Event guidelines: All attendees are strongly encouraged to wear a face mask at all times. Tickets are limited to restrict capacity at our store, and each ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card. Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at […]

Registration required: Tickets $5/ Free for Members Register About the Authors Fred Moten works in the Departments of Performance Studies and Comparative Literature at New York University. He is concerned with social movement, aesthetic experiment, and black study and has written a number of books of poetry and criticism, the latest of which, written with Stefano […]

A poetry reading by Nick Laird in conversation with Terrance Hayes, followed by a reception/signing. Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here. About the Authors Nick Laird is a poet, novelist, screenwriter, and critic. He is the author of several books, most recently, His many honors include the Eric Gregory Award, the […]

Come out for an incredible evening of poetry and performance with the legendary poet Anne Waldman and the students of Feminist Avant-garde Poetics. Poet, curator, professor, performer, and cultural activist Anne Waldman co-founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics program at Naropa University. She is the author of over 60 volumes of poetry, poetics […]

Registration required: Tickets $5/ Free for Members Register About the Authors Rigoberto González lives in Newark, NJ and is the author of eighteen books of poetry and prose. His awards include […]

Jenny Zhang’s Sour Heart is a coming-of-age collection of seven stories of Chinese American teenage girls and their experiences growing up in New York City from their perspective as they […]