TUESDAY Margo Jefferson and Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah August 23, 7pm at Strand Bookstore, 828 Broadway at 12th Street. Margo Jefferson’s acclaimed memoir Negroland, which The New…
Four Readings: This Month’s Prose Bowl, Sarah Anderson’s Webcomics Come to Print, and a Road Trip Gone Wrong
TUESDAY The Prose Bowl XII July 19, 6:30pm at Pete’s Candy Store, 709 Lorimer Street at Richardson Street, Williamsburg. The Prose Bowl (billed as “one…
4 Talks: The Rolling Stones, The Science of FB Likes, and Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam
TUESDAY Book Launch: Rich Cohen’s The Sun and the Moon and the Rolling Stones May 10 at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, 126 Crosby Street Rich…
Men With Cats, and 3 More Talks and Readings Not to Miss This Week
TUESDAY Kia Corthron + Robin D. G. Kelley Feb. 9 at 7:00 p.m. at The Strand, 828 Broadway Kia Corthron, playwright and writer for The…
Talks + Readings: Elvis Costello, Humans of New York, and The Game Guy
TUESDAY Elvis Costello Tuesday, Oct. 13, at 7 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 33 East 17th Street (Union Square). Hear the story of little Declan Patrick MacManus…
This Year’s Lit Crawl: Less Crawling, Still Plenty of Drinking and Thinking
At first glance, PEN America’s Lit Crawl 2015 might look like a family-friendly affair, with innocuous activities like face painting and board games. But take…
Talks and Readings: Boy Cyclops, ‘Coolest Female Poet,’ and Rise of the Robots
Tuesday Rachel B. Glaser’s debut novel Paulina & Fran is celebrating its launch with readings from the author and special guests Leopoldine Core (Veronica Bench)…
Talks + Readings: Reformed Hoarder, Beautiful Bureaucrat, and a New BK Lit Rag
TUESDAY The state of Barry Yourgrau’s Queens apartment had gotten pretty bad at the time his girlfriend unexpectedly dropped in because she had locked herself out…
Talks and Readings: Cards Against Humanity, Video Games, and TV Writers
WEDNESDAY Meet the faces behind some of your favorite TV shows at Real Characters, a regular series hosted by Andy Ross (contributor to The Onion…
Talks and Readings: Historic Greenpoint, Multiculti Confessions, and More
TUESDAY Almost Famous, except about a girl. And set in the ’90s. And British. How to Build a Girl, described by the New York Times’ Dwight Garner…