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This week in NYC:
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. 7pm, free.
TUESDAY 5/22: Granta launches its new issue, “Britain,” at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe with a reading by Tania James, music from DJ Blue Logan, and Britain-themed refreshments. 7pm, donations to Housing Works get you a tote bag and a copy of the magazine.
Elizabeth Nunez (Boundaries) reads and discusses her books and writing at the Clarendon branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. 6pm, free.
WEDNESDAY 5/23: PANK invades Brooklyn’s WORD bookstore, featuring readings by Mensah Demary, Sean Doyle, Jennifer Pashley, Robb Todd, M.G. Martin, Tess Patalano, and Roxane Gay (again!). 7pm, free.
Dave Hill discusses his latest, Tasteful Nudes, with Ira Glass at McNally Jackson. 7pm, free.
THURSDAY 5/24: WORD hosts a launch party for Emily St. John Mandel’s novel, The Lola Quartet, featuring a reading by the author and a musical performance by Tzvi Skolnik. 7pm, free.
Sideshow Goshko, at KBG Bar, features storytelling by John Flynn, Caitlin Brodnick, and Evan Morgenstern, music by Dr. Michelle-Leona Godin, trivia, and a wine giveaway. 7pm, free.
Apparently this weekend is for backyard barbeques, not readings or launches. Happy Memorial Day?
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This week in NYC:
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). 8 pm, free.
TUESDAY 5/15: Bookcourt hosts a release party for Peter Carey’s latest novel, The Chemistry of Tears, with a reading and signing by the author. 7pm, free.
WEDNESDAY 5/16: Rosecrans Baldwin (Paris, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down) talks with Sloane Crosley at McNally Jackson. 7pm, free.
THURSDAY 5/17: Laura Miller (The Magician’s Book) and Jean-Christophe Valtat discuss Valtat’s new novel, Aurorarama. The authors will read, take questions from the audience, and sign books. Bookcourt, 7pm, free.
FRIDAY 5/18: Book Thug Nation celebrates tough guys, hosting an evening of tough love with readings by Michael DeCapite, Tobias Carroll, Mike Faloon, and Michael T. Fournier. 7pm, free.
SATURDAY 5/19: Litcrawl NYC hits Brooklyn, with stops throughout the Carroll Gardens-ish area. See the schedule for events by (among others) Granta magazine, Akashic, Electric Literature, the Coffin Factory, and PEN Poets. 6:45 pm.
LUNGFULL! Magazine celebrates their 20th issue, and all the mistakes they’ve chronicled in their annual anthology of rough drafts and finished pieces, with readings and an auction. Zinc Bar, 5:30 pm, $10–20 sliding scale admission.
SUNDAY 5/20: KGB Bar hosts an evening with Coffee House Press authors Ben Lerner (Leaving the Atocha Station), Dylan Hicks (Boarded Windows), and Brian Evenson (Windye), who will read at the Sunday Night Fiction showcase. 7pm, free.
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The 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. Non-PEN events include:
MONDAY 4/30: Teju Cole (Open City) speaks to reporter and novelist Amy Waldman (The Submission) at The Strand. 828 Broadway, 3rd floor Rare Book Room. 7pm, free with purchase of either novel or a $10 Strand gift card.
TUESDAY 5/1: Adult Education presents “Characters” at Housing Works, featuring lectures by Brian Joseph Davis, who creates law enforcement composite sketches based on descriptions of literary characters; playwright and screenwriter Jason Grote, who will discuss character-building; actor Colleen Werthmann, who will explore physiognomy; and author Benjamin Feldman, who will profile a specific character in New York City history. 7pm, free.
WEDNESDAY 5/2: Nell Freudenberger launches her new novel, The Newlyweds, at Greenlight, with a reading followed by a wine reception. 7:30pm, free.
THURSDAY 5/3: Heidi Julavits (The Vanishers) and Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones) read at the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House. 7pm, free.
FRIDAY 5/4: Nerd Nite returns to the Galapagos Art space, featuring trivia followed by presentations on the construction of alien worlds, the internet as a war zone, and the Atlantic Yards controversy. Doors at 6:30, trivia at 7, presentations at 8:45. $14 for trivia and presentations, $10 for presentations only.
SATURDAY 5/5: Toi Derricotte, Sandra Gilbert, Philip Levine, Gerald Stern, Abigail Stone, Bianca Stone, and Michael Wiegers read poems by Ruth Stone at the NYU Cantor Film Center. 7pm, free.
SUNDAY 5/6: KGB Bar brings you An Evening of Authors with The Millions, featuring readings by Michael Bourne, Sonya Chung (Long for This World), Garth Risk Hailberg (A Field Guide to the North American Family), and Emily St. John Mandel (The Lola Quartet). 7pm, free.
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This 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.
MONDAY 4/23: Bookcourt hosts the 2nd issue launch of Grantland, a collaboration between McSweeney’s and Bill Simmons’s popular website. Rembert Browne, Chuck Klosterman, and Michael Weinreb will read. 7pm, free.
Philip Levine and Tracy K. Smith join Knopf and Tumblr to celebrate National Poetry Month at Housing Works Bookstore Café. 7pm, free.
TUESDAY 4/24: An all-star lineup of poets and writers pays tribute to Philip Larkin at Cooper Union, with live jazz performances. Meena Alexander, Archie Burnett, Billy Collins, James Fenton, Jonathan Galassi, Deborah Garrison, Adam Gopnik, Eamon Grennan, Mary Karr, Nick Laird, J.D. McClatchy, D. Nurkse, Katha Pollitt, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Saskia Hamilton, Vijay Seshadri, Paul Simon, Zadie Smith, and Andrew Sullivan read. 7pm, the Great Hall at Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, free.
WEDNESDAY 4/25: Jo Ann Beard (The Boys of My Youth) and Ralph Sassone (The Intimates) discuss the coming of age novel and read from their books at the Center for Fiction. 7pm, free.
KGB Bar hosts Slideshow Goshko, with storytelling by Seth Lind, Erin Barker, Rory Scholl, live accordion music, trivia, and a wine giveaway. 7pm, free.
THURSDAY 4/26: The Paris Review presents readings by recent contributors, including Adam Wilson (Flatscreen) and poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips. 7pm, Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, free.
FRIDAY 4/27: Ugly Duckling Presse brings F L A S H / B A N G to Recession Art NYC, with readings by Anna Moschovakis, Jeffrey Yang, and Corina Copp. 7pm, free.
SATURDAY 4/28: The Norwegian Consulate General and Archipelago Books launch Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle with an author signing, conversation with Siri Hustvedt, and wine and refreshments. 255 East 49th Street, 6pm, free.
SUNDAY 4/29: A few Sunday afternoon offerings from MoMA’s PS1, including the launch of three books on or by multidisciplinary artist Antoni Muntadas, and a launch of Electric Banana: Masters of Psychedelic Art. Antoni Muntadas from 2pm–4pm; Electric Banana from 4pm–6pm.
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This 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.
MONDAY 4/16: The Franklin Park Reading Series presents “Betrayal Night,” with readings by Heidi Julavits (The Vanishers), Touré (Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness), Fiona Maazel (Last Last Chance), Joseph Riippi (A Cloth House), and Leah Umansky (Barrow Street). Franklin Park Bar and Beer Garden, 8 pm, free. …more
This 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.
Monday, 4/9: Watch Laurel Nakadate’s The Wolf Knife, followed by a conversation with Nakadate and Rick Moody. Presented by The Believer at the IFC Center. 8 pm. $13 ticket includes a copy of The Believer 2012 film issue. …more
This week in New York, there are plenty of things to do if you’re not going to be at AWP in Chicago (sad face): Sam Lipsyte reads at Stony Brook; Agorafabulous! at WORD; Behind the Curtain: A Magazine Roundtable; Ellen Ullman and Maud Newton at BookCourt; Björk; the Steel Magnolias Cry-Along at 92YTribeca; and Phillip Lopate and the Brooklyn Philharmonic in concert.
This week in New York, Beatrice.com hosts Blogger/Author; Critics Circle on the Oscars; The Rumpus: Letters in the Mail at Housing Works; How I Learned to Chill the F@#k Out About a Lot of Things; Sideshow Goshko; 2-year of The Soundtrack Series; Tom McCarthy reads from Men In Space at 192 Books; Floating Kabarette at Galapagos; and Jean Strouse and Colm Tóibín on Alice James.
This week in New York, A Point of View on a Point of View, The Franklin Park Reading Series, SMITH Magazine’s Six-Word Story Show, Page Meets Stage with Amy Lemmon and Lemon Anderson, Michael Showalter at WORD, Gameshow Speakeasy, An Homage to Piri Thomas, and KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction.
This week in New York, I Heart Bomb Magazine reading, Granta Issue 118 launch, Gregory Orr on poetry as survival, Bernice McFadden at The Center for Fiction, Just Working on My Breakup at WORD, a 50th anniversary celebration of A Wrinkle in Time, and an anti-Valentine’s Day film screening at Bluestockings.
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This week in New York, poet Phil Kaye at Louder Arts, Corset Busters reading, Dave Isay at Greenlight, poet Billy Collins at Strand Books, Nerd Nite speed-dating, James Shapiro on William Shakespeare, and KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction.
This week in New York, Ben Marcus reads from The Flame Alphabet; Mark Strand at 192 Books; E.L. Doctorow at Strand; New York Magazine and Longreads team up at Housing Works; Edith Wharton Marathon Reading; Art Battles: Battle for Poland; the Beaches Sing and Cry Along at 92Y Tribeca; and Amy Chua reads from Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.
This week in New York, The Black Power Mixtape 1967—1975 at BAM; Grizzly Adams: The Musical; Reverend Billy at Book Court; Why We Broke Up at WORD; The Nervous Breakdown at KGB Bar; A night with Blondes at PopRally; and Writers Read at (Le) Poisson Rouge.
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This week in New York, The Franklin Park Reading Series with Sam Lipsyte and Gary Lutz; Emily Books hosts author Emily Carter at WORD; Speed Shrinking for the New Year with Susan Shapiro; Couplet, a poetry and reading series; Poet Drew Gardner’s Flarf Orchestra CD Release Party; The Beatles Complete on Ukulele; and KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction.
Happy New Year! This week in New York, Monologues and Madness, Patti Smith at St. Marks Bookshop, (Re)making Media on DIY in the digital age at McNally Jackson, All the Single Ladies reading at WORD, Inspired Word’s 2 Year Anniversary Party, Lucas Klauss reads from Everything You Need to Survive an Apocalypse, and KGB Bar Sunday Fiction Night.
This week in New York, a reading at The Poetry Project, Digable Planets at Brooklyn Bowl, Page Meets Stage with Jeffrey McDaniel and Amber Tamblyn, The Soundtrack storytelling series, and Hanukkomedy at the 92YTribeca.
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This week in New York, the Franklin Park Reading Series; David Lipsky on David Foster Wallace; the 2011 Awkward Office Lit Mag Party; RISK!; launch party for OCCUPY! Scenes from Occupied America; PopRally’s Reliquary House: An Evening with Oneohtrix Point Never and Nate Boyce; and the BOMB magazine reading and holiday party.
This week in New York, Oscar Hijuelos and William Kennedy at the 92nd Street Y; The Paris Review Winter Issue Party; Freerange Fiction reading at Pianos; Authors Martha Southgate and Elissa Schappell at KGB Bar; Poet Alice Fulton reads at Hunter College; David Sedaris at Strand; and WORD hosts its 3rd Annual Holiday Open House.
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This week in New York, a launch party for Emily Books; n + 1 readings at The Kitchen; How I Learned the Rules of Attraction: Stories About Online Dating; Happy Hour poetry reading with Jericho Brown and Mark Doty; a reading from the Beautiful Life, the Annie sing-along!; and a marathon reading of The Adventures of Mao on the Long March.
This week in New York, Sapphire and Sherman Alexie at the 92nd Street Y; Steve Almond reads from God Bless America; The Gaslight Salon Series; Slick Rick performs; Floating Kabarette; and KGB Bar’s Graphic Novelist Night.
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