We’ve all seen the “massage girl” advertisements lurking at the back of alternative weeklies and the grainier budget versions of escort ads spamming the nether regions…
Talks + Readings: Drunken Careening Lesbian Erotica and a Lit Rag Holiday Party
The Rumpus & Electric Literature Present It’s Too Cold for This: A Holiday Reading Tuesday December 15, 7 pm at Housing Works Bookstore Café. 126 Crosby…
Single, Broke and Pregnant: One Artist’s Quest For Motherhood
Growing up in Kingston, Jamaica, the poet Staceyann Chin spent her teenage years terrified of getting pregnant. “Every Bible lesson, biology lesson, and casual reference…
Thurston Moore Cracks Open Stereo Sanctity: Lyrics & Poems Tonight
Hot on the heels of Kim Gordon’s Girl in a Band, Thurston Moore has released a book of his own, and he’ll be at Rough…
Talks and Readings: Letterman Writer, Iranian Women, and the Quest For 78s
Time again for Word Up, our weekly roundup of talks and readings. TUESDAY Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against…
Talks + Readings: Duff McKagan, Galway Kinnell, and a Living Female Rock Critic
Monday History buffs, take note: Battle Lines is not your ordinary Civil War read. This books is a team effort by graphic novelist Jonathan Fetter-Vorm…
Debt Jam: Student Debt Poetry Reading
If you’d rather rhyme about your money troubles than debate possible policy fixes for them, allow me to suggest Mellow Pages’ Debt Jam: a night…
’90s Style Was ‘Exciting’ (Maybe) But the Fashion World Is a Horrible Place
Things you can learn at this weeks stellar readings and talks. Thursday, August 28 That’s When the Knives Come Down with Dolan Morgan Greenpointer Dolan…
An Ecclectic Evening of Poetry and Prose
Brooklyn-based writer Matthew Hodges hosts an evening of readings with a crew of exciting new voices.Lauren Keils is a Brooklyn-based poet (and painter and possibly a…
Natalie Eilbert reads from Conversations with the Stone Wife
Natalie Eilbert is aBrooklyn-based poet, whose work has appeared in Tin House and Guernica, among other publications. She’s just finished her first chapbook,Conversations with the Stone Wife, and…