{"title": "Tough Stuff: Book Launch and Panel Discussion", "start": "2026-10-29T18:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-29T20:00:00-04:00", "place": "Urban Glass", "address": "Fulton Street 647, 11217", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/crafts/glass", "literature"], "description": "A book launch with a panel discussion for \"Tough Stuff: Women in the American Glass Studio.\" UrbanGlass and the Corning Museum invite guests, with panelists Jane Bruce, Kathleen Mulcahy, Monona Rossol, Toots Zynsky, Michelle Millar Fisher, and Tami Landis. The event takes place at the Agnes Varis Art Center. An RSVP is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tough-stuff-book-launch-and-panel-discussion-57326/", "official_url": "https://urbanglass.org/events/detail/book-launch-and-panel-discussion", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6eeaadba051a520aa5993d119dff1225199c292d86e48908fb65de76feea18dd-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-29T18:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-29T20:00:00-04:00", "place": "Urban Glass", "address": "Fulton Street 647, 11217", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Women+ On the Edge of Democracy", "start": "2026-10-30T19:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-30T21:00:00-04:00", "place": "Salem Missionary Baptist Church", "address": "East 21st Street 305, 11226", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/democracy", "stage/theatre"], "description": "An evening of readings of new short plays written by women playwrights, held at Salem Missionary Baptist Church in Brooklyn. 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The event is free, and RSVP is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/women-on-the-edge-of-democracy-55676/", "official_url": "https://www.salembrooklyn.com/event-details/women-on-the-edge-of-democracy", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bfcedfe64ddccf2de97432ac427e2decde57d1e6001c706f85f4353508f49067-2000.webp"}, {"title": "\"Every Story is a Love Story\" Book Launch", "start": "2026-11-02T19:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-02T21:30:00-05:00", "place": "Judson Memorial Church", "address": "Thompson Street 239", "price": "", "price_from": "29.00", "price_to": "29.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.judson.org/calendar?tag=book", "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": "First Mondays: Readings of New Works In Progress", "start": "2026-10-05T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-06-07T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Performance Space 122", "address": "1st Avenue 150, 10009", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "First Mondays: Readings of New Works In Progress is a reading series at Performance Space New York where writers present new, unpublished work-in-progress to an audience. It is organized and curated by Sarah Schulman and aims to build and grow literary community, mixing well-known and rewarded writers with under-recognized artists, emerging writers, and some who have not yet published. The October 5 season opening features Sarah Schulman, William M. Burton, Lazz Kinnamon, and more with THE LESBIAN BODY by Monique Wittig.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/first-mondays-readings-of-new-works-in-progress-67058/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "The City That Raised Us: Three Memoirists on Brooklyn, Memory, and Survival", "start": "2026-10-29T18:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "price": "free of charge; registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.nysoclib.org/events/joy-reading-book-club", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/memoir"], "description": "An evening panel and conversation titled \"The City That Raised Us: Three Memoirists on Brooklyn, Memory, and Survival\" takes place in the Members' Room of The New York Society Library and online, and is open to the public. Memoirists Patrick Dougher, Katrina Brownlee, and Dr. Rob Gore, moderated by Regina Brooks, discuss coming of age, identity, resilience, violence, and transformation in Brooklyn during the 1970s and 1980s. Their stories intersect through geography and era, offering a portrait of the borough before its reinvention and of how people survive and shape themselves in urban environments. Dougher is the author of Concrete Dreamland, Brownlee of And Then Came the Blues, and Gore of Treating Violence; Dougher is a New York Society Library Book Awards winner, and the event is free with registration required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-city-that-raised-us-three-memoirists-on-brooklyn-memory-56806/", "official_url": "https://www.nysoclib.org/events/the-city-that-raised-us-brooklyn-memory-survival-memoirists", "image": "https://noky.io/images/58079b5ad4add5333488f9b8a0d2f4ebe42d9a3d5a2c6d7db16f94d5c649df01-1200.webp"}, {"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": "https://www.thewordischange.com/events/bibliomania-book-fest-at-lincoln-center", "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. Thekkumkattil, Amelia Possanza and Ashna Ali, hosted by Kate McDonough and Grazi Ruzzante, a poetry launch for Jay Gao's The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber (Nightboat) with special guests, a Halloween Open Streets called Trick or Streets, a reading of Brenda Ijima's Shelter Is Necessary for Existence (Two Dollar Radio), Liza Minno discussing Rule of Innocents with Lou Cornum, and a Pinko magazine launch.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/some-upcoming-events-56995/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}]}