Marlon James: The Disappearers
A celebration of Marlon James's Booker-finalist novel, in which eight men rehearsing a play are brutally attacked one night and must reckon with the hatred the violence exposed.
Books
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Segue Reading Series: julie ezelle patton & Cecilia Vicuña
Two poets with distinct experimental voices, julie ezelle patton and Cecilia Vicuña, read in a long-running series, an easy way to hear both in one sitting.
Photobook Talk: Paula Bronstein — Witnessing Life
Photographer Paula Bronstein presents her photobook Witnessing Life and talks about it herself, in a small room run by a documentary-focused organization with a clear point of view.
Prison (excerpt) + Who Are You Dorothy Dean? Book Launch and Q&A
An excerpt from Prison pairs with the launch of the book Who Are You Dorothy Dean?, then a Q&A. A film clip, a new book, and a room to ask questions about both.
Anthony Roth Costanzo: How You Get High
A pre-release party for the book Countertenor and its companion album, with readings by celebrity guests and countertenors, a live performance, and a closing DJ Prince Terrence set.
Rena Anakwe + Muyassar Kurdi
Rena Anakwe and Muyassar Kurdi share one bill at St. Mark’s Church, a paired reading that lets you hear two writers' voices live, one after the other.
Tongo Eisen-Martin + Margaret Randall
A two-poet reading that puts Tongo Eisen-Martin and Margaret Randall on one bill, so you hear both read their own work aloud in a room built for listening.
An Evening with Anne Fadiman: Looking back on The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down after three decades
Anne Fadiman sits down with Perri Klass to trace how her book on Lia Lee, a Hmong child with epilepsy, came together and why its lessons on cross-cultural care still hold.
Studio Salon: Primary: After and With Alma Thomas
A conversation and reading built around Primary: After and With Alma Thomas, a book on the painter. It's part of the museum's own Studio Salon series, held on The Stoop.
Growing America
American history told through food plants: historic botanical illustrations, planting ledgers and cookbooks inside, then outdoor beds tracing Indigenous foodscapes through the Great Migration.
Book Launch at Columbus Circle : We Shall Outlast Them by Hanna Notte in conversation with Keith Gessen
Hanna Notte's book tells how a war became a long battle of wills, with a state refocusing its entire machinery on outlasting its rivals. Keith Gessen joins her in conversation.
Segue Reading Series: Stine An & Antonio Ochoa
Two poets, Stine An and Antonio Ochoa, share one bill in the Segue Reading Series, an independent poetry series with a clear curatorial point of view. A short, focused evening of listening.
The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs
Palaeontologist Dean Lomax reads the fossil evidence for how prehistoric animals really behaved, from fighting dinosaurs to a two-headed reptile. A Q&A and book signing follow.
Freedom to Read: The Fight Against Banned Books in WWII
An hour on how books became weapons in World War II, as the German government set out to ban and burn any title that threatened Nazi ideology, and how others pushed back.
Book Launch: Traumatized by Catherine Liu in conversation with Claire Stapleton
Catherine Liu, author of Virtue Hoarders, traces how shell shock became PTSD and how trauma turned into a tool of social control. Claire Stapleton joins her in conversation.
Columbus Circle Book Launch: Auntie Kristina's Guide to Asian American Activism by Kristina Wong in conversation with Annie Tan
Kristina Wong and Annie Tan read and talk through a witty guide that frames activism as more than holding signs: building spaces and documenting community. Q&A and signing follow.
Litmus Press 25th Anniversary Celebration & Benefit
A reading that marks a quarter century of Litmus Press and doubles as a benefit, so your evening of poetry also helps keep an independent publisher going.
Book talk for Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings
A book launch for Multiple Offerings, a new volume devoted to the artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, hosted by Artists Space, an independent art institution. A focused evening around one artist's work.
Book Launch: LUST by Erika Lust
Erika Lust draws on decades of adult filmmaking to make a feminist case for more ethical porn, and for how it could reshape sexual politics. A launch for her book Lust: Pleasure, Performance, Power.
“And in this heart, which has neither had a cause nor the lack of one”: On Translation, Craft, and Necessity
A reading that turns to translation itself, asking what the craft demands and what makes it necessary. The title's line about a heart with neither cause nor the lack of one sets the tone.
