Notable NYC: 2/16–2/22
Saturday 2/16: Holly Goldberg talks with Meg Wolitzer about To Night Owl from Dogfish. Books Are Magic, 2 p.m., free.
CAConrad and Jack Halberstam join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5.
Monday 2/18: Guy Hocquenghem presents The Amphitheater of the Dead along with Max Fox and Wayne Koestenbaum. McNally Jackson – SoHo, 7 p.m., free.
Esmé Weijun Wang discusses The Collected Schizophrenias with Lisa Ko. McNally Jackson – SoHo, 7 p.m., free.
Nancy Pop hosts the In Cold Read series. Spoonbill & Sugartown, 7 p.m., free.
Sándor Jászberényi and Sherine Tadros discuss The Most Beautiful Night of the Soul. McNally Jackson – Williamsburg, 7 p.m., free.
Brenda Shaughnessy, Meghann Plunkett, and Willa Carroll join the Monday Night Poetry series. KGB Bar, 7 p.m., free.
Krystal Sital, Jeanna Kadlec, Danny Rafinejad, and Briallen Hopper join Narratively, The Rumpus, Guernica, Catapult, Tin House, Longreads, and Granta for the latest Memoir Monday, a monthly celebration of creative nonfiction. Powerhouse Arena, 7 p.m., free.
Tuesday 2/19: Lizzy Mason presents The Art of Losing and talks about the novel with Bustle editor Cristinia Arreola. McNally Jackson – SoHo, 7 p.m., free.
Victor LaValle presents A People’s Future of the United States with Victory Matsui. Greenlight – Fort Greene, 7:30 p.m., free.
Landmarks Preservation Commission considers whether the city should landmark The Strand bookstore. 1 Center Street, 9:30 a.m., free.
Esmé Weijun Wang talks with Alice Sola Kim about The Collected Schizophrenias. Books Are Magic, 7:30 p.m., free.
Wednesday 2/20: Tracy O’Neill, Alexandra Kleeman, Rosebud Ben-Oni, and Rachel Riederer join Guernica Live for The Personal Is Political. Housing Works, 7 p.m., free.
Poets Dan Poppick and Steffi Drewes and essayists Briallen Hopper and Leslie James, join the Ditmas Lit reading series. Hinterlands, 8 p.m., free.
Amit Chaudhuri and James Wood discuss Friend of My Youth. Center for Fiction – Brooklyn, 7 p.m., free.
Devi S. Laskar and Vanessa Mártir discuss The Atlas of Reds and Blues. McNally Jackson – SoHo, 7 p.m., free.
Dorianne Laux talks with Leila Chatti about Only As the Day Is Long. McNally Jackson – Williamsburg, 7 p.m., free.
Christopher Castellani talks with Emma Straub about Leading Men. Books Are Magic, 7:30 p.m., free.
The Cornelius Eady Trio and Leonard Schwartz join the Poetry Project reading series. Poetry Project, 8 p.m., $8.
Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman presents Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir, and talks with Michelle Legro. Greenlight – Fort Greene, 7:30 p.m., free.
Thursday 2/21: Eva Hagberg Fisher and Laura June join the Pete’s Reading Series. Pete’s Candy Store, 7:30 p.m., free.
Erin Hosier discusses her memoir, Don’t Let Me Down, with Tanya Marquardt. Books Are Magic, 7:30 p.m., free.
PEN Out Loud presents Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah talking with Isaac Fitzgerald about Friday Black. The Strand, 7 p.m., $15.
Tosh Berman presents Tosh along with Gillian McCain. McNally Jackson – Williamsburg, 7 p.m., free.
Pitchaya Sudbanthad presents Bangkok Wakes to Rain and talks with Ted Thompson. Community Bookstore, 7 p.m., free.
Emmanuel Iduma, Chiké Frankie Edozien, and Sandra Uwiringiyimana discuss memoir and the interpretation of experience. WORD – Brooklyn, 7 p.m., $5.
Valeria Luiselli talks with Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts about Lost Children Archive. Greenlight – Fort Greene, 7:30 p.m., free.
Friday 2/22: Valerie Hsiung and Sahar Muradi join the Poetry Project reading series. Poetry Project, 8 p.m., $8.
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