EVENTS! This very month, October 2024, begins a mad series of events for me, connected to my novel DONNAVILLE coming out. There will be food, drink, readings and public conversations about the book, and I would love if you would come help me celebrate! This post has been edited to note that November 9, the date of my talk at the KuBe Art Center, is actually a Saturday!
1) Thursday, October 17, NYC Book Launch and Party at the Bureau of General Services — Queer Division. 208 W. 13th Street, Room 210, 7 PM-8:30 PM. The celebrated poet, writer, and editor David Groff will speak with me about the novel, I will read, and then we all will PARTY! Accessible space. The event will also be live streamed at youtube.com/@bgsqd.
2) Friday, October 25, Beacon NY Book Launch and Party at Stanza Books. 508 Main St. in Beacon, 8 PM-9:30 PM. The wonderful photographer and writer Michael Bogdanffy-Kriegh will discuss the book with me, I'll read, and it will snow food and rain drink! Accessible space.
3) Tuesday, October 29, I will read as part of Kathleen Warnock's incredible series Drunken! Careening! Writers! at KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th St. in Manhattan, 7 PM-8:30 PM.
My fellow readers will be novelist Shawn Stewart Ruff and poet and essayist Michael Montlack.
4) Saturday, November 9, Talk and Book Signing at the KuBe Art Center, Beacon NY. 211 Fishkill Avenue, 3:30-4:30 PM. And because I'm a teacher… Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a writing exercise in which they can imagine their own “internal cities" and conjure ways to improve them. Gallery tour available beforehand at 2 PM (registration required for tour).
5) Thursday, November 14, I will read as part of the OUTspoken Reading Series from The Publishing Triangle, also at the Bureau, 208 W. 13th St., Room 210, 7 PM. A whole bunch of amazing queer writers will read with me. Accessible space.
6) Sunday, December 1, I will give the Sunday platform address at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, 12:30 PM, followed by a book signing. Please note new address for the Brooklyn Society: 269 Fourth Avenue. I'm so happy to be back with my old friends at this Ethical Culture congregation, talking in this case about the ways we see and treat ourselves, and how that impacts how we see and treat the world.
Whew! That's a lot of events :-) God send me energy, and I hope I get to see you at one of them :-)