Théo Casciani is an author. Born in 1995, he studied humanities and social sciences at SciencesPo. and mathematics at Panthéon-Sorbonne University, in Paris, before joining La Cambre, in Brussels, where...
2025 One Night Stands at Giselle’s Books
26 February 2026, 3PM
Montez Press Radio · Penearth Centre, London (online)
One Night Stand is a series of nocturnal readings at Giselle’s Books, Marseille. Each session occurs once, in the theatrical sense of a one-night stand: a single engagement, without reprise. Drawing on the logic of early cabaret, literature is approached as something to be served as much as read. Texts are delivered aloud; drinks are composed for the evening by invited writers. Both are prepared for the moment and consumed in real time. Language and liquid passing through, then gone.
Mégane Brauer graduated from the Institut des Beaux-Arts de Besançon in 2018. Working with text and installation, her practice focuses on questions of class, transforming objects and situations associated with working-class life and granting them a presence they are usually denied.
Aurelia Guo is a writer and researcher based in London. She is a visiting fellow at London South Bank University. She is the author of World of Interiors (Divided, 2022).
Jess Cole (she/her) is a writer based in South London. She has written for Vogue, The New York Times, The Guardian, and is a regular contributor to MARFA. Her creative practice spans dramaturgy, performance pieces, and prose. Cole finds wit—especially when it’s quick and sharp—deeply sexy, a sentiment that pulses through her writing.
Wayne Koestenbaum has published 23 books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, including Stubble Archipelago, Ultramarine, The Cheerful Scapegoat, Figure It Out, Camp Marmalade, My 1980s & Other Essays, The Anatomy of Harpo Marx, Humiliation, Hotel Theory, Circus, Andy Warhol, Jackie Under My Skin, and The Queen’s Throat (nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award). His next book, a novel, My Lover, the Rabbi, will be published by FSG (in the U.S.) and Granta (in the U.K.) in March 2026.
Slow Reading Club (SRC) is a semi-fictional reading group initiated and run by Bryana Fritz and Henry Andersen. Since 2016, in numerous contexts, they have rehearsed alternatives to the kinds of reading they were taught in school, actively suppressing semantic content through strobe lights, strange postures, sociality, and toxins. Operating at the contact zones between reader and text, text and text, reader and reader, they attempt to build a practice from within the unstable space of reading itself.
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The Column #1
by Emma Bombail
19 December 2025 – 18 February 2026
Giselle’s Books · Marseille (Korsec)
Emma Bombail is an artist, writer, doubter, and co-organizer of the PROPAGANDA reading series. She is currently studying English-speaking literature in Paris, France.
The Column #2
by Samuel Haitz
21 February 2026 – 17 April 2026
Giselle’s Books · Marseille (Korsec)
Samuel Haitz is a Swiss artist. His work addresses the legacies and concepts of artistic practice, as well as desire and its projections. He has held solo and duo exhibitions...
Giselle Salon 3
co-organized with Maria Jooyoung
19-21 December 2025
Giselle’s Books · Marseille (Korsec)
Giselle Salon is back with an edition co-organized with editor Maria Jooyoung focusing on small publishing initiatives across Asia. From Friday onwards, this will be a rare occasion to catch...