23
May/10

NEW YORK BOOK WEEK

23
May/10

Louis Gossett Jr. will be in town for New York Book Week

Multiple locations
Monday, May 24 – Friday, May 28, free – $30
www.bookexpoamerica.com/en/New-York-Book-Week

While BookExpo America is an industry-only event taking place May 25-27 at the Javits Center, the organizers at BEA have wisely added New York Book Week, five days of readings, signings, Q&As, and discussions that are open to the public and mostly free. On Monday, Louis Gossett Jr. will chat up AN ACTOR AND A GENTLEMAN at the B&N at 1972 Broadway; on Tuesday, Zetta Elliot, Tonya Cherie Hegamin, Kekla Magoon, and Rita Williams-Garcia will be at the New York Public Library’s 125th St. branch; on Wednesday, William Peter Blatty will participate in a “Meet the Author” session at the Yorkville Library; on Thursday, Jonathan Franzen and David Means will be at the Brooklyn Public Library; and on Friday, baseball star Lee Smith and cowriter Fran Zimnuch will be at Borders Wall St. signing FIREMAN: THE EVOLUTION OF THE CLOSER IN BASEBALL. Among the ticketed events are “An Hour (or Two) with Daniel Handler” at WORD (May 25, $20), “Stories by Writers from THIS AMERICAN LIFE with Special Guest Ira Glass” at Symphony Space (May 26, $27), and “A Conversation with Scott Turow” at the TimesCenter (May 26, $30).