Upcoming Ticketed Events

While Greenlight's in-store events are always free and open to the public, some events at our partner venues require tickets to attend!  All tickets include access to the featured event, and bundled tickets also include a copy of the featured book to be picked up onsite. Here are our upcoming ticketed events, with details on how to reserve your spot.


Tuesday, March 26 at The Bell House
7:30 PM (doors open 7:00 PM) AND
10:00 PM (doors open 9:30 PM)
Hanif Abdurraqib presents There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Tickets $35 (book included)

Greenlight is thrilled to partner with The Bell House to host the incomparable Hanif Abdurraquib to present his new book. There’s Always This Year is a classic Abdurraqib triumph, brimming with joy, pain, solidarity, comfort, outrage, and hope. It’s about basketball in the way They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us is about music and A Little Devil in America is about history—no matter the subject, Abdurraqib’s exquisite writing is always poetry, always profound, and always a clarion call to radically reimagine how we think about our culture, our country, and ourselves.

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Each ticket includes a hardcover copy of There's Always This Year, to be picked up at the event.  The Bell House is located a149 7th St; more information at thebellhouseny.com.


Tuesday, April 2, 7:30 PM at St. Joseph's University
Michael Ondaatje presents A Year of Last Things: Poems

In conversation with Sonali Deraniyagala
Tickets $28.00 (book included)

Greenlight kicks off Poetry Month with a special event with Booker Prize winning author Michael Ondaatje: his long awaited return to poetry with the collection A Year of Last Things.  In pieces that are sometimes witty, sometimes moving, and always wise, we journey back through time by way of alchemical leaps, unearthing writings by revered masters, moments of shared tenderness, and the abandoned landscapes we hold on to to rediscover the influence of every border crossed. Terrance Hayes writes "Each new book of Michael Ondaatje’s is a literary event, but that is particularly true for his books of poetry... A Year of Last Things is a remarkable, incomparable new collection.”  Ondaatje discusses his work with fellow Sri Lanka native Sonali Deraniyagala (author of the memoir The Wave), followed by a book signing for A Year of Last Things.

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Each ticket includes a hardcover copy of A Year of Last Things, to be picked up at the event. St. Joseph's University is located at 245 Clinton Avenue; more information at sjny.edu/brooklyn.


Monday, April 8, 7:30pm at St. Joseph's University
Maurice Ashley presents Move by Move: Life Lessons On and Off the Chessboard

In conversation with Levy Rozman
Tickets $22.95 (book included)

Maurice Ashley, the first African American Chess Grandmaster, presents Move by Move: Life Lessons On and Off the Chessboard, a book of life advice drawing on his timeless wisdom of chess. Ashley guides readers through the essential lessons that chess has taught him, using both personal examples from his rise from an immigrant kid playing matches in Brooklyn parks to the most rarified levels of competition, as well as insights from fellow notable chess players. Move by Move reaches from the fundamental to the counterintuitive on subjects ranging from strategic thinking to the importance of failure. Maurice discusses his work with American chess International Master, commentator, and author Levy Rozman, along with a reading and book signing.

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Each ticket includes a signed copy of Move By Move to be picked up at the event!


Tuesday, May 14, 8:00 PM (Doors open 6:30 PM) at Kings Theatre
Kathleen Hanna presents Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
Tickets starting at $41.00 (book included)

Join trailblazing feminist icon, musician, and outspoken women’s rights activist, Kathleen Hanna for an evening of conversation exploring her highly anticipated memoir, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk. The raw and insightful new memoir traces Hanna’s life from her tumultuous childhood home to her formative college years in Olympia, Washington, and on to her first years on tour, fighting hard for gigs and for her band. Hanna makes clear that surviving as a singer who was a lightning rod for controversy took limitless amounts of determination as she and her bandmates faced male violence and antagonism at every turn. In an uncut voice all her own, Hanna reveals the hardest times along with the most joyful—and how it continues to fuel her revolutionary art and music. 

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All tickets come with a copy of Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk by Kathleen Hanna. Books will be available for pick up at Kings Theatre on the night of the event.  Kings Theatre is located at 1027 Flatbush Avenue; more information at kingstheatre.com.

 


Thursday, May 16, 7:30 PM (doors open 6:30 PM) at Kings Theatre
An Evening with David Sedaris
Tickets starting at $68 (book not included)

David Sedaris, author of the previous bestsellers Calypso, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, and regular National Public Radio contributor will be live on stage for one night only, following the release of his newest book Happy Go Lucky. This is a unique opportunity to see the best-selling humorist in an intimate setting. As always, Sedaris will be offering a selection of all-new readings and recollections, as well as a Q&A session and book signing.

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Books by David Sedaris will be available for sale at Kings Theatre on the night of the event; Sedaris will be signing.  Kings Theatre is located at 1027 Flatbush Avenue; more information at kingstheatre.com.

 

 


Friday, May 17, 7:30 PM at St. Joseph's University
Voyage Into Genre LIVE!
Featuring Andrea 
Hairston, Veronica Roth, Rebecca Thorne, & Nghi Vo
Moderated by P. Djeli Clark
Tickets $5 (can be applied to book purchase)

Tor Publishing Group and Lit Hub present an evening of fantasy fiction at a LIVE version of their popular Voyage Into Genre podcast. Join these amazing authors on their epic group tour, with special guest moderator P. Djeli Clark!

Andrea Hairston, author of The Archangels of Funk - post Water Wars, one woman must determine how best to honor her elders and her history while building a future for herself and fellow flood refugees
Veronica Roth, author of When Among Crows - swift and striking, drawing from the deep well of Slavic folklore and asking if redemption and atonement can be found in embracing what we most fear.
Rebecca Thorne, author of Can't Spell Treason Without Tea - In the tradition of Legends & Lattes, a cozy fantasy steeped in sapphic romance about one of the Queen’s private guards and a powerful mage who want to open a bookshop and live happily ever after…if only the world would let them.
Nghi Vo, author of The Brides of High Hill - Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle returns with a standalone gothic mystery that unfolds in the empire of Ahn.

Your GA admission price can be applied to the purchase of any of the featured books at the event, and authors will be signing following the discussion!

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