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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