Novelist Sigrid Nunez visits Buffalo on Wednesday for a talk in the Just Buffalo Literary Center BABEL Series.

Wednesday, Oct. 14, 7 p.m.: The Screening Room Reading Series hosted Kevin Koch and Ida Goekel and featuring poet Dennis Maloney.

Additional reading slots available. Location: The Hon. Shirley Chisholm/Audubon Library, 350 John James Audubon Parkway, Amherst, NY 14228. Free and open to the public.

About the Author

Dennis Maloney is a poet, publisher, and translator. He is the founder, editor, and publisher of White Pine Press, one of America’s most respected independent literary publishers.

Seven volumes of his own poetry have been published including: The Map Is Not the Territory; Just Enough; Listening to Tao Yuan Ming; The Things I Notice Now; The Faces of Guan Yin; and Windows. A bilingual German/English volume, Empty Cup was published in Germany in 2017. Maloney’s work has been translated into over a dozen languages including full length collections in German, Japanese and Bulgarian.

His latest collection Clearing the Stream: New & Selected Poems, 1975-2025 (2026) was published on June 15th by Walton Well Press.

Wednesday, Oct. 14, 7:30 p.m.: Just Buffalo Literary Center BABEL Series talk by and discussion with novelist Sigrid Nunez.

About the Author

Sigrid Nunez is the author of nine novels, including the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling novel The Friend (2018), which was listed on The New York Times “100 Best Books of the 21st Century,” and What Are You Going Through (2020), a novel about the surprising ways one person can help another through hardship and friendship, especially toward the end of life.

What Are You Going Through was recently adapted into a 2024 film by Pedro Almodóvar, titled The Room Next Door, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton. Nunez’s other books include The Vulnerables (2023); Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag(2011); A Feather on the Breath of God (1995); and For Rouenna (2021).

With her sincere, clever, and witty voice, Sigrid Nunez has won many honors and awards, including the National Book Award, the Whiting Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize. Her work has been translated into thirty-five languages. In her honest and compelling talks, she speaks to audiences about her craft and her path to a career in writing.

In her talk and conversation with Just Buffalo Artistic Director Barbara Cole, Nunez will discuss her 2020 novel What Are You Going Through, human connection, empathy, and the unusual ways one person can help another through hardship and the changing nature of relationships in our times.

Kleinhans Music Hall, 3 Symphony Circle, Buffalo. $50.
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Thursday, Oct. 15, 6:30 p.m.: Susan Dworski Nusbaum will be reading from her latest poetry collection, Sign Language at the Burchfield Penney Art Center on the Buffalo State University Campus, 1300 Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo. The event is free and open to the public.

About the Author

Susan Dworski Nusbaum is the author of the full-length poetry collections What We Take With Us (2014), Open Wide, The Eye (2016), Alive in This Place (2019) and This Uncertain Voyage (2024), all published by Seattle-based Coffeetown Press. Her latest collection Sign Language was published in August of 2026 by Finishing Line Press.

Born in Rochester, and a graduate of Smith College and the University at Buffalo Law School, she lives in Buffalo, where she has worked as a teacher, arts administrator, and criminal prosecutor.

Thursday, 6:30 p.m.: Book launch, reading, and discussion of Another Anthem of Fabulous Survival, T.S. Leonard’s debut poetry collection. Rust Belt Books, 415 Grant St., Buffalo. Free and open to the public.

“A Time Traveler crashes into a gay bar”… so begins Another Anthem of Fabulous Survival.” Leonard’s poems travel from the AIDS epidemic to COVID-19 lockdowns, while also lingering in spaces of dance, performance, and community such as discos, living rooms, archives, & bars. Glitter, ash, memory, and music… these poems follow a queer time traveler across decades and geographies. The poet will be in conversation with local AIDS literature scholar Dr. V. Hunter Capps to discuss plague era camaraderie, homo-poetics, & queer possibilities.