Only two more business days left (last day Sunday, August 11) and Ada Books owner Brent Legault is asking everyone in no uncertain terms to stop by and help empty the shelves . . . and then make an offer on the shelves! He is calling these final days: Ada’s Swan Song Sale. Ada has …
(2.22) In partnership with the Dramatists Guild, Frequency Writers will present Intro to Playwriting. Noted playwright Caridad Svich will spend the evening with local writers as part of the Dramatists Guild Foundation’s Traveling Masters program. Caridad Svich received the 2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement and a 2018 Tanne Foundation Award, as well as the Ellen …
(9.16) The fall season of The Publicly Complex Reading Series begins Saturday with Alexis Almeida, Sussy Santana, and Christopher Kondrich. (Facebook event.) Why would they schedule this the same day as Oktoberfest at The Guild? No reason you can’t do both. (As far as I know, the wearing of lederhosen is not verboten.) Free, 6pm …
(7.24) Head over to Ada Books Monday night for the ‘Wipeout #3’ Oversize Comic Release hosted by Walker Mettling. The new issue features the work of Alison Rutsch, Caitlin Cali, Dailen Williams, Malachy Hopkins, Milky Pear, Mimi Chrzanowski, Ryan Alves, Zachary Kemp, and Walkeer Mettlling, with the screenprinting-sweat-labor of Julia Gualtieri and costs a mere …
(1.27) Good get for Brent Legault over at Ada Books, and he sounds pretty excited. This Friday, writer Ottessa Moshfegh will be reading from her new collection of short stories “Homesick for Another World.” (Facebook event page.) The irreproducible Ottessa Moshfegh, shortlisted for the freakin’ Man-Booker Prize in 2016, will appear at Ada Books this …
(11.12) ‘Publicly Complex’ presents author readings at Ada Books with Mary Cappello, Lee Ann Brown, and Serena Putterman. Cappello is a Professor of English and creative writing at URI. She is the author of five books of literary nonfiction, and her essays and experimental prose have been published in The Georgia Review and Cabinet Magazine. …
(9.9) Hooray for Ada Books, the West End’s “stubborn purveyor of an outmoded technology.” Ada offers things of ink, things of ink on paper. Mostly books. Some comics. Things people call ‘zines and minis and whatsits. There are posters and prints and words on vinyl coming at you 33 1/3 revolutions per minute. Cards have …
(5.26) Brent Legault invites you to a comics event at Ada Books this Thursday evening. (Facebook event for ‘Gorgeous is as Gorgeous Does.’) Cathy G. Johnson & Mimi Chrzanowski have new comics that they want to show you. Come to Ada Books on May 26th to see and hear them. Buy a book, have it …
(5.7) Brent Legault invites you to a reading and meet the authors — Mann & Mark: A Reading. Lucas Mann (Lord Fear) and Mark Polanzak (POP!) will read towards you (while you sit in dumbstruck wonder, sighing contentedly, or possibly issuing hoots of encouragement) from their newly minted books. The event is free and awesome …
(2.25) Head over to Ada Books this Thursday when artist-musician Brian Chippendale discusses his new book Puke Force, complete with slide presentation. From Drawn & Quarterly; Puke Force is social satire written dark and dense across Brian Chippendale’s deconstructed multiverse of walking, talking M&Ms, hamsters, and cycloptic-yet-glamorous trivia hosts. In scathingly funny single-page strips that build …
[They did it! They reached their goal. Crisis averted. Well done people. BC] More than just a gloriously quirky independent bookstore, Ada Books at 717 Westminster Street frequently plays the role of salon, where writers, poets, and artists can come together to read and present their work. From the website, Ada offers things of ink, …
(9.20) The Cable Car Cinema is hosting a special event in conjunction with Ada Books: John Porcellino, cartoonist/illustrator/genius, will be appearing at Cable Car Cinema to introduce and talk about two things: 1) Root Hog or Die, a documentary about his life and work; 2) The Hospital Suite, a new book fresh off the Drawn …
(7.27) Join poets Penelope Pelizzon and Jonathan Farmer for a talk and discussion about poetry as a social art form. Poetry is, in its own lonely way, a social art form–one that carries with it our freighted awareness of people other than ourselves. We go to poems looking for people, for the imprint of the …
Join AS220, Ada Books and Drawn & Quarterly for the Providence launch of “New York Drawings” with cartoonist Adrian Tomine. This lavish, beautifully designed volume collects every cover, comic, and illustration that the acclaimed cartoonist as produced for The New Yorker to date, along with an assortment of other rare and uncollected illustrations and sketches …
Adrian Tomine: New York Drawings At AS220, October 3rd Read More »
Just a reminder. Ada Books hosts Brian Chippendale and C.F. kicking off a, . . . Non-Musical & Mostly Verbal & Visual Tour of Tours. Their newly minted books — If ‘n Oof & Powr Mastrs 3, respectively — will be on hand and there will plenty of signing, doodling and power pointing for your …
The Punchbuggy Tour featuring Liz Baillie, Ken Dahl, MK Reed and Sally Bloodbath will do their thing at Ada Books tonight. Brent at Ada describes it thusly, These talented comics artists will, and I quote, “be reading from [their] comics and performing a song or two, as well as providing a live acoustic soundtrack”. There …