Saturday 10/15: Anaïs Duplan and Marie Buck join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5.
Nivea Castro, Micaela Foley, Pamela L. Laskin, Maria Fernanda Snellings, and JP Howard celebrate the launch of Harlequin Issue 8. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.
Sunday 10/16: Antara Ganguli presents Tanya Tania. WORD Jersey City, 3p.m., free.
Rico Frederick, Beth Bachmann, Cynthia Manick, and David McLoghlin read poetry at Hunger and Hallelujah. BookCourt, 4 p.m., free.
Monday 10/17: Anaïs Duplan and Loma (Christopher Soto) join the Poetry Project. Poetry Project, 8 p.m., $8.
Adam Falkner, Rashidah Ismaili, Quincy Scott Jones, Patricia Spears Jones, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Marilyn Nelson, and Tony Medina join the Writing Aloud Series. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.
Craig Lucas, Lorin Stein, Michael Greenberg, and Deborah Eisenberg celebrate Henry Green along with NYRB Classics. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m., free.
Laurie Penny reads Everything Belongs to the Future. McNally Jackson Books, 8 p.m., free.
Meredith Monk and Anne Waldman join the Academy of American Poets fall conversation series. Housing Works, 7 p.m., free.
Jean Valentine and Jane Mead join the Monday Night Poetry series. KGB Bar, 7 p.m., free.
Patricia Santomasso hosts the See No Evil Reading Series for All of Them Witches, Ghosts or Worse… Astoria Bookshop, 7 p.m., free.
Tuesday 10/18: Douglas Crimp presents Before Pictures, the story of Crimp’s life as a young gay man. 192 Books, 7 p.m., free.
Jade Chang talks with Saeed Jones about The Wangs vs. The World. B&N 82nd Street, 7 p.m., free.
Sunil Yapa talks with Lee Bourdreaux about Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist, now out in paperback. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m., free.
Britt Bennett talks with Angela Flournoy about The Mothers. Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30 p.m., free.
Jenny Dorsey, Rōze Traore, Grace Lieberman, and more celebrate the release of Knives and Ink, hosted by editor Isaac Fitzgerald and illustrator Wendy MacNaughton. Housing Works, 7 p.m., free.
Wednesday 10/19: Garrett Caples and Hoa Nguyen join the Poetry Project. Poetry Project, 8 p.m., $8.
Margo Jefferson and Laurie Stone read and discuss their most recent books. Cornelia Street Cafe, 6 p.m., $10.
Helen Ellis reads from her hilarious short story collection American Housewife and discusses the book with Julia Dahl. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.
Nell Zink reads Nicotine, about Penny, a young woman who involves herself with an activist collective set in Jersey City. WORD Jersey City, 7:30 p.m., free.
Lauret Savoy and Derrick Jackson discuss Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape, a book of essays. Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30 p.m., free.
Carlos Lara, Will Alexander, Sylvia Legris, and Marcella Durand read poetry with host Brian Amsterdam. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free.
Tim Murphy talks with Boris Kachka about Christodora. The Strand, 7:30 p.m., free.
Thursday 10/20: Leah Umansky, Courtney Elizabeth Mauk, and Julia Phillips join the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series. Dixon Place, 7:30 p.m., free.
Ben Marcus, author of Leaving the Sea, talks with Darin Strauss. NYU Creative writing House, 7 p.m., free.
Lisa Robertson and Rachel Levitsky discuss 3 Summers. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free.
Mark Slouka discusses his memoir Nobody’s Son with Nick Flynn. Powerhouse Books, 7 p.m., free.
Debra Spark discusses her novel Unknown Caller with Joan Silber. Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30 p.m., free.
Friday 10/21: Anthony Alves presents You Should Never Be Afraid of Amish People Again. McNally Jackson Books, 7:30 p.m., free.
Mahtem Shifferaw, Aracelis Girmay, Maaza Mengiste, Mebrak Tareke, and Emmanuel Iduma read poetry. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free.
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