Notable NYC: 7/30–8/5

Saturday 7/30: New York City Poetry Festival. Governor’s Island, 11 a.m., free.

Sunday 7/31: New York City Poetry Festival. Governor’s Island, 11 a.m., free.

Christopher “Loma” Soto, Shira Elrichman, and Thomas Fucaloro join Brooklyn Poets for the NYC Poetry Festival. Governor’s Island, 3 p..m., free.

Tuesday 8/2: Leigh Stein reads from her memoir Land of Enchantment. Powerhouse NEW LOCATION, 7 p.m., free.

Nadja Spiegelman talks with Molly Fischer about I’m Supposed to Protect from All This. Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30 p.m., free.

Justin Taylor returns from the west coast to join Nadia Owusu, Benjamin Nugent, and Greg Jackson to celebrate the second installment of Assignment. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m., free.

Lara Vapnyar talks with Yelena Akhtiorskaya about her new novel Still Here about a group of immigrant friends. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.

Helen DeWitt celebrates the republishing of The Last Samurai. Community Bookstore, 7 p.m., free.

Wednesday 8/3: Drew Margary presents The Hike about a bad trip into the woods. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.

Kim Masson and Oriana Leckert discusses Craig’s List Chronicles, a novel. WORD Brooklyn, 7 p.m., free.

Georgia Clark discusses The Regulars with Ally Collier, the story of regular girls who have their fantasies come true. Powerhouse NEW LOCATION, 7 p.m., free.

Yasmine El Rashidi discusses Chronicle of a Last Summer with Tim Duggan. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m., free.

Thursday 8/4: Nadja Spiegelman discusses I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This with Michele Filgate. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m., free.

Margaret Wappler talks with Deji Bryce Olukotun about Neon Green, a novel set in suburban Chicago in the 90s. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.

Krys Lee presents How I Became a North Korean and talks about the book with Jessie Chaffee. Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30 p.m., free.

Colleen Hoover presents It Ends with Us. The Strand, 7 p.m., free.

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Ian MacAllen is the author of Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American (Rowman & Littlefield, April 2022). His writing has appeared in Chicago Review of Books, Southern Review of Books, The Offing, 45th Parallel Magazine, Little Fiction, Vol 1. Brooklyn, and elsewhere. Find him at IanMacAllen.com.

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