September 1st, 2010 by posmanbooks
Wednesday September 22. 7PM. Chelsea Market
Just when she had learned to love her body, fat or thin, the author of The Fat Girl’s Guide To Life was diagnosed with a rare disease called Wegener’s granulomatosis. After western medicine failed her, she tried massage and colonics, yoga and acupuncture, moutain retreats, Orthodox Jews who swear by pigeons as a cure-all and, finally, Madonna.
Are You My Guru?: How Medicine, Meditation, and Madonna Saved My Life is an insightful and humorous memoir of one woman’s quest to navigate the world of alternative healing.
Wendy Shanker is the author of The Fat Girl’s Guide to Life and a contributor to The Modern Jewish Girl’s Guide to Guilt. She’s also performed stand–up and two acclaimed one–woman shows.
August 25th, 2010 by posmanbooks
Thursday September 23 at 7PM. Chelsea Market.
Salon columnist and, for Anne Lamott, “the most brilliant voice on feminism in this country,” Rebecca Traister explores the exhilarating events of the 2008 election in “Big Girls Don’t Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women.” She asks what lessons can be learned about women, politics, and the media from these great political upheavals . For the first time, a woman won a state presidential primary contest. A vice-presidential candidate concluded her appearance in a national debate and immediately reached for her newborn baby. An African American woman moved into the White House not as an employee, but as the First Lady.
Traister has also written for Elle, the Nation, the New York Observer, Vogue, and the New York Times. She has appeared on CNN, CNN Headline News, MSNBC, NPR’s Brian Lehrer Show. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband.
August 25th, 2010 by posmanbooks
Wednesday October 27 at 7pm. Chelsea Market
Meet the Skinny Bitch. You know her from her New York Times bestseller for over two years: Skinny Bitch. The book that launched a phenomenon, has sold more than 2 million copies and been translated into 23 languages. Now, sassy Kim Barnouin dishes on how to prepare delicious vegan meals that benefit your bod and the health of Mother Earth.
SKINNY BITCH: Ultimate Everyday Cookbook – Crazy Delicious Recipes that are Good to the Earth and Great for Your Bod features dozens of easy, kick-ass recipes featuring seasonal produce (no fake meat or hard-to-find ingredients).
A former Ford model who holds an MA in Holistic Nutrition, Kim lives with her husband and son in Los Angeles.
June 10th, 2010 by posmanbooks
Bookseller & educator Becky will read her, and your, favorite kids’ stories every Sunday at 11:30 and 2:30. We say every Sunday, but you might want to call ahead & check: (212) 627 0304
January 23rd, 2010 by posmanbooks
Tuesday August 24 at 7:00 pm. Chelsea Market
Photo: Heather Golde
Milo Slade is witnessing the rapid dissolution of his marriage. Though he doesn’t quite know the root of his problems, he blames the demands his obsessive compulsive personality place upon him. In typical screwball fashion, as Milo sets out on a cross-country journey to track down a mysterious girl, he discovers that though he may be weird, so is everyone else. Unexpectedly, Milo is a hilarious novel about a man whose behavior is truly odd, but also oddly relatable.
Matthew Dicks is the author of Something Missing. In 2005 he was named West Hartford’s Teacher of the Year. He lives in Newington, CT with his wife, baby daughter, Clara, Lhasa Apso, Kaleigh, and an enormous, slightly insane house cat, Owen.
January 22nd, 2010 by posmanbooks
Tuesday July 20 at 7PM. Chelsea Market
Sushi samples courtesy of The Lobster Place
photo: Laura Straus
Fish are the last truly wild food – for now. In Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food, award-winning writer and lifelong fisherman Paul Greenberg takes us on a culinary journey, exploring the history of the fish that dominate our menus—salmon, sea bass, cod and tuna-and examining where each stands at this critical moment in time, when overfishing and bio-technology are decimating the wild population. By examining the forces that get fish to our dinner tables, he shows how we can start to heal the oceans and fight for a world where healthy and sustainable seafood is the rule rather than the exception.
Paul Greenberg has been fishing since childhood, and writing for The New York Times, National Geographic and GQ since adulthood. In 2005, his New York Times Magazine article on Chilean sea bass received the International Association of Culinary Professionals’ award for excellence in food journalism. Greenberg has also received both a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and a Food and Society Policy Fellowship.
Greenberg lives in Manhattan, speaks Russian and French, and most recently went fishing off the Connecticut coast with his daughter this summer.
“Four Fish is not only the best analysis I’ve seen of the current state of both wild and farmed fish – it’s a terrific read.” -Mark Bittman, author of How to Cook Everything and Food Matters
January 21st, 2010 by posmanbooks
Wednesday June 2 at 7:00 PM. Chelsea Market
With Lucy’s Whey
Clifton Fadiman once called cheese “milk’s leap toward immortality,” and this delicious new book examines some well known (and some lesser known) cheeses, and the people who make them. LeMay brings us to a cheese festival in Wisconsin, the Slow Food International Cheese Festival in Bra, Italy, and endures surly fromagers in Paris.
Eric LeMay has a Ph.D. in English Renaissance literature. He teaches writing at Columbia University and serves as the web editor for Alimentum: The Literature of Food. His previous work has appeared in The Nation, The Paris Review, The Harvard Review, Gastronomica, and Poetry Daily, and has been selected for Best American Food Writing. He lives in New York.
January 18th, 2010 by posmanbooks
Chelsea Market. Thursday June 3 at 7:00 pm
Indiana Jones, 72: Dies after fall in the shower
Twinkling Little Star Explodes in Supernova: Scientists No Longer Wonder What It Is
Come to our first comedy night with Tom Schecker, whose new book Mr Ed: Dead, co-written with Barry Nelson, reveals the obituaries of the most famous people who never lived.
Schecker is a systems architect who contributed to the demise of 3 intenet startups. He now works at a law firm and performs stand up comedy in Manhattan. Barry Nelson is curently Director of TV and Fundraising at WGBH/Boston.
http://www.mreddead.com/
December 25th, 2009 by posmanbooks
Anna Getty is a board member of Healthy Child Healthy World, and works closely with the Organic Center for Education. She is also the Eco Editor for Healing Lifestyles & Spa Magazine and a two-year contributor to YogiTimes Magazine. Easy Green Organic is a fantastic cookbook (try the panfried tofu squares) which also explains how to shop for organic, seasonal, and local ingredients; how to keep an eco-friendly kitchen; and how to cook meals that are as scrumptious to eat as they are healthful for the earth.
Just when she had learned to love her body, fat or thin, the author of The Fat Girl’s Guide To Life was diagnosed with a rare disease called Wegener’s granulomatosis. After western medicine failed her, she tried massage and colonics, yoga and acupuncture, moutain retreats, Orthodox Jews who swear by pigeons as a cure-all and, finally, Madonna.
