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Your essential guide to NYC bookstores, author readings and book signings
- Summer books 2013
- Interview: Dan Savage
- NYC music scene memoirs
- New York à la Cart
- Renata Adler
Summer books 2013
New titles spark the question, “To beach or not to beach?”
Interview: Dan Savage
The columnist and author talks about the clitoris and snowboarding.
NYC music scene memoirs
Authors delve into sex, drugs and the rest in their punk-rock inflected tales of New York City
New York à la Cart
A new book tells stories and offers recipes from NYC food trucks
Renata Adler
The longtime critic and journalist aids our look at her unclassifiable fiction.
Best book events in NYC: Critics' picks
Yes Is the Answer: Rare Bird and Other Voices present PROG NYC BEA 2013
Indie publishing units Rare Bird and Other Voices welcome authors reputable and rising for this party during Book Expo America week.
- Housing Works Bookstore Cafe 126 Crosby St, between E Houston and Prince Sts, 10012
- Tue May 28
Philipp Meyer
- Critics choice
Meyer's epic new title, The Son, revolves around generations of Texans who experience the cultural displacement inherent in frontier life.
- Barnes & Noble Union Square 33 E 17th St, between Broadway and Park Ave South
- Tue May 28
Fiction Addiction
This monthly series features writers reading from their latest novels, essays and short stories. This time, a great lineup includes Fiona Maazel (Woke Up Lonely).
Eat, Drink and Be Literary
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
This series of civilized yet casual evenings features dinner, wine and a reading from a noteworthy writer, followed by a moderated Q&A about the author's creative process.
- Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) 30 Lafayette Ave, between Ashland Pl and St. Felix St, 11217
- Wed May 29 - Wed Jun 5
Recent book reviews
Book review: American Savage by Dan Savage
- Rated as: 4/5
Though Savage's discursive essays are likely to preach to the choir, his takes on school violence and Rick Santorum are jaunty and cathartic.
Book review: My Struggle: Book Two: A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgaard
- Rated as: 4/5
As Knausgaard pursues grand artistic ideals in spite of the banalities of his daily life, the immersive second volume of his epic, personal tale becomes strangely familiar.
Book review: The Peripatetic Coffin by Ethan Rutherford
- Rated as: 3/5
The dark comedy in Rutherford's debut is staggeringly good, but while exploring all the ways in which a person can be trapped, he may give readers PTSD
Book review: A Delicate Truth by John le Carré
- Rated as: 3/5
Though the prolific espionage writer maintains command of a thorny subject, in his most recent piece of brainy fiction, le Carré's reach falls short
Top books stories
Martin Amis
The recently transplanted novelist talks England, Christopher Hitchens and new novel Lionel Asbo.
Best New York places in literature (that you can still visit)
Connect with the Plaza Hotel, the Empire State Building and the Museum of Natural History through the eyes of great New York writers.
Alison Bechdel
A celebrated graphic novelist dives back in with another intimate memoir about a parent.
Best New York books to impress New Yorkers
The New York books—novels, biographies, histories, photo books and more—that will earn the most cred with culturally savvy city dwellers.
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