That Time of Year
A quarterly-ish reading series around a theme. Tonight's theme: Animalia. Free.
CAT TYC
is an interdisciplinary writer/artist who has three chapbooks, AN ARCHITECTURAL SEANCE (dancing girl press & studio), CONSUMES ME (Belladonna* Collaborative) and I AM BECAUSE MY LITTLE DOG KNOWS ME (Blush Lit). Her recent writing has been published in Maggot Brain, The Recluse, Shock of the Femme, Touch the Donkey and FENCE. She has presented and performed at the Microscope Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, Brooklyn Museum, Hauser & Wirth, Kassel Fest, and the synthesis gallery in Berlin. Her first solo exhibition, SIGNIFICANT OTHERNESS, was presented at Tanja Grunert gallery in 2022. She has been granted residencies, fellowships, and support from Signal Culture, The Flaherty Seminar, Mass MOCA, and the Foundation of Contemporary Arts.
LAURA VAN DEN BERG
is the author of five works of fiction, including THE THIRD HOTEL (FSG, 2018), a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and I HOLD A WOLF BY THE EARS (FSG, 2020), which was one of Time Magazine’s 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and a literature fellowship from the NEA. Her new novel, STATE OF PARADISE (FSG), was published in July.
ANDREA KLEINE
is the author of the novels, CALF (Soft Skull Press, 2015), a Publishers’ Weekly Best Fiction Book of 2015; and EDEN (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, 2018), named one of “Summer’s Smartest and Most Innovative Thrillers” by Vanity Fair and a finalist for a Publishing Triangle Award in LGBTQ fiction. Her work includes fiction, essays, performances, and, most recently, films. She is a five-time MacDowell fellow and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellow. Her feature film, THE END IS NOT WHAT I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE, created in isolation during the pandemic, is now streaming.
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Books are available for purchase and signing.
Created and Hosted by Andrea Kleine.
This event is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Pop Tart
Dance Party with Pretty Woman and Rager. $8.
Pop Tart is a recurring night of dancing, club music, pop remixes, cups overflowing, joy abound. 8pm – ?MORE
Author Event: Laurie Stone and Michelle Tea In Conversation
With readings from SLUTS Anthology contributors Tom Cole, Carley Moore, Jeremy Atherton Lin, Cristy Road Carerra and Daviel Shy. Free.
Join us for conversation, readings and signing of the SLUTS anthology, edited by Michelle Tea.
SLUTS editor Michelle Tea formerly helmed the Sister Spit imprint at City Lights and the Amethyst Editions imprint at The Feminist Press; currently she is the publisher of DOPAMINE Books. Her most recent book is Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My In/Fertility; her essay and spell collection Modern Magic will be out this October. Tea is a Guggenheim fellow and the founder of Drag Queen Story Hour.
Laurie Stone is the author of six books, most recently Streaming Now: Postcards from the Thing That is Happening, which was long-listed for the PEN America Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. She writes a column for Oldster Magazine and the Everything Is Personal Substack.MORE
Author Event: Jennifer Kabat and Adrian Shirk
Reading from their latest work. Free.
Jennifer Kabat received an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for her criticism and has been published in BOMB and The Best American Essays. Her writing has also appeared in Granta, Frieze, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, The Believer, Virginia Quarterly Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Review, and The White Review. A finalist for the essay prize at Notting Hill Editions, she often collaborates with artists. She’s part of the core faculty in the Design Research MA at the School of Visual Arts. An apprentice herbalist, she lives in rural Upstate New York and serves on her volunteer fire department.
Adrian Shirk is the author of Heaven is a Place on Earth (Counterpoint, 2022), a personal odyssey of American utopian experiments, and And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy (Counterpoint, 2017), a hybrid-memoir exploring American women prophets and mystics, named an NPR ‘Best Book’ of 2017. She teaches in Pratt Institute’s BFA Creative Writing Program, and is an ensemble member of The Party Theater. She lives in the Catskill mountains in a house that, when it is marshalled into public-facing activities, is called The Mutual Aid Society.MORE
Pop Tart
Dance Party with Pretty Woman and Rager. $8.
Pop Tart is a night of dancing, club music, pop remixes, cups overflowing, joy abound. 8pm – ?MORE
Author Event: Lyn Slater!
in conversation with Eugene Rabkin. Free.
When Lyn Slater started her fashion blog, Accidental Icon, at age 61, she discovered that followers were flocking to her account for more than just her A-list style. They found in her an alternative model of older life: someone who defied the stereotypes, refused to become invisible, and showed that all women have the opportunity to be relevant and do something new at any stage of their lives. In her new memoir, Slater demonstrates that despite its unique challenges, being old is just like any new beginning—and can be the best and most invigorating of life’s phases.
LYN SLATER
is a cultural influencer, model, writer, content creator, and former professor. She started Accidental Icon in September of 2014 and has since garnered a loyal fan base of almost a million followers across platforms.
EUGENE RABKIN
was born in the USSR. At the age of fifteen he came to New York, where he still lives, to pursue the American dream.
It took ten years of soulless Wall St. existence for him to realize that the dream sucks. He said goodbye to all that and found his passion in writing about fashion and culture.
In 2006 he created an independent fashion media platform, StyleZeitgeist, which includes a magazine and a podcast devoted to looking at fashion and culture with a critical eye.
He has contributed articles to the New York Times, T Magazine China, Air Mail, the Business of Fashion, 032c, Highsnobiety, Vogue Russia, GQ Style Russia, Them magazine in Japan, and the Haaretz Daily Newspaper in Israel. He has also edited several books, Stone Island: Storia with Rizzoli and Deborah Turbeville: Comme des Garçons with IDEA, and have contributed to a few others. He has taught criticism and fashion writing at Parsons The New School for Design and has participated in fashion conferences around the world.
