Notable NYC: 6/16–6/22
Saturday 6/16: Alice Kaltman presents Wavehouse. Powerhouse Arena, 6 p.m., free.
Sunday 6/17: Robert J. Seidman celebrates Ulysses and Boomsday. McNally Jackson – SoHo, 4 p.m., free.
Monday 6/18: Jeannie Vanasco, Ash Sanders, Porochista Khakpour, and Dara Lurie join Narratively, The Rumpus, Catapult, Tin House, Granta, Guernica, and Longreads for Memoir Monday. Powerhouse Arena, 7 p.m., free.
Jennifer Egan discusses Manhattan Beach with Amor Towels. Books Are Magic, 7:30 p.m., free.
Leslie Jamison talks with Cutter Wood for the Mid-Sentence Reading series. Mid-Manhattan Library, 6:30 p.m., free.
Sean Gill, Christie Grotheim, Colin O’Brien, and Scotty Weeks join Lyrics, Lit & Liquor. 2A, 7:30 p.m., free.
Jason Heller presents Strange Stars. McNally Jackson – Williamsburg, 7 p.m., free.
Andrea Baker, Frederick Johnson, Frank Marchese, John Munnelly, Art Schaffer, and Norma Williams celebrate the launch of Voices of Lefferts, issue one. Greenlight – Lefferts Gardens, 7:30 p.m., free.
Rachel Cusk discusses Kudos with Alexandra Schwartz. Greenlight – Fort Greene, 7:30 p.m., free.
Chimanada Ngozi Adichie, Hannah Lillith Assadi, and Hari Kunzuru join the 2018 PEN Literary Awards Salon. The Strand, 7 p.m., $15.
Tuesday 6/19: Camille Perri presents When Katie Met Cassidy with Koa Beck. Books Are Magic, 7 p.m., free.
Jon Pineda presents Let’s No One Get Hurt along with Bonnie Chau and Arhm Choi Wild. Greenlight – Lefferts Gardens, 7:30 p.m., free.
Abdi Nor Iftin presents Call Me American. McNally Jackson – SoHo, 7 p.m., free.
Nikki Barnhart, Jenna Hamed, Minerva Martinez, Yessica Martinez, and Alexander Moser join host Maura Lee Bee to celebrate issue 12 of Newtown Literary. Nowadays, 7 p.m., free.
DeSales Harrison and David Gilbert discuss The Waters & the Wild. McNally Jackson – Williamsburg, 7 p.m., free.
Amanda Stern and A.M. Homes discuss Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life. Greenlight – Fort Greene, 7:30 p.m., free.
Allison Yarrow presents 90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality. Powerhouse Arena, 7 p.m., free.
Kristin Lawless discusses Formerly Known as Food with Eric Wides. Community Bookstore, 7 p.m., free.
Martha K. Davis presents Scissors, Paper, Stone. BookCulture 112th, 7 p.m., free.
Wednesday 6/20: Anjali Khosla, Taylor Larsen, Jayson P. Smith, and Brian Gresko join the Ditmas Lit reading series. Hinterlands, 8 p.m., free.
Elizabeth Rush presents Rising: Dispatches from the American Shore, and talks with Ashley Dawson. Greenlight – Fort Greene, 7:30 p.m., free.
Translator Tim Mohr presents Sand by Wolfgang Herndorf. Community Bookstore, 7 p.m., free.
Lydia Millet and Jenny Offill discuss Fight No More, Millet’s latest story collection. McNally Jackson – SoHo, 7 p.m., free.
Debra Jo Immergut talks with Bethanne Patrick about The Captives. Books Are Magic, 7:30 p.m., free.
Siobhan Adcock presents The Completionist with Amy Shearn. Powerhouse Arena, 7 p.m., free.
Winnie M. Li present the debut novel Dark Chapter, now out in paperback. WORD – Jersey City, 7:30 p.m., $5.
Karensa Cadenas, Kim Kelly, and Gaby Del Valle roast “great” literary men—Nic Pizzolatto, Ernest Hemingway, and Tao Lin. Housing Works, 7 p.m., free.
Terese Marie Mailhot and Angela Flournoy discuss the weight of history. The Greene Space, 7 p.m., $15.
Thursday 6/21: Dana Schwartz presents her memoir Choose Your Own Disaster, and talks with Jennifer Wright. Powerhouse Arena, 7 p.m., free.
Mary Kim Arnold, Rosalie Knecht, and Dan Sheehan join the Pete’s Reading Series. Pete’s Candy Store, 7:30 p.m., free.
Jason Koo and Catherine Blauvet discuss Here High Note, High Note. McNally Jackson – Williamsburg, 7 p.m., free.
Evgenia Citkowitz talks with Hilton Als about The Shades. McNally Jackson – SoHo, 7 p.m., free.
Madeline Miller presents Circe. WORD – Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m., $5.
Nick Arvin presents Mad Boy. Community Bookstore, 7 p.m., free.
Jill Magi, Joe Hall, Marty Cain and others read poetry. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free.
Lillian Li discusses Number One Chinese Restaurant with Susan Choi. Books Are Magic, 7:30 p.m., free.
Friday 6/22: Gerta Lee and Allie Jones celebrate the latest issue of No Man’s Land. Books Are Magic, 7 p.m., free.
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