St. Mark's Bookshop

St. Mark's Bookshop presents:A Book Launch for Laurie Weeks' Debut Novel Zipper Mouth with Special Guest Eileen MylesTuesday, September 27th at 7PM The reading will take place at:St. Marks Bookshop31 Third Avenue (at 9th Street)New York, NY 10003Subway: 6 to Astor Place, N/R to 8th Street, L to 14th St/3rd AvenueThis is a free eventFor more information please visit the shop, call (212) 260-7853 or email stmarksbooks@gmail.com Join Feminist Press and Eileen Myles at St. Mark's Bookshop to celebrate the long-awaited release of Zipper Mouth by Laurie Weeks! In this extraordinary debut novel, Laurie Weeks captures the freedom and longing of life on the edge in New York City. Ranting letters to Judy Davis and Sylvia Plath, an unrequited fixation on a straight best friend, exalted nightclub epiphanies, devastating morning-after hangovers—Zipper Mouth chronicles the exuberance and mortification of a junkie, and transcends the chaos of everyday life. "Laurie Weeks's Zipper Mouth is a short tome of infinitesimal reach, a tiny star to light the land." - Eileen Myles, author of Inferno "Zipper Mouth is a brilliant rabbit hole of pitch-black hilarity, undead obsession, the horror of the everyday, and drug, drugs, drugs." - Michelle Tea, co-founder of Sister Spit "Brash, exuberant…recalls Naked Lunch and imparts a fresh, lyrical sympathy…Dreamy, impressionistic, and rapturous…an ecstatic love story.” - Publishers Weekly Best Reading Series" - The Gothamist, 2011