrative illuminates larger stories about poverty, and who is “worthy” of help; immigration and migration, and who is welcomed; human rights, and whose voice is heard.
For over 125 years, Henry Street Settlement has survived in a changing city and nation because of its ability to change with the times; because of the ingenuity of its guiding principle—that by bridging divides of class, culture, and race we could create a more equitable world; and because of the persistence of poverty, racism, and income disparity that it has pledged to confront. This makes the story of Henry Street as relevant today as it was more than a century ago. The House on Henry Street is not just about the challenges of overcoming hardship, but about the best possibilities of urban life and the hope and ambition it takes to achieve them.
Purchase now through our website!
A Young Nurse Creates a Blueprint for Action
Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier
“We answer calls from the private doctor, the free doctor, hospitals, charity workers, neighbors, the families of the sick, the street sweeper, and the janitor.”
–Henry Street Settlement founder Lillian Wald, 1914
It was a crisis not unlike today: When Henry Street Settlement was founded by Lillian Wald in 1893, thousands on the Lower East Side struggled with incurable diseases, unemployment, and access to food. The Settlement was established to provide low or no-cost home medical care and a wide range of social services to the Lower East Side’s poverty-stricken immigrant community.
Wald, a 26-year-old nurse, was a visionary. At the turn of the 20th century, in the world’s most crowded neighborhood—a place where a breadwinner’s illness could plunge a family into destitution—Lower East Side residents faced harrowing conditions with few protections or safety nets. Seeking to serve the city’s most vulnerable, Wald made Henry Street a place where New Yorkers could turn for help.
Today, the work continues. Henry Street’s history provides a blueprint for making decisions in the present as it meets the challenges of the current pandemic. The story of the house on Henry Street—a story about taking action, on the ground, in the community, to care for one another in times of need, is now more than ever a story for our times.
Lillian Wald and the Lower East Side neighborhood she came to serve in 1893.
Courtesy of the Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, and the Library of Congress
FUNNY WEATHER by Olivia Laing
Published by W.W. Norton
“ I was thinking about the theme of art in an emergency in the columns, and then it struck me that it ran through many of the essays I’d written in the last decade. It felt like it was a frightening time – though not as frightening as now – and I wanted to put together stories of art as a source of power, resistance, inspiration, waywardness, as a kind of antidote to anxiety and despair. I’d just published Crudo, which felt like a portrait of terror and instability, and I wanted to put together something that felt more sustaining, too...”- Olivia Laing
Examining the role of art and culture as it impacts our political landscape as well our daily lives, this new publication collects a career's worth of Olivia Laing's writing that"celebrates art as a force of resistance and repair, an antidote to a frightening political time." With profiles on Jean-Michel Basquiat, Georgia O’Keefe, David Wojnarowicz, Hilary Mantel,Ali Smith, David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, Laing explores "loneliness and technology, women and alcohol, sex and the body. With characteristic originality and compassion, she celebrates art as a force of resistance and repair, an antidote to a frightening political time."
Out now!
The Journey Home!
When a solitary Polar Bear realizes there is no food for him in the Arctic, and that all the ice is melting, he decides to go for a swim to find some. Along the way, he finds a boat and sails across the ocean to the city, where he meets other endangered animals who all climb into the boat with him!
A graphically stunning introduction to constellations for the youngest readers, following the meteoric rise of global bestseller Seeing StarsThis stylish, informative board book helps younger children identify six of the most recognizable animal constellations from The Great Bear to the The Southern Fish!
BIG IDEAS FOR YOUNG THINKERS!
This is a multi layered book to be explored again and again. Extra info in the book includes a manifesto for talking about difficult topics and managing disagreements, a glossary of terms, a timeline of key thinkers, and an index of themes.
Feliz Cinco De Mayo! Today we recommend a beautiful photography book.
Graciela Iturbide expresses intense and poetic, personal lyricism about her native country.
Through her images this influential photohgrapher gives us a glimpse of Mexican society through her own lense. She captures everyday life through these images, the culture, religion, and rituals of the regions in stunning black and white photographs. Raising questions on social justice and the paradoxes in Mexican society. Telling a story of Mexico since the late 1970's! In which the country has been in constant transitional phases, the history rich culture and the modern blend between pages.
These provactive and powerful images might be muted, almost antifolkloric, but they create deep connections with her subjects.
This book was published as a companion to Iturbide's first major museum photographic exhibition on the east coast! It contains more than 100 stunning black and white photographs from her personal artisitic journey throughout a country she knows so deeply.
BUY GRACIELA ITURBIDE'S MEXICO HERE!
The 2020 Children’s Book Week will take place May 4-10!
Join us in celebrating Children's Book Week!
We'll be posting recommendations for kids throughout all our social platforms!
Along with two virtual author events on instagram and facebook live stories!
Children's Book Week is not only a celebration of books, but of genuine connection. It is a vehicle to unite kids and adults with wonderful books, authors and illustrators in order to foster a love of reading.
As we all take the recommended measures to keep ourselves and loved ones safe, we are keeping our festivities virtual!
Celebrate with us at home and online using #BookWeek2020atHome
What is Children’s Book Week?
Children’s Book Week is the annual celebration of books for young people and the joy of reading. Children’s Book Week is the longest-running national literacy initiative in the country. Every year, events are held nationwide at schools, libraries, bookstores, homes — wherever young readers and books connect!
Children’s Book Week originated in the belief that children’s books and literacy are life-changers. In 1913, Franklin K. Matthiews, the librarian of the Boy Scouts of America, began touring the country to promote higher standards in children’s books. He proposed creating a Children’s Book Week!
Check out all the fun at @rizzolibookstore instagram,
on our Facebook, and here at the website Journal!
BETSEY: A MEMOIR
Designer Betsey Johnson's new book delves into the fashion empire she built from its 60's rock n' roll roots! She's been pushing through fashion boundaries for decades with her whacky and eccentric color choices, pink tutu prom gowns and vibrant prints. She's continued to pull through, difficult relationships, health matters, and business failures. This memoir delves deeper into her journey as an artist and designer, and we learn even more about the woman behind such an iconic brand.
Mention the name "Betsey Johnson" and almost every woman from the age of 15 to 75 can rapturously recall a favorite dress or outfit; whether worn for a prom, a wedding, or just to stand out from the crowd in a colorful way. They may also know her as a renegade single mom who palled around with Edie Sedgwick, Twiggy, and The Velvet Underground, or even as a celebrity contestant on Dancing with the Stars. Betsey is also famous for her iconic pink stores (she had 65 shops across the US) and for her habit of doing cartwheels and splits down the runway at the close of her fashion shows. Throughout her decades-long career, she's taken pride in producing fun but rule-breaking clothing at an accessible price point. What they might not know is that she built an empire from scratch, and brought stretch clothing to the masses in the 80s and 90s.
Betsey will take the reader behind the tutu and delve deeply into what it took to go from a white picket fence childhood in Connecticut to becoming an internationally known force in a tough, competitive business. The book will feature Betsey's candid memories of the fashion and downtown scene in the 60s and how she started her own business from the ground up after designing successfully for multiple other companies. She will discuss that business's ups and downs and reinventions (including bankruptcy), and her thoughts on body image, love, divorce, men, motherhood, and her bout with breast cancer. Betsey will be richly illustrated with many of her landmark clothes, fashion sketches, and personal photos--making the book the perfect memento and gift for every girl (of any age) for whom Betsey is, as a recent New York Times profile noted, "a role model still."
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