ADBC #4: Orhan Pamuk’s The Black Book @ P!

Superscript invites you to the fourth meeting of ADBC, the Architecture and Design Book Club--a special edition at P! Wednesday, February 20 P!, 334 Broome Street, NYC 6:30pm-8:30pm Join us for a conversation about design themes in Orhan Pamuk’s The Black Book as part of P!‘s “Six Months of Copying” program. In The Black Book, Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk weaves multiple stories of the city Istanbul, past and present, into a dream-like mystery that questions how we construct identity and memory. We’ll be focusing on selected short excerpts with copies available for sharing at the event (i.e. don’t worry if you haven’t read the text in advance!): Chapter 2 (“When the Bosphorus Dries Up”) Chapter 11 (“We Lost Our Memories at the Movies,” second half) Chapter 18 (“The Dark Air Shaft”) Chapter 33 (“The Mysterious Paintings”) “This book may be a love song to Istanbul and a subtle allegory of deconstruction, but, above all, it is a celebration of storytelling, an art increasingly rare in a world of gossip and faddism.”–Jonathan Beckman, The Observer About P! P! is a multidisciplinary exhibition space located in New York’s Chinatown. Read more about “Six Months of Copying” here. @p_exclamation About ADBC ADBC is an informal event held in public spaces in and around New York City. Through selected readings, both fiction and non-fiction, we discuss issues related to architecture and design. Everyone—experts and passers-by alike—is invited to drop by and join us for an hour of conversation, debate, and refreshments. ADBC is produced by the editorial consultancy Superscript. Sign up for our mailing list here or follow us @superscriptco for updates. http://www.superscript.co/?p=318