Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
126 Crosby St.
A Walk on the Wild Side: Downtown Stories with Brendan Jay Sullivan and More with WORD Bookstore
September 3, 2013
7:00pm
“Celebrate Brendan Jay Sullivan’s debut book, the memoirRivington Was Ours:Lady Gaga, the Lower East Side, and the Prime of Our Liveswith a discussion and stories of a neighborhood in constant flux in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s and beyond. Featuring Will Hermes (Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York that Changed Music Forever), Dave Hill (Tasteful Nudes), Elna Baker (This American Life), Brendan Jay Sullivan, and moderated by Alan Light (The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of ‘Hallelujah’).”
9.5 Theses on Art and Class with Ben Davis and Special Guests
September 5, 2013
7:00pm
“Author Ben Davis will discuss his new book of essays about artists, the economy, and political activism, alongside a panel of the artists whose voices have influenced the text”