Songwriters who will read a book and write songs about/relating to it and play them for an astounded and appreciative audience. And other people who like books and music and nights involving books and music at the same time.
Influences
JOIN THE CLUB:
If you're a songwriter and you'd like to participate, send us a message here or at bushwickbookofthemonthclub@gmail.com. Tell us what dates/books you'd like to do. Songwriters can do 1-2 songs (or 5-7 min.).
If you're a song appreciator, be our friend! Join our mailing list! We'll remind you of monthly happenings and all things Bushwick Book Club.
Sounds Like
January 6th: Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut// February 3rd: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver//
March 3rd: Flatland - Edwin Abbott//
April 7th: James and the Giant Peach//
May 5th: The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera//
June 2nd: Watchmen by Alan Moore//
July 14th: No one Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July//
August 4th: The Bible//
September - short stories by Deenah Vollmer and Matt Colbourn//
October 6th - A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole//
November 3rd - The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin//
December 1st - End of Year Library Fuckshow
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Every first Tuesday of the month songwriters get together at Bushwick cultural institution, Goodbye Blue Monday to perform feats of songwriting nerdery such that the world has yet to see. This November's performance will be on "The Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin, just in time for its 150th birthday**************
Songwriters for November 3rd:
Ben Krieger, Susan HWang, Franz Nicolay, Anna Leuchtenberger, Dibson Hoffweiler, Maria Sonevytsky, David Novack, Sweet Soubrette, Tribal Town Center (Teresa Amram), Victor Varnado
************The Bushwick Book Club meets the first Tuesday of every month at Goodbye Blue Monday and employs the delirious talents of local songwriters who plumb the depths and scrape the ends of a chosen literary gem to create that rare and beautiful thing - a new song. All songs are then displayed, spread wide, in one hour. It's an hour-long orgy of book-related songs and book-inspired food and drink. If that doesn't sound indulgent enough, I don't want to know you, you sick, sick bastard.
