{"id":13879,"date":"2025-06-22T14:02:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T21:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13879"},"modified":"2025-06-24T14:05:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:05:57","slug":"hot-and-sweaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/22\/hot-and-sweaty\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot and Sweaty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/dreambabypress.substack.com\/p\/the-hot-and-sweaty-book-launch-for\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Dream Baby Press<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Hot and Sweaty Book Launch for James Frey<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/@dreambabypress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DREAM BABY PRESS<\/a>\u00a0AND\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/@mattstarr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MATT STARR<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!nNnB!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F460fbca3-a389-476b-b36e-68381e67c156_3000x2001.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Tuesday we hosted the book launch for James Frey\u2019s new book\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Next-Heaven-Novel-James-Frey\/dp\/B0DKPHX5B7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Next To Heaven<\/a><\/strong> published by<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/users\/215203512-authors-equity?utm_source=mentions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Authors Equity<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>at\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/harpersbooks\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Harper\u2019s Gallery<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/harpersbooks\/?hl=en\">\u00a0<\/a>in NYC. I\u2019ve been feeling sad recently so it was nice to read some new poems aloud, be around friends, hear some good stories and throw James a big book launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gina Gershon, Carole Radziwill, Matt Starr (your trusted narrator), Lili Anolik, Annie Hamilton, Sarah Hoover, and Laura Desiree read before James came on at the end and closed the show. I\u2019ll detail what each person read below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The theme was love and sex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/dreambabypress.substack.com\/p\/the-hot-and-sweaty-book-launch-for\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Dream Baby Press<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Dream Baby Press The Hot and Sweaty Book Launch for James Frey by DREAM BABY PRESS\u00a0AND\u00a0MATT STARR Last Tuesday we hosted the book launch for James Frey\u2019s new book\u00a0Next To Heaven published by\u00a0Authors Equity\u00a0at\u00a0Harper\u2019s Gallery\u00a0in NYC. I\u2019ve been feeling sad recently so it was nice to read some new poems aloud, be around friends, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-culture-art","category-literary-news","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}