Saturday 10/31: Sandra Simonds and Meld Nichols join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5.
Monday 11/2: Angela Lockhart-Aronoff, Jaime Shearn Coan, Chelsea Lemon Fetzer, Morgan Parker, and Jon Sands join the Writing Aloud Reading Series. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.
Marc Matter and Sound Poetry Magazine discuss Henri Chopin’s editorial project Revue OU/Cinquième Saison. Wendy’s Subway, 6:30 p.m., free.
Tuesday 11/3: Adam Christopher launches Made to Kill with Chuck Wendig. KGB’s The Red Room, 7 p.m., free.
Emily Holleman reads Cleopatra’s Shadows. B&N 82nd Street, 7 p.m., free.
Jennifer Donnelly reads These Shallow Graves. McNally Jackson, 7 p.m., free.
Barbara Rosenthal, Kevin Dugan, Jay Deshpande, and Erin Swan read “The low bar is harder to learn,” a Disagreement. Hifi Bar, 8 p.m., free.
Owen Sheers and Matthew Thomas discuss I Saw a Man. Center for Fiction, 7 p.m., free.
Wednesday 11/4: Mary Gaitskill launches The Mare and discusses the book with Andy Hunter, presented by Electric Literature. Housing Works, 7 p.m., free.
Daniel Jose Older, Glendeliz Camcho, Courtney Gillette, and Ennis Smith join the Hifi Series. HiFi Bar, 8 p.m., free.
Paige Lewis, Kevah Akbar, Leah Umansky, Kathleen Ossip, and Joshua Mehigan read poetry. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free.
Jennifer Miller reads The Heart You Carry Home. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.
Heidi Julavits, Sadie Stein, Alice Gregory, Caleb Crain, Hermione Hoby, Ariel Schrag, Aaron Lacayo, Anna Clyne, and Sarah Thomas launch McNally Jackson Life, a variety show series. McNally Jackson, 7 p.m., free.
Rebekah Rutkoff and Wayne Koestenbaum launch Rutkoff’s The Irresponsible Magician: Essays and Fictions. 192 Books, 7 p.m., free.
Ron Semple reads Black Tom: Terror on the Hudson. WORD Jersey City, 7:30 p.m., free.
Kevin Powell discusses The Education of Kevin Powell with Ted Hamm. Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30 p.m., free.
Ivan Sršen, Dijana Jelača, and Buzz Poole celebrate Sršen’s Zagreb Noir, with Akashic Books. WORD Brooklyn, 7 p.m., free.
Thursday 11/5: Jesse Eisenberg reads Bream Gives Me Hiccups. WORD Jersey City, 7:30 p.m., free / $26 reserved seat.
Owen Sheers discusses his debut novel I Saw a Man with Joshua Ferris, author of Then We Came to the End and To Rise Again at a Decent Hour. McNally Jackson, 7 p.m., free.
Ada Calhoun discusses the evolution of America’s hippest street with the release of St. Marks is Dead. Powerhouse Arena, 7 p.m., free.
Katie Halper and Athos Cakiades join the Book Lovers in Babeland series. Babeland, 7 p.m., free.
Patty Park and Rebecca Dinerstein join Pete’s Reading Series. Pete’s Candy Store, 7:30 p.m., free.
Michael Ruby, Luna Light Orchestra, and Barbara Henning read poetry. Unnameable Books, 7:30 p.m., free.
Rickey Laurentiis, Jee Leong Koh, and Mahogany L Browne join the Brooklyn Poets reading series. Smack Mellon, 7 p.m., free.
Friday 11/6: Viggo Mortensen, Amy Goodman, and Anthony Arnove discuss Twilight of Empire: Responses to Occupation. McNally Jackson, 7 p.m., free.
Elizabeth Brus, Clarke Levidiotis, Bejamin Olnis, Su Shekar, and Pitchaya Sudbanthad join the Sackett Street Writers Workshop reading series. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.
Cecily Iddings, Simeon Berry, Cynthia Arrieu-King, and Frank Guan read poetry. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free.
Ian F. Svenonius presents Censorship Now!!. KGB Bar, 7 p.m., free.
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