Lit Crawl NYC: Geek Love

Co-Hosted by Emma Straub & Teddy Wayne

Whether you’re into Harlequin romances or Proust, come seek your book-loving soul mate at Geek Love. Lit Crawl NYC’s “mixer of the minds” brings together the sexiest dorks in the Big Apple for a night of drinks, bookish trivia, and fun prizes. Bring your buddies and make some new ones—we’ll assign you to a team of cute and brainy strangers to guarantee you’ll go home with a prize, a date, or at least a good story! Singles, “takens,” and everyone in between welcome.The $15 admission includes one drink and a $5 credit at the powerHouse store. Proceeds benefit Lit Crawl NYC. Featuring a lineup of bookish guests, including Emma Straub (Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures) and Teddy Wayne (The Love Song of Jonny Valentine), and an Event Committee of editors, publishers, and publicists from the lit world (see below!)Purchase tickets here.

Geek Love Event Committee:

Amanda Bullock, Housing Works Bookstore
John M. Cusick, Armchair/Shotgun
Katie Freeman, Riverhead Books
Rachel Fershleiser, Tumblr
Brigid Hughes, A Public Space
Maris Kreizman, Slaughterhouse 90210
Michele Legro, Lapham’s Quarterly
Andrew Lloyd-Jones, Liars’ League
Halimah Marcus, Electric Literature
Lincoln Michel, Gigantic
Paul W. Morris, PEN American Center
Richard Nash, Small Demons
Steph Opitz, CLMP
Tom Roberge, New Directions
Evan Simko-Benarski, Armchair/Shotgun
Rob Spillman, Tin House
Karolina Waclawiak, The Believer
Joel Whitney, Guernica
Greg Young, The Bowery Boys