Booked! with Cassandra Jenkins & Gideon Jacobs

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Booked! is a music and reading series at Brooklyn Public Library's Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center, which invites local artists to show support for the library by sharing their favorite reads and songs in community.

Today we are excited to welcome Cassandra Jenkins and Gideon Jacobs, who will be performing songs, sketches, and scenes that orbit the view of Earth seen from space.

The event will be held outdoors in our rooftop garden, weather permitting. We recommend bringing hats/sunglasses/etc.

This event is free, registration encouraged

Cassandra Jenkins, deemed “one of our great working songwriters” by Rough Trade is a critically acclaimed musician born and raised in New York City. Her 2021 breakthrough album An Overview on Phenomenal Nature was praised by NPR as “stunning” & Rolling Stone as “ subtle magic,” and the albums highlight “Hard Drive” was declared a “perfect song” by Pitchfork. In 2021 she was featured amongst Year End lists from the New York Times and Stereogum to the Guardian, and in 2022 she brought her poetic lyrics and signature blend of folk and ambient pop on tours to festival stages around the world with Mitski, The National, Courtney Barnett, and others. She is currently working on her next album, and lives in Manhattan, NY.

Gideon Jacobs is a writer who has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, Artforum, BOMB Magazine, and others. Previously, he worked at the photo cooperative Magnum Photos, where he served as creative director. Recent projects include Murder Suey, a novella co-written exquisite corpse style with artist Brad Phillips, and Landing Pages, a literary performance and installation with artist Lexie Smith at LaGuardia Airport, commissioned by the NY/NJ Port Authority. He is currently working on a novel and lives in Queens, NY.