New York City
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Notable NYC: 7/11–7/17
Sunday 7/12: Claudia Cortese, Alice B. Fogel, Chris Slaughter, and Jason Takayuki Ueda join the Cross Poetry series. WORD Jersey City, 5:30 p.m., free. Monday 7/13: Will Chancellor, Megan Mayhew Bergman, Karolina Waclawiak, J. Robert Lennon, and Mira Jacob join…
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Notable NYC: 6/27–7/3
Saturday 6/27: Alex Bedder, Julia Fierro, Bobby Finger, Haley Mlotek, Alanna Okun, Lauren Oyler, and Pilot Viruet join the Difficult to Name Reading Series. Brit Pack, 6 p.m., free. Monday 6/29: Joshua Cohen reads his newest epic A Book of…
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Another Order
In an essay reprinted over at Longreads, Alexander Chee looks back on finishing his MFA, moving back to New York, and the interiority of class that cater-waitering allowed him to peek into: In 1997, I began working as a waiter…
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Notable NYC: 6/13–6/19
Saturday 6/13: Norte Maar reads Tobacco Hour. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free. Newtown Literary celebrate the launch of Issue 6. Queens Council on the Arts, 7 p.m., free. Erika Swyler, Ted Thompson, and Sarah Gerard join the H.I.P. Lit series along…
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Notable NYC: 6/6–6/12
Saturday 6/6: Amy Elizabeth Bishop, Sarah Jean Grimm, Ashleigh Lambert, Nina Puro, and Chelsea Werner-Jatzke celebrate the latest issue of H-NGM-N. Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free. Sunday 6/7: Bill Roorbach and Heidi Pitlor discuss their new novels with…
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Conversations with Literary Ex-Cons: Jack Gantos
Jack Gantos discusses the sense of “delusional invincibility” he had in 1970s New York that led him to prison—and then on to a career as an award-winning children’s book author.
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Notable NYC: 5/30–6/5
Saturday 5/30: Roxane Gay reads and takes questions. Astoria Bookshop, 7 p.m., tickets required. Tisa Bryant and Divya Victor join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Jerry Stahl talks with Lydia Black about Old Guy Dad, a collection…
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Notable NYC: 5/23–5/29
Saturday 5/23: Shiv Kotecha, Diana Hamilton, Mark Francis Johnson, and Danny Snelson celebrate the release of Kotecha’s collection EXTRIGUE. B.H.Q.F.U, 7 p.m., free. Elana Dykewomon and Irena Klepfisz celebrate the release of What Can I Ask, new and selected poems…
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Vivian Gornick Does Not Like Your MFA
Jessica Gross interviewed Vivian Gornick for Longreads and they talked money, death, sex, MFAs, and other things that bore Gornick: It’s meaningless to me. I found, as the years went on, I was very lucky not to have a bourgeois bone in…
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Notable NYC: 5/9–5/15
Saturday 5/9: Lewis Freedman and Alli Warren join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 5/10: Anne Enright launches The Green Road. McNally Jackson, 7 p.m., free. Morgan Parker, Ryan Britt, Britt Gambino, Emily Yoon, Karolina Manko, and…
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NYPL as Budget Hostage
A scathing indictment from Jim Dwyer at the New York Times this week accuses city leaders of depriving funding from the library system, and its mayors of holding the NYPL hostage for leverage in budget negotiations. As Dwyer points out,…
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Strolling Through New York
Nathaniel Rich breaks down New York’s reputation, and literary history, as the greatest walking city for NYT Magazine: Yet the idea of New York as a walker’s paradise—a city best, and only authentically, grasped by sauntering through it—has persisted. Much of the great…