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Friday September 30 2016, 7:30 PM to 8:20 PM   Guerrilla Literature Reading Series Dixon Place Matthew Dicken Dixon Place 161A Chrystie Street New York, NY 212-219-0736 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

This series has hosted readings by emerging & established authors since 2007. Because the pen is mightier than the Kalashnikov (we hope). Curated by Lee Matthew Goldberg, Camellia Phillips, and Marco ... [details »]

Saturday October 1 2016, 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!)

Gabriel Don, Robert Gibbons, Yi Wu at Park Plaza Restaurant, Sat, October 1, 2016 at 2:30 P.M. Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights 2016 Brownstone Poets Inspiring Brooklyn Since 2005 Brownston... [details »]

Tuesday October 4 2016, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM   In Conversation: Caroline Leavitt and Rick Moody 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 celebration of the publication of her hotly anticipated new novel Cruel Beautiful World (Algonquin), New York Times-bestselling writer Caroline Leavitt (Is This Tomorrow; Pictures of You; Girls In ... [details »]

Tuesday October 4 2016, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM   Joby Warrick on ISIS and Black Flags 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!)

In Black Flags, an unprecedented character-driven account of the rise of ISIS, Joby Warrick shows how the zeal of this one man and the strategic mistakes of Presidents Bush and Obama led to the banner... [details »]

Wednesday October 5 2016, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM   Book Discussion: James Schuyler, "Selected 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!)

This discussion will take place in the Balcony Conference Room. William Corbett leads a three session discussion series on modern poets whose collective careers spanned the 20th century: Lorine Nie... [details »]

Wednesday October 5 2016, 6:00 PM to 7:45 PM   Brownstone Poets Brownstone Poets Patricia Carragon Brooklyn Public Library Park Slope 431 6th Avenue Brooklyn, NY 9176795002 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

MARK YOUR CALENDARS: First Brownstone Poets 2016 Anthology Book Event A Celebration of Poetry and Prose from Poets from Brownstone Poets Reading Series Held in Brooklyn Heights The list of rea... [details »]

Tuesday October 11 2016, 5:30 PM to 6:45 PM   Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, author of Seinfeldia, at NYP 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!)

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong comes to Muhlenberg Library to discuss and sign copies of her most recent book, Seinfeldia: The Secret World of the Show About Nothing that Changed Everything . In Seinf... [details »]

Tuesday October 11 2016, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM   Politics and Prose: Lit Mags on Political Writing Community of Literary Magazines Paul Legault NYPL’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Bdlg, 5th Ave & 42nd St, 2nd flr New York City, NY 2127419110 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Join us Tuesday, October 11 at The NYPL for a discussion between editors Matt Lord (Boston Review), Katherine Rowland (Guernica), Dayna Tortorici (n+1), and moderator Dan Simon (Seven Stories Press) a... [details »]

Wednesday October 12 2016, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM   New Writing from Singapore 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 October, Words Without Borders is dedicating an issue to new writing from Singapore, and to celebrate its launch we’re pleased to welcome Singapore Literature Prize-winning Tamil-language poet and ... [details »]

Thursday October 13 2016, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM   Concentrating on Craft: Matt Bell and Annie DeWitt 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!)

Inspired by their time at the Center’s workshops, Matt Bell (Scrapper, A Tree Or A Person Or A Wall) and Annie DeWitt (White Nights in Split Town City) will join us to explore sentence craft and preci... [details »]

Thursday October 13 2016, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM   Medea Benjamin on Saudi Arabia 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 co-founder of CODEPINK has become famous for fearlessly tackling head-on subjects most of us studiously avoid. Sometimes, she does so in person—as during President Obama’s speech at the National D... [details »]

Friday October 14 2016, 10:30 AM to 1:00 PM   Values and Ethics - Through A Jewish Lens Book & Authors Temple Israel of Lawrence [nid:6 Alan Freedman Temple Israel of Lawrence, 140 Central Avenue Lawrence, NY (516) 239-1140 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Fred & Joyce Claar will be discussing their new book, "Values and Ethics-Through A Jewish lens," on Friday October 14, 2016, starting at 10:30 a.m., at Temple Israel of Lawrence, 140 Central Avenue, L... [details »]

Saturday October 15 2016, 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!)

Second Brownstone Poets 2016 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 anthol... [details »]

Wednesday October 19 2016, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM   Book Discussion: August Kleinzahler, Sleeping It Off/Rapid City 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!)

This discussion will take place in the Balcony Conference Room. William Corbett leads a three session discussion series on modern poets whose collective careers spanned the 20th century: Lorine Nie... [details »]

Wednesday October 19 2016, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM   The Art of Memory: A Reading from the Bellevue Literary Review Bellevue Literary Review Stacy Bodziak NYU Langone Medical Center, 550 First Avenue, Alumni Hall B New York, NY 212-263-3973 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

From Marcel Proust to Oliver Sacks, memory has been both a muse and a source of endless literary and scientific inquiry. The Bellevue Literary Review’s new issue— "Reconstructions: The Art of Memory"... [details »]

Wednesday October 19 2016, 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM   Brooklyn By the Book: Jonathan Lethem BPL/Congregation Beth Elohim Joel Whitney 274 Garfield Place Brooklyn, NY 718.768.3814 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Bruno Alexander, the protagonist of Lethem's newest novel, The Gamblers Anatomy, is a backgammon hustler who travels the world winning large sums of money from amateur whales until he runs into a trou... [details »]

Thursday October 27 2016, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM   Pulitzer Centennial Poetry Celebration The Poetry Society of America Ellen Koppy The Great Hall of the Cooper Union / 7 E 7th Street New York, NY (212) 254-9628 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

At this once-in-a-lifetime event, 13 Pulitzer Prize-winning poets will share the stage to read from their own prize-winning collections as well as select poems by past winners. Join us in celebration ... [details »]

Monday October 31 2016, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   ‘STAINED’ – AUTHOR TALK & READING Bluestockings Bookstore LOU 172 Allen Street, New York, NY 212-777-6028 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Join Abda Khan, author of ‘Stained’, as she talks about her debut novel that tackles rape, honour issues and inequality. She will talk openly and candidly of her experiences with women in ethnic commu... [details »]

Tuesday November 1 2016, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM   Garth Risk Hallberg with Rob Spillman 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 City, 1976. Meet Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city’s great fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Samantha, ... [details »]

Wednesday November 2 2016, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM   Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz on the Euro 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!)

In 2010, the 2008 global financial crisis morphed into the “eurocrisis.” It has not abated. The 19 countries of Europe that share the euro currency?the eurozone?have been rocked by economic stagnation... [details »]

Wednesday November 9 2016, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM   Brooklyn by the Book: Javier Marías 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!)

Thus Bad Begins by the great Spanish novelist Javier Marías is the story of a couple living in the shadow of a mysterious, unhappy history, and the punishments we exact on those we love. Juan de Vere,... [details »]

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