Saturday 10/8: David Abel and Mitch Highfill read poetry. Unnameable Books, 7 p.m., free.
Alice Kaltman presents Staggerwing, stories. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.
Sunday 10/9: Bob Eckstein presents his illustrated book World’s Greatest Bookstores. BookCourt, 6 p.m., free.
Peter Wohlleben presents The Hidden Life of Trees. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m., free.
Sasha Banks, Delphine Bedient, Matthew Daddona, and Nicholas Goodly join Sundays at Ervs. Ervs, 6 p.m., free.
Andy Mozina, Christine Sneed, and Aviya Kushner join the Sunday Night Fiction. KGB Bar, 7 p.m., free.
Brian Blachfield, Ariana Reines, and Ely Shipley read poetry. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 5 p.m., free.
Maria Fernanda Snellings, José Olivarez, Laura Creste, David Olimpio, Madeleine Barnes, Vivian Lee, and Rachel Allen join the Dead Rabbits reading series. DTUT, 8 p.m., free.
Monday 10/10: Matt Bell, Okey Ndibe, D. Foy, Zetta Elliott, Stephen O’Connor, and Jen Michalski join the Franklin Park Reading Series. Franklin Park, 8 p.m., free.
Terrance Hayes and Stephen Burt join the Monday Night Poetry series. KGB Bar, 7 p.m., free.
Mort Castle, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Patricia Santomasso, and Michael Pauley read scary stories at the See No Evil Reading Series. Astoria Bookshop, 7 p.m., free.
Marcy Dermansky talks with Emily St. John Mandel about The Red Car, Dermansky’s newest novel. Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30 p.m., free.
Tuesday 10/11: Walter Mosley presents Folding the Red into the Black. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.
Tobias Caroll, Annie DeWitt and Belinda McKeon join the LIC Reading Series. LIC Bar, 8 p.m., free.
Wednesday 10/12: Martin Hyatt discusses Beautiful Gravity, a novel, with Thomas Keith. WORD Brooklyn, 7 p.m., free.
Patrick Hoffman reads from his second novel Every Man a Menace and talks about it with Isaac Fitzgerald. Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30 p.m., free.
Jamie Duclos-Yourdon presents Froelich’s Ladder, a novel wrapping magical realism with the Old West. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m., free.
Brenda Iijima, Elizabeth Goetz, MC Hyland, Cathy de la Cruz, and Merve Kayan join the Tiny Talks series of talks on poetry. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free.
Chrysanthemum Tran, Taylor Steele, Falu, and Rachel Rostad join the Atlas series for a special “Voices of Slam” edition. 61 Local, 7 p.m., free.
Thursday 10/13: Tobias Carroll presents his debut novel Reel, with Jason Diamond. Community Bookstore, 7 p.m., free.
Alexander Maksik, Tim Murphy, Randa Jarrar, and Margaret Malone join the Behind the Book series. KGB, 7 p.m., free.
Simon Reynolds presents Shock and Awe, a look at glam rock, along with conversation with Luc Sante. Powerhouse, 7 p.m., free.
Alexander Chee and Jordan Kisner read from Best American Essays, with host Bob Atwan. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.
Eliot Weinberger talks with Katie Raissian about his The Ghosts of Birds, an essay collection. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m., free.
Helen Maryles Shankman presents They Were Like Family to Me, a story collection. NYU Bookstore, 6 p.m., free.
Caroline Leavitt and Liz Egan discuss Cruel Beautiful World. Little City Books, 7 p.m., free.
Matt Bell and Annie DeWitt discuss sentence craft and precision prose writing. Center for Fiction, 7 p.m., free.
Friday 10/14: Anne Waldman reads Voice’s Daughters of a Heart Yet to Be Born. 192 Books, 7 p.m., free.
David Szalay discusses All That Man Is with Lorin Stein. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m., free.
Thomas Fink, Trace Peterson, and Carlos Hiraldo read poetry. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free.
Priscilla Becker, Toni Blackman, and Abigail Welhouse join the Wordsprouts reading series. Park Slope Food Coop, 7 p.m., free.
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