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Thursday June 10 2010, 7:00 PM to Saturday June 10 2919, 10:00 PM      Word Thursdays - Sherry Robbins and Dan Wilcox Bright Hill Literary Center Bertha Rogers 94 Church Street Treadwell, NY 607-829-5055 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

SHERRY ROBBINS, POET, Amherst, NY OPEN MIC + FEATURED POETS! Sherry Robbins is a poet, teaching artist, and free-lance writer. She has conducted creative writing workshops throughout New York Stat... [details »]

Saturday September 4 2010, 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM   Brownstone Poets Patricia Carragon Patricia Carragon Park Plaza Restaurant at 220 Cadman Plaza West Brooklyn, NY 917-679-5002 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights The Brownstone Poets presents: GEORGE DICKERSON RICHARD LEVINE CARL ROSENSTOCK Saturday, September 4 at 2:30 p.m. Park Plaza Restaurant 220 Cadman P... [details »]

Thursday September 9 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays - Paul Hamill and Shirley Powell Bright Hill Literary Center Bertha Rogers 94 Church Street Treadwell, NY 607-829-5055 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Paul Hamill has published poetry in many journals including Georgia Review, Southern Review, Cortland Review, Seneca Review and Stone Canoe. His most recent collections are chapbooks: Winter Mild (Pud... [details »]

Friday September 10 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Reading NYU Creative Writing Program April Naoko Heck Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street New York City, NY 212-998-8816 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Novelist and NYU faculty member Darin Strauss reads from his new memoir, "Half a Life" (McSweeney’s Books, 2010).... [details »]

Monday September 13 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Brownstone Poets Patricia Carragon Patricia Carragon BookCourt @ 163 Court Street Brooklyn, NY 917 679 5002 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

The Brownstone Poets 2010 Anthology Reading will be held at BookCourt Monday, September 13 at 7 P.M. Limited Open Mic - Free Admission BookCourt 163 Court Street Cobble Hill, Brookly... [details »]

Thursday September 16 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Reading: Jonathan Safran Foer NYU Creative Writing Program April Naoko Heck Rosenthal Pavilion NYU Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South New York City, NY 212-998-8816 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Jonathan Safran Foer’s most recent book is "Eating Animals," newly published in paperback (Back Bay Books, 2010). Foer is Collegiate Professor and Lillian Vernon Distinguished Writer-in-Residence in t... [details »]

Tuesday September 21 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Brownstone Poets Patricia Carragon Patricia Carragon Tillies of Brooklyn 248 Dekalb Ave. Brooklyn, NY 917 679 5002 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Poetry Grows in Ft. Greene The Brownstone Poets presents: JANICE BRABAW KAT GEORGES Tuesday, September 21 at Tillies of Brooklyn Starts at 7p.m. – Sign up at 6:45p.m. – We must be o... [details »]

Tuesday September 21 2010, 7:00 PM to Wednesday September 22 2010, 9:30 PM      Gotham Writers' Workshop - Fall Open House Gotham Writers' Workshop Britt 555 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 212-974-8377 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Please join us for one (or two) of our 42 FREE writing classes being held on Tuesday, September 21 from 7:00 to 9:30PM and on Wednesday, September 22 from 11:00AM to 5:00PM and 7:00 to 9:30PM. Lear... [details »]

Wednesday September 22 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays - Bhisham Bherwani & Marilyn McCabe & friends Bright Hill Literary Press Bertha Rogers 94 Church Street Treadwell, NY 607-829-5055 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Bhisham Bherwani studied Fine Arts at New England College. He is also a graduate of New York University at Cornell University, and the recipient of fellowships and scholarships from The Bread Loaf Wri... [details »]

Thursday September 23 2010, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Thalia Kids' Book Club: Zombies vs. Unicorns Symphony Space Aishah Alassan 2537 Broadway (at 95th St.) New York, NY 212-864-5400 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

An all-star line-up of children's book authors debate the question which is better: zombies or unicorns? The editors of the new collection Zombie vs. Unicorns Holly Black (The Spiderwick Chronicles... [details »]

Thursday September 23 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Writers and Editors in Conversation NYU Creative Writing Program April Naoko Heck Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street New York City, NY 212-998-8816 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

French author Jean-Christophe Valtat’s English-language debut, "03: A Novel," was published in June 2010 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. In conversation with FSG editor and translator Mitzi Angel and "T... [details »]

Friday September 24 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   2010 Rona Jaffe Foundation Awards Reading NYU Creative Writing Program April Naoko Heck Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street New York City, NY 212-998-8816 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Featuring Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams, Rachel Aviv, Sara Elizabeth Johnson, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, Laura Newbern, and Tiphanie Yanique. The Rona Jaffe Foundation provides support to women writers i... [details »]

Sunday September 26 2010, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM   Thalia Kids' Book Club: Pseudonymous Bosch's This Isn't What It Symphony Space Aishah Alassan 2537 Broadway (at 95th St) New York, NY 212-864-5400 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

The mysterious author of the New York Times bestselling book The Name of This Book is Secret, as well as the other dangerous and daring adventures in the hugely popular The Secret series makes a rare ... [details »]

Monday September 27 2010, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM   Mary Caponegro reads from All Fall Down (Coffee House, 2009) Calandra Italian American Inst. Rosangela Briscese 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York, NY 212-642-2094 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Mary Caponegro’s experimental fiction blurs the line between fantasy and reality. In these stories of love and healing gone awry, we visit Rome and a marriage therapy retreat, encounter orphans perfor... [details »]

Friday October 1 2010, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM   Panel Presentation: Women in the Literary Arts NYU Creative Writing Program April Naoko Heck Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street New York City, NY 212-998-8816 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Featuring nine founding members of VIDA: poets Erin Belieu, Cate Marvin, Danielle Pafunda, Ann Townsend, and Amy King; fiction writers Susan Steinberg and Cheryl Strayed; children’s author Kekla Magoo... [details »]

Friday October 1 2010, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM   The New Salon: Writers in Conversation--Joshua Ferris NYU Creative Writing Program April Naoko Heck Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street New York City, NY 212-998-8816 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

The paperback edition of Joshua Ferris’s second novel, "The Unnamed," is out recently from Reagan Arthur/Back Bay Books (2010). In conversation with Darin Strauss.... [details »]

Sunday October 3 2010, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM   Thalia Kids' Book Club: Sara Pennypacker and Marla Frazee's Clem Symphony Space Aishah Alassan 2537 Broadway (at 95th St.) New York, NY 212-864-5400 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

The author and illustrator team behind the popular Clementine-a funny, independent third-grader who has taken her place alongside such beloved book characters as Ramona Quimby, Super Fudge and Judy Mo... [details »]

Tuesday October 5 2010, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM   Readings from Avanti Popolo (Manic D Press, 2008) Calandra Italian American Inst. Rosangela Briscese 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York, NY 212-642-2094 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

The Avanti Popolo poetry anthology, edited by the Italian-American Political Solidarity Club, focuses on re-interpreting the glorification of Christopher Columbus in mainstream Italian-American cultur... [details »]

Friday October 8 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Emerging Writers Reading Series: Guest Author--Amy Bloom NYU Creative Writing Program April Naoko Heck KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street New York City, NY 212-998-8816 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

The Emerging Writers Reading Series showcases the student talent of NYU’s graduate Creative Writing Program and features established writers as special guests. Amy Bloom’s most recent book is a collec... [details »]

Wednesday October 13 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Selected Shorts: Richard Russo Presents The Best American Short Symphony Space Aishah Alassan 2537 Broadway (at 95th St.) New York, NY 212-864-5400 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

The Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Empire Falls presents his choices from the premier story collection of the year. $27; Member $23; 30 & Under $15... [details »]

Thursday October 14 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   The New Salon: Poets in Conversation--Monica de la Torre NYU Creative Writing Program April Naoko Heck Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street New York City, NY 212-998-8816 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Translator and poet Monica de la Torre’s second and most recent book of poems is “Public Domain” (Roof Books, 2008). In conversation with Robert N. Casper; co-sponsored with the Poetry Society of Amer... [details »]

Thursday October 14 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays - Michael Jennings and Maxine Susman Bright Hill Literary Center Bertha Rogers 94 Church Street Treadwell, NY 607-829-5055 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Michael Jennings was born in the French Quarter of New Orleans and grew up in east Texas and the deserts of southwestern Iran before graduating from the University of Pennsylvania and the graduate pro... [details »]

Friday October 15 2010, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM   Poetry Reading: Don Paterson NYU Creative Writing Program April Naoko Heck Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street New York City, NY 212-998-8816 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Scottish writer, poet, and editor Don Paterson published “Rain,” his seventh collection of poems, in April 2010 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).... [details »]

Saturday October 16 2010, 10:00 AM to Sunday October 17 2010, 6:00 PM      IWWG's 60th Big Apple Conference Int'l Women's Writing Guild Hannelore Hahn The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South New York, NY (212) 737-7536 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Saturday, October 16 - Sunday, October 17 Saturday, October 16, workshop: Myth and Memoir: What's Mythical About an Ordinary Life?” covering: the elements of memoir writing, mythic themes, readings f... [details »]

Wednesday October 20 2010, 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM   Thalia Book Club: David Rakoff's Half Empty and Sloane Crosley's Symphony Space Aishah Alassan 2537 Broadway (at 95th St.) New York, NY 212-864-5400 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

The whip-smart and funny authors of the essay collections Don't Get Too Comfortable (Rakoff) and I Was Told There'd Be Cake (Crosley) join up to examine our contemporary culture and the many ways lif... [details »]

Thursday October 21 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Cave Canem Poetry Prize Reading: Indigo Moor NYU Creative Writing Program April Naoko Heck Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street New York City, NY 212-998-8816 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Cave Canem celebrates the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize with 2009 winner Indigo Moor as he reads from “Through the Stonecutter’s Window.” Introductory readings by Remica L. Bin... [details »]

Friday October 22 2010, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM   Poetry Reading: Julie Carr, Colin Cheney, and Erika Meitner NYU Creative Writing Program April Naoko Heck Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street New York City, NY 212-998-8816 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

This evening features three winners of the 2009 National Poetry Series Open Competition. Julie Carr’s winning collection is “Sarah—Of Fragments and Lines” (Coffee House Press, 2010), her fourth book o... [details »]

Wednesday October 27 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Selected Shorts: Fairy Tales: Classic and Reimagined, Introduced Symphony Space Aishah Alassan 2537 Broadway (at 95th St.) New York, NY 212-864-5400 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

The author of Wicked introduces stories by contemporary writers from a wonderful new collection, My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, edited by Kate Bernheimer. Imagine the seven dwarves liv... [details »]

Thursday October 28 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Academy of American Poets: Forum Reading NYU Creative Writing Program April Naoko Heck Skirball Center, NYU, 566 LaGuardia Place (Washington Sq. South) New York City, NY 212-998-8816 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Featuring Victor Hernández Cruz, Marilyn Hacker, Lyn Hejinian, Edward Hirsch, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds, Ron Padgett, Marie Ponsot, Carl Phillips, Robert Pinsky, Kay Ryan, Gerald Stern, Susan Stew... [details »]

Thursday October 28 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays - Loyal Miles & Aubryn Nealis Bright Hill Literary Center Bertha Rogers 94 Church Street Treadwell, NY 607-829-5055 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

An itinerant Midwesterner, Loyal Miles is fond of telling folks back home that he likes his Brooklyn neighborhood because it's the one place in New York where he can really see the sky. Loyal has publ... [details »]

Friday October 29 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Reading: Zadie Smith NYU Creative Writing Program April Naoko Heck NYU Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street, Theater 101 New York City, NY 212-998-8816 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Zadie Smith’s most recent book is “Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays” (Penguin, 2010). Smith is a newly appointed senior faculty member in the NYU Creative Writing Program.... [details »]

Friday November 5 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Cave Canem Poetry Prize Reading: Gary Jackson NYU Creative Writing Program April Naoko Heck Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street New York City, NY 212-998-8816 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Gary Jackson reads from his debut collection, “Missing you, Metropolis” (Graywolf Press, 2009), selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Introductory readings by Lillian-Yvon... [details »]

Sunday November 7 2010, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM   Thalia Kids' Book Club: Wendy Mass' The Candymakers Symphony Space Aishah Alassan 2537 Broadway (at 95th St.) New York, NY 212-864-5400 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

The author of the beloved books Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life and A Mango-Shaped Space talks with the 2009 Newbery Award-winner Rebecca Stead (When You Reach Me) about her latest novel-a delecta... [details »]

Sunday November 7 2010, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM   Thalia Kids' Book Club: Wendy Mass' The Candymakers Symphony Space Aishah Alassan 2537 Broadway (at 95th St.) New York, NY 212-864-5400 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

The author of the beloved books Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life and A Mango-Shaped Space talks with the 2009 Newbery Award-winner Rebecca Stead (When You Reach Me) about her latest novel-a delecta... [details »]

Wednesday November 10 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM   Selected Shorts: Roberto Bolano and the Writers He Admired Symphony Space Aishah Alassan 2537 Broadway (at 95th St.) New York, NY 212-864-5400 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

An evening of stories by the late Chilean master (The Savage Detectives, 2666) and writers who inspired him. "Bolaño has proven [literature] can do anything." -Jonathan Lethem Part of Sonidos* ... [details »]

Thursday November 11 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Reading: Junot Díaz NYU Creative Writing Program April Naoko Heck NYU Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street, Theater 101 New York City, NY 212-998-8816 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Junot Díaz joins the NYU Creative Writing Program faculty in fall 2010. He received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.”... [details »]

Thursday November 11 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays - Pamela Strother Bright Hill Literary Center Bertha Rogers 94 Church Street Treadwell, NY 607-829-5055 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Pam Strother has been writing poetry since the first grade. while residing in Key West, FL for more than a decade, she organized poetry programs, readings, and seminars, and was a reader at Robert Fro... [details »]

Friday November 12 2010, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM   Ezra Pound Poetry Reading NYU Creative Writing Program April Naoko Heck Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street New York City, NY 212-998-8816 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Featuring Sam Anderson, Ian MacNiven, Kristin Prevallet, Matthew Rohrer, Richard Sieburth, Rosmarie Waldrop, and Eliot Weinberger. A celebration of Ezra Pound’s 125th birthday and the new publication ... [details »]

Friday November 12 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Emerging Writers Reading Series: Guest Author--Michael Dickman NYU Creative Writing Program April Naoko Heck KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street New York City, NY 212-998-8816 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

The Emerging Writers Reading Series showcases the student talent of NYU’s graduate Creative Writing Program and features established writers as special guests. Michael Dickman’s debut collection is "T... [details »]

Wednesday November 17 2010, 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM   Thalia Book Club: Nicole Krauss' Great House Symphony Space Aishah Alassan 2537 Broadway (at 95th St.) New York, NY 212-864-5400 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

A large wooden desk with many drawers is at the mysterious center of Krauss' deeply engrossing new novel of interwoven lives. The author of the bestselling The History of Love discusses her powerfully... [details »]

Thursday November 18 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   The New Salon: Poets in Conversation--Charles Wright NYU Creative Writing Program April Naoko Heck Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street New York City, NY 212-998-8816 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Pulitzer Prize winner Charles Wright’s most recent volume is “Sestets: Poems” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010). In conversation with Alice Quinn; co-sponsored with the Poetry Society of America.... [details »]

Friday November 19 2010, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM   Poetry Reading NYU Creative Writing Program April Naoko Heck Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street New York City, NY 212-998-8816 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Featuring Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Gregory Orr, Gregory Pardlo, and Ed Skoog. “Apocalyptic Swing” (Persea, 2009) is the most recent collection of poems by Gabrielle Calvocoressi. Gregory Orr is the ... [details »]

Friday November 19 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Emerging Writers Reading Series: Guest Author--Donald Antrim NYU Creative Writing Program April Naoko Heck KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street New York City, NY 212-998-8816 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

The Emerging Writers Reading Series showcases the student talent of NYU’s graduate Creative Writing Program and features established writers as special guests. Donald Antrim’s most recent publication ... [details »]

Thursday December 2 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   The New Salon: Writers in Conversation--Rick Moody NYU Creative Writing Program April Naoko Heck Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street New York City, NY 212-998-8816 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Rick Moody’s most recent novel is “The Four Fingers of Death: A Novel” (Little, Brown and Company, 2010). Moody is the 2010-2011 Warren Adler Visiting Writer in the NYU Creative Writing Program. In co... [details »]

Friday December 3 2010, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM   Poetry Reading: Maureen McLane, Robert Polito, Kevin Prufer NYU Creative Writing Program April Naoko Heck Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street New York City, NY 212-998-8816 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

“World Enough” is Maureen N. McLane’s second poetry collection (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.) Robert Polito’s most recent book of poems is “Hollywood & God” (University of Chicago Press, 2009). Ke... [details »]

Wednesday December 8 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Selected Shorts: An Evening with Colum McCann Symphony Space Aishah Alassan 2537 Broadway (at 95th St.) New York, NY 212-864-5400 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

The National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great World Spin shares some of his favorite stories. $27; Member $23; 30 & Under $15... [details »]

Thursday December 9 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   The New Salon: Jennifer Egan and Justin Taylor in Conversation NYU Creative Writing Program April Naoko Heck Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street New York City, NY 212-998-8816 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

“A Visit From the Goon Squad” (Knopf, June 2010) is Jennifer Egan’s fourth novel. The debut collection by Justin Taylor, “Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever: Stories” (Harper Perennial), was publi... [details »]

Friday December 10 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Undergraduate Student Reading NYU Creative Writing Program April Naoko Heck Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street New York City, NY 212-998-8816 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Undergraduate writers read original poems and prose at this biannual celebration. Hosted by Matthew Rohrer.... [details »]

Friday December 10 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Emerging Writers Reading Series: Guest Author--Marie Howe NYU Creative Writing Program April Naoko Heck KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street New York City, NY 212-998-8816 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

The Emerging Writers Reading Series showcases the student talent of NYU’s graduate Creative Writing Program and features established writers as special guests. Marie Howe is the author of three books ... [details »]

Thursday December 16 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Fiction Reading: Rebecca Newberger Goldstein NYU Creative Writing Program April Naoko Heck Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street New York City, NY 212-998-8816 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Philosopher and writer Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s most recent novel is “36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction” (Pantheon, 2010).... [details »]

Monday January 10 2011, 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM   Thalia Book Club: Tom Rachman's The Imperfectionists Symphony Space Aishah Alassan 2537 Broadway (at 95th St.) New York, NY 212-864-5400 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Only New York appearance! The nimble and funny novelist discusses his unputdownable book: "In his zinger of a debut, Rachman deftly applies his experience as a foreign correspondent and editor to ... [details »]

Wednesday January 26 2011, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Selected Shorts: Haiti Noir, with Edwidge Danticat Symphony Space Aishah Alassan 2537 Broadway (at 95th St.) New York, NY 212-864-5400 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

New stories by Danticat and others from a powerful new anthology collected by the award-winning Haitian-American author of The Dew Breaker and Brother, I'm Dying. "Danticat's gift is to combine bot... [details »]

Wednesday February 9 2011, 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM   Thalia Book Club: Jane Gardam Symphony Space Aishah Alassan 2537 Broadway (at 95th St.) New York, NY 212-864-5400 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

A Rare U.S. Appearance! The acclaimed Britiish novelist makes a rare US appearance to discuss her paired novels, which together offer an incredibly rich, nuanced and funny portrait of marriage.. H... [details »]

Wednesday February 16 2011, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Selected Shorts: Russian Tales, Classic and New, with Elif Batum Symphony Space Aishah Alassan 2547 Broadway (at 95th St.) New York, NY 212-864-5400 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Guest curated and introduced by Batuman, author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People who Read Them, and Gessen, novelist, translator, and editor of the literary magazine, n+1... [details »]

Wednesday March 30 2011, 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM   Thalia Book Club: Anna Karenina with Jennifer Egan, Siri Hustved Symphony Space Aishah Alassan 2537 Broadway (at 95th St.) New York, NY 212-864-5400 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Novelists Egan (A Visit from the Goon Squad), Hustvedt (The Sorrows of an American) and Livesey (The House on Fortune Street)-the trio that brought Middlemarch and Jane Eyre to life at this book club-... [details »]

Wednesday April 6 2011, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Selected Shorts: Etgar Keret and Jonathan Safran Foer Symphony Space Aishah Alassan 2537 Broadway (at 95th St.) New York, NY 212-864-5400 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

The wildly inventive Israeli master joins forces with the author of Everything is Illuminated to present an evening of surprising tales. $27; Member $23; 30 & Under $15... [details »]

Wednesday April 27 2011, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Selected Shorts: Magical Realism: The World of Marvelous Stories Symphony Space Aishah Alassan 2537 Broadway (at 95th St.) New York, NY 212-864-5400 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Haunting tales from around the world, in which the everyday intersects with fantastic and magical occurrences. Part of Sonidos* $27; Member $23; 30 & Under $15... [details »]

Wednesday May 11 2011, 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM   Thalia Book Club: A Literary Celebration! Gabriel Garcia Marquez Symphony Space Aishah Alassan 2537 Broadway (at 95th St.) New York, NY 212-864-5400 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Writers discuss Garcia Marquez' masterpiece-the gorgeous, moving, passionate story about the history of a family and a mythical Latin American country-which won the author the Nobel Prize in Literatur... [details »]

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