upcoming readings in NYC

until I can figure out how to add a sidebar calendar for this sort of stuff, here's a long post with a bunch of upcoming readings. I don't include anything outside Manhattan (note: Brooklyn, while a very nice place in and of itself, is not Manhattan) & I pick only the readings that interest me...

@ the Half King 23rd & 10th Ave.
9/12 Jason Starr & Maggie Estep
9/18 Lee Montgomery (go see her - she's great!!)

9/13 Edward P. Jones @ SYMPHONY SPACE
Thalia Theater 2537 Broadway (@ 95th St.)

The following are all at Barnes & Noble - for those of you who need explanations for this sort of thing, locations are listed next to the reading like this "Astor" = Astor Place (8th Street & Broadway), 6 & 22 = 6th Avenue and 22nd Street, U.Sq. = 17th Street/Union Square & Lincoln = Lincoln Center 82 & Bway = 82nd Street & Bway 86 & 2nd = 86th Street & 2nd Avenue - All B&N readings are at 7pm but get there early!

9/12 Andrew Vachss - Astor
9/14 Edward P. Jones - 6 & 22
9/18 David Lehman & Billy Collins - U.Sq.
9/26 Uzodinma Iweala (Beast of No Nation) 6 & 22
9/26 Amy Tan - U.Sq.
9/28 Cindy Sheehan ("Peace Mom") U. Sq.
10/4 Francine Prose - 82 & Bway
10/10 Annie Leibovitz U.Sq.
10/11 John Berendt - City of Falling Angels 86 & 2nd
10/19 Barack O'Bama - U.Sq. THIS READING IS AT NOON
10/23 Joyce Carol Oates - Lincoln Ctr
10/24 Ralph Steadman - 6 & 22 (think Hunter S. Thompson...duh)
11/1 Margaret Atwood - U. Sq.
11/3 Frank McCourt - U. Sq.
11/15 Rick Moody, Mark Doty, Mary Karr - 6 & 22