Five emerging and established writers will answer this question at this month’s edition of the Scrappy Reading Series, an official 2025 Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event. Join us at Compère Collective as these writers share how they interpret “scrappy,” and how they embody this in their writing lives, personal lives, love lives, and any other type of life they are living. This month’s lineup includes: Jamie Hood, Arianna Rebolini, Veena Dinavahi, Elissa Bassist, and Ashley D. Escobar.

Also enjoy the exhibit XO by local artist, Nelsena Burt-Spano, a collection of mixed media pieces made with found objects from places like Red Hook, Gowanus, and Carroll Gardens. Her pieces express the good and bad, love and hate living together in a place that is both ironic and beautiful.

Inspired by the master’s series course, “Scrappy: How To Build an Alternative Literary Life” (offered by Off Assignment and led by author Chloé Caldwell), Brooklyn writer Farah Faye began this series to bring together published and unpublished writers to explore what it means to be scrappy.

Admission is free, scrappiness required. Drinks and snacks will be served!

Space is limited – register here to attend!

Scrappy Reading Series
Compére Collective
351 Van Brunt Street Brooklyn, NY 11231

Scrappy Reading Series is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council and supported by the Red Hook Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library.

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The Atlantic Festival is coming to New York next week! Get tickets to their Thursday, September 18, screening of PBS’s new docuseries The American Revolution at Town Hall. After the screening, Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg will host a conversation with co-directors Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein, actor Tom Hanks, and historian Annette Gordon-Reed. Go here, select “Unlock” on the right hand side of the page, and enter code TAF29 to access $29.50 tickets.

Interested in attending more events for the festival? Check out the full agenda and list of speakers, including Julianne Moore, Scott Galloway, Keri Russell, Gayle King, H.R. McMaster, Richard Ayoade with David Letterman, Dr. Becky Kennedy, and many others. Learn about passes, and tickets to individual Out and About events, at TheAtlanticFestival.com.

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The seven-time Grammy-winning record producer behind some of the biggest musical moments of the past two decades—Lady Gaga, Dua Lipa, Bruno Mars—conjures the undeniable magic of the city’s bygone nightlife. Sit in as Mark Ronson shares his heartfelt coming-of-age tale: a definitive account of ’90s New York and the making of a musical mastermind. Questlove leads the conversation.

SKINT readers can get a $20 ticket on STANDARD tickets with NO BOOK using code: MarkRonson

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