In The Flesh named Best Reading Series by Our Town

Thank you so much to New York City paper Our Town for this intelligent, observant writeup. It's an Upper East Side paper so I'm extra honored. Please come out, tonight and November 19th, and know there there are plenty of free cupcakes and it really is a fun environment. Running a free event is extremely important to me so I can't say, "If you don't have a good time, you get your money back," but that is the spirit. I love the energy the audience brings to In The Flesh and am so glad we can be a pleasant surprise to newcomers.

Best Reading Series: In The Flesh Reading Series
Third Thursday of every month at Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome St. (betw. Eldridge and Forsythe)
212-334-9676
Even though Happy Ending Lounge is most closely associated with its namesake series (which has picked up and moved to Joe’s Pub), there’s something a bit naughtier brewing at the Broome Street den of debauchery. Now in its fourth year, “In the Flesh,” hosted by Rachel Kramer Bussel, features established and up-and-coming writers sharing their frank, funny, frisky tales of love and lust. Even more impressive: the series manages to do so—for the most part—without veering into creepy territory. Tension is cut by asking the audience to anonymously submit sexy secrets, and it doesn’t hurt that Bussel provides hundreds of cupcakes and not-to-be-missed miniature peanut butter cups to lull everyone into a sugar-induced sense of security. Normally we would avoid an erotic reading series like the plague, but after venturing down here to catch a friend reading her dirty dissertation, we were charmed by the humor of the readers and crowd and not at all displeased by the fact that everything we heard was actually—surprisingly—sexy. —BVB