Pinchbottom Presents NAKED GIRLS READING Pulp: 'The Corpse Wore Pasties'

In January, hit nude literary salon Naked Girls Reading is throwing a nationwide book release party for the publication of burlesque-infused pulp murder mystery "The Corpse Wore Pasties" by Jonny Porkpie.

The celebration kicks off this weekend in Chicago, the birthplace of Naked Girls Reading, with "Naked Girls Reading PULP! - celebrating the cheap and tawdry" on Sunday, January 3rd at noon. "When I think of cheap and tawdry, I think of Jonny Porkpie," said NGR Nationwide producer Franky Vivid. "So what better way to honor the release of his book than with a reading of other cheap and tawdry literature?"

"When I first heard about Porkpie's murder mystery," Vivid said, "I knew at once there was only one way to mark its publication: by having beautiful women across the nation take off their clothes and read aloud from it, and similarly pulpy novels."

After the nude literary celebration kicks off in Chicago, it will travel through the NGR branches in Seattle WA, Key West FL, Dallas TX, (and perhaps Madison WI, Miami FL, and Denver CO as well) before landing in New York on Saturday, January 29 at 8:00pm for NAKED GIRLS READING PULP: Gotham's Seedy Underbelly.

Nasty Canasta (who is also fictionalized as a character in "The Corpse Wore Pasties") leads an all-star cast of burlesque performers reading selections from pulp novels set in the Big Apple, including Mickey Spillane, Ed McBain, Cornell Woolrich, and (not co-incidentally) Jonny Porkpie. But Porkpie isn't the first burlesque performer to pen a lurid pulp murder mystery; he follows in the high-heeled footsteps of the great Gypsy Rose Lee, who published "The G-String Murders" in 1941.

"We'll be reading from both burlesque murder mysteries," said star Nasty Canasta, "and determine who is the more attractive author. Oh, no, wait, we don't have to read from the books to do that. Gypsy is the more attractive author. Porkpie's cute, but come on. It's Gypsy, for crying out loud. Anyway, we'll read selections from both books."

For the January show, Naked Girls Reading NYC returns to the plush upstairs lounge at Madame X in Greenwich Village. "We're thrilled to be back," says Canasta. "The turnout for our debut there was fantastic, but perhaps a little too crowded. So Madame X has decided to make the event more intimate, and limit the seating to 40 lucky patrons, making sure everyone has a place on one of their decadent couches." A few standing room tickets are also available. Reserved seating is only $25, and includes one drink from Madame X's "Foreplay" menu. Standing room is $20.

"Beautiful women nationwide reading my novel in the buff?" said Porkpie. "What more could any author ask for? And I hope this event will encourage everyone reading 'The Corpse Wore Pasties' to do so naked. Except if they're on the subway. That's probably not a good idea."

ABOUT NAKED GIRLS READING
Naked Girls Reading was created in Chicago in March 2009 by Franky Vivid and Michelle L'Amour. The New York City edition, produced by Nasty Canasta and Jonny Porkpie of the award-winning Pinchbottom burlesque, debuted in October of that year to a packed house. Since its launch, NGRNYC has been covered in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Flavorpilll, and more. Entertainment Weekly called the NYC debut "appropriately racy" and "genuinely hilarious"; NBC New York asked "What did you get up to last Friday night? If you answered anything other than 'went to the Naked Girls Reading Banned Books event,' you lose"; and Tor.com said of the show "The effect on the crowd, mostly couples, was intoxicating... It was a remarkable experience."

ABOUT PINCHBOTTOM BURLESQUE
Pinchbottom is where burlesque meets theater, buys it a drink and takes it to bed. The brainchild of Nasty Canasta & Jonny Porkpie (who should probably not be described at the Lunt-Fontannes of the New York Burlesque scene, although they do perform together with alarming frequency), Pinchbottom recently celebrated the fifth anniversary of its first burlesque event. Named the "Best Burlesque in NY" by New York Magazine and called "The Best Burlesque Show in Town" by The Village Voice, Pinchbottom is the winner of the first-ever "Most Innovative" award from The Burlesque Hall of Fame. "Daring, funny, imaginative, and titillating to all tastes" - The Sunday Telegraph (UK) "Comedy and partial nudity go remarkably well together. Where else can you hoot, whistle, and bust a gut laughing?" -NY Theatre.com; "Hilarious burlesque" -Next Magazine; "Your perverted genre fantasies have come shimmying to life" -Time Out New York

ABOUT "THE CORPSE WORE PASTIES"
"The Corpse Wore Pasties" was published in December 2009 by Hard Case Crime, an imprint "dedicated to reviving the vigor and excitement, the suspense and thrills - the sheer entertainment - of the golden age of paperback crime novels". Publisher's Weekly called "Corpse" an "Entertaining hard-boiled debut... witty and telling... Readers will enjoy the twists and action and hope for future Porkpie investigations." Library Journal observed "The rapport required on stage transfers effortlessly to the page in this debut mystery", and Booklist said: "Porkpie's style is diligently tongue in cheek, and it works. Fans of hard-boiled crime will enjoy this romp, and in an increasingly coarse popular culture, the inside look at burlesque seems, well, almost wholesome." It is Mr. Porkpie's first novel.

 

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