• Droese Raney x Design

    Rizzoli Bookstore 1133 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    David Droese, AIA and Lance Raney are in conversation with architecture and design writer Ian Volner to celebrate the launch of their new monograph Droese Raney x Design.

  • Old Type, New Type: Marta Bernstein in conversation with Alexander Tochilov

    Salotto NYC 84 Withers Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    Marta Bernstein will take you back in time to the Nineteenth Century through its overly-decorated, quirky, and extremely lively typefaces. Can we still learn anything from the past? Do we really need to preserve all that old paper artifacts? Public libraries, dusty archives, and long forgotten books: what feeds creativity is often waiting in disguise. …

    Free
  • With Love, Kendall: Valentine’s Day Drag Show at The Strand

    The Strand Bookstore 828 Broadway 3rd Floor, Rare Book Room, New York, NY, United States

    Valentines, galentines, hot girls, black cat baddies plus their golden retriever bfs, here-for-good-time-not-a-long-time babes, close out the romance season the right way: at our Valentine's Drag Showhosted by our resident queen Kendall Knight! Festivities will feature trivia, a raffle and more! Win your valentine - or your goddamn self <3 - special Strand goodies by …

    $13.61
  • A Life in Design

    Rizzoli Bookstore 1133 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    Acclaimed interior designer to the Hollywood A-list Kathryn M. Ireland celebrates thirty years of decorating in conversation with Kate Betts. PLEASE NOTE: RSVPs are encouraged but not required. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served. Doors open at 5:30 pm.

  • Living with Type with Ellen Lupton

    The Cooper Union 41 Cooper Square Rose Auditorium, New York, NY, United States

    Does autospacing make your tummy hurt? Does Papyrus make your eyes roll? Once exposed to the art of typography, many individuals never recover. Ellen Lupton will share stories about people who learned to live with type and lead productive, possibly happy lives. Meet Type Mom (Ellen’s beloved alter ego), and learn about Thinking with Type, …

    Free
  • Ganesha: Lord of New Beginnings

    The Met 1000 5th Ave, New York, United States

    Ganesha, the son of Shiva and Parvati, is a Brahmanical (Hindu) diety known to clear a path to the gods and remove obstacles in everyday life. He is loved by his devotees (bhakti) for his many traits, including his insatiable appetite for sweet cakes and his role as a dispenser of magic, surprise, and laughter. …

  • Outdoor Cinema @ Parklife: Polite Society

    Parklife 636 Degraw Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    Synopsis: Martial artist-in-training Ria Khan believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood. Free outdoor screening every Wednesday at 8pm! Book your viewing party through …

  • Rollo Romig launches “I Am on the Hit List,” with Suchitra Vijayan

    Lofty Pigeon Books Church Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    A gripping investigation into the mysterious assassination of a journalist in India, revealing the courage and vulnerability of those who are fighting the decline of democracy around the world. Author and journalist Rollo Romig will be joined by writer and academic Suchitra Vijayan for a reading, conversation, reception, and signing to celebrate the publication of …

  • Komail Aijazuddin: Manboobs w/ Kareem Khubchandani

    Books Are Magic 122 Montague Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    What do you do when you’re too gay for Pakistan, too Pakistani to be gay in America, and you’re ashamed of your body everywhere? How can you find happiness despite years of humiliation, physical danger, and a legion of Brooklyn hipsters who know you only as a queer from Whereveristan? How do you summon the …

  • The Way You Want to Be Loved

    Asian American / Asian Research Institute - CUNY 25 West 43rd Street Room 1000, New York, NY, United States

    Author/professor Aruni Kashyap will read from his new novel, The Way You Want to Be Loved (Gaudy Boy, 2024). At a New Delhi conference, an Assamese writer is interrogated on why he writes about magical folktales instead of the insurgencies. A mother splashes around in the village lake to mask the lovemaking sounds of her …

  • Writing in Conflict: A Reading & Communal Discussion

    McKinney Chapel 119-121 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, United States

    To center work that deliberates over our place in broken institutions, grapples with precarious political conditions, and narrativizes ongoing conflict with urgency, Radix presents a reading and discussion on literature as a political response. How does one write in the moment of upheaval and put into words the cost to life and land with both …

  • Writing Our Histories

    Borough Hall Courtroom 209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    Amitava Kumar questions what ordinary existence is in his novel My Beloved Life, which tells the story of India’s history over the last 85 years through the lens of a modest father. In Temim Fruchter’s City of Laughter, Shiva, a queer Jewish mythology student, retraces four generations of her family’s secrets in Poland to try …