This week in NYC:
MONDAY 7/30:
The Books Beneath the Bridge series takes on short stories, with Robin Black (If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This), Tania James (Aerogrammes), Rajesh Parameswaran (I Am an Executioner), Jim Shepard (You Think That’s Bad), and Charles Yu (Sorry Please Thank You). Brooklyn Bridge Park, 7pm, free.
TUESDAY 7/31:
Fiction Addiction this month features readings by Joshua Henkin (The World Without You), Myla Goldberg (Bee Season), John Reed (Snowball’s Chance), and Steve Danziger. 2A upstairs, 8pm, free.
powerHouse arena hosts Karen Thompson Walker (The Age of Miracles) in conversation with Hannah Tinti. 7pm, free.
WEDNESDAY 8/1:
BookCourt hosts a release party for Kurt Anderson’s True Believers, with a reading, Q&A, and book signing. 7pm, free.
Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy discuss their new book, Rabid, which is about rabies, as you might imagine. Strand, 7pm, purchase the book or a $10 gift certificate for admission.
THURSDAY 8/2:
The Poetry Society of America presents Liu Xiaobo’s June Fourth Elegies, with a reading by the translator, Jeffrey Yang, and a discussion of Liu’s poems with Yang and Larry Siems. The Museum of Chinese in America, 6:30pm, free.
SATURDAY 8/4:
Elizabeth Nunez discusses Boundaries at the Brooklyn Museum as part of its First Saturdays programming. 9pm (although there’s lots of music and dancing from 5pm on), free.
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