Difficult Women Book Club is an international book club for anyone who wants to discover books written by women and other FLINTA* authors. Once a month, the Berlin chapter get together at ivallan’s to dive into the world of literature, exploring both non-fiction and fiction! This month they are reading The Lion Women of Tehran” by Marjan Kamali. Please email dwbc_berlin@protonmail.com to join.
The third book of the Food and Thought book club is Han Kang’s The Vegetarian The bookclub rules are simple and as follows: Come with a general understanding of the book and a penchant for chatting. Something to nibble on is a bonus! If you’re looking to join their group of food & novel discussers, check out the RSVP link @eatonistic on instagram.
Surprise reading at ivallan’s book! Friend of the shop Jessica Friedmann will be doing a reading and signing of her book on Tarot this Thursday 24/4)! Come by for drinks from 19.00, reading and singing from 19.30 About the book: Twenty-Two Impressions notes from the Major Arcana - https://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/twenty-two-impressions-9781922310972 A poetic new essay collection in which the symbols of the tarot brush up against life in a changing world. The Tarot de Marseille is a 16th-century set of playing cards, the deck on which the occult use of tarot was originally based. When Jessica Friedmann bought her first pack, the unfamiliar images sparked a deep immersion in the art, symbols, myths, and misrepresentations of Renaissance-era tarot. Over the years that followed, and as tarot became a part of her daily rhythm, Friedmann’s life was touched by floods and by drought, by devastating fires and a pandemic, creating an environment in which the only constant was change. Twenty-Two Impressions: notes from the Major Arcana uses the Tarot de Marseille as a touchstone, blending historical research, art history, and critical insights with personal reflections. In these essays, Friedmann demonstrates how the cards of the Major Arcana can be used as a lens through which to examine the unexpectedness — and subtle beauty — of 21st-century life. About the author: @jessica_friedmann
The Difficult Women Book Club has a special treat for everyone this month. A Q&A with Jenny Nordberg, author of The Underground Girls of Kabul! It will be streamed at ivallan’s during this month’s bookclub meeting but you can also follow along online. Just contact dwbc_berlin@protonmail.com for login details. Difficult Women Book Club is a book club for anyone who wants to discover books written by women and other FLINTA* authors. Once a month, they get together to dive into the world of literature, exploring both non-fiction and fiction! And….the book club book for May is: “A Certain Hunger” by Chelsea G. Summers.
Propeller Publishers and The GAF proudly present: HEY-HO! HERE ARE SPARROW and VIOLET SNOW Two absolutely amazing personalities from the core of New York underground are visiting Berlin with a stop at ivallan's. VIOLET SNOW will report some unknown details from the history of European and American feminism. SPARROW is one of the most playful poets on Earth: New Theory I‘m a partial genius. This poem and many others are included into SPARROW'S new poetry collection “Songs my Father Taught Me“ due to be out at Propeller's and introduced on this night for our common benefit. Sparrow lives in a trailer in the snowbound hamlet of Phoenicia, New York with his wife Violet Snow. He has published 11 books, including Small Happiness & Other Epiphanies (Monkfish) and The Princeton Diary (Vinal). His poems and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Sun, and Reptiles of the Mind. Sparrow writes art reviews for Chronogram. He has run for President of the United States nine times. Feminism in the early 1900s wasn’t just about getting the vote. Violet Snow's great-grandmother expressed her feminism through a women’s club, part of a widespread movement that brought women into public life in the US and in Germany too, through die Frauenvereine. But to the suffragist women, who were marching and hunger striking, the middle-class women's clubs, both the literary clubs and the social reform groups, seemed unimportant. Violet's novel To March or to Marry tells the story of two friends whose relationship is falling apart over how women should behave in the struggle for more rights, even as their roles in the world are transforming. Violet Snow is an American journalist and author, living in upstate New York.
Miss us on Sundays? Come say hi at the Nowkölln Flowmarkt on Maybachufer! We’ll bring our best second-hand books for all your lazy Sunday reading needs :)