Sunday 9/25: Lynn Steger Strong, Michele Filgate, Saxon Baird, Jerome Ellison Murphy, and Miko Jeffries joins the Pigeon Pages reading series. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.
Monday 9/26: Colson Whitehead discusses The Underground Railroad with Lisa Lucas. BAM, 7 p.m., $25.
James Richardson, Chris Cheney, and Monica Youn join the Monday Night Poetry series. KGB Bar, 7 p.m., free.
Tuesday 9/27: James Boice, K. Foote, S. Langlois, Kem Joy Ukwu join the Manhattanville Reading Series. Manhattanville Coffee Crown Heights, 7:30 p.m., free.
Estelle Tang, Collier Meyerson, Jasmine Gibson, Nona Willis Aronowitz, Leopoldine Core, Muna Mire, and Charlotte Shane are Bad Women offering up some Bad Advice. WORD Brooklyn, 7 p.m., free.
Helen Garner discusses her newest essay collection, Everywhere I Look, with Ben Lerner. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m., free.
Alison Gaylin, Megan Abbott, Alafair Burke, Laura Lippman, and Laura Miller discuss the rise in popularity of crime novels. Center for Fiction, 7 p.m., free.
Rivka Galchen discusses Shirley Jackson. Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30 p.m., free.
Elissa Altman reads Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw and talks about it with Dani Shapiro. BookCulture Columbus, 7 p.m., free.
Wednesday 9/28: Safiya Sinclair, Aracelis Girmay, and Gregory Pardlo celebrate the release of Sinclair’s Cannibal. Housing Works, 7 p.m., free.
Lauren Cerand celebrates Your Book, Your Brand. Solas Bar, 6 p.m., free.
Jessica Grose and Jazmine Hughes discuss Soulmates, a novel by Grose. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.
Justin Boening, Carlie Hoffman, Dorothea Lasky, and Sam Sax celebrate the life and writing of Max Ritvo. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free.
Thursday 9/29: Amor Towles presents A Gentleman in Moscow. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m., free.
Andrea G. Labinger and Daniella Gitlin discuss Gesell Dome, a translated book by Guillermo Saccomanno. McNally Jackson Books (upstairs), 7 p.m., free.
Susan Choi, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Nelly Reifler, and Amy Shearn celebrate the launch of Silent Beaches, Untold Stories: New York City’s Forgotten Waterfront. Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30 p.m., free.
Grace Bonner, Karen Brennan, Henry Israeli, and Jen Levitt join the Free Water Reading Series. KGB, 7 p.m., free.
Friday 9/30: Kristopher Jansma, Alisson Wood, and Saïd Sayrafiezadeh join the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series. Dixon Place, 7:30 p.m., free.
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