Saturday 2/20: Joey Yearous-Algozin and Myung Mi Kim join the Segue Series. Yearous-Algozin is the author of Holly Melgard’s Friends and Family, transcriptions of Melgard’s voicemails. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5.
Sunday 2/21: Angel Nafis, Tommy Pico, Anna Meister, and Sam Ross join Sundays At Erv’s. Erv’s 2122 Beekman, 6 p.m., free.
Matthew Cheney, Alison Kinney, Thaddeus Rutkowski, and Terese Svoboda join the Sunday Salon Series. Jimmys No. 43, 7 p.m., free.
Monday 2/22: Amy Gottlieb presents The Beautiful Possible and discusses it with Anna Solomon. Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30 p.m., free.
Karen Weiser and Stacy Szymaszek join the Monday Night Poetry series. KGB, 7 p.m., free.
Belinda McKeon reads Tender and discusses the novel with Kate Zambreno. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.
Idra Novey reads Ways to Disappear. B&N 82nd Street, 7 p.m., free.
Tuesday 2/23: David Hopson discusses his new novel, All the Lasting Things, with Michael Cunningham. Powerhouse Arena, 7 p.m., free.
Maylis de Kerangal talks with John Freeman about A ce stade de la nuit and Tales of Two Cities. Albertine, 7 p.m., free.
B.K. Fischer, Patricia Spears Jones, Terese Svoboda, and Jonathan Wells read poetry. NYU Bookstore, 6 p.m., free.
Theresa Rebeck presents I’m Glad About You, a novel about choices. Community Bookstore, 7 p.m., free.
Ryan Britt, Emily Asher-Perrin, Victor LaValle, Maria Dahvana Headley, and Daniel Polansky discuss fantasy writing, presented by Tor.com. Housing Works, 7 p.m., free.
Mira Jacob, Jennifer Baker, Matthew Daddona, and Amy Yedida Wolfe join the Manhattanville Reading Series. Jacob is the author of The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing. Manhattanville Coffee, 7:30 p.m., free.
Diana Hamilton, Josef Kaplan, and Andrew Durbin join the Cool as F*ck reading series. Kaplan’s Kill List assessed poets on their relative wealth. Hamilton has written about crying in public places in Okay, Okay. Pete’s Candy Store, 6:30 p.m., free.
Wednesday 2/24: Corinna Bain, Jay Deshpande, Natalie Diaz, and Tiphanie Yanique join the Greenlight Poetry Salon series, curated by Angel Nafis. Greenligh Bookstore, 7:30 p.m., free.
Juan Thompson presents Stories I Tell Myself, a look at growing up as the son of Hunter S. Thompson. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.
Paul Goldberg reads The Yid, a tragicomic historical novel dealing with the death of Stalin. Community Bookstore, 7 p.m., free.
Douglas Kennedy reads The Blue Hour. B&N 82nd Street, 7 p.m., free.
Dexter Palmer and Felix Gilman discuss Palmer’s Version Control. Center for Fiction, 7 p.m., free.
Rachel Syme, Frances Orrok, Becca Schuh, Molly Horan, Kim Jaso, and Stephen Snyder join the Catapult Workshop reading. Sid Gold’s Request Room, 6:30 p.m., free.
Thursday 2/25: Amanda K. Davidson, Rob Stephenson, John Reed, and Leah Umansky join host Donald Breckenridge for a celebration of Brooklyn Rail. Mercer Street Books, 7:30 p.m., free.
Bonnie McFarlane presents You’re Better Than Me and discusses the memoir with Emily Tarver. WORD Jersey City, 7:30 p.m., free.
Sasheer Zamata, Andy Christie, and Tara Clancy join the 7th Anniversary show of Sideshow Goshko Storytelling Series. KGB, 7 p.m., free.
Kate Farrell and Mark Statman read poetry. NYU Bookstore, 6 p.m., free.
Toni Sala presents The Boys, his newest novel about the death of two brothers. Community Bookstore, 7 p.m., free.
Eileen Myles and Alice Quinn are Poets in Conversation. NYU Creative Writing House, 7 p.m., free.
John Wray reads The Lost Time Accidents and talks with Colson Whitehead. The Strand, 7 p.m., $15.
Matt Gallagher, Mariette Kalinowski, Paul Wolfe, and Jacob Siegel—all veterans of recent US conflicts—join Pete’s Reading series along with Phil Klay. Pete’s Candy Store, 7:30 p.m., free.
Friday 2/26: Elisabeth Donnelly, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Tobias Carroll, and Robin Wasserman join H.I.P. Lit’s Hideaway series, hosted by Michele Filgate. Be Electric, 9 p.m., free.
Festival Neue Literatur, a celebration of new writing from Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and the United States begins with free events in English. Continues on Saturday and Sunday. Austrian Culutral Forum, 6 p.m., free.
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