Tables of Contents October 29th: Caldwell! North! Tulathimutte!
Plus - applications opening for our 2025 Spring Residency!
Readers of Content,
Thanks to everyone who came out to our September reading as part of the BKBF Bookends programming last month, for what was a truly amazing night with Tea Obreht, Hala Alyan, and Gabi Burnham. It was a great return to readings after our summer breaks and we're excited to turn now to our next reading on Tuesday, October 29th at The Invisible Dog!
We’ve loved The Invisible Dog since its opening 15 years ago. Their opening was actually the same week I moved to Brooklyn, to an apartment on Columbia street in the pre-Atlantic waterfront park era, and I remember wondering what was going on with the folks walking around holding stiff dog leashes with no (visible) animals attached to their ends.
I guess we’ll be celebrating a kind of anniversary together this month, and we have an amazing lineup with which to do so, welcoming Chloe Caldwell (Women), Emet North (In Universes), and Tony Tulathimutte (Rejection) to read from, eat from, and discuss their recent books.
Here’s some more info on our authors for October 29th, and a link to tickets and additional event info (including accessibility info) is below.
Chloe Caldwell is the author of the national bestseller, Women. Chloé’s next book, Trying, is forthcoming from Graywolf, on August 5th, 2025. She is also the author of the books I’ll Tell You In Person, The Red Zone, and Legs Get Led Astray. She has been on faculty at Writing Workshops Paris, Writing Workshops Iceland, Chautauqua Institute, Fine Arts Work Center, Write or Die Tribe, Catapult, Litreactor, Gotham Writer’s Workshop, and Corporeal Writing.
Emet North has lived in a dozen states over the past decade and has no fixed residence, though they feel most at home in the mountains. In previous lives, they’ve worked in an observational cosmology lab on a grant from NASA, taught snowboarding in Montana, researched Lie algebras, led wine tastings, waited tables, trained horses, and written a thesis on the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. They translate from Spanish to English with a particular focus on queer and trans voices and are always looking for new projects.
Tony Tulathimutte is the author of Private Citizens and Rejection. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, n +1, The Nation, The New Republic, and the New York Times. The recipient of an O. Henry Award and a Whiting Award, he runs the writing class CRIT in Brooklyn.
Each ticket includes three small dishes inspired by the passages, and one complimentary drink. Additional drinks will be available for purchase. Our friends Sammi and Olivia of Cocktails in Color will be mixing up cocktails inspired by the book, so you'll want to make room for a couple! And the good folks at Books are Magic will be with us selling books, so come ready to pick up a few copies!
We do have a handful of seats reserved for sliding-scale admission to keep these events as financially accessible as possible. Please let us know if this ticket price is prohibitive for you and we’ll find a way to get you a seat at the table. These sliding scale seats are limited, so please be thoughtful about your resources and needs when making a request.
For more information on physical accessibility at The Invisible Dog please write us at biscuits@tablesofcontents.org with any and all questions.
We can accommodate gluten-free and vegetarian diets with advance notice. If you have other restrictions or aversions you are of course still encouraged to attend, you just may not be able to partake in every course. Please be sure to notify us of any serious allergies in advance and remind us at the event.
Please write us at biscuits@tablesofcontents.org with any and all questions. And take a look below for some recent work from friends that is inspiring us this month. Can't wait to see your faces October 29th at The Invisible Dog!
Evan & TOC
On Our Shelves
Applications for our 2025 TOC Regenerative Residency at Glynwood Center in Cold Spring, NY are opening next week, but we’re sharing the application info early for y’all! This is our first year attempting an open application process (in past years we invited nominations from our TOC alums), and we’re very excited to be able to engage with the work of folks from our community as we consider applications for this session and develop our process for the years to come! We have a very limited number of spots (2) available for this cycle, but will be growing the residency frequency and capacity over the course of 2025, and encourage you to apply now and again in the future!
Our favorite in-house-playwright Jeana Scotti’s play Oh, Honey just ended its 3-week run at Little Egg this past week, and were so excited to see it get this rave in Vulture! Fingers crossed for its return in a larger and longer run elsewhere.
Now that we’ve all had time to settle down from our anticipatory Intermezzo trembling, can we recommend you check out another Rooney-related piece by our friend Luc Rioual, who made an amazing zine where he reviews reviews of Rooney’s Beautiful World Where Are You, without ever reading the book itself. It’s a surprising, sharp, wide-ranging, impressively stitched work of multimedia meta lit-crit that I think anyone with a curious mind about criticism, Rooney, Schiller, Goethe, or just committed writing about writing in general would be into.
Congrats to TOC alums Rita Bullwinkel, Clare Sestanovich, and Joseph Earl Thomas on being named to the shortlist for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize!
In other Center for Fiction news, our own Josh Krigman is leading his “Writing Without Thinking” workshop this Saturday, sign up if you’re free and looking for a spark!
Then, this Sunday, Jordan Kisner with be interviewing Garth Greenwell about his new novel Small Rain, for a live Thresholds podcast recording at Pioneer Works’ Second Sundays! See you there.
