Details
FREEDate(s)
Tue, Mar 26, 2019
6:30pm
Contact
Box Office
888-616-0274
boxoffice@irishartscenter.org
Phone hours:
10am-6pm, Monday-Friday
In person:
Opens 60 minutes before the performance on show days
Location
Irish Arts Center
553 West 51st Street
New York, NY 10019
Overview
IAC Book Club is a casual gathering of literature enthusiasts that meets in our gallery for craic, snacks, and discussions about paperbacks. (Hardcovers, too.) Sometimes the authors even join—look out for our announcements when they do! Led by Rachael Gilkey, director of programming and education, the club is open to everyone, whether or not you’ve finished the book.
MILKMAN
Winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize
“I haven’t stopped talking about Anna Burns’s astonishing Milkman. Like all great writing it invents its own context, becomes its own universe.”―The Irish Times
In an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for one. And she has been taking French night classes downtown. So when a local paramilitary known as the milkman begins pursuing her, she suddenly becomes “interesting,” the last thing she ever wanted to be. Despite middle sister’s attempts to avoid him—and to keep her mother from finding out about her maybe-boyfriend—rumors spread and the threat of violence lingers. Told with ferocious energy and sly, wicked humor, Milkman is a story of the way inaction can have enormous repercussions, in a time when the wrong flag, wrong religion, or even a sunset can be subversive.
Support for this program is also provided by the Charles Lawrence Keith & Clara Miller Foundation and Irish Institute.
Our Supporters
Irish Arts Center programs are supported, in part, by government, foundation, and corporate partners including Culture Ireland, the agency for the promotion of Irish arts worldwide; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the Mayor’s Office and the New York City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Howard Gilman Foundation; Tourism Ireland; the Jerome L. Greene Foundation; the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation; the Charina Endowment Fund; the Ireland Funds; the Shubert Foundation, Inc.; the Arnhold Foundation; the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; the Irish Institute of New York; the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, New York; Northern Ireland Bureau; Invest NI; CIE Tours International; the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Consulate of Ireland in New York; and thousands of generous donors like you.
