Poets & Writers Theater

In this virtual event hosted by the Strand Book Store, Sue Shapiro, author of The Forgiveness Tour: How to Find the Perfect Apology (Skyhorse, 2021), leads a conversation about best practices for pitching, submitting, and querying with agents and editors including Miya Lee, Rakesh Satyal, and Howard Yoon.

“It started with me seeing this weird article in the Lancet, which is a medical journal, about a particular femur that had been discovered in a Roman necropolis on the island of Isola Sacra.” In this virtual event hosted by the Strand Book Store, Mark Prins talks about the research process for his debut novel, The Latinist (Norton, 2022), in a conversation with author Brandon Taylor.

“I was employee number twenty, and the fourth woman.” In this video, Anna Wiener reads from and discusses her debut memoir, Uncanny Valley (MCD/FSG, 2020), with editor Laura Marsh at the Strand Book Store in New York. For more about the book, read Wiener’s installment of Ten Questions.

“It’s okay to be in flux and figure it out, and take your time to figure it out.” Follow iO Tillett Wright through the streets of New York City to Joshua Tree in California leading up to the launch of his debut memoir, Darling Days (Ecco, 2016).

Book reviewer Michael Orthofer and economist Tyler Cowen take up the challenge of buying three books in one hour at the Strand Book Store in New York City, discussing their tips for shopping and book choices along the way.

"In the spleen, an oasis / an oasis as mirage / all my people burned / on either side of me." Listen to poet Charif Shanahan, along with Matt Petronzio, Hafizah Geter, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, and Danniel Schoonebeek read for a National Poetry Month event called Writing and Resistance, presented by MashReads and the Strand Book Store.

"Emerald, as in the leaf of the ash, / though nothing's burned, not yet..." At a celebration of the Kenyon Review hosted by the Strand Book Store, David Baker, the literary magazine's poetry editor, reads a poem by Alison Hutchkraft from a recent issue, as well as poems from his collection Scavenger Loop (Norton, 2015).

In this Strand virtual event, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux president Jonathan Galassi and editor-at-large for poetry Robyn Creswell speak about editing The FSG Poetry Anthology, which celebrates the publisher’s seventy-fifth anniversary, and introduce poets Maureen N. McLane, Ishion Hutchinson, and Carl Phillips who read their poems.

At a public memorial at New York City’s Strand Book Store, family members, colleagues, and writers including Gay Talese, Fran Lebowitz, and Paul Krugman remember and honor Fred Bass, the bookstore’s longtime owner who died at the age of eighty-nine on January 3. The bookstore was founded by Bass’s father in 1927, and he began working there at the age of thirteen, taking over its management in 1956.

“There is no good answer to how to be a woman.” At the Strand Book Store, Jia Tolentino interviews Rebecca Solnit on her new book, The Mother of All Questions: Further Reports from the Feminist Revolution (Haymarket Books, 2017).

In this short film starring Brian Cheng, Shakespeare's Sonnet 82 is played out at the Strand Book Store in New York City as part of the Sonnet Project.

Brett Fletcher Lauer and Lynn Melnick, editors of the poetry anthology, Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation (Viking, 2015), introduce poets from the collection at a reading at the Strand Book Store in New York City.

"Broadway was mobbed and messy. It was Sunday and only twelve o'clock, but it was mobbed anyway." In this short film from the Strand Book Store, directed by Rob Sichler, Gizmo the dog plays Holden Caulfield from the novel by J. D. Salinger.

Fifty years ago Norman Mailer asserted, "William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius." Acclaimed biographer Barry Miles discusses his new book, Call Me Burroughs: A Life (Twelve, 2014), with John Tytell at the Strand Bookstore in New York City.

Susan Shapiro moderates a panel comprised of authors Leigh Newman (Still Points North), Moses Gates (Hidden Cities), and Royal Young (Fame Shark); book editors Danielle Perez (New American Library) and Naomi Rosenblatt (Heliotrope Books); journalism professor Susan Shapiro (New School, NYU); and literary agent Matt Wise and Renee Zuckerbrot.

The third and final installment in a series of readings and discussions celebrating the tenth anniversary of the PSA Chapbook Fellowships, which are sponsored by the Poetry Society of America, features Camille Rankine, the 2010 fellowship recipient, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Cornelius Eady, who selected her for the honor.

Authors Rachel Kushner, Hari Kunzru, and Rivka Galchen speak with poet and Bomb Magazine senior editor Mónica de la Torre about their writing and the state of the literary world at New York City's Strand Book Store.

The New Yorker staff writer Hilton Als spoke with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz about work and inspiration at an event earlier this month at the Strand Book Store in New York City.

New York Times illustrator, artist, chef, and author of Mumbai New York Scranton, published by Scribner in March, discusses her memoir about her adventures abroad with author and humorist John Hodgman at New York City's Strand Book Store.

The first in a series of three readings and discussions celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Poetry Society of America's Chapbook Fellowship features 2006 winner Dan Chelotti alongside that year's judge, Pulitzer Prize-winner Yusef Komunyakaa, introduced by PSA executive director Alice Quinn at New York City's Strand Book Store.