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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 »]

Sunday September 24 2017, 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM   Poetry Reading: Terrance Hayes Katonah Poetry Series Julie Nord Katonah Village Library, 26 Bedford Road Katonah, NY 914 271 1062 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

The Katonah Poetry Series looks forward to hosting MacArthur Fellow Terrance Hayes for a poetry reading on September 24, 2017. Hayes has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Nat... [details »]

Tuesday September 26 2017, 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM   Kurt Andersen on Fantasyland 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!)

With Fantasyland, Kurt Andersen offers a new understanding of our post-truth world and explains the American instinct to believe in make-believe. He argues that our post-truth, “fake news” moment is ... [details »]

Wednesday September 27 2017, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM   Muhammad Yunus presents A World of Three Zeros Brooklyn Public Library Joel Whitney Central Library, Dweck Center, 10 Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 718.230.2100 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Muhammad Yunus, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planet in "A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Po... [details »]

Wednesday September 27 2017, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM   Get Up: The Art of Perseverance Book & Author w. Adam Greenberg Temple Israel of Lawrence Alan Freedman Temple Israel of Lawrence, 140 Central Avenue Lawrence, NY 5162391140 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

On July 9, 2005, Adam Greenberg stepped into the batter's box for his first Major League plate appearance with the Chicago Cubs. The moment was the culmination of his life's work and proudest achievem... [details »]

Thursday September 28 2017, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays Readings-Margot Farrington & Andrew Morris 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!)

Margot Farrington is a poet, writer, and performer. She is the author of three collections, most recently Scanning For Tigers (Free Scholar Press, 2014). Her poetry has been anthologized in the Unit... [details »]

Thursday September 28 2017, 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM   William Taubman on Mikhail Gorbachev, with Kai Bird 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!)

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era comes the definitive volume on one of the most important and controversial figures of the 20th century, Mikhail Gorbachev. In... [details »]

Monday October 2 2017, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM   Orhan Pamuk on The Red-Haired Woman 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!)

From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of "Snow" and "My Name Is Red," a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them. On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from ... [details »]

Thursday October 12 2017, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays Readings-Rachel Guido Devries & Jesse Hilson 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!)

Rachel Guido Devries' latest book of poems is A Woman Unknown in Her Bones, (Bordigherea, 2014). Other collections of poetry are The Brother Inside Me, Gambler's Daughter, and How to Sing to a Dago, ... [details »]

Thursday October 12 2017, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM   Alice McDermott on The Ninth Hour 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!)

A portrait of the Irish-American experience in 1940s and 1950s Brooklyn, by the National Book Award-winning author. On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Broo... [details »]

Wednesday October 18 2017, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM   NYRB & BPL Presents: Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick 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!)

Writers and scholars discuss the first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick's illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades; moderated by collection edi... [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 »]

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 »]

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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