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Non-Motivational Speakers Series


JLA Studios

63 Pearl Street

Brooklyn

7:30 pm

Free


Molly Crabapple

Dr. Sketchy’s Official Rainy Day Colouring Book (Sepulculture Books, $20)


Joshua Neufeld

A Few Perfect Hours (Alternative Comics, $12.95)


Illustration is the theme for this month’s installment of the Non-Motivational Speakers Series.  Molly Crabapple, author of Dr. Sketchy’s Official Rainy Day Colouring Book, and founder of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School will discuss her process.  Joshua Neufield, author of the graphic novel A Few Perfect Hours, will discuss his work as well.


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Earshot


Rose Live Music

345 Grand Street

Williamsburg, Brooklyn

8:00 pm

$5 admission gets you one free drink


CA Conrad

Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, $12.95)


Liza Monroy

Mexican High (Spiegel & Grau, $14)


Tim Peterson

Since I Moved In (Chax Press, $16)


The Earshot reading series features CA Conrad, Liza Monroy, and Tim Peterson tonight.  Conrad’s Advanced Elvis Course is all about his fascination with Elvis, while Oscar Hijuelos hails Monroy’s Mexican High as “spirited, harrowing, and utterly compelling.”  Peterson’s Since I Moved In is his first collection of poems.


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Queens Library


Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center of Queens Library

100-01 Northern Blvd

2:00 pm

Free


Jeffrey Babcock Perry

Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1913 (Columbia University Press, $37.50)


Jeffrey Babcock Perry appears at the Queens Library this afternoon to discuss his biography of Hubert Harrison.  Booklist praises Perry for his “detailed research” that “brings to life a transformative figure who has been little recognized for his contributions to progressive race and class politics.”

Polaris North Theater


Polaris North Theater

245 West 29th Street

3:00 pm


Stacy Horn

Unbelievable (Ecco, $24.99)


Stacy Horn, NPR contributor, appears at the Polaris North Theater this afternoon to discuss her book Unbelievable.   Unbelievable is Horn’s study of the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory’s investigations into the paranormal.  A spooky afternoon not to be missed!

Franklin Park Reading Series


Franklin Park

618 St. John’s Place

Brooklyn

8:00 pm

Free


Rachel Shukert

Have You No Shame? And Other Regrettable Stories (Villard Books, $14)


Felicia Sullivan

The Sky Isn’t Visible From Here (Harper Perennial, $13.99)


The Franklin Park Reading Series focuses on memoir this evening.  The Los Angeles Times hailed Rachel Shukert’s Have You No Shame?, saying “Shukert's sharp comic turns careen smack into the middle of our hearts.” Felicia Sullivan’s The Sky Isn’t Visible From Here recounts her relationship with her drug-addicted mother and its affects on her. Publishers Weekly called it “a poignant memoir.”


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Other Means Reading Series


Flying Saucer Cafe

494 Atlantic Avenue

Brooklyn

8:00 pm


James Hannaham

God Says No (McSweeney’s Books, $22)


Karan Mahajan

Family Planning (Harper Perennial, $13.95)


James Hannaham and Karan Mahajan appear at the Other Means Reading Series this evening. Steve Martin praised Hannaham’s new book, God Says No, as “a
revelatory and sympathetic guide to a misunderstood world."
Publishers Weekly calls Mahajan’s Family Planning “irresistable.”

Word for Word Reading Series


Bryant Park

42nd and 5th Avenue

Under the burgundy umbrellas

12:30 pm

Free


Peter Terzian

Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives (Harper Perennial, $14.99)


Peter Terzian and several of the contributors to Heavy Rotation will appear at Bryant Park’s Word for Word Reading Series this afternoon.  Booklist calls Heavy Rotation “a must for literary-minded pop fans.”


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92Y Tribeca


92Y Tribeca

200 Hudson Street

9:00 pm

$10


Andy Borowitz

Who Moved My Soap? The CEO’s Guide to Surviving in Prison: Bernie Madoff Edition (Simon & Schuster, $10.95)


Andy Borowitz appears this evening as part of the 92Y Tribeca’s Comedy Under Canal series.  Borowitz’s Who Moved My Soap? was hailed by Booklist for its “pitch perfect rendition of the vacuities of some business books.”  Borowitz’s comedy routine will be based on the book.


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Polestar Reading Series


Cake Shop

152 Ludlow Street

5:00 pm

Free


Brandon Scott Gorrelll

During My Nervous Breakdown I Want to Have a Biographer Present  (Muumuu House, $12)


Ellen Kennedy

Sometimes My Heart Pushes My Ribs (Muumuu House, $12)


Polestar Reading Series presents two Muumuu House poets this evening, Brandon Scott Gorrell, and Ellen Kennedy.  Matthew Rohrer said of Gorrell’s poems, “I like these poems. I really do. They made me laugh.”  Daniel Handler calls Kennedy’s poems “declarative, nervous, wild and free.”


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Scribblers on the Roof


Anse Chesed

200 West End Avenue at 100th Street

8:00 pm

Free


Anya Ulinich

Petropolis (Penguin Books, $14)


Elisa Albert

The Book of Dahlia (Free Press, $14)


Anya Ulinich and Elisa Albert appear this evening at Anse Chesed’s Scribblers on the Roof series.  The Los Angeles Times called Ulinich’s Petropolis “engaging, funny, and genuinely moving in all the right places.”  Publishers Weekly called The Book of Dahlia “hilarious and heartbreaking.”

New York Tech Meet Up


Fashion Institute of Technology

Haft Auditorium

27th Street at 7th Avenue

7:00 pm


Douglas Rushkoff

Life, Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back (Random House, $26)


Douglas Rushkoff will appear at the New York Tech Meet Up this evening.  Booklist calls Rushkoff’s new book, Life, Inc. “an excellent, thought-provoking book.”


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Happy Ending Reading and Music Series


Joe’s Pub

425 Lafayette Street

7:00 pm

$15


Kevin Canty

Where the Money Went (Nan A. Talese, $25)


Binnie Kirshenbaum

The Scenic Route (Harper Perennial, $13.95)


Nick Laird

Glover’s Mistake (Viking, $25.95)


The Happy Ending Reading and Music Series features Kevin Canty, Binnie Kirshenbaum, and Nick Laird this evening.  Publishers Weekly hails Canty’s Where the Money Went for “skillfully examining infidelity and the range of directions life can take.”  Time Out New York called Kirshenbaum’s The Scenic Route “introspective, mordant and entertaining.”  Publishers Weekly called Laird’s Glover’s Mistake “schadenfreude-fun.”  Elvis Perkins is the musical guest.


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Roots and Vines Cafe


Roots and Vines Cafe

409 Grand Street at Clinton

7:30 pm

Free


Liza Monroy

Mexican High (Spiegal & Grau, $14)


Liza Monroy appears at the Roots and Vines Cafe this evening to read from her new book Mexican High this evening.  Susan Shapiro calls Mexican High “hot, hilarious, and heartbreaking all at the same time.”


Vol. 1 Brooklyn


Bar Matchless

557 Manhattan Avenue

Greenpoint, Brooklyn

8:00 pm


Bob Powers

The Terrible, Horrible Temp-to-Perm Debacle (St. Martin’s Press, $13.99)


Bob Powers appears at the Vol. 1 Brooklyn series tonight to read from the latest book in his Just Make a Choice! series,  a parody of the classic Choose Your Own Adventure series.  Paul Feig calls Bob Powers “a comedy genius.”


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Half King Reading Series


Half King

505 W. 23rd Street

7:00 pm

Free


Daniel Asa Rose

Larry’s Kidney (William Morrow & Co., $25.99)


Daniel Asa Rose appears at Half King tonight to read from his new memoir, Larry’s Kidney, an account of his trip to China to help his black sheep cousin get a kidney transplant - and a mail order bride.


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International Center


International Center

50 W. 23rd Street

7:00 pm

Free


Porochista Khakpour

Sons and Other Flammable Objects (Grove Press, $14)


John Wray

Lowboy (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, $25)


The International Center hosts Porochista Khakpour and John Wray this evening.  Khakpour’s Sons and Other Flammable Objects was hailed by the New Yorker for its “exuberant originality.”  Publishers Weekly called Wray’s Lowboy “captivating.”


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Mixer Series


Cake Shop

152 Ludlow Street

7:00 pm


Fiona Maazel

Last Last Chance (Picador, $15)


Monica Youn

Barter (Graywolf Press, $14)


The Mixer Series presents Fiona Maazel and Monica Youn this evening.  The New York Times Book Review called Maazel’s Last Last Chance “moving, buoyant, and utterly true.”  Publishers Weekly calls Youn’s Barter “a decadent decade’s blowback.”