Tuesday Nicolaia Rips: Trying to Float July 12, 7pm at Strand Bookstore, 828 Broadway at 12th Street. The Chelsea Hotel is deeply entrenched in New…
Howl’Ya Honor Ginsberg? By Going to This Beat Poetry Fest
If Allen Ginsberg were still croaking around today, he would’ve just celebrated his 90th birthday. I can see it now– the old man and his expansive beard,…
Four Readings: Moby’s Memoir, Sex-Positivity in Action, and Notes From a ‘Loud Woman’
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?…
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…
Talks + Readings: A Cocaine-Sprinkled Outbreak and Post-Poetry Grinding
Argos Books Five Year Anniversary Celebration Friday Nov. 20th, 7 pm at Wendy’s Subway, 722 Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg Yassss to readings with a cause…
Patti Smith Did an Impromptu Reading of ‘Howl’ On Its 60th Anniversary
The Barnes & Noble at Union Square was packed to the gills last night, with a line already forming on 17th Street long before Patti Smith…
Mellow Pages Is Closing the Book on its Bushwick Library
On Tuesday, Matt Nelson and Jacob Perkins, founders of Bushwick independent library and reading room Mellow Pages, announced on Facebook that their literary hangout, in its current form…
Women of Letters Brings a Lost Art to Joe’s Pub
Now that e-mails have been replaced by iMessages consisting mostly of poop emojis, a monthly show is trying to bring back the “lost art” of letter…
Maureen Callahan’s Champagne Supernovas! with Susannah Cahalan
If you’re around my age, and were an equally uncool child, the nineties were an unmitigated fashion disaster: stretchy black bellbottoms and puffer-jacket vests, and…
Brando Skyhorse, Who Was Not an Armed Robber at Age 3, Reads Tonight
Since we spoke to him last month, our buddy Brando Skyhorse hit the LA Times bestseller list and picked up a nice plug in the…