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KGB Bar Nonfiction Reading Series
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KGB Bar
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Free
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No Recommendation
Nearby Subway Stops
6 at Astor Pl.; F, V at Lower East Side-Second Ave.
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Every Tue, 7pm-9pm |
Profile
The truth—if not the drink menu—can overwhelm you at KGB's weekly nonfiction reading series. In a room so suspiciously tall and red that you might easily mistake any proclamations for propaganda, journalists, memoirists, and raconteurs share from recent anthologies, memoirs, essays, and on occasion, in-house scandals. (Regulars still gossip about the time when a drug addict's excerpt excited a listener to urinate on the pizza.) It's dirty. It's shocking. It's honest. And it's true. The crowd is equal parts horn-rimmed glasses to beer glasses; the authors are serious about their work if not overly so about themselves. The theme changes weekly.
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- Kate Walbert
- 192 Books
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"A Short History of Women" is the title of Walbert’s latest novel-slash-story collection. The narrative alternates between the life of a British suffragist and those of a handful of her descendants. More »
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7/9 Francis Flaherty at Barnes & Noble
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- Francis Flaherty
- Barnes & Noble
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Longtime editor for the "New York Times" discusses his book "Elements of Story: Field Notes on Nonfiction Writing," which, in the tradition of Strunk & White, offers a number of big-picture directives that the author believes will help even the best of writers. More »
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7/15 Cornel West at Barnes & Noble
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- Cornel West
- Barnes & Noble
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Philosopher, theoretician, Princeton professor, and personal hero of many, West presents "Hope on a Tightrope," a collection of quotes, speech excerpts, letters, and philosophies. More »
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7/8 Rafael Yglesias at Barnes & Noble
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- Rafael Yglesias
- Barnes & Noble
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The author of "Fearless," the plane-crash story and subsequent screenplay, will read from his first novel in thirteen years, "A Happy Marriage." More »
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