Thursday, July 3
In a reading titled 'Replanting Poetry,' five cub East Coasters (formerly of the West Coast) will attempt to plunge their tender roots into the stern sidewalks of the Lower East Side. The featured bicostalites are: David Spataro, Harmony Holiday, Pablo Lopez, Nikol Polidoro, and Kevin Holden.
7 p.m., Bluestockings, 172 Allen Street, 212-777-6028

Sunday, July 6
In this week’s installment of the ‘Sunday at Sunny’s’ reading series, Shelley Seccombe, Anya Ulinich, and Tim McLoughlin discuss their (wildly different) books. Seccombe’s Lost Waterfront contains 30 years’ worth of photographs documenting the ever-changing Hudson River piers; Ulinich’s Petropolis (not Persepolis) is the fictional story of a Russian young lady who immigrates to Phoenix as a mail-order bride; and McLoughlin’s Heart of the Old Country is a tragicomic novel about youngsters coming of age in Brooklyn. There should be something for almost everyone at this reading – including free coffee, free pastries, and un-free liquor (candy is dandy, but…)
3 p.m., Sunny’s Bar, 253 Conover St., Brooklyn, 718-625-8122 ($3 donation suggested)

Please send info about readings, book signings, and other literary events to booksintern@villagevoice.com.

Generation Loss, by Elizabeth Hand
In her new novel, contributor to the Voice book reviewer Elizabeth Hand writes about a photographer of New York’s ‘70s punk movement who finds herself adrift 30 years later.
Harcourt, 291 pp., $14

The Fourth Wall, by Amy Arbus
Former Voice photographer Amy Arbus has created a collection of portraits depicting celebrated theater actors dressed in costume, but not situated on stage. Arbus hopes to explore notions of identity by taking these characters out of their fictional context.
Welcome Books, 148 pp., $50

Dispatches for The New York Tribune: Selected Journalism of Karl Marx, edited by James Ledbetter
Former Voice reporter and media columnist James Ledbetter edits a selection of pieces from the 11 years that Karl Marx wrote for The New York Tribune, starting in 1852 -- a lesser known chapter of Marx's early career.
Penguin, 352 pp., $13

Why Blacks Fear "America's Mayor," by Peter Noel
Former Voice reporter Peter Noel collects nine years of his coverage of New York's Rudy Giuliani era, with topics ranging from the Million Youth March to the shooting of Amadou Diallo.
iUniverse, 395 pp., $27.95

The History of the Snowman, by Bob Eckstein
Writer and cartoonist Bob Eckstein offers a humorous and generously illustrated history of our old, cold, rolled friend.
Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 177 pp., $14.95

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