{
  "name": "NYC Literary Field Guide",
  "updatedAt": "2026-09-23",
  "coverage": [
    "Staten Island",
    "Brooklyn",
    "Manhattan",
    "Jersey City",
    "Newark"
  ],
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "events": [
    {
      "id": "cora-lewis-information-age-2026",
      "eventType": "literature",
      "title": "Cora Lewis' Information Age with Hannah Kingsley-Ma",
      "start": "2026-09-24T18:00:00-04:00",
      "end": "2026-09-24T19:15:00-04:00",
      "format": "in-person",
      "venue": "Brooklyn Public Library — Sunset Park Library",
      "neighborhood": "Sunset Park",
      "city": "Brooklyn",
      "address": "5108 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11220",
      "price": "free",
      "priceLabel": "Free; registration encouraged but not required",
      "availability": "open",
      "registrationUrl": "https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/author-talk-cora-lewis-sunset-park-multipurpose-20260924-0600pm",
      "tags": [
        "fiction",
        "technology",
        "media",
        "craft",
        "author conversation"
      ],
      "whyItMatters": "A novella about technology journalism, compressed news cycles, and blurred public-private life becomes a craft conversation between two Brooklyn writers working across fiction, reporting, and audio.",
      "communityUse": "A free neighborhood program for fiction writers, journalists, media workers, teachers, and readers interested in how contemporary systems reshape voice, attention, and narrative form.",
      "sourceName": "Brooklyn Public Library",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/author-talk-cora-lewis-sunset-park-multipurpose-20260924-0600pm",
      "verifiedAt": "2026-09-18",
      "featured": true
    },
    {
      "id": "bpl-book-prize-shortlist-2026",
      "eventType": "literature",
      "title": "2026 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize Shortlist Readings",
      "start": "2026-09-25T19:00:00-04:00",
      "end": "2026-09-25T20:30:00-04:00",
      "format": "in-person",
      "venue": "Brooklyn Public Library — Central Library",
      "neighborhood": "Prospect Heights",
      "city": "Brooklyn",
      "address": "10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238",
      "price": "free",
      "priceLabel": "Free with registration",
      "availability": "open",
      "registrationUrl": "https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/2026-brooklyn-public-central-library-dweck-20260925-0700pm",
      "tags": [
        "fiction",
        "nonfiction",
        "reading",
        "publishing",
        "Brooklyn Book Festival"
      ],
      "whyItMatters": "Six shortlisted fiction and nonfiction writers read and discuss work spanning experimental debut novels, memoir, translation, politics, and Brooklyn history with a librarian prize judge.",
      "communityUse": "A free survey of current literary work for readers, teachers, editors, book clubs, and writers who want to compare how a public-library prize frames artistic merit and civic relevance.",
      "sourceName": "Brooklyn Public Library",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/2026-brooklyn-public-central-library-dweck-20260925-0700pm",
      "verifiedAt": "2026-09-18",
      "featured": true
    },
    {
      "id": "hello-darknuss-greg-tate-2026",
      "eventType": "literature",
      "title": "Hello Darknuss: Reflections on the Intergalactic Greg Tate",
      "start": "2026-09-28T19:00:00-04:00",
      "end": "2026-09-28T21:00:00-04:00",
      "format": "in-person",
      "venue": "Brooklyn Public Library — Central Library",
      "neighborhood": "Prospect Heights",
      "city": "Brooklyn",
      "address": "10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238",
      "price": "free",
      "priceLabel": "Free with registration",
      "availability": "open",
      "registrationUrl": "https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/hello-darknuss-central-library-dweck-20260928-0700pm",
      "tags": [
        "cultural criticism",
        "film",
        "music",
        "performance",
        "media",
        "Black arts"
      ],
      "whyItMatters": "Arthur Jafa, Questlove, dream hampton, Jelani Cobb, and Daphne A. Brooks examine Greg Tate’s criticism and cross-media legacy alongside a Burnt Sugar performance.",
      "communityUse": "A rare free forum for writers, filmmakers, musicians, critics, scholars, and interdisciplinary artists studying how criticism, archives, performance, and cultural memory reinforce one another.",
      "sourceName": "Brooklyn Public Library",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/hello-darknuss-central-library-dweck-20260928-0700pm",
      "verifiedAt": "2026-09-18",
      "featured": true
    },
    {
      "id": "abbrd-coming-of-age-2026",
      "eventType": "film",
      "title": "Abbr'd: A Short Film Showcase",
      "start": "2026-09-22T18:00:00-04:00",
      "end": "2026-09-22T20:00:00-04:00",
      "format": "in-person",
      "venue": "Brooklyn Public Library — Library for Arts & Culture",
      "neighborhood": "Brooklyn Cultural District",
      "city": "Brooklyn",
      "address": "10 Lafayette Avenue, Second Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11217",
      "price": "free",
      "priceLabel": "Free; RSVP requested",
      "availability": "open",
      "registrationUrl": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/abbrd-a-short-film-showcase-tickets-1998695788908",
      "tags": [
        "film",
        "short films",
        "coming of age",
        "filmmaker Q&A",
        "networking"
      ],
      "whyItMatters": "A curated short-film program pairs three coming-of-age works with a live filmmaker conversation, making the screening as useful for studying process as finished form.",
      "communityUse": "A free meeting point for emerging filmmakers, writers, performers, students, and neighbors seeking collaborators, audience feedback, or a view into local production practice.",
      "sourceName": "Brooklyn Public Library",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/abbrd-short-film-showcase-library-for-arts-culture-20260922-0600pm",
      "verifiedAt": "2026-09-17",
      "featured": true
    },
    {
      "id": "three-colors-blue-leonard-2026",
      "eventType": "film",
      "title": "East Williamsburg Cinema Club: Three Colors: Blue",
      "start": "2026-09-17T17:30:00-04:00",
      "end": "2026-09-17T19:30:00-04:00",
      "format": "in-person",
      "venue": "Brooklyn Public Library — Leonard Library",
      "neighborhood": "East Williamsburg",
      "city": "Brooklyn",
      "address": "81 Devoe Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211",
      "price": "free",
      "priceLabel": "Free; no registration listed",
      "availability": "open",
      "registrationUrl": "https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/east-williamsburg-cinema-leonard-auditorium-20260917-0530pm",
      "tags": [
        "film",
        "international cinema",
        "psychological drama",
        "discussion"
      ],
      "whyItMatters": "Krzysztof Kieślowski’s formally precise study of grief, freedom, music, and visual meaning is followed by a community film discussion.",
      "communityUse": "A zero-cost entry point for filmmakers, writers, visual artists, students, and neighbors interested in close reading across image, sound, and narrative.",
      "sourceName": "Brooklyn Public Library",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/east-williamsburg-cinema-leonard-auditorium-20260917-0530pm",
      "verifiedAt": "2026-09-17",
      "featured": true
    },
    {
      "id": "woman-under-influence-leonard-2026",
      "eventType": "film",
      "title": "East Williamsburg Cinema Club: A Woman Under the Influence",
      "start": "2026-09-26T14:00:00-04:00",
      "end": "2026-09-26T16:30:00-04:00",
      "format": "in-person",
      "venue": "Brooklyn Public Library — Leonard Library",
      "neighborhood": "East Williamsburg",
      "city": "Brooklyn",
      "address": "81 Devoe Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211",
      "price": "free",
      "priceLabel": "Free; no registration listed",
      "availability": "open",
      "registrationUrl": "https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/east-williamsburg-cinema-leonard-auditorium-20260926-0200pm",
      "tags": [
        "film",
        "independent cinema",
        "performance",
        "psychological drama",
        "discussion"
      ],
      "whyItMatters": "John Cassavetes’s performance-driven domestic drama is a landmark of independent American cinema, followed by a community discussion at Leonard Library.",
      "communityUse": "A free close-reading space for filmmakers, actors, writers, teachers, and viewers interested in performance, improvisation, domestic realism, and directing actors.",
      "sourceName": "Brooklyn Public Library",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/east-williamsburg-cinema-leonard-auditorium-20260926-0200pm",
      "verifiedAt": "2026-09-23",
      "featured": true
    },
    {
      "id": "new-directions-90",
      "eventType": "literature",
      "title": "Celebrating 90 Years of New Directions",
      "start": "2026-09-17T19:00:00-04:00",
      "format": "hybrid",
      "venue": "The Center for Fiction",
      "neighborhood": "Downtown Brooklyn",
      "city": "Brooklyn",
      "address": "15 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY",
      "price": "paid",
      "priceLabel": "Livestream available; in-person sold out",
      "availability": "livestream-only",
      "registrationUrl": "https://centerforfiction.org/event/celebrating-90-years-of-new-directions/",
      "tags": [
        "publishing",
        "translation",
        "poetry",
        "avant-garde"
      ],
      "whyItMatters": "A rare survey of an independent press that changed American modernism, with writers and translators working across poetry, fiction, and criticism.",
      "communityUse": "Useful for editors, translators, small-press readers, and anyone studying how literary institutions sustain an identity across generations.",
      "sourceName": "The Center for Fiction",
      "sourceUrl": "https://centerforfiction.org/event/celebrating-90-years-of-new-directions/",
      "verifiedAt": "2026-09-16"
    },
    {
      "id": "american-reading-crisis",
      "eventType": "literature",
      "title": "The Atlantic Festival: The American Reading Crisis",
      "start": "2026-09-19T19:00:00-04:00",
      "end": "2026-09-19T20:15:00-04:00",
      "format": "in-person",
      "venue": "Brooklyn Public Library — Central Library",
      "neighborhood": "Prospect Heights",
      "city": "Brooklyn",
      "address": "10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY",
      "price": "free",
      "priceLabel": "Free; registration at capacity",
      "availability": "sold-out",
      "registrationUrl": "https://www.bklynlibrary.org/node/839042/register",
      "tags": [
        "public culture",
        "education",
        "fiction",
        "attention"
      ],
      "whyItMatters": "A public conversation about sustained attention, intellectual curiosity, and shared literary culture, followed by novelist Tayari Jones.",
      "communityUse": "Relevant to teachers, librarians, reading-group organizers, and people designing public-literacy programs.",
      "sourceName": "Brooklyn Public Library",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.bklynlibrary.org/node/839042/register",
      "verifiedAt": "2026-09-19",
      "featured": true
    },
    {
      "id": "spiegelman-no-towers",
      "eventType": "literature",
      "title": "Art Spiegelman Discusses In the Shadow of No Towers",
      "start": "2026-09-22T19:00:00-04:00",
      "end": "2026-09-22T20:30:00-04:00",
      "format": "in-person",
      "venue": "Brooklyn Public Library — Central Library",
      "neighborhood": "Prospect Heights",
      "city": "Brooklyn",
      "address": "10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY",
      "price": "free",
      "priceLabel": "Free; registration at capacity",
      "availability": "sold-out",
      "registrationUrl": "https://www.bklynlibrary.org/node/828089/register",
      "tags": [
        "comics",
        "visual narrative",
        "politics",
        "memoir"
      ],
      "whyItMatters": "A major artist examining how graphic narrative can hold memory, civic trauma, satire, and formal experimentation at once.",
      "communityUse": "Especially useful for visual storytellers, nonfiction writers, artists working across image and text, and post-9/11 cultural historians.",
      "sourceName": "Brooklyn Public Library",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.bklynlibrary.org/node/828089/register",
      "verifiedAt": "2026-09-19",
      "featured": true
    },
    {
      "id": "day-of-translation-2026",
      "eventType": "literature",
      "title": "2026 Day of Translation",
      "start": "2026-09-24T13:30:00-04:00",
      "end": "2026-09-24T18:15:00-04:00",
      "format": "hybrid",
      "venue": "The Center for Fiction",
      "neighborhood": "Downtown Brooklyn",
      "city": "Brooklyn",
      "address": "15 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY",
      "price": "free",
      "priceLabel": "Free; registration required",
      "availability": "open",
      "registrationUrl": "https://centerforfiction.org/event/2026-day-of-translation/",
      "tags": [
        "translation",
        "international literature",
        "craft",
        "language"
      ],
      "whyItMatters": "An afternoon devoted to language, cultural transmission, and the practical and philosophical work of literary translation.",
      "communityUse": "A concentrated resource for translators, multilingual writers, teachers, editors, and readers seeking literature beyond the Anglosphere.",
      "sourceName": "The Center for Fiction",
      "sourceUrl": "https://centerforfiction.org/event/2026-day-of-translation/",
      "verifiedAt": "2026-09-16",
      "featured": true
    },
    {
      "id": "wave-books-spotlight",
      "eventType": "literature",
      "title": "Indie Press Spotlight: New Poetry from Wave Books",
      "start": "2026-09-25T19:00:00-04:00",
      "format": "hybrid",
      "venue": "Books Are Magic — Brooklyn Heights",
      "neighborhood": "Brooklyn Heights",
      "city": "Brooklyn",
      "price": "paid",
      "priceLabel": "$10–$22; in-person and virtual",
      "availability": "open",
      "registrationUrl": "https://brooklynbookfestival.org/event/in-store-indie-press-spotlight-new-poetry-from-wave-books-in-person-virtual/",
      "tags": [
        "poetry",
        "independent publishing",
        "craft"
      ],
      "whyItMatters": "Joshua Beckman, Dorothea Lasky, and Edwin Torres offer a close view of contemporary poetry and the editorial culture around an independent press.",
      "communityUse": "A strong gathering for poets, small-press readers, editors, and writers learning how independent literary ecosystems operate.",
      "sourceName": "Brooklyn Book Festival",
      "sourceUrl": "https://brooklynbookfestival.org/event/in-store-indie-press-spotlight-new-poetry-from-wave-books-in-person-virtual/",
      "verifiedAt": "2026-09-16"
    },
    {
      "id": "brooklyn-indie-party-2026",
      "eventType": "literature",
      "title": "16th Annual Brooklyn Indie Party",
      "start": "2026-09-25T19:30:00-04:00",
      "format": "in-person",
      "venue": "Greenlight Bookstore",
      "neighborhood": "Fort Greene",
      "city": "Brooklyn",
      "price": "free",
      "priceLabel": "Free with registration",
      "availability": "open",
      "registrationUrl": "https://brooklynbookfestival.org/event/16th-annual-brooklyn-indie-party-in-person/",
      "tags": [
        "networking",
        "independent publishing",
        "literary magazines"
      ],
      "whyItMatters": "Independent publishers, literary magazines, authors, and editors gather in one room during Brooklyn Book Festival week.",
      "communityUse": "The most practical match for writers seeking collaborators, editors, publishing knowledge, or a clearer view of the local literary economy.",
      "sourceName": "Brooklyn Book Festival",
      "sourceUrl": "https://brooklynbookfestival.org/event/16th-annual-brooklyn-indie-party-in-person/",
      "verifiedAt": "2026-09-16"
    },
    {
      "id": "between-page-stage",
      "eventType": "literature",
      "title": "Between the Page & Stage: Youth Open Mic and Author Reading",
      "start": "2026-09-26T15:00:00-04:00",
      "end": "2026-09-26T18:00:00-04:00",
      "format": "in-person",
      "venue": "Staten Island Urban Center",
      "neighborhood": "Tompkinsville",
      "city": "Staten Island",
      "address": "208 Bay Street, Staten Island, NY",
      "price": "free",
      "priceLabel": "Free with registration",
      "availability": "open",
      "registrationUrl": "https://brooklynbookfestival.org/event/between-the-page-stage-staten-island-youth-open-mic-author-reading-in-person/",
      "tags": [
        "open mic",
        "youth",
        "urban fantasy",
        "local"
      ],
      "whyItMatters": "A Staten Island literary gathering connecting youth performance, an author reading, and local cultural infrastructure.",
      "communityUse": "The open mic is for ages 12–24; the reading and conversation are useful to educators, mentors, families, and the broader borough writing community.",
      "sourceName": "Brooklyn Book Festival",
      "sourceUrl": "https://brooklynbookfestival.org/event/between-the-page-stage-staten-island-youth-open-mic-author-reading-in-person/",
      "verifiedAt": "2026-09-16",
      "featured": true
    },
    {
      "id": "brooklyn-book-festival-2026",
      "eventType": "literature",
      "title": "Brooklyn Book Festival: Festival Day",
      "start": "2026-09-27T10:00:00-04:00",
      "end": "2026-09-27T18:00:00-04:00",
      "format": "in-person",
      "venue": "Brooklyn Borough Hall and nearby venues",
      "neighborhood": "Downtown Brooklyn",
      "city": "Brooklyn",
      "price": "free",
      "priceLabel": "Free; individual programs may fill",
      "availability": "open",
      "registrationUrl": "https://brooklynbookfestival.org/event_type/festival-day/",
      "tags": [
        "festival",
        "fiction",
        "poetry",
        "translation",
        "publishing"
      ],
      "whyItMatters": "A full day of writers, publishers, translators, booksellers, and readers, with enough simultaneous programming to support several distinct paths through the festival.",
      "communityUse": "The broadest free entry point into the region’s literary ecosystem and a practical place to discover presses, journals, authors, and future collaborators.",
      "sourceName": "Brooklyn Book Festival",
      "sourceUrl": "https://brooklynbookfestival.org/event_type/festival-day/",
      "verifiedAt": "2026-09-16",
      "featured": true
    },
    {
      "id": "dodge-poetry-festival-2026",
      "eventType": "literature",
      "title": "Dodge Poetry Festival",
      "start": "2026-10-15T09:00:00-04:00",
      "end": "2026-10-17T23:00:00-04:00",
      "format": "in-person",
      "venue": "NJPAC and downtown Newark venues",
      "neighborhood": "Downtown Newark",
      "city": "Newark",
      "price": "mixed",
      "priceLabel": "Paid passes; selected free programs",
      "availability": "open",
      "registrationUrl": "https://www.njpac.org/series/dodge-poetry-festival/",
      "tags": [
        "poetry",
        "performance",
        "craft",
        "translation",
        "festival"
      ],
      "whyItMatters": "Three days of readings, performances, craft sessions, translation, poetic ancestry, speculative futures, and literary-career conversations.",
      "communityUse": "A regional anchor for poets at every career stage; useful as both an artistic immersion and a map of contemporary poetry communities.",
      "sourceName": "NJPAC",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.njpac.org/series/dodge-poetry-festival/",
      "verifiedAt": "2026-09-16",
      "featured": true
    }
  ]
}