The PEN World Voices Festival has hotels on every square of this Monopoly board, so see their schedule for a listing of events with luminaries like Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, Gary Shteyngart, Marjane Satrapi, Tony Kushner, Jennifer Egan, Justin Torres, Brian Selznick, Francine Prose, and lots and lots of others. Non-PEN events include:
MONDAY 4/30: Teju Cole (Open City) speaks to reporter and novelist Amy Waldman (The Submission) at The Strand. 828 Broadway, 3rd floor Rare Book Room. 7pm, free with purchase of either novel or a $10 Strand gift card.
TUESDAY 5/1: Adult Education presents “Characters” at Housing Works, featuring lectures by Brian Joseph Davis, who creates law enforcement composite sketches based on descriptions of literary characters; playwright and screenwriter Jason Grote, who will discuss character-building; actor Colleen Werthmann, who will explore physiognomy; and author Benjamin Feldman, who will profile a specific character in New York City history. 7pm, free.
WEDNESDAY 5/2: Nell Freudenberger launches her new novel, The Newlyweds, at Greenlight, with a reading followed by a wine reception. 7:30pm, free.
THURSDAY 5/3: Heidi Julavits (The Vanishers) and Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones) read at the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House. 7pm, free.
FRIDAY 5/4: Nerd Nite returns to the Galapagos Art space, featuring trivia followed by presentations on the construction of alien worlds, the internet as a war zone, and the Atlantic Yards controversy. Doors at 6:30, trivia at 7, presentations at 8:45. $14 for trivia and presentations, $10 for presentations only.
SATURDAY 5/5: Toi Derricotte, Sandra Gilbert, Philip Levine, Gerald Stern, Abigail Stone, Bianca Stone, and Michael Wiegers read poems by Ruth Stone at the NYU Cantor Film Center. 7pm, free.
SUNDAY 5/6: KGB Bar brings you An Evening of Authors with The Millions, featuring readings by Michael Bourne, Sonya Chung (Long for This World), Garth Risk Hailberg (A Field Guide to the North American Family), and Emily St. John Mandel (The Lola Quartet). 7pm, free.
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