Monday, October 24, 7:00 – 8:00 p.m.If you’re one of those individuals who has donated a pile of money to the New York Public Library then you’re invited to hear one-time resident and one-time novelist Ethan Hawke do a premiere reading of a newly discovered play by Jack Kerouac. New York Public Library Tuesday, October…

John Zorn‘s new temple of contemporary jazz, the Stone, continues this month’s celebration of jazz trumpet legend and former Hotel Chelsea resident  Don Cherry.

Tuesday, October 18th at 6:30 pmAugusten Burroughs reads from a collection of essays, Magical Thinking. One of the stories features a character, Mark, who checks into the Chelsea Hotel and kills himself. Coliseum Books, 11 West 42nd St., NY NY Thursday, October 20th, 6:00 p.m.Tonight is the artists reception for Hawk Alfredson and the eight…

Monday, October 10th, 6:30 p.m.Coliseum Books and Writers House will host a reception and reading to celebrate the launch of Judy Sheehan’s "And Baby Makes Two: A Novel."  I heard Sheehan read at the Kettle of Fish series in July and she was very entertaining. Plus, it’s a party!Colilseum Books, 11 West 42nd St., NY…

Monday, October 3rd, 10:00 – 6:00 Chelsea resident Hawk Alfredson is one of nine artists whose work is featured in the Rogue Works Show at CB’s 313 Gallery.  The show runs through October 21.  The artist reception is on October 20 at 6:00 p.m.315 Bowery, NY NY Monday, October 3rd, 7:00 p.m.Nick Flynn reads from…

Sunday, October 2nd, 9:00 – 6:00Former resident Patti Smith will be among the literary luminaries reading and autographing copies of her book Auguries of Innocence: Poems, as part of Great Read in the Park, located at Bryant Park.  Reading: 12:45 p.m.Signing:  Table 15, 2 p.m. Chuck Klosterman will also be reading from Killing Yourself to…

Monday, September 26thIt’s Banned Books week.  Included on the list of the top 100 banned books of the last 10 years is Madonna’s Sex (photographed in room 822).  Sex comes in at number 19 on the list.  Read a banned book! Thursday, September 29th, 8:00 – 11:00 p.m. "Norman’s Big Night Out."  A simmering cocktail…

Monday, September 19th, 8:00 p.m.“Lolita at Fifty,” writers intimately familiar with Nabokov’s masterpiece—Azar Nafisi (Reading Lolita in Teheran), Alfred Appel (The Annotated Lolita), and Stacy Schiff (Véra, the biography of Nabokov’s wife)—discuss the famous work created by former Chelsea Hotel resident, Nabokov. Lolita‘s publisher, Maurice Girodias, also lived at the Chelsea. Columbia’s Miller Theatre, 2960…

Wednesday, September 14th, 9:00 p.m.Tiny Ladies Extravaganza (via Lusty Lady)Elizabeth Merrick and Rachel Kramer Bussel read along with Six  Feet’s Lauren Ambrose, Molly Shannon, SNL’s Amy Poehler, Jodi Lennon and McBurney YMCA  (formerly across from the Chelsea)member and comedian, Jackie Hoffman. Mo Pitkins, 34 Avenue A, NY NY Thursday, September 15th, 7:00 p.m.Chelsea author Ed…

A lot of people are travelling this week, so be sure to take bohemia along.  You can find a Chelsea event anywhere.Sept. 1st – 11th, 8:00 p.m."Mapplethorpe: The Opening," mime Brian Quirk uses his talents to suggest the photos and impersonate a wide variety of the attendees — famous and not — at Mapplethorpe’s opening…