Paul Harding, author of Tinkers and Enon, joins Christopher Beha (What Happened to Sophie Wilder) and Robert Antoni (As Flies to Whatless Boys) for a discussion at the Brooklyn Book Festival, moderated by Bellevue Literary Press Publisher and Editorial Director Erika Goldman, about how their characters look to the past to find peace in the present.

Michèle Forbes, author of Ghost Moth, joins A.X. Ahmad (The Caretaker), Caleb Crain (Necessary Errors), Ursula DeYoung (Shorecliff), and Ayana Mathis (The Twelve Tribes of Hattie) for a Brooklyn Book Festival special event featuring readings from five of the year’s most impressive debut novelists.

With gratitude to Culture Ireland for help making Michèle Forbes’ visit possible

Please join Bellevue Literary Press at the Brooklyn Book Festival. Visit us in booth 40, which we’ll be sharing with our sister organization The Bellevue Literary Review, to meet authors Michèle Forbes, Eduardo Halfon, and Paul Harding, and find great deals on our books.

Late Night Library, in conjunction with the Brooklyn Book Festival, presents its second annual Battle of the Books, where sixteen debut books vie for literary supremacy and the coveted Late Night Library Championship Belt. Featured contestants include Ghost Moth by Michèle Forbes (as read by Irish actor Owen Roe) and Understories by Tim Horvath (as read by writer Rebecca Schiff).

With gratitude to Culture Ireland for help making Michèle Forbes’ visit possible

The Brooklyn Futurist Meetup presents Jonathan D. Moreno, author of Mind Wars and The Body Politic, in conversation about the “Future of Brain Science and the Military.” This special event is co-sponsored by Serious Wonder, a progressive futurist technology and consciousness website with a mission to bring readers the best in futuristic ideas, technology, robotics, science, consciousness, philosophy, psychology, space travel, and modern design.

Ansche Chesed presents “Scribblers on the Roof” with authors Austin Ratner (The Jump Artist and In the Land of the Living) and Michael Greenberg (Beg, Borrow, Steal and The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit)

Please join us for a book club discussion of The Polish Boxer, hosted by Idlewild Books.

The Community Bookstore and Vol. 1 Brooklyn present a reading and conversation with Norman Lock (Love Among the Particles) and Matt Bell (In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods).

Tim Horvath, author of Understories, joins Avital Chizhik (Galatea, Galatea), Lisa Dierbeck (Satan Takes Brooklyn), and Royal Young (Fame Shark) for the Vica Miller Summer Fiction Salon at Ceres Gallery.

The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop hosts Jonathan Goldsmith Visiting Author Paul Harding, reading from his Pulitzer Prize-wining novel Tinkers.

Eduardo Halfon, author of The Polish Boxer, joins Michal Ajvaz, Nadeem Aslam, Dror Burstein, Gillian Clarke, Mia Couto, Natalio Hernandez, Nick Holdstock, Randa Jarrar, Tararith Kho, Jaime Manrique, Margie Orford, Jordi Punti, Noémi Szécsi, Padma Venkatraman, and others for the PEN World Voices Festival Literary Safari.

Please join Bellevue Literary Press at the PEN World Voices Festival book fair to meet our editorial staff, find great deals on all of our books, and enjoy “this day-long ‘festival within the Festival,’ nestled among the cobblestone streets of NYU’s storied Washington Mews.”

Eduardo Halfon, author of The Polish Boxer, joins Nadeem Aslam, James Kelman, and Genichiro Takahashi for “Resonances: Contemporary Writers on the Classics,” a PEN World Voices Festival special event co-sponsored by The Great Works Program, Weissman School of Arts and Sciences-Baruch College, Asia Society, Monkey Business, and A Public Space.

As part of the Ithaca College New Voices Festival, author Tim Horvath (Understories) joins Marie-Helene Bertino (Safe as Houses), Jane Roper (Eden Lake), and Eleanor Henderson (Ten Thousand Saints) for a special reading at Handwerker Gallery.

As part of the Ithaca College New Voices Festival, authors Tim Horvath (Understories), Rebecca Makkai (The Borrower), Marie-Helene Bertino (Safe as Houses), Nathaniel Rich (The Mayor’s Tongue), Robin Ekiss (The Mansion of Happiness), Sheba Karim (Skunk Girl), Jane Roper (Eden Lake), and Eleanor Henderson (Ten Thousand Saints) will all participate in “The Short Short: Microreadings at Buffalo Street Books.”

Changing Hands Bookstore features a double author event with Melissa Pritchard (The Odditorium) and Jamie Quatro (I Want To Show You More).

The Lawrence Clayton Poets & Writers Speaker Series at Hardin-Simmons University hosts Paul Harding, reading from his Pulitzer Prize-wining novel Tinkers. The reading will be followed by an informal reception and book signing.

The Lawrence Clayton Poets & Writers Speaker Series at Hardin-Simmons University features Pulitzer-Prize-winning novelist Paul Harding (Tinkers), hosting an informal afternoon question and answer session.

The Wexler Family Jewish Life and Culture Series presents a reading with Eduardo Halfon, author of The Polish Boxer, at the University of Pennsylvania’s Kelly Writers House.

Publisher and Editorial Director Erika Goldman and Associate Editor Leslie Hodgkins invite you to visit Bellevue Literary Press, an Association of Writers and Writing Programs Small Press Publisher Award nominee, in booth 2704, which we’ll be sharing with sister organization The Bellevue Literary Review. On Saturday, March 9, the exhibit hall will be open to the public, and throughout the conference Bellevue Literary Press will be featuring great deals on many of our books, including The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review, edited by Danielle Ofri, and signed copies of Tim Horvath’s Understories; Michelle Latiolais’ Widow and A Proper Knowledge; Varley O’Connor’s The Cure; Jonathan D. Moreno’s Mind Wars and The Body Politic; and Gregory Spatz’s Inukshuk.

The IDEAS Institute at Hofstra University presents a Darwin Day Special Event lecture, The Battle Over Science in America: How Biology is Changing Our Politics by Jonathan D. Moreno, author of The Body Politic and Mind Wars. This event is co-sponsored by the Hofstra Bioethics Center and the Hofstra Department of Philosophy.

It’s 1945. As atomic bombs are on their way to Japan, five top German nuclear scientists, along with their British handler, are held at an English country manor, Farm Hall. While secret microphones record their conversations, they are unaware of why or for how long they are there. How will these famous scientists react to the news of the atomic bombs? How will they explain to themselves and to the world their failure to achieve even a chain reaction? How will they attempt to explain their behavior during the Third Reich and their wartime work for such a regime?

Join Science & the Arts for the world premiere reading of this new historical play by David C. Cassidy.

Penguin Bookshop presents a short reading and book signing with Eduardo Halfon, author of The Polish Boxer.

City of Asylum/Pittsburgh presents a reception and reading with Eduardo Halfon, author of The Polish Boxer.

This month, the Franklin Park Reading Series focuses on “wanderers—roving and boozing philosophers, refuseniks, cultural impersonators, drifters, and sojourning artists.”

Featuring: Lars Iyer (Spurious, Dogma, and Exodus), Karolina Waclawiak (How to Get Into the Twin Palms), Tim Horvath (Understories), Dylan Nice (Other Kinds), and Margarita Korol (Spoils of War: Ode to a Refusenik Mother).