Yes folks, that does say a “performance by musician Tegan Quinn“.

SPIN Magazine and Housing Works host an evening of music and literature with a reading by author Augusten Burroughs (Running With Scissors; A Wolf at the Table) and performance by musician Tegan Quin (Tegan and Sara) to highlight the mutual effects of music and literature and celebrate the SPIN Book Club, an eclectic collection of literary-minded musicians who hope to foster a love of reading amongst music fans.

The evening will also feature a performance by musician Colin Frangicetto (Circa Survive) and readings by musicians Elizabeth Seward (Spelling & Grammar) and Stephen Christian (Anberlin), who recently published his first novel The Orphaned Anything’s. All proceeds from the event will support Housing Works, which serves homeless New Yorkers living with HIV and AIDS.

Tickets are $20 at livefromhome.org/events

Some interesting readings/performances coming to the various NYC Barnes & Noble’s this July. Check out some of the highlights below:

July 2008 Barnes & Noble Readings
07/11/08 12:30 PM Gene Simmons (5th Ave & 46th st)
07/14/08 7:00 PM Stefan Fatsis (82nd & Bwy)
07/15/08 7:00 PM Michael Ian Black (Tribeca)
07/16/08 7:00 PM Naomi Klein (Union Square)
07/16/08 7:00 PM Grandmaster Flash (Tribeca)
07/31/08 7:00 PM Joseph O’Neill and Aimee Mann (Union Square)

This month Aimee Mann will share the stage “Upstairs at The Square” with Irish author Joseph O’Neill on July 31, 2008. The Barnes and Noble gig will be in between her two “proper” shows at the Highline Ballroom on July 30 and The Music Hall of Williamsburg on August 1 (buy tickets). Aimee is currently on tour in support of her new album @#%&*! Smilers, (read Drake’s review over here).

All Aimee Mann tour dates after the jump.

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Watch for the complete Festival guide in the September 15th issue of The New Yorker, on newsstands on September 8th.

Tickets are available online at 12 noon E.T. on Friday, September 12th.

To sign up for official Festival Wire e-mails, visit festival.newyorker.com (which you annoyingly have to do every year).

Live From Home with Amy Ray
Wednesday, August 06, 2008 at 7:30 PM

Download: Amy Ray - Blame Is A Killer (mp3)

The Housing Works Bookstore Cafe hosts an evening with Indigo Girl Amy Ray. This one-of-a-kind benefit concert celebrates the release of her new album, Didn’t It Feel Kinder (Daemon Records, August 5), in a unique and intimate setting.

Special guests include Brandi Carlile and Brooklyn/Asheville indie rockers Arizona. Amy will sign CDs after the show. All proceeds from the LIVE FROM HOME concert series support Housing Works, which serves homeless New Yorkers living with HIV and AIDS.

Tickets go on sale on July 7th [today].

I haven’t heard anything about his latest book, but it really can only be better than his last one.

David Sedaris, author of the bestsellers Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, and National Public Radio contributor will be appearing for one night only at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center on December 15th. Following the much anticipated release of his brand new collection entitled “When You Are Engulfed in Flames“; David will visit New York for an evening of engaging recollections and readings.

Click here to purchase tickets ($30-$75) before they go on sale to the general public on June 20th. The presale password is FLAMES (when you click the “Pre Sale Password” button, it activates a javascript pop-up which may be blocked by your browser).

All David Sedaris book tour dates after the jump.

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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
10am to 6pm
Rain Date: Sunday, June 8th

@ HOUSING WORKS BOOKSTORE CAFE
126 Crosby Street
(south of Houston, between Broadway and Lafayette)
Stock up for the Summer. Thousands of Books, Records & CDs for $1!
Clothing and accessories for $20 a bag provided by HOUSING WORKS THRIFT SHOPS.

The Housing Works Bookstore turns 10 this month and they are celebrating their anniversary with a bunch of interesting events starting tonight. Take a look at the schedule below for all the details.

May Events at the Housing Works Bookstore
05/05 - Art and Activism: Writers on Politics
Stephen Elliott (Sex for America), Nick Flynn (Another Bullshit Night in Suck City) and Janice Erlbaum (Have You Found Her).

05/06 - The Fight against AIDS in Africa
Helen Epstein, Jonny Steinberg, George Packer and moderator Jonathan Cohen.

05/07 - First Words
Bid on signed first editions by authors including George Saunders, Mary Gaitskill, Jonathan Safran Foer, Elizabeth Gilbert, Paul Auster and many more.

05/08 - Anne Carson
A reading of the new play Uncle Harry with Anne Carson, Tacita Dean, Gary Shteyngart, and a Laurie Anderson video.

05/14 - A Freewheelin’ Time
Suze Rotolo reads from her new memoir, A Freewheelin’ Time about life with Bob Dylan in the Greenwich Village of the Sixties. With musical guest Howard Fishman.

05/16 - Live From Home with:
Griffin House / Jeb Loy Nichols / KaiserCartel

05/17 - John Darnielle
John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats is working in a new genre. Tonight he’ll be reading from his brand new book, “his first novel and a stunning piece of rock criticism and appreciation” Black Sabbath’s Master of Reality, the newest in the 33 1/3 series of chapbooks about seminal records.

05/24 - The New York City Spelling Bee
A real, adult spelling bee hosted by Jennifer Dziura and bobbyblue.

05/27 - Paula Fox and Lynne Tillman
The authors Paula Fox and Lynne Tillman read from and discuss their work.

05/29 - Literary Death Match
Opium Magazine presents a Literary Death Match with Bob Powers, Cole Kazdin, Garth Risk Hallberg and Aaron Garretson and judges by Ben Greenman, Joel Dovev and Gill and Jill Bumby.

Sunday with The Magazine
Sunday, May 4 at The Times Center

10:00 - 11:15 a.m. - What We Eat
Michael Pollan Gerry Marzorati

New York Times Magazine editor Gerry Marzorati talks with best-selling author Michael Pollan (”In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto,” “The Omnivore’s Dilemma”) about America’s national food disorder, the dysfunction of the industrial food complex and how we can bring health and pleasure back to eating.

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12:00 - 1:15 p.m. - What We Believe
Noah Feldman Christopher Hitchens Mark Lilla James Traub

Religion’s role in today’s politics comes under scrutiny by Times Magazine contributing writer James Traub (”The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the U.N. in the Era of American World Power”), best-selling author Christopher Hitchens (“God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything”) and Magazine contributors Noah Feldman (”Divided by God: America’s Church-State Problem”) and Mark Lilla (”The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West”).

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2:00 - 3:15 p.m. - What We Watch
Gail Simmons Lauren Zalaznick Tim Gunn Virginia Heffernan

Bravo TV’s president Lauren Zalaznick, “Project Runway” fashion guru Tim Gunn (also “Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style”) and “Top Chef” judge Gail Simmons talk with The Magazine media columnist, Virginia Heffernan, about the brave new world of television programming and what we are watching now.

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4:00 - 5:15 p.m. - How We Govern
David A. Patterson Matt Bai

David A. Paterson — sworn in as the 55th governor of New York just a few weeks ago — discusses the social and economic challenges facing the state, the Democratic party and our country with New York Times Magazine contributing writer Matt Bai, author of “The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics.”

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6:00 - 7:15 p.m. - What We Wear
Donatella Versace Stefano Tonchi

Acclaimed international designer Donatella Versace, one of Italy’s most powerful women, discusses fashion, design, style and celebrity with T Magazine editor Stefano Tonchi.

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8:00 - 9:15 p.m. - What Makes Us Laugh
Tracey Ullman Deborah Solomon

The multiple comedic personality that is seven-time Emmy Award winner Tracey Ullman, star of Showtime’s “Tracey Ullman’s State of the Union,” talks with The New York Times Magazine’s “Questions for… ” columnist, Deborah Solomon.

Issue #6 Release Party
Where: Sound Fix Records Brooklyn, NY
When: Friday, April 25 @ 8:00 PM
Cost: Free!

 

Barnes & Noble continues with its excellent Upstairs at the Square program tomorrow (April 10) with author Min Jin Lee and former Soul Coughing frontman Mike Doughty. Min Jin Lee has a new book which just came out today called Free Food For Millionaires and Mike Doughty’s new record entitled Golden Delicious was released in February. See you at the “Square”, (actually I’ll be at BAM tomorrow).

Unaccustomed Earth is a new collection of eight short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri which comes out on April 1, 2008. Ms. Lahiri will be reading at the Union Square Barnes & Noble on April 1st at 7pm, and then at Symphony Space on April 2nd at 7:30pm.

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Camphor

I was just listening to NPR’s Second Stage podcast today and I came across a band called Camphor that I thought sounded pretty interesting. Much to my delight, it just so happens that Camphor is scheduled to play this month’s Upstairs at The Square event at Barnes & Noble Union Square along with author Anne Enright (who I guess is also a fan). In addition to being from Rye, NY Camphor has a new album coming out on March 18, 2008 called Drawn To Dust (Friendly Fire). Anne Enright’s most recent book, The Gathering, won the prestigious Man Booker Prize in 2007.

Download: Camphor - The Sweetest Tooth (mp3)
Download: Camphor - Confidences Shattered (mp3)

The Moth Presents The Ones that Got Away: Stories from the South St Seaport
The renowned storytelling organization, The Moth, along with General Growth Properties presents an evening of stories as told by:

Mike Destefano (host) is a stand up comic who is a regular at all the top clubs in New York. He can be heard on Sirius Satellite Radio, and has appeared on Showtime’s White Boyz In The Hood.
Roger Franklin is a seasoned actor and has revisited one of his favorite roles as Father Christmas at The South Street Seaport for nineteen years.
Alan Solomon has rescued, collected and sold everything from manhole covers to reclaimed wood. In a recently published story in The New Yorker writer Birkhard Bilger described Alan as one who “sees New York City as a vast boneyard.”
Barbara Mensch - Her recently published book, A South Street Story, is a monograph of her work dating back to 1979 when she moved into the Seaport neighborhood.
Naima Rauam - Her paintings represent her deep roots in the Fulton Street Fish Market dating back to 1984 when her studio/gallery was set up in a fish wholesalers space.
Alan Vega - the singer/poet/storyteller of the legendary electro-punk band, Suicide, resided on Fulton Street for a short time in the 80’s.

at 133 Beekman Street
Doors: 7:30PM
Show: 8:00PM
Admission: Free