Events

Here are some literary events to jump-start your week. To get your event posted on our calendar, visit our Facebook Your Literary Event page. Please announce your event one week prior to its date.

Author Alix Kates Shulman will appear at the powerHouse Arena to discuss her latest book. See her on Tuesday, May 22nd starting 7 p.m. (Brooklyn, NY)

“PC” guy/humor author John Hodgman and Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert will be headlining a conversation event at the New York Public Library. Join them on Tuesday, May 22nd at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building starting 7 p.m. (New York, NY)

“How I Learned to Stick to My Guns” will take place at the Happy Ending Lounge. Check it out on Wednesday, May 23rd starting 8 p.m. (New York, NY)

Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews.

BookExpo America (BEA) arrives New York City’s Jacob Javits Center in early June.

To prep for the conference, 50 Shames of Earl Grey author Andrew Shaffer (a.k.a. EvilWylie) has compiled the “Ultimate BEA Party Guide,” collecting all the parties planned for the week. You can email the author to add your party.

Follow this link to explore Shaffer’s comprehensive list. Which parties will you attend? Besides the parties, what BEA panels are you excited about?

Here are some literary events to jump-start your week. To get your event posted on our calendar, visit our Facebook Your Literary Event page. Please announce your event one week prior to its date.

The next installment of the Franklin Park Reading Series will feature readings from Elissa Schappell, Robert Lopez, Miles Klee, Jac Jemc and Daniel Long. Join them on Monday, May 14th at the Franklin Park Bar & Beer Garden starting 8 p.m. (Brooklyn, NY)

City Lights Bookstore presents “Inside/Out: A Celebration of the Poetry of Marilyn Buck.” Check it out on Wednesday, May 16th starting 7 p.m. (San Francisco, CA)

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Here are some literary events to jump-start your week. To get your event posted on our calendar, visit our Facebook Your Literary Event page. Please announce your event one week prior to its date.

Books of Wonder will be hosting a launch party for YA author Amy Plum‘s latest title, Until I Die. Party it up on Tuesday, May 8th from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. (New York, NY)

YA author Cassandra Clare will appear at a launch party for book five of the Mortal Instruments series, City of Lost Souls. Join in on Tuesday, May 8th at the Pfeiffer Hall at North Central College starting 7 p.m. (Naperville, IL)

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Here are some literary events to end your week with. To get your event posted on our calendar, visit our Facebook Your Literary Event page. Please announce your event one week prior to its date.

The Poetry Foundation will host a night poetry and music with German writer Tzveta Sofronieva and Swiss saxophonist Sam Burckhardt. Check it out on Thursday, May 3rd starting 6 p.m. (Chicago, IL)

Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor of the London Review of Books, will discuss the processes of retrieving, curating, and presenting history. Hear her on Thursday, May 3rd at 192 Books starting 7 p.m. (New York, NY)

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Here are some literary events to jump-start your week. To get your event posted on our calendar, visit our Facebook Your Literary Event page. Please announce your event one week prior to its date.

Tonight (April 23), poet laureate Philip Levine and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith will read at Housing Works Bookstore at 7 pm, part of Alfred A. Knopf and Tumblr’s Poem-a-Day celebration. (New York, NY)

Join Write On! Online’s Debra Eckerling, mediabistro.com’s Jason Boog, and Capital Group Companies Global’s Michelle Thatcher for a cocktail party at Whiskey Blue on Tuesday, April 24th starting at 7 p.m. (Los Angeles, CA)

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Here are some literary events to jump-start your week. To get your event posted on our calendar, visit our Facebook Your Literary Event page. Please announce your event one week prior to its date.

Comic artists Christoph Niemann and Francoise Mouly will headline a conversation event at The Strand. Check it out on Tuesday, April 17th starting 7 p.m. (New York, NY)

Lesley Kinzel will read from her book Two Whole Cakes. Hear her on Wednesday, April 18th at the Bluestockings Bookstore, Café, & Activist Center starting 7 p.m. (New York, NY)

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Here are some literary events to jump-start your week. To get your event posted on our calendar, visit our Facebook Your Literary Event page. Please announce your event one week prior to its date.

Legendary singer Carole King will talk about her new memoir, A Natural Woman at the Union Square Barnes & Noble. Hear her on Tuesday, April 10th starting 7 p.m. (New York, NY)

Scientist and author E.O. Wilson will headline a NYPL Live event called “The Social Conquest of Earth.” See him on Tuesday, April 10th at the NYPL’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building starting 7 p.m. (New York, NY)

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Here are some literary events to jump-start your week. To get your event posted on our calendar, visit our Facebook Your Literary Event page. Please announce your event one week prior to its date.

The next installment of New York Public Library’s TeenLIVE program asks, “Could you survive in a YA dystopia?” Find out at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on Wednesday, March 28th starting 6 p.m. (New York, NY)

Gail Rae, author of What Is It And How Did I Get It? Early Stage Chronic Kidney Disease, will be appearing at the 21st Annual Chattanooga Renal Symposium. Join her at the Historic Sheraton Read House on Thursday, March 29th. (Chattanooga, TN)

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On Saturday (March 24th), this GalleyCat editor will talk about digital books at the premiere of Kari Moran‘s BookRadio Show at The Writers Junction in Santa Monica.

Here’s more from the release: “Guest authors on the premiere show include Karen Karbo, who’s penned several New York Times Notable Books and who’s latest is How Georgia Became O’Keeffe – Lessons On The Art of Living; Award-winning theater and TV actress Karen Kondazian with the debut novel is The Whip – inspired by the true story of Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Parkhurst and attorney Richard Watts, author of Fables of Fortune – What The Rich Have That You Don’t Want.”

Follow this link to buy tickets. The show will include blues and rock music by Runaway Truck Ramp.