{"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. She is the author of \"The House in the Middle of the Street\" and \"A Gorgeous Excitement: A Novel\", and the event centers on \"The House in the Middle of the Street\". The book is available for purchase through Barnes & Noble. 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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": "", "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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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": "Flat Earth", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Rizzoli", "address": "Broadway 1133, 10010", "price": "", "price_from": "26.00", "price_to": "26.00", "tickets_url": "", "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": "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, "tickets_url": "", "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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