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The Half King
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C, E at 23rd St.
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Every Mon, 7pm |
An appreciative neighborhood crowd tipples to poetry, fiction and non-fiction at this weekly reading event, with one Monday per month dedicated to magazine journalism. Past readers include Bret Easton Ellis, Jon Lee Anderson, Sebastian Junger, and Scott Anderson.

"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 »
7/9 Francis Flaherty at Barnes & Noble
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 »
7/15 Cornel West at Barnes & Noble
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 »
7/8 Rafael Yglesias at Barnes & Noble
The author of "Fearless," the plane-crash story and subsequent screenplay, will read from his first novel in thirteen years, "A Happy Marriage." More »