Events

Come check out the latest in a series of creative collaborations by New York City artists and friends Zachary Lipez, Nick Zinner (guitarist for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs), and Stacy Wakefield, titled Please Take Me Off the Guest List. The trio will be hanging out with us at the Hemlock Tavern for a fantastic mixed-media performance of prose, photography, and music, bringing to life their lovely and multi-faceted project.  In Please Take Me off the Guest List, Zachary Lipez's essays recount his adventures as a bartender, drug abuser, bookstore clerk, metal fan, miserable adolescent and relentless skirt chaser. His inimitable voice walks the line between self-loathing and hedonistic delight and is biting, moving and extremely funny. Nick Zinner's photographs evoke the world he travels with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. His always present camera documents decadent late nights as well as blissfully fresh sun-dappled landscapes. His images are rich in narrative and unwaveringly optimistic. The book is edited and designed by their longtime collaborator, book artist Stacy Wakefield. The unique structure she has devised for this book presents Zachary's essays as separate books-within-the-book while the stories built by the photographs course through and around them. Zachary, Nick, and Stacy have produced three previous books together: No Seats on the Party Car, Slept in Beds, and I Hope You Are All Happy Now. We're anticipating that space for this event is sure to fill up quickly, so be sure to get to the Hemlock Tavern early for this one. See you there.