NYC Bookstore Events: July 2013

David Rakoff Ready for a Brand New Beat

July is a pretty quiet month at B&N, but the indies are acting like people still buy books during the summer. Here are some July 2013 bookstore events that I found interesting for one reason or another.

Barnes & Noble July 2013
07/06 Brad Ricca – Super Boys (86th & Lex)
07/09 The Cast of Pippin (86th & Lex)
07/09 Stephen Kiernan – Curiosity (86th & Lex)
07/09 Aisha Tyler – Self-Inflicted Wounds (Tri)
07/10 Pattie Mallette – Nowhere But Up: The Story of Justin Bieber’s Mom (Tri)
07/10 R. L. Stine: A Midsummer Night’s Scream (USQ)
07/11 Mark Kurlansky – Ready For a Brand New Beat (82nd & Bway)
07/15 Ivy Pochoda – Visitation Street (82nd & Bway)
07/15 June “Mama” Shannon – How to Honey Boo Boo (Citi)
07/16 Daniel Silva – English Girl (USQ)
07/16 Scandalous – Carolee Carmello, David Friedman, Kathie Lee Gifford (86th & Lex)
07/16 Peter Biskind – My Lunches with Orson (82nd & Bway)
07/17 David Rakoff* – Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish (USQ)
07/22 The Day The Crayons Quit – Special Event (82nd & Bway, Citi, USQ, Court, Park Slope)
07/30 Linda Fairstein – Death Angel (86th & Lex)
07/30 Callie Wright – Love All (82nd & Bway)
07/31 Kennedy – The Kennedy Chronicles (Tri)

* Guests not listed. (Maybe Ira Glass.)

Powerhouse Arena
07/10 Love All by Callie Wright, Mary Beth Keane
07/11 Lotería by Mario Alberto Zambrano
07/15 Shut Up, You’re Welcome by Annie Choi
07/16 The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. by Adelle Waldman with Teddy Wayne
07/17 My Education by Susan Choi
07/22 Beneath the Bridge: TransAtlantic by Colum McCann
07/24 The Exiles by Allison Lynn
07/25 H.N.I.C by Albert “Prodigy” Johnson, with Sacha Jenkins
07/26 Afros: A Celebration of Natural Hair by Michael July
07/31 The Telling Room by Michael Paterniti

Bookcourt
07/10 Chuck Klosterman – I Wear the Black Hat
07/11 Ivy Pochoda – Visitation Street
07/13 Gabriel Roth – The Unknowns: A Novel
07/22 Tao Lin – Taipei: In Conversation
07/25 Michael Walker – What You Want Is in the Limo
07/26 Colum McCann – TransAtlantic