Rizzoli at 60: Garth Greenwell and Ira Sachs (TICKETED) | Rizzoli Bookstore

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Rizzoli invites novelist Garth Greenwell and filmmaker Ira Sachs to join us for a freewheeling conversation about inspiration, collaboration, and how they make art, in celebration of our sixtieth anniversary. Garth Greenwell is one of our most acclaimed authors working today. He's the author of What Belongs to You, Cleanness, and most recently, Small Rain. Ira Sachs has been at the forefront of independent American cinema for over twenty years. His latest film is Passages (2023). PLEASE NOTE: This event is ticketed. Tickets include either a $10 store voucher or a copy of Greenwell's Small Rain and access to the signing line.Additional copies of the book will be available while supplies last.This event is mixed seated/standing. Seats are first come, first served.Doors open at 5:30 pm.RIZZOLI AT 60 This fall, Rizzoli celebrates six decades as New York City’s quintessential home for books as art. We’re pleased to mark our anniversary with a star-studded event series that celebrates our storied history of cinema, music, and cultural cross-pollination. Friends of Rizzoli Laurie Anderson, David Godlis, Garth Greenwell, Jhumpa Lahiri, Ira Sachs, and Chris Stein will come together for freewheeling conversations about inspiration, collaboration, and how they make art. Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, it was named a Best Book of 2016 by over fifty publications in nine countries, and is being translated into fourteen languages. His second book of fiction, Cleanness, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, the L.D. and LaVerne Harrell Clark Fiction Prize, and France’s Prix Sade (Deuxième sélection). Cleanness was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2020, a New York Times Critics Top 10 book of the year, and a Best Book of the year by the New Yorker, TIME, NPR, the BBC, and over thirty other publications. It is being translated into eight languages. A new novel, Small Rain, is forthcoming from FSG in 2024. Greenwell is also the co-editor, with R.O. Kwon, of the anthology KINK, which appeared in February 2021, was named a New York Times Notable Book, won the inaugural Joy Award from the #MarginsBookstore Collective, and became a national bestseller. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, A Public Space, and VICE, and he has written nonfiction for The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and Harper’s, among others. He writes regularly about literature, film, art and music for his Substack, To a Green Thought. He is the recipient of many honors for his work, including a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2021 Vursell Award for prose style from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop, Grinnell College, the University of Mississippi, and Princeton. Greenwell currently lives in New York, where he is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at NYU. Greenwell’s great gift: finding forms for the representation of thought, much as the Impressionist painters, more than a century ago, found new forms for the representation of light.” —Sarah Thankam Mathews,New York A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and luminous novel by award-winning author Garth Greenwell. A poet's life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into the dysfunctional American healthcare system, he struggles to understand what is happening to his body, as someone who has lived for many years in his mind. This is a searching, sweeping novel set at the furthest edges of human experience, where the forces that give life value—art, memory, poetry, music, care—are thrown into sharp relief. Time expands and contracts. Sudden intimacies bloom. Small Rain surges beyond the hospital to encompass a radiant vision of human life: our shared vulnerability, the limits and possibilities of sympathy, the ideal of art and the fragile dream of America. Above all, this is a love story of the most unexpected kind. Ira Sachs is a NYC-based filmmaker, whose feature films include Passages, Little Men, Love is Strange, Keep the Lights On and Forty Shades of Blue, winner of the 2005 Sundance Dramatic Grand Jury Prize. In 2009, he founded Queer|Art, a non-profit arts organization that provides support for LGBTQ+ artists in film, visual arts, performance and literature. Information Source: Rizzoli Bookstore | eventbrite