Tuesday Culture: Doctorow, Byrne, Binoche and More

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Thanks to Neil Feldman of  Not Only Brooklyn for this list of interesting cultural events today. If you would enjoy receiving NOB, email NOBevents@aol.com
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* 7:00: BookCourt hosts much
honored author E.L. Doctorow presenting Homer & Langley his new novel about the Collyer brothers, the famous compulsive hoarders. FREE!
 
* 7:00: Community Bookstore celebrates the The Kenyon
Review: The International Journal of Literature, Culture and the
Arts
with fiction
contributor Thomas
Glave
 and David
Baker
, Poetry Editor. FREE! 143 7th Ave near Carroll St, Park Slope,
783.3075
 
* 7:00: Barnes & Noble – Union Square hosts NYC Dept of Transportation Commissioner Janette
Sadik-Khan
, arguably the most pro-bicycling Commissioner ever
(Click
here: How Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan Manages to Be Equal
Parts Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses — New York
Magazine
DAVID BYRNE
Renaissance man, musician, artist, bicycling enthusiast and author of Bicycle Diaries and other in the panel discussion Cities, Bicycles and the Future of Getting Around.
FREE! 33
East 17th St
 at Union Square
212.253.0810
 
* 7:30: BAM
kicks off the 2009 Next Wave
Festival
with In-I in
the Harvey
Theater
.
Created by Juliette Binoche,
the Oscar winning French actress, and Akram Khan the acclaimed
English Kathak and modern dancer and
choreographer, this is a 70 minute duo in which the actor dances, and the dancer
acts. $25/50/70. 651
Fulton St
 near Rockwell Place & Flatbush Ave.
Continues through September 26.
  
* 8:00: The Brick
presents Amuse Bouche: A NY Clown Theatre Festival Hors
D'Oeuvre
Explore the website for varied programs by different clowns
being presented through September
27.
$15 575
Metropolitan Ave
near Lorimer St, Williamsburg (G/L to
Metropolitan/Lorimer) 907.6189