Walk and writing session led by author and poet Jon Curley.

George Washington and Samuel Fraunces developed skills of risk-taking, judgement, and leadership through their entrepreneurial ventures that would later advantage them and the new nation when they chose to join […]

Book reading and signing by Adrian McKinty, author of Hang On St. Christopher.

Book reading and signing by Kemper Donovan, author of Loose Lips.

Following the 9/11 attacks, young people around the world created art in response to the violence they had witnessed. This program will explore the role of art-making and art therapy […]

Book reading and signing by Elizabeth Crowens, author of Bye Bye Blackbird.

This lecture traces the formation of Pillsbury’s collection during a period when the antiquities market shifted from Europe to the United States, leading American collectors to recognize bronze as one […]

Reading. Sloane Crosley presents Grief Is for People, in conversation with Meghan O'Rourke. How do we live without the ones we love? After the pain and confusion of losing her […]

Arie Tabak was born in Sighet, Romania in 1922. He found work as a printer in Budapest in 1943 until he was forced to escape home only to find himself […]

The legendary pioneer of New Journalism will discuss the art of city writing with NYT reporter Alex Vadukul and sign copies of his new collection A Town Without Time. There […]

Walk and writing session led by author and poet Jon Curley.

Join the Seaport Museum and celebrated historian Russell Shorto for a presentation focusing on Shorto’s newly-released book Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America. The […]

Discuss The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. Repeated March 13 at 2pm.

Conversation with Craig Allen, former President of the U.S.-China Business Council, and Brad W. Setser, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, as they sit down with Susan Yuqing […]

Book reading and signing by Gary Krist, author of Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded Age San Francisco.

In She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street, Paulina Bren tells the story of how women infiltrated Wall Street starting in the swinging sixties, when "No Ladies" signs […]

This month, read and discuss Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson.

My Mother’s War is a gripping memoir by Holocaust survivor Michael Fryd about his mother Evelyn, an indomitable woman who saved her family from the Nazis by demonstrating extraordinary courage […]

Winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize for poetry and current Poet Laureate of Jamaica, Kwame Dawes discusses the life and work of acclaimed novelist and poet and former director of the […]

Book reading and signing by Rosanne Limoncelli, author of The Four Queens of Crime.

Kick off the neighborhood Holi celebration at the Seaport Museum with a family-friendly Holi Literary Festival in the first-floor gallery of the newly opened Maritime City exhibition. Enjoy featured book […]

Read, write, and celebrate queer poetry. Bring your authentic selves, your best (or worst!) poems, and a love for the written word. Open to all experience levels.

Walk and writing session led by author and poet Jon Curley.

More than 3 years passed between the last battle in the North and the British surrender at Yorktown. In this lecture, Alan Pell Crawford tells what actually happened in those […]

Book reading and signing by Rick Jackson and Matthew McGough, authors of Black Tunnel White Magic.

Book reading. A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling […]

Join the South Street Seaport Museum and the New York Ship Lore and Model Club for an evening celebrating the history and restoration of the monumental 22-foot-long builder model of […]

Book reading and signing by Clea Simon, author of The Butterfly Trap.

Launch of McNally Jackson's Publishing 101 series! This series aims to demystify the publishing process through conversations with industry professionals who have done it all, and seen it all. For […]

Join the editors, contributors, and special guests to celebrate the launch of Amulet — a new literary magazine of religion, spirituality and mysticism for seekers and skeptics alike. In an […]

Walk and writing session led by author and poet Jon Curley.

Book reading. A compelling work of investigative journalism that explores the surprising origins and hidden ramifications of an epic late 1960s hoax, perpetrated by cultural luminaries, including Victor Navasky and […]

Book reading. From a rising literary star and the author of how to be a good girl comes a brilliant, biting, and beautifully wrought memoir of trauma and the cost […]

For overseas Chinese, ancient jade is more than just a collectible—it is a bridge to their ancestral heritage, carrying deep family memories and cultural connections to their homeland. The appreciation, […]

Walk and writing session led by author and poet Jon Curley.

Maritime-themed book club.

Book reading and signing by Jeffrey Siger, author of Not Dead Yet.

Reading. Amity Gaige presents Heartwood, in conversation with Jennifer Egan.

Discuss Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson. Repeated April 10 at 2pm.

This month, read and discuss We Do Not Part by Han Kang.

Jamieson Webster presents On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe in conversation with Alissa Bennett.

Cecilia Vicuña discusses three poem sequences sang for the earth in indigenous North and South America. In this performance talk, Vicuña illustrates how oral traditions in Chile, Paraguay, and Arizona […]

Since 1985, the Whiting Awards have been given annually to ten of the most promising emerging writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. Hear the 2025 winners read from their […]

The story of trans life under Nazism is anticipated as tragic. Following the hard-won recognitions of gay and lesbian victims of the Holocaust and in the maelstrom of contemporary global […]

Late night legend David Letterman brings his trademark dry humor, irreverence, and sincere curiosity back to PAC NYC for a conversation with his long-time friend and former music director, Paul […]

The Orchid Pavilion Gathering series, hosted annually by China Institute Gallery, celebrates the spirit of the renowned congregation organized by the scholar-artist Wang Xizhi in the spring of 353 BC. […]

Beyond Architecture: The NEW New York is a volume of essays that commemorate the 60th anniversary of the passage of the New York City Landmarks Law, which established the Landmarks […]

McNally Jackson's Publishing 101 series aims to demystify the publishing process through conversations with industry professionals who have seen it all. For our second event, we welcome Laura McGrath, Randy […]

Celebrate the extraordinary Brenda Hillman and her friends in poetry—Evelyn Reilly, Patricia Spears Jones, Major Jackson, Donna Masini, and Ama Codjoe—reading poems written by or inspired by her work. The […]

Celebrate the release of Like a Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration, Haymarket Books’ anthology of writers speaking on the United States prison-industrial complex. Contributors Randall Horton, Angel Nafis, and Evie […]

Poets Out Loud meets the third Saturday of every month to read, write, and celebrate queer poetry. We spend the first half of this meeting writing new work, and sharing […]

Writer and educator Sam Sax explores the life and work of Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg. Drawing from their research into Stanford University’s Allen Ginsberg papers, sax’s consultation of primary […]

Book reading and signing by Bailey Seybolt, author of Coram House.

Book reading. For fans of Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love, this is the real-life story of Celia and Mamaine Paget: "devoted twins, whose lives and loves traversed the intellectual […]

Just ten blocks from the World Trade Center, Chinatown was the largest residential area affected by 9/11. Much of the impact was strikingly visible as the collapse of the Twin […]

20th anniversary celebration of the book The Seas. Following a teenage girl who believes she's a mermaid, The Seas "blurred the lines between reality and fairy tale, hope and delusion, […]

Poets Christopher Brunt and Timothy Liu will be reading from their latest work.

Join author Kostya Kennedy for this lecture exploring the dramatic events of April 18 and 19, 1775—the night of Paul Revere’s famous ride. With new insights from archives, family documents, […]

Join poet and educator Rigoberto González for a talk on the foundational yet overlooked Chicano poet Leo Romero, whose new and selected volume Trees Dream of Water (University of Arizona […]

Book reading and signing by Paul Vidich, author of The Poet's Game.

This conversation explores how André Aciman and Rich Benjamin chronicle “a living past”—and excavate history— in recent acclaimed works. How do authors such as they successfully interweave big history, a […]

New York City is made up of over 40 islands. By looking to Manhattan’s seaport and its deep history of commerce and cultural exchange, professor and D.J. Tao Leigh Goffe […]

Discover New York City's connections to historic exploration of both the North and South Poles in this mini-symposium presented by the South Street Seaport Museum and the polar social club, […]

An evening honoring two new collections about indigeneity, survivance, and inheritance.

Join Annie Rauwerda, Michael Mandiberg, and Stephen Harrison as they discuss the challenges and opportunities for Wikipedia, a.k.a. "The Last Best Place on the Internet." The conversation will explore Wikipedia's […]

Discover a powerful, untold chapter of Holocaust history and a daughter’s enduring quest to know the story that began a generation before her birth. From childhood, Julie Brill struggled to […]

Interactive craft cocktail class hosted by pop historian, comedian and certified mixologist, Jacey Powers. This unique event combines one-part humor, one-part history and shakes them up for a perfectly blended […]

What does it mean to write the story of a self amidst a collective legacy of loss? Palestinian writers Hala Alyan and Sarah Aziza discuss their debut memoirs, and confront […]

In the interwar decades, American architecture schools enrolled increasing numbers of women. But as architectural historians Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy recount in their book Women Architects at […]

What are history’s lessons for today? Writers from The New Yorker make sense of the backlash against immigrants, the war on "wokeism," and other aspects of the second Trump presidency […]

This month, read and discuss The Echoes by Evie Wyld.

In this talk, poet, editor, and critic Victoria Chang will revisit Lorine Niedecker’s Midwestern background and study one of her longer poems, “Paean to Place,” examining how water and nature […]

Book talk with Anne Chow, the first Asian woman CEO in AT&T’s history.

How do we relate to—and hold—our family’s past? Is it through technology? Through spirit? Art, poetry, music? Or is it through the resonances we look for in ourselves? In Artificial, […]