Friends From New York | Book Club Salon

Be among the first to hear Tavi read from her forthcoming memoir, followed by a lively conversation with writer Thora Siemsen about craft, New York, creative evolution, and yes, even a touch of Taylor Swift lore.

Before and after the program, browse signed copies of Tavi’s zine Fan Fiction, explore co‑branded merch, and enjoy our Café’s happy hour specials ($6 beer, $8 wine) along with additional drinks and snacks.

A rare chance to experience Tavi’s work in progress, connect with fellow readers, and spend an inspired evening in community.

Friends From New York Book Club Salon is a monthly gathering created by Friends From New York in partnership with Housing Works Bookstore in SoHo.

The series brings together authors, artists, editors, musicians, photographers, filmmakers, and culture-minded New Yorkers for intimate conversations around books that connect to the city’s creative life, history, nightlife, art, music, fashion, neighborhoods, and evolving cultural identity.

This is not a traditional book club where everyone has to show up having finished the homework. It is more like a cultural salon: part author conversation, part community gathering, part living archive of New York stories.

Tavi Gevinson

Tavi Gevinson is an actor, a writer and a filmmaker. She’s written for publications like the New Yorker, New York Magazine, and Poetry. As an actor, her theater credits include Assassins, This Is Our Youth, The Crucible, and Pre-Existing Condition. Screen credits include Enough Said, Person to Person, Shortcomings, and the Gossip Girl reboot.

Tavi created the online magazine Rookie and edited it for seven years. Her work has been supported by VCCA, Monson Arts, and the Points North Fellowship. She recently co-created an Edith Wharton adaptation for Audible called Glimpses of the Moon and self-published a weird novella called Fan Fiction, which the Cut called “genius.”

Thora Siemsen

Thora Siemsen is an interviewer and writer for magazines including Interview and i-D. She contributed an essay on Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974) and other Arizona-set films to DO NOT DETONATE Without Presidential Approval: A Portfolio on the Subjects of Mid-Century Cinema, the Broadway Stage and the American West (2023), edited by Jake Perlin. She is on the masthead of The Song Cave, a small press publishing poetry, translations, criticism, and art prints. She currently lives in Colorado and works in outreach for her local public library.

Photo credit: Sam Penn

VCCA

The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) is an internationally recognized artists residency program providing writers, visual artists, and composers with uninterrupted time and space to create new work. Founded in 1971, VCCA hosts more than 400 Fellows annually across two locations: Mt. San Angelo in Amherst, Virginia, and le Moulin à Nef in Auvillar, France.
VCCA's mission is to provide time and space to national and international writers, visual artists and composers of talent and promise to bring forth their finest works because the arts are vital, diversity is a strength, and creativity is essential.

FFNY

Friends From New York is a cultural platform rooted in New York’s creative community. Through interviews, events, parties, collaborations, and storytelling, FFNY celebrates the people who keep the city’s spirit alive.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, 126 Crosby Street, New York, United States

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