The Reading Line NYC 10th Anniversary Ride!

A Book Ride is a literary festival on two wheels, delivered in a safe and engaging parade format with plenty of stops along the way. Local authors read from their books at points of interest along a street, and audiences have a chance to ask questions and have their books signed. Book Ride is celebrating its 10th anniversary in New York City!

Hive Mind Books will be at each author spot selling books! Come on out!

Here is the day’s program:

1 pm – Gansevoort Peninsula
Meet at the newest beach in Manhattan, Gansevoort Peninsula. From there the Ride will cycle along the Empire State Trail to South Cove.

2 pm – South Cove
Alison Simko, the publisher of The Broadsheet, Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper will welcome us. JAHMAL MAYFIELD, author of acclaimed crime novel Smoke Kings, will share the inspiration for his thrilling look at vigilante justice along with a reading. From there the Ride will leave Manhattan and cross the Brooklyn Bridge to arrive in Red Hook.

3:45 pm – Red Hook
Meet K. Kerimian, the originator of the Nonbinarian Book Bike, along with some Nonbinarian volunteers who will describe their mobile queer and trans led mobile initiative.

5:30 pm –Vanderbilt Ave Open Streets
The finale will be at the Vanderbilt Avenue ‘Open Streets’ for a sit and sip book chat. SHENEQUA GOLDING, author of a debut essay collection memoir A Black Girl in the Middle, will engage us with her story of growing up in Queens.

The Book Ride takes us through Lenapehoking, the ancestral homeland of the Lenape. The name Manhattan comes from their word Mannahatta, meaning island of many hills. We acknowledge the displacement of this region’s original inhabitants and the Lenape diaspora that exists today. We honor the generations of stewards, and we pay our respects to the many diverse Indigenous peoples still connected to this land.