Giselle's Books

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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