Brooklyn’s Best Places to Be Literary
Franklin Park Reading Series
Penina Roth really does a heck of a job curating this monthly reading series in the Crown Heights bar that gives this series its name. She puts, on the same bill, both big-name writers and up-and-comers, meaning you come to see some hotshot but leave with a book by some Brooklyn writer whose name you’d never heard but whose autograph you now have. (The writers are super accessible here.) Get there early if you want to sit down because the place fills up, with hundreds of young and attractive writers, entry-level publishing types, magazine editors and more packed in. After a few drink-special beers, they’ll be over their bookwormy shyness. Second Mondays, Franklin Park