Publishing Triangle OUTSpoken Series Special: Gary Indiana (in person & live-streaming)

Come join The Publishing Triangle as we read, reminisce, and admire the wide-ranging work of legendary gay writer, critic, and artist, Gary Indiana.

Featuring readings by Brian Alessandro, Christopher Bollen, Jason Napoli Brooks, Michael Bullock, Tobi Haslett, Sam McKinniss, Dale Peck, Nicole Rudick, and Christopher Stoddard.

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.

Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.

Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:

youtube.com/@bgsqd

The Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books.

All are welcome to attend, with or without a donation.

We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @BGSQD

Brian Alessandro has written for Interview Magazine, Newsday, PANK (co-founded by Roxanne Gay), Huffington Post, Galerie (Wes Anderson’s cult film streaming app), Lambda Literary, The Gay & Lesbian Review, Kirkus Reviews, and The Florida Review, and has recently co-adapted Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story into a graphic novel for Top Shelf Productions. Additionally, Brian co-edited Fever Spores: The Queer Reclamation of William S. Burroughs, an anthology of essays and interviews about Burroughs for Rebel Satori Press. Brian is also the co-founder and editor in chief of the literary journal, The New Engagement. His first novel, The Unmentionable Mann, was published in 2015 by Cairn Press and his first feature film, Afghan Hound, was produced by Maryea Media in 2011, and is streaming on Plex, Tubi, and Amazon. His second novel, Performer Non Grata, was published in 2023. Julian’s Debut, his new novel, will be published by Rebel Satori Press in March 2025. Brian also has a feature film and a limited series in development with an Academy Award-winning producer.

Christopher Bollen is a writer and editor based in New York City. He is the author of six novels, including his most recent, Havoc, out December 2024 from Harper. He contributes frequently to a number of publications, including Interview, Vanity Fair, and the New York Times.

Jason Napoli Brooks is an award-winning fiction writer and essayist whose work has appeared in various journals, anthologies, and media outlets in the U.S. and abroad. He was the author of the queer-spy-fiction zine Cock of the Walk (2011-2013, currently being translated into Spanish for publication in Mexico) and the multimedia play Soundstage (2018, directed by Rob Roth and starring Rebecca Hall). With author Jim Freed, he is the co-founder of the long-running reading series Enclave, which took place at various Manhattan nightlife venues from 2006 to 2020. Brooks is currently at work on his serialized novel, Paranoid Lines, the first issue of which will be released in January 2025. @jasonnapolibrooks

Michael Bullock is a Brooklyn-based writer, editor and documentary filmmaker focused on art, design and queer culture. He is the author of Roman Catholic Jacuzzi (Karma 2012) the editor of Peter Berlin: Artist, Icon, Photosexual (Damiani 2019), and co-editor of I Could Not Believe It: The 1979 Teenage Diaries of Sean Delear (Semiotext(e) 2023). Bullock serves as associate publisher of PIN–UP and The Whitney Review of New Writing and is a contributing editor to apartamento. For PIN–UP he co-directed Dream Homes, a commisioned work for the Cooper Hewitt’s Design Triennial, Making Home, currenlty on view through August 2025.

Tobi Haslett is a writer currently living in Berlin.

Sam McKinniss is an artist in New York and Connecticut. His paintings have been exhibited widely both stateside and abroad. His work has been written about everywhere, including an ARTFORUM cover story penned by Gary Indiana in 2019. McKinniss’s painting “Chrysanthemums (after Fantin-Latour)” graces the cover of Indiana’s novel Depraved Indifference, reissued by Semiotext(e) in 2020. In 2021, “Cop Car in Brooklyn” was used as cover art for Indiana’s collection Fire Season: selected essays 1984-2021 published by Seven Stories Press. The two men were close friends.

Dale Peck is the author of fourteen books, including Martin and John, Hatchet Jobs, Sprout, and Visions and Revisions. He first wrote about Gary Indiana in 2015, when Gary released the memoir I Can Give You Anything but Love, and published a tribute to him in the Baffler on the occasion of his death. He was Gary’s neighbor in the East Village for almost twenty years, and once played Cards Against Humanity with him. It wasn’t as salacious as you might think.

Nicole Rudick is the author of What Is Now Known Was Once Only Imagined: An (Auto)biography of Niki de Saint Phalle (Siglio) and the editor, most recently, of Joanna Russ: Novels and Stories (Library of America) and Spiral and Other Stories by Aidan Koch (New York Review Comics). Her writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, Apollo, The New Yorker, and The New York Times, and in exhibition catalogues for the Drawing Center; the New Museum; the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design; and Gagosian gallery. She was managing editor of The Paris Review for nearly a decade.

Christopher Stoddard is the founding editor of Itna Press, notable for first reintroducing Gary Indiana’s literary works to contemporary audiences, including the acclaimed novel Do Everything in the Dark. Stoddard is also the author of four novels, including At Night Only (2018), which garnered praise from Kirkus Reviews and The Paris Review. He lives in Los Angeles.