The smart and sexy Babe Lincoln, Moxie Rhodes, Valentine Smith and Encyclopedia Brownie form Madison’s Naked Girls Reading. We bare it all to bring you our favorite – and sometimes favorite UNfavorite – pieces of writing.

Who are the Madison Naked Girls? Some insights from a dane101.com interview last May.

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Upcoming Events

The Madison Naked Girls are getting political on Sunday, May 13. Prepare for an evening of polemic and passion, both modern and historical.  Join Babe Lincoln, Encyclopedia Brownie, Moxie Rhodes, and guest readers Kurt Shlongegut and Honey Deux as they present their platforms for the Literary Party.

Reading List:

• Politics and the English Language: George Orwell
• The Jungle: Upton Sinclair
• Shelley’s Heart: Charles McCarry
• I Am America and So Can You! Stephen Colbert
• Nazi Primer
• The Prince: Niccolo Machiavelli
• The Hunger Games: Suzanne Collins
• When Did You Stop Wanting to be President? William S. Burroughs
• The Handmaid’s Tale: Margaret Atwood
• Vindication of the Rights of Cunt: Jayne Air
• Public Speaking Merit Badge Handbook
• Downsize This! Michael Moore
• America the Book: John Stewart
• The Partly Cloudy Patriot: Sarah Vowell
• 1001 Ways to Beat the Draft: Tuli Kupferberg
• Nixon interview

Past Events

The Madison Naked Girls are sharpening their claws for a very special show. On Sunday, March 11, we’ll be reading you stories with a monstrous theme.  You’ll hear classic tales of horror, modern monstrosities, and even a little fan fiction!  Join Babe Lincoln, Encyclopedia Brownie, Moxie Rhodes and Valentine Smith for a memorable exposure to things that go “bump” in the night.

Reading list:

• The Zombie Survival Guide: Max Brooks
• The Reapers Are the Angels: Alden Bell
• Blindsight: Peter Watts
• Frankenstein: Mary Shelley
• Pickman’s Model: H. P. Lovecraft
• Marianne, the Magus, and the Manticore: Sheri S. Tepper
• Exquisite Corpse: Poppy Z. Brite
• The Mummy’s Foot: Theophile Gautier
• Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters: Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters
• Bloodsucking Fiends: Christopher Moore
• Invisible Monsters: Chuck Pahlaniuk
• The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned: Anne Rice
• Monster Hunter International: Larry Correia
• Beowulf
• Assorted fan fiction

Tickets $12, now available at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/232746

• Other information about this show:
• Doors open at 6:30, show starts at 7.
• 21+
• The bar is open!
• Poster raffle
• T-shirts will be for sale for $15 (cash only please)

Jan. 22, 2012 – Pulp Diction

Bad romance, bad mystery, and bad science fiction (and good versions too!) from the era of 5-cent magazines, gaudy book covers, and hyperbolic exaggeration. Featuring Babe Lincoln, Encyclopedia Brownie, Valentine Smith, and Cheeky Friday.

Dec. 17, 2011 – Guest appearance at Dane101′s winter fundraiser.

We’ll do a set of our favorite readings from past shows: come for us, stay for acts from local bands!

The Frequency, 5 p.m. Cover is $5, Naked Girls Reading on stage about 10 p.m.

Just in time for the holidays, Madison’s chapter of Naked Girls Reading is taking to the kitchen. On Sunday, November 13, we’ll have a spread of delicious readings about food, eating, and gluttony of all sorts. Come hear selections from Anthony Bourdain, The Hunger Games, and, of course, Naked Lunch! Join Babe Lincoln, Encyclopedia Brownie, Moxie Rhodes and Valentine Smith for a night of flesh, fowl, and Food of the Gods.

Reading list:

• The Ravenous Muse: Karen Elizabeth Gordon
• Naked Lunch: William S. Burroughs
• The Hunger Games: Suzanne Collins
• Impatient with Desire: Gabrielle Burton
• On Cookery: Master Chiquart
• Kitchen Confidential: Anthony Bourdain
• Food of the Gods: H.G. Wells
• Tender to the Bone: Ruth Reichl
• A Moveable Feast: Ernest Hemingway
• Dinners and Nightmares: Diane di Prima
• Cooking for the Dead: Elizabeth Zipern
• The Amazing Mackerel Pudding Plan: Wendy McClure
• In Defense of Food: Michael Pollan
• Bridge of Birds: Barry Hughart
• The Edible Woman: Margaret Atwood
• My Year of Meats: Ruth L. Ozeki

September 11, 2011 – Supernatural Stories or “The Naked Files”

Join Babe Lincoln, Cheeky Friday, Moxie Rhodes, and newly-minted Naked Girl Encyclopedia Brownie for a paranormal reading that will explore the periphery of the known and open your third eye to the world of spirits, UFOs, and other spooky unknowns. The bare truth is out there! And also in the books we’ll read.

Reading list:

• John Dies at the End – David Wong
• Total Oblivion – Alan DeNiro
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell – Susanna Clarke
• A Much Needed Break – X-Files fan fiction by user fanfictioncureswritersblock at Fanfiction.net
• The Candidate – Henry Slesar
• It – Stephen King
• The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• UFO: the definitive guide to unidentified flying objects and related phenomena – David Ritchie
• The Beast of Bray Road: Trailing Wisconsin’s Werewolf – Linda S. Godfrey
• The Ghost – Anne Sexton
• The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
• Chariots of the Gods – Erich von Daniken
• The Book of Secrets – Walter B. Gibson
• Eyes of the Sphinx – Erich von Daniken

June 12, 2011 – Gender Benders

Come listen to Ai Ni Hiney, Cheeky Friday, Moxie Rhodes and Valentine Smith challenge binary gender with a show dedicated entirely to gender and gender roles.

Think you know what makes a (wo)man? We’ll bring you readings by Jeffrey Euginides, Ovid, Sarah Waters, and other works that explore the delicious variety of the human race.

Reading list:

• Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
• The Mirror Within – Anne Dickson
• Genderqueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary – John Nestle, Riki Wilchins, Clare Howell
• Invisible Monsters – Chuck Palahniuk
• Madame Deluxe – Tenaya Darlington
• Funny Boy – Shyam Selvadurai
• Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word) – Thea Hillman
• Queer 13 – Bia Lowe
• She’s Not There – Jennifer Finney Boylan
• Neither Man Nor Woman – Serena Nanda
• Understanding the Gender Binary – Wikidot.com
• Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
• Delta of Venus – Anais Nin
• Smoke and Mirrors – Neil Gaiman
• Steel Beach – John Varley

April 10, 2011 – Naked Geeks Reading

Ai Ni Hiney, Babe Lincoln, Isabeau and Valentine Smith bring you a night of geekery and unabashed overachieving with Naked Geeks Reading.

Bust out your mithril, pocket protectors and time machines. With readings by Neil Stephenson, J.R.R. Tolkien, Kurt Vonnegut, Mary Roach and more, you’re sure to leave smarter than you started.

Audience members will also get schooled in 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons by the nerdalicious Babe Lincoln!

Only 60 tickets will be sold for this show, so make sure you get yours early!

7:00 p.m. at Club Inferno – Tickets are $12 at BrownPaperTickets.com

Feb. 13, 2011 – Love Stinks: Broken Hearts

We celebrated the horrors of love with a sold-out audience, many of whom contributed anecdotes from their own lives! The reading list:

• A Ballad of Reading Gaol, by Oscar Wilde
• Fuck Me Jesus, by Michelle Tea
• Famous Philosophers who Failed at Love, by Michael Schaffer
• Uglypuss, by Margaret Atwood
• I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, by Tucker Max
• “Daddy,” from Ariel by Sylvia Plath
• Lyrics to Limp, Love Ridden, and Fast As You Can by Fiona Apple
• The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles G Finney
• “Litany with Certain Things Crossed Out,” from Crush by Richard Siken
• “How to be an Other Woman,” from Self-Help by Lorrie Moore
• East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
• Nadja, by Andre Breton
• Symposium, by Plato
• Paperweight, by Stephen Fry
• The Powerbook, by Jeanette Winterson

Dec. 12, 2010 – Naked Girls’ Slumber Party! Relive your youth with Babe Lincoln, Cheeky Friday, Isabeau, and Moxie Rhodes as they read from childhood classics and tales of teenage awkwardness.