Friday Night Dialogues @ the Shelter Island Public Library to Feature Going Public: An Evening of Spoken Word with Eve Lederman

On August 31, 2012 at 7 pm, award-winning writer, Eve Lederman will present the hilarious spoken word performance from her popular CD, Going Public. 

Going Public features tales of a Hasidic lingerie shop, a sleuthing job gone horribly wrong, and a family secret revealed through temporary internet files. She has appeared with the storytelling group The Moth, at the Players Club, the Bryant Park Reading Room and the JCC Lit Café, and was named one of “New York’s best emerging Jewish artists” by the Museum of Jewish Heritage. Lilith Magazine describes her tale-telling as “a real treat…[with] perfectly-timed delivery and impeccable writing.”

 About Eve Lederman:

Eve Lederman is the author of Letters from My Sister: On Love, Life and Hair Removal, a collection of correspondence with her sister which lovingly ridicules everyone in their path. Nobody escapes a good kick in the tuchos as they muse on the complexities and nuances of everyday urban life — from their mother who plops a whole pickled tongue on the table like an autopsy to their beloved grandmother who heard about the porn class Eve took at the Learning Annex. “Feh, I never really understood that stuff,” she responded dejectedly, like she had given it her best effort, but unlike the blintz, had never been able to master it.

 Letters from My Sister was endorsed by The New York Times city section editor as “a warm slice of life on the edge, with an edge.” TIME Magazine’s White House correspondent praised the book as “an uproarious celebration of free speech” and esteemed psychotherapist Naomi Miller hailed it as “A poignant blend of caustic wit and touching prose from two utterly disturbed minds.”

Eve also co-produced and co-directed A Good Uplift, a short documentary about a bra shop on New York’s Lower East Side. The film screened on PBS and has appeared in more than 50 film festivals around the world including Lincoln Center’s New York Jewish Film Festival.