FFR/Princeton BTGALA and Yale GALA Present... Readings from Recently Released LGBT Books! Melissa de la Cruz, Tom Dolby, and more

"GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS" NIGHT - READING BY OUT AUTHORS
Bring a boyfriend and a girlfriend to Soho House on May 31, as editors Tom Dolby (The Trouble Boy) and Melissa de la Cruz (The Fashionista Files) and contributors Mike Albo (The Underminer), Elizabeth Spiers (founding editor, Gawker.com), Alexandra Jacobs (New York Observer), and playwright Zach Udko read from this groundbreaking anthology of hilarious and poignant essays, "Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: True Tales of Love, Lust, and Friendship Between Straight Women and Gay Men," out this month from Dutton. Cocktails, reading, and book sales and signing in the library at Soho House from 6pm to 9pm. Sponsored by FFR/Princeton BT-GALA in collaboration with Soho House.

Mike Albo Mike Albo is the author of the novel Hornito: My Lie Life and the critically acclaimed comic novel The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life, which was cowritten with his longtime friend, New York Times television critic Virginia Heffernan. As a monologist and performer, Mike has completed four critically acclaimed sold-out solo shows: Mike Albo, Spray, Please Everything Burst, and My Price Point, all cowritten with Heffernan, as well as many solo performances and tours across the United States and Europe. Check out http://www.mikealbo.com and click on his chakras for upcoming shows, vidcasts, writing, an effusive blog, and more. Mike is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Columbia's School of the Arts. He will read from his essay, "That Unsettling Feeling."

Stacey Ballis Stacey Ballis is the author of four novels: INAPPROPRIATE MEN, SLEEPING OVER, ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT and THE SPINSTER SISTERS. She is a contributing author to two non-fiction anthologies; GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS and EVERYTHING I NEEDED TO KNOW ABOUT BEING A GIRL I LEARNED FROM JUDY BLUME. She is a regular guest on The Rachael Ray Show on CBS, offering lifestyle and entertaining tips. She is the President of Dayton Associates Consulting Group, which specializes in strategic planning and organizational development for businesses, arts organizations and cultural institutions. She was an educator for fifteen years, seven as Director of Education and Community Programs at Goodman Theatre in Chicago. She holds a BA in English Lit and American Studies from Brandeis University, and an MA in Education with highest academic honors from DePaul University. To sign up for her blog, www.myspace.com/staceyballis and for more information http://www.staceyballis.com/!

Melissa de la Cruz Melissa de la Cruz (Editor) is the author of many books for teens and adults, including the bestselling Au Pairs series, which has been published in ten countries and was sold to Warner Bros. Studios as a major motion picture to be produced by Flower Films and Alloy Entertainment. Her other books include the Blue Bloods series, the trilogy Angels on Sunset Boulevard, and the novels Cat's Meow and Fresh Off the Boat. She coauthored the tongue-in-chic handbooks The Fashionista Files and How to Become Famous in Two Weeks or Less. She is a graduate of Columbia University. Melissa divides her time between New York City and Los Angeles, where she lives with her husband. Visit her online at http://www.melissa-delacruz.com

Tom Dolby Tom Dolby (Editor) is the author of the best-selling novel The Trouble Boy. His second novel, The Sixth Form, set at a Massachusetts boarding school, will be published in January 2008. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Out. A graduate of Yale University, Tom currently lives in Manhattan, where he is working on his third novel, though he also enjoys visiting his many girlfriends in Los Angeles and San Francisco. You can find him online at http://www.tomdolby.com

Alexandra Jacobs Alexandra Jacobs is an editor at The New York Observer and a contributing writer for Elle who has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Harper's Bazaar, and other publications. Her article "Girls Allowed" for London's Sunday Telegraph Magazine was optioned by Columbia Pictures. Alexandra is a graduate of Harvard and lives in New York with her husband and daughter. She will read from her essay, "A Harvard (Fag) Hag-iography."

Elizabeth Spiers Elizabeth Spiers is the founder and publisher of Dead Horse Media, which produces DealBreaker.com, a Wall Street tabloid, and AboveTheLaw.com, a legal tabloid. She was previously the editor in chief of Mediabistro.com, a contributing writer and editor at New York, and the founding editor of Gawker.com, a media gossip site. Her debut novel, And They All Die in the End, will be published by Riverhead in 2007. She lives in New York, and is a graduate of Duke University. Her Web site is http://www.elizabethspiers.com Elizabeth will read from her essay, "Life Before Gays."

Zach Udko Zach Udko studied at Stanford University (B.A. and M.A. in English) and New York University (M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing). He has had his plays read or produced in Los Angeles, the Bay Area, London, Edinburgh, Kentucky, and New York, and they have won national awards from the Kennedy Center A.C.T. Festival. He was a 2006 Dramatists Guild Playwriting Fellow, and currently teaches writing courses at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. For more information, go to his Web site at http://www.zachudko.com Zach will read from his essay, "Sitting in the Dark with My Mother."

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