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Last night we hosted all ten of this year’s Whiting Award winners for readings of their work. Pictured: Tommy Pico (poetry), Esme Weijun Wang (non-fiction), Alice Sola Kim (host, 2016 winner for fiction) and Patty Yumi Cottrell (fiction). The full list of winners is here: https://www.whiting.org/writers/awards/current-winners
FEB 12, 7PM, FREE
Literary Exertions - Intersections of Sports and Writing
with Anelise Chen, Chloe Cooper Jones, and Rowan Ricardo Phillips
http://bit.ly/LitExertions
FEB 14, 10 - 9PM, FREE: Valentine's Day Movie Marathon
http://bit.ly/HWBCValDay
FEB 15, 7PM, FREE
Blind Date Book Swap hosted by Dumbledore’s Army
http://bit.ly/BlindDateHPA
FEB 16, 6 - 8PM, FREE : Books, Booze, & Board Games
FEB 20, 7PM, Free: Labor & the 21st Century Shop
With Bianca Cunningham, Tania Bhattacharyya, and Benjamin Dictor.
http://bit.ly/Organizing21C
FEB 21, 7PM, FREE: Urban Archive Trivia Night
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FEB 23, 7 + 8PM, FREE: Geeky Friday: Choirfly
FEB 27, 7PM, FREE: Morgan Jerkins + Guest
FEB 28, 7PM, FREE
Greetings, from Queer Mountain: I Wish I Could Quit You
With Calvin Cato, Fran Tirado, Sydnee Washington, Risa Shoup, Drew Anderson and Gabby Rivera. Hosted by Micheal Foulk.
January was a great month at the bookstore! Here’s who we hosted:
Graywolf authors Maud Casey & Stacey D’Erasmo talked about their books The Art of Mystery and The Art of Intimacy
Boston alt-rock band Buffalo Tom played a benefit concert,
Queer podcast Food 4 Thot did a live show and celebrated the launch of Joe Osmundson’s memoir Inside/Out.
Nathaniel Rich launched his new novel King Zeno, a historical thriller set in New Orleans, with live jazz from The Jazz Foundation.
Austin-based showcase Greetings, From Queer Mountain launched their NYC residency, with Sam Sax, Tommy Pico, Whitney Chanel Clark, Jes Tom, Chewy May, Lynaé DePriest & host Michael Foulk!
Rising sci-fi and fantasy star Brooke Bolander talked about her debut novella, The Only Harmless Great Thing, with Maria Dahvana Headley and Amal El-Mohtar.
Drunk Ed continued its wildly successful series of roasts of “great” literary men, with Meredith Clark, Kate Knibbs, Muna Mire, and Chelsea G. Summers taking down Joseph Conrad, Michael Wolff, Jack Kerouac, and Christopher Hitchens..
Eve L. Ewing reads her poem ‘Why You Cannot Touch My Hair’
my hair is my childhood friend who used to come over every day and became cool in high school and then began to do drugs and then ran away but now is back trying to get her life together and we have coffee together one Sunday morning before her shift at the grocery store
my hair was in a zoo. my hair escaped from the zoo and took out three officers of the law before they shot my hair up full of tranquilizers. tranquilizers only because my hair is too valuable to die
my hair is a speakeasy. it’s not that no one can get in-- it’s just that you don’t know the password
my hair did a lot of work and climbed many mountains literal and metaphorical to get here. my hair ran out of oxygen tanks a mile back and has been heaving for breath ever since but is determined to reach the summit. my hair endured a bonnet last night. that’s a lot of work
my hair is a technology from the future and will singe your fingertips, be careful
my hair doesn’t care about what you want
my hair has a brother. I washed and conditioned and moisturized and combed and braided my hair’s brother in the kitchen sink when my hair’s brother was depressed. my hair’s brother has a daughter. my hair’s brother’s daughter is tenderheaded and I sing while I comb her, holding her at the roots, touching her forehead so gently and telling her I love her while she cries
On October 25th, Terrance Hayes and Ellen Gallagher talked about the intersections of poetry and art, taking inspiration from nature, and the influence of politics on art.
We're so lucky to have @darwilliamsmusic on our stage tonight, launching her memoir WHAT I FOUND IN A THOUSAND TOWNS! (at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe)
We're gearing up for the launch of Dar Williams' memoir TONIGHT! Come for a reading, interview, and performance from Dar, and be the first to get your copy of WHAT I FOUND IN A THOUSAND TOWNS! (at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe)