Notable NYC: 11/18–11/24
Saturday 11/18: Andrea Lawlor presents Paul Takes The Form of a Mortal Girl. Spoonbill & Sugartown Montrose, 7 p.m., free.
Rex Renee Leonowicz presents When There Is No One and There Is Everyone. Unnameable Books, 7 p.m., free.
I.S. Jones and Benjamin Krusling join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5.
Sunday 11/19: Sarah Gerard, Rob Spillman, Annabel Graham, Kyle Lucia Wu, and Melissa Ragsly join the Pigeon Pages reading series. Powerhouse Archway, 5 p.m., free.
Greg Ames and Emily Schultz join the Sunday Night Fiction series. KGB Bar, 7 p.m., free.
Valeria Luiselli presents Tell Me How It Ends, An Essay in Forty Question, and headlines a panel discussion of immigration issues and ways we can individually and collectively assist the immigrant community. Congregation Beth Elohim, 3 p.m., free.
Monday 11/20: Elizabeth Rosner and Cheryl Pearl Sucher have a conversation between two worlds. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m., free.
Helen Benedict presents Wolf Season, in conversation with Cara Hoffman. Book Culture, 7 p.m., free.
Chase Berggrun and Sarah Gambito join the Monday Night Poetry series. KGB Bar, 7 p.m., free.
Tuesday 11/21: Jeannine Pitas, Elizabeth Zuba, and Charlotte Whittle join Ugly Duckling Presse for an evening of literature from Argentina and Uruguay. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m., free.
Irving Sandler talks with Phong Bui, hosted by Brooklyn Rail. CIMA, 6 p.m., free with required RSVP.
Tanwi Nandini Islam, Emily Holleman, and Kim Liao join the Rally Reading series. Pete’s Candy Store, 7 p.m., free.
William Corbett, August Kleinzahler, Joan Farber, and Bill Zavatsky read Michael O’Brien’s final book, To the River. Community Bookstore, 7 p.m., free.
Jake Bernstein presents Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite. B&N 86th Street, 7 p.m., free.
Gini Alhadeff, Minna Zallman Proctor, and Claudia Steinberg discuss I Am the Brother of XX and These Possible Lives by Fleur Jaeggy. 192 Books, 7 p.m., free.
David Sedaris presents Theft by Finding: Dairies. BAM, 7:30 p.m., $57.
Wednesday 11/22: Anaïs Duplan presents Mount Carmel & the Blood of Parnassus with Precious Okoyomon and Benjamin Krusling. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m., free.
David Sedaris again presents Theft by Finding: Diaries. BAM, 7:30 p.m., $57.
Thursday 11/23: Macy’s celebrates Thanksgiving. 6th Avenue, 9 a.m., free.
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