Notable NYC: 11/24–11/30

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Saturday 11/24: Penny Arcade, Lonely Christopher, and John Istona join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5.

Monday 11/26: Vi Khi Nao and Alicia Jo Rabins joins the Poetry Project. Poetry Project, 8 p.m., $8.

Alice Robb presents Why We Dream. McNally Jackson – Williamsburg, 7 p.m., free.

Sabrina Imbler, Nina Sharma, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, and Nick Flynn join host Lilly Dancyger for Memoir Monday, a first-person narrative series collaboration from Narratively, Catapult, Tin House, The Rumpus, Granta, Guernica, and Longreads. Powerhouse Arena, 7 p.m., free.

Tuesday 11/27: Sohaila Abdulali presents What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape and talks with Tina Rosenberg. McNally Jackson – SoHo, 7 p.m., free.

Amelia Bonow presents Shout Your Abortion, with Jessica Valenti. Books Are Magic, 7:30 p.m., free.

Wednesday 11/28: Sarah Meuleman presents Find Me Gone, with Aimee Molloy. WORD Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m., $5.

Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, SJ Rozan, and Levis Keltner join the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series. 161 Chrystie, 7:30 p.m., free.

Matthew Pressman presents On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News. BookCulture – 112th, 7 p.m., free.

Between Two Worlds: Cheryl Pearl Sucher talks with Helen Schulman about Come with Me. McNally Jackson – SoHo, 7 p.m., free.

Timothy Denevi presents Freak Kingdom and talks with Jonny Diamond and Margaret A. Harrell. McNally Jackson – Williamsburg, 7 p.m., free.

Naomi Claire Wallace presents Shakespeare’s Ripper. Community Bookstore, 7 p.m., free.

Amanda Golden, Kathy Ossip, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, and Deirdre Coyle celebrate This Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free.

Thursday 11/29: Margo Jefferson and Nana Adusei-Poku celebrates the latest issue of The White Review. Community Bookstore, 7 p.m., free.

Charles Bernstein talks with Peter Straub about Near/Miss. Books Are Magic, 7:30 p.m., free.

Charles Theonia presents Which One Is the Bridge. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free.

Jonathan Larson, Emma Ramadan, and Elizabeth Zuba present books newly translated from the French. McNally Jackson – SoHo, 7 p.m., free.

Friday 11/30: Susan Orlean, Susannah Cahalan, Ada Calhoun, and Karen Abbott discuss The Library Book. Books Are Magic, 7:30 p.m., free.

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Ian MacAllen is the author of Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American (Rowman & Littlefield, April 2022). His writing has appeared in Chicago Review of Books, Southern Review of Books, The Offing, 45th Parallel Magazine, Little Fiction, Vol 1. Brooklyn, and elsewhere. He tweets @IanMacAllen and is online at IanMacAllen.com. More from this author →