{"title": "Get Lit: Hernan Diaz", "start": "2026-11-17T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library", "address": "5th Avenue 455, 10018 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/science-fiction", "music/folk"], "description": "Get Lit: Hernan Diaz is a book club evening hosted by The New York Public Library and WNYC, with writer Hernan Diaz in conversation and a book signing. Alison Stewart, host of WNYC's All of It, leads the talk about his novel 'Ply', a story set centuries from now about an orphan who steals electricity in a transforming city and encounters a scientific invention that could change reality. Folk-punk musician Tami Hart performs songs from her new solo album, her first in 24 years. 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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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Hosted by the New York Public Library, it features live music and storytelling in the Rose Main Reading Room with glass harmonica player Friedrich Heinrich Kern and scary stories by Clay McLeod Chapman, Nneoma Ike-Njoku, and Angela Liu, plus classic films from the Library's collections and a horror book tasting with its librarians. Visitors can see a one-night-only display of rare collections material on witches, create a horror story inspired by the Picture Collection, and enjoy coloring, puzzles, and games with music by DJ René Hidalgo. The event is 21+ with ID required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-library-after-hours-friday-the-13th-edition-124738/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/532fae458ab923dd9d5f88f43bbd5ae16ffb1b323950354e72d5d6fb21bf4b91-600.webp"}, {"title": "BookTalk: Patti Smith & Nelio Biedermann", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T21:00:00-05:00", "place": "Cherry Lane Theatre", "address": "Commerce Street 38, 10014 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/memoir"], "description": "BookTalk: Patti Smith & Nelio Biedermann is a live conversation at Cherry Lane Theatre, part of the venue's BookTalk series pairing an author with an artist who inspires them. In partnership with McNally Jackson Books, poet, writer and performer Patti Smith joins Swiss writer Nelio Biedermann to discuss Smith's latest memoir, Bread of Angels, and Biedermann's acclaimed English-language debut, Lázár. A rare signing event with both authors follows the conversation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/booktalk-patti-smith-nelio-biedermann-51822/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/79390ec1a4120e65e24bbcac94b89b79c2edab4a9b80f55ef0de289b92c788ea-2000.webp"}]}