{"title": "Flat Earth", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T19:30:00-05:00", "place": "Rizzoli", "address": "Broadway 1133, 10010", "price": "", "price_from": "26.00", "price_to": "26.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.rizzolibookstore.com/category/foreign-literature/italian-childrens-books", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/novel/contemporary-novel"], "description": "A book event celebrating the paperback release of \"Flat Earth\", a debut novel about female friendship and the New York art scene. Author Anika Jade Levy will be in conversation with Lili Anolik, followed by a signing. 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Novelist Avni Doshi presents her book \"The First House\" in conversation with Elizabeth Winkler. The book is praised as \"[a] beautiful book that delights in resisting its readers' expectations\" by Rumaan Alam. The event lasts about an hour.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/avni-doshi-the-first-house-w-elizabeth-winkler-51408/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Jennifer Sklias-Gahan Discusses and Signs THE HOUSE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET!", "start": "2026-10-29T18:30:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Barnes & Noble", "address": "Atlantic Avenue 194, 11201 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction"], "description": "An in-store author event where Jennifer Sklias-Gahan discusses and signs her book. 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Authors Max Fischer and David Levithan discuss their process in an evening all about the books. It takes place at Hive Mind Books & Coffee Shop in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Grab a coffee and a seat for this rare chance to hear two YA voices talk craft.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/craft-talk-writing-queer-ya-with-max-fischer-and-david-levit-53035/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1a4b8c624e5705b29a067a2ee6fdf96c86c2a8d5751cbf77a36a93b54af8c991-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Creative Writing MFA Reading at KGB Bar", "start": "2026-11-04T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "KGB Bar", "address": "East 4th Street 85, 10003 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A public reading evening at KGB Bar on its first floor, with doors at 7:00 pm and the reading beginning at 7:30 pm. 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Author Itamar Vieira Junior, whose debut Crooked Plow was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, presents his new story of Moisés and his sister Luzia in a Brazilian village shadowed by the local monastery and the scars of colonialism. He is joined in conversation by Radha Vatsal, author of historical mystery novels set in early 20th-century New York. A signing follows the talk, and each ticket includes a copy of the featured book or a $10 gift card.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/itamar-vieira-junior-saving-the-fire-w-radha-vatsal-51402/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/db07a470dc3d9747d7dd6be291032add1dc02738dd05ee48d1939c14f6dddea0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Akbar Shahid Ahmed and Rozina Ali discuss Crossing the Red Line & Seasons of Fury", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Books Are Magic", "address": "Smith Street 225, 11231 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics"], "description": "An evening of conversation at the bookstore Books Are Magic on Smith Street in Brooklyn. Journalists Akbar Shahid Ahmed and Rozina Ali discuss the books Crossing the Red Line and Seasons of Fury. 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Thekkumkattil, Amelia Possanza and Ashna Ali, hosted by Kate McDonough and Grazi Ruzzante, a poetry launch for Jay Gao's The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber (Nightboat) with special guests, a Halloween Open Streets called Trick or Streets, a reading of Brenda Ijima's Shelter Is Necessary for Existence (Two Dollar Radio), Liza Minno discussing Rule of Innocents with Lou Cornum, and a Pinko magazine launch.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/some-upcoming-events-56995/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}]}