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Notable New York: 07/29-08/04
MONDAY 07.29 Join the Mystery Writers of America for a reading featuring Annamaria Alfieri, Kevin Egan, Clare Toohey, Kate Lincoln, Susan Olsen, Cathi Stoler and Sheila York. KGB Bar, 7pm, free. TUESDAY 07.30 Birds, LLC hosts a reading featuring Dan…
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LARB vs. NYRB
The East Coast and the West Coast have had their spats, but in the end, our respective lit scenes form one big, happy, bicoastal family, right? Right?! That might not seem like the case if you’re following the events outlined…
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Notable New York: 07/22-07/28
MONDAY 07.22 The 92nd St. Y presents two literary heavyweights on Monday. Martin Amis and Ian McEwan will talk about their friendship, careers, and respective work. The event will be introduced by Salman Rushdie. Kaufman Concert Hall, 8pm, $32+. PowerHouse…
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The 3rd Annual New York Poetry Festival Is Coming
The Poetry Society of New York’s 3rd Annual New York Poetry Festival is coming up on July 27 and 28 on Governors Island. The festival has become a highlight of the New York lit-o-sphere in the summer. A short ferry…
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New York through Jack Kerouac’s Eyes
Maria Popova from Brain Pickings takes a look at a chapter titled “New York Scenes” from Kerouac’s 1960 book, Lonesome Traveler. According to Popova, the chapter is “a kind of narrative emotional cartography of Manhattan, woven of fascinating sketches of Gotham’s vibrant…
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Notable New York: 06/17-06/23
Tuesday 06/18: The Bushwick Book Club does Mapping Manhattan: A Love (and Sometimes Hate) Story in Maps by 75 New Yorkers. If you haven’t seen this series where musicians reinterpret books in musical form, it’s time to correct that problem.…
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Notable New York: 5/27-6/2
Monday 05/27: It’s Memorial Day, go outside, eat a burger — vegetable or cow — off a grill, and read a book in a park. Tuesday 05/28: Rare Bird and Other Voices present the PROG NYC BEA Party with music…
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A Brief History of Swans
We frighten away boyfriends, lovers, strangers, and we do not mind, because we are together: together, we are glorious.
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Notable New York: 5/20-5/26
Monday 05/20: The Belladonna* Collective’s Hot Texts series continues with readings from Lauren Hunter, Samantha Zighelboim, Allison Power, and Christine Kanownik. The Way Station, 6:30pm, $5 suggested donation. The Poetry Project hosts Ross Gay and Lauren Shufran. St. Mark’s Church,…
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Notable New York: 5/13-5/19
Monday 05/13: Emily Books presents “What is the Queer Novel?” featuring a reading and discussion with Sarah Schulman and Barbara Browning. Housing Works Bookstore, 7pm, free. The Franklin Park Reading Series welcomes a killer line-up featuring The Rumpus’ Roxane Gay,…
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Notable New York: 5/6-5/12
Monday 05/06: Ben Greenman heads to the Franklin Park Reading Series to celebrate the release of his new novel The Slippage along with Sam Lipsyte, Toure, Claire Vaye Watkins, and Amelia Gray. The first fifty people at the reading get…
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Notable New York: 4/29-5/5
Monday 04/29: The PEN World Voices Festival is celebrating its ninth year and kicks off tonight with a reading titled Bravery. Hosted by comedian and author Baratunde Thurston, the reading will feature readings from “Najwan Darwish, ‘one of the 39…