Events
Debut Author Panel featuring Stephanie Wambugu, Zain Khalid, and Zoe Dubno with Christian Lorentzen moderating
Luster meets The Idiot in this riveting debut novel about a volatile friendship between two outsiders who escape their bleak childhoods and enter the glamorous early ’90s art world in New York City, where only one of them can make it.
Book Launch: Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle
Lucky Day is the latest from Chuck Tingle, USA Today bestselling author of Camp Damascus and Bury Your Gays, where one woman must go up against horrifying odds to save the world.
Book Launch: What Hunger by Catherine Dang with Kevin Nguyen
A haunting coming-of-age tale following the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, Ronny Nguyen, as she grapples with the weight of generational trauma while navigating the violent power of teenage girlhood, for fans of Jennifer’s Body and Little Fires Everywhere.
Book Launch: The Woman With Fifty Faces by Jonathan Lackman & Zachary J. Pinson in conversation with Robin Cembalest
A revelatory biographical graphic novel chronicling the elusive life and tumultuous times of Maria Lani.
Book Launch Salon and Live Jazz Performance for (jopappy and the Sentence-Makers Are) Eponymous As Funk
(jopappy and the sentence-makers are) eponymous as funk is a frenetic multimedia jam session of discursive lyric arranged and produced by poems written in bandele’s invented prose poetic form the unit. The form gets its inspiration from virtuoso pianist Cecil Taylor’s groundbreaking 1966 album Unit Structures, insofar as it desires to embody the feel of collective improvisation encountered in Free Jazz as poetics. Through the application of Free Jazz aesthetics, the language is pushed toward a heightened ambiguity, as wildly different subjects and source materials are played right after, alongside, and over against one another generating new valences and surprising, even playful suggestions that are at odds with common interpretations of phrases. Enter here to experience Free Jazz as a groove theory, a language model, and an underlying approach to artistic expression.
Indie Press Publishing Reading featuring Cora Lewis, Matthew Gasda, Emily Zhou, E.Y. Zhao, and E.N. Couturier
Luster meets The Idiot in this riveting debut novel about a volatile friendship between two outsiders who escape their bleak childhoods and enter the glamorous early ’90s art world in New York City, where only one of them can make it.
Book Launch: Such Great Heights by Chris DeVille in conversation with Jason Lipshutz
The definitive history of twenty-first-century indie rock—from Iron & Wine and Death Cab for Cutie to Phoebe Bridgers and St. Vincent—and how the genre shifted the musical landscape and shaped a generation.
Book Launch: If You're Seeing This, It's Meant For You by Leigh Stein in conversation with Josh Lora
Fates collide after a tarot influencer disappears from a decaying Hollywood mansion in this unnerving gothic mystery and audacious social comedy from the acclaimed author of Self Care.
Book Launch: The Story of CO2 is the Story of Everything by Peter Brannen featuring Robinson Meyer
How carbon dioxide made planet Earth, shaped human history, and now holds our future in the balance
Book Signing: Sister Wife by Christine Brown Woolley
From TLC’s Sister Wives star Christine Brown Woolley, a groundbreaking and heartfelt memoir about living in a family like no other and finding the strength to leave polygamy—and the only life she’s known—behind.
Book Launch: My Ardent Pencil by Vi Khi Nao
My Ardent Love for the Pencil moves like a sloth in silk: slowly, precisely, gorgeously.
Book Launch: Powerfully Likeable by Dr. Kate Mason
A groundbreaking new roadmap for female success—how to be influential, respected, and well-liked at work, at home, and beyond—from a leading business coach and communication expert.
Book Launch: Whites by Mark Doten and An Oral History of Atlantis by Ed Park
Come celebrate the co-launches of Whites by Mark Doten and An Oral History by Ed Park!
Book Launch: Modern Psychedelics by Joe Dolce featuring V
There’s a global resurgence of interest in psychedelics, but there has not been a comprehensive, reliable book that combines contemporary science, ancient wisdom, and practical guidance for using these mysterious, magical molecules. Until now.
Book Launch: Galloway's Gospel by Sam Rebelein and Acquired Taste by Clay McLeod Chapman
Come celebrate the dual launch for Galloway’s Gospel by Sam Rebelein and Acquired Taste by Clay McLeod Chapman at Powerhouse Arena!
Book Launch: I'll Follow You by Charlene Wang featuring Caitlin Mullen
For two best friends desperate to escape their dead-end town, a viral online persona becomes a dangerous game of control in a twisting psychological thriller about class, power, and identity.
Book Launch: Turn to Stone by Emily Meg Weinstein
A memoir of sex, angst, and rocks, Turn to Stone chronicles one woman’s ascent—on walls of stone and within herself—as she faces her demons and finds freedom and power in the raw and wild adventure of rock climbing.
Book Launch: The Worst of Broke-Ass Stuart by Stuart Schuffman featuring Darron Cardosa
If you’ve ever waited tables, cried in a dive bar, danced in weird costumes in the street, tried to pay rent in drink tickets, or been in love with a city that might not love you back, this is your book.
Book Launch: Playful by Cas Holman
After a year of self-imposed exile, a young writer attends a New Year’s Eve party in hopes of reconnecting with old classmates in a blackly humorous tale set on a single snowy night.
Book Launch: Poppy State by Myriam Gurba
Poppy State is a love letter to California and a story of resilience and reclamation through a relationship with plants, memory, myth, and indigenous knowledge.
Sad Dad Book Club: The Sunflower Boys by Sam Wachman
A poignant coming-of-age story with the sensitivity and haunting power of What Belongs to You and Swimming in the Dark, about a young boy wrestling with his sexuality as war breaks out in modern Ukraine.
Book Launch: Uncompete by Ruchika T. Malhotra featuring Sahaj Kaur Kohli and Dr. Uché Blackstock
A timely and transformative new framework for success from a sought-after strategist, speaker, and author
Photos from recent events
Book Launch: Norman Finkelstein, Cornel West, and Nadine Strossen
Book Launch: Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts by Claire Donato in conversation with Molly Soda, plus additional readings from Abigail Greene and Jaylen Strong and incidental music by Zach Phillips (Fievel is Glauque, Blanche Blanche Blanche)