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We are delighted to announce that Rizzoli Bookstore is now open at 75% of its capacity for browsing and pick ups.

Our hours are 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 updates:

•  Hand sanitizers will be available throughout the store

• We require staff and shoppers to wear masks 

• Social distancing will be maintained

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

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.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED

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 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.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26 AT 6 PM ET

Author Farah Nayeri will be in conversation with fellow arts journalist Linda Yablonsky about her book Takedown: Art and Power in the Digital Age, which grapples with the most difficult questions of power, money, and identity facing the art world today.

PLEASE REGISTER HERE

RIZZOLI IN-PERSON EVENT COVID POLICIES

In-person events will be presented to a fully vaccinated audience at full capacity. All attendees are required to wear masks. All patrons over the age of sixteen will be required to show proof* of having completed the COVID-19 vaccination series at least 14 days prior to the date of the event. 

*Proof of vaccination will be defined as either an original vaccination card or an Excelsior Pass. 

 Registration will be required. 

ABOUT THE BOOK

For centuries, art censorship has been a top-down phenomenon—kings, popes, and one-party states decided what was considered obscene, blasphemous, or politically deviant in art.

Today, censorship can also happen from the bottom-up, thanks to calls to action from organizers and social media campaigns. Artists and artworks are routinely taken to task for their insensitivity. In this new world order, artists, critics, philanthropists, galleries and museums alike are recalibrating their efforts to increase the visibility of marginalized voices and respond to the people’s demands for better ethics in art.

But what should we, the people, do with this newfound power?

With exclusive interviews with Nan Goldin, Sam Durant, Faith Ringgold, and others, Nayeri tackles wide-ranging issues including sex, religion, gender, ethics, animal rights, and race.

By asking and answering questions such as: Who gets to make art and who owns it? How do we correct the inequities of the past? What does authenticity, exploitation, and appropriation mean in art?, Takedown provides the necessary tools to navigate the art world.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Farah Nayeri is an arts and culture writer for the New York Times and host of the podcast Cultureblast. Originally from Iran, she began her journalism career as a reporter for Time magazine in Paris, where she then joined Bloomberg. She went on to become Bloomberg's Rome bureau chief and its European economics correspondent, before being assigned to Baghdad in 2003 to cover the US-led invasion of Iraq. Farah has also written for The Economist and the Wall Street Journal. She is a regular moderator at New York Times conferences, and has spoken at Sciences Po in Paris and the Royal Academy of Arts. She is a classical pianist and a member of the UK Critics' Circle.

Linda Yablonsky is the author of The Story of Junk: A Novel, as well as an art critic and journalist who has been covering the international art world for more than 25 years.

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

Our current hours are 11 am to 8 pm Monday through Saturday, 11 am to 7 pm on 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

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

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