Monday, May 7 Bell House in Gowanus

149 7^th Street, $8 at 7:30 pm (early or not at all)

The Moth talks about mamas

Tuesday, May 8 McNally Jackson in NoLita OR Word in Greenpoint

52 Prince Street at 7pm

Writing & Editing in The Americas: John Reed, Justin Taylor, Carlos Labbe, Andrés Neuman, Craig Epplin

OR

126 Franklin St at 7pm

State of modern media with NPR’s Brooke Gladstone and artist Josh Neufeld

Wednesday, May 9 Rizzoli Bookstore in Midtown

31 W 57th Street between 5th & 6th ave at 5:30pm 

Rory O’Connor hates on social media

Thursday, May 10 Renegade Reading in Crown Heights

Launchpad, 721 Franklin Avenue, wine from 8am, readings from 9pm

**Who’s reading?? YOURS TRULY. Truly, I’m yours. Je te promets.

Friday, May 11 Book Court in Cobble Hill

163 Court Street, 7pm

Lizz Winstead, Daily Show co-creator, reads from Lizz Free or Die

Monday, May 14 Franklin Park in Crown Heights

618 St John’s Place between Classon & Franklin at 8pm 

Lit journal & small press night with Elissa Schappell, Robert Lopez, Mike Klee, Jac Jemc, Daniel Long

**Voted one of NYC’s best reading series by TimeOut

Tuesday, May 15 B&N in Union Square

Barnes & Noble in Union Square at 7pm (early)

Billy Bob Thornton talks about his book with co-author, Kinky Friedman.

Thursday, May 17 Pete’s Candy Store in Williamsburg

709 Lorimer St at 7:30 pm

Jim Shepard and Catherine Chung 

Saturday, May 19 Lit Crawl in Cobble Hill

Up & down Smith Street from 6 to 8pm

“Book lovers will take to the streets of Brooklyn for an evening of crawling with cocktails, trivia, and blowing things up (you read that right).”

Monday, May 21 KGB Bar in the East Village

85 East 4th Street at 7pm

“What does it mean to be a grown-up?” definitively answered by Rob Neill, Daniel McCoy, Kevin R. Free, Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor, Meg Bashwiner

Tuesday, May 22 Housing Works in Soho OR The Woods in Williamsburg

126 Crosby Street at 7pm

Granta’s “Britain” release party with Tania James y la musíca: dancehall to dubstep

OR

48 South 4th Street (btw Kent & Wythe) at 7pm

Plougshares Spring Issue reading hosted by Nick Flynn with: Mary Morris, Maria Venegas, Eric Fair, Kelle Groom, Melissa Sandor, Danielle Blau, Patricia Caspers, Michael Dumanis, Monica Ferrell, Michael Klein, Eileen Myles, Gregory Pardlo, James Tolan, Suzanne Wise, and Ronnie Yates.

Wednesday, May 23 Word in Greenpoint

126 Franklin St at 7pm

PANK lit mag reading with Mensah Demary, Sean Doyle, Jennifer Pashley, Robb Todd, M.G. Martin, Tess Patalano, and PANK co-editor Roxane Gay.

Thursday, May 24 B&N in Union Square

Barnes & Noble in Union Square at 7pm (early)

Jimmy Fallon reads from Thank You Notes 2

Tuesday May 29 Housing Works in Soho OR 2A in East Village

126 Crosby Street at 7pm

Adam Green, teen girl band Supercute! launch The Lowbrow Reader Reader 

AND/OR

25 Avenue A at 8pm

Fiction Addiction with Dale Peck, Jennifer Gilmore, Terese Svoboda, Eric Sasson

Wednesday, May 30 McNally Jackson in NoLita OR Greenlight in Fort Greene

52 Prince Street at 7pm

Creativity and Curation in the Digital Age with Austin Kleon, Maud Newton, Maria Popova, Maris Kreizman

OR

686 Fulton Street (at South Portland) at 7:30 pm

What is Der Internet?? with Wired’s Andrew Blum and editor Matt Weiland

Thursday, May 31 Center for Fiction in Theatre District

17 East 47th Street at 7pm

John Cheever read by Susan Minot, Rick Moody, and Elizabeth Strout 

Monday, April 2 Doubleheader 

Book Court in Cobble Hill, 163 Court St, Brooklyn at 7pm

Sackett Street Writer’s 10^th Birthday Bash: Joseph Bernardo, Abby Sher, Adam Wilson, Jenny Zhang

PowerHouse in Dumbo, 37 Main Street at 7pm

The Social Media Reader: Michael Mandiberg, Ceci Moss, David Horvitz

Tuesday, April 3 McNally Jackson in NoLita

52 Prince Street at 7pm

“Imagining Peace in an Age of Empire”: David Swanson, John Horgan, Jackson Lears and Mark Crispin Miller on war

Wednesday, April 4 Greenlight in Fort Greene

686 Fulton Street (at South Portland) at 7:30pm

The Long Goodbye (paperback launch): memoir by Meghan O’Rourke

Wednesday, April 11 PowerHouse in Dumbo

37 Main Street at 7pm

Book Launch: Dust to Dust, memoir by Benjamin Busch

Thursday, April 12 PowerHouse in Dumbo

37 Main Street at 7pm

Book Launch: When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man by Nick Dybek

*ALERT: Friends with the author. I mean it.   

Sunday April 15 The Back Room in the LES

120 Norfolk from 8pm to 2am, $10

Poetry Brothel: Noir-themed burlesque poetry show

Monday, April 16 Franklin Park in Crown Heights

618 St John’s Place at 8pm

Night of Betrayal: Heidi Julavits, Touré, Fiona Maazel, Joseph Riippi, Leah Umansky

*RECOGNIZE: Official Franklin Park Reading Series intern = moi

Wednesday, April 18 McNally Jackson in NoLita

52 Prince Street at 7pm

Lifespan of a Fact: John D’Agata in conversation with Jim Fingal and Heidi Julavits

*SCANDAL! Most talked about/controversial nonfiction book in recent memory

Thursday, April 19 Center for Fiction in the Theatre District (?)

17 East 47th Street at 7pm

Noon 2012 Launch Party: Deb Olin Unferth, Clancy Martin, Ann Dewitt, Ted Kritikos, Lauren Spohrer, James Yeh

Friday, April 20 Joe’s Pub in Noho

425 Lafayette Street at 7pm, $12

Ploughshares Lit Mag 40th anniversary: Nick Flynn, Jim Shepard, Elizabeth Strout, Yusef Komunyakaa, Margot Livesey 

Monday, April 23: World Book Night

*SPRING SANTA: I’ll be giving away 20 copies of Junot Diaz’ A Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Tuesday, April 24 B&N in Union Square

Barnes & Noble in Union Square at 7pm (arrive early) 

Madeleine Albright reads from Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937 through 1948

Wednesday, April 25 St. Mark’s at Astor Place

31 Third Avenue (at 9th Street) at 7pm

Kick Ass Women Writers: Kate Zambreno, Trinie Dalton & Masha Tupitsyn

Wednesday, March 14 McNally Jackson in NoLita

52 Prince Street, 7pm (arrive early)

Check it: Funny people say supposedly true, funny things.

Peep! Mike Doughty, Simon Doonan, Jullianne Smolinski, Steve Zimmer, Colin Nissan 

Friday, March 16 Nuyorican Poets Cafe dans East Village

236 East 3rd St at 7pm, $10 at the door

Check it: Lady slam poets rock it, celebrate their wins at the Women in the World competition

Peep! Mahogany L. Browne, Vanessa Hidary, Natalage Davis, Arielle John, Eboni Hogan, Caroline Rothstein, Alex Ustach, Leesah Velasquez, Joanna Hoffman, Whitney Greenaway

Sunday, March 18 Word in Greenpoint

126 Franklin St, Brooklyn, 2pm

Check it: Walking tour in Greenpoint with author and photographer Frank Jump, who has been documenting the fading ads that are visible, but less often seen, all over New York for the last twenty years.

Tuesday, March 20 B&N in Union Square

Barnes & Noble in Union Square, 7pm (arrive early)

Check it: Funny lady Anne Lamott reads from her latest: Some Assembly Required A Journal of My Son’s First Son

Thursday, March 22 Book Court in Cobble Hill

163 Court St, Brooklyn, 7 pm

Check it: Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein, on the nature of memory in our celly phoned world

Friday, March 23Launchpad in Crown Heights

721 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn, 8-11pm

Check it: Fundraiser for new literary magazine Crown Journal 

Sunday, March 25 Cakeshop inLES

152 Ludlow St, 2-5pm

Check it: Mixer Reading Series turns five years old!

Peep! Elana Bell, Richard Hell, Elissa Schappell, Rob Sheffield, Colson Whitehead, Tiphanie Yanique, Music by Rifle Recoil

Monday, March 26 Housing Works in Soho

126 Crosby Street, 7pm, $10

Check it: Cheryl Strayed, of The Rumpus’ Dear Sugar column, launches her memoir, Wild

Peep! Cheryl Strayed, Pam Houston, Paul Lisicky, Mary Beth Williams, Stephen Elliott, Elyssa East, Max Fenton, Emily St. John Mandel, Alexander Chee, Gabrielle Hamilton, Aryn Kyle, David Gutowski

Friday, March 30 Book Court in Cobble Hill

163 Court St, Brooklyn, 7 pm

Check it: Brooklyn Writers Read in Brooklyn but not about Brooklyn

Peep! Matthew Aquilone, Donnaldson Brown, Terence Degnan, Marian Fontana

Tuesday, February 7: Book Court in Cobble Hill

163 Court St, Brooklyn, 7 pm

Whaaa? Granta 118: Exit Strategies release party

Who? John Freeman, Judy Chicurel, Vanessa Manko, Claire Messud, Susan Minot

Wednesday, February 8: While I FOMO, you should:

Moth Mainstage

McNally Jackson Real Characters

Happy Ending

Monday, February 13: Franklin Park in Crown Heights

618 St John’s Place btw Classon and Franklin Ave, 8-10pm

Whaaa? Franklin Park Reading Series: Subversive love

Who? Ben Marcus, Martha Southgate, Kate Zambreno, Chiara Barzini, Will Snider

**Disclosure: As an official FPRS intern, I’m now a shameless promoter in the nefarious business of listening to people read for free

Tuesday, February 14: Melville House in DUMBO

145 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn, 6:30 PM

Whaaa? Memoirs in the Digital Age by The Atavist 

Who? Clive Thompson, Cris Beam, David Dobbs

Wednesday, February 15: Greenlight in Fort Green

686 Fulton Street (at South Portland), Brooklyn, 7:30pm

Whaaa? Fort Greene’s Black Writers: A Neighborhood History

Who? Nelson George, Carl Hancock Rux, Martha Southgate, John Lee

Thursday, February 16: KGB Bar

85 East 4th Street, East Village, 7-9pm

Whaaa? Drunken! Careening! Writers! All readings should be by: 1) Good Writers; 2) Who read their work well; 3) Something in it makes people laugh (nervous laughter counts). And 15 minutes tops.

Who? Jacob Appel, Lisa Ferber, David Pratt

Monday, February 20: St Mark’s at Astor Place

31 Third Avenue (at 9th Street), 7pm

Whaaa? Muumuu House reading

Who? Megan Boyle, Brandon Scott Gorrell, Giancarlo DiTrapano, Spencer Madsen, Marie Calloway, Tao Lin

Tuesday, February 21: Book Court in Cobble Hill

163 Court St, Brooklyn, 7 pm

Whaaa & Who? Adam Wilson launches his novel Flatscreen

Thursday, February 23: The Moth at Housing Works

126 Crosby Street, 7pm $8 (arrive early) Tix available soon 

Whaaa? The Moth’s StorySlam: Bosses

Who? Could be you!

Monday, January 9: Franklin Park Reading Series @FranklinParkBK

618 St John’s Place btw Classon and Franklin Ave, Brooklyn, 8-10pm

Plot: Short Fiction Night

Cast: Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask; Gary Lutz, author of The Divorcer; Catherine Lacey, in The Believer, @catherinelazer; Mitch Levenberg, in The Saint Ann’s Review, @mitch_levenberg; Christine Vines, from Fiction Addiction

Tuesday, January 10: powerHouse Arena @powerhousearena

37 Main Street, Brooklyn (Dumbo), 7-9pm

Plot: Actor Aasif Mandavi (The Daily Show) joins the multi-talented Ayad Akhtar (@AyadAkhtar) for a staged reading from his debut novel at American Dervish

Wednesday, January 11: Real Characters at McNally Jackson @mcnallyjackson

52 Prince Street, Manhatts, 7pm

Plot: Moth-esque semi-true storytelling performance by comic writer types

Cast: Larry Doyle, The Simpsons, @thelarrydoyle; Ophira Eisenberg: Moth StorySLAM host, @ophirae; Jillian Lauren, author, @jillianlauren; Frank Lesser, Colbert Report, @sadmonsters; Starlee Kine, This American Life, @starleekine

Tuesday, January 17: Word @wordbrooklyn

126 Franklin St, Brooklyn (Greenpoint), 7pm

Plot: Booze, Books and Brownies with the Women of Wenner Media

Cast: Gwen Cooper, author of Homer’s Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale; Kate Rockland, author of 150 pounds, @katerockland; Gillian Telling, author of Dirty Girls: The Naked Truth about our Guilty Secrets, @gilliantelling

Wednesday, January 18: Moth Mainstage @themoth

155 Varick St, Manhatts (City Winery), Doors 6pm, Show 7:30pm, Tickets avail soon

Plot: Annual MothShop All-Star Review

Tuesday, January 24: Barnes & Noble Tribeca @BNBuzz

97 Warren Street, Manhatts, 6pm

Plot: Stephen Fry (@stephenfry) reads from his autobiography The Fry Chronicles

Thursday, January 26: Greenlight Bookstore @greenlightbklyn

686 Fulton Street (at South Portland), Brooklyn, 7:30pm

Plot: Contributors read from The Moment: Wild, Poignant, Life-Changing Stories from 125 Writers and Artists Famous & Obscure

Cast: Larry Smith (host): SMITH Magazine, Six-Word Memoir, @larrysmith; Julie Metz, author of Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal, @juliemetzwriter; Said Sayrafiezadeh, author of When Skateboards Will Be Free, @sayrafiezadeh; Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black: My Year Inside a Women’s Prison, @Piper; Gillian Laub, author of Testimony; Colin Nissan, author of Don’t Be That Guy, @Cnissan; Josh Axelrad, author of Repeat Until Rich, @jjjooooossshhh