{"title": "Desire & Thresholds: Erotic Review Issue 6 Launch", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-12T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Chapters", "address": "Wilsnacker Straße 60, 10559", "price": "€5", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A launch evening for the sixth issue of the Erotic Review, titled „Thresholds“. Founder and publisher Lucy Roeber, deputy editor Saskia Vogel and writer Vijay Khurana read and talk about desire, sex writing and literature. Khurana reads from a new story about a Brooklyn and Berlin love affair. 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Up to five queer authors from Berlin give appreciative feedback, together with the audience, in a moderated session lasting 120 minutes. The workshops make visible how many decisions lie behind writing that is often solitary, and they also serve to network queer writers, especially those just starting out. 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The German passages will be read by the actress Veronika Bachfischer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/buchpremiere-olivia-laing-buch-der-traume-11976/", "official_url": "https://georg-kolbe-museum.de/programm/veranstaltungen/buchpremiere-olivia-laing-buch-der-traeume/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/963dfc3ce2312221f7c1557dd52600717f2b139338417b53806f2bc00df01532-2000.webp"}, {"title": "VOCI IN TRANSITO (it)", "start": "2026-11-07T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Buchhandlung a Livraria", "address": "Torstraße 159, 10115 Berlin", "price": "Freies Angebot / free donation", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/italian-literature"], "description": "A literary reading with Italian authors in Berlin. Lucia Camilloni, Fedra Mincio, Linda Nocera and Daniela Porto read short stories, excerpts from novels, poems and reflections. They tell of being in transit between Berlin, Italy and the world, of changes and challenges, and of the wish to give voice to their own voice and uniqueness. Afterwards there will be an open discussion between the authors and the audience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/voci-in-transito-it-13461/", "official_url": "https://www.mondolibro.de/p/sa-07-11-2026i-17-uhr-i-voci-in-transito-it", "image": "https://noky.io/images/34dbca9a64865198ba619a56aa6b939de87297a02ef8747a3b3b1414146a5dee-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Lesershow Revival – Eine Lesebühne kehrt zurück!", "start": "2026-11-07T20:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Mastul", "address": "Liebenwalder Straße 33, 13347 Berlin", "price": "Frei / Spende", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/reading"], "description": "A reading stage with texts and songs is returning to the Mastul. Thilo Bock, Martin Goldenbaum, Robert Rescue and Frank Sorge come back with new texts and songs, combining the glamour of earlier days with today's sparkle. Expect lively announcements, plugs for books and records, and good old analog cheer to sway along to. A traditional donation of at least €10 (20 marks) is suggested to keep the gentlemen in good shape.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesershow-revival-eine-lesebuhne-kehrt-zuruck-23563/", "official_url": "https://mastul.de/mastulevent/lesershow-revival-eine-lesebuehne-kehrt-zurueck-2026-11-07/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e07cc3b055f31474c3ae1bcf9791f795e418bad0be0dacef69433f0fbb22910-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Rage Girl. 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They discuss how anger can be told – between self-empowerment, self-destruction and solidarity – and what the boom in angry women in novels reveals about our present.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/rage-girl-zur-literatur-der-wut-75806/", "official_url": "https://lfbrecht.de/event/rage-girl-zur-literatur-der-wut/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0bab6d050e8c36e82388d90a188d575002b1e463034bafca6c40a3dfd800b655-600.webp"}]}