This week in New York, Jane Eyre readings at Housing Works Bookstore Café, Karen Russell and Wells Tower at the New York Public Library, celebrating the 40th anniversary of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Sex Worker Literati, Naked Girls Reading, Piethos III, and Hank Shteamer reading at WORD.
MONDAY 3/14: Lovers of Jane Eyre, head to a night honoring Charlotte Brönte’s heroine with readings from Eyresses: The Journal for Jane Eyre Enthusiasts. Featuring dramatic readings, Jane Eyre bingo, and prizes. Housing Works Bookstore Café. 7 p.m. Free.
TUESDAY 3/15: Conversations from the Cullman Center: A reading with Karen Russell, Swamplandia!, and Wells Tower, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned at the New York Public Library. 7 p.m. Free.
Carol Edgarian will read from her bestselling novel, Three Stages of Amazement. Maud Newton will host the Q&A. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m. Free.
WEDNESDAY 3/16: National Book Award-winning poet Gerald Stern will read at The New Salon in Queens. Also with Robert N. Casper. Queens College, Bernard Rosenthal Library, Room 230. 6:30 p.m. Free.
Actors Michael Imperioli, Anthony Rapp, Scott Shepherd, and others will come together to read selections at Selected Shorts: Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 40th Anniversary Celebration. Featuring guest speakers Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Terry McDonell, editor of Time Inc.’s Sports Illustrated Group. Symphony Space. 7 p.m. $27; Member $23; 30 & Under $15.
Sex Worker Literati presents Zoe’s March Madness Ho Party with a lineup of writers and performers, including David Henry Sterry, Zoe Hansen, Miss Mary Cyn, Essence Alexander, Puma Perl, and others. Bowery Poetry Club. 8 p.m.
THURSDAY 3/17: Naked Girls Reading presents The Emerald Isle, burlesque dancers Nasty Canasta, Sapphire Jones, Stormy Leather, Honi Harlow, and RunAround Sue readings in the nude from some of Ireland’s greatest authors. Madame X. 8 p.m. $25 reserved seating (includes one drink), $15 standing.
FRIDAY 3/18: Pauline Park will discuss the forthcoming resource Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, which covers topics of interest to trans people. Bluestockings Bookstore. 7 p.m., $5 suggested.
Slice magazine presents Piethos III: Pearly Legal, featuring readings from Brooklyn’s independent publishing world, including Fiction Circus, WORD Bookstore, Gigantic, and HTMLGiant. The night will have reading challenges, the audience will vote on the best, and the winner will received a fresh-baked pear pie courtesy of Fat & Flour. Legion Bar. 7:30 p.m.
SATURDAY 3/19: Illuminated Verses: Poetries of the Islamic World will explore poetic traditions of the Islamic world through May. Duke University Professor Bruce Lawrence will host an introduction to the language of the Qur’an. Poets House, 2 p.m., $10, $7 for students and seniors, free to City Lore Members and Poets House Members.
SUNDAY 3/20: Hank Shteamer will talk about his contribution to the 33 1/3 series on Ween’s Chocolate and Cheese. WORD. 7:30 p.m. Free.
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