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KGB Bar Nonfiction Reading Series

KGB Bar
85 E. 4th St., 2nd fl, New York, NY 10003
nr. Second Ave.   See Map | Subway Directions Hopstop Popup
212-505-3360 Send to Phone

Price

Free

Reservations

No Recommendation

Nearby Subway Stops

6 at Astor Pl.; F, V at Lower East Side-Second Ave.

Schedule
Ongoing Every Tue, 7pm-9pm

Profile

The truth—if not the drink menu—can overwhelm you at KGB's weekly nonfiction reading series. In a room so suspiciously tall and red that you might easily mistake any proclamations for propaganda, journalists, memoirists, and raconteurs share from recent anthologies, memoirs, essays, and on occasion, in-house scandals. (Regulars still gossip about the time when a drug addict's excerpt excited a listener to urinate on the pizza.) It's dirty. It's shocking. It's honest. And it's true. The crowd is equal parts horn-rimmed glasses to beer glasses; the authors are serious about their work if not overly so about themselves. The theme changes weekly.

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