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Thursday July 6 2017, 2:00 PM to Saturday December 16 2017, 4:00 PM      Literary Fiction Think Tank Writing Workshops Literary Fiction Think Tank workshops are ongoing Schwarzman/NYPL; and online 10018, NY email inquiries only Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Literary Fiction Think Tank Writing Workshops  “Whole manuscript”, “close textual reading” writing workshop, “on the house” (no cost) — by invitation only A writing community that encourages ... [details »]

Friday October 20 2017, 10:00 PM to 11:00 PM   Art School Acid Dropout Grant Victor Lindahl Grant Victor Lindahl 1093 Jackson Ave Long Island City, NY 3015243246 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Grant Lindahl is a very famous Artist banned from MoMA PS1because of a super small fire no big deal. He moved his extreme psychadelic performance art sketch show to the comedy venue down the street. E... [details »]

Friday October 20 2017, 10:00 PM to 11:00 PM   Art School Acid Dropout Grant Victor Lindahl Grant Victor Lindahl 1093 Jackson Ave Long Island City, NY 3015243246 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Grant Lindahl is a very famous Artist banned from MoMA PS1because of a super small fire no big deal. He moved his extreme psychadelic performance art sketch show to the comedy venue down the street. E... [details »]

Saturday October 21 2017, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM   3rd Brownstone Poets 2017 Anthology Event Brownstone Poets Patricia Carragon The Mulberry Street Library 10 Jersey Street, NYC-10012 New York, NY 9176795002 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Third Brownstone Poets 2017 Anthology Book Event A Celebration of Poetry and Prose from Poets from Brownstone Poets Reading Series Held in Brooklyn Heights The list of readers from this anthology... [details »]

Thursday October 26 2017, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays Readings-Marwa Helal & Patricia Eakins 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!)

Marwa Helal is a poet and journalist. Her work appears in Apogee, Hyperallergic, the Offing, Poets & Writers, the Recluse, Winter Tangerine and elsewhere. She is the author of invasive Species (Nigh... [details »]

Saturday October 28 2017, 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM   Brownstone Poets Brownstone Poets Patricia Carragon Park Plaza Restaurant 220 Cadman Plaza West Brooklyn, NY 9176795002 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Brownstone Poets presents Saturday, October 28 at 2:30 p.m. Alan Braverman Catherine Gigante-Brown Omayma Khayat Anthony Vigorito @ Park Plaza Restaurant 220 C... [details »]

Saturday October 28 2017, 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM   (Bard @ BPL) Going Public: The Birth and Rebirth of Erasmus Hall Brooklyn Public Library Joel Whitney 10 Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 718.230.2100 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

The Rethinking Education Lecture Series celebrates the launch of a full-scholarship Bard College degree program at Brooklyn Public Library. The lectures will function as open houses for anyone interes... [details »]

Saturday November 4 2017, 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM   (Bard at BPL) Elite Education? A Practical Guide for Idealists Brooklyn Public Library Joel Whitney 10 Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 718.230.2100 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

The Rethinking Education Lecture Series celebrates the launch of a full-scholarship Bard College degree program at Brooklyn Public Library. The lectures will function as open houses for anyone interes... [details »]

Saturday November 4 2017, 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM   brevitas 14th Annual Festival of the Short Poem brevitas Amy Barone 317 East Houston Street New York CIty, NY 6469424972 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

At the brevitas 14th Annual Festival of the Short Poem, poets read their best original poems of the year, which are projected; the new brevitas Anthology is unveiled; and literary fun ensues. Bob Holm... [details »]

Saturday November 4 2017, 2:15 PM to 4:15 PM   Finishing Line Press Group Reading at Jefferson Market Library Brownstone Poets Patricia Carragon Jefferson Market Library 425 Ave. of the Americas, NYC 10011 New York, NY 9176795002 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Finishing Line Press Group Reading at Jefferson Market Saturday, November 4 from 2:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Jefferson Market Library NYPL 425 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 10011 (212) 243... [details »]

Tuesday November 7 2017, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM   Isabel Allende in Brooklyn, with Aminatta Forna Brooklyn Public Library Joel Whitney 10 Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 718.230.2100 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

New York Times and worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmeriz... [details »]

Thursday November 9 2017, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays Readings-Ginnah Howard & Billy Merrell 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!)

Ginnah Howard's work has appeared in Water-Stone Review, Permafrost, Portland Review, Descant 145, Eleven Eleven Journal, The Tusculum Review, and elsewhere. Several stories have been nominated for a... [details »]

Friday November 10 2017, 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM   Message from the Library with David Grossman Brooklyn Public Library Joel Whitney 10 Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 718.230.2100 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

David Grossman, winner of the 2017 Man Booker International Prize for his novel A Horse Walks Into a Bar (Knopf), delivers the inaugural Message from the Library, a new international lecture series th... [details »]

Wednesday November 15 2017, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Philosophy in the Library: Corey Robin with Eddie Glaude Brooklyn Public Library Joel Whitney 10 Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 718.230.2100 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is "boring," said the founding father of the American right. "Devoting your life to it," as conservatives do, "is horrifyi... [details »]

Wednesday November 29 2017, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM   The Sherlock Holmes of Non-Fiction Medical Writers The New York Academy of Medicine Emily Miranker 1216 5th Avenue New York, NY 2128227301 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Medical diagnosis is detective work. In his book, The Family Who Couldn’t Sleep, D.T. Max unfolds a medical mystery of a noble Venetian family whose offspring suffered from fatal insomnia. Physician a... [details »]

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