Join Powerhouse Arena for the launch of The Art of Being a Stranger. About the Book: Karen Bermann grew up in the mad orbit of her father, Fritz, the rebellious child of a Viennese Orthodox Jewish family who fled Europe alone as an adolescent in the late 1930s. An irreverent, comic, rageful man with threeContinue reading "Book Launch: The Art of Being a Stranger by Karen Bermann"

Join Powerhouse arena for the launch of The News From Dublin by Colm Tóibín, in conversation with Tadhg Hoey. About the Book: From Colm Tóibín, “one of the world’s best living literary writers” (The Boston Globe), comes a brilliant collection of nine short stories, many never-before-published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America—about the complexities ofContinue reading "Book Launch: The News From Dublin by Colm Tóibín in conversation with Tadhg Hoey"

From Colm Tóibín, “one of the world’s best living literary writers” (The Boston Globe), comes a brilliant collection of nine short stories, many never-before-published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America—about the complexities of family, longing, loss, and love.

Join Powerhouse Arena for the launch of Metropolitans by A.M. Gittlitz. About the Book: A love letter to a franchise and a thrilling study of New York City, Metropolitans traces the electric and calamitous history of the New York Mets.

It's time for a dating revolution! How do you find a needle in a haystack? You burn the haystack to the ground. Among Dr. Jennie Young’s legion of fans, the “needle” is a long-term, committed partner and the “haystack” is the group of men available to date. So often women are advised to “give theContinue reading "Book Launch: Burn the Haystack by Jennie Young PhD"

Please join Powerhouse Arena for a book launch featuring a moderated conversation with author, and the Gotham Film and Media Institute's Accessibility Officer, Leslie Short and the Gotham's Executive Director, Jeffrey Sharp. This memoir and conversation will focus on Leslie's life in the Arts and Entrepreneurship. Please RSVP to RSVP@thegotham.org.

Join Powerhouse Arena for the launch of Gary Stewart: I Am From the Honky-Tonks by Jimmy McDonough, in conversation with Tammy Faye Starlight. About the Book: An epic tale of sex, drugs, and country music almost 40 years in the making, the book is the eighth and final biography by Jimmy McDonough (Shakey: Neil Young’sContinue reading "Book Launch: Gary Stewart: I Am From the Honky-Tonks by Jimmy McDonough in conversation with Tammy Faye Starlite"

An epic tale of sex, drugs, and country music almost 40 years in the making, the book is the eighth and final biography by Jimmy McDonough (Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography, Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen), and once again reaffirms his status as America’s greatest chronicler of popular culture. An unsung hero of 20th century AmericanContinue reading "Book Launch: Gary Stewart: I Am From the Honky-Tonks by Jimmy McDonough in conversation with Tammy Faye Starlite"

Amanda Holden spent years working in investment management, where she saw exactly who gets access to the power, ease, and opportunity money can bring—and it wasn’t people like her friends. She also saw how the financial system is designed to feel exclusive and confusing, and how it blames individuals for economic problems they didn’t create.Continue reading "Book Launch: How to Be a Rich Old Lady by Amanda Holden in conversation with Nikita Redkar"

Join the Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop for a night of readings and literary conversation celebrating five alums with recently published novels — Heather Aimee O’Neill (THE IRISH GOODBYE), Erin Crosby Eckstine (JUNIE), Justin Feinstein (YOUR BEHAVIOR WILL BE MONITORED), Sarah G. Pierce (FOR HUMAN USE) and Ledia Xhoga (MISINTERPRETATION). Hosted by Sackett Street founder JuliaContinue reading "Book Panel: Debut Novel Night by Sackett Street Writers Workshop"

Join Powerhouse Arena for the launch of On Eating by Alicia Kennedy. About the Book: With lush prose and evocative storytelling, Alicia Kennedy shares her journey “from eater to cook,” exploring how we can eat for both joy and justice in a warming, overworked, and globalized world.

One of the most influential public intellectuals in the world and the architect of the two biggest ideas to reshape the American conversation about fairness offers the intimate story of how her life gave birth to these ideas. Ticket Information: https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/powerhousebookstores/back-talker-by-kimberle-crenshaw  

From La Copine, a destination restaurant near Joshua Tree, comes a beautiful debut cookbook with stories of life in the desert and recipes that capture a unique approach to California cooking. Tickets: https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/powerhousebookstores/book-launch-la-copine-by-claire-wadsworth-and-nikki-hill

  Thirty-five-year-old Cassandra (aka Cass, Cassie, Cassidy, and Cassiopeia) Trout is going nowhere fast. Stuck in her hometown of Philadelphia, she spends her lackluster days working retail, and afterwards it’s run, rinse, repeat. But a surprise wedding invitation from an estranged childhood friend is set to change all that. Get Tickets Here!

Over 100 flavor-packed and simple recipes for every occasion and every craving from Erin O’Brien, one of social media’s most beloved food content creators. Get Tickets Here!

Deeply witty, attuned to the quotidian, these are necessary poems alive to the awareness of our mortality. Formally inventive and conversational, the poems, prose poems, lyric essays, and “notebook entries” in Did You Find Everything You Were Looking For? explore our bewildering, increasingly fragmented lives. Unpredictable and unfailingly curious, Donna Masini—in her most compelling, wide-ranging book yet—movesContinue reading "Book Launch: Did you Find Everything You Were Looking For by Donna Masini in conversation with Marie Howe"

Join editor Rachel Meade Smith and contributors Kasia Nikhamina and Jordan White for a discussion and readings from the new anthology, "Search Work: A Collective Inquiry into the Job Hunt" (OR Books, 2026). Copies of the book will be available for purchase thanks to Powerhouse ARENA Bookstore.

An impassioned–and data-driven–case for a four-day workweek. The five-day workweek is a pillar of modern life, but it isn’t backed by science, ancient wisdom, or divine decree. It’s simply a relic of the industrial age–and it’s time for an upgrade. What if we could accomplish more while working fewer days? A shortened workweek once seemedContinue reading "Book Launch: Do More in Four by Joe O’Connor and Jared Lindzon in conversation with Bree Groff"