Book Launch: Slow Render by Jess Yuan with Readings by Laura Kolbe and Amanda Gunn
Book Launch: Slow Render by Jess Yuan with Readings by Laura Kolbe and Amanda Gunn
Brooklyn, NY
About the Book A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a young woman’s destructive relationship with a legendary writer.It’s 2015, and Tatum Vega feels that her life is finally falling into place. Living in sunny Chile with her partner, Vera, sh…
Wednesday, April 17 2024
7:00 PM
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Book Launch: Women! In Peril! by Jessie Ren Marshall in conversation with Erin Swan
Book Launch: Women! In Peril! by Jessie Ren Marshall in conversation with Erin Swan
Brooklyn, NY
About the Book. Full of wry humor, sharp social commentary, and an irrepressible sense of hope, a ferociously feminist debut short story collection from award-winning playwright Jessie Ren Marshall.In this brash and unputdownable collection, we meet a sex bot trying to outlast her return policy, a…
Thursday, April 18 2024
7:00 PM
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9:00 PM
Book Launch: Negative Space by Gillian Linden in conversation with Ed Park
Book Launch: Negative Space by Gillian Linden in conversation with Ed Park
Brooklyn, NY
About the Book. A gem of a debut novel about a young mother navigating the instabilities of teaching, parenting, and marriage in the wake of the pandemic. With deadpan humor and a keen eye for the strangeness of our days, Negative Space follows a week in the life of an English teacher at a New Yo…
Tuesday, April 16 2024
7:00 PM
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9:00 PM
Book Launch: Friends in Napa by Sheila Yasmin Marikar
Book Launch: Friends in Napa by Sheila Yasmin Marikar
Brooklyn, NY
About the Book. Raj and Rachel Ranjani have invited a small group of their ride or dies from college for a celebratory weekend in Napa Valley. On the agenda: three nights in the couple’s vineyard mansion, a lavish dinner at Napa’s hottest new restaurant, exclusive tastings, and the grand opening o…
Wednesday, April 3 2024
7:00 PM
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9:00 PM
Book Launch: Finish What We Started by Isaac Arnsdorf
Book Launch: Finish What We Started by Isaac Arnsdorf
Brooklyn, NY
About the Book. Inspired by Donald Trump’s election lies, a growing movement of grassroots activists mobilized around the country to pick up where the insurrection left off, laying the groundwork to succeed next time where Trump had failed to keep himself in power. But their own success in taking …
Tuesday, April 9 2024
7:00 PM
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9:00 PM
Book Launch: Seriously So Good by Carissa Stanton
Book Launch: Seriously So Good by Carissa Stanton
Brooklyn, NY
About the Book. Self-proclaimed SoCal beach girl Carissa Stanton first earned her nickname Brocc, not because of an obsession with broccoli (though she thinks it’s a damn good veggie), but because she hosted weekly girl’s nights with her friends who loved to cook, eat—and move their bodies. With J…
Monday, April 15 2024
7:00 PM
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9:00 PM
Book Launch: Truckload of Art: the Life and Work of Terry Allen by Brendan Greaves
Book Launch: Truckload of Art: the Life and Work of Terry Allen by Brendan Greaves
Brooklyn, NY
In Truckload of Art, author Brendan Greaves exhaustively traces the influences that shaped Allen’s extraordinary life, from his childhood in Lubbock, Texas, spent ringside and sidestage at the wrestling matches and concerts his father promoted, to his formative art-school years in incendiary 1960s …
Monday, April 8 2024
7:00 PM
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9:00 PM
Book Launch: The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews by Rossi
Book Launch: The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews by Rossi
Brooklyn, NY
About the Book. Officially designated a “rebel” by The New York Times and “the wildest thing this side of the Mason-Dixon line” by Zagat, Rossi is releasing “The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews” (She Writes Press, April 23, 2024), her outrageous, queer coming-of-age story. Rossi was taught only to a…
Thursday, April 25 2024
7:00 PM
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9:00 PM
Book Launch: Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny by Mark Cecil in conversation w/ Mateo Askaripour
Book Launch: Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny by Mark Cecil in conversation w/ Mateo Askaripour
Brooklyn, NY
*THIS EVENT WILL START AT 7 PM, NOT 7:30* About the Book. A large-hearted reimagining of beloved all-American legends, this epic debut novel brings men of myth Paul Bunyan and John Henry alive like never before, teaming up for an adventure quest with deeper interrogations of race, class, and indu…
Wednesday, March 27 2024
7:30 PM
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9:00 PM
Book Launch: Like Happiness by Ursula Villarreal-Moura with Alejandro Varela
Book Launch: Like Happiness by Ursula Villarreal-Moura with Alejandro Varela
Brooklyn, NY
About the Book A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a young woman’s destructive relationship with a legendary writer.It’s 2015, and Tatum Vega feels that her life is finally falling into place. Living in sunny Chile with her partner, Vera, sh…
Thursday, April 4 2024
7:00 PM
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