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Tuesday, August 16
Launch Party for Literary Brooklyn
powerHouse Arena
37 Main Street (at Water Street), Brooklyn, NY 11201
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Drinks, live music, brief readings
Special guests: Michael Thomas, author of the IMPAC Dublin award–winning novel Man Gone Down; Touré, author of the forthcoming book Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?; John Wesley Harding (aka the author Wesley Stace); and Alina Simone, author of You Must Go and Win.
Friday, August 26
Evan Hughes discusses Literary Brooklyn with Nelson George
Greenlight Bookstore
686 Fulton Street (at South Portland Avenue), Brooklyn, NY
6:30 p.m. — Walking tour of Fort Greene literary landmarks. Meet at the bookstore.
7:30 p.m. — A discussion of Brooklyn’s and Fort Greene’s literary history with Brooklyn writer Nelson George, author of the memoir City Kid and the forthcoming novel The Plot Against Hip Hop.
Please come for one or both portions of the event.
Tuesday, September 13
Panel discussion about Brooklyn’s recent history and literature
BookCourt
163 Court Street (between Pacific Street and Dean Street), Brooklyn, NY
7:00 p.m.
Panelists include Evan Hughes, Meghan O’Rourke, Francisco Goldman, and Carl Hancock Rux. Moderated by Cara Cannella.
Sunday, September 18
Brooklyn Book Festival
Brooklyn, NY
1:00 p.m.
More details to be announced.
Saturday, September 24
Speak Easy Series
4:00 p.m. [Rain date Sunday, September 25 at 4 p.m.]
Walking tour of literary landmarks in Brooklyn Heights with Evan Hughes, hosted by Cara Cannella, followed by drinks at The Brooklyn Inn.
More details to be announced.
Saturday, October 1
Reading and discussion
The Ivy Bookshop
6080 Falls Road
Baltimore, MD
6:00 p.m.
Friday, October 28
Paragraph reading series
Reading and discussion
KGB Bar
85 E. 4th Street, New York, NY
7:00 p.m.
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