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We’ve gone digital with Virtual Broadcast Tours. Join our guides on our Zoom Webinar or via Youtube Live in the comfort of your own home. Our Virtual Broadcast Tours are always free.
Watch the recordings of our past
virtual broadcast tours below!
The Ghosts of
Guides Past:
HOLIDAY
QUIZ SHOW
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19
Join our Ghosts of Guides Past for a Holiday Quiz Show! With three years of holiday virtual tours behind us, we thought a switch up was in order. Kick up your feet, raise a glass, and watch our host Eric Chase grill past guides on NYC, literary, and winter holiday trivia.
Featuring: Eric Chase, Danielle Brockmann, Leo Ross, Peter Schuyler, Rachel Grundy, and Rebecca Ross Bailey.
BACK-TO-SCHOOL:
BANNED BOOKS CLUB
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
Join us for Back-to-School: Banned Books Club Virtual Broadcast Tour, where we’ll delve into the stories behind some of the most controversial and celebrated works in literature. Explore why these iconic books were banned, uncover the reasons they challenged the status quo, and discover how questioning censorship can unite us in the pursuit of knowledge and freedom.
Whether you're a student, teacher, or lifelong learner, this tour invites you to connect with the timeless power of literature and the courage it takes to defend it.
Featuring: Eric Chase, Danielle Brockmann, Leo Ross,
Rachel Grundy, Rebecca Ross Bailey, & Rose Merritt
Lit Yule Love
December 20, 2023
Join our guides for a FESTIVE evening focusing on cultural & literary winter holiday traditions. We'll regale you with readings, ponderings, and... a great Christmas debate! YES, there will be Dickens. YES, there will be Clement Clarke Moore. YES, there will be at least 50% less ghosts than last year's tour. But most importantly, it will be FUN (and we will be FUNNY... okay at least most of the guides will be, but definitely not Eric... ever). We'll explore the hidden stories behind renowned literary works, holiday origins, and infamous traditions.
Featuring Danielle Brockmann, Eric Chase, Peter Schuyler, Rachel Grundy, & Rebecca Ross Bailey.
Things that go bump in the night
October 29, 2023
Bootscrape Entertainment presents “Things that Go BUMP in the Night”, a special Halloween treat guaranteed to raise your spirits! Or, at the very least, to tantalize your senses with tales of the authors that keep us up at night. Join us for a pun-filled virtual hour where our guides will conjure up past tours, scare up some holiday lore, and explore the pulp, pomp, and phantasmagoria of early 20th-century writers of supernatural fiction who spent time in NYC.
Featuring Danielle Brockmann, Eric Chase, Rebecca Ross Bailey, Robert A. K. Gonyo, & Rose Merritt.
That’s so poetic 2023
April 25, 2023
Help us celebrate National Poetry Month! Join a Gathering of Guides (no it's not a GRR Martin sequel) on Zoom in this celebration of National Poetry Month, as we all discuss some of our favorite poets of NYC, and perform some of the poems we love. All while enjoying a finely crafted spirit or beer. Or wine. Some people drink wine…
Featuring Danielle Brockmann, Eric Chase, Marissa Levien, Miranda Knutson, & Rachel Grundy.
Rebel without a claus
December 14, 2022
It’s that time of year again when the streets of NYC are dripping with lights, mugs are made merry, and the holidays come alive all around us! We thought we'd revive our popular tour where we explored the American Tradition of Christmas, and how the many writers, thinkers, & drinkers of the Village shaped the lore and the traditions that are celebrated by millions to this day. Whether you celebrate or not, our jolly cocktail of history, research, performance, & humor will surely ignite your yule log.
Featuring Eric Chase, Kurt Kingsley, & Rebecca Ross Bailey.
Ya Didn’t Know it poets
April 28, 2022
They were astronomers, sea-farers, explorers, politicians, actors, financiers, experts in a wide and varied field of interests. And yet they had one thing in common, they also wrote poetry. (Some of it was actually not terrible). In the final days of National Poetry Month, we’ll skip the better known poets and celebrate how poetry really is the universal language, and that there’s a little poet in all of us.
bygone bars part ii:
bye bye baby
January 26, 2022
This is the second of a multi-part series that will explore the histories, the legends and the luminaries of lost saloons, and how they helped to shape iconic cultural and literary neighborhoods as we know them today. Drinking and writing have gone hand in hand since the first fermented berries were discovered in the Neolithic period which could be used for both drinking and cave painting. Fact: this has been scientifically proven. Source: I’m sure we can find the article again. Caves, the initial gathering hole for writers were quickly upgraded to the tavern, bar, or public house. In Part II, Bye Bye Baby, we dive into a touch of pub crawl nostalgia, as we take you for a virtual pint to a few former stops of our tour, in particular those we lost too soon to rent hikes and gentrification.
Featuring Rebecca Bailey, Eric Chase, Kurt Kingsley, Rose Merritt.
eggnog edition
December 16, 2021
It’s that time of year again when the streets of NYC are dripping with lights, mugs are made merry, and religious and cultural holidays come alive all around us! We chose to explore the holiday of Christmas, and how the writers, thinkers, and drinkers of the Village and surrounding neighborhoods shaped the lore and the traditions that are celebrated by millions to this day. Whether you celebrate or not, our jolly cocktail of history, research, performance, and humor will surely ignite your yule log.
Featuring Eric Chase, Justin Steeve, Rebecca Ross Bailey, & Rose Merritt.
Here for the boo’s
October 27, 2021
Ye who are faint of heart, Avert your gaze! Wait! No! bring it back again this way! For on Tuesday the 27th at 7pm, we will terrify you with chilling tales of the macabre…! or at least tantalize you with chilling tales....! or... maybe just talk over a chilled drink… SpOoKy!!!! Join us around the virtual campfire (Justin will set his desk on fire for us!) (NOTE: someone ask Justin if this is ok…) as we mash a mangled mix of psychics, ghost stories, horror writers, legends, and traditional tales of the gruesome into a classic family friendly holiday. Join us as we put the spirits in...ah...spirits! Sit back, raise your glass, and prepare to be astounded!
Featuring Danielle Brockmann, Justin Steeve, Rebecca Ross Bailey, Robert A. K. Gonyo, & Rose Merritt.
bygone Bars Part I: Bohemian Rhapsody
September 30, 2021
This is the first of a multi-part series that will explore the histories, the legends and the luminaries of lost saloons, and how they helped to shape iconic cultural and literary neighborhoods as we know them today. Drinking and writing have gone hand in hand since the first fermented berries were discovered in the Neolithic period which could be used for both drinking and cave painting. Fact: this has been scientifically proven. Source: I’m sure we can find the article again. Caves, the initial gathering hole for writers were quickly upgraded to the tavern, bar, or public house. While many were once cultural institutions, sadly the destructive nature of earthquakes, fires, wars, economics, and gentrification have torn apart many of these iconic establishments, leaving us only memories, some titillating tales, and legendary literature. In Part 1, we begin our stroll in one of the most influential cultural neighborhoods in NYC, in probably the most iconic and influential decade of that area.
Featuring Eric Chase, Justin Steeve, Rebecca Ross Bailey, & Rose Merritt.
Not sleeping Until Brooklyn
May 24, 2021
We’re celebrating Brooklyn Bridge's Bi-Centennial [62 years early] by bringing you Brooklyn’s best bars, bards, and benevolent-bohemians that built it into the Best Borough in the World. Travel back in time - like literarily, not literally - as we dive into key moments in Brooklyn’s cultural and literary history and share some of the poets, pubs, patrons and pontificates we’re particularly passionate about. Before the man bun and Beats by Dre, there was burlesque, Du Bois, and bathtub gin. Come raise a glass with us as we cross the bridge and celebrate Bohemian Brooklyn. All while enjoying a finely crafted spirit or beer.
Featuring Eric Chase, Justin Steeve, Miranda Knutson, & Rose Merritt.
That’s So Poetic
April 26, 2021
We've gathered several of our Guides from over the years to share some of their favorite poems and poetry. From Millay to Mina Loy, Hansberry to O'Hara, plus one of New York's first poets, and a couple surprise entries along the way. We've got rhyme and meter, whiskey and beer, and a chance to get the know the guides a little bit better and celebrate one of the oldest literary art forms. Lately it feels that poetry has become very insular, poetry written for other poets, for critics, and for scholars. But it used to be written and read by us all. What better way to show poetry is for the masses then a bunch of pub crawl guides sharing their favorite poems.
Featuring Derrick Edwards, Eric Chase, Justin Steeve, Miranda Knutson, Rebecca Ross Bailey, Robert A. K. Gonyo, & Rose Merritt.
Literary Women Herstory
March 22, 2021
Frothy beer, feminist thought, and fascinating stories of local lore are an excellent combination, don’t you think? Join the hosts of NYC’s one-and-only Literary Pub Crawl on Monday, March 22nd as we raise a glass and celebrate International Women’s Day and some of the great women authors who made their mark upon the City’s rich and rebellious history. Susan Sontag, Toni Morrison, Dawn Powell, Jennifer Egan, Zora Neale Hurston, Audre Lorde, and Emma Goldman are just some of the literati to be discussed.
Featuring Eric Chase, Marissa Levien, & Rose Merritt.
Literary Love and its discontents
February 12, 2021
Not only do we cover the plethora of writers who shaped the world while living in this tiny neighborhood, but we go beyond to discuss their love lives this year, in recognition of a very unusual Valentine's Day. From the transcendence of finding romance in a dark corner of the Village to the wild righteous anger of lost love, exultant debauchery, and the ghosts that linger, join us for this happy hour during which we'll explore the Village sites of literary love and its discontents -- and much more!
Featuring Danielle Brockmann & Eric Chase.
Black Bohemia
February 2021
Join us for a rollicking, inspiring tour focused on the interconnectedness of Black arts and artists in our neighborhoods and how they shaped and influenced much of what we know of the Village. From Alex Haley to Audre Lorde, James Baldwin to Lorraine Hansberry, and so many more, see the sites where generations of artists forged new and enduring cultural visions, often in community and collaboration, creating beautiful, powerful works that continue to resonate today.
Featuring Derrick Edwards & Eric Chase.
Edgar Allan Poe
July 19, 2020
In a little red house on at 85 West Third (then Amity) Street, Edgar Allen Poe completed his most famous poem, “The Raven.” While in residence in the Village, the macabre poet also lectured frequently at New York University’s literary society and was memorialized by later Village writers as “the patron saint of Bohemia.” Poe’s life and writing elevated the American Literary movement and helped shape Greenwich Village into one of the most iconic neighborhoods in the world.
Featuring Eric Chase, Justin Steeve, & Kurt Kingsley.
Jack Kerouac
July 8, 2020
Though known for his nomadic lifestyle, Jack Kerouac stopped for a good while to roam, drink, and write in the Village during the 1950s and 60s. Kerouac resided at the Hotel Marlton with fellow Beats Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, frequented watering holes like the White Horse Tavern, and performed jazz poetry at the Village Vanguard. From East to West, Lit Pub Crawl will take us through Kerouac's Village as only they can.
Featuring Devin Horzempa, Eric Chase, & Marissa Levien.
Pride Edition
June 20, 2020
In honor of the champions of LGBTQ rights, memory of the Stonewall Riots, and celebration of Pride, this virtual tour will focus on the LGBTQ writers, poets and artists of the village that elevated the American Literary movement and helped shape Greenwich Village into one of the most iconic neighborhoods in the world.
Featuring Christy Tomeck, Eric Chase, & Justin Steeve.
Digital Happy Hour
May 2, 2020
After 20 years of research and tours, the Literary Pub Crawl knows that few neighborhoods have as varied and influential histories as Greenwich Village. It has been home to revolutionaries, social commentators, labor movements, feminists and suffragettes, jazz and blues music, painting, and debauchery. At this special #JanesWalkNYC digital happy hour, join us for a "tour" of some of our favorite bars in the Village. We will hear the stories, poems, and prose connected to each of these spots, which all cemented the Village's status as an epicenter of the literary movement. Go deep into these movements, spots, and figures, and lift a glass of whatever you've got at home along the way!
Featuring Danielle Brockmann, Eric Chase, & Justin Steeve.