Look at what the girls have read in past events:

CHICAGO – “Comedy” – April 6

• Born Standing Up – Steve Martin
• Bossy Pants – Tina Fey
• My Horizontal Life – Chelsea Handler
• All My Best Friends – George Burns
• The Joke Was on Me – Rodney Carrington
• No Love From a Llama – John Bowman
• The Onion Issue 35.10 - European Men Are so Much More Romantic than American Men vs. American Women Studying in Europe Are Unbelievably Easy
• The Onion Issue 44.30 - You’re Never Too Old for Laser Tag vs. Sir, If You’re Not Accompanying a Minor I’m Going to Have to Ask You to Leave
• Strategic Grill Locations and Mitch All Together – Mitch Hedberg

CHICAGO – “Fairy Tails” – March 9

• Snow White – Brothers Grimm
• Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
• Red Riding Hood – Charles Perrault
• The Happy Prince – Oscar Wilde
• Little Mermaid – Hans Christen Anderson
• Three Little Pigs – Roald Dahl
• Blue Beard – Brothers Grimm
• The Witch Must Die: How Fairy Tales Shape Our Lives – Sheldon Cashdon
• Witches Abroad – Terry Pratchett
• Goose Girl – Brothers Grimm
• The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids – Brothers Grimm

CHICAGO – “Ooh La La” – Feb. 18

• Satan’s Saint: The Life of the Marquis de Sade – Guy Endore
• Story of the Eye – George Bataille
• Saffron – Anais Nin
• Plaisir D’amour: The Diversions of Monique Chabrol – Anne-Marie Villefranche
• Grand Horizontal: The Erotic Memoirs of a Passionate Lady – Cora Pearl

CHICAGO – “Slumber Party” – Jan. 13

• Fear Street: Wrong Number – RL Stine
• Baby Sitter’s Club – Ann M. Martin
• Girl Talk – L.E. Blair
• Cosmopolitan
• Seventeen Magazine

CHICAGO – “Literary Honors Award” – Nov. 18

• Everywhere Silks – Valya Dudycz Lupescu
• The Two Annies of Windale Road – Patty Templeton
• Razor Hair Girls – Elizabeth McClellan
• The Heaven of Water – Lance Weller
• Etymology – Courtney Meaker
• Black Lemon – Viola Maxim

CHICAGO – “Naked Ghouls Reading” – Oct. 28

• Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: Collected from America Folklore – Alvin Schwartz
• Bloody Baths – The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales – Chris Baldick
• This American Life Interview -Life After Death – Ira Glass and Dave Maxon
• The Raven – Edgar Allen Poe
• Count Dracula – Woody Allen
• The Bells of 1788 – Kalila Katherina Smith
• The Witches – Roald Dahl

CHICAGO – “Banned Books” – September 30

• Burn This Book – Toni Morrison
• The Awakening – Kate Chopin
• Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
• Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
• The Absolute True Diary of a Part -Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
• To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
• The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
• Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
• And Tango Makes Three – Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell

LONDON – ‘Fairy Tales’ – September 27

• Snow White and Rose Red – From the Blue Fairy Book
• Twelve Dancing Princesses – Anne Sexton
• Extracts from Adam’s Diary – Mark Twain
• Snow White in New York – Fiona French
• The Company of Wolves – Angela Carter
• Goldilocks and the Three Bears – Roald Dahl
• Fitchers Bird – Brothers Grimm
• The Little Mermaid - Hans Christian Andersen
•  Unpopular Girls – Margaret Atwood

CHICAGO – “So You Wanna Be a Naked Girl” – August 12

• Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
• Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
• Getting Stoned with Savages – J. Maarten Troost
• Swanns – Marcel Proust
• Don Juan – Lord Byron
• Tristan Taorimo’s True List: Adventures in Sex, Porn, and Perversion
• Wake Up, I’m Fat – Camryn Manheim
• Silent Sacred Holy Deepening Heart – Em Claire
• The Lonely Polygamist – Brady Udall
• The Giving Tree – Shel Silverstein
• The Emperor’s New Clothes – Hans Christen Anderson
• Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela
• Guts – Chuck Palahniuk

CHICAGO – “Straigh Outta Clothes” – July 15

• Decoded – Jay-Z
• Breakdancing – Mr. Fresh and the Supreme Rockers
• The Anthology of Rap – Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois
• My Dick – Mickey Avalon
• How Many Licks – Li’l Kim
• Confessions of a Video Vixen – Karrine Steffans
• The Tao of Wu – The RZA
• The Message – Grand Master Flash
• How to Rap – Paul Edwards

LONDON – “Naked Goddesses Reading” – 5 July

• Medusa, The World’s Wife – Carol Ann Duffy
• Aphrodite’s Nature and Deeds, Robert Graves – The Greek Myths 1955, revised 1960
• Pandora’s Box, Bullfinch’s Mythology – Thomas Bullfinch
• The Masque of Pandora – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Mrs Icarus, The World’s Wife – Carol Ann Duffy
• The Odyssey, Book 9 – Homer
• The Muses, Myths of the Ancient Greeks – Richard P Martin
• Eurydice, The World’s Wife – Carol Ann Duffy
• The Penelopiad – Margaret Atwood
• Hercules, Deinira, Nessus, After Ovid – C.K. Williams

LONDON – “Bed Time Stories” – 25 May

• Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
• Kate Crackernuts – Scottish fairy tale
• The Paperbag Princess – Robert Munsch
• Charlotte’s Web – E.B White
• Lina, from Little Birds – Anais Nin
• Two Bad Mice – Beatrix Potter
• The BFG – Roald Dahl
• Rupert the Bear – Mary Tourtel
• I Had Trouble Getting to Solla Sollew – Dr. Seuss

CHICAGO – “Naked Girls ROCK” – May 6

• Kiss and Make Up – Gene Simmons
• Sex Money Kiss – Gene Simmons
• Just Kids – Patti Smith
• Life – Keith Richards
• Cash: The Autobiography – Johnny Cash
• Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal – Daniel Bukszpan
• Stranded – Lester Bangs
• The Celine Dion 33 1/3 – Carl Wilson

LONDON – April 20, 2011

• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll. Read by Glory Pearl, Tallulah Tempest, Emerald Fontaine and Sophia St Villier.
• ‘Salome’, The World’s Wife, Carol Ann Duffy. Read by Glory Pearl.
• Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie. Read by Tallulah Tempest.
• ‘The Happy Prince’ Oscar Wilde. Read by Glory Pearl.
• ‘Ozymandias’ Percy Bysshe Shelley. Read by Tallulah Tempest
• The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Read by Emerald Fontaine.
• ‘Cinderella’, Revolting Rhymes, Roald Dhal. Read by Sophia St. Villier
• ‘Sing a Song of Sixpence’ Traditional. Read by Emerald Fontaine
• ‘On Monsieur’s Departure’ Elizabeth I. Read by Sophia St. Villier
• ‘Lady of Shallot’ Lord Alfred Tennyson. Read by Glory Pearl, Tallulah Tempest, Emerald Fontaine and Sophia St Villier.
• ‘Unfortunate Coincidence’ Dorothy Parker. Read by Glory Pearl.

CHICAGO: “SciFi” – April 1

• The Man Born Blind – C.S. Lewis
• Frost and Fire – Ray Bradbury
• The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
• The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
• Snow Crash – Neil Stephenson
• I Robot – Issac Asminov
• Year 2018! – James Blish
• The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. LeGuin
• Tom Swift and His Giant Robot – Victor Appleton II
• Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
• Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert A. Heinlein

LONDON:  ”Ode to London” – March 23

• Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
• The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
• Wise Children Angela Carter
• Withnail and I Bruce Robinson
• Vile Bodies Evelyn Waugh
• ‘London’ William Blake
• A Child of the Jago Arthur Morrison
• Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf
• Booky Wook 2: This Time It’s Personal Russel Brand
• ‘London Pride’ Noel Coward

• New Orleans, Mon Amour – Andrei Codrescu
• Vapor All the Same – Franky Vivid
• Chicago My Wife, New Orleans My Lover – Franky Vivid
• Lords of Misrule – James Gill
• A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
• The Witching Hour – Anne Rice
• The Booklover’s Guide to New Orleans – Susan Larson
• At the French Market – Lee Meitzen Grue
• The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton – Alan Lomax
• Gumbo Ya Ya: Marie Jolie – Robert Tallant and Lyle Saxon

MADISON: “Love Stinks – Broken Hearts” – Feb. 13

• 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

CHICAGO: “Love Stinks” – Feb. 4

• Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love – Andrew Shaffer
• My First 2000 Men – Liz Renay
• The Way You Wear Your Hat – Frank Sinatra
• Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare
• Other People’s Love Letters (150 letters you were never meant to read) – Compiled by Bill Shapiro
• The Ballad of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen – David Krajicek
• Worst Break-Up Stories – Compiled by Gracie Murano

CHICAGO: “Getting Gypsy With It” – Jan. 8

• American Rose – Karen Abbott
• Gypsy – A memoir by Gypsy Rose Lee
• My G-string Mother – Erik Preminger
• Life Magazine feature on Gypsy Rose Lee
• Gilded Lili – Kelly DiNardo

CHICAGO: “A Naked Christmas Carol” – Dec. 3

• A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

CHICAGO: “Literary Honors Awards” – Nov. 19

• Some Thoughts on Being Unstoppable – Stephen Moorehead (Seattle, WA)
• An Indefinitely Short Space of Time – Holly Bruns (Ontario, Canada)
• The Two Annies of Windale Road – Patty Templeton (Chicago, IL)
• Frank’s Mourning – Maxime Courban (Paris, France)
• Mr. January – Kate Baggott (Ontario, Canada)
• James T.H. Armstrong – George Hamilton (Las Vegas, NV)

CHICAGO: “Naked Ghouls Reading” – Oct. 29

• Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Washington Irving
• The Cask of Amontillado – Edgar Allan Poe
• The Woman in White – Wilke Collins
• True Ghost Stories – iPhone App
• The Hook – re-told by S.E. Schlosser in Campfire Tales
• The Fifty Cent Piece – re-told by S.E. Schlosser in Campfire Tales
• The Spiral Dance – Starhawk
• With Red Hands – Stephen Woodworth
• The Vampire Seduction Handbook – Luc Richard Ballion with Scott Bowen
• The House on the Island – Rod Serling

CHICAGO: “Treasure Chests” – Sept. 10

• Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
• Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies – Carolyn Crimi
• Well Blow Me Down: A Guy’s Guide to Talking Like a Pirate – John ‘Ol’ Chumbucket’ Baur and Mark ‘Cap’n Slappy’ Summers
• The Princess Bride – William Goldman
• The Sea Wolf – Jack London
• Peter Pan – James Matthew Barrie
• Under the Black Flag – David Cordingly
• The Confusion – Neil Stephenson
• NPR Fresh Air interview with Richard Phillips
• Pirates: True Tales of Notorious Buccaneers - Henry Gilbert

CHICAGO: “So You Wanna Be a Naked Girl” – August 13

• Morning – Pablo Neruda
• Ham on Rye – Charles Bukowski
• 100 Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Prophet – Kahlil Gibran
• And Tango Makes Three – Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
• Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf – Roald Dahl
• The Nasty Bits (A Drinking Problem) – Anthony Bourdain
• Jewels – Charles Baudelaire
• Book of Longing – Leonard Cohen
• The Robber Bridegroom – Grimm
• Full Exposure – Susie Bright

CHICAGO: “Independent Women” – July 16

• “Independent Women” – Nadia Cherubin from articlesbase.com
• “13 Ways of Looking at Liz Lemon” – Sady Doyle
• “Georgia O’Keefe” – Joan Didion
• “The Diary of Anne Frank” – Anne Frank
• Mae West quotes
• Various readings on Michelle L’amour
• “Big Blonde” – Dorothy Parker
• “Are you there Vodka? It’s Me Chelsea.” – Chelsea Handler
• “How to Make Love Like a Porn Star” – Jenna Jameson
• “The Gospel According to Coco Chanel” – Karen Karbo
• “Joan Jett” – Todd Oldham
• “My First Five Husbands…And the Ones Who Got Away” – Rue McClanahan
• Golden Girls pilot

CHICAGO: “Fang Fiction” – June 18

• Count Dracula – Woody Allen
• Bunnicula – Deborah and James Howe
• Metamorphosis of the Vampire – Baudelaire
• Blood Promise – Richelle Mead
• Dracula – Bram Stoker
• Little Vampire Women – Louise May Alcott and Lynn Messina
• The Vampire – Baudelaire
• Excerpt from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Twilight – Stephanie Meyers
• Pandora – Anne Rice
• Sesame Street Unpaved – David Borgenicht

MADISON: “Naked Girls Rock” – May 21

• Fever: How Rock n’ Roll Transformed Gender in America – Tim Riley
• Dreamgirl: My Life As a Supreme – Mary Wilson
• Between Thought and Expression – Lou Reed
• Women, Sex, and Rock n’ Roll – In Their Own Words – Liz Evans
• All Known Metal Bands – Dan Nelson
• Pictures of the Gone World – Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Sex – Madonna
• Dirty Blonde – Courtney Love
• Just Kids – Patti Smith
• The Night of the Gun – David Carr
• Rockstar Deaths in the 1970s: A Sweepstakes – Greil Marcus
• Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
• Sex Drugs Rock & Roll – Eric Bogosian
• Paint it Black – Janet Fitch
• Black Coffee Blues – Henry Rollins
• Walk on the Wild Side (lyrics) – Lou Reed
• Telephone (lyrics) – Lady Gaga

CHICAGO: “Under the Influence” – April 9

MADISON: “Cabin Fever” – March 21

• Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
• Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
• Doomsday Bonnet – Daniel Higgs
• The Bad Girl’s Guide to the Open Road – Cameron Tuttle, Susannah Bettag
• Eye Scream – Henry Rollins
• Solipsist – Henry Rollins
• The Colossus of Maroussi – Henry Miller
• Marabou Stork Nightmares – Irvine Welsh
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again – David Foster Wallace
• Judevine – David Budbill
• February – Lisa Moore
• Cabin Fever – Marilyn Pappano
• The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty – A.N. Roquelaure, Anne Rice
• Lost Continent -Bill Bryson
• Erotic Travel Tales – Mitzi Szereto

CHICAGO: “Old Tyme Radio Show” – March 12

• The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
• Abbott and Costello – “Getting Married is Like Going to a Cafeteria”, “U-Drive”
• The Most Dangerous Game – Richard Connell
• The Dark Tower – George S. Kaufman and Alexander Woollcott

SEATTLE: “SCI FI” – Mar. 7th

• The Aleph – Jorge Luis Borges
• The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
• Tanglewreck – Jeanette Winterson
• Flatland – Edwin A. Abbott
• Perdido Street Station – China Miéville
• Einstein’s Dream – Alan Lightman
• Eumenides on the Fourth Floor Lavatory – Orson Scott Card
• Spock Must Die – James Blish
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
• A Wrinkle in Time – Madeline L’Engle
• Dune – Frank Herbert

SEATTLE: “Naked Bedtime Stories” – Feb. 7th

• Bedtime Stories – Madonna
• Goodnight Moon – Margaret Wise Brown
• My Lesbian Husband – Barrie Jean Borich
• The Nightingale and the Rose – Oscar Wilde
• Goblin Market – Christina Rossetti
• A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
• Sleeping Beauty – The Brothers Grimm
• The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
• Little Red Riding Hood
• Carmilla – Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Passion – Jeanette Winterson

CHICAGO: “Movies”  - Feb. 5

• American Psycho (2000) - ”I guess I’m a pretty sick guy” - Based on the novel “American Psycho” by Bret Easton Ellis
• Top ten list of movies using the word fuck (or one of its derivatives)
• Pulp Fiction (1994) – “I’m trying real hard to be a shepherd” – Written by Quentin Tarantino
• Script from Secretary (2002) – Based on the novel “Bad Behavior” by Mary Gaitskill
• Analysis of Secretary – http://www.aboutfilm.com/movies/s/secretary.htm
• Guinness Film Facts and Feats  – Patrick Robertson
• Black Dahlia  –  James Ellroy
• Fight Club “Badass” Monologue
• Jaws: The Indianapolis Monologue
• Movie Speak: How to Talk Like You Belong on a Movie Set by: Tony Bill
• Vanity Fair’s Tales of Hollywood: Rebels, Reds, and Graduates and the Wild Stories Behind the Making of 13 IconicFilms (Paperback) By: Graydon Carter
• Roger Ebert Journal Online – Article; Smash his Camera but not immediately, http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/01/smash_his_camera_but_not_immed.html
• A Multi-Layered Analysis of David Lynch’s MULHOLLAND DRIVE, Section: “” By Alan Shaw, PhD
• Network – written by Paddy Chayefsky, Scene: Howard Beale’s (played by Peter Finch) “I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!” monologue
• Kill Bill: Vol. 2 – The Bride opening monologue, written by Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman
• Boiler Room: Ben Afleck sales pitch, “There’s no such thing as a ‘no sale’ call.”
• Christian Bale rant
• Showgirls: Portrait of a Film – Verhoeven, Kirkland, Rheims, Mark, Close

SEATTLE: “Naked Girls Read Banned Books” – Jan. 10

• The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
• The Witches – Roald Dahl
• 1984 – George Orwell
• Candide – Voltaire
• Johnny Got His Gun – Dalton Trumbo
• Howl – Allan Ginsberg
• Delta of Venus – Anais Nin
• Lady Chatterly’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
• The Corpse Wore Pasties – Johnny Porkpie

CHICAGO: “Pulp Fiction” – Jan. 3

• The High Window – Raymond Chandler
• Strange Sister – Jaye Zimet
• Making Waves – Julie Kenner
• The Naked Diver – Unknown
• Towards Zero – Agatha Christie
• CETI – Jack Stonely and AT Lawton
• Astronauts and Androids – Compiled by Isaac Asimov
• The Corpse Wore Pasties – Jonny Porkpie
• The Devil Came Up Division Street – Nelson Algren
• Mitsou – Colette
• The Continental Op – Dashiell Hammett
• Red Wind – Raymond Chandler

MADISON: “Naked Girls Read Fairy Tales” – Dec. 13

• Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
• Spinners – Donna Jo Napoli
• The Little Mermaid – Hans Christian Anderson
• Snow, Glass, Apples – Neil Gaiman
• The Spider in the Bath – Joan Aiken
• Fitcher’s Bird – Brothers Grimm
• The Queen with Screaming Hair – Joan Aiken
• Bluebeard’s Egg – Margaret Atwood
• Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
• Cinderella – Brothers Grimm
• The Nixie of the Mill-Pond – Brothers Grimm
• In the Company of Wolves – Angela Carter

CHICAGO: “A Christmas Carol” – Dec. 4

• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• A Burlesque Night Before Christmas by Franky Vivid
• Letters to Santa by fans of Naked Girls Reading

CHICAGO: “Love Letters” – Nov. 6

• The Song of Solomon
• Les Liaison Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
• Anais Nin to CL (Lanny) Baldwin. August 25, 1945 and August 26, 1945
• 2 Gether 4 Ever: Notes of a Junior High Heartthrob by Dene Larson
• Love Letters Lost by Babbette Hines
• Letters to My Body from BlogHer
• 10,000 Dawns by Yvan and Claire Goll
• De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
• Stalker letters to celebrities, www.thesmokinggun.com
• Letters of Lady Caroline Lamb and Lord Byron
• Open letters on McSweeney’s, www.mcsweeneys.net
• Sonnets pour Helene – Pierre Ronsard to Helene
• From Kylie, a resident of Queensland, Australia to her ex-fiance, Jamie. January 1999
• Series of unsent letters to ex-boyfriends by Leigh L, a writer and film maker in LA

MADISON: “Ghost Stories and Tales From the Great Beyond” – Nov. 1

• Wisconsin Death Trip – Michael Lesy
• Zodiac Killer Letter – July 24th 1970
• Dracula – Bram Stoker
• Herbert West: Reanimator – H.P. Lovecraft
• The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
• Fleurs du Mal – Charles Baudelaire
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
• Bell Witch – Bobette Bryan
• More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark – Alvin Schwartz
• Ode to the Maggot  – Yusef Komunyakaa
• The Death of Marilyn Monroe – Sharon Olds
• Scary Movies – Kim Addonizio
• Good Housekeeping – Cheeky Friday
• The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark – William Shakespeare
• The Last Unicorn – Peter S. Beagle
• Carrie – Stephen King
• Byzantium – William Butler Yeats
• Anactoria – Algernon Charles Swineburn
• The Raven – Edgar Allen Poe

CHICAGO: “Naked Ghouls Reading” – Oct. 2

• Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Goblin Market – Christina Rossetti
• Death of Bunny Munro – Nick Cave
• Dracula – Bram Stoker
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
• Anactoria – Algernon Charles Swineburn
• Zodiac Killer Letter – July 24th 1970
• Bell Witch – Bobette Bryan
• The Raven – Edgar Allen Poe
• Tell Tale Heart – Edgar Allen Poe
• Chicago Haunts – Ursula Bielski
• Graveyards of Chicago – Matt Hucke and Ursula Bielski
• The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
• The Day of the Dead and Other Mortal Reflections – F. Gonzalez-Crussi

CHICAGO: “So You Wanna Be a Naked Girl” – Sept. 4

• Put Your Clothes On – Chicago Tribune Review on Naked Girls Reading
• Unusual Sex Practices
• Me and My Amazing Body
• The Book of the Courtesans – Susan Griffin
• Oh the Places You’ll Go – Dr. Seuss
• Kinky – Denise Duhamel
• Hopscotch – Julio Cortazar
• The Quickie – John Sanford
• Excerpts from Technique of the Love Affair

CHICAGO: “Ice Cream Sunday” – Aug. 9

• Facts about Ice Cream
• The Queen – Anais Nin
• Lady Chatterly’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
• Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
• Henry and June – Anais Nin
• A Literary Passion – Miller and Nin

CHICAGO: “Freedom of Choice” – July 10

• Hedonism Handbook – Guide to Leisure
• Nabakov – Lolita
• Frank O’Hara – Poem
• DH Lawrence – Give Her a Pattern
• Jon Savage – England’s Dreaming
• Venus in Furs
• ee cummings – somewhere i have never traveled
• Eleven Minutes – Paulo Coelho
• An excerpt from “America’s Hidden History” by Kenneth C. Davis
• Declaration of Independence
• Ted Hughes – Crow
• Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer – Chicago Confidential – G-strings and B-girls
• Original work by Greta Layne – Johnny Boy and Bad Girl
• Ed Hirsch – Charles Baudelaire

CHICAGO: ”Poetry” – June 12

• How to read poetry
• Steps – Frank O’Hara
• Yet this City is Never More Alive – Franky Vivid
• Morning – Pablo Neruda
• Saturn – Sharon Olds
• Thought Fox – Ted Hughes
• Burning Letters – Slyvia Plath
• Reflections at Lake Lagunidas – Robert Haas
• Rabbit Catcher – Ted Hughes and Slyvia Plath
• Works of Love – Soren K
• So, who is it that you think you are? – Franky Vivid
• Sonnet 18 – Shakespeare
• Red – Ted Hughes
• The Tiger – Pablo Neruda
• Meditations in Emergency – Frank O’Hara
• A Painting of Pan – Edward Hirsch
• Dirty Limericks
• Naught Nursery Rhymes

CHICAGO: ”Naked Girls ROCK!” – May 1

• “20th Century Boy” – T Rex
• Excerpts from “Please Kill Me” – Legs McNeal
• “Cannibal’s Hymn” – Nick Cave
• “I Had it for a Moment” – Leonard Cohen
• Various “Anti-Rock” propaganda from the 1950′s
• “Perfect Gentleman” – Wyclef Jean
• Request Line – “Thriller” – Michael Jackson
• Request Line – “Jesus is Way Cool” – King Missile
• Request Line – “Baby Got Back” – Sir Mix-a-Lot
• “Dear Abbey” – Dead Kennedy’s
• “Beneath My Hands” – Leonard Cohen
• Various one-liners from gangsta rap songs
• “Femme Fatale” and various writings about Nico
• “Mercy” – IAMX
• “Next Episode” – Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg
• “Me Against the Music” – Britney Spears ft. Madonna
• a feminist essay about emo
• a portion of “Adonais” (as read by Mick Jagger at the funeral of Brian Jones)
• “All My Friends are Hermits” – Lester Bangs
• “Purple Rain” – Prince

CHICAGO: ”Bedtime Stories” – April 3

• “Blue Beard” – Grimm’s Fairie Tales
• “Little Mouse, Little Sausage” – Grimm’s Fairie Tales
• “Briar Rose” – Ann Sexton, Transformations
• “Mask of the Red Death” – Edgar Allan Poe
• “Skin” – Roald Dahl, Omnibus
• “I Wish I Could Paint You” - Edward Hirsch
• “Armand Goes Visiting” – Annemarie Villefranche, Plaisir D’amour
• excerpt from “Derriere” – Julius Caldrose
• “Little Pussycat” – Margaret Wise Brown
• “Goodnight Moon” – Margaret Wise Brown
• Dream Interpretations by Mimi First

CHICAGO: ”Courtesans” – March 6

• “The Seven Cyprian Virtues” – a series of 7 poems from the Cyprian Red Book
• “The Pouty Fig” – a reimagining of the Birth of Venus from the Cyprian Red Book
• excerpts from “Voluptuous Panic” by Mel Gordon
• The Prologue from “Belle du Jour” by Anonymous
• an excerpt from “Leah”, photo layout from 1972 “Oui” magazine
• a collection of Craigslist “Adult Services” ads
• excerpts from “Hookers, Whores and Harlots” by Hilary Evans
• an excerpt from “Passion Flower Hotel” by Rosalind Erskine
• “Suzy’s Surprise” from “Upstairs at the Everleigh Club” by Ray Hibbeler
• a chapter from “Sin in the Second City” by Karen Abbott

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