Brooklyn Books & Booze @ Barrow’s Intense
Brooklyn Books & Booze @ Barrow’s Intense is underway!
In May 2021, the Ample Hills Creamery opened its upstairs to a special reading series featuring a variety of emerging and established writers reading from their current works. Authors of all kinds read on the rooftop of the ice cream local, which shuttered in December 2022.
Since January 2023, however, the former Rooftop Readings series has moved to Barrow’s Intense Tasting Room — and as of May 2023 is now known as Brooklyn Books & Booze @ Barrow’s Intense! Each month we feature three or four different authors of different genres — science-fiction, fantasy, horror, young adult, mystery, humor … the sky’s the limit!
NEWS:
Locus Magazine covers Brooklyn Books & Booze’s May 2024 Reading (PDF)
Brooklyn Books & Booze gets a shout-out in this profile of Barrow’s Intense (August 2023) (PDF)
Here are the details:
When?
Readings will be held from 7-9pm on the third Tuesday of each month.
Note: All ages are welcome to attend, but unless labeled as Young Adult/Middle Grade/Children’s may feature adult content, including themes and language. Also, this is a bar and a restaurant.
Where?
Barrow’s Intense Tasting Room
86 34th Street, Brooklyn, NY
Subway: D train to 36th Avenue, then about a 4 minute walk.
(This venue is inside what’s known as Industry City, a series of former industrial work spaces turned into food, drink and shopping venues. See this map for assistance, as it can be confusing the first time you go.)
Cost?
FREE!
Authors will also be selling/signing copies of their works, if they choose.
Who’s Reading?
2024
November 19
Grady Hendrix
Terese Svoboda
Austin Grossman
Shiva Kumar
December 17
C.S.E Cooney
Mary G. Thompson
Matt Talucci
Richard Sparks
2025
January 21
Authors from Of Gods and Globes anthology
Host: Lancelot Schaubert
Gordon Linzner
LJ Cohen
Alexander Sirkman
Emily Munro
February 18
Alaya Dawn Johnson
Taran Hunt
Veronica Schanoes
John Foster
March 18
Authors from The Chaos Clock: Tales of Cosmic Aether anthology
Stay tuned for details!
April 15
Clay McLeod Chapman
Radha Vatsal
Christina Li
More to come!
May 20
Elizabeth Bear
Scott Lynch
Jeffrey Ford
More to come!
Stay tuned for more in 2025!
See photos from previous BBB and Rooftop Readings here
I’m an Author. How Can I Get on the Schedule?
We are currently looking authors who have recently had books or stories published, or will have books or stories published in the upcoming months. We are also actively seeking established featured writers to read at each event.
If you are interested in reading, please respond via this Google Form.
You will be asked to pinpoint the months you are available in 2025, and upload a bio/photo. If we have a great slot for you, we’ll reach out in the coming months!
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See you there, and stay thirsty, my friends!
