Spring 2025 Events

All readings are free, with no reserved seating; seating is limited and will be first come, first served. Livestreams and archived recordings of readings are available on PCG Studio.

June

Monday, June 9 at 5:00 PM: Jay Ruttenberg and Lucinda Schreiber read from Gabba Gabba We Accept You: The Wondrous Tale of Joey Ramone

Thursday, June 12 at 7:00 PM: J. Hoberman in conversation with Eric Banks about Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop

Monday, June 16, 4:00–7:00 PM: Bloomsday Celebration: A Communal Reading of Ulysses

May

Wednesday, May 7 at 7:00 PM: Leanne Shapton in conversation with Cecily Brown about Swimming Studies

Tuesday, May 13 at 7:00 PM: Lynne Tillman in conversation with Christine Smallwood about Thrilled to Death

Thursday, May 22 at 7:00 PM: Michael Lazarus in conversation with Martin Hägglund and J. M. Bernstein about Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx

April

Tuesday, April 22 at 7:00 PM: Vincent Katz in conversation with Edmund Berrigan about Daffodil

Thursday, April 24 at 6:00 PM: Cynthia Hawkins in conversation with Donna De Salvo about Art Notes, Art

March

Tuesday, March 18 at 7:00 PM: Megan McDowell in conversation with Zito Madu about José Donoso’s The Mysterious Disappearance of the Marquise of Loria

Thursday, March 20 at 7:00 PM: Adam Yarinsky, Angela Estevez, and Miko McGinty in conversation about Architecture. Research. Office.

Wednesday, March 26 at 7:00 PM: Hal Foster in conversation with Ben Lerner about Fail Better: Reckonings with Artists and Critics

February

Thursday, February 13 at 7:00 PM: Peter N. Miller in conversation with D. Graham Burnett about The Weather on 9/9/01: Newspaper Weather Maps and History

Friday, February 21 at 7:00 PM: David Levering Lewis reads from The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story, 1790–1958