SATURDAY:SESSIONS 2 - Book Launch - Jamie Curry “Doing Nothing” - Conversation with the author and books to be signed
Sat, Apr 11
|Fitz Books & Waffles
Written against the grain of self-help manuals and lifestyle advice, this memoir driven essay looks at the world, from the mundane to the apocalyptic, through the queer lens of the author's own mental illness. Sometimes laughing, sometimes in tears…
Time & Location
Apr 11, 2026, 7:30 PM
Fitz Books & Waffles, 1462 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14209, USA
Guests
About the event
Doing Nothing is a book about doing nothing in a system where there is always something pressing that ought to be done. Not the productive unstructured time of self-help books, but the aimless and ineffective doing nothing of procrastination, resignation, and melancholia. James Currie pursues these themes across a wide terrain of experiences, materials, and examples from the personal, local, and anecdotal, through to the existential, cosmological, and apocalyptic—reflecting, among other things, on the COVID pandemic, the lives of teenagers, Lars Van Trier’s 2011 film Melancholia, work, play, and politics. Doing Nothing offers a lived-in embrace of queer states of being that stand against liveliness and the mournful feelings of entrapment and shame that exist alongside the unexpected opportunities such situations afford.