Five-Star Reads Show

The show where comedians pitch you their favorite books. Five-Star Reads Show (Comedy Show / Books) Sunday November 8th $10 Doors - 6:30 PM // Show - 7:00 PM No Refunds Or Exchanges re you stuck in a reading slump and looking for your next favorite book? Then come to Five-Star Reads Show! Some of LA’s funniest comedians will pitch you their FAVORITE BOOK, then they’ll tell other great jokes! Plus, we’ll be joined by author EMILY DOYLE for a special Q&A about her collection of short stories PLEASE DON’T TOUCH THE BODY. She’ll be selling and signing books at the show! By turns tender and irreverent, the 11 genre-bending stories in Please Don't Touch the Body are thrillingly concerned with the devastation-and power-of being alive today. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by Debutiful, Lit Hub, Chicago Review of Books, and Autostraddle. THIS SHOW’S COMICS: MARY HUTH BENNY BLUE KIM JACOBS JULIA AUSTIN HOSTED BY DANA SAYLES PLEASE DON’T TOUCH THE BODY SYNOPSIS In the collection's first story, a Japanese woman finds healing in a secret life as a sex advice columnist after being fetishized by her white husband for decades. In the fourth story, Ronald Reagan is reincarnated as a puppy and must cope with being squeezed, dropped, and controlled by his young, queer owner. And in “Thank You No Thank You,” a young woman grapples with the rules she learned in her religious childhood, the freedoms of her new and more liberal life, and her actual desires as she vacations with her long-term boyfriend. Together these inventive, emotionally rich stories reveal an incredible new vision and “a writer to watch” (Rita Chang-Eppig).