Fiction Fetish

The New Yorker has a post about Book Club Burlesque.

From the story...

On a recent Tuesday night at the Parkside Lounge, on the Lower East Side, the dancer Lydia Ransom opened the show dressed as a proper librarian (tweed and argyle), and cheekily shushed the audience. “This is a library,” Ransom winked, before removing her cardigan and skirt. She pulled David McCullough’s “John Adams” out of a Strand shopping bag. “Good role model, very good role model,” she said, and rubbed the cover down her body. (Would you do that with an iPad?)

burlesque3.jpgThe evening was the eleventh of Book Club Burlesque’s happenings; this one was dedicated to the subversive eroticism of Edward Gorey’s “The Curious Sofa.” The artists, loosely assembled as the Inbred Hybrid Collective, have also performed “Folklore for. . . Whores” inspired by the Brothers Grimm, and plan to dedicate shows to Amy Sedaris and Chuck Palahniuk.