Books and Burlesque: Pride Month Edition

Books and burlesque collide in this delightfully brainy Pride Month spectacle at Caveat on June 13. The evening pairs acclaimed queer authors reading from new works—including novels, nonfiction and memoir—with original burlesque and drag performances inspired by their books. Hosted and produced by Fortune Cookie, the show features a lineup of writers and performers celebrating queer stories, sexuality and self-expression in equal measure. 

Over the course of the event, Wayne Koestenbaum reads from his novel My Lover, The Rabbi alongside BiBi Knockers; Grant Ginder presents So Old, So Young with Michael L. Becker; Perrin Roosevelt Ireland shares from the graphic nonfiction book Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex paired with Ceruleanna Blue; Adam Morgan discusses A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature alongside Whiskey Jules; Charlotte Brooks reads from The Moys of New York and Shanghai: One Family's Extraordinary Journey Through War and Revolution paired with Fortune Cookie; and editor Denne Michele Norris reads from Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Writers of Color alongside Sapphic Fire.