TIM KREIDER (2/17@7PM, NYC)
where Strand Bookstore, 828 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
Tim Kreider has been called “extremely extremely f-ing good” (David Foster Wallace), “an iconoclast in the purest sense of the word” (Matt Taibbi) and “the funniest person alive” (Jennifer Finney Boylan). Join him for the release of his latest collection, Twilight of the Assholes. In a slideshow, talk and Q&A, he’ll wax nostalgic about the endearing atrocities and deadly foibles of the Bush administration and have a fond chuckle over the deadpan haplessness of Obama and the fascist antics of the tea party. Free.
SIDESHOW GOSHKO (2/18@7PM, NYC)
where KGB Bar, 85 East 4th St. New York, NY 10003
Award-winning storyteller Leslie Goshko (Manhattan Monologue Slam Champion, NY Fringe Excellence Award, Sirius XM), invites some of NY’s top writers and storytellers to share true, bizarre tales about their lives. There’s live accordion music, a challenging trivia game, and a free wine giveaway where one lucky audience member will walk away with their very own bottle of Sideshow Sauce! Tonight’s stellar lineup includes stories from: Steve Burns (former host of Blue’s Clues), Jim O’Grady (New York Times, Moth GrandSlam Champion), Eugene Ashton-Gonzalez (NY Confidential, The Moth) Free.
RALPH SASSONE (2/19@5PM, LA)
where Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd. W. Hollywood, CA 90069
Ralph Sassone discusses and signs The Intimates A powerful and compassionate debut novel about friendship and how it helps shape us into the people we are… The Intimates is a brilliant and deeply moving first novel about the varieties of romance. Spanning years and continents, beginnings and endings, it is about two gifted and striving people who discover themselves in the reflection they see in each other, and how their affinity anchors them at critical points in their lives… Full of indelible characters, engrossing situations, and observations as sharply witty as they are lovely and profound, The Intimates renders the wonders and disappointments of becoming an adult, the thrills and mesmerizing illusions of sex, and the secrets we keep from others and ourselves as we struggle to locate our true character. The Intimates marks the emergence of a remarkable new voice. Free.
FEATHERLESS: TISA BRYANT, AMANDA ACKERMAN, JESSICA PIAZZA (2/20@7:30pm, LA)
where Wordspace, 3191 Casitas Ave. #156, Los Angeles, CA
Bryant, Ackerman, and Piazza read and discuss their poetry and fiction. Free.
LITERARY VAUDEVILL: WAYBE WHITE (2/22@8PM, LA)
where Largo at the Coronet, 366 N. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048
Join Wayne for a show where he’ll discuss his life, his work, his influences and his many experiences as a painter, illustrator, puppeteer, cartoonist, designer, art director, set designer and Southerner. Admission is $10.
MARJORIE PERLOFF: THE MADNES SOF THE UNEXPECTED (2/23@6:30PM, NYC)
where The James Gallery, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Legendary in the worlds of both art and literature, Marjorie Perloff will give the second Keynote Address for Caesura, a series of events in the James Gallery which will invite artists and scholars as well as the public to reflect on a research question or methodology that is of mutual concern. Perloff has chosen Marcel Duchamp and the issue of the “aesthetic” in his entry for the Salon of the Independents of 1917 as her subject. Marjorie Perloff is Professor Emerita of English at Stanford University and currently scholar-in-residence at the University of Southern California. She is the author of numerous books on modern and contemporary poetry, including most recently Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century. Free.
