It looks like another amazing week for bookish events in New York City. Usually, I try to limit myself to recommending two options a day, but this week I just couldn’t control myself. Get your teleportation and cloning devices ready, otherwise you will have to make some difficult decisions.
Lucy Knisley, author and artist behind the acclaimed French Milk, will be at The Strand to celebrate her new book, Displacement. She will be joined in conversation with Marie Anello.
Buy a copy of Displacement or a $15 Strand gift card in order to attend this event.
Come out and grab a paperback copy of Chang-rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea. There will be a reading and conversation about the novel, with a signing to follow.
It’s the sixth annual Short Fiction Night! The evening’s lineup includes 2014 National Book Award winner Phil Klay (Redeployment), Sunday Salon co-host Sara Lippmann (Doll Palace), award-winning debut author Kevin Fortuna (The Dunning Man), poetry and prose star Morgan Parker (Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce), and Electric Literature contributor Malerie Willens.
Celebrate the release of Miranda July's First Bad Man. Priority seating will go to those who purchase a copy of the novel. She’ll also be at BAM at the end of the month with Lena Dunham.
Celebrate the release of Muldoon's new collection of poems, One Thousand Things Worth Knowing.
Rebecca Chace discusses her new novel, Something Like Happiness as well as the idea of the relationship between research and fiction.
Karen Bender’s collection of short stories, Refund, deals with the theme of money, and how it affects the lives of her characters. Come out for a reading, discussion, and book signing.
Elmaz Abinader reads from her celebrated collection This House, My Bones.