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Saturday October 19 2019, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM   Book Launch: Naked Thoughts by Róbert Gaál Black Sun Lit Jared Fagen 141 Front Street Brooklyn, NY 631-902-3529 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Please join Black Sun Lit for the launch of Róbert Gál’s Naked Thoughts at Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop, featuring a bilingual + interactive performance by the author and readings by Anna Gurton-Wachte... [details »]

Monday October 21 2019, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM   A Reading and Conversation with David Means Purchase College Purchase College Purchase College's Music Building 735 Anderson Hill Rd. Purchase, NY 914-251-6550 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Purchase College-SUNY will present A Reading and Conversation with David Means on Monday, October 21 at 6:30 p.m. The program, which is free and open to the public, will take place at Purchase College... [details »]

Thursday October 24 2019, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Carol Burnett Talks Memoir with Authors Nell Painter and Amanda MacDowell Colony Shaun Newport 521 West 23rd St. 2nd Floor New York, NY 212.535.9690 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Television icon Carol Burnett joins MacDowell Fellows Amanda Stern and Nell Painter for a conversation on the art of memoir at MacDowell's New York space. Burnett will join Stern and Painter, reading ... [details »]

Saturday October 26 2019, 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM   Brownstone Poets Brownstone Poets Patricia Carragon 220 Cadman Plaza West, Brooklyn, NY, United States 11201 Brooklyn, NY 9176795002 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Three awesome poets Annie Christain, Adam Holoubek, and Debora Lidov to rock Brownstone Poets on Saturday, October 26, at 2:30 p.m. at Park Plaza Restaurant in historic Brooklyn Heights. Poetry gro... [details »]

Monday October 28 2019, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM   Käsebier Takes Berlin: The Weimar Republic and Satire in Times o Deutsches Haus at NYU Deutsches Haus Deutsches Haus at NYU, 42 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003 New York, NY (212) 998-8660 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the New York Review of Books present “Käsebier Takes Berlin: The Weimar Republic and Satire in Times of Crises,” which will focus on Sophie Duvernoy’s new translation of Gabr... [details »]

Tuesday October 29 2019, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM   Bellevue Literary Review - “Off The Page” Bellevue Literary Review Stacy Bodziak NYU Langone Health 550 1st Avenue New York City, NY 212-263-3973 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

To celebrate the publication of the Bellevue Literary Review’s latest issue, on the theme of "A Good Life," editor-in-chief Danielle Ofri hosts an evening of readings by actors from stage and screen. ... [details »]

Friday November 1 2019, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM   "Earth's Mantle is Hot and Partially Molten": An Evening with Ni Deutsches Haus at NYU Deutsches Haus Deutsches Haus at NYU, 42 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003 New York, NY (212) 998-8660 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading by the author and current writer-in-residence at Deutsches Haus at NYU, Nina Bußmann, from her recent novel Earth's Mantle is Hot and Partially Molten, followe... [details »]

Friday November 1 2019, 8:00 PM to Sunday November 3 2019, 8:00 PM      PoetryFest Irish Arts Center Vivian Fong 553 W 51st St, New York, NY 10019 New York, NY (212) 757-3318 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Curated by Nick Laird Presented in association with Glucksman Ireland House NYU Journey into an orbit of ideas and thoughts with some of the world’s most eminent poets from Ireland and North Ame... [details »]

Wednesday November 6 2019, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM   Literati: Writers Workshop LIVE New York Comedy Fest Michael Wolf CAVEAT, 21 A Clinton Street Manhattan, NY 4136260677 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Hey there book lovers and comedy nerds! It's a LIVE recording of the hit ForeverDog Podcast LITERATI as part of NY COMEDY FEST. Dozens of your favorite New York comedians will come read one page of in... [details »]

Thursday December 12 2019, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM   The City Game: Triumph, Scandal and a Legendary Basketball Team Temple Israel of Lawrence, Inc. Alan Freedman 140 Central Avenue Lawrence, NY 5162391140 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

"The City Game" tells the thrilling and heartbreaking story of the CCNY Beavers, who in 1950 became the only team ever to win the NIT and NCAA basketball tournaments in the same year. CCNY was known f... [details »]

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