{"title": "The Space Behind the Face: Life Stories", "start": "2026-11-14T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Adam Space", "address": "", "price": "From $35, or $67 with a copy of the book", "price_from": "35.00", "price_to": "35.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/memoir", "stage/theatre"], "description": "An evening of conversation celebrating the publication of 'The Space Behind the Face: Life Stories', the memoir by the late theater and visual artist Robert Wilson. BAM presents actor and writer Keith McDermott, who helped Wilson complete the manuscript before his death in July 2025, talking with a group of Wilson's associates and creative collaborators. The book blends intimate remembrance, cultural history, and a road map for living an artistic life. 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The two artists, a MacArthur Fellow and an Obie Award winner, wrote the four-hour rock opera Bark of Millions to expand the repertoire of songs documenting and celebrating queer lives. Their book brings together a volume of lyrics and essays and a volume of music with lead sheets for 50 of the show's songs, creating a canon of queer music for a joyful world. The evening celebrates the transcendence of joy over tragedy as seen through the personal histories of queers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/an-evening-from-the-queer-songbook-a-conversation-with-taylo-51185/", "official_url": "https://www.bam.org/talks/2026/bark-of-millions", "image": "https://noky.io/images/52586b8859f3ec6da939dff541a27dbf3cf535fb13a2c28b30b301b864f9d268-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Schneider K. 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Lichtenstein's third book in a trilogy about America, it shares stories of struggle, sacrifice and redemption through intimate portraits and first-person testimony. The talk covers the people and stories in the book and his collaborative approach, and is followed by an audience Q&A, with books available for purchase.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/andrew-lichtenstein-this-short-life-51499/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7669a18a43b98154fe0217ca8bed7028d52841c3d14c209f72c2f04e696c6ac6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "\"Every Story is a Love Story\" Book Launch", "start": "2026-11-02T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Judson Meeting Room", "address": "243 Thompson Street, New York, NY, 10012", "price": "", "price_from": "29.00", "price_to": "29.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction"], "description": "A book launch for \"Every Story is a Love Story,\" the new book by Imbolo Mbue, held in the Judson Meeting Room. The conversation will be moderated by Pamela Paul, a writer at large for The Wall Street Journal and former longtime editor of the New York Times Book Review, author of 10 books including the picture book \"The Path.\" RSVP to Rachel Parker at rparker@penguinrandomhouse.com.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/every-story-is-a-love-story-book-launch-53338/", "official_url": "https://www.judson.org/calendar/every-story-is-a-love-story-book-launch-11-2-26", "image": "https://noky.io/images/729d002e3c37ebdc4735bac5aa150cc8fb9d0edb9023dc292141951430768513-2000.webp"}, {"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. He presents his new book \"Making Music: Conversations With Record Producers\" and signs it afterwards.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/making-music-in-conversation-signing-86702/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/14e4da3561d9ddfddab1e8fcc630889e4526693a8e7f1b07b96bfdd443e5a082-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Blue Velvet: A Polaroid Diary", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Rizzoli", "address": "Broadway 1133, 10010", "price": "$50.00", "price_from": "50.00", "price_to": "50.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography", "film/thriller"], "description": "An evening at a bookstore celebrating the book \"Blue Velvet: A Polaroid Diary\", a behind-the-scenes look at David Lynch's 1986 cult classic through on-set Polaroids taken by its makeup artist, Jeff Goodwin. Goodwin appears in conversation with Tony Nourmand, followed by a signing. The book gathers hundreds of never-before-published Polaroids documenting the film's genesis and production, annotated with technical notes and anecdotes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/blue-velvet-a-polaroid-diary-55426/", "official_url": "https://www.rizzolibookstore.com/blue-velvet-polaroid-diary", "image": "https://noky.io/images/87f143d5068f0a3f9e3788629a6eb23d8c36c8078ce778529a9668d4fba7c373-600.webp"}, {"title": "Book Launch: Any Time but This Time by Adam Peterson in conversation with James Folta", "start": "2026-11-13T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "PowerHouse Arena", "address": "Adams Street 28, 11201 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "25.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/short-story"], "description": "A book launch at which Adam Peterson presents his debut short story collection, Any Time but This Time, in conversation with writer and editor James Folta. The collection spans human history and geography, from the first woman on Earth among the Neanderthals to the last man alive, telling funny, daring and outrageous stories that confront our future. Adam Peterson is a writer and filmmaker in Los Angeles, author of several prose poetry collections, while James Folta is a staff writer for Lit Hub and managing editor of the humor site Points In Case. 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Mother Creatrix Collective artists open with short presentations on their work in the show, including entering or reentering the art world after becoming caregivers. 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": "Jeff Ament & Barry Ament + Roberta Bayley: Since Forever", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T19:00:00-05:00", "place": "The Strand Building", "address": "826 Broadway, New York, NY 10003", "price": "89.09 USD", "price_from": "89.09", "price_to": "89.09", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/memoir", "music/rock"], "description": "This is a book release event for 'Since Forever', a photographic memoir by Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament, filled with more than 250 black-and-white photographs of the band's early years. Ament joins his brother, designer Barry Ament, in conversation moderated by photographer Roberta Bayley, hosted on the 6th Floor of the Strand Building. Doors at 6:30 PM.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/jeff-ament-barry-ament-roberta-bayley-since-forever-86950/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fc5d2c479ae7a2f0c7a347017059458c1827bbe6bb453b5a9f90cac509067bf0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "IN CONVERSATION: sonia louise davis & Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts", "start": "2026-11-14T14:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Hesse Flatow Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 508, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An In Conversation event at the Hesse Flatow gallery celebrating sonia louise davis's solo exhibition, a promise, a portal, possibility. The artist sonia louise davis talks with Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, author of Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America. The program includes a special performance by davis.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/in-conversation-sonia-louise-davis-sharifa-rhodes-pitts-53014/", "official_url": "https://hesseflatow.com/events/113/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/07dd06ba189ea4110533b2518ec6de4fb9ae2ed5b97f9e02ca588e1fc4c20f2c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Spencer Ackerman signing", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-04T21:00:00-05:00", "place": "831 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn, USA", "address": "831 Nostrand Avenue", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/comics", "society/politics"], "description": "Spencer Ackerman signs books at Anyone Comics, where he serves as guest clerk at the counter. He is a Pulitzer Prize, National Magazine Award and American Book Award winning journalist who writes the newsletter Forever Wars and has written comics for Marvel and DC Black Label. Visitors can get their books signed and talk politics with him, and buy copies of his newest book, No One Escapes the Dialectic, with art by Antonio Fuso.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/spencer-ackerman-signing-79152/", "official_url": "https://www.anyonecomics.com/events/spencer-ackerman-signing", "image": "https://noky.io/images/55ccd87588b7f5736c56db56c3ca3fe3f62f1fc0393578b3890444e52dcd4304-1200.webp"}, {"title": "33 1/3: The Cure's Disintegration In Conversation", "start": "2026-11-14T14:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Rough Trade Below", "address": "", "price": "$22.00 - $22.00", "price_from": "22.00", "price_to": "22.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["music/rock/post-punk", "literature"], "description": "Andi Harriman appears in person in conversation with Rob Sheffield and Trevor Ristow, signing in support of her new book \"33 1/3: The Cure's Disintegration\". 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