{"title": "Mona Chalabi: Ten Lives w/ Jia Tolentino", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Books Are Magic", "address": "Smith Street 225, 11231 Brooklyn", "price": "11 USD", "price_from": "11.00", "price_to": "11.00", "tickets_url": "https://allevents.in/brooklyn/offsite-mona-chalabi-ten-lives-w-jia-tolentino/100002002315615908", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/inequality", "literature"], "description": "An evening book event, an offsite presentation of 'Ten Lives' with a conversation between its author and a writer. It is by Mona Chalabi, a Pulitzer Prize–winning data journalist and artist, joined by Jia Tolentino, a staff writer at The New Yorker. 'Ten Lives' explores money and the lack of it in America through the lives of ten individuals, whom Chalabi followed for five years, asking how much wealth it takes to be safe in the United States. 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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": "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. 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It is hosted by Tali Rosenblatt Cohen together with bestselling author, writer, and actress Jill Kargman, creator and star of Odd Mom Out and co-writer and star of the new film Influenced. The event takes place at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan on Amsterdam Avenue at 334, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The venue's event page shows an illustrated graphic for The Five Books with large light green lettering.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-five-books-live-podcast-53816/", "official_url": "https://www.mmjccm.org/events/the-five-books-live-podcast", "image": "https://noky.io/images/beeee30d03a5330f52323b23e117b8ad416e958f868f558a9a761da839e9652f-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": "Book Launch | Squatters by Saba Brelvi", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Yu & Me Books", "address": "Mulberry Street 44, 10013 New York", "price": "$31.52 USD", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction", "society/migration"], "description": "A book launch at the bookstore Yu & Me Books celebrating the debut novel The Squatters by Saba Brelvi. Saba Brelvi is a Muslim American writer from California, and her novel tells of two families colliding in Surrey, where Dalia Waheed tries to help a pregnant refugee, only for the act of compassion to spiral into something far more dangerous. The book explores female friendship, the limits of empathy, and what motherhood demands of us.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/book-launch-squatters-by-saba-brelvi-57602/", "official_url": "https://yuandmebooks.com/products/book-launch-squatters-by-saba-brelvi", "image": "https://noky.io/images/07a63c3d70a153d076719835ec161bc0c4b2c03aa9587903cc527e4886661001-2000.webp"}]}