A variety week: Learn to use that nook you got for Christmas, hear a new comic voice, dive into a serious translation, listen to a renowned poet and a less familiar one, and celebrate “largehearted lit.”
- Mon. Feb. 20, Barnes & Noble Citigroup Center, 160 E 54th St., 4 p.m., Informal nook tutorial for beginning users. Learn the basics, ask questions, find out how to download books, magazines newspapers and more. Free. 212-750-8033
- Tues. Feb. 21, BookCourt, 163 Court St., Brooklyn, 7 p.m. Adam Wilson reads from his new novel Flatscreen, which bookstore hails as “the wondrous debut of a truth-telling comic voice.”Free. 718- 875-3677
- Wed. Feb. 22, The Center for Fiction, 17 E. 47th St. 7 p.m. Hear writer Deborah Eisenberg and playwright and actor Wallace Shawn read from the New York Review of Books’ new translation of Gregor von Rezzori’s An Ermine in Czernopol. Don't know it? All the more reason to attend. Free, reservations required. Call 212-755-6710.
- Thurs. Feb. 23, Word, 126 Franklin St., Brooklyn, 7 p.m. Largeharted Lit: The theme this month is New York City novels. Jesse Browner reads from his novel Everything Happens Today, which takes place in Greenwich Village, and Joe Wallace reads from Diamond Ruby, his novel set in the New York of the 1920s. The authors will also discuss music's influence on their writing and vice versa; musicians expected too. Free. Facebook RSVP appreciated!
- Thurs. Feb. 23, Dia: Chelsea, 535 W. 22 St., 5 th floor, 6: 30 p.m. Ann Waldman and Lee Ann Brown are spotlighted in Readings in Contemporary Poetry, a series in which two poets from different generations present original works or works in process. Free. Books will be available for purchase (cash only.) 212-989-5566
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