Tournament of Books

What: Celebrate the Tournament of Books, the granddaddy of high-brow bracketology that pits the year's best books in a literary cage match with one winner: the coveted Rooster. Enter a giveaway for ToB swag, enjoy free drinks from our media partner, Tumblr, and hear readings from ToB judges past and present taking a break from the competition to celebrate their very favorite books:

• author and New Yorker writer Elif Batuman (The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them)
• author and co-proprietor of The Awl Choire Sicha (Very Recent History)
• novelist Elliott Holt (You Are One of Them)
• author and Oxford American editor Roger Hodge (The Mendacity of Hope)
• New Yorker editor John McElwee
• Andrew Womack and Rosecrans Baldwin (Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down), the co-founders of The Morning News

When: Monday, March 24th, 2014 at 7:00pm
Where: Bookstore Cafe: 126 Crosby Street New York, NY 10012