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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 »]

Wednesday August 23 2017, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM   Under the Sun: Chiara Barzini + Christopher Bollen The Center for Fiction Rosie 1133 Broadway New York, NY 2127556710 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

The Center for Fiction and Rizzoli Bookstore present: Things That Happened Before the Earthquake, the debut novel by award-winning screenwriter Chiara Barzini, is a unique immigrant bildungsroman c... [details »]

Thursday August 24 2017, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays Readings-Pamela Bernard & Adrian Blevins 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 Bernard was awarded her BA from Harvard University. Her major was History of Art, and she graduated cum laude. She received her MFA from the Warren Wilson Graduate Program for Writers, a Nationa... [details »]

Saturday August 26 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!)

Mireya Perez-Bustillo, born in Colombia and raised in New York, writes poetry and fiction in Spanish and English. In her work she searches for that "other voice" breaking through entrapment and oppres... [details »]

Thursday September 7 2017, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM   Brooklyn by the Book presents Salman Rushdie, with Colum McCann Brooklyn Public Library/CBE Joel Whitney Brooklyn Public Library, Central Branch, Grand Lobby Brooklyn, NY (718) 783-3075 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

In his new novel, The Golden House, Salman Rushdie, author of such contemporary classics as Midnights Children and The Satanic Verses, presents a modern American epic of love and terrorism, loss and r... [details »]

Saturday September 9 2017, 5:45 PM to 7:45 PM   IAWA Celebrates Pirandello's 150th Birthday & Nati. Translation Italian American Writers Assoc. Maria Lisella Cornelia St. Cafe, 29 Cornelia St. NYC 10014 New York City, NY 718-777-1178 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

The Italian American Writers Association is celebrating its 26th Anniversary. Since 1991, IAWA has given voice to writers through its literary series every 2nd Saturday of the month. Readings begin wi... [details »]

Wednesday September 13 2017, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM   Teenage Kicks: Daniel Handler and Emma Straub The Center for Fiction Rosie Clarke 17 East 47th Street New York, NY 2127556710 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

In addition to his thirteen-volume sequence A Series of Unfortunate Events and the four-book series All the Wrong Questions, written as Lemony Snicket, best-selling author Daniel Handler has penned nu... [details »]

Thursday September 14 2017, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM   At Home in the World: On Writing, Immigration, and Belonging The Center for Fiction Rosie Clarke 17 East 47th Street New York, NY 2127556710 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

As part of the of the Brooklyn Book Festival's Bookend events we're partnering with the National Book Critics Circle to present authors Rumaan Alam, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Garnette Cadogan, Rigoberto Gon... [details »]

Thursday September 14 2017, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM   At Home in the World: On Writing, Immigration, and Belonging The Center for Fiction Rosie Clarke 17 East 47th Street New York, NY 2127556710 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

As part of the of the Brooklyn Book Festival's Bookend events we're partnering with the National Book Critics Circle to present authors Rumaan Alam, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Garnette Cadogan, Rigoberto Gon... [details »]

Thursday September 14 2017, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays Readings-Eric Gansworth & Charlotte Walker 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!)

Eric Gansworth, S ha-wen na-sae, a writer and visual artist, (enrolled Onondaga) was raised at the Tuscarora Nation Territories in Western New York. Currently, he is a Professor of English and Lowery... [details »]

Friday September 15 2017, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM   Marianne Moore's New Collected Poems 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!)

Notable authors gather to celebrate Marianne Moore's New Collected Poems, a landmark edition of one of the major inventors of poetic modernism. Editor Heather Cass White joins Margo Jefferson, Timothy... [details »]

Sunday September 17 2017, 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM   BKBF:Structures of Power: Politics, Science Fiction, and Fantasy The Center for Fiction Rosie Clarke 128 Pierrepont Street Brooklyn, NY 2127556710 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Whether speculating on our own current political climates or those of imagined civilizations, authors of science fiction and fantasy are uniquely positioned to deconstruct structures of political powe... [details »]

Thursday September 21 2017, 5:30 PM to 6:45 PM   Jessie Chaffee (author of Florence in Ecstasy) at NYPL New York Public Library Andy Buckalew 209 W 23rd St New York, NY 212-924-1585 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Jessie Chaffee comes to Muhlenberg to discuss and sign copies of her debut novel, Florence in Ecstasy. In Florence in Ecstasy, a young woman arrives in Florence from Boston, knowing no one and spea... [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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