The Non-Motivational Speaker Series returns to New York on Thursday, May 29 at 8 p.m. Curated and hosted by Adam Rosen, this monthly event features an above-average lineup of decidedly non-motivating authorities, each presenting views alternative and overlooked on subjects that define our bizarrely postmodern (or is it postmodernly bizarre?) life. A different theme will be tackled clothesline-style each month, including, but not limited to, comedy, amateur pornography, culture jamming, and the anti-Green Movement.
Graphic by Eric Lister
Religion will be this month's topic. Featured speakers are Daniel Radosh [interview here], New Yorker contributor, contributing editor to The Week, and author of Rapture Ready: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture; and Louis Ferrante [interview here], author of Unlocked, a true story of Ferrante's life as a member of the Gambino crime family, 8 1/2-year federal prison inmate, and convert to Orthodox Judaism.
The event will start at 8 pm at the Happy Ending Lounge, and is free.
Event Details:
Happy Ending Lounge (official site, CitySearch, MySpace)
302 Broome St.
(between Forsyth and Eldridge)
212-334-9676
J/M/Z/F to Delancey
B/D to Grand Street
Look for the hot-pink awning with the words "Health Club" on it.
Doors open at 7:30.
Event starts at 8 sharp.
FREE!
Questions? Suggestions for future events? Email Adam Rosen.
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UP NEXT (June 26):
Anna Holmes, Editor of Jezebel.com
Chez Pazienza aka Deus ex Malcontent, blogger par excellence, emmy-winning TV producer ([very] formerly of CNN), and PDF-published memoirist
Robert Lanham, Editor of FREEwilliamsburg and author of The Hipster Handbook and The Sinner's Guide to the Evangelical Right
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