Author Brandy Schillace joins The Bushwick Book Club at Howl! for an evening of original songs and performance inspired by their new release, The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story.

The Intermediaries
The fascinating history of a daring team of sexologists who built the first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich.

Set in interwar Germany, The Intermediaries tells the forgotten story of the Institute for Sexual Science, the world’s first center for homosexual and transgender rights. Headed by a gay Jewish man, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, the institute aided in the first gender-affirming surgeries and hormone treatments, acting as a rebellious base of operations in the face of rising prejudice, nationalism, and Nazi propaganda.

Performances by:
1. Chase Horseman
2. Swan Real
3. Ralph Denzer with Tanja Höhne and Susan hwang
4. Tanja Höhne with Ralph Denzer and Susan Hwang
5. Brandy Schillace
6. Charles Duke
7. Alex Petrullo with Elise Burch
8. Mya Byrne
9. Don Rauf
10. Mya Byrne and Susan Hwang with Ed Pastorini, Tanja Höhne, and Ralph Denzer
11. Charming Disaster
12. Sea Griffin

Reading and book signing with author Brandy Schillace

The Bushwick Book Club is a literature-inspired performance series and podcast that invites local songwriters and artists to plumb the depths of a chosen literary gem to create that rare and beautiful thing – a new song (or visual art, dance, film or snack). All songs are then performed at a live show. The Bushwick Book Club now has several branches all over the world, including Seattle, Portland, Oakland, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, New Orleans, Greenville, NC, London and Malmö, Sweden. The Bushwick Book Club podcast is available on iTunes and SoundCloud.