This calendar includes information about exhibitions of work by Saul Steinberg and by William Steig. Also listed are the dates for appearances by Elif Batuman, Dana Goodyear, Junot Díaz, Seymour M. Hersh, and Oliver Sacks, as well as information about the exhibit "The Writer's Brush," which includes the art work of several New Yorker writers and contributors (A. R. Ammons watercolor, above).

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"The Writer's Brush" is an exhibition based on Donald Friedman's book "The Writer's Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers" (Mid-List), which comes out this month. The exhibit, curated by Friedman, includes more than a hundred and twenty unique works by eighty of the world's most celebrated writers who were also artists, including New Yorker writers and contributors such as James Thurber, Vladimir Nabokov, Jonathan Lethem, Annie Proulx, Charles Simic, Mark Strand, and Derek Walcott.

New York, N.Y.: "The Writer's Brush," Anita Shapolsky Gallery, through October 27.

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