Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

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

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

http://bit.ly/UrbanArchive 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.

http://bit.ly/QueerMountain

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..

Happy Hallowe’en from Housing Works!

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

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. 

Here are some photos from our event with Eve L. Ewing and Jamilah Lemieux on October 23rd!

Dylan Marron tells us about the formative experience of auditioning for Home Alone 3. (at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe)

Jaya Saxena tells us about how Blink 182 is responsible for her marriage! (at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe)

Tyler Coates kicks off our Origin Stories event with a story about seeing Beauty and the Beast On Ice! (at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe)

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)

sam sax reads from MADNESS! (at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe)

Cameron Awkward-Rich reads at the Madness book launch! (at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe)

Patricia Smith reading for the launch of sam sax's MADNESS! (at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe)