58 songs about books may seem like a perverted mistep of nature, but the undeniably morbid core of you wants to know what that looks like.
And you might even pay $16.99 to find out.
LISTEN TO SOME SAMPLES
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JANUARY
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
01. Francine ~ Phoebe Kreutz
02. The Ballad of Francine Pefko ~ Liv Carrow
03. Bunny’s Blues ~ Liv Carrow
04. Sometimes I Wonder About the Creator of the Universe
~ Susan Hwang
05. Fairyland ~ Phoebe Kreutz
FEBRUARY
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
by Raymond Carver
06. What We Sing About When We Sing About What We Talk About When We Talk About Love ~ Jeffrey Lewis
07. Cum Bubble ~ Toby Goodshank
08. I Love You ~ Herb Scher (w. Susan Hwang)
09. What Do We Do to Love When We Talk About Love
~ Frank Hoier
MARCH
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
10. Flatland, or, How Can I Put My Arms Around You (With No Around to Put My Arms) ~ Franz Nicolay
11. Pointlander ~ Preston Spurlock
12. Concerning Irregular Figures ~ Preston Spurlock
13. 4th Dimension ~ Susan Hwang
14. She’s So One-Dimensional (acutey) ~ Dibson T. Hoffweiler
15. The Point ~ I Feel Awesome
16. Quien te Dijo ~ DANyDANY
17. The Mathematician & The Magician ~ Warbles
APRIL
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
18 - 20. James Arriving / James Banned / James Leaving
~ Andrea La Rose
21. The James Gang ~ Isaac Gillepsie
22. The Peach’s Skirt ~ Sara Lautman
23. Facing Their Way ~ Amy Kohn
24. Changed by Fruit ~ Susan Hwang
25. Peach Magic ~ Rachel Devlin
26. Song for Silver ~ Jonathan Wood Vincent
MAY
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
27. Her Own Sweet Vertigo ~ Corn Mo
28. Karenin’s Story ~ Joe Crow Ryan
JUNE
Watchmen by Alan Moore
29. A Cautionary Lullaby (A is for Allegory) ~ Laura Brenneman
30. The Ballad of Hollis Wadsworth Mason, Jr. ~ Franz Nicolay
31. Laurel’s Song ~ Susan Hwang
32. Mr. Veidt ~ Natti Vogel
JULY
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
33. Potato (A Yarn) ~ Susan Hwang (w. Dibson T. Hoffweiler
and Matt Colbourn)
34. The Dowry ~ Dibson T. Hoffweiler & Susan Hwang
(w. Matt Colbourn)
35. Two Characters from Two Stories by Miranda July
~ Joe Crow Ryan
36. Author Photo ~ Franz Nicolay
AUGUST
The Bible
37. Gave Us Barrabas ~ Brook Pridemore
38. Untouchable (Free Will) ~ Brian Speaker
39. Don’t Read The Bible on the Subway ~ Sweet Soubrette
40. Jerusalem, City of Kings ~ Dan Costello
SEPTEMBER
Short Stories by Members of the Bushwick Book Club
41. Straight Edge Kids ~ Phoebe Kreutz
42. Miracle Birth ~ Maria Sonevytsky
43. Free Falling ~ Deenah Vollmer
44. His Dad’s Balls ~ Franz Nicolay
45. Balls ~ Buffie Roseanne
41. Inspired by On the Beach by Aaron Hartman
42 - 43. Inspired by Leap for the Miracle Baby by Matt Colbourn
44 - 45. Inspired by Trevor’s Balls by Deenah Vollmer
OCTOBER
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
46. Good Smut ~ Susan Hwang
47. Iggy ~ Matthew Varvil
48. I’m a Big Juicy Weiner ~ Preston Spurlock
49. Ignatius ~ Dave Novak
50. The Sword of Taste and Decency ~ Preston Spurlock
NOVEMBER
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
51. They’re All Going to Die ~ Jonathan Wood Vincent
52. The Humble Bees ~ Sweet Soubrette
53. Love Letter to Darwin ~ Anna Leuchtenberger
54. The Darwin Variations ~ Maria Sonevytsky
55. Musical Darwinism ~ Ben Krieger
56. Humans Aren’t Z: An Anti-Millennialist Chant ~ Dave Novak
57. Sexual Selection ~ Susan Hwang
58. Eukaryotes Do It ~ Susan Hwang
The Bushwick Book Club meets once a month at Goodbye Blue Monday in Brooklyn, NY. There, the delirious talents of local songwriters are employed to plumb the depths and scrape the ends of a chosen literary gem to create that rare and beautiful thing—a new song. All songs are then displayed, spread wide, in one hour. It’s an hour-long orgy of book-related songs and book-inspired food and drink and if that doesn’t sound indulgent enough, we don’t want to know you, you sick, sick bastard.
The Bushwick Book Club performers are available for library parties, weddings, bat mitzvahs, quinceañeras, rooftop daytime cocktail hours, anniversaries, family reunions, uncomfortable brunches with your visiting parents, house parties where you’re not connecting with anybody, comic book conventions, seances, boat christenings, wakes, burials, barbecues, block parties.
For children’s events, we can omit or alter songs appropriately.
Special thanks to Steve Trimboli for being so unfailingly himself and providing a home to all kinds of creativity, and to each and every performer who made the first year of the book club so goddamn special.
Cover by Thomas Bayne and Jeffrey Lewis
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