Community Conversations – SoHo in Transition with SoHo Broadway Initiative
By Mulberry Street Branch-The New York Public Library
Join the SoHo Broadway Community at Mulberry Street Branch of NYPL
Go Deep: Poetry Reading, Music Performance and Pastels from Ragged Sky Press
By Mulberry Street Library
Ragged Sky Press presents the launch of Go Deep, a book of poetry and pastels
What the Dickens? Eighth Annual “A Christmas Carol” Marathon Reading
By Housing Works Bookstore & Cafe
Dozens of writers & performers read Charles Dickens’s holiday classic.
Savinio: Myths & Heroines
By Center for Italian Modern Art
With CIMA Fellow Serena Alessi and Bard College’s Franco Baldasso.
Sip & Wrap Shopping Party 12/14
By Artists and Fleas SoHo
complimentary holiday gift wrapping w/purchase & seasonal sips while you shop
Celebrate Winter While We Still Have Seasons: An Evening with The Rumpus and Akashic Books
By Housing Works Bookstore & Cafe
Winter is coming, but we may not have many winters left, so let’s celebrate the cold while we can! The Rumpusand Akashic Books present readings from Julie Buntin(Marlena), Anaïs Duplan (Take This Stallion), Tracy O’Neill (The Hopeful), Lauren Sanders (The Book of Love and Hate), and Katia D. Ulysse (Drifting), with mcee Elissa Bassist. Elissa Bassist is a self-described essayist, humor writer, Netflix subscriber, and editor of the Funny Women column on TheRumpus.net. She writes literary, cultural, feminist, and personal criticism, and her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Marie Claire, Creative Nonfiction, NewYorker.com, NYMag.com, TheParisReview.org, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Bitch Media, Jezebel, The Hairpin, National Lampoon, The Los Angeles Review of Books, A Women’s Thing, oddly Men’s Health, and more, a lot more. Her sad essay “The Never-to-Be Bride” is “Notable” in The Best American Essays. Currently, she is a writer’s assistant for The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (past honorees include Will Ferrell, Ellen DeGeneres, Carol Burnett, Eddie Murphy, and Bill Murray) and In Performance at the White House. Before moving to Brooklyn, she produced and co-hosted Literary Death Match in San Francisco and co-edited the anthology Rumpus...Read More >