Saturday 4/30: Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day with your favorite stores: Greenlight Bookstore, Powerhouse Arena, Housing Works, BookCourt, Astoria Bookshop, Community Bookstore, Rizzoli Bookstore, BookCulture, or celebreate with the 1st Brooklyn Bookstore Crawl.
Claudia Cortese, Sharon Dolin, Karen Hildebrand, Clark Moore, Emilia Phillips, and Melissa Studdard join Leah Umansky for the Couplet series. The Delancey, 7 p.m., free.
Douglas Watson, Vanessa Mártir, and Mark de Silva join the Hustle series discussing the business of publishing. WORD Brooklyn, 2 p.m., free.
Sunjeev Sahota talks with John Freeman about Year of Runaways. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m., free.
Simon Van Booy celebrates his new novel Father’s Day. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.
Sunjeev Sahota talks with Dinaw Mengestu about The Year of Runaways. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.
Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greeves and Simone White join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5.
Sunday 5/1: Robert Lopez and Sam Ligon join the Sunday Night Fiction series. KGB Bar, 7 p.m., free.
Joan Cusack Handler celebrates the launch of Orphans, a verse memoir. Le Poisson Rouge, 3:30 p.m., free with RSVP.
Monday 5/2: Kate Daloz presents We Are As Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America. Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30 p.m., free.
Hannah Brooks-Motl and Wo Chan join the Poetry Project. Poetry Project, 8 p.m., $8.
Tony Tulathimutte, Lynn Strong, Rebecca Schiff, Caroline Zancan, Kaitlyn Greenridge, and Jessica Tom join the Sackett Street Writers Workshop for a celebration of alumni book releases. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.
Óscar Martínez discusses A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America. Hemmerdinger Hall, NYU, 6 p.m., free.
Tuesday 5/3: Kate Tempest launches The Bricks that Built the Houses. Housing Works, 7 p.m., free.
Camille Perri reads The Assistants along with Elisabeth Egan. B&N 86th Street, 7 p.m., free.
Mark Binelli presents Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ All-Time Greatest Hits with Will Hermes. Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30 p.m., free.
Eileen Myles reads I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems, 1975-2014. 192 Books, 7 p.m., free.
Nina MacLaughlin and Heidi Julavits discuss their latest books with Rachel Fershleiser. Community Bookstore, 7 p.m., free.
Amara Lakhous and Adam Shatz discuss Shatz’s new novel The Prank of the Good Little Virgin of Via Ormea. Center for Fiction, 7 p.m., free.
Wednesday 5/4: Rebecca Dinerstein discusses The Sunlit Night with Mira Jacob. Community Bookstore, 7 p.m., free.
Dylan Hicks celebrates his new novel Amateurs. WORD Brooklyn, 7 p.m., free.
Simon Sebag Montefiore speaks with Liesl Schillinger about The Romanovs, 1613-1918. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m., free.
Ocean Vuong reads Night Sky with Exit Wounds. Astoria Bookshop, 7 p.m., free.
Jennifer Haigh presents Heat & Light, a new novel, along with Julia Fierro, founder of Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.
Belinda Mckeon, Mary O’Donoghue, Sally Rooney, Stephen Sexton, and Colm Tóibín join Granta for an evening of New Irish Writing. Center for Fiction, 7 p.m., free.
Leslie Jamison, Emma Borges-Scott, Joe Fassler, Evan James, and Kyle McCarthy join the HiFi Series. Hifi Bar, 8 p.m., free.
Thursday 5/5: Adrian Van Young presents Shadows in Summerland with Lincoln Michel and Alice Sola Kim. WORD Brooklyn, 7 p.m., free.
Kim Brooks, Matthew Cheney, Charles Haverty, Naomi Williams, and Cote Smith are One Story Literary Debutantes. Hosted by Hannah Tinti. Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30 p.m., free.
Adam Haslett reads Imagine Me Gone. BookCourt, 6:30 p.m., free.
Brenda Shaughnessy and Deborah Landau join the Poets in Conversation series. NYU Creative Writers House, 7 p.m., free.
Stephen O’Connor and Angela Flournoy join Pete’s Reading Series. Pete’s Candy Store, 7:30 p.m., free.
Mark de Silva, Katie Longofono, Madeline Stevens, and Stephen Langlois joins the Brew reading series. Hungry Ghost, 7 p.m., free.
Friday 5/6: Rosalyn Drexler reads Who Does She Think She Is? with Jonathan Lethem and Katy Siegel. 192 Books, 7 p.m., free.
Kate Tough, Jane Rose Porter, and Courtney Zoffiness join the Brooklyn Writers Space. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.
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