This week in NYC:
MONDAY 7/16: BOMB Magazine launches its summer issue at Bookcourt, featuring an audience Q&A and panel discussion with Joshua Cohen, Wayne Koestenbaum, Justin Lieberman, Carole Maso, and B. Wurtz. 7pm, free.
TUESDAY 7/17: Akashic and Brooklyn Rail present readings by Donald Breckenridge (This Young Girl Passing), Mickey Hess (The Nostalgia Echo), Nathan Larson (The Nervous System), Joe Meno (Office Girl), and Leigh Stein (The Fallback Plan). WORD, 7pm, free.
WEDNESDAY 7/18: The Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts and Greenlight Bookstore host a conversation with Uzodinma Iweala (Beasts of No Nation) and Teju Cole (Open City), introduced by Jessica Moore. Greenlight, 7:30pm, free.
THURSDAY 7/19: More Leigh Stein, as Melville House launches her poetry collection, Dispatch from the Future. Melville House, 7pm, free.
KGB Bar hosts Drunken Careening Writers, with readings by Long Island Noir authors Kaylie Jones (A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries), Sheila Kohler (Becoming Jane Eyre), Tim McLoughlin (The Narrows), and Sarah Weinman. 7pm, free.
SATURDAY 7/21: Emily St. John Mandel (The Lola Quartet) and Barbara Browning (I’m Trying to Reach You) read from their novels at Community Bookstore. Browning might also play ukulele. 6pm, free.
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