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This week in New York:
TUESDAY 12/4: The Folding Chair’s reading series this month features Anthony Tognazzini, Matthew Goodman, and Robin Beth Schaer. 61 Local, 7pm, free.
THURSDAY 12/6: Blake Butler, Sam Michel, Noy Holland, and Kendra Grant Malone gather at Franklin Park to launch two new NY Tyrant books—Butler’s Sky Saw and and Michel’s Strange Cowboy.
...moreThis week in New York, you get Saturday off but that’s it:
MONDAY 11/26: The Strand hosts a benefit reading for PEN’s Prison Writing Program, featuring readings by Lili Taylor, Nick Flynn, Touré, and Bryonn Bain. 7:30pm, $35.
TUESDAY 11/27: Rudy’s, an experimental performance group that creates site-specific shows in unconventional places, performs Bookstore Play at McNally Jackson.
...moreThis week in New York, everything’s closed because of Thanksgiving:
MONDAY 11/19: Greenlight Bookstore hosts Jami Attenberg, who will discuss The Middlesteins with blogger Maris Kreizman (Slaughterhouse 90210), introduced by Ron Hogan (Beatrice.com). 7:30pm, free.
Aman Sethi reads from A Free Man at BookCourt.
...moreThis week in New York, events are coming back online post-Sandy (but please consider helping Powerhouse Arena, or lending a hand at evacuation centers that still need volunteers if you’re able):
MONDAY 11/12: This month’s Franklin Park Reading Series features Electric Literature writers Lynne Tillman (American Genius), J.
...moreThis week, NYC is full of big names:
MONDAY 10/22: Mark Z. Danielewski reads The Fifty Year Sword in a staged dramatic presentation accompanied by live, original music from Christopher O’Riley. Book signing to follow. St. Joseph’s College, 7:30pm, free.
TUESDAY 10/23: Junot Diaz reads from This Is How You Lose Her at Bookcourt, followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.
...moreThis week in NYC, everything happens on Monday (and Friday’s pretty good, too):
MONDAY 10/15: Words Without Borders, Bellevue Literary Press, and Bookcourt host Eduardo Halfon, as he reads from The Polish Boxer, takes questions, and signs books. 7pm, free.
Alison Bechdel discusses her graphic memoir Are You My Mother with Katie Roiphe at the Strand.
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MONDAY 9/17: Another Monday night party at Public Assembly—The Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends Opening Night—with Tumblr, Electric Literature, The New Inquiry, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. 8pm, free.
BookCourt asks Who Gives a Sh*t About Literary Magazines, with Lorin Stein (The Paris Review), Rob Spillman (Tin House), John Freeman (Granta), and Randy Rosenthal (The Coffin Factory) discussing and answering audience questions.
...moreThis week in NYC, it’s not summer anymore:
MONDAY 9/10: You already know this, but The Rumpus Loves New York. Stephen Elliott hosts, with authors Sam Lipsyte, Nick Flynn, Amber Tamblyn, Andrew McCarthy, and Colson Whitehead; comedians Nato Green and Jeanine Brito; and musical guest K.
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MONDAY 8/27: Words by the Water this week showcases Electric Literature, with readings by Katie Bellas, Marie-Helene Bertino, and Fiona Maazel. East River State Park, 7pm, free.
TUESDAY 8/28: This month’s Fiction Addiction features readings by Joan Silber (The Size of the World), Teddy Wayne (Kapitoil), David Whitehouse (Bed), and Polly Bresnick (Old Gus Eats).
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MONDAY 8/20: Words by the Water this week spotlights Akashic Books. Shira Nayman (A Mind of Winter), Elizabeth Nunez (Boundaries), and Kevin Holohan (The Brothers’ Lot) read. East River State Park, 7pm, free.
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MONDAY 8/13: Melville House, WORD, and The Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn team up to present a Words by the Water listening party with Dave Tompkins (How to Wreck a Nice Beach). Tomkins will introduce each song, answer audience questions, and sign books.
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MONDAY 8/6: Patti Smith reads from Woolgathering at Books Beneath the Bridge, followed by an interview with Ezra Goldstein, of Community Bookstore, and a signing. Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 1, 7pm, free.
TUESDAY 8/7: WORD launches a new novel from Katie Kitamura, Gone to the Forest.
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MONDAY 7/30:
The Books Beneath the Bridge series takes on short stories, with Robin Black (If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This), Tania James (Aerogrammes), Rajesh Parameswaran (I Am an Executioner), Jim Shepard (You Think That’s Bad), and Charles Yu (Sorry Please Thank You).
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MONDAY 7/23: Fluxblog celebrates 10 years of mp3 blogging at Housing Works Bookstore Café. Rob Sheffield, Mark Richardson, Emily Gould, Amanda Petrusich, Dick Valentine of Electric Six, Heather D’Angelo of Au Revoir Simone, and Amy Rose of Rookie will each share and talk about a song.
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MONDAY 7/16: BOMB Magazine launches its summer issue at Bookcourt, featuring an audience Q&A and panel discussion with Joshua Cohen, Wayne Koestenbaum, Justin Lieberman, Carole Maso, and B. Wurtz. 7pm, free.
TUESDAY 7/17: Akashic and Brooklyn Rail present readings by Donald Breckenridge (This Young Girl Passing), Mickey Hess (The Nostalgia Echo), Nathan Larson (The Nervous System), Joe Meno (Office Girl), and Leigh Stein (The Fallback Plan).
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MONDAY 7/9: This month at the Franklin Park reading series: Mark Leyner (The Sugar Frosted Nutsack), Eric Sasson (Margins of Tolerance), Rupinder Gill (On the Outside Looking Indian), Mathhue Roth (Losers), and Polly Bresnick (Old Gus Eats).
...moreThis week in NYC: Very little. I suppose there’s a holiday happening.
MONDAY 7/2: László Krasznahorkai, author of Satantango, gives a rare reading at HousingWorks Bookstore Café, followed by a discussion with James Wood. 7pm, free.
Elizabeth Ellen, Mary Miller, Adam Wilson, Mark Jay Mirsky, and Karen Baddeley read at KGB Bar.
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MONDAY 6/18: This sounds like a fun party game. Four writers—Saara Dutton, Daniel Guzmán, Michael Maiello, and Peter Olson—imagine a discarded novel by Stephen King and read the sections they created at KGB Bar. Free, 7pm.
TUESDAY 6/19: Powerhouse Arena hosts a launch for Sheila Heti’s much talked-about How Should A Person Be?
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MONDAY 6/11: Housing Works Bookstore Café hosts Morningside Opera’s A Weimar Flute—an experimental cabaret performance combining sections of Mozart’s The Magic Flute with literature from Weimar Germany. 7pm, $25 seats, $10 standing room.
TUESDAY 6/12: Greenlight hosts an evening with Unbridled Books, featuring a wine reception and readings by Edward Falco (Saint John of the Five Boroughs), Richard Kramer (These Things Happen), Janyce Stefan-Cole (Hollywood Boulevard), and Emily St.
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MONDAY 5/28: The Nervous Breakdown and Emergency Press bring you TNB New York, with performances and readings by Edgar Oliver, Elna Baker, Chad Faries, and Lenore Zion. Public Assembly, 7pm, $5.
TUESDAY 5/29: Bookcourt presents A Night On Drugs, featuring readings by J.R.
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MONDAY 5/21: Bookcourt hosts a reading by the Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop, with performances by Nick Dybek, Madeline McDonnell, Eric Sasson, and Julie Innis. 7pm, free.
Roxane Gay (Ayiti) and Brian Evenson (Windeye) read at the Center for Fiction.
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MONDAY 5/14: The Franklin Park Reading Series turns its attention to literary journals and small presses, with readings by Elissa Schappell (Blueprints for Building Better Girls), Robert Lopez (Asunder), Miles Klee (Ivyland), Jac Jemc (My Only Wife), and Daniel Long (The Fiddleback).
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MONDAY 5/7: Internet friends and fiction writers Mark Doten, Justin Taylor, and Gregory Howard read together IRL at Word bookstore. 7 pm, free.
TUESDAY 5/8: Katie Halper hosts Mischief and Mayhem’s Unprintable, a reading series featuring writers who have refused to publish their work, or who have found it difficult or impossible to publish traditionally.
...moreThe PEN World Voices Festival has hotels on every square of this Monopoly board, so see their schedule for a listing of events with luminaries like Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, Gary Shteyngart, Marjane Satrapi, Tony Kushner, Jennifer Egan, Justin Torres, Brian Selznick, Francine Prose, and lots and lots of others.
...moreThis week in New York, Grantland launches at Bookcourt, Philip Levine and Tracy K. Smith read at Housing Works, everyone (not kidding) pays tribute to Philip Larkin at Cooper Union, Jo Ann Beard and Ralph Sassone come of age at the Center for Fiction, KGB Bar presents Slideshow Goshko, Paris Review contributors read at the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, Ugly Duckling Presse hosts a reading at Recession Art NYC, Archipelago launches My Struggle, and PS1 gets multidisciplinary and psychedelic.
...moreThis week in New York, the Franklin Park Reading Series tackles betrayal; Archipelago Books hosts a launch party; Gideon Lewis-Kraus and Tom Bissell read at KGB Bar; John Reed, Rebecca Wolff, and Christopher Bollen get heavy; the Better Book Club makes magic; John D’Agata and Jim Fingal check some facts; Publication Studios hosts a series of readings and a dinner; George Saunders talks with David Lipsky; the Academy of American Poets drink cocktails; and Word throws a party.
...moreThis week in New York, Laurel Nakadate discusses The Wolf Knife at the IFC Center; book people report on books at Le Poisson Rouge; David Rees talks pencils at B&N Union Square; Housing Works celebrates Vonnegut; Tom Perrotta and Mark Leyner go to KGB Bar; Galapagos Art Space hosts Nerd Nite trivia; PS1 does Kraftwerk; Pure Imagination takes Brooklyn; and Paper Exhibition and Object Lessons launch at McNally Jackson.
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