Notable New York
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Notable NYC: 8/13–8/19
Saturday 8/13: Jersey City celebrates books with the Chilltown Literary Festival. WORD Jersey City and FJB Comics, 11 a.m., free. Sunday 8/14: K.T. Billey, Bruna Dantas Lobato, and Stephen Langlois join the Sundays At Erv’s Reading series. Erv’s, 6 p.m.,…
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Notable NYC: 8/6–8/12
Sunday 8/7: Queens Book Festival. Kaufman Astoria Studios, 11 a.m., free. Sarah Jean Grimm, Camonghne Felix, and Chelsea Hodson celebrate Zoe Dzunko’s chapbook launch, Selfless. LA Sala, 7 p.m., free. Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, Desiree Bailey, Courtney Lamar Charleston, Nabila Lovelace, Nicholas…
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Notable NYC: 7/30–8/5
Saturday 7/30: New York City Poetry Festival. Governor’s Island, 11 a.m., free. Sunday 7/31: New York City Poetry Festival. Governor’s Island, 11 a.m., free. Christopher “Loma” Soto, Shira Elrichman, and Thomas Fucaloro join Brooklyn Poets for the NYC Poetry Festival.…
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Notable NYC: 7/23–7/29
Monday 7/25: Jessica Winters discusses Break in Case of Emergency with Ed Park. Pier 1 Brooklyn Bridge Park, 7 p.m., free. Susan Daitch discusses The Lost Civilization of Solucidir with Emily Barton. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m., free. Jennifer Close…
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Notable NYC: 7/16–7/22
Monday 7/18: Elisha Cooper presents Falling: A Daughter, a Father, and a Journey Back, in conversation with Leslie Jamison. Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30 p.m., free. Delia Ephron and Oliver Burkeman discuss Siracusa, Ephron’s new novel. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free. Tuesday 7/19:…
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Notable NYC: 7/9–7/15
Sunday 7/10: David Tomas Martinez, Sassafras Lowrey, and Kendra Eash join The Hustle, a series about habits of writers supporting their work. WORD Brooklyn, 2 p.m., free. Christine Reilly, Jenna Carindale, Derick Dupre, and Joseph Ponce join Sunday’s at Erv’s,…
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Notable NYC: 7/2–7/8
Monday 7/4: Macy’s launches fireworks in the East River. East River, 8 p.m., free. Tuesday 7/5: Patrick Flanery and Charlotte Rogan discuss Flanery’s new book I Am No One. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free. Wednesday 7/6: Jesse Ball talks with Isaac…
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Notable NYC: 6/25–7/1
Monday 6/27: Meg Guroff reads from The Mechanical Horse, an examination of the bicycle’s impact on american life. Guroff is joined by Mark Crispin Miller to discuss the book. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m., free. Emma Cline presents The Girls.…
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Notable NYC: 6/18–6/24
Saturday 6/18: Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus discuss So Close. BookCourt, 4 p.m., free. Sarah-Jane Stratford launches Radio Girls and discusses it with Allison Amend. KGB, 7 p.m., free. Sunday 6/19: Esmé Weijun Wang talks discusses her new novel The…
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Notable NYC: 6/11–6/17
Saturday 6/11: Niina Pollari hosts Popsickle 7, a celebration of Brooklyn’s literary readings and presses. Multiple coordinators and editors present readers during a full day of readings. Throne Watches, 41-43 Wythe Ave, 1 p.m. to 9 p.m., free. Jessica Valenti…
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Notable NYC: 6/4–6/10
Saturday 6/4: Marian Fontana, Ariel Stess, Kathleen Donohoe, and Amy Sohn join the Brooklyn Writers Space reading series. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free. Cat Fitzpatrick, Merritt Kopas, Allison Parrish, Thel Seraphim, Charles Theonia, and Paco Salas Pérez celebrate an evening of…
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Notable NYC: 5/28–6/3
Saturday 5/28: Mike Edison reads You Are a Complete Disappointment, a memoir of his triumphant failures. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free. Bhanu Kapil and Melissa Buzzeo join the Segue series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Candice Lee, Sam Trombly, Karolena Theresa,…