Lukas Gaga met with fans and signed copies of his new book, \u201cI Wrote This For Attention\u201d after reading for the crowd. Matt Weinberger<\/p>\n
Dream Baby Press hosted its latest supersize salon in a Financial District Burger King Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
The bacon-double-cheese-reading began with poems by Dream Baby founder Matt Starr, which touched on sexually charged fraternal power-tool play and A-list incest, then moved to novelist and screenwriter Sam Lansky, who performed a sweet, precociously pained poem he wrote at 13. <\/p>\n
Coco Mellors read a hilarious and devastating about her battle to have a baby from an upcoming book. Matt Weinberger<\/p>\n
Author Coco Mellors read a hilarious, heartbreaking and bloody body horror-love story taken from her upcoming novel, while Carole Radziwill recalled a rendezvous with Bruce Springsteen from her days as an ABC producer.<\/p>\n
Dream Baby Press founder Matt Starr read from his poetry book, \u201cMouthful.\u201d Matt Weinberger<\/p>\n
\u201cThe White Lotus\u2019\u200a\u201d Lukas Gage, meanwhile, whose new book, \u201cI Wrote This for Attention,\u201d had been lovingly taped to the wall for display purposes, read an unintentional poem tweeted by a \u201cReal Housewives of Salt Lake City\u201d star, which included stanzas like \u201cHer hot dog outfits remind us that she sucked her way to the top\u201d and \u201cShe doesn\u2019t listen because her ears are stitched down to her face so tight she can\u2019t hear.\u201d <\/p>\n
Carole Radziwill read from her Substack. Matt Weinberger<\/p>\n
The evening also featured an impromptu but impeccable performance by the kind of wandering nut you typically find in downtown fast food places late at night.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, burger queens Deveen and Myra kept the beef flipping, the beer flowing and the party going. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lukas Gaga met with fans and signed copies of his new book, \u201cI Wrote This For Attention\u201d after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[14487,49,48,35939,361,75,23106,2248,7460],"class_list":{"0":"post-221726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-burgers","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-carole-radziwill","12":"tag-celebrities","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-fast-food","15":"tag-poetry","16":"tag-society"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}