When Quimby’s opened up a few weeks back just off the Metropolitan stop, Williamsburg gained another hip little bookstore in an area where it sometimes feels like…
Before the Puerto Rican Poets, There Was the Polish Violinist
This week, we present a series of longer pieces unraveling the histories of storied buildings. The entrance to the Nuyorican Poets Café dissolves into a…
Four Readings: Alt-Comedy Collective to Tear Up the Strand + Actor Winos, Winot?
TUESDAY Hyperallergic IRL 2 August 16, 7 pm at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, The super stylish Hyperallergic, the online magazine for all your arts-and-culture-related thinkpiece…
Four Readings: Divine Microbial Power and Bad Women Mouthing Off
TUESDAY James Andrew Miller in Conversation with Andrew Ross Sorkin and David O’Connor August 9, 7 pm at Barnes and Noble-Union Square With his new…
Watch the JT LeRoy Doc on a Roof and Try Not to Get Blown Away
As ’90s “it” author JT Leroy once put it in a book title, the heart is deceitful above all things. But not as deceitful as…
Howl’Ya Honor Ginsberg? By Going to This Beat Poetry Fest
If Allen Ginsberg were still croaking around today, he would’ve just celebrated his 90th birthday. I can see it now– the old man and his expansive beard,…
Mellow Pages Is Closing the Book on its Bushwick Library
On Tuesday, Matt Nelson and Jacob Perkins, founders of Bushwick independent library and reading room Mellow Pages, announced on Facebook that their literary hangout, in its current form…
The Brooklyn Book Fest Is Set to Be a Stunner
Great news! Brooklyn Book Fest has now updated its website to include a comprehensive event calendar for the imminent 2014 fest, which means we at…
A Big Egg, Big Bees, and Even Bigger Data
All subjects you can contemplate at this week’s thrilling selection of readings and talks. Friday, September 5 We, The Outsiders Opening Reception We, The Outsiders is…
Partake in Literature and Libations at Lit Crawl Manhattan and Brooklyn Book Fest
If your dream evening revolves around a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon and a Pynchon novel—or your idea of getting ruckus involves regaling amigos with Ginsberg-ian incantations after a couple…