This week in New York, Poets & Writers at Housing Works Bookstore Café; Rita Dove and others at Poets House; Writing Dublin, Writing New York; How I Learned to Say I’m Sorry; Helen Oyeyemi reads from Mr. Fox; Steve Almond at Greenlight Bookstore; Pageturner, the Third Annual Asian American Literary Festival; and The Bellevue Literary Review 10th Anniversary Reading.
MONDAY 10/24: Poets & Writers presents fiction writer Sandra Moore Coleman and poet Jose Faus, winners of the 2011 Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Contest. Winners will be introduced by poet and contest judge Rigoberto Gonzalez and fiction writer and contest judge Joan Silber. Reception afterwards. Housing Works Bookstore Café. 7 p.m. Free.
TUESDAY 10/25: More poetry! Poetry Society of America and Poets House are hosting a reading to celebrate The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry, edited by Rita Dove. Along with poets Elizabeth Alexander, Frank Bidart, Joanna Klink, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Gerald Stern, Dove will read from the new anthology. Irish singer-songwriter, Susan McKeown will perform poems from the anthology set to music. Poets House. 7 p.m. Free for Poets House and Poetry Society of America Members, $10 general admission, $7 for students and seniors.
Also on Tuesday, The Center for Fiction presents Writing Dublin, Writing New York, with Ireland’s The Stinging Fly magazine (celebrating its New York-themed issue with three nights of readings in NYC). The panel will discuss the literary bond between Dublin and New York and features Nick Laird, On Purpose, Glover’s Mistake; Emer Martin, Baby Zero; Sean O’Reilly, The Swing of Things; and Keith Ridgway, Animals. Moderated by Declan Meade, publisher and editor of The Stinging Fly. 7 p.m. Free.
WEDNESDAY 10/26: Blaise Allysen Kearsley presents How I Learned to Say I’m Sorry, with Sarah Brown, Janice Elrbaum, Starlee Kine, Andy Ross, and Elissa Schappell. Happy Ending. 8 p.m. Free.
THURSDAY 10/27: McNally Jackson will feature author Helen Oyeyemi, reading from her novel Mr. Fox. She will be in conversation with writer and critic Sarah Weinman, news editor for Publishers Marketplace. 7 p.m. Free.
FRIDAY 10/28: Steve Almond, author of My Life in Heavy Metal and Candyfreak, will read from and discuss his new collection of stories, God Bless America, with Ben Greenman, author, journalist, and New Yorker editor. Greenlight Bookstore. 7:30 p.m. Free.
SATURDAY 10/29: Celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop at Pageturner, the Third Annual Asian American Literary Festival, featuring a Korean taco truck, stand-up comedians, and an all-star line-up of writers: Amitav Ghosh, Junot Díaz, Min Jin Lee, Kimiko Hahn, Amitava Kumar, Hari Kunzru, Teju Cole, Danielle Evans, Tina Chang, and many others. powerHouse Arena. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. $5 per event, $20 for an all-day pass, $30 for an all-day pass with afterparty.
SUNDAY 10/30: The Bellevue Literary Review presents its 10th Anniversary Reading, featuring contributors to the Fall 2011 issue: Paul Harding, Tinkers (2010 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction); Hal Sirowitz, My Therapist Said; David Oshinsky, Polio: An American Story; Louise Blecher Rose, The Launching of Barbara Fabrikant; and Rachel Hadas, The Ache of Appetite. Bellevue Hospital Rotunda. 5 p.m. Free.
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