This week is a celebration of the massive, the epic, and the extreme. Don’t miss out on any of these supernova events as November draws to a close.

 

Mao, 1971. Lithograph, 26 13/16×20 1/8 inches. Courtesy of the Estate of Roy Lichtenstein.

 

MONDAY

Monday just got better! Celebrate the launch of new independent ebookstore Emily Books with Eileen Myles.

TUESDAY

Paul Auster and Don DeLillo discuss their submissions to Granta 117: Horror this Tuesday. Check out the info here.

On the other side of Union Square, painter Francesco Clemente gets interviewed by Salman Rushdie at Strand.

WEDNESDAY

Lucky us! Colson Whitehead takes a break from fighting literary zombies and visits St. Joseph’s College.

THURSDAY

NYU welcomes artist Heather Rowe for one of the last artist talks in their Fall semester.

FRIDAY

Jim Shepard reads from his latest short-story collection You Think That’s Bad? at NYU. We think that’s good!

This Friday marks the opening of The Creative Vision Factory, the collective that will specialize in showing work from artists with health-related behavior disorders. Delaware-citizens, show some support!

SATURDAY

With all your artist friends are in Miami tonight, what’s there to do? Other than stay home and rest up for the BOMB event tomorrow, read up on Péter Nádas newly translated book Parallel Stories.

Keep your eyes peeled for BOMBlog’s interview between Carmen Winant and Brock Enright later today! Enright and his mirrors get reflective at Kate Werble Gallery this month.

SUNDAY

Don’t forget to join BOMB, The New Inquiry, and ForYourArt for an epic reading of Frederic Tuten’s The Adventures of Mao on the Long March. Walter Mosley, Phillip Lopate, Patricia Marx and many more are attending the free five-hour festival, so get your RSVP on here!