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Thursday,
November 15
Admission: FREE, Free Drinks, 6-8pm
Showtimes: 6-10pm
reservations
are recommended
Preview Party for Sexy Librarian by Julia Weist:
A multi-media reading and advanced review copy launch of Sexy
Librarian: Critical Edition of the Original Novel
" Julia Weist transcends the found object to become
the found object."
-Mark Newgarden, author of We All Die Alone
" Weist makes the circulation quicken."
-Paul Ramirez Jonas, artist
SEXY LIBRARIAN: CRITICAL EDITION OF THE ORIGINAL NOVEL – a
first look at the book no one was supposed to see. Free drinks,
readings of excerpts, advanced review copies.
Twenty three year old Julia Weist's romance novel, Sexy Librarian,
was originally written in order to collect rejection letters
from publishing houses for an sculptural installation about failed
literature. Unexpected success comes to those who plan to fail,
and Weist is no exception. The book—which now includes
a critical essay from MoMA's librarian Jenny Tobias and images
of Weist's sculptural work—was picked up by a curator who
offered to publish the book independently after seeing (only)
the rejection letters on the gallery walls. The story concerns
a hipster arts librarian (who based on the project's original
intention is a version of Weist herself) and enough hilarious
NY social commentary and hot sex to make you forget that writing
the book was a process-oriented "emotional research" component
of Weist's art practice.
The night will include periodic readings from the novel played
with video content in Monkeytown's screening room. Get sloshed
and ask Weist how receiving the news that Moonlight Madness Romance "currently
does not publish novels which include STD's" provided her
with an "outlet for sympathy for discarded library books."
http://sexylibrariannovel.com/
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