Fran Lebowitz appears at NJPAC in Newark, Dec. 11.
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Aug. 11: “Are You Garbage?” podcast at The Vogel at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.
Aug. 14: Steven Hartov at Books & Greetings, Northvale. Author of “The Last of the Seven: A Novel of World War II.”
Aug. 16: Ashley Flowers at Bookends, Ridgewood. Author of “All Good People Here.”
Aug. 18: Richard Butner at Little City Books, Hoboken. Author of “The Adventurists.”
Aug. 25: Cleon Jones at Bookends, Ridgewood. Author of “Coming Home: My Amazing Life With the New York Mets.”
Aug. 26: “Drag Queen Story Hour & Bingo” with Harmonica Sunbeam at White Eagle Hall, Jersey City.
Aug. 27: Brian Kilmeade at Prudential Hall at NJPAC, Newark.
Aug. 31: Taylor Jenkins Reid at Temple Ner Tamid, Bloomfield. Author of “Carrie Soto Is Back.”
Sept. 10: “In Conversation With the Sopranos” featuring Steve Schirripa, Vincent Pastore and Michael Imperioli, at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.
Sept. 15: “A Community Conversation With Dr. Cornel West” at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.
Sept. 18: Henry Rollins at Starland Ballroom, Sayreville.
Sept. 18: Jen Maxfield at Tenafly Library. Author of “More After the Break: A Reporter Returns to Ten Unforgettable News Stories.”
Sept. 18: Gal Beckerman at Douglass Student Center, New Brunswick. “A Jewish Journalist’s View of the World.” Presented by the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life.
Sept. 20: “Ice-Cold Facts with Ice-T” at Grunin Center for the Arts at Ocean County College, Toms River.
Sept. 23: Kat Timpf & Tyrus at Victoria Theater at NJPAC, Newark.
Sept. 26: Craig Morgan at Bookends, Ridgewood. Author of “God, Family, Country: A Memoir.”
Sept. 27: Robert Fripp and David Singleton (speaking tour) at The Vogel at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.
Sept. 28: Kelly Ripa, “Live Wire” book tour at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.
Sept. 29: Idina Menzel and Cara Mentzel at Bookends, Ridgewood. Co-authors of “Loud Mouse: How a Little Mouse Found Her Big Voice …”
Sept. 29 and Oct. 2: Maplewood South Orange Book Festival.
Sept. 30: “Ice-Cold Facts With Ice-T” at Grunin Center for the Arts at Ocean County College, Toms River.
Oct. 1: Garrison Keillor at At the Tabernacle series at Mt. Tabor Tabernacle, Parsippany.
Oct. 2: “Captain Lee and Friends,” featuring Eddie Lucas and Colin Macy-O’Toole at BergenPAC, Englewood.
Oct. 6: Daniel Habif at Prudential Hall at NJPAC, Newark.
Oct. 7-8: Morristown Festival of Books.
Oct. 12: David Sedaris at McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton.
Oct. 14: Amy Bruni at The Vogel at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.
Oct. 15: Amy Bruni at Mayo Performing Arts Center, Morristown.
Oct. 20-23: Dodge Poetry Festival, Newark.
Oct. 22: Nina Grace at Brook Arts Center, Bound Brook.
Oct. 24: “A Conversation With Junot Díaz” at Grunin Center for the Arts at Ocean County College, Toms River.
Oct. 27: “In Conversation With the Sopranos” featuring Steve Schirripa, Vincent Pastore and Michael Imperioli at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.
Nov. 29: Mike Duncan, “The Stories of History” at Victoria Theater at NJPAC, Newark.
Oct. 30: “Poe by Candelight,” presented by East Lynne Theater Company at Cape May Presbyterian Church.
Nov. 3: Richard Barone at Little City Books, Hoboken. Author of “Music + Revolution: Greenwich Village in the 1960s.”
Nov. 12: Theresa Caputo at Wellmont Theater, Montclair.
Nov. 19: Michael Franzese at Resorts, Atlantic City.
Nov. 25-26 and Dec. 4 and 8-10: “Christmas Presents From the Past” featuring Gayle Stahlhuth, presented by East Lynne Theater Company at Cape May Presbyterian Church.
Nov. 27: Alton Brown, “Beyond the Eats” at Prudential Hall at NJPAC, Newark.
Dec. 8: Neil deGrasse Tyson at Prudential Hall at NJPAC, Newark.
Dec. 9: Matt Fraser at Prudential Hall at NJPAC, Newark.
Dec. 11: “A Conversation With Fran Lebowitz” at Prudential Hall at NJPAC, Newark.
Dec. 12: Rupi Kaur at Count Basie Center or the Arts, Red Bank.
Dec. 17: “What’s the Word,” hosted by Albaner C. Eugene Jr. at Victoria Theater at NJPAC, Newark.
April 14: The Moth at McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton.
April 25: “A Conversation With Michael Beschloss” at Grunin Center for the Arts at Ocean County College, Toms River.
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