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Free things to do today

Posted in Own This City by Jonathan Shannon on November 2nd, 2009 at 8:00 am

Books
Gary Giddins
The author discusses his new critical cornerstone: Jazz.

Talk
“The ‘Transcriptease’ Solar-Powered Oyster Reef”
Artist Mara Haseltine built New York’s first solar-powered oyster reef in 2007. Tonight she’ll chat about her project and the need for native oysters in New York City.

Books
Gravity’s Rainbow
Novelists Robert Stone (Dog Soldiers) and Emily Barton (Brookland) join editor Gerald Howard to discuss Thomas Pynchon’s metafiction classic.

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