Tag: books
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New Crown Heights reading series, from their FB page: Hope you can join us for great lit and brews at the 4th edition of the Manhattanville Reading Series, a monthly happening for emerging writers at Crown Heights cafe Manhattanville Coffee. April’s featured reader is innovative short fiction star and Electric Literature editor-in-chief Lincoln Michel (Upright…
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Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop — Nonfiction Night Hosted by Michele Filgate Fri Apr 22, 7:00PM Host(s): Sackett Street Writers Workshop Appearing: Jennifer Baker Xeni Fragakis Yashica Dutt Michele Filgate On the Docket: Reading Book Signing Author Bio(s): Jennifer Baker is a writer of fiction & nonfiction, and an editor with over 14 years’ experience in…
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Ever get a book home you’ve been wanting to read for a long time, like you’ve seen all the hype around it, around the author, and you’ve been anticipating the joy of it, and then you can’t get past the first page? There’s something wrong in the voice, or the thing doesn’t move along, it…
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Just realized I’ve been reading about these events for a few days, and they’re all tied to a program celebrating Albert Camus’ one and only visit to New York, 70 years ago. From the sound of it, he wasn’t too taken with the city, but was greeted warmly. I’m hoping to make it to one of…
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Thu Mar 17, 7:00PM Appearing: Keija Parssinen Miranda Beverly-Whittemore Kimberly McCreight Tracy O’Neill Robin Wasserman On the Docket: Reading Book Signing About the Event: The next Sackett Street Writers’ Reading Series event, “Dangerous Lives of Young Women in Fiction,” celebrates the paperback release of The Unraveling of Mercy Louis, the second novel by SSWW alum…
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Housing Works Bookstore Cafe 126 Crosby, New York, NY PEN launches the return of Lit Crawl NYC—the popular literary festival that meets pub crawl—with a carnival-esque cabaret of bookish delights. One venue, multiple events, featuring Literary Pictionary, Trivia Bingo, Nerd Jeopardy. The night will also include Tarot readings, flash portraiture, face painting, a mobile photo booth…
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Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop Mon Sep 14, 7:00PM Host(s): Julia Fierro Appearing: Alexander Chee Rob Spillman Hannah Tinti Jessica Loudis On the Docket: Panel Discussion Drinks Served Can you live in Brooklyn and learn to write? Will getting an MFA truly make you the writer you always wanted to be? Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop Founder…
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From the CLMP site: 16th Annual Lit Mag Marathon Weekend April 25th and 26th All events are free and open to the public New York, NY—The magazines may be little, but the weekend is big, big, big! It’s time once again for CLMP’s annual Lit Mag Marathon Weekend, a massive showcase of America’s diverse literary…
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I’ve been reading Thomas James’ collection front to back, including the introductory essay by Lucie Brock-Broido, who states this is the only book she ever stole. I didn’t think it could possibly live up to all the love she gave it, but it does. It’s the only book James published in his lifetime. He committed suicide…
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