A book club that isn’t a book club? Correct. FFNY and Housing Works Bookstore's monthly salon for NYC creatives - part conversation, part hang, fully New York. Books, signings, special collab merch, and the city’s cultural heartbeat all in one room. This month's guest is Brad Gooch is a poet, novelist, and biographer who will discuss his bestselling book Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring with FFNY founder, Heidi Hartwig.
Perhaps more than any other, the singular street art of Keith Haring became emblematic of a particular cultural time and place: an at-once vibrant and decaying downtown New York of the 1980s, marked by both rebellion and excess, and soon to be ravaged by AIDS. Today, Haring’s instantly recognizable images grace everything from kid’s sneakers to Coach backpacks. The short, meteoric career and stunning achievements of this iconic American artist are richly documented in RADIANT: The Life and Line of Keith Haring (Harper; March 5, 2024) by National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and New York Times bestselling biographer Brad Gooch. Granted access to Haring’s extensive archive, Gooch interviewed or was helped by more than two hundred people in assembling this definitive account of the magic and mystery of a barrier-breaking visionary.
Cafe and Bookstore will be open for purchases.
Happy Hour from 5-8pm: Beer $6 + Wine $8