A reading series for the wanderlust stricken, the Restless Legs gatherings bring travelers, travel writers, and the people who love them together for an evening of sharing tales from the road, gossiping, and general debauchery. Tony Perrottet, Ayun Halliday, Mary Morris, Cullen Thomas, Richard Goodman, Matt Gross, Tom Coyne, Elisabeth Eaves, Alice Bradley, Benjamin Wallace, and contributors to the award-winning site, WorldHum.com, have all read.
Lolita
Broome and Allen Sts. on the Lower East Side of New York City.
Next Reading:
On Wednesday July 22 at 7pm (in the downstairs room of Lolita Bar) please join us for another great reading.
In this edition of the Restless Legs Reading Series: the Holy Foreskin vs. the Amazon:
David Grann is a staff writer at The New Yorker whose new book, The Lost City of Z, is a fascinating account of exploring the Amazon. The New York Times wrote: "The Lost City of Z is at once a biography, a detective story, and a wonderfully vivid piece of travel writing that combines Bruce Chatwinesque powers of observation with a Waugh-like sense of the absurd." Not surprisingly, the book recently appeared on the The New York Times best seller list and Grann has even been on the The Colbert Report to talk about it.
Many of you have heard about it (relentlessly), and finally An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church's Strangest Relic in Italy's Oddest Town will hit bookshop shelves everywhere (virtual and real). David Farley (that's me!) will be sharing the stage with David Grann on this night to talk about his search to find one of Christianity's most bizarre holy relics: the foreskin of Jesus.
