Events this Week in the NYC

Yes, things here have been a bit slow recently.  I blame the heat.  Breathing is like giving mouth-to-mouth to a hair dryer.  If you can bear it, there are a few outdoor events happening this week.

The Academy of American Poets presents: Catherine Barnett, Matthew Lippman, and Geoffrey G. O'Brien.  They'll read tonight at 6:30pm in the Bryant Park Reading Series.  The series will continue August 14 when Monica de la Torre, Katie Ford, and Evie Shockley gather at the same place and time.

The literary magazine A Public Space will host a reading in Fort Greene Park.  Helen Schulman and Martha Cooley will read on Wednesday, July 11, 6:30pm at Washington Park, Fort Greene.

Also, Wed: Min Jin Lee, author of Free Food for Millionaires, reads from and discusses the book with David Henry Hwang, the Tony-award winning playwright of M. Butterfly and the OBIE-award winner for Golden Child.

Then on Thursday, the final Upstairs at the Square of the summer happens: Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight and Love Without, and Teddy Thompson, Brit singer-songwriter raised in a Sufi commune will convene to entertain and engage at 7pm.

And there's always a ton going on at The Bowery Poetry Club.  I tried to pick one thing to recommend.  I couldn't.  There's a lot.

The first four events are as free as sunshine.  Events at the BPC vary.  I hope to blog again soon.

Comments

[Robert]

Salivating here on the left coast.

[jackie corley]

teddy thompson is wonderful. go to cd baby and pick up blunderbuss. you won't be sorry.