Jordy Rosenberg & Molly Crabapple + Morgan Bassichis: Night Night Fawn

Joining Jordy in conversation is artist and author Molly Crabapple. Moderating this discussion is notable comedian and writer Morgan Bassichis. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.

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From the author of Confessions of the Fox comes a novel in which a yenta on her deathbed gives an unrepentant account of all her failures—including her child.

In a cluttered rent-controlled apartment in the middle of Manhattan, Barbara Rosenberg is terminally ill, high on opioids, and writing the story of her life. She has opinions about her smutty late husband, her career as the receptionist for a disreputable plastic surgeon, her glory days as an accomplished jazzerciser, and her failed aspirations to be a film noir actress. But what she really wants to talk about are unhinged thoughts on gender, Karl Marx, Zionism, and her two great disappointing loves: an estranged trans son and a long-lost best friend whose betrayal haunts Barbara still. As she descends further into delirium and illness, Barbara finds herself in a nightmare from which she cannot escape, and her circumstances put her on a crash course with these intimates—or are they avenging nemeses?—once again.

Part novel, part someone’s mother’s unauthorized memoir—all diatribe, gutter schtick, and deranged manifesto, Night Night Fawn is a ferociously candid account of intergenerational conflict.

Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan

Jordy Rosenberg is the author of the novel Confessions of the Fox, a New York Times Editors Choice selection, shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, a Publishing Triangle Award, the UK Historical Writers Association Debut Crown Award, longlisted for The Dublin Literary Award, and named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker, Kirkus Reviews and others. Jordy’s work has been supported by MacDowell, The Lannan Foundation, The Banff Centre, and The Ahmanson-Getty Foundation. He is a professor in the Department of English and Associated MFA Faculty in the Program for Poets and Writers at UMass-Amherst.

Photo credit: Marina Galperina

Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer based in New York. She is the author of two books, Drawing Blood and Brothers of the Gun (with Marwan Hisham), which was long-listed for a National Book Award in 2018. Her reportage is the 2022 winner of the Bernhard Labor Journalism Award, and has been published in The New York Times, New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker and elsewhere. Her art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art. Her animations have won two Emmys and an Edward R. Murrow Award. She was a 2024 fellow at the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library researching Here Where We Live is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund, which will be published by Random House in April 2026.

Morgan Bassichis (they/them) is a comedian and writer who has been called “fiercely hilarious” by The New Yorker and "a tall child, or, well, a big bird" by The Nation. Their show Can I Be Frank?, directed by Sam Pinkleton, explores the life and legacy of the groundbreaking late queer performer Frank Maya. Morgan’s past shows include A Crowded Field (Abrons Art Center, 2023), Questions to Ask Beforehand (Bridget Donahue, 2022), Don’t Rain On My Bat Mitzvah (Creative Time, 2021), Nibbling the Hand That Feeds Me (Whitney Museum, 2019), Damned If You Duet (The Kitchen, 2018), More Protest Songs (Danspace Project, 2018), and The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions: The Musical (New Museum, 2017), Me, But Also Everybody! (MoMA PS1, 2015). Morgan co-edited the young adult anthology Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah (Wendy's Subway, 2023) with Jay Saper and Rachel Valinsky, and edited and wrote the introduction to Nightboat Books' 2019 reprint of The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions, written by Larry Mitchell and illustrated by Ned Asta.

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