{"title": "The Monsters We Make: A Conversation with Rachel Corbett & Peter Mendelsund", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T19:00:00-05:00", "place": "The New School", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/non-fiction", "society/crime"], "description": "Author and New York Magazine writer Rachel Corbett joins Peter Mendelsund for a conversation about criminal profiling, journalism and the creative process. Corbett is the author of The Monsters We Make (W.W. Norton, 2025) and You Must Change Your Life (W.W. Norton, 2016), which won the Marfield Prize. Mendelsund is the author of seven books, including What We See When We Read and Cover. The talk is hosted and introduced by poet J. 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Correction officers Karl Chin and Jeri Henderson serve as discussants, with moderator Erica Bond, Vice President of Justice Initiatives at John Jay.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/forgotten-law-enforcement-behind-the-gates-with-correctional-53323/", "official_url": "https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/news-events/events/forgotten-law-enforcement-behind-gates-correctional-staff-rikers-island-jail", "image": ""}, {"title": "Making Music In Conversation + Signing", "start": "2026-11-03T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Rough Trade Below", "address": "", "price": "$32.00 - $32.00", "price_from": "32.00", "price_to": "32.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/non-fiction", "music/production"], "description": "This is a talk and book signing with Larry Crane, who appears in person in conversation with Tony Visconti. 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Hettie Judah then leads an open, hour-long conversation with questions about the art world, her work, and navigating a creative life. She will sell and sign copies of her new book, 'How to Enter the Art World... AFTER a late start, a first career, illness, raising children, a crisis of confidence, leaving it in disgust', and refreshments follow.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/author-talk-with-hettie-judah-79604/", "official_url": "https://www.mothercreatrixcollective.com/events/author-talk-with-hettie-judah", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6f4451de70eca7a0b331b5d249d5f5226b2bad39b97bc710aef862936ddf9d4b-2000.webp"}, {"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", "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"}, {"title": "J. Vanessa Lyon: Blackness Thirteen Ways w/ Margo Jefferson & Elizabeth Kendall", "start": "2026-11-13T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Books Are Magic", "address": "Smith Street 225, 11231 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A book event at the bookstore Books Are Magic in Brooklyn. J. Vanessa Lyon presents her book Blackness Thirteen Ways in conversation with Margo Jefferson and Elizabeth Kendall.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/j-vanessa-lyon-blackness-thirteen-ways-w-margo-jefferson-eli-79166/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Practical Ethics: A Time to Be Born and a Time to Die", "start": "2026-11-09T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-09T15:00:00-05:00", "place": "New York Society for Ethical Culture Hall", "address": "West 64th Street 2, New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/short-story", "society/ethics"], "description": "Practical Ethics is a discussion series that explores everyday moral dilemmas, such as white lies and tough choices about loyalty, honesty, and fairness, through lively conversations about short stories. It is facilitated by Ethical Culture Leader Richard Koral and takes place both in person and online on Zoom. 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