Notable Online: 7/4–7/10

Notable Online: 7/4–7/10

Tuesday 7/6: Adrian Matejka presents Somebody Else Sold the World, in conversation with Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Paul Tran. Left Bank Books via Facebook, 8 p.m. EDT, free.

Susan Elia MacNeal presents The Hollywood Spy, in conversation with Pam Jenoff. Community Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.

Carolyn Ferrell presents Dear Miss Metropolitan, in conversation with Emily Raboteau. Astoria Bookshop via Crowdcast, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Tom Scharpling presents It Never Ends. Word Bookstore via Crowdcast, 7:30 p.m. EDT, $5.

Vanessa Riley presents Island Queen, in conversation with Adjoa Andoh. East City Bookshop via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Paul Richmond joins the Cobalt Poets series. Zoom, 7:30 p.m. PDT, free.

Dan Fesperman presents The Cover Wife, in conversation with Scott Shane. The Ivy Bookshop via Zoom, 6 p.m. EDT, free.

Kristen Radtke presents Seek You, in conversation with Leslie Jamison. The Center for Fiction via Zoom, 6 p.m. EDT, free.

Wednesday 7/7: Eric Dean Wilson presents After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort, in conversation with Eula Biss. Greenlight via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.

Dr. Michele Harper presents The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir. Left Bank Boosk via Facebook, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Michelle Richmond presents The Wonder Test, in conversation with Katie Crouch. Booksmith via Go Passage, 9 p.m. EDT, free.

Francine Prose presents The Vixen, in conversation with Ivy Meeropol. Harvard Bookstore via Crowdcast, 7 p.m. EDT, $31.

Dana Spiotta presents Wayward, in conversation with George Saunders. The Center for Fiction via Zoom, 6 p.m. EDT, free.

Keith Ridgway presents A Shock, in conversation with John Keene. Community Bookstore via Zoom, 6 p.m. EDT, free.

Carter Sickels presents The Prettiest Star, in conversation with Nick White. White Whale Bookstore via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Christina Baker Kline presents The Exiles, in conversation with Elin Hilderbrand, Chris Bohjalian, Kristin Hannah, and Paula McLain. Book Cellar via Zoom, 6 p.m. CDT, free.

Kendra Allen presents The Collection Plate with Jason Reynolds. Loyalty Bookstores via Crowdcast, 8 p.m. EDT, free.

Thursday 7/8: Lynn Steger Strong, Raven Leilani, and Miranda Popkey discuss writing desire, and Want, Luster, and Topics of Conversation. Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EDT, free.

Francine Prose presents The Vixen, in conversation with Elaine Petrocelli. Book Passage via Zoom and Twitch, 5 p.m. PDT, $40.

Joshua Cohen presents The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family. Solid State Books via Crowdcast, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Claire Boyles joins the Readings By Writers series. Zoom, 5 p.m. PDT, free.

Clare Sestanovich presents Objects of Desire, in conversation with Annie Bishai. Harvard Bookstore via Crowdcast, 6 p.m. EDT, $5.

Friday 7/9: Emily Bass presents To End a Plague: Americas Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. Books Are Magic via Zoom 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Chris Stuck presents Give My Love to the Savages: Stories, in conversation with Chaya Bhuvaneswar. Brookline Booksmith via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Elizabeth Gonzalez James presents Mona at Sea. The Writers’ Center via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Saturday 7/10: Mikhail Iossel joins the Readings By Writers series. Zoom, 5 p.m. PDT, free.

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In-person events happening this week in NYC:

Sunday 7/4: McNally Jackson presents Poetry in the Garden. Elizabeth Street Garden, 4 p.m., free.

Tuesday 7/6: Kimiko Hahn, Nkosi Nkululeko, Trace Peterson, Maya Phillips, and host Jason Schneiderman join the Bryant Park Poetry Series. Bryant Park, 6 p.m., free.

Thursday 7/8: Christopher Cox presents The Deadline Effect: How to Work Like It’s the Last Minute—Before the Last Minute. Powerhouse Books, 7 p.m., free.

Carl Watson presents Only Descend. KGB Bar, 7 p.m. EDT, free.

Friday 7/9: Alexandra Tatarsky joins the Poetry Project for Rot Talks 3: Dirt (A Feast). Poetry Project Outdoors, 7 p.m., $8.

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Are you planning on to return to in-person events? If so, when? Email Ian MacAllen at [email protected] and let us know! If you have an in-person listing you’d like us to consider, in the subject line of the email, please include the event’s city and date, and in the body of the email, include a link to the event information. Deadline is Tuesday for publication on Sunday.

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If you have a listing you’d like us to consider, please contact [email protected]. In the subject line of the email, please include the event’s date. Please include the virtual platform, time zone, and a link to the event information in the body of your email.

For past events, visit the Notable Online archives here.


Ian MacAllen’s fiction has appeared in 45th Parallel Magazine, Little Fiction, Vol 1. Brooklyn, Joyland Magazine, and elsewhere and nonfiction has appeared in Chicago Review of Books, The Negatives, Electric Literature, Fiction Advocate, and elsewhere. He is the Deputy Editor of The Rumpus, holds an MA in English from Rutgers University, tweets @IanMacAllen and is online at IanMacAllen.com. More from this author →

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