NYC Marathon November 3.

On marathon day, Sunday, November 3, we'll be opening early, at 9 am, to host people who want to watch the marathon, which runs right by our bar. You can watch the leaders and the pack pass by out of our big windows. We'll have our Marathon Marys and hot dogs!

Michael James Robison reads October 24 at 7 pm.

Come by for some free fiction next Thursday at 7 pm! Here's the official blurb:

Join Professor Charisma (oh yes), for a night of ego, bewilderment, and stories at Pacific Standard.

Amidst delicious beer and delicious Brooklyn, I will bring you into my short novel, Idle Tastes, and tell a few other stories along the way.

I'm very excited to do this reading at the Pacific Standard, so bring all of your friends, daughters, wives, sisters, mistresses, twins, chambermaids...etc.

But really, this is going to be fun. I will see you there.

Morning Show comedy October 30 at 7:30 pm.

Get ready for a scary start to your day with your friends at The Morning Show, and find out if you're celebrating Halloween the right way. Featuring Paul Gale, Maria Heinigg, Langston Kerman, and King Quail.

Special WNYC Halloween trivia October 27 at 8 pm.

On October 27, for the first time ever, we're partnering up with WNYC's Movie Date podcast for a very special (and spooky) night of trivia. We'll be giving out loads of prizes (thanks to WNYC!) and we promise that it'll be tons of fun. Join us at 8pm or before--we're expecting it to be very full, so if you want prime space come early.

Movie Date is a podcast from WNYC's The Takeaway. You can check out the podcast and meet the hosts at www.moviedatepodcast.org.

Excellent comedy October 16 at 8 pm.

What happens when you take 4 comedians, give them a set of premises and joke formats, and see what delicious jokes they create?

RECIPE - THE COMEDY GAME SHOW!!!

See our four comedians vie for a "Hollywood" contract and/or baked goods, in what proves to be the ULTIMATE COMEDY CHALLENGE.

This show will feature:

Jon Rineman

Andy Sandford

Michelle Wolf

Nore Davis

Hosted by: Sean Wilkinson, Raj Sivaraman, and Jason Marcus

Wednesday, Oct. 16th
8 p.m.
FREE

We may or may not have baked goods for the audience.

Painted Bride Quarterly comes to Brooklyn September 19 at 7 pm.

Everyone knows Painted Bride Quarterly's home is snug in the great city of Philadelphia. But September has us itching to spread our love elsewhere. And what we've planned is something exciting, something never-before-done, something extraordinarily historical and hysterical: The Bride is goin' to Brooklyn! That's right, we are hosting our monthly Slam, Bam, Thank You Ma'am! at the famous Pacific Standard on September 19th, 2013 as one of the Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Events! For one night, and one night only, starting at 7:00pm, we ask you to come show us how it's done in Brooklyn.

After all, if Brooklyn really is "Home to Everyone From Everywhere!" come out and show us some hospitality---and your skills! We'll bring the paper, pens, jawns, and cheesesteaks; you bring those beautiful minds!

Don't you Fuhgeddaboudit!

Email pbq@drexel.edu with any questions!

Save the date: amazing reading December 4 at 7 pm.

Elephant Rock Books has lined up some fantastic authors for a reading at Pacific Standard December 4 at 7 pm. And all of them have books being released around then, so it will be super-current stuff. Their bios follow:

A writer with more than 200 publication credits, a licensed New York City sightseeing guide, and scholar with multiple degrees in the fields of writing, philosophy, medicine and law, Jacob Appel is something of a modern day renaissance man. His first novel, The Man Who Wouldn’t Stand Up, won the Dundee International Book Prize U.K. He’s won the Tobias Wolff Award, the Kurt Vonnegut Prize, the Zarkower Award for Excellence in Playwriting, and others. Appel’s articles have appeared in The New York Times, Boston Globe, and Huffington Post and elsewhere. He is currently a practicing psychiatrist at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City where he resides. The Biology of Luck marks his U.S. book publishing debut. Read his unabridged story at jacobmappel.com.

Jessica Stilling has been published in numerous literary journals including The Warwick Review, Conclave and Wasafiri. She has taught writing and literature at The New School, SUNY Old Westbury, The City University of New York and The Gotham Writer’s Workshop. She lives in New York City with her family. Betwixt and Between is her debut novel.




Justin Kramon is the author of the novels Finny (Random House, 2010) and The Preservationist (Pegasus, 2013). A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he has published stories in Glimmer Train, Story Quarterly, Boulevard, Fence, TriQuarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, and others. He has received honors from the MichenerCopernicus Society of America, Best American Short Stories, the Hawthornden International Writers' Fellowship, and the Bogliasco Foundation. His website is www.justinkramon.com.

Kamilah Aisha Moon's work has been featured in several journals and anthologies, including Harvard Review, jubilat, Oxford American and Villanelles. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She currently teaches and writes in Brooklyn and is the author of She Has a Name (Four Way Books).