Talks Events in NYC for Thursday, April 23

Events

1. New York City Readers Retreat with Author Jocelyn Green

   10:00 AM · The Empire Hotel

2. BHFF NYC Presentation 2: Eastern Western + Q&A w/ Biliana Grozdanova

   5:00 PM · SVA Theatre

3. Simmer & Nourish: A Cook-out Conversation with Zeelie Brown

   6:00 PM · Recess

4. Emanuel Xavier — Book Launch at Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center

   6:00 PM · Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center

5. Alliance for Positive Change Voices Poetry Reading at B&N - Union Square

   6:00 PM · Barnes & Noble

6. Sacred and Profane: An Artist Talk with Pamela Sneed

   6:00 PM · 721 Broadway, Richard Schechner Studio, Room 612

7. Reading Rhythms Lower Manhattan: April 23 (Celebrate World Book Day With Us!)

   6:30 PM · 12-16 Vestry St 4th Floor, New York, NY

8. BAD SANTA Post-film conversation with filmmaker Terry Zwigoff and comedy writer Frank Santopadre

   6:30 PM · Film Forum

9. GHOST WORLD Post-film conversation with filmmaker Terry Zwigoff and star Illeana Douglas

   6:30 PM · Film Forum

10. Exhibition & Public Brooklyn NOW! Panel

    6:30 PM · Brooklyn Public Library - Library for Arts & Culture

11. Hive Mind Reading Room: Silent Reading Night

    6:30 PM · Hive Mind Books

12. Annabelle Selldorf: 2026 L. Michael Goldsmith Lecture (Cornell AAP)

    6:30 PM · Verizon Executive Education Center

13. Reading & Book Launch: Musa Mayer reads from ‘Life with P.’

    6:30 PM · Hauser & Wirth

14. Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver — Book Launch with Author Peter Gordon

    6:30 PM · Goethe-Institut New York

15. Harlem Bomb Shelter OPEN MIC & SHOWCASE

    7:00 PM · The Conversation Room

16. Rinse & Repeat: Theatrical Poetry Reading

    7:00 PM · Seventh Heaven Bar & Karaoke

17. (special event!) World Book Day Greenpoint Reading Party

    7:00 PM · Red Rover, Brooklyn, NY

18. Writing Rhythms: World Book Day Premiere

    7:00 PM · Lightning Society, New York, NY

19. Lila Raicek & Griffin Dunne

    7:00 PM · McNally Jackson, New York, NY

20. The Society of the Screen Book Launch with Martha Schwendener

    7:00 PM · 264 Canal St #3w

21. NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents Chris Plante

    7:00 PM · NYU Game Center

22. Volume 11: BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Release Panel

    7:00 PM · Strand Book Store

23. Book Launch: Gal Beckerman with George Packer

    7:30 PM · Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene

24. BHFF NYC Pres 3: Ceasefire & Where Have You Been +Q&A w/ Aida Šehović

    7:30 PM · SVA Theatre

25. Author Talk with Bill Bleyer: Long Island and the Civil War

    7:30 PM · Bayside Historical Society in Fort Totten Park

26. Major Fix: PowerPoint lecture series about personal obsessions

    9:30 PM · Caveat