Books | Talks, Seminars & Discussions

Upcoming Events

• Jul 9: An Evening with Poet John Yau - Morgan Library & Museum
• Jul 9: The Wisdom Bar - "Melville and Moby-Dick" (Lecture-Based, Convo-Focused) - Tribeca
• Jul 9: The Center for Fiction Presents De'Shawn Charles Winslow on The Fervent Whites with Samantha Hunt - The Center for Fiction
• Jul 11: QQRTT :Queer Quiet Reading Talk Trade - The Hugh - 157 E 53rd St, New York, NY 10022
• Jul 11: Black Nature Films in the Park: Black Orpheus - Brower Park
• Jul 12: Poetry Today Book Club: "The Vitals" by Marie de Quatrebarbes - Book Club Bar
• Jul 12: Book Talk with Dr. Catherine Meeks: Bridging the Rivers of Difference - St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery
• Jul 13: Sistermoon by Siri Kaur in conversation with Jennifer Sakai - Rizzoli Bookstore
• Jul 13: Written Women: Cassandra - Cordelia
• Jul 14: Museum in Transit: 10 Contemporary Artists in the NYC Subway SOLD OUT - Rizzoli Bookstore
• Jul 14: In Short: Shirley Jackson’s "The Summer People” with Lesley Finn - The Center for Fiction
• Jul 14: Alyssa Shelasky: Sex Diaries w/ Molly Roden Winter - Books Are Magic (Brooklyn Heights)
• Jul 15: J.R. Ward Discusses Crown of War and Shadow at BNUSQ - Barnes & Noble - Fifth Avenue
• Jul 15: Debut Novelist Panel, with Portia Elan, Juliet Izon, & Sara Maurer - P&T Knitwear
• Jul 15: An Evening with Brian Tyler Cohen — The Day After: How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World - The 92nd Street Y, New York
• Jul 15: Maris Kreizman + Special Guests: I Want to Burn This Place Down - The Strand
• Jul 16: CBH Talk | Country of Lords: Kim Phillips-Fein in Conversation with Steven Hahn - Center for Brooklyn History
• Jul 16: In Short: William Faulkner's "Mistral" with Carl Rollyson
• Jul 20: Pamela Colloff: Catch the Devil with Sarah Weinman - Books Are Magic (Brooklyn Heights)
• Jul 20: In Short: Isaac Bashevis Singer's "The Dead Fiddler" with Richard Klin
• Jul 21: Colson Whitehead - McNally Jackson Books at BKLYN STUDIOS
• Jul 22: Memoir of a Hyena Book Release Party - P.I.T. - 411 S 5th St, Brooklyn, NY 11211
• Jul 22: Robert Moor: In Trees w/ Andrew Marantz - Books Are Magic (Cobble Hill)
• Jul 22: The Art of Writing About Community with Mai Sennaar (Online)
• Jul 22: In-Store | Jessica M. Goldstein: Retro w/ Casey Scieszka - Books Are Magic (Brooklyn Heights)
• Jul 23: Sarah Minor in Conversation with Jordan Kisner: Carousel - Books Are Magic (Brooklyn Heights)
• Jul 27: Lectures on Tap - Feminist Philosophies of The Handmaid’s Tale - Midtown Manhattan - Location provided upon registration.
• Jul 28: The Center for Fiction Presents Valeria Luiselli on Beginning Middle End - The Center for Fiction
• Jul 29: Summer Scares Book Discussion: Just Like Home - Roosevelt Island Library - 504 Main St, New York, NY 10044
• Jul 29: The Wisdom Bar - “When Communication Matters (And When It Doesn’t)” - NYC (TBA)
• Jul 29: Annie Jacobsen with Elliot Ackerman: Nuclear War Scenarios - The 92nd Street Y, New York
• Jul 30: Samantha Paige Rosen: Living, Together w/ Alex Alberto, Sarah Thankam Mathews, & Mia Arias Tsang - Books Are Magic (Brooklyn Heights)
• Aug 4: I Don't Think About Being Great: Selected Writings by Robert Rauschenberg - The Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery
• Aug 6: Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar by Katie Yee - Rizzoli Bookstore
• Aug 8: Poetry Workshop with Taylor Mali - Morgan Library & Museum
• Aug 13: Days of Miracle and Wonder by Ashley Kahn - Rizzoli Bookstore
• Aug 13: In Short: Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock with Amanda Lehr - The Center for Fiction
• Aug 15: In Short: Black Femme Transformation in Eloghosa Osunde's "Grief Is the Gift That Breaks the Spirit Open" with Magenta Naaku - The Center for Fiction
• Aug 15: Fiction Writing 101 - 151 W 30th St 3rd floor
• Aug 19: Summer Scares Book Discussion: Horror Movie - Roosevelt Island Library - 504 Main St, New York, NY 10044
• Aug 29: In Short: Black Femme Transformation in 'Pemi Aguda's "Manifest" with Magenta Naaku - The Center for Fiction
• Sep 12: R.F. Kuang: Taipei Story (Deluxe Limited Edition Launch) at Symphony Space - Symphony Space
• Sep 16: A Conversation with Jed Perl - The Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery - 215 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019
• Sep 19: Bring Your Speculative Fiction to Life with Jayson Greene - The Center for Fiction
• Sep 28: The O'Shaughnessy Lecture: Secret Communications in the Revolutionary War - Fraunces Tavern Museum
• Oct 10: Lahore Literary Festival in New York 2026 - Asia Society and Museum
• Nov 5: "The Digital Chains" Evening Salon with Dr. Rachel Levitch NYC - Dear Irving on Hudson
• Nov 19: The Professor Dan Miron Lecture in Hebrew Literature with Shai Ginsburg - Columbia University