East End Books Presents: Shabby Doll House Press Author talk: "Log Off" w/Kristen Felicetti & "The Island" w/ Oscar d'Artois & "The Moan Wilds" w/Caroline Rayner 7/7 at 6pm - East End Books Ptown presents: Starring Joan Crawford: The Films, the Fantasy, and the Modern Relevance of a Silver Screen Icon - Samuel Garza Bernstein in Conv. w/ Howard Karren (PIFF Film Art Series Curator) 6/29/24 at 6pm. This is an off-site event at Provincetown Public Library - 356 Commercial Street.

Tickets: Starring Joan Crawford w/ Samuel Garza Bernstein in conv. w/Howard Karren Tickets, Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite

Starring Joan Crawford is a rollicking exploration of the powerful women this iconic performer vividly brought to life in her films--and the lasting, ever-evolving impact she has had on popular culture. Having carved out a revolutionary path through the entertainment industry while relying on men--whether her studio bosses or her many husbands--as little as possible, she created a gallery of strong, assertive women who outsmarted men and refused to conform to gender expectations. In movies like Mildred Pierce, The Damned Don't Cry, Johnny Guitar, and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, among many others, she played to win, becoming a lodestar for LGBT audiences, a model of feminist self-determination for women, and an unforgettable icon for everyone.

Stonewall Book Award-winning writer Samuel Garza Bernstein is an author, screenwriter, and playwright whose work often reflects the wild intersections of modern life. He was born to an undocumented Mexican mother who passed as white (using a fake name) and a Jewish father who passionately defended the Palestinians when they lived in Cairo while Israel and Egypt were still at war. In his telling, Garza Bernstein was a gay, Jewish six-year-old, living in his head, and spinning stories. His family was nomadic and he grew up all over the world. He, his husband Ronald Shore, and their pack of incorrigible dachshunds split their time between Porto, Portugal, and Los Angeles, California.

Howard Karren is the owner of Alden Gallery, a former editor at Premiere Magazine as well as a writer for local publications, including The Provincetown Independent and The Provincetown Banner.

Event date:Saturday, June 29, 2024 - 6:00pm to 7:00pmEvent address:356 Commercial St.Provincetown, MA 02657

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Log Off

Kristen Felicetti is a writer and the founding editor-in-chief of The Bushwick Review. She is based in Rochester, NY. Log Off (Shabby Doll House, 2024) is her first book.

“​​If one is very fortunate, a few books will fundamentally change their life. Such is the case for me and LOG OFF, an indelibly wise coming-of-age story crackling with humor and nostalgia. Felicetti will heal you, delight you, and make you want to hug your younger self; Log Off is an instant classic, a heartbreaker and a balm, and we’re all the luckier for it.”

"LOG OFF is a time machine, brilliantly evoking the Y2K era in all its LiveJournal glory. Kristen Felicetti's prose feels as real and intimate as making a friend on the internet for the very first time and finding the key to her diary—I loved it."

​—Chelsea Hodson, author of Tonight I'm Someone Else

​—T Kira Māhealani Madden, author of

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

The Island

Oscar d’Artois is a writer & translator who was born in 1989 in Paris, France. He is the author of The Island (Shabby Doll House, 2024) and Teen Surf Goth (Metatron Press, 2015).

THE ISLAND, a book-length haiku by Oscar d'Artois
with artwork by Mad Manning

“A book of fantasy built on internet dreams and nostalgia for what never existed: the fantasy of an eternal American youth, the wish that love can save us, the hope that we can practice for death. A re-projection of the images projected on us every day. An affirmation that as misguided as we are, we too deserve poetry.”

- Melissa Broder, author of Death Valley

“Witty and self-deprecating and instantly relatable.”
-VALLUM

“A fast life lived in an existential daze with a pop-punk poetic consciousness.”
-DAZED

Praise for Oscar d'Artois

“I loved so many references in The Island. Cold brew, yoga, spritzes, consumer culture, the internet, queerness... So funny and real and sparkly"
- Chloe Caldwell, author of WOMEN

The Moan Wilds

Caroline Rayner is a writer and teacher from Virginia. The Moan Wilds (Shabby Doll House, 2023) is her first book.

"Steeped in the hybrid and maximalist tradition of C.D. Wright, Bernadette Mayer, and Alice Notley, The Moan Wilds nevertheless forges a path so inimitable it becomes the very thumbprint of its author, which to me is the crowning achievement of any book worth its salt. Here Rayner has produced an indelible and unforgettable voice, full of heart, intelligence, hunger and a wildness that shakes us into new, hallucinatory order. In other words, it’s fucking awesome."

"The Moan Wilds is a queer feast."

-Selah Saterstrom

-Ocean Vuong

SHABBY DOLL HOUSE

Shabby Doll House (est. 2012) and ~Profound Experience (est. 2019) are online publishers of art & literature founded by Lucy K Shaw. WE MAKE BOOKS AND MAGAZINES AND CURRENTLY WE'RE HOSTING A ZINE WRITING CLUB TOO.

Event date:Sunday, July 7, 2024 - 6:00pm to 7:00pmEvent address:389 Commercial St.Provincetown, MA 02657