An Evening with Actor Gina Gershon, Author of AlphaPussy: How I Survived the Valley and Learned to Love My Boobs

An evening with award-winning actor Gina Gershon. who will discuss her memoir AlphaPussy: How I Survived the Valley and Learned to Love My Boobs, a collection of true stories that explore themes of experience, survival, and the art of figuring it out as you go. The conversation will be moderated by novelist James Frey. 

In AlphaPussy, recounts strange encounters with celebrities and film directors such as Paul Verhoeven, Tom Cruise, Sharon Stone, Prince, Jennifer Tilly, Sylvester Stallone, David Mamet, Bob Fosse, and so many others. Often hilarious, usually cautionary, and almost always wrapped in absurdity, Gershon’s tales explore how she found herself through bad decisions, awkward moments and cringe-worthy encounters that somehow gave rise to survival skills. 

Book sale and signing by Elm St. Books

Registration required.

Gina Gershon has been starring on stage, screen and television for more than 40 years. She has recorded albums, toured across the country, and performed at Carnegie Hall three times, playing her Jew’s harp with Sting, Laurie Anderson, Joan Baez and Gogol Bordello. She is the author of In Search of Cleo: How I Found My Pussy and Lost My Mind, which she also performed as a one-woman show with an accompanying album, and coauthor (with her brother Dann) of the young adult novel Camp Creepy Time. In 2019 she performed another one-woman show, Wild Women Don’t Get the Blues, at the Café Carlyle. Her film credits include Bound, Showgirls, The Insider, Face/Off and The Player, among others. Her television credits include The Assassin, Elsbeth, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Riverdale, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, to name just a few. And her Broadway credits include Sam Mendes’s Cabaret, the Tony Award-winning Boeing-Boeing, and more. She lives in New York City.

James Frey was called America’s Most Notorious Author by Time magazine and the Bad Boy of American Literature by The New York Times. He has written multiple global bestsellers, including A Million Little Pieces, Bright Shiny Morning, and The Final Testament of the Holy Bible. His books have sold more than 30 million copies, and his work has been published in 42 languages. He lives in a small town in Connecticut.