{"title": "Tiger's Mouth by Lucy Tan", "start": "2026-11-17T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Yu & Me Books", "address": "Mulberry Street 44, 10013 New York", "price": "$33.75 USD", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction"], "description": "A book launch for Lucy Tan's novel \"Tiger's Mouth\" at the bookstore Yu & Me Books, with the author in conversation with Joanne Kwong, president of Pearl River Mart. The novel follows two young men who meet as interns at a tech company and form an intense friendship and rivalry, circling each other as they chase the life the other was born into. Lucy Tan is the author of \"What We Were Promised\"; Joanne Kwong leads the NYC emporium Pearl River Mart. 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Pre-purchasing a featured title guarantees a signed copy, and a free RSVP option is offered.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/books-bites-with-caroline-choe-jimin-han-patricia-park-and-h-57599/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2fc536a32fdda3d6b5129218f65eccdc20f2ffe7663cb4eb240489883fd38115-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Rachel Cusk: Life of M", "start": "2026-11-17T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Pioneer Works", "address": "159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11231, United States", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "An author talk at Pioneer Works marking the only U.S. event for Rachel Cusk's novel Life of M. The evening features a conversation between Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy and Parade, and Meghan O'Rourke, editor of The Yale Review, which co-presents the talk. Life of M follows a writer who studies the life of M, a movie star whose fame has melted away the rules of reality, hoping to capture truths about the experience of living. Signed copies of the novel are available in ticket bundles, and books will be sold at the event.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/rachel-cusk-life-of-m-71722/", "official_url": "https://pioneerworks.org/programs/rachel-cusk-life-of-m", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a2e4afcbba6e83430e00bf0528043b2751d9ef6585307685d824a4d31a513a2e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "BOOKS IN ORBIT with Kate Zambreno!", "start": "2026-11-14T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-14T19:30:00-05:00", "place": "Black Spring Books", "address": "Driggs Avenue 672, 11211 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "Books in Orbit is the inaugural book club discussion at Black Spring Books, held in person at the store with a virtual option on Zoom. Writer Kate Zambreno leads a conversation about her book Foam and Eve Babitz's Slow Days, Fast Company. Anyone who bought the books at Black Spring Books is automatically on the RSVP list; others must RSVP to attend. Kate Zambreno is the author of acclaimed books including Drifts, To Write As If Already Dead, and Heroines, and Eve Babitz (1943–2021) wrote fiction and nonfiction including Sex and Rage and L.A. Woman.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/books-in-orbit-with-kate-zambreno-51353/", "official_url": "https://www.blackspringbookstore.com/events/books-in-orbit-with-kate-zambreno", "image": ""}]}