{"title": "In-Person Fully Registered: Patrick Radden Keefe, London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth, with Bianca Bosker", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "price": "$15/$10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.nysoclib.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=297", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/true-crime", "society/crime"], "description": "The New York Society Library hosts an in-person lecture with author Patrick Radden Keefe, joined by writer Bianca Bosker, about his book London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth. The in-person event is fully registered, with a waitlist, though space remains for the livestream. The book follows the Brettler family investigating the death of their son Zac, a young man who jumped from a London tower after living under a fictitious identity as the heir to a Russian oligarch. It examines their belief that something more nefarious than suicide occurred, and the seedy truths behind glamorous London.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/in-person-fully-registered-patrick-radden-keefe-london-falli-79661/", "official_url": "https://www.nysoclib.org/events/patrick-radden-keefe-london-falling", "image": "https://noky.io/images/397545943ba540518b17a8c7b95ca3f77c08628f9aa25289313b5edecb859d91-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Mitchell-Linden Book Club: Lon...", "start": "2026-11-03T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-03T15:00:00-05:00", "place": "Queens Public Library", "address": "14th Road 151-10, 11357 Whitestone", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.queenslibrary.org/calendar/mitchelllinden-book-club-mrs-planskys-revenge-by-spencer-quinn/005085-0926", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/book-club", "history"], "description": "A book club meeting for adults at the Mitchell-Linden library, where participants discuss a book together in person. 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It is facilitated by Ethical Culture Leader Richard Koral and takes place both in person and online on Zoom. This month's topic is 'A time to be born and a time to die…', based on the story 'The Blight' by Emma Cline, which participants are invited to read beforehand. Attendees can join the engaging conversation to challenge their thinking and sharpen their approach to ethical living.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/practical-ethics-a-time-to-be-born-and-a-time-to-die-54364/", "official_url": "https://ethical.nyc/events/practical-ethics-a-time-to-be-born-and-a-time-to-die/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f3fc29bd57464f04292e7cf422a64cc1a65820fe516f8692df27da81925ee992-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Xita Rubert: The Key Biscayne Affair w/ Leslie Jamison", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Books Are Magic", "address": "Smith Street 225, 11231 Brooklyn", "price": "11 USD (ticket + $10 gift card) to 30 USD (ticket + book)", "price_from": "11.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-store-xita-rubert-the-key-biscayne-affair-w-leslie-jamison-tickets-2002834353466?aff=ebdssbdestsearch", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/novel"], "description": "An in-store book event at an independent Brooklyn bookstore featuring Xita Rubert in conversation with writer Leslie Jamison. Rubert presents The Key Biscayne Affair, a darkly funny coming-of-age novel in which an unnamed, unreliable narrator remembers a surreal childhood stay with her eccentric Spanish philosophy professor father on a gated island off the coast of Miami. As the professor is embraced by a glittering social scene and his antics tip into recklessness, the narrator is drawn into the island's morally ambiguous world, becoming witness and accomplice to his erratic behavior. A book signing follows the talk.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/xita-rubert-the-key-biscayne-affair-w-leslie-jamison-51409/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3d589185ec2aefd83a0585547344075f2cb151fa0c77552ffc383e34eb9faada-2000.webp"}, {"title": "An Evening with Gaël Faye and Peter Godwin", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-04T19:30:00-05:00", "place": "Albertine", "address": "5th Avenue 972, 10075", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.albertine.com/events/an-evening-with-gael-faye-and-peter-godwin", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction"], "description": "A talk at Albertine Books, a bookstore that is a project of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, where Gaël Faye discusses his new book Jacaranda with Peter Godwin. Faye is a Rwandan-French novelist, songwriter, and hip-hop artist whose new novel follows Milan, a boy in France whose family ties to Rwanda draw him back repeatedly to uncover family secrets and confront the past. Godwin is a Zimbabwe-born journalist and author of six non-fiction books, including Mukiwa and When a Crocodile Eats the Sun. The event is in English and free with an RSVP.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/an-evening-with-gael-faye-and-peter-godwin-50902/", "official_url": "https://www.albertine.com/events/an-evening-with-gael-faye-and-peter-godwin/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/49e3d2a40433723308e9d5df29def4f2ef6874a76feb9978622fb06f9fc76988-1200.webp"}]}