Michael Eric Dyson + Shaun King + Harry Belafonte Monday, June 4 at The New School, 7 pm to 8 pm. Michael Eric Dyson joins…
Catch Kathleen Hanna in Conversation With Meredith Graves of Perfect Pussy
If you’ve seen the 2013 documentary The Punk Singer, you know Kathleen Hanna was stuck out at sea for a long time when she was creatively paralyzed and…
4 Readings: Whingeing About Work, Surveying the Surveillance State, and More
WEDNESDAY Dave Isay presents Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work May 4 at 7:30 p.m. at Greenlight Bookstore, 686 Fulton Street. Feeling unmotivated at…
4 Talks and Readings: Well-Read Black Girl, Future of Whiteness, and More
TUESDAY Bonnie McFarlane + Jim Gaffigan Feb. 23 at 7:00 p.m at The Strand, 828 Broadway Bonnie McFarlane has made a career out of opening…
4 Talks and Readings Not to Miss This Week
TUESDAY The Narrow Door with Paul Lisicky, Fiona McCrae and Meghan Daum Feb. 16 at 7 p.m. at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, 126 Crosby Street…
Five Crazy Things I Learned at the Occult Humanities Conference
Last weekend marked a victory for goths, Tarot freaks, and magic nerds everywhere as the second annual Occult Humanities Conference convened at NYU for a…
Talks + Readings: Scam Artists, Music Meccas, and Steve Jobs-O-Rama
The Confidence Game Tuesday, January 19 at 7:00 p.m. at The Strand, 828 Broadway New Yorker columnist Maria Konnikova is in her element with a deep dive…
Talks + Readings: A Cocaine-Sprinkled Outbreak and Post-Poetry Grinding
Argos Books Five Year Anniversary Celebration Friday Nov. 20th, 7 pm at Wendy’s Subway, 722 Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg Yassss to readings with a cause…
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…
Megan Abbot + Chelsea Cain
Who says girls can’t be crime writers? Well, no one actually, because that’s clearly not a valid argument. But just in case some loser out…