Here you are, looking at the internet. And you wonder, “is there more to life?” The answer is no, not really. There are, however, different things that you can do. Here are a few examples:
Birding Tour of Bryant Park. Wake up early and go birding! Honestly, in what way will this guided birding tour in Midtown Manhattan not be great? (Granted, it is early, but you’ll meet at a coffee kiosk so all participants will have the opportunity to maintain alertness). Fountain Terrace in Bryant Park, Monday, 5/2, 8am-9am.
Super Sad True Love Story paperback release party. Go celebrate the paperback release of one of our favorite novels of 2010, and maybe get a signature like the one pictured to the left (if you can’t read it, it says “Woof! Handle with care, I’m a weenie.” The accompanying picture is Shteyngart’s interpretation of a dachshund.) At BookCourt on Tuesday, 5/3 at 8:30pm.
Sloane Crosley in conversation with Ed Park. 1 funny essayist + 1 other funny essayist = ????. Find the elusive answer to this tricky equation at McNally Jackson on Wednesday, 5/4 at 7pm.
Victoria Brown at Greenlight Bookstore. Brown, an immigrant from Trinidad and former young nanny for a wealthy Manhattanite family, reads from her debut novel Minding Ben, which fictionalizes her own experience in a meditation on urban nannies, immigrant communities in New York, and the complicated lines between them. At Greenlight Bookstore on Thursday, 5/5 at 7:30pm
The Great Saunter: Event With The Best Tagline Ever (“SEE MANHATTAN AT 3 MPH!”). Walk the 32 miles around Manhattan’s rim for “the Statue Of Liberty, New Jersey, the Palisades, all four outer Boroughs, people fishing in the rivers, cherry trees in bloom, spring flowers.” Sounds perfect (especially if you enjoyed your Monday-morning birding tour). At various starting points around Manhattan on Saturday, 5/7, 7:30am onwards.
150th Birthday Celebration of Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali poet and the first non-European writer to win the Nobel Prize. If you haven’t read Tagore’s poetry, you should be sure to hear it for the first time in the proper context: accompanied by the poet’s songs (sung live), with a viewing of the 1961 documentary about Tagore by Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray and alongside some really excellent Indian food. At JojoMukti Tea Lounge, Sunday, 5/8 5pm.
Writers & Kitties. Self-explanatory. All the time, everywhere.
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