Notable NYC: 9/22–9/28
Saturday 9/22: Boog City 12 Arts Festival. Unnameable Books, 1:30 p.m.–8 p.m., $5 suggested.
Sarah E. Brook’s Viewfinding serves as the backdrop for poetry readings. Riverside Park, 2 p.m., free.
Sunday 9/23: Jenny Xie, Nicole Haroutunian, Elaine Chou, Emily James, and Karisma Price join host Alisson Wood for the Pigeon Pages reading series, in support of RAICES. Powerhouse Arena, 5 p.m., free.
Boog City 12 Arts Festival. Sidewalk Cafe Ave A, 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., $5 suggested.
Sergio de la Pava, Nicola Maybe Goldberg, Tania Pabon, Andy Powell, Michael Lee Bible, and Michelle Lyn King join the Dead Rabbits reading series and support RAICES. DTUT, 8 p.m., free.
Monday 9/24: Boog City 12 Arts Festival. Unnameable Books, 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., $5 suggested.
Darnell L. Moore talks with Brian Vines about No Ashes in the Fire. McNally Jackson – SoHo, 7 p.m., free.
Jodi Angel, Lesley Nneka Arimah, and Alexandra Kleeman join PEN America and Catapult for Best Debut Short Stories 2018. Housing Works, 7 p.m., free.
David Lehman and Major Jackson join KGB’s Monday Night Poetry series. KGB, 7 p.m., free.
Genevieve Hudson presents story collection Pretend We Live Here along with T Kira Madden, Alisson Wood, and others. Powerhouse Arena, 7 p.m., free.
Tuesday 9/25: Boog City 12 Arts Festival. Sidewalk Cafe Ave A, 5:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m., $5 suggested.
Hamja Ahsan and Aviva Stahl discuss Shy Radicals. Wendy’s Subway, 7 p.m., free.
Anne Donahue and Gabrielle Paiella discuss Nobody Cares. WORD – Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m., $5.
Elliot Ackerman presents Waiting for Eden and Lea Carpenter presents Red White Blue. Books Are Magic, 7:30 p.m., free.
Ben Fountain and Malcolm Gladwell discuss Beautiful Country Burn Again. St. Francis College, 7 p.m., $30.
Asiya Wadud talks with Celina Su about Crosslight for Youngbird. McNally Jackson – SoHo, 7 p.m., free.
William Powers presents Dispatches from the Sweet Life. McNally Jackson – SoHo, 7 p.m., free.
David Auerbach and Marco Roth discuss Bitwise. McNally Jackson – Williamsburg, 7 p.m., free.
Wednesday 9/26: Sy Montgomery presents How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals, with Eliot Schrefer. Greenlight – Fort Greene, 7:30 p.m., free.
Khaholi Bailey, Alibi Jones, Monica Lewis, Carly Joy Miller, and Karisma Price join Flapperhouse for reading 25. Pacific Standard, 7 p.m., free.
June Eric-Udorie, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Mariya Karimjee, Charlotte Shane, and Gabrielle Bellot host a panel: Can We All be Feminists? Books Are Magic, 7:30 p.m., free.
Neal Bascomb presents The Escape Artists. McNally Jackson – SoHo, 7 p.m., free.
Olga Tokarczuk presents Flights with Hermione Hoby and Jennifer Croft. Community Bookstore, 7 p.m., free.
Karl Ove Knausgaard and Maggie Nelson join the Murmrr Lit series. Murmrr, 7 p.m., $25.
Sisonke Msimang presents Always Another Country. BookCulture – Columbus Ave, 7 p.m., free.
Tanya Marquardt and Wei Tchou discuss Stray: Memoir of a Runaway. Powerhouse Arena, 7 p.m., free.
Brian Dillon presents Essayism. McNally Jackson – Williamsburg, 7 p.m., free.
Scott Hess, Amy Remland, Michael Wold, Colin O’Brien, Bill Keys, and Erwin de Leon along with musicians Charlie Rauh, Lyndsey Anderson, and Ben Lewis join Lyrics, Lit & Liquor. 2A, 7:30 p.m., free.
Julie Buntin, Tyle Wetherall, and Susan Buttenwieser join the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series. Dixon Place, 7:30 p.m., free.
Thursday 9/27: Deborah Eisenberg presents Your Duck Is My Duck. 192 Books, 7 p.m., free.
Kat Gardiner, Roberta Allen, and others read microfiction. Warby Parker – Brooklyn, 7 p.m., free.
KC Trommer, Sam J. Miller, Nancy Hightower, Edwin Torres, and Herman Beavers along with editors Stephanie Feldman and Nathaniel Popkin celebrate the launch of Who Will Speak for America?. Powerhouse Arena, 7 p.m., free.
Edward S. Casey discusses The World on Edge with Wayne Proudfoot. BookCulture 112th, 7 p.m., free.
Ben Marcus talks with Rivka Galchen about Notes from the Fog. Greenlight – Fort Greene, 7:30 p.m., free.
Leah Umansky, Beth Dufford, Nathan McClain, and Ben Purkert celebrate Umansky’s poetry collection The Barbarous Century. McNally Jackson – SoHo, 7 p.m., free.
Sam Munson presents Dog Symphony and talks with Jacob Siegel of Tablet Magazine. McNally Jackson – Williamsburg, 7 p.m., free.
Nathan Englander presents Dinner at the Center of the Earth. WORD – Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m., $5.
Alice Mattison talks with Rebecca Chace discuss Conscience. Community Bookstore, 7 p.m., free.
Eugene Thacker and Leila Taylor celebrate the launch of Infinite Resignation. Spoonbill & Sugartown – Montrose Ave, 7 p.m., free.
Meg Wolitzer talks with Darin Strauss. NYU Creative Writing House, 7 p.m., free.
Friday 9/28: Cecilia Vicuña and translators Rosa Alcalá, Eliot Weinberger, Christopher Leland Winks, James O’Hern, and Anne Twitty read and discuss New and Selected Poems. McNally Jackson – SoHo, 7 p.m., free.
Maris Kreizman, Danielle Lazarin, and Idra Novey celebrate the 150th Anniversary of Little Women. Books Are Magic, 7:30 p.m., free.
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