Actor Andrew McCarthy's Coming To Hoboken Literary Weekend, Among Other Authors

HOBOKEN, NJ — The annual Hoboken Literary Weekend runs this Friday through Sunday at a local independent bookstore, drawing authors and readers alike.

Little City Books will host the event, featuring Colm Tóibín, Andrew McCarthy, Melissa Ben-Ishay, Jesse Malin, and more.

A few of the featured events are sold out, but tickets remain for others (see link at the end), and signed books are available for purchase.

Founders Donna Garban and Kate Jacobs will present Princeton professor Simon Morrison (A Kingdom and a Village: a One-Thousand Year History of Moscow) in conversation with n+1 literary magazine founder and novelist Keith Gessen (A Terrible Country), among others.

Author and former teen "Brat Pack" actor Andrew McCarthy will be there in support of his book Who Needs Friends? about his cross-country journey to investigate the male loneliness epidemic.

Other authors will include editor and author Alia Hanna Habib (Take it From Me: An Agent's Guide to Building a Non-Fiction Writing Career from Scratch) with Rachel Syme; Colm Tóibín (The News from Dublin); Baked By Melissa's Melissa Ben-Ishay (Come Eat); David Levithan (The Fight of Our Lives) with a panel of young adult authors; Manhattan rocker Jesse Malin with Hoboken legend James Mastro; Lana Schwartz, Upasna Barath, and Eliza Dumais.

Little City Laughing, a night of comedy hosted by Leah Williams, will also return.

Find out more here.