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