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Were You Brave?
The Glendale Room, Glendale, Calif., 2005 | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
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I'm Revealed
Tonight, at 7 p.m., I’ll be a storyteller at Revealed, where people share true and personal stories about the “comedy and complexity of being human.” The show is at The Glendale Room, and the tickets are $8.
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I'll Be Performing in The Non-Fiction Show
On June 22, 2025, at 7:30 pm, I’ll be performing in The Non-Fiction Show, a variety show featuring folks sharing true stories on unexpected topics. The show is at Nico’s Baby Battista in Atwater Village. Tickets.
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I'm Reading at The Pop-Hop
I’m happy to share I’ll be reading on Saturday, May 24, 2025, at 7 pm as part of Space Stories: A Variety Show at The Pop-Hop Books Co-op in Highland Park, Los Angeles. I’ll be reading an excerpt from “Topical Matters,” an unpublished short story I wrote about a sexagenarian who discovers an adult movie is being filmed in the house behind his house in the San Fernando Valley. You can buy event tickets here.
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Festival of Books
I took this photo ahead of the panel I was on at this year’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books before the room became full. The festival is on the University of Southern California campus, a massive undertaking, and run like a well-oiled machine. My friend and I hung out in the authors’ green room, we got marched over to the hall where the panel was along with the other panelists, and then I answered questions from the moderator and the audience. It was a really cool time and something I’ll be writing about a bit more in a future post. My book is Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment. And what people are saying about it is here.
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I'm at The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books This Weekend
This weekend, I’ll be a panelist at The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. The panel, “Women and Bodies: Science Meets Sociology,” is on Sunday, April 21, at 3:30 pm., it’s moderated by Amy Alkon, and my fellow panelists are Dr. Jen Gunter, Cat Bohannon, and M.G. Lord. I’ll be talking about my memoir, Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment. And, you can read more about the story behind my book here.
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I'm Doing a Brown Bag Book Talk at U.C. Berkeley on April 23
On Tuesday, April 23, 2024, at 1 pm, I’ll be doing a brown bag book talk in conversation with Cecilia Lei at U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism about my memoir, Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment. (You can read more about my book here.) I’m really looking forward to this event for several reasons. I grew up in Berkeley, my father was a professor at Cal, I graduated from Cal, my memoir is about my 30-year participation in a research study conducted at U.C. Berkeley, and as part of my research for my book I was at Cal for a year as an academic fellow at the Graduate School of Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program. Event info here.
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Literary Time Travel
Last Wednesday, I did a reading and talk for my memoir, Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment, at the North Branch of the Berkeley Public Library. I had such a nice time, especially because this was the library I went to when I was a kid, and I was reading from my book about growing up in Berkeley. It was a bit like time travel with a literary twist. Thank you to the library for having me and for all those who came out to listen and ask questions. If you’re interested in attending an event, I’m going to be doing several events during April for the book, which are listed here, and which include the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books; the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley; and Book Passage in Corte Madera.
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I'm Reading at the North Branch Berkeley Public Library This Week
On Wednesday, March 27, 2024, I’m reading from and discussing my memoir, Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment, at Berkeley Public Library’s North Branch at 6:30 pm. You can read more about what people are saying about Data Baby here. More event information is here. Hope to see you!
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Catch Me at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
On Sunday, April 21, at 3:30 p.m., I’ll be on a panel at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. The panel is “Women and Bodies: Science Meets Sociology,” and tickets are required. My fellow panelists are Dr. Jen Gunter, Cat Bohannan, and M.G. Lord, and the moderator is Amy Alkon. I’ll be talking about my memoir, Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment; you can read more about my book here.
The panel description:
“It seems almost impossible that, in a year where a movie about an iconic doll broke nearly every record for success and female vocalists almost single-handedly boosted the economy with concert tours, there is still so much mystery, debate, contention, and law-making about women’s bodies. These writers share thought-provoking research and personal experience on everything from the role of female bodies in human evolution, to the gaps in medical knowledge about female reproductive systems and a 30+ year lab experiment about human personalities, and finally how all of this plays into the dolls we make to represent women. Though their stories differ, these writers are all experts in one extremely difficult field: being a woman.”
See you there!
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Upcoming Readings for Data Baby
The Bay | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
I have a few upcoming readings for my memoir, Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment, in the San Francisco Bay Area. On March 27, 2024, at 6:30 pm, I’ll be reading at Berkeley Public Library’s North Branch, in Berkeley, CA: “Author Talk with Susannah Breslin.” And, on April 27, 2024, at 11 am, I’ll be reading at Book Passage, in Corte Madera, CA: “Susannah Breslin - Data Baby : My Life in a Psychological Experiment (Corte Madera Store).” Buy my book here, read more about it here, and listen to me talk about it here.
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Data Baby Reading at Book Passage
I’ll be reading from Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment at Book Passage in Corte Madera, CA, on Sunday, January 28, 2024, at 1 pm. [This event has been rescheduled for April 27, at 11 am.] There’s more information here, and you can buy Data Baby here.
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Come to My Data Baby Reading at Book Soup
This Wednesday, November 15, I’m reading from my new memoir, DATA BABY: My Life in a Psychological Experiment, at Book Soup. The event starts at 7 pm. You can find the details on the Book Soup website.
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Last Weekend
27 Likes, 1 Comments - Susannah Breslin (@susannahbreslin) on Instagram: "My buddy @young_em_see with his incredible and inventive memoir of his multiple Iraq War..."
Last weekend, I went to the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. I'd been to the FoB before, but when it was at UCLA, and it's now at USC, which I'd never been to before. USC is sprawling and nice, but there's something sort of flat and banal about it. Although there is some interesting architecture. I was there to see my friend Matt Young sit on a panel and discuss his new memoir, EAT THE APPLE, which is an amazing and experimental memoir that explores what multiple deployments do to a young Marine's mind. I highly recommend it. I got to meet BLACK HAWK DOWN author Mark Bowden, who was on the panel and discussing his new book, HUE 1968; read his rave of Matt's book in the New York Times. We didn't stay long at the FoB, because there were amazing shrimp tacos to be had at the appropriately named Best Fish Taco in Los Feliz. That inspired choice was thanks to Maggie Waz, a great young, talented, and hilarious writer who has an alter ego that is going to Mars.
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East LA
17 Likes, 2 Comments - Susannah Breslin (@susannahbreslin) on Instagram: "East side mural, lighter"
I snapped this pic last weekend in East LA. I had a really great time reading at David Rocklin's amazing Roar Shack series at 826LA. I also had a wonderful meal beforehand at Triniti with a girlfriend.
Upcoming Reading Details
Image via The Museum of the San Fernando Valley
If you're interested in hearing me read a short story about a male porn star who has a problem with his penis, I'm reading in the Roar Shack series at 826LA in the Echo Park neighborhood of LA on March 11. The reading starts at 4PM. This story is from a collection of short stories I'm working on that all take place in and around the adult industry in the San Fernando Valley.
Roar Shack Reading Series presents "The Way Up" on Sunday, March 11 2018 at 826LA in Echo Park! Join us as we welcome a superlative lineup of lit talent: Wendy Labinger, Dig Wayne, Poetic Nubia, Emanuel Bergmann, Susannah Breslin and Erica Garza! All this plus the world famous Live Write. You don't want to be left out, do you? I mean, didn't we all get enough of that in high school?
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Upcoming Reading
On March 11, I'll be reading at 826LA. Details to be announced. This is the second reading I've done since moving back to LA last fall. I've been reading a series of short stories that I've been writing, which are based in the San Fernando Valley, where I live, and focus on the adult industry and those who work in it. At the last reading, I read a story about a woman who makes silicone vaginas for a living. At this one, I'll be reading a story about a day in the life of a male porn star.
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Come See Me
I'm reading one of my short stories this evening at Vermin on the Mount in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Come see me and others tonight!
Red Carpet
5 Likes, 1 Comments - Susannah Breslin (@susannahbreslin) on Instagram: "Porn star 💫"
Last night I went to an adult industry event in West Hollywood. Walking in to this nightclub, I wasn't sure if this was an adult industry exclusive event or if there were other non-adult industry people mingled with the rest. But it was really exclusively an adult industry event. (In porn, people in porn are professionals, and people who are not in porn are civilians.) At some point someone asked me about what I thought or how I thought things had changed, and I said, you know, fifteen years ago, a porn star looked like a porn star. Now, it's harder to tell. The lines have blurred. The girls are more diverse, and the fashions are less extreme, and the division is not so stark. I suppose that's like porn itself. More mainstream. Yet still on the fringe. Somewhere in between. Was it a porn event? In a way, yes. In a way, no.