QT Tonight! Mike Albo + Ryan Berg

(Unfortunately, Suzanne Snider, who was supposed to read tonight, can't make it. But fortunately, the utterly fantastic memoirist Ryan Berg will be joining Mike Albo for a stupendous reading! Don't miss it!)

QT: Queer Readings at Dixon Place
and the HOT! Festival
present:

MIKE ALBO
+
RYAN BERG

Tuesday, July 14

at Dixon Place: 161 Chrystie Street, between Delancey and Rivington
doors at 7 / reading at 7:30

MIKE ALBO is a writer and performer who lives and loves in Brooklyn. His second novel (written with his longtime friend Virginia Heffernan) is the cult humor classic The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life. His performances of the character can be found on YouTube, like everything else in the world. His first novel, the critically acclaimed Hornito, came out in 2000. Albo is also known as The Critical Shopper columnist for the New York Times. He has performed numerous solo shows, including Spray, Please Everything Burst, and My Price Point, as well as with the comedy trio Unitard. He is also a founding member of the legendary downtown NYC naked glittery dance troupe The Dazzle Dancers.

RYAN BERG, a graduate of The New School, received an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Hunter College in 2008. There, he was a Hertog and Nita Koblin Fellow. Ryan is the recipient of residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He is currently working on a memoir about the two years he spent as a caseworker for GLBT youth living in a group home in New York City. The first chapter of this book appeared in Ploughshares.

Tuesday, July 14: MIKE ALBO + SUZANNE SNIDER

QT: Queer Readings at Dixon Place

and the HOT! Festival

present:

MIKE ALBO

+

SUZANNE SNIDER

Tuesday, July 14

at Dixon Place: 161 Chrystie Street, between Delancey and Rivington
doors at 7 / reading at 7:30

MIKE ALBO is a writer and performer who lives and loves in Brooklyn. His second novel (written with his longtime friend Virginia Heffernan) is the cult humor classic The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life. His performances of the character can be found on YouTube, like everything else in the world. His first novel, the critically acclaimed Hornito, came out in 2000. Albo is also known as The Critical Shopper columnist for the New York Times. He has performed numerous solo shows, including Spray, Please Everything Burst, and My Price Point, as well as with the comedy trio Unitard. He is also a founding member of the legendary downtown NYC naked glittery dance troupe The Dazzle Dancers.

SUZANNE SNIDER’s writing appears in many issues of The Believer and as part of several artists’ catalogs—with the work of Danica Phelps, Clare Rojas, Aaron Wexler, and Eve Sussman. She podcasts for The Guardian, and has worked as an oral historian/interviewer for HBO Productions, the New York Academy of Medicine, Columbia University, and the Judd Foundation. She teaches in the Media/Film Department at the New School University and co-curates KGB’s Nonfiction Night. Her work has been supported through fellowships at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the UCross Foundation Center. She is currently completing a book about two rival communes on adjacent land.