Join Richard Mirabella, Kyle Dillon Hertz, Daniel Allen Cox, Nathan Xie, and Christopher DiRaddo for readings from their work. Richard Mirabella will be celebrating the paperback launch of Brother & Sister Enter the Forest, and Kyle Dillon Hertz will be celebrating the paperback launch of The Lookback Window. Copies of The Geography of Pluto by Christopher DiRaddo and I Felt the End Before It Came by Daniel Allen Cox will also be available for purchase and signature. The evening will be hosted by Nathan Xie.

Copies of the titles listed above will be available for purchase at the event. To reserve any of these books, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve book(s) for Sept. 11 event” in the subject line. And please let us know which titles you’d like to reserve in the body of  the email.

Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.

Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.

Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:

youtube.com/@bgsqd

Suggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10.

All are welcome to attend, with or without a donation.

We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @BGSQD

Nathan Xie (he/they) is working on his first novel. He is a recipient of One Story’s Adina Talve-Goodman fellowship and support from Lambda Literary, the Periplus Collective, Tin House, and Yaddo. His writing can be found at nathan-xie.com.

Daniel Allen Cox is the author of four novels and I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah’s Witness, shortlisted for the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal and named one of the Best Books of 2023 by Publishers Weekly. Daniel’s essays have appeared in The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, Electric Literature, and Lit Hub and have been recognized by Best Canadian Essays, and The Best American Essays.

Richard Mirabella is the author of Brother & Sister Enter the Forest, a New York Times Book Review Editors Choice and Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction. His work has appeared in Story Magazine, American Short Fiction online, split lip, and elsewhere. He lives in upstate New York.

Kyle Dillon Hertz is the author of The Lookback Window, a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Vanity Fair named The Lookback Window one of the best novels of 2023. His work can be found in Esquire, Freeman’s, Time, and elsewhere. He received his MFA from NYU and a residency from Yaddo. He teaches at The New School.

Christopher DiRaddo is the author of two novels: The Family Way and The Geography of Pluto, both with Véhicule Press. He lives in Montreal where he is the founder and host of the Violet Hour Reading Series and Book Club, which has to date a provided a platform for more than 275 LGBTQ+ writers to connect with new audiences.