Books

Symphony Space's 36th annual literary rite of spring celebrating life, love, and language in James Joyce's lavish, languid, and lively prose. For over a decade, Joyce's great work was famously banned throughout the United States. This year's Bloomsday features authors, actors and devoted Joyceans performing readings from the offensive, subversive, obscene, political, sexual and heretical elements of Ulysses. Featuring a […]

Our next Salon will be on July 6th at Bar Thalia -- sign up to present at http://bit.ly/IASalon. The following Salon, at the cell on July 18, we'll have a special immigration-themed Salon with several special guest presenters, representing Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Stay tuned for more info!

Hosted and curated by Paul Muldoon with house band Rogue Oliphant Our critically-acclaimed feast of music, storytelling, and poetry—now in its seventh season—has become a staple of New York’s cultural diet. Led by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, this words-and-music jamboree features an evolving lineup of world-class special guests from across the spectrum of arts and […]

Music by Jenna Nicholls and Gerry Leonard Conversation moderated by Dael Orlandersmith Dublin-born actor and co-founder of East Village’s music venues Sin-é and the Scratcher, Karl Geary launches his luminous debut novel Montpelier Parade with an evening of words and music. Unfolding in the sea-bright, rain-soaked Dublin of early spring, Montpelier Parade is a cinematic novel about […]

On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove―to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering, pregnant wife―“that the hours of his life belong to himself alone.” In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, […]

Join us for this engrossing literary salon featuring a panel of writers who have spent their careers researching and documenting the lives of some of the most important people of our time. Panelists include Martin Amis (The Rub of Time), Patrick Hunt (Hannibal), Gareth Russell (Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, […]