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I Like Your Glasses Too: One Hot Summer with CoverSpy and Alikewise

Wednesday, June 22, 7:00PM
Housing Works Bookstore Café, 126 Crosby Street between Houston and Prince, New York

FEATURING:

$3 pints of Sixpoint Craft Ales
First 50 attendees get a free drink
Giveaways from Tumblr #Lit
After-party with drink discounts at Botanica Bar

AND A READING featuring stories of summer from some of our favorite fellow Tumblrs:

Emily Gould, author of And the Heart Says Whatever and Things I Ate That I Love
Maris Kreizman of Slaughterhouse 90210
Dan Wilbur of Better Book Titles

February went so well, we’re doing it again! This time we’re celebrating “Summer Reading” wth a mixer for those who totally judge you by your book cover (glasses not required). FREE and open to all — single, taken, confused, it’s complicated — come out and meet other readers. Hosted by Alikewise, Internet dating by the book, and CoverSpy. All proceeds will benefit Housing Works in their mission to fight AIDS and homelessness.

Delighted to see my friend Maris profiled in Brooklyn Magazine. Also wanted to call this out, because it’s something we’ve talked about before:

Kreizman has… worked “in the book industry for my entire career” but says that “it wasn’t until I started my blog that I felt like I was part of a real community (both on- and offline) of writers, editors, booksellers, critics, and readers.”

Slaughterhouse 9021 has long been one of my favorite tumblrs — I see what Maris does as a form of cartooning — the perfect paring of image and word, screenshot and quote together makes for a third thing. Oh, and it just passed 100,000 followers!

The Insider: Maris Kreizman

Bookworm as a compliment? You betcha. Our girl Maris Kreizman masterfully mashes up your favorite TV habits with literary goodness on her epic Tumblr, Slaughterhouse 90210—if you aren’t following it already, what in god’s name have you been doing?! Here, what she’s contemplating when she’s not pairing The Voice with Philip Roth and Gilmore Girls with P.G. Wodehouse. —carlye wisel

Q: What’s the worst thing you’ve ever worn?
A: There’s a photo of me all dressed up for middle school orientation. I’m wearing Z. Cavaricci-esque jeans rolled up with a denim button-down on top and white socks rolled with scuffed Keds. I have my hair in a side ponytail using my best scrunchie (black-and-white striped), and my mom had helped me tease up my bangs to great heights. It was terrible and glorious—I’m from New Jersey.

Q: What’s the most embarrassing thing on your bookshelf?
A: I love books, all kinds of books, and I don’t embarrass easily. But I will say that Stop Being a Hater and Learn to Love the O.C. is rather preposterous. (But still, Seth & Summer 4eva.) The author of that preposterous book went on to write one of the smartest books about TV I’ve ever read: The Revolution Was Televised.

Q: If you could go on a cross-country road trip with three people, dead or alive, who would you pick?
A: Let’s make it an all-ladies road trip: I want Hillary Clinton driving, Nina Simone DJing, and Dorothy Parker cracking jokes.

Q: What’s one TED talk that doesn’t exist yet that you wish you could watch?
A: “Danson: A Television Journey from Cheers to Damages and Beyond.”

Q: What’s the best thing you’ve ever gotten to write about?
A: I love doing the best books of the year post for Slaughterhouse 90210. It’s where I get to evaluate my year in reading and do a lot of gushing. This past year, I got to gush over some of my friends’ books, some big-buzz books, some quieter ones, and also Ke$ha. I love gushing about Ke$ha.

Q: Favorite Of a Kind edition at the moment?
A: I’m eyeing the Gatsby necklace to wear for Slaughterhouse 90210’s fourth anniversary party at Housing Works.

Q: What website can you absolutely not live without?
A: Vol. 1 Brooklyn is my favorite literary/cultural site around. It manages to be super smart without ever being stuffy, serious without forgetting to have a sense of humor.

Q: What’s the most interesting thing you’ve ever made with your own two hands?
A: I’m pretty proud of my “The Many Ties of Adam Scott” Pinterest board. Does that count?

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“My co-worker noticed that I had some downtime at work, and suggested that I start my own tumblr using literary quotes. I really liked the idea, but then I realized that a quote from literature can be so much more appealing if it has a photo of Joan Holloway attached to it. So that’s how the idea of Slaughterhouse 90210 was born. (Rejected blog titles: Full House of Mirth, Catch-227).

“As the blog evolved over the years, my main goal became getting books back into pop culture discussions right alongside Mad Men and Jersey Shore. In my own little way I wanted to propagate the notion that books are still a vital part of the way we live now.”

—Maris Kreizman, to Bullett Magazine, on the inspiration for her Slaughterhouse 90210