Tue, Dec 01
|Book Society
Old Hollywood Holiday Gala with Daniel Henning
An evening of champagne, costumes and studio-era scandal with narrator Daniel Henning and Queer People, the lost 1930 Hollywood satire. Dress to the nines. Glamour strongly encouraged.
Time & Location
Dec 01, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Book Society, 2945 College Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705, USA
About the event
Lights, camera, cocktail attire! This December, Book Society is turning into a 1930s movie palace for one glittering night, and you're on the guest list.
Our guest of honor is Daniel Henning, the New York Times bestselling audiobook narrator behind more than 300 audiobooks, including TJ Klune's beloved The House in the Cerulean Sea and its sequel, Somewhere Beyond the Sea. A three-time Audie Award finalist, an East Bay child actor turned theater founder, and now a publisher, Daniel has spent a career giving voice to other people's stories. Lately, he's been rescuing one from oblivion.
That story is Queer People, Carroll and Garrett Graham's 1930 satire of early Hollywood: a madcap, gin-soaked romp through the studios, starlets and spectacularly bad behavior of the Jazz Age, written by two insiders who knew exactly where the bodies were buried. Then the book slipped out of print for the better part of a…
Tickets
Book Society Members
Ticket rate for active Book Society Members only. One ticket per member. Additional guest tickets should be purchased at General Admission rate. Or tell your friends to join ! Learn more about how to become a member today at www.booksociety.social/membership.
$60.00
+$1.50 ticket service fee
General Admission
Non-member ticket rate
$75.00
+$1.88 ticket service fee
Member Ticket + Book
Book Society Member Ticket + a copy of Queer People: A Madcap Jazz Age Satire of Hollywood’s Scandalous Eccentrics Ticket rate for active Book Society Members only. One ticket per member. Additional guest tickets should be purchased at General Admission rate. Or tell your friends to join ! Learn more about how to become a member today at www.booksociety.social/membership.
$79.00
+$1.98 ticket service fee
General Admission + Book
General Admission + copy of Queer People: A Madcap Jazz Age Satire of Hollywood’s Scandalous Eccentrics
$94.00
+$2.35 ticket service fee
Total
$0.00