Book Club Burlesque Show…Fiction Fetish

The New Yorker has a colorful blurb about an off-off Broadway show entitled Book Club Burlesque at the Parkside Lounge on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Photos, quite cheeky, are included.

Dancer Lydia Ransom opened the show dressed as a proper librarian (tweed and argyle), and cheekily shushed the audience. “This is a library,” Ransom winked, before removing her cardigan and skirt. She pulled David McCullough’s “John Adams” out of a Strand shopping bag. “Good role model, very good role model,” she said, and rubbed the cover down her body. (Would you do that with an iPad?).