Readings

There's a book party and reading on Wednesday, March 10 to celebrate the publication of Painter Among Poets: The Collaborative Art of George Schneeman at 8 at St. Mark's Church. Might be interesting for the artistically ambidextrous among you, as it features Schneeman's collaborations with poets like Fagin and Ginsberg. It's $8, with a reception to follow.

A couple big guns are being tossed up on stage on Thursday, March 11 at 7:30 at the New School. Jorie Graham, winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and C.K. Williams, winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, are reading with Joshua Beckman. All this for only $7, or $5 for Poetry Society of America members and students with ID.

Sunday, March 14 sees another installment of the Biographers and Brunch series at the 92nd Street Y. This week, Fred Kaplan, author of The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography and Henry James: The Imagination of a Genius talks about dead white guys from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and asks $30 for his trouble.

Also on Sunday, at 5 at The Living Room, catch this week's installment of East Side Oral, featuring readings by Nicholas Antosca, Carrie Hill Wilner, Marty Beckerman and not one, not two, but three New York Press alums: Ned Vizzini, John Strausbaugh and Jonathan Ames. There's a two-drink minimum, so make 'em count.

On Monday, March 15 at 8 at the 92nd Street Y, catch Margaret Drabble in conversation with Doris Lessing. Apparently, Lessing is very much alive and publishing; $16 at the door.

The next night, Tuesday, March 16, brings the party back to Brooklyn, as Akashic Books, Soft Skull Press and Seven Stories Press team up for a night celebrating independent publishing at the Brooklyn Brewery at 6:30 p.m. Writers and publishers will read from their books and discuss the state of independent publishing. Plus, it's in a brewery.

The same night, at 7 at the KGB Bar, Paul Berman reads from his upcoming "The Passion of Joschka Fischer." It's about radical politics from the 60s onward, in case the name of the German foreign minister in the title doesn't ring any bells. Free, as befits the subject.

One more on Tuesday night. At 7 at Barnes & Noble, Union Square, legendary Brooklyn kid and New York writer Pete Hamill will discuss and sign James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan trilogy of novels, which he recently edited in one volume.

St. Mark's Church, 131 E. 10th St. (2nd Ave.), 212-674-0910; New School, 66 W. 12th St. (betw. 5th & 6th Aves.), 212-229-5600; 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave. (92nd St.), 212-415-5500; The Living Room, 154 Ludlow St. (betw. Stanton & Rivington Sts.), 212-533-7235; Brooklyn Brewery, 79 N. 11th St. (Wythe Ave.), Williamsburg, 718-486-7422; KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th St. (betw. 2nd & 3rd Aves.), 212-505-3360; Barnes & Noble, 33 E. 17th St. (betw. B'way & Park Ave. S.), 212-253-0810.