{"title": "Bountiful: Growing Up with Geraldine Page", "start": "2026-11-17T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Rizzoli", "address": "Broadway 1133, 10010", "price": "$32.00", "price_from": "32.00", "price_to": "32.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/documentary/biography", "literature/memoir", "stage/theatre"], "description": "A conversation at a bookstore celebrating the book 'Bountiful: Growing Up with Geraldine Page', a daughter's memoir about the Oscar-winning film and stage actress Geraldine Page. Angelica Page, the actress's daughter and the book's author, speaks about growing up with her mother. She will be in conversation with F. 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The book is part memoir and part oral history of the TV show Breaking Bad, in which Norris played DEA agent Hank Schrader, with stories and interviews from the cast and crew marking the show’s twentieth anniversary.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dean-norris-clare-mulroy-do-what-youre-gonna-do-86959/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/560f50e9eb2572108abdbe6d5f0d3ddce1e9edd804076187fdda8d3c040d811a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "PAGE BREAK Presents: STAGE BREAK", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-11T22:00:00-05:00", "place": "Littlefield", "address": "Sackett Street 635, 11217 Brooklyn", "price": "$11.79", "price_from": "11.79", "price_to": "11.79", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction"], "description": "STAGE BREAK is a live reading event where four writers read their original short stories with audience members joining them on stage. It is a new edition of the reading series by PAGE BREAK, the only reading series where everyone reads. 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. The lineup features Emma Copley Eisenberg, Kyle Dillon Hertz, Tanaïs and Sara Youngblood Gregory, hosted by Mikey Friedman.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/page-break-presents-stage-break-66794/", "official_url": "https://littlefieldnyc.com/event/?wfea_eb_id=2003222700021", "image": "https://noky.io/images/98eaa38505bc68d9fb3d2c8d71b78a7e00dfadcfbca22ffb17ebd5402340305e-600.webp"}, {"title": "Nathan A. 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