Talks + Readings: Jonathan Franzen, Jesse Eisenberg, and a Zine Maestro’s Photos
TUESDAY All aboard “The Poetry Ville Express!” Four poets are inviting you to embark on an adventure at KGB Bar; according to the lounge’s website they want you to follow “their muses through the...
View ArticleTalks + Readings: Social Movements of the 21st Century and ‘Coming Out’ for Porn
via Powerhouse Arena Book Launch: When We Fight, We Win! Tuesday, January 5 at 7:00 p.m. at The Powerhouse Arena, 37 Main St, Brooklyn. (DUMBO) The past year was filled with updates on the Black Lives...
View Article4 Talks: Yoga-Class Erotica, Jack Bender’s ‘Picture Book for Adults,’ and More
TUESDAY Love Thyself, Kunt: A Night with Badlands Unlimited April 12 at 7 p.m. at KGB Bar, 85 East Fourth Street. When Badlands Unlimited’s “New Lovers” series is involved, you know what to expect:...
View Article4 Talks and Readings: Pretentiousness, Bad Women, and How to Smoke Pot
TUESDAY Release for Jacob Victorine’s Flammable Matter April 19 at 7 p.m. at WORD Bookstore, 126 Franklin Street. Jacob Victorine’s first book of poetry, Flammable Matter, bears witness to the...
View ArticleFour Readings: Moby’s Memoir, Sex-Positivity in Action, and Notes From a...
TUESDAY Amy Rose Spiegel’s Action Launch May 17 at 7 pm at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, 126 Crosby Street Ever wondered how to manage a threesome? How to actually pick someone up at an IRL bar...
View ArticleFour Readings: Klingon Blood Wine, Abortion Stories, and Refugee Poems
(Photo: Courtesy of Word Bookstore) THURSDAY Ed Gross presents: The Fifty-Year Mission July 7, 7pm at Word Bookstore, at Villain LLC at 50 N 3rd Street. Trekkies, this one’s for you! Word Bookstore and...
View ArticleFour Readings: Margo Jefferson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Americans in Revolt
TUESDAY Photo © Michael Lionstar Margo Jefferson and Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah August 23, 7pm at Strand Bookstore, 828 Broadway at 12th Street. Margo Jefferson’s acclaimed memoir Negroland, which The New...
View ArticleTalks and Readings: Boy Cyclops, ‘Coolest Female Poet,’ and Rise of the Robots
Tuesday Rachel B. Glaser’s debut novel Paulina & Fran is celebrating its launch with readings from the author and special guests Leopoldine Core (Veronica Bench) and Mark Leidner (The Angel in The...
View ArticleTalks and Readings: Manspreading Maven, Fierce Fat Girls and More
TUESDAY For those who only discovered (and promptly binge-watched) the show just a few years ago on Netflix, it’s a little weird to think the book that spawned Emmy-winning Friday Night Lights was...
View ArticleAuthor Joshua Mohr Hopes San Francisco Gets Destroyed by a Radioactive Lizard
While New Yorkers can be blind to events in other cities, there are many reasons to sympathize with San Franciscans in Joshua Mohr’s new novel All This Life. Specifically, gentrification (the Mission...
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