{"title": "2026 National Book Awards Finalist Reading", "start": "2026-11-17T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Skirball Center for the Performing Arts", "address": "LaGuardia Place 566", "price": "$0-$10", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "The 2026 National Book Awards Finalist Reading brings together finalists in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People's Literature to read excerpts from their honored works. Hosted by Traci Thomas, creator and host of the literary podcast The Stacks, the evening takes place the night before the National Book Awards Ceremony. It is presented in partnership with the National Book Foundation and the NYU Creative Writing Program, both in person at NYU Skirball and via livestream. 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Kaminsky will read a selection of poems from Deaf Republic, and the two will also read poetry in translation from Ukraine. Farris is a poet, writer of hybrid forms, and translator whose recent book Standing in the Forest of Being Alive was named one of the Top Ten Books of 2023 by Publishers Weekly.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/skirball-salon-ilya-kaminsky-katie-farris-71791/", "official_url": "https://nyuskirball.org/performance/skirball-salon-ilya-kaminsky-katie-farris/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d93002e45bba2ab2f8d513cf0ab7938e5fe3bdd68541a0ebbc75cecc3bc592e9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Rally Reading Series: Kevin Nguyen, E.Y. Zhao, and Aurora Huiza", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Pete's Candy Store", "address": "709 Lorimer St", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A reading evening of the Rally Reading Series with writers Kevin Nguyen, E.Y. 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Three randomly chosen audience members read each story on stage together with its author, one page at a time, alternating between the four readers, and every attendee receives an exclusive zine with the stories printed in it. 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Gray launches his book The Human Remains at the bookstore Lofty Pigeon Books. He will appear in conversation with Benjamin Schwartz.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/nathan-a-gray-launches-the-human-remains-in-conversation-wit-106755/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0ebdeee763685b06a0098bb3ff4887632598836bc86a591f1e6dc161666ba8ff-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Belladonna Collaborative Poetry Reading and Chaplet Release w/ Sol Cabrini and Joey Baer", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "P.I.T. Records and Books", "address": "South 5th Street 411, 11211 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "A collaborative poetry reading and chaplet release presented by Belladonna. Poets Sol Cabrini and Joey Baer will read, marking the release of a new chaplet. The event takes place at P.I.T. Records and Books in Brooklyn.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/belladonna-collaborative-poetry-reading-and-chaplet-release-81442/", "official_url": "https://www.propertyistheft.org/events/vodnlgfkthm0blk2k3naln81zd5jxg", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4acef40c1a5b5765597615b948ea8a29848bf26cd6dc6ec5f96d883c7f3d4b69-2000.webp"}, {"title": "An Evening with Albert Mobilio", "start": "2026-11-18T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The New School", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "An Evening with Albert Mobilio is a reading at which poet Albert Mobilio sits down with Jennifer Firestone to discuss his new book of poems, Beginning of the Hollow. It is presented by the Creative Writing Program at The New School for Social Research. Mobilio is the author of five books of poetry and a book of fiction, and a recipient of a Whiting Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award. Firestone is a poet and Associate Professor and Chair of Writing at Eugene Lang College.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/an-evening-with-albert-mobilio-88351/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5922b7f483cc71672b336ef5cfe4dd2d34f35af15069ee9fd0fffa163cbf591b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "POST MORE BILLS Closing Party & Reading", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-08T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Howl! Happening", "address": "6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY 10003", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "POST MORE BILLS Closing Party & Reading is a closing party and finale reading with a social at the gallery Howl! Happening. It features readings by Natalia Diaz Jackson, Monique Erickson, Uptown G.I., Emilio Garcia, Valery Oisteanu, and Ilka Scobie. The event marks the finale of POST MORE BILLS.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/post-more-bills-closing-party-reading-108875/", "official_url": "https://www.howlarts.org/event/post-more-bills-closing-party-reading/", "image": ""}]}