Binnacle Books

On Tuesday the 18th from 7 to 8:30 pm we’ll be lending our space to Jewish Voice for Peace Hudson Valley and readers of “Here Where We Live Is Our Country” by Molly Crabapple. Join us! Copies of the book are available for sale, and if you mention this reading group you’ll get 10% off!

“African Cinema: Politics & Culture” // Manthia Diawara // Indiana University Press, 1992
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“Manthia Diawara provides an insider’s account of the history and current status of African cinema. African Cinema: Politics and Culture is the first extended study in English of Sub-Saharan African cinema. Employing an interdisciplinary approach which draws on history, political science, economics, and cultural studies, Diawara discusses such issues as film production and distribution, and film aesthetics from the colonial period to the present. The book traces the growth of African cinema through the efforts of pioneer filmmakers such as Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, Oumarou Ganda, Jean-René Débrix, Jean Rouch, and Ousmane Sembène, the Pan-African Filmmakers’ Organization (FEPACI), and the Ouagadougou Pan-African Film Festival (FESPACO).”

We have arrived to The Martian Chronicles, despite Bradbury’s many warnings. What a time to be alive, y’all.

“Derek Jarman’s Garden”
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Shahrnush Parsipur 1946-2026
“Women Without Men” & “Kissing the Sword”
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“Work is always a savior and my work is to write. I have lived through difficult years and in the past two, I have been suffering from a severe nervous disorder. A vague pain creeps up my vertebrae and into my brain. I tell myself, Time is short, if you don’t write now you may never have another chance. I think of the millions of books gathering dust in huge libraries. Amid all these, what value could my work really have? Yet, this is the only thing I know how to do. I tell myself, Write! Don’t worry that it may not be read. It is the age of the computer and every day people in the advanced world grow more distant from the old world, every day a new discovery is tested and professors in their great rush cannot write their books and instead hand them to their students as notes. But, don’t worry, write. Perhaps someone will read it.”
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“Missing Soluch” / Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
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“Perhaps the most important work in modern Iranian literature, this starkly beautiful novel examines the trials of an impoverished woman and her children living in a remote village in Iran, after the unexplained disappearance of her husband, Soluch.”
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open regular hours noon to 6pm all weekend + all week and possibly here earlier and/or later? who knows. stop by!

thank you to larissa pham for stopping in and signing Discipline today!
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“Larissa Pham is the author of the
essay collection Pop Song, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize.
Her writing has appeared in Granta, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Aperture, and other publications. She holds an MFA in fiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars and is an assistant professor of writing at The New School. Discipline is her first novel.”

The Marlon James debut “John Crow’s Devil”~
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