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McNally Jackson and Housing Works Bookstore Cafe are collaborating on the inaugural Downtown Literary Festival (DLF), a daylong celebration of the literary culture of New York City. The festival will take place at both bookstores simultaneously throughout the day on Sunday, April 14, followed by a happy hour mingle at Housing Works Bookstore and an after-party at Pravda, featuring Russian literature–themed cocktails. Why a Downtown Literary Festival?

"Wilder Mann," an exhibition of color photographs by Charles Fréger will be on  Between 2010 and 2011, Charles Fréger traveled to eighteen European countries, from Italy to Poland, Scotland to the Czech Republic, in search of the Wild Man. A centuries-old, legendary figure, the Wild Man continues to be an important symbol of transition associated with festivals that mark the cyclical patterns of life: the changing of the seasons, special religious holidays, rites of passage, life and death. 

Join Fred for a celebration of his life and work with the launch of a major critical anthology, Yellow Power, Yellow Soul: The Radical Art of Fred Ho and a screening of Diary of The Dragon: The (R)evolution of Fred Ho, a documentary film that spans his early family life, tumultuous personal relationships, groundbreaking musical career and infamous revolutionary ideologies and praxis on April 25th. The film features rare, exclusive footage, photos and candid interviews with a man poised to become one of the great contemporary treasures of our time

Another Life, playing through April 21st, puts the roller-coast ride of this past decade on the stage—from the attacks of 9/11, to the brutalities of our torture programs, and the economic crash of 2008. The play, written in a fast-paced lyric language by Karen Malpede, is based on research, interviews, testimonies, the words of torturers and tortured, and has been widely praised by experts in the field of human rights, for its inventiveness, power and ability to create empathy.