Every year, children stay up the night before Independent Bookstore Week begins, hoping to catch Book Santa and his sleigh pulled by pigeons. Okay, this is actually the first annual, and any sleigh pulled by pigeons should be shot down, but here are three free events you should check out.
Tonight at Unnameable Books: Sarah Palin-Vladimir Nabokov midnight release party. You are encouraged to dress as your favorite character from either GOING ROGUE or THE ORIGINAL OF LAURA, the novel Nabokov told his family to destroy before he died. (11:30PM; 600 Vanderbilt Ave., Prospect Heights)
Wednesday (11/18) at WORD Brooklyn: STATE BY STATE, an anthology of essays about America, comes out in paperback this week and co-editor Sean Wilsey will be talking about how he put it together. I went to a reading for this when it came out in hardcover, and it was really fun. (7:30PM; 126 Franklin St. in Greenpoint)
Thursday (11/19) at Book Culture: David Hajdu, author of THE TEN-CENT PLAGUE and POSITIVELY FOURTH STREET (excellent) reads from his new book of cultural essays. (7PM; 536 W. 112th St. in Morningside Heights)
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