(9.21) The Return of Publicly Complex Presents: Poetry. Krystal Languell and Rangi McNeil engorge Ada’s airwaves with poetry sounds while avid listeners ensure that no snack is left behind. And it’s all free! 6pm to 8pm, Saturday, September 21, Ada Books, 717 Westminster Street, Facebook
(4.23) Come to Ada Books Tuesday, April 23rd, to celebrate the birth of Vladimir Nabokov. Together, we will read from his 999-line poem, “Pale Fire.” You can sign up to read (30 to 60 lines) at the event. There will be some sort of pale or fiery snacks to keep us alert and possibly a …
(2.23) Ada Books will host a poetry reading Saturday evening. From New York City: Jon Curley “Angles of Incidents” and David Fitschen “The Weight of Sorrows.” And from Providence, Eric Paul “My Parents Were Insects”. Eric Paul, Jon Curley & David Fitschen make you drunk on words while beer and wine make you drunk on …
(12.1) Saturday at Ada Books — Publicly Complex Presents: Poetry. Cole Swenson, Sarah Riggs & Angela Veronica Wong enrobe you in dark chocolate words while wine, cheese and cookies disrobe your at least two of your senses. And it all happens at the luxurious price of naught! 6pm to 8pm, Saturday, December 1, Ada Books, …
(8.24) Wise-cracking apples, eggplants and pears; foul-mouthed birds and bleeding tomatoes; dead carrots and heartless bananas; stone-faced bunnies; conceited vampire bats; snogging peanut butter; half-witted cat-munchkins; naked wieners; and poop. All this (and more!) can be yours, at Ada Books this Friday, where Lauren Barnett (Me Likes You Very Much) and Alabaster (The Complete Talamaroo) will be within talking and touching …
Two sure-to-be excellent nights of out-loud reading this weekend at Ada Books. Friday, November 11th, 7pm — First, Matt Derby (Pawtucket’s only living literary legend and author of Super Flat Times, among others) will dazzle us with his wit and digital delights. Then, Rick Wirick (Kicking In, One Hundred Siberian Postcards) will wrench our guts with …
Artist, designer and ink magician Anders Nilsen is coming to Providence! This Monday, September 19th, from 7pm until — oh, let’s say 9ish — he will be camping out at Ada Books where he will project pages from his recently published, forest-felling behemoth (592 pages) of a book, Big Questions. He will also read from and talk about the book, speaking loudly enough …
Christopher Boucher will read selections from his new novel How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive at Ada Books Thursday at 7pm. He may also, according to his press kit “play the banjo.” (I trust that is not a euphemism.) Here’s what the back-of-the-book blurb has to say: Welcome to Christopher Boucher’s zany literary universe, a …
Jonathan Lippincott, author of Large Scale: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s, will present slides from, and chat about, his new book of big art, this Saturday, April 2nd, 7pm at Ada Books. Now cue the blurb: “What is priceless about this book are its photographs, in which whorker are diminished in scale by …
Lots of doings this weekend! And it’s all free! Friday, Nov. 12, 8pm: BSR (Brown Student Radio) invites you to spend an evening listening to poems and proses by Walker Mettling & Art Middleton (among others). The event – including your laughter, gasps & thundering applause – will be recorded live and replayed sometime later on the air (88.1FM). …
Ada Books at 717 Westminster Street and The Publicly Complex Reading Series present an evening of Genuine Fiction this Saturday (tomorrow!), October 16, at 6pm. Trinie Dalton likes unicorns, werewolves and cats in wigs. She writes and draws about these subjects, among others, profoundly and profusely. Her most recent book — Dear New Girl or Whatever Your Name …