Saturday 10/27: Jos Charles and Simone White join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5.
Sunday 10/28: Thomas Page McBee presents Amateur. BookCulture – 112th Street, 3 p.m., free.
Monday 10/29: Steven Sher and Yehoshua November join the Money Night Poetry series. KGB Bar, 7 p.m., free.
Giorgio Van Straten chats with André Aciman about In Search of Lost Books. McNally Jackson – SoHo, 7 p.m., free.
Kiese Laymon presents Heavy: An American Memoir. The Strand, 7:30 p.m., $15.
Tuesday 10/30: Ron Howell presents Boss Black Brooklyn: The Life and Times of Bertram L. Baker along with Jim Harney. Greenlight – Lefferts Gardens, 7:30 p.m., free.
Abbi Jacobson presents I Might Regret This. The Strand, 8 p.m., $15.
Joseph Fink talks with Jessica Shaw about Alice Isn’t Dead. Books Are Magic, 7:30 p.m., free.
Kiese Laymon talks with Morgan Jerkins about Heavy: An American Memoir. Brooklyn Public Library 7:30 p.m., free with reservation.
Beth Wilkinson launches Lindsay Magazine issue two. McNally Jackson – Williamsburg, 7 p.m., free.
Wednesday 10/31: Tori Telfer and Allison Huntington-Chase present an evening of ghost stories and spooky trivia. WORD – Jersey City, 7 p.m., $5.
Jacob M. Appel, Laura Catherine Brown, and Brian Leung joins Guerrilla Lit Reading Series. Guerrilla Lit Reading Series, 7:30 p.m., free.
Thursday 11/1: Kristin Chang, Idra Novey, and Jenny Xie join The Rumpus for a special edition of the Rally Reading series. Pete’s Candy Store, 7 p.m., free.
Maxine Gordon presents Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon with Darryl Pickney. Greenlight – Lefferts Gardens, 7:30 p.m., free.
Sayaka Murata presents Convenience Store Woman. McNally Jackson – Williamsburg, 7 p.m., free.
Cristine Brache launches Poems. Codex, 7:30 p.m., free.
Jamel Brinkley joins the Walt Whitman Writers Series. St. Francis College, 4:30 p.m., free.
Jane Dickson and Jennifer Kabat discuss Jane Dickson in Times Square. McNally Jackon – SoHo, 7 p.m., free.
L.A. Kauffman, Murad Awadeh, and Leslie Cagan discuss How to Read a Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance. Greenlight – Fort Greene, 7:30 p.m., free.
Friday 11/2: Marina Blitshteyn presents Two Hunters. Powerhouse Arena, 7 p.m., free.
Monica Ferrell, Kate Colby, Tom Thompson, and others read poetry. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free.
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