NEWS ~

Please join us in Atlanta, Georgia for a celebration of BRET BUSCH’S (Smithsonian) 3+ decades of music magic. Part conversation, part serenade, part fan club. At The Earl!

Nate Lippens reviews Tom Cole’s CHIMES: A MONOLOGUE ~ “Cole isn’t interested in static answers, conclusions, or final judgements. Rather he’s drawn to the staticky fuzz of lost signals, hesitations, and miscommunications.”

Read Jennifer Krasinski’s brilliant interviews with both LYNNE TILLMAN and WAYNE KOESTENBAUM in BOOKFORUM!

CECILIA DOUGHERTY ~ “I’m not braggin’ on myself, baby but this is a gorgeous crowd, at my May screening at Parkside Lounge. The party atmosphere at the Parkside set the mood for the screening of my writers series of videos, including video portraits of Joe Westmoreland, Laurie Weeks, Kevin Killian & Cedar Sigo, Leslie Scalapino, and Eileen Myles, covering a period from 1998 to 2018.”

SUPPORT READINGS AT PARKSIDE 2026

ALEX AUDER “I got a new laptop for Christmas and used the content ‘migration’ from the old one as an excuse to do a deep digital cleanse. In the process, I found some old sections of Don’t Call Me Home.” 

INTERVIEW MAGAZINE ~ Mike Albo by Christopher Bollen “discussing HOLOGRAM BOYFRIENDS, an audiobook where Albo goes for the gay, social-media jugular in a series of personal and journalistic essays that dissects the current state of gay desire....Part of the joy of the book is Albo’s reading of it (much of it recorded live at Parkside Lounge).” 

THE PETER HUJAR ARCHIVE ~ Readings at Parkside with Cynthia Carr, Nan Goldin & Stephen Koch

EV GRIEVE ~ Simon Raymonde, a seminal figure in the music world who played with Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil, as well as running Bella Union records, was the guest tonight for the Reading at the Parkside Lounge series

Wallpaper* USA 400: The people shaping Creative America
COMMUNITY BUILDER—ANN STEPHENSON: Designers and artists whose practice has become the basis for a larger scope, serving local networks and connecting people

Readings Might Be Turning Into America’s New Favorite Pastime

Cedar Sigo reads from Siren of Atlantis at the Parkside Lounge, NYC

New ~ READINGS AT PARKSIDE Ephemera

New ~ Book Bags

New ~ Tees & Sweatshirts 

READY SET READINGS returns  to Whitespace Gallery after 15 years for the paperback launch of Mike Albo’s beautiful book Another Dimension of Us!