Eric Drooker reads from "Naked City"
Sat, Jun 21
|Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore
This event is part of the San Francisco International Flor Y Canto Literary Festival
Time & Location
Jun 21, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore, 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
About the event
Join us on Saturday June 21st as Eric Drooker, renowned for his numerous covers for the New Yorker magazine, presents his latest book, titled NAKED CITY: A Graphic Novel. Eric Drooker will give a slide lecture about the changing landscape of the city and will also accompany himself on a variety of instruments as he will struggle to answer the question: "Is it possible for an artist to survive in the 21st Century?” This event is being presented in partnership with the Before Columbus Foundation.
Eric Drooker, a native of Manhattan, began creating street art as a teenager. His iconic drawings and posters have become hallmarks of the global street art movement, with dozens of his paintings appearing on the covers of The New Yorker.
His first book, Flood, won the American Book Award, and was followed by Blood Song, which is currently in development as a feature film. Naked…