The Girlie Playhouse

"Inside the Girlie Playhouse white afternoons are still discreetly extinguished in candlelit rooms, while outside the demonstrators have begun their second week. The street is lined with sleeping bags and coolers. Activists hoot and holler muddled slogans."   A newly published literary novel...but it's about strippers. Challenging genre stereotypes via nuance and complexity is always good. And what about feminism? Hear the author read and discuss her work.