No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America Thursday, August 2 at the Brooklyn Historical Society, 6:30-8:00 p.m. Darnell Moore,…
Four Readings: Margo Jefferson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Americans in Revolt
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: 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…
4 Readings: Coming of Age in Turbulent Egypt, Sustainable Fashion, and Dogs
TUESDAY Nadja Spiegelman presents I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This in conversation with Molly Fischer August 2, 7:30pm at Greenlight Bookstore, 686 Fulton…
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…
David Bowie Loved Stopping into Strand Bookstore, ‘Incognito and Alone’
You may have seen David Bowie’s list of 100 favorite books floating around today. But where did he go to buy them? In 2003, he…
Talks and Readings: Manspreading Maven, Fierce Fat Girls and More
TUESDAY For those who only discovered (and promptly binge-watched) the show just a few years ago on Netflix, it’s a little weird to think the…
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)…
Hot Photos: Local Documentarians Talk Arson and Swingers Clubs
A couple of photographers who’ve been featured in these pages (both of whom happen to have had shows at Bizarre Bar’s Black Box gallery in…