{"title": "Itamar Vieira Junior: Saving the Fire w/ Radha Vatsal", "start": "2026-10-29T19:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Books Are Magic", "address": "Smith Street 225, 11231 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/o/17671794664", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "literature/fiction"], "description": "An in-store book event at the Brooklyn bookstore Books Are Magic celebrating the novel Saving the Fire. 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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-29T19:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Books Are Magic", "address": "Smith Street 225, 11231 Brooklyn", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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. 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It takes place as part of the store's evening author program.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/priyanka-mattoo-how-to-be-less-useful-w-radhika-jones-71057/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "BookTalk: Patti Smith & Nelio Biedermann", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Cherry Lane Theatre", "address": "Commerce Street 38, 10014 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "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"}, {"title": "Avni Doshi: The First House w/ Elizabeth Winkler", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Books Are Magic", "address": "Smith Street 225, 11231 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.cambriahotelwhiteplains.com/click-reservation", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction"], "description": "An in-store author event at the Brooklyn bookstore Books Are Magic. 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": "Some upcoming events", "start": "2026-09-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "The Word Is Change", "address": "Tompkins Avenue 368, 11216", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.thewordischange.com/events/bibliomania-book-fest-at-lincoln-center", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "A roundup of upcoming literary events listed by the bookstore The Word Is Change at its Brooklyn location. They include a literary salon called Joy in the Soft Apocalypse with readers including M. K. 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The novel, translated from the French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins and published by Summit Books, follows Agathe, who returns to the French countryside after fifteen years. After their father's death, she and her sister Véra must empty their childhood home, ravaged by a nearby fire, in nine days, as old memories and resentments surface.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-albertine-book-club-reads-the-old-fire-by-elisa-shua-dus-50901/", "official_url": "https://www.albertine.com/events/the-albertine-book-club-reads-the-old-fire-by-elisa-shua-dusapin/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6eaedd2ea8cfcc4aa9650ea70ad4e867ac650776ce1da9fb2b083fc5eaf5ed7b-1200.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": "", "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"}, {"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. The novel follows Avery, a struggling grad student whose rivalry with her successful best friend pushes her to devastating decisions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/flat-earth-55424/", "official_url": "https://www.rizzolibookstore.com/flat-earth", "image": "https://noky.io/images/70596a8c49102536590c54d6882a5ef0e4288aeea621e0f823053951f8af8d6b-600.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/o/17671794664", "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": "Latine Queer Studies Reading", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-04T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "College of Staten Island", "address": "Victory Boulevard 2800, 10314 Staten Island", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "society/queer"], "description": "A public evening of queer Latine poetry, at which the Brooklyn-born poet Emanuel Xavier reads from his new book of poems, \"Still, We Are Sacred.\" It is a CC CLUE event hosted by the LGBTQ+ Resource Center and the English Department of the College of Staten Island, and refreshments will be served. Xavier's work bridges spoken word, literary poetry, and queer cultural history, and he has written several collections including Love(ly) Child, Pier Queen, Americano, If Jesus Were Gay, Nefarious, and Radiance. The reading takes place in the Green Dolphin Lounge in building 1C on the college's campus at 2800 Victory Boulevard, admission is free, and it is made possible by funding from the New York City Council to the CUNY LGBTQIA+ Institute with support from the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/latine-queer-studies-reading-52069/", "official_url": "https://www.csi.cuny.edu/latine-queer-studies-reading", "image": ""}]}