The back room

The back room, founded by Matthew Stadler in 2004, is a symposium replete with food, drink, music, and general boisterousness garlanding the central pleasure of bright intellects voicing their excellent texts, winging it in conversation, and screening or presenting various textual and visual delights. Past guests include: Walid Raad, Marc Joseph, Wayne Koestenbaum, Gore Vidal, Gregory Crewdson, Sutapa Biswas, Joshua Berger, Tiffany Lee Brown, Jon Raymond, and Darius Rejali.