What-ho, Eastronners! I am on your seaboard this week, and I’d like to extend you the invitation of seeing me, should you be so inclined. For Boston:
Friday, October 30th, 6:30 pm at the Rose Art Museum, an evening of Slides and Jokes [FREE[.
Co-founder of The Toast, creator of the series “Women In Western Art History”, and author of Texts From Jane Eyre, Mallory Ortberg will bring her unique social perspective and sense of humor to the Rose to lead a discussion on Lisa Yuskavage: The Brood. The discussion will be rooted in an exploration of women in art – both as subjects and creators – and will wrestle with how The Brood fits into that story.
For New York:
Wednesday, November 4th, at Joe’s Pub, as part of Women of Letters [this is twenty dollars and full of other wonderful people who are not me, including Franchesca Ramsey, which, ahh!]
Women of Letters is everyone’s favorite literary salon!
Every month, New York’s best and brightest women come together on stage to celebrate the lost art of letter writing. Expect laughter, tears, and camaraderie as host Sofija Stefanovic welcomes guests reading “a letter to my could have been”.
Apparently it is ALREADY YOUR FAVORITE THING, so you should come and bung a hello in my direction.
On the Joe’s Pub event, there is probably also a food/drink minimum – that’s usually the case there. And they don’t tell you that until pretty far along in the ticketing process. Still sounds great – wish I didn’t already have plans!
Hey NYC Toasties, I don’t have plans yet for Wednesday night, so I’m going to buy a ticket for Joe’s Pub! Would anyone like to join me? I’m going to hold off on buying for a little bit so that we can maybe grab seats together.
The Toasty(ie?) in me is saying YES! but the introvert is saying “wait, going out in public, AND meeting new people from the internet? What are you thinking?”
But the pro-Toast coalition is prevailing, so I’m game. Getting another person or two to tag along would be ideal though.
I got tired of waiting and bought my ticket, but there were still seats next to me when I bought it an hour ago! I’m in seat 102, which is at the stage, on the right side of the room. You’ll see if you go to the purchase screen. Let me know if you’re in/if you buy the seat next to me!
All of the front row seats are gone, but table 10 seat 2 was available, which is in the right corner, basically 2 seats over from where you are, so that’s what I took. If we both get there at 6, we can still chat for a bit before it starts. And either way we get to see an interesting show 🙂
Awesome! Looking forward to seeing you then. I won’t get there right at 6pm because my office is 10-6, but it’s only like 20 minutes from my office, so I’ll be there before 6:30.
Sounds good! Just in case for some odd reason we’re having difficulty finding each other, I’m about 5’9 with my boots on, very pale, and brunette (my hair’s usually in a bun).
I hope it’s not too late to jump on the bandwagon – I totes want to check this out too! It looks like table 10, seat 1 is still open, so I’ll get that.
I also decided to jump on the bandwagon, and got table 10 seat 3. Maybe we’ll end up with an all Toastie table!
Yay! And if not, that fourth person at the table is going to be confused 😀
~longtime reader first time commenter~
Seeing this chain made me brave enough to chime in, so I will see you all there! 🙂
I will be out of town on business.
*sobs quietly*
Is that photoshopped or did someone actually burn an image of Mallory into bread? If that is real then the toast maker is my hero.
Alternatively, if there is a way we can all digitally Toastify ourselves, I would like to know!
I think the Mallory Ortberg waffle iron should be The Toast’s first item of merchandise.
Can’t make it, but yay Boston! The Toasties here are awesome and I hope those attending have a great time!
Just to say that I read the excerpt of your book on The Guardian today and it was wonderful! I particularly loved Hamlet and Gertrude.
Feel free to come to Seattle any time!!