Notable NYC: 4/11–4/17

Saturday 4/11: Lisa Samuels and Stephanie Young join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5.

Sunday 4/12: Jaime Clarke reads from his latest novel World Gone Water with Jeffrey Rotter. KGB, 7 p.m., free.

Monday 4/13: Colson Whitehead, Amelia Gray, Wendy C. Ortiz, Natalie Eilbert, and Tobias Carroll launch the 7th season of the Franklin Park Reading Series. Franklin Park, 8 p.m., free.

Mark Doty and Meryl Natchez celebrate the William Dickey Memorial Broadside Contest. Housing Works, 7 p.m., free.

Ann-Marie MacDonald reads Adult Onset, a new novel about an aging couple. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.

Joseph Harrison, Penelope Pelizzon, and Mary Jo Salter read poetry from Waywiser Press. McNally Jackson, 7 p.m., free.

Adriana Trigiani, John Searles, and Mary Murphy celebrate To Kill a Mockingbird. B&N Union Suare, 7 p.m., book purchase recommended.

Tuesday 4/14: Heidi Julavits launches The Folded Clock with a conversation with Ben Marcus. Powerhouse Arena, 7 p.m., free.

Jeffrey Rotter and Hannah Tinit discuss The Only Words That Are Worth Remembering, Rotter’s new novel set in a near-future America. Community Bookstore, 7 p.m., free.

Cecily Wong talks with Mary Gordon about Diamond Head. B&N 86th St, 7 p.m., free.

Wednesday 4/15: Lily King discusses Euphoria with Stephanie Valdez. Community Bookstore, 7 p.m., free.

Loren Kleinman, Claudia Serea, and Lauren Schmidt celebrate national poetry month. WORD Jersey City, 7:30 p.m., free.

Jonathan Shaw launches his novel Our Lady of Ashes with Joe Coleman and Alessandra De Benedetti. Powerhouse Arena, 7 p.m., free.

Katie Kitamura, Victor LaValle, and Michael Hearst, judges of the PEN Awards, celebrate the announcement of the longlist with Electric Literature. Housing Works, 7 pm., RSVP.

Pierre Joris and André Naffis-Sahely join the Bridge Series, a literature in translation reading series. McNally Jackson, 7 p.m., free.

Kimberly McCreight reads Where They Found Her, a novel set in New Jersey. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.

Thursday 4/16: Mark Doty talks with John Freeman. Doty’s Deep Lane is a collection of poems relying on subterranean imagery. McNally Jackson, 7 p.m., free.

Cecily Wong talks about her new novel, Diamond Head with Julia Fierro. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.

Junot Diaz reads This is How You Lose Her with Isaac Fitzgerald. St. Francis College, 7 p.m., free.

Jill Alexander Essbaum presents her poetry collection Hausfrau with Alex Morris. Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30 p.m., free.

Mary Morris reads The Jazz Palace, a novel set in Chicago during the jazz age. Community Bookstore, 7 p.m., free.

Lyric Hunter and Morgan Parker celebrate Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks and National Poetry Month. Brooklyn Musuem 7 p.m., free.

Friday 4/17: Dale Peck reads Visions and Revisions, a coming of age story that is part memoir and part essay. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.

Michael Cunningham and Darin Strauss discuss The Snow Queen. NYU Writing House, 5 p.m., free.

Ken Babstock, Corina Copp, Ben Fama, and Sina Queyras read poetry and have a conversation with Monica de la Torre and Robert Fitterman. JACK, 7:30 p.m., free.

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