Tuesday
Tear yourself away from the rabid excitement of March Madness and come see three of your favorite sports writers at KGB. Mina Kimes is a senior writer at ESPN The Magazine, where she writes features and a column about the business and culture of sports. Mary Pilon is the author of The Monopolists and was previously a sports reporter for the New York Times, where she focused chiefly on the intersection of sports with business and politics. Kate Jenkins is the founder of The Intentional and a contributor to Jezebel and The Atlantic, where she recently wrote about the sexualization of female boxers. It’s part of True Story: The KGB Nonfiction Series.
KGB Bar, Tuesday, March 9 at 7 p.m. 85 East 4th Street (East Village).
The mother of all storytelling competitions “The Moth” will host its night of “true stories told live” with no notes at Housing Works Bookstore Café. The theme of the StorySLAM will be “Co-Habitation,” which probably stirs up at least one disturbing roommate or romantic disaster story in us all, so if you’ve got the guts then get on that stage and give it a try. The worse that could happen is you make a fool of yourself in front of a room full of strangers. Or, if you prefer, you can sit back and bask in the relief that it isn’t you up there. Tickets are just $8 at the door, but the line is usually long so be s
ure to get there early.
Housing Works Bookstore Café, Tuesday, March 9. 126 Crosby Street (Soho). Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Thursday
Two things The Rumpus’ Amy Feltman said she would remember about Laura Van Den Berg’s latest novel Find Me: the “world’s most sinister toilet paper roll,” and the website on which you learn whether your loved ones are dead or alive, WeAreSorryForYourLoss.com. This makes a little more sense when you know the book is about a world where an epidemic known only as “the sickness” is killing off humans left and right, sparing only the few who are immune. Van Den Berg will be reading excerpts with fellow author Kate Axelrod (The Art of Loving Others) at this week’s edition of the Pete’s Candy Store Reading Series. (Oh, and we’re still not sure what the deal is with the evil toilet paper roll. To find out you’ll have to go to the reading.)
Pete’s Candy Store, Thursday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m. 709 Lorimer Street (Williamsburg).
Forgetting someone’s name or misplacing the car keys? That’s just a part of life. But what’s it like to live with a real memory disorder? In her debut illustrated novel The Book of Memory Gaps, author and illustrator Cecilia Ruiz takes a darkly comic look at 14 characters, each with his or her unique struggle to remember. “The characters are endearing, especially the ones who exhibit a creative approach to problem solving,” said Boston Globe critic Jan Gardener, who especially enjoyed the story of Veronika, who can’t remember faces and cleverly creates a perfume for each of her loved ones so she can identify them.
WORD Bookstore, Thursday, March 12 at 7 p.m. 126 Franklin Street (Greenpoint).
Friday
“In a world of the short and swift, of texts and Twitter, join us as Women of Letters pay homage to the most civilized of activities– letter-writing.” This invitation may sound prim, but make no mistake: Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire’s popular Australian literary salon is really a lively celebration of strong female talent. The pair is bringing back their series “Women of Letters” with a full lineup of artists, entertainers and writers readings letters they’ve written on the theme of the evening. This month’s guests include a diverse array of talent, from actress and producer Caroline Aaron (of 21 Jump Street and too many TV series to name), to the star of The Secret World of Alex Mack Larisa Oleynik, to the New York Times bestselling author Suki Kim (Without You, There Is No Us).
Joe’s Pub, Friday, March 13 at 9:30 p.m. 425 Lafayette Street (Noho).
Sunday
“E. Oks Presents: We Are That” promises to “illuminate the way colonization, much like fame, displaces us from our holy.” The show fuses spoken word, poetry, freestyle rap, and live jazz. Featured artists include Lily Myers, of “Shrinking Woman” viral video fame, and drummer Nate Mondschein of the IndieSoul sextet The Rooks, along with Jackie Soro, Jest Best, Nyanen Deng, Myles Avery, Sam Friedman and Cherkira Lashley. “If you come, you will be Famous. You will end White Supremacy. You will be Jesus Christ. You will unhinge all Addiction,” says the Bowery Arts and Science website. Seems like a tall order to fill, but for $13 why not give it a try?
Bowery Poetry Club, Sunday, March 15 at 8:30 p.m. 308 Bowery (Noho). Tickets $13.
