Around Town: Edgar Allan Poe, InVerse, and more!
October 18, 1pm The Center for Fiction, 17 E. 47th Street, New York, NY 10017 Ghost tour at the Edgar Allan Poe Cottage. Come with us on an excursion to The Edgar Allan Poe Cottage where Poe spent his last days. Sean H. Doyle, D. Foy, and Dolan Morgan will read...
Around Town: The New York Comic Con and More
The New York Comic Con is coming to town! Mark your calendars, folks! The New York Comic Con will be at the Javits Center through October 9–12. Beyond the usual attractions, there will be panels discussing the future of self-publishing and finding success in comics,...
Around Town: Book and Magazine Events in NYC
September 25th, 2pm Higgins Hall Auditorium (018), Pratt Institute, 1 St. James Place, Brooklyn, NY Hilton Als, Writer-in-Residence at the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences and one of the most original thinkers and prose stylists of his generation, will give two...
Around Town: Book and Magazine Events in NYC
Thursday, September 18th, 8pm-9pm Symphony Space's Peter Jay Sharpe Theatre, 155 W 65th St, New York, NY 10023 If fast-paced, competitive, humor-centric readings are up your alley, the Literary Death Match might be the perfect event for you to check out. Read more on...
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September 11, 2014 7:00pm-8:00pm at The Strand's 3rd Floor on 828 Broadway at 12th Street Emily St. John Mandel will be joined by Buzzfeed Books Editor Isaac Fitzgerald at the Strand to chat about her new book Station Eleven, "an ambitious work that is already being...
Around Town: Book and Magazine Events in NYC
August 16, 2014 Charles Bukowski Birthday Read-a-Thon Self-proclaimed “dirty old man” Charles Bukowksi would have been 94 today, and Ecco Books hosts this free celebration at Williamsburg’s Post Office bar in his honor. They’ll distribute, aptly enough, free copies of...
Around Town: Book and Magazine Events in NYC
August 11, 2014 Edward Strauss Translator Edward Strauss brings Corporal Louis Bartha's wartime writing to English-speaking readers for the first time in this harrowing first-person account of a French foot soldier who survived four years in the trenches of World War...
Around Town: Book and Magazine Events in NYC
July 29, 2014 Malcolm Gladwell Join author Malcolm Gladwell as he discusses his new book David and Goliath. @ Barnes and Noble, 33 East 17th Street, 7:00 p.m. July 30, 2014 Jay and Silent Bob The Dynamic twosome from Clerks make a rare appearance in honor of their new...
Around Town: Book and Magazine Events in NYC
July 21, 2014 Good Morning, Mr. Mandela Afrikaner biographer, secretary and "honorary granddaughter" of Nelson Mandela, Zelda LaGrange shares personal memories of 16 years of service to the beloved South African president in her new book, Good Morning, Mr. Mandela. @...
Around Town: Book and Magazine Events in NYC
July 11, 2014 Amanda Petrusich In Do Not Sell At Any Price, Amanda Petrusich describes approaching a roomful of 78 rpm records “like a chimpanzee devouring a pile of ripe bananas.” Made of shellac and producing 78 revolutions per minute (modern CDs spin 200-460 times...