{"title": "Book Launch: Phrased and Confused by Eli Burnstein", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "PowerHouse Arena", "address": "Adams Street 28, 11201 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/powerhousebookstores/book-launch-phrased-and-confused-by-eli-burnstein", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/humor"], "description": "A book launch celebrating the publication of a new work of humor writing. The author is Eli Burnstein, a humor writer who contributes to The New Yorker and McSweeney's Internet Tendency and hosts the popular event Spelling Bee. His book, Phrased & Confused: The Curious Meanings of Timeless Quotations, unpacks commonly misunderstood and enigmatic quotations, revealing what they really mean and why they still matter. 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It takes place as part of the store's evening author program.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/priyanka-mattoo-how-to-be-less-useful-w-radhika-jones-71057/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Does This Taste Funny?", "start": "2026-09-08T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-13T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Lehman College", "address": "Bedford Park Boulevard West 250, 10468 Bronx", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "comedy/satire"], "description": "A two-venue group exhibition showing work by 40 contemporary artists, with an installment at the Lehman College Art Gallery. It is curated by Melissa Brown, who teaches in the Department of Art at Lehman College, CUNY, and John O'Connor, faculty in the Visual and Studio Arts Program at Sarah Lawrence College. 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Tiago Forte, the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Building a Second Brain and The PARA Method, presents his method for regaining clarity on life, values, and goals. The book centers on the ARC Method—Appreciate the Past, Reflect on the Present, and Create the Future—turning the annual life review into a step-by-step practice through guided journaling and reflection. Carroll is the New York Times bestselling author and inventor of The Bullet Journal Method.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/book-launch-at-columbus-circle-life-in-perspective-by-tiago-54917/", "official_url": "https://powerhousearena.com/events/book-launch-life-in-perspective-by-tiago-forte-in-conversation-with-ryder-carroll/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/43b0cc4cef95137eb6d83543de58f9970b351545af51406cbaac82b9576fed04-600.webp"}, {"title": "Poetry Double Feature: John Bonanni and Stephen S. 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Author Anna Hezel, a food journalist, talks with Christine Sahadi Whelan, cookbook author and co-owner and culinary director of Sahadi's. The evening ends with a reception and book signing, and signed copies can be preordered for pickup or shipping.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/anna-hezel-launches-the-little-book-of-olives-in-conversatio-53625/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1a42e84ab44cde6bd075836e48c82de84d887213b171f61dc59f25a6eeaa7be7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Book Launch: In Good Taste by Kit Keenan in conversation with Eli Rallo", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "PowerHouse Arena", "address": "Adams Street 28, 11201 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "38.00", "tickets_url": "https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/powerhousebookstores/book-launch-in-good-taste-by-kit-keenan-in-conversation-with-eli-rallo", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["food-drink/cooking", "literature"], "description": "A book launch at a Brooklyn bookstore arena celebrating the cookbook In Good Taste, with Kit Keenan in conversation with Eli Rallo. 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