{"title": "Dorinda Medley + Ross Mathews: I Know a Thing or Two About a Thing or Two", "start": "2026-11-18T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Strand Bookstore", "address": "Broadway 2020, 10023 New York", "price": "35.66 USD", "price_from": "35.66", "price_to": "35.66", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/non-fiction"], "description": "A book release event at Strand Book Store featuring Dorinda Medley, an author, TV personality and entrepreneur, discussing her new book. Emmy Award-winning TV host and producer Ross Mathews moderates the conversation, held in the store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room. Medley's book, 'I Know a Thing or Two About a Thing or Two', offers practical life advice on confidence, resilience, entertaining, money, grief, dating after fifty and more. 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The talk takes place at the shop's Brooklyn location.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/akbar-shahid-ahmed-and-rozina-ali-discuss-crossing-the-red-l-51405/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Storytime w/ David Ezra Stein: Interrupting Chicken Raises Her Wing", "start": "2026-11-07T11:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Books Are Magic", "address": "Smith Street 225, 11231 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/childrens-books"], "description": "A children's storytime at the bookstore Books Are Magic, where author-illustrator David Ezra Stein reads from his new picture book. 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