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🟨 BOOK LAUNCH 🟨

Celebrate Tom Cole’s debut book, Chimes
at the Bureau - Friday, October 9 7pm
in conversation with Julia Jarcho

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“Chimes is an intimate shape shifter—it’s a poem, a novella, a play, a prayer—carnal, spiritual, sweet & funny. I love this book.”

—Eileen Myles

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Join us to celebrate the debut book by our dear friend, Tom Cole, Chimes: A Monologue. It’s already one of our top staff picks of the year! Tom will appear in conversation with Julia Jarcho, author of Throw Yourself Away: Writing and Masochism.

The two writers will discuss ideas of process, performance, and the environment that brought Chimes to fruition. After their discussion, Tom will take questions from the audience and then sign copies of his book. This event is free to attend. Please RSVP via the link in our bio or via www.bgsqd.com

We adore Tom and are so thrilled to celebrate his genius new work here at the Bureau. We hope you’ll join us!

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ABOUT CHIMES

From Jay, one of our booksellers: “Chimes is a hypnotic, darkly hilarious dreamwalk through one man’s unhinged experience of covid lockdown and its aftermath. With the unnamed narrator - a torqued, paranoia-prone sober addict and artist - we move, stream-of-consciousness style, through the torpid days of the pandemic, as he obsesses over his neighbor’s annoying wind chimes, impulsively chases down a package thief, interviews to join a leather family, worries about relapsing, fantasizes about being tortured, then taken care of, resurfaces psychosexual childhood memories, and lets his (somewhat tortured) mind wander. So smooth, evocative, depressive, funny, kinky, stunning, strange. I loved it.”

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The Bureau
Manhattan’s Queer Bookstore
208 W 13th St NYC
Room 210 (inside the NYC LGBT Center)
Subway: F M 1 2 3 L (14th St & 6th Ave) by @tomdanielcole

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Looking forward to speaking with the legendary @foxandhisfriends for @poeticresearch @2220arts on October 14th in Los Angeles about CHIMES. We promise it will be weird, short and lively. Books will be available and the event is free. RSVP link in bio. I can’t wait to be in Los Angeles—so grateful for this opportunity and chance to visit. Thank you @thesongcave @artbook @benestes @alanfels @thorasiemsen and @michaelleonardartist. by @tomdanielcole

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Tom Cole will read at the shop on Thursday, November 12th, 2026. Following the reading, Michael Bronski will join him in conversation. The event will be held in person and virtually. Sign up via our website. by @tomdanielcole

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Like Marcel Proust’s madeleine or Clarice Lispector’s cockroach, the sound of wind chimes outside of the apartment occupied by Tom Cole’s narrator catalyzes the fragmented monologue that comprises Cole’s debut novella “Chimes: A Monologue” (The Song Cave, 2026). As if flipping through a photo album, the narrator’s memories—embarrassing hookups, dabbling with meth, auditioning to join a cultlike polyamorous “family”—are dispatched with an unaffected, definitive tone.

Follow our link in bio to subscribe and read Paul McAdory’s review of “Chimes: A Monologue” in our Fall 2026 issue—now for nearly 40% off the newsstand price. by @tomdanielcole

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Sunday at 4pm! Ticket link is in bio. Please DM me if you need help with a ticket. So excited to share Chimes: A Monologue published by @thesongcave with you and be in conversation with @ladymillicent. The event is selling out, so if you want to come, go ahead and RSVP. Thank you @the_parkside_lounge_nyc, @thesongcave and @thorasiemsen by @tomdanielcole

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Thank you @ericdeanwilson for this thoughtful and beautifully written piece in @thebafflermag.
Eternal thanks to @thesongcave @benestes @alanfels @thorasiemsen and @artbook. Link to article in bio. by @tomdanielcole

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Looking forward to sharing my first book CHIMES: A MONOLOGUE with you. Hope to see you at one of these events. Looking forward to all of this. @ladymillicent @bgsqd @poeticresearch @mcnallyjackson @grolierpoetry @participantafterdark. Thank you @thesongcave @thorasiemsen and @artbook by @tomdanielcole

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CHIMES reviewed, as an EDITOR’S CHOICE🌟, in Bomb Magazine’s fall issue, out today! @tomdanielcole @bombmag @spunky.hunk by @tomdanielcole

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Introducing the readers at this Saturday’s (September 19th) THAT TIME OF YEAR SERIES at Spotty Dog Books @spottydogbooks in Hudson. First up:
Tom Cole @tomdanielcole

Tom Cole is a writer, performer, and artist living in the Lower East Side and Kingston, NY. He is a three-time MacDowell fellow and an Edward Albee Foundation playwriting fellow. His new book, Chimes: A Monologue, is published this September by The Song Cave @thesongcave

Join @tomdanielcole Lana Lin @itheabstract this Saturday, September 19th at 7pm at Spotty Dog Books. Free!

THAT TIME OF YEAR is a quarterly-ish reading series featuring writers sharing work around a theme. September’s theme is “Vibration” and welcomes writers Tom Cole, Lana Lin, and Shanekia McIntosh. Hosted by @andreaandreakleine

#hudsonny taken in Spotty Dog Books & Ale by @tomdanielcole

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Morgan Bassichis interviews Tom Cole about his new book CHIMES:A MONOLOGUE today at Lit Hub!
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@thattimeofyearseries @spottydogbooks @andreaandreakleine @itheabstract @artbook @thesongcave taken in Spotty Dog Books & Ale by @tomdanielcole

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