Notable NYC: 8/20–8/26

Saturday 8/20: Nicole Dennis-Benn, Kaitlyn Greenidge, and Yaa Gyasi join the Fort Greene Summer Lit Festival. BRIC, 2 p.m., free.

Sunday 8/21: Astoria Bookshop celebrates its 3rd birthday. Astoria Bookshop, 11 a.m., free.

Tuesday 8/23: Kate Milford presents The Left-Handed Fate. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m., free.

Anne Korkeakivi and Megan Mayhew Bergman, Literary BFFs, will discuss Shining Sea. Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30 p.m., free.

Margo Jefferson and Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah discuss Negroland. The Strand, 7 p.m., $15.

Wednesday 8/24: Lynne Tillman and Alexandra Kleeman celebrate the latest issue of the The White Review. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m., free.

Elizabeth Cobbs presents The Hamilton Affair. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.

Thursday 8/25: Tobias Carroll launches Transitory, a story collection, along with Tracy O’Neil, Lynn Steger Strong, and Robert Lopez. WORD Brooklyn, 7 p.m., free.

Sarah Jaffe presents Necessary Trouble along with Nelini Stamp, Mary Clinton, and Nastaran Mohit. Housing Works, 7 p.m., free.

Keegan Goodman, Adam Israel, and David Pemberton celebrate the launch of Goodman’s The Tennessee Highway Death Chant. Unnameable Books, 7 p.m., free.

Imbolo Mbue discusses her debut novel Behold the Dreamers with David Ebershoff. BookCulture Columbus, 7 p.m., free.

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