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.
MONDAY 1/02: Monologues and Madness, hosted by Tulis McCall. Original monologues and no judges. Cornelia Street Café. 6 p.m. $10 (includes a drink).
TUESDAY 1/03: National Book Award winner Patti Smith will read from Woolgathering, a memoir first published almost 20 years ago that has been published with new writing, photos, and illustrations this year by New Directions. St. Marks Bookshop. 7 p.m. Free.
WEDNESDAY 1/04: McNally Jackson presents (Re)making media: DIY, zines, punk rock, gen X and millenials in the digital age. Moderated by Figment.com’s Jacob Lewis on the occasion of publication of Blake Nelson’s Dream School, serialized at Figment. Also featuring, Christopher Bollen, Lightning People; Mikki Halpin, Ben is Dead, Shut Up Foodies; Isadora Schappell-Spillman, Teenage, Rookie; Ian Vanek, Japanther; and Jenna Wortham, Girl Crush Zine. 7 p.m.
THURSDAY 1/05: All the Single Ladies: WORD presents a reading with Anna David, Falling for Me: How I Hung Curtains, Learned to Cook, Traveled to Seville, and Fell in Love; Beth Griffenhagen, Haiku for the Single Girl; and Rachel Kramer Bussell, Women in Lust, Best Sex Writing 2012. There will also be a haiku contest, prizes, and refreshments. 7 p.m. Free.
FRIDAY 1/06: The Inspired Word hosts its 2-year anniversary show, featuring 30 spoken word artists, poets, singers, and comedians, including Patricia Smith, Vanessa Hidary, Jamaal St. John, and Ocean Vuong. Hosted by HBO Def Poetry star Gemineye and NYC spoken word legend Nathan P. 116 Macdougal. 6 p.m. $15
SATURDAY 1/07: Lucas Klauss will read from his new young adult novel, Everything You Need to Survive the Apocalypse, at BookCourt. 7 p.m. Free.
SUNDAY 1/08: KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction will feature Chiara Barzini, Sister Stop Breathing; Robert Lopez, Part of the World; and Gary Lutz, Stories in the Worst Way. 7 p.m.
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