Rachel Shukert & Emily Gould @ Greenlight

“It tells you something about me that, in case my acting career proved a failure, my only contingency plan was to publish an international bestseller. I’m sure that you are already aware of this. I just want you to know that I know it too.”—Rachel Shukert

Tonight I’ll be hosting the latest installment in the series of “author/blogger pairings” I’ve been organizing for Greenlight Bookstore (686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn), and I’m very excited to be welcoming my friend Rachel Shukert to read from Everything Is Going to Be Great, a memoir of how her efforts to make it as an actress after graduating from college led to a less-than-satisfactory trip to Europe for a background part in an avant-garde play, which was followed by an extended “time out” in Amsterdam that turned out even worse—but at least she can laugh about it all now, and so can the rest of us, right?

After Rachel reads, she’ll sit down for a conversation with my former colleague Emily Gould, who has also published an autobiographical book: And the Heart Says Whatever. Although she’s still most famous for her time at Gawker, for nearly a year now she’s been doing a cooking show/author interview series for The Awl called “Cooking the Books” that’s quite entertaining. So I’m looking forward to hearing what she and Rachel have to say once they get started—and I hope Beatrice readers in and around New York City will come check it out.

13 September 2010 | events |