Between the Covers Reading Series Presents Three Lambda
Award Finalists
Gore Vidal biographer Tim Teeman, best-selling kink writer Laura
Antoniou and Donna Minkowitz, author of the memoir Growing Up Golem will be reading from their Lambda-Award nominated books
on Monday, May 12th in Riverdale’s literary arts café, An Bean Bocht
as part of the monthly reading series, Between the Covers, hosted by Riverdale
Avenue Books.
Tim Teeman’s In Bed
With Gore Vida: Hustlers, Hollywood and
the Private Life of an American
Master is a Lambda finalist in the category of Best Gay Biography/Memoir.
Former Village Voice reporter Donna
Minkowitz’s memoir Growing Up Golem: How I Survived Brooklyn, My Mother
and Some Really Bad Dates was nominated for best Lesbian Biography/Memoir. Laura Antoniou’s The Killer Wore Leather was
nominated for Best Lesbian Mystery.
Now
in their 26th year, the Lambda Literary Awards celebrate achievement in
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) writing for books published in
2013. Winners will be announced during a ceremony on
Monday evening, June 2, 2014, at The Great Hall at Cooper Union (7
East 7th Street, New York City 10003). Details on the annual after-party
location are forthcoming. For more information and to buy tickets, please visit: http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/.
Between the
Covers” always features its unique “dirty word” raffle
giveaways. The May 12th reading will feature stunning corsets
from hipsandcurves.com, samples of Dude Wipes and books by the readers.
This reading
series has picked this location because it is adjacent to the Riverdale Avenue
Books headquarters and accessible to readers who are located in upper
Manhattan, the Bronx, Westchester, New Jersey and Connecticut in mind—but of
course, everyone is welcome to attend. The writer-friendly Irish café, An
Beal Bocht, 445 W. 238th St. (take the No. 1. Train to 238th
Street).
Beginning in
June 6th, between the Covers will also host a downtown reading at People
Kitchen, 163 Allen Street, on the first Friday of every month.
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