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Dear men of the tri-state area who feel hemmed in by the swipe-left philosophy that extrudes the dating process through a series of sterile tubes: STOP.
There is hope. There’s also beautiful women. Real ones. Not just avatars. Note that I said beautiful - beautiful in soul, spirit, bookshelves, and probably glasses. Not just pretty. Beautiful.
- Do you wish that there was someone out there who shared your deep abiding love of Alice Munro AND could keep you warm at night?
- Do you sometimes wish that the dating process was less deterministic and more like a gentle flow of current, bringing you ever closer to true happiness and satisfaction?
- Is your bookshelf filled with books you haven’t read yet?
- Do you know who Roxane Gay is?
- Do you tire of visiting bookstores and rightfully keeping your graceful pickup lines to yourself, wishing that there was an appropriate context to politely compliment women who are for the time being tolerating your presence?
- Do you wake up all alone and wonder where you are?
Then stop fucking around and go to literary speed datingathousingworksbookstore on 10/16, courtesy of coverspy.
I’ll be honest with you - the joke of “oh wow if you’re a straight (Editor’s note: or straight-passing) guy in publishing you really just have an embarrassment of dating options” IT’S TRUE IT’S TRUE IT’S TRUE but you NEED TO MEET THE RIGHT PEOPLE. As the Cat In The Hat (an icon all males should aspire to) said, “it is fun to have fun but you have to know how.”
So come to Housing Works, have a drink, buy that copy of A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing, make fun of Knausgaard despite having not read him, and meet the best eligible ladies that the city has.
And save money by entering promo code “WOOLF” at checkout. Spelled like the author, not like this:
Hanif Abdurraqib talked to Doreen St. Felix about his essay collection ‘They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us’ (Two Dollar Radio).
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
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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..
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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
Save the date! This year’s World AIDS Day is on Friday December 1st. Join us at King’s Theater in Brooklyn from 11AM to 1PM.
https://www.housingworks.org/events/world-aids-day
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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.
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