It's not all about the West Coast.
Ayun Halliday is doing events for the zany and wildly entertaining No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late
Three chances left to go to a reading. Get out there, you won’t want to miss her read from this hilarious book. AND it’d be a great holiday gift. (full listings will be at the end)
Big thanks to Kathy B for sending this one in…
Wednesday, December 10
6:30 at the Explorers Club in NYC
Tom Fremantle is going to be talking about his recently released (in England)
tale of his 2700 mile walk from Mexico to Manhattan, The Moonshine
Mule. Fremantle followed more or less in his ancestor’s footsteps – Lt. Col. Arthur Fremantle who was a British Observer (and diary publisher) at Gettysburg during the Civil War. 46 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021
(212) 628-8383
DETAILS FOR AYUN’S EVENTS
Thursday, November 20, 7pm
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St
New York, NY
212-777-6028
I’ll choose something different to read from tonight – so come to both Borders on the 18th and Bluestockings on the 20th. Okee dokee? We can pretend we’re traveling around the world together.
* Thursday, December 11 at 7pm
Quimby’s Bookstore
1854 W. North Avenue
Chicago, IL
773-342-0910
Feel free to BYOB and stick around after the monkey reading for some book and zine signing and conviviality!
* Thursday, January 8, 2004
Barnes and Noble
4 Astor Place (at Broadway and Lafayette)
Manhattan
212-420-1322
thanks for spreading the gospel, jen! but wait, there’s MORE! More? Yes! MORE!
Tuesday, December 16 at 7pm
Barbes
https://www.barbesbrooklyn.com/
376 9th St. (at 6th Ave.)
Brooklyn NY
718-965-9177
I’ll be reading with Samantha Gillison, author of the knocked-my-socks-off novel, The Undiscovered Country and the forthcoming King Of America.
January 23, 7pm
The West Side Y
5 W 63rd Street
NYC NY
212-875-4273
and this one has nothing to do with travel, but for anyone who likes their Xmas deeply flawed:
Ayun Halliday’s Atheist-Jewish-Lapsed-Episcopalian-
With-Buddhist-Pretensions Christmas
Soft Skull Shortwave
https://softskull.com/shortwave.php
71 Bond Street (corner of State and Bond)
Brooklyn, NY
718-643-1599
The Rockettes can go to the devil! I gotcher holiday tradition right here! Let me preempt the sugar plums with a rare reading of The Big Rumpus’s infamous yuletide chapter. B-Y-O-Nog or some holiday cookies to share, though be forewarned that Soft Skull will be enforcing the standard You Spill Eggnog All Over It You Buy It policy. Speaking of buying it, I’ll be happy to pad out your shopping list by autographing The Big Rumpus, No Touch Monkey! or any other book you stick under my nose. I’m hauling our record player over from East Village Inky Headquarters, so by all means, bring any maudlin sentimental favorites you’ve go cluttering up your vinyl collection and we’ll give it a spin. Finally, please bring a canned good or two, just so I can haul home something heavier than a record player. (Does that make it sound like I’m planning on hogging your dusty creamed corn to myself? No, it’s all going to City Harvest!)
A word of caution to those of us who believe in Santa: The final minutes of this reading contain some major spoilers, so nippers of a certain age group may want to go to grandma’s for this event, if you receive my meaning. Inky and Milo will be sitting this one out. Don’t want to ruin anyone’s Christmas, you dig?