Around Town: April 27- May 3
This week is a particularly special week! May 2nd is both free comic book day and the first national Independent Bookstore Day! Check the end of this post to find out more about events affiliated with these days. April 29th - Dystopian Fiction...
Around Town: April 20-26
April 20th - Graphic Storytelling: From Cuneiform Tablets to New York's New Pedestrian Maps Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Ave. 212-535-7710 Time: 6-7pm In this conversation, MMA curator Kim Benzel takes us back to the dawn of writing in the Near East...
Book Expo America
This year’s Book Expo America is taking place Wednesday, May 27th through Friday May 29th at the Javits Center. We have 10 tickets to the BEA for all three days available, and those tickets are to be shared and divvied up between morning/afternoon shifts. Current...
Link of the Week: Writers Read NYC
The opportunities for cultural and artistic exposure in New York City are rampant–museums and culture centers, ethnic food of any kind you can imagine, musical performances on stages and subway platforms, and literary events aplenty in book stores and cafes....
Around Town: New lit from Europe Festival, James Franco, Fêtes, and Joyce C. Oates
New Literature from Europe Festival Saturday, December 6th @ 2:00pm-7:30 (three panel discussions) Austrian Cultural Forum, 11 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10022 The New Literature from Europe Festival returns to Manhattan this December 5 & 6 for its 11th...
Around Town: November 22-29th
November 23, at 6:00pm Forever Young Adult presents Ava Dellaira 52 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012 Ava Dellaira's incredible debut novel, Love Letters to the Dead, rocked the YA community earlier this year and we are thrilled to be hosting her. Hosting this...
Around Town: November 15-22
Bryan Stevenson & Piper Kerman November 19, 6:30pm 686 Fulton street, Brooklyn, NY 11217 Bryan Stevenson, one of the country's most visionary legal thinkers, social justice advocates, and a MacArthur "genius”, takes us on an unforgettable journey into the...
Around Town: Nov. 7-14
Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation Bill Nye, Friday November 7 @ 7pm 33 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003 Bill Nye is so well-known as "the Science Guy" that he has appeared as himself on The Big Bang Theory. Undeniable proves that mere celebrity has...
Around Town: November 1-7
November 1, 5pm-6:30pm 126 Franklin Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222 Buzzfeed Books editor Isaac Fitzgerald hosts a conversation with Bailey Prize winner/debut author Eimear McBride (A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing) and novelist Jenny Offill (Dept. of...
Around Town: Danny Aiello, Amy Poehler, Fleetwood Mac, and Horrorstör
October 24, 7pm 2289 Broadway, New York, NY 10024 From shining shoes to shining portrayals on the silver screen (Moonstruck, The Godfather II, Do the Right Thing), Danny Aiello delivers his autobiography, I Only Know Who I Am When I Am Somebody Else. ...