Notable NYC: 5/26–6/1
Saturday 5/26: Ben Gwin, Rebecca Evanhoe, Rochard Gegick, and Heather Wells Paterson celebrate the release of Clean Time: The True Story of Ronald Reagan Middleton. Unnameable Books, 7 p.m., free.
Chase Berggrun and Precious Okoyomon join the Segue reading series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5.
Tuesday 5/29: Kelli Maria Korducki and Larissa Pham discuss Hard to Do: The Surprising, Feminist History of Breaking up. McNally Jackson – Williamsburg, 7 p.m., free.
Pamela Druckerman presents There Are No Grown-ups with Jancee Dunn. Books Are Magic, 7:30 p.m., free.
Rebecca Soffer presents Modern Loss. WORD Jersey City, 7:30 p.m., $5
Amale Andraos, Dan Wood, Neil Donnelly, and Alan Rapp discuss architecture. McNally Jackson – SoHo, 7 p.m., free.
Wednesday 5/30: Jes Baker discusses Landwhale with Ushshi Rahman and Jessica Torres. McNally Jackson – Williamsburg, 7 p.m., free.
Brendan Lorber and John Yau join the Poetry Project series. Poetry Project, 8 p.m., $8.
Nikita Gill, Iain Thomas, Amanda Lovelace, Trista Mateer, Cyrus Parker, and KY Robinson read poetry. The Strand, 7 p.m., $15.
Ellen Steinbaum reads from the poetry collection This Next Tenderness. Book Culture – 112th Street, 7 p.m., free.
Elisabeth Cohen presents The Glitch and talks with Lizzie Skurnick. WORD – Jersey City, 7:30 p.m., $5.
Joshua Mensch presents Because: A Lyric Memoir and talks with Stanley Plumly. McNally Jackson – SoHo, 7 p.m., free.
Thursday 5/31: Darnell Moore presents No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America. BAM Fisher, 7 p.m., free with RSVP.
Diane Seuss and Robin Richardson read poetry sponsored by the Brooklyn Art Song Society. Community Bookstore, 7 p.m., free.
Friday 6/1:Thelma Golden and Kaitlyn Greenidge join the National Book Foundation for a conversation. NYPL – Harry Belafonte 115th Street Library, 6:30 p.m., free.
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