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Join NOW!Saturday 3/11: Carolyn Hembree, Neil Shepard, and Terese Svoboda read poetry. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free. Chris Tysh and Cole Swensen join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 3/12: Joshua Mohr discusses his memoir Sirens with Charles Bock. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m., free.
...moreSpoiler alert: there are no cannibals in Mike Roberts’s new post-9/11 novel Cannibals in Love, but there’s a lot to admire. Over at FSG Originals, Will Chancellor gets granular in conversation with Roberts on the episodic nature of memory, and the ways that terrorism forces a very physical response in its victims, at the same time “trigger[ing] […]
...moreSaturday 10/1: Lit Crawl NYC begins at 6 p.m. and continues in phases. Multiple Locations, 6 p.m., free. Moustafa Bayoumi, Paula Bomer, Joel Hinman, Patricia Park, and Joseph Salvattore join H.I.P. Lit and Epiphany for Lit Crawl NYC. The Vig Bar, 7 p.m., free. Karen Brennan, Nathan McClain, and Kamilah Aisha Moon join Four Way Books […]
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Author Christopher Bollen talks about his sophomore novel, Orient, secrets and privacy, sexual orientation in fiction, and the lost art of the whodunit mystery.
...moreSaturday 7/18: Harlem Book Fair, multiple locations, 11 a.m., free. Shannon Holmes launches Caught Up. Harlem Book Fair / Countee Cullen Library, 4 p.m., free. Sunday 7/19: Angela Flournoy, Leigh Stein, and Jennifer Baker discuss the business of writing. Flournoy’s The Turner House is about a family dealing with the family home in Detroit. Stein’s […]
...moreSunday 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 the Franklin Park Reading Series. Chancellor’s A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall follows an Olympian […]
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David Bowie, Sisyphus, the Filipino diaspora, and Canada’s most prestigious anthology of poetry.
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Debut novelist Will Chancellor talks about successful satire, destroying drafts of A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall to get to the finished version, and the advantages of fiction over competing media.
...moreSaturday 7/12: Emma Straub, Eric Smith, and others cross the river for the Chilltown Literary Festival in Jersey City. Downtown Jersey City, 11 a.m., free. Monday 7/14: Emma Straub, Tiphanie Yanique, Courtney Maum, Boris Fishman, and Aaron Burch join the Franklin Park Reading Series. Straub’s latest novel, The Vacationers, is about a two-week trip shared between […]
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