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- ThuOct 15all day
Free
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- Calendar: NYU Events (Open to the Public)
- Free admission
- ThuOct 1510am
NJPAC·tickets
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- Calendar: New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)
- ThuOct 1510am
Church of St. Joseph
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- Calendar: St. Joseph's Church in Greenwich Village
- ThuOct 1511am
Lab·Free
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- Calendar: Brooklyn Public Library
- Free admission
- ThuOct 1511am
NJPAC Victoria Theater
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- Calendar: New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)
- ThuOct 1512:30pm
LGBTQIA+ Book Club: "The Out Side: Trans and Nonbinary Comics," by The Kao
Student Center, Room 219, LGBTQ Resource Center·Free
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- Calendar: Brooklyn College Events
- Free admission
- ThuOct 1512:30pm
NJPAC Victoria Theater
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- Calendar: New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)
- ThuOct 151pm
Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts, Topfer Rehearsal Studio·Free
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- Calendar: Brooklyn College Events
- Free admission
- ThuOct 151pm
Flatlands Library·Free
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- Calendar: Brooklyn Public Library
- Free admission
- ThuOct 151pm
Saratoga Library·Free
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- Calendar: Brooklyn Public Library
- Free admission
- ThuOct 151pm
Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts, Topfer Rehearsal Studio·Free
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- Calendar: Brooklyn College Events
- Free admission
- ThuOct 151pm
Patricia Dunlavy Valenti speaks about Mother Mary Alphonsa
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- Calendar: The Church of St. Francis Xavier
- ThuOct 151pm
(OPEN) The Bureau Queer Bookstore
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- Calendar: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
- ThuOct 152pm
Academy of American Poets: Poetry Ancestors with Natalie Diaz and Ed Roberson
NJPAC Victoria Theater
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- Calendar: New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)
- ThuOct 153:30pm
Making a Life in Poetry: Patricia Smith, Glenis Redmond, Diamond Forde, Peter E. Murphy
NJPAC Victoria Theater
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- Calendar: New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)
- ThuOct 154pm
Jamaica Bay Library·Free
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- Calendar: Brooklyn Public Library
- Free admission
- ThuOct 154:30pm
Thursdays: After School Stories
Flatlands Library·Free
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- Calendar: Brooklyn Public Library
- Free admission
- ThuOct 154:30pm
Thursdays: After School Stories
Saratoga Library·Free
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- Calendar: Brooklyn Public Library
- Free admission
- ThuOct 155pm
Books of Wonder·tickets
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- Calendar: Books of Wonder
- ThuOct 155pm
17th Street Store·tickets
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- Calendar: Books of Wonder
- ThuOct 155pm
LIVE Picture Book Event with DEBORAH DIESEN
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- Calendar: Books of Wonder
- ThuOct 156pm
On Grazia Deledda: Jhumpa Lahiri and Alessandro Giammei
The Italian Academy·Free
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- Calendar: Columbia Italian Academy
- Free admission
- ThuOct 156pm
An Evening with Mathias Énard and Christopher Byrd
Albertine·Free
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- Calendar: Albertine / Cultural Services of the French Embassy
- Free admission
- ThuOct 156pm
DOROTHY LAZARD, AUTHOR OF BEHIND THE DESK AT THE MAIN
MS Teams·Free
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- Calendar: Queens Public Library
- Free admission
- ThuOct 156pm
New Englanders in a New Land Book Launch and Reception
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- Calendar: New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)
- ThuOct 156pm
- ThuOct 156pm
Sounds of Cyprus Presents Dialects | The Greek, Turkish, and Arabic Experience
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) & Online·Free
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- Calendar: New York Public Library
- Free admission
- ThuOct 156pm
The Real Freedom for a Woman: Alba de Céspedes
ICI-NY Conference Room·tickets
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- Calendar: Italian Cultural Institute New York (Istituto Italiano di Cultura)
- ThuOct 156pm
Author Talk: Tim Manley with Peter Aguero
Brooklyn Heights Library
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- Calendar: Brooklyn Public Library
- ThuOct 156pm
- ThuOct 156pm
A Reading and Celebration with CUNY Alum Dr. Ayendy Bonifacio
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- Calendar: Lehman College, CUNY
- ThuOct 156pm
The Real Freedom for a Woman: Alba de Céspedes
Italian Cultural Institute of New York·tickets
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- Calendar: Italian Cultural Institute New York (Istituto Italiano di Cultura)
- ThuOct 156pm
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- Calendar: Queens Public Library
- Free admission
- ThuOct 156:30pm
- ThuOct 156:30pm
- ThuOct 156:30pm
- ThuOct 156:30pm
- ThuOct 156:30pm
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- Calendar: The Collaboratory
- ThuOct 156:30pm
On 2 calendarsLeila Sales presents Encore Performance: An 831 Stories Romance
P&T Knitwear Books & Podcasts·$18
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- On 2 calendars: The Skint, ptknitwear.com
- ThuOct 156:30pm
- ThuOct 156:30pm
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- Calendar: Middle Collegiate Church
- ThuOct 157pm
Strand Book Store·$14
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- Calendar: Strand Book Store
- ThuOct 157pm
Wendy's Subway·Free
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- Calendar: Wendy's Subway
- Free admission
- ThuOct 157pm
Ayad Akhtar: The Radiance w/ Dr. Orna Guralnik
First Unitarian Church
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- Calendar: Books Are Magic
- ThuOct 157pm
- ThuOct 157pm
Ally Carter Brooklyn Event for It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder
The Ripped Bodice - Brooklyn·$29
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- Calendar: therippedbodice.com
- ThuOct 157pm
- ThuOct 15time tbd
Gotham Storytelling Festival 2026
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- Calendar: FRIGID New York / Under St. Marks
- ThuOct 157pm
Book Discussion Group: 'The Good Lord Bird'
The Church of the Village·$5–15
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- Calendar: The Church of the Village
- ThuOct 157pm
On 2 calendarsBook Launch: LUST
POWERHOUSE Arena·$5
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- On 2 calendars: POWERHOUSE Arena, DUMBO Improvement District
- ThuOct 157pm
Carolyn Steinhoff launches Delivered, in conversation with Caitlin Grace McDonnell
Lofty Pigeon Books·Free
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- Calendar: Lofty Pigeon Books
- Free admission
- ThuOct 157pm
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- Calendar: Strand Book Store
- ThuOct 157pm
Reading the City · ×2Esther Yi & Katy Waldman
McNally Jackson Seaport·$5
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- On 2 calendars: Reading the City, McNally Jackson Books
- On 2 calendars
- ThuOct 157pm
BOOK LAUNCH: YOUR BELOVED REMAINS by Quinn Connor
The Twisted Spine·$36
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- Calendar: The Twisted Spine
- ThuOct 157pm
- ThuOct 157pm
Pawn Chess Club at McNally Jackson
McNally Jackson Books at BKLYN STUDIOS.·tickets
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- Calendar: McNally Jackson Books
- ThuOct 157pm
BOOK LAUNCH: SONG IN TAMMUZ BY AVIA TADMOR WITH CARLIE HOFFMAN
Black Spring Books
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- Calendar: Black Spring Books
- ThuOct 157pm
- ThuOct 157:30pm
Rachel Gurjar with Christina Chaey
Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene·tickets
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- Calendar: Greenlight Bookstore
- ThuOct 158pm
Author Event: "Essentially Basque" by Ryan Bartlow and Laurie Woolever
East Village
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- Calendar: bookclubbar.com
- ThuOct 158pm
Reading the CityThe Metropolitan Review Reading Series, Vol. 5
The Bench·Free
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- Calendar: Reading the City
- Free admission
- FriOct 169:30am
New Jeru Slam Team featuring John Burke, Keynote, RADI, and SNC
NJPAC Victoria Theater
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- Calendar: New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)
- FriOct 1610am
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- Calendar: New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)
- FriOct 1611am
LET'S EXPLORE NYC: A BILINGUAL MUSICAL ADVENTURE
Long Island City·Free
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- Calendar: Queens Public Library
- Free admission
- FriOct 1611am
NJPAC Victoria Theater
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- Calendar: New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)
- FriOct 1611:15am
- FriOct 1612:40pm
We Are Not Your Labels: Dena Igusti, walela Nehanda, and Cindy Juyoung Ok
NJPAC Victoria Theater
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- Calendar: New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)
- FriOct 162pm
Creative Ozone: Inside Westbeth’s Legendary Artist Community
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building·Free
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- Calendar: New York Public Library
- Free admission
- FriOct 162pm
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- Calendar: MAS Youth Center
- FriOct 162:10pm
Let Me Show You How It’s Done: Poetry & Performance: Sarah Browning, Jive Poetic, and Noel Quiñones
NJPAC Victoria Theater
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- Calendar: New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)
- FriOct 163pm
- FriOct 163pm
Brooklyn Poets·Free
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- Calendar: brooklynpoets.org
- Free admission
- FriOct 163:30pm
- FriOct 164pm
- FriOct 164pm
On 2 calendarsWorkshop with Migdalia Cruz
NYU
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- On 2 calendars: Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, Bern Dibner Library of Science and Technology
- FriOct 164pm
LIVE Middle Grade Event with ERIK JON SLANGERUP
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- Calendar: Books of Wonder
- FriOct 164pm
- FriOct 165pm
TALK | Yahdon Israel and Claudia Rankine in Conversation
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, NYU·Free
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- Calendar: Reading the City
- Free admission
- FriOct 166pm
Simons Foundation Presents: The Making of Wild Inside
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- Calendar: Flatiron NoMad Partnership
- FriOct 166pm
- FriOct 166pm
Passengers by Alexander Maksik Longlisted for the National Book Award
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- Calendar: Rizzoli Bookstore
- FriOct 166:30pm
Poetry Reading Poetry &: born among mirrors, a rememory with Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Dia Chelsea·Free
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- Calendar: Dia Chelsea
- Free admission
- FriOct 167pm
Strand Book Store·$14
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- Calendar: Strand Book Store
- FriOct 167pm
- FriOct 167pm
Rafael Herrin-Ferri Presents All the Queens Gardens
Kingsland·$5–10
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- Calendar: Queens Historical Society
- FriOct 16time tbd
- FriOct 167pm
Book Launch: Tim Stewart-Winter’s OUTED, in conversation with Hugh Ryan
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- Calendar: bgsqd.com
- FriOct 167pm
Book Launch: Tomorrow I'll Be Happy by Jessica Hische at Columbus Circle
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- Calendar: POWERHOUSE Arena
- FriOct 167pm
- FriOct 168pm
On 2 calendarspatti smith
New Jersey Performing Arts Center·tickets
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- On 2 calendars: Oh My Rockness, New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)
- FriOct 168pm
St. Mark’s Church·$10
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- Calendar: poetryproject.org
- FriOct 168pm
Twisted Hearts Book Club - BONETIDE by Karina Halle
The Twisted Spine·Free
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- Calendar: The Twisted Spine
- Free admission
- FriOct 169pm
- SatOct 17all day
The Lower Eastside Girls Club
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- Calendar: Nuyorican Poets Cafe
- SatOct 179am
- SatOct 179:30am
NJPAC Victoria Theater
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- Calendar: New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)
- SatOct 1710am
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- Calendar: New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)
- SatOct 1710am
Italian Cultural Institute of New York·tickets
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- Calendar: Italian Cultural Institute New York (Istituto Italiano di Cultura)
- SatOct 1710am
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- Calendar: The Church of St. Francis Xavier
- SatOct 1711am
Write to the Mic Dodge Poetry Teen Workshops
Free
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- Calendar: New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)
- Free admission