This week in New York A Public Space presents a reading with contributor Robert Sullivan, Brando Skyhorse and friends read at KGB Bar, a reading by Finishing Line Press poets at Cornelia Street Café, Nerd Jeopardy at McNally Jackson, Moth StorySLAM on friendship, conversation with independent booksellers at Rebel Bookseller at Greenlight Bookstore, Shakespeare in the Park’s Measure for Measure, Breakin’ at Habana Outpost’s Movies Under the Stars.
MONDAY 7/18: A Public Space presents an event with Robert Sullivan, contributor to APS 13. He’ll talk about his essay on public art in the city with Irish artist Katie Holten and editor-at-large Elizabeth Gaffney. Brigid Hughes will moderate. Refreshments served. BookCourt. 7 p.m. Free.
TUESDAY 7/19: Join author Brando Skyhorse, The Madonnas of Echo Park, and writers James Langlois and Juliet Grames for a reading at KGB Bar. Skyhorse will read from his upcoming memoir Things My Father Taught Me. KGB Bar. 7pm.
WEDNESDAY 7/20: Finishing Line Press will host its most recently published poets: Sarah Stern, Elizabeth Poreba, Katrinka Moore, Maria Lisella, and Nancy Hechinger at Cornelia Street Café. 6 p.m. $7, includes a drink.
THURSDAY 7/21: Literary nerds, spend your night playing Farrar, Straus and Giroux’s Nerd Jeopardy. Compete in teams in this literary trivia night. Prizes will be awarded and free drinks! McNally Jackson. 7 p.m. Free.
Friends, how many of us have them? Tonight’s Moth StorySLAM’s theme is friendship. There’ll be 10 stories, three teams of judges, and one winner. Get there early, this is a popular event. Housing Works Bookstore Café. 7 p.m. $8.
FRIDAY 7/22: Andrew Laties, author of Rebel Bookseller will celebrate the new edition of the book with a special conversation on independent bookselling with booksellers Denis Johnson of Melville House, Tatiana Nicoli of Boulevard Books, Christine Onorati of WORD, and Margarita Shalina of St. Mark’s Bookstore. Greenlight Bookstore. 7:30 p.m. Free.
SATURDAY 7/23: Shakespeare in the Park presents Measure for Measure in the Delacorte Theater at Central Park. Tickets are given out at 1 p.m. on the day of the performance at the Theater and they go super fast. Show’s at 8 p.m.
SUNDAY 7/24: Let’s go back to the 80s, throw down some cardboard and show off our b-boy and b-girl skills. Or we could just head to Habana Outpost for Movies Under the Stars and watch 1984s Breakin’. 8 p.m. Free.
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