Hearth Gods is a bi-monthly reading series at Jimmy's No. 43, at 43 East 7th Street in the East Village of New York City. Curated by M. Yates Crowley. Email list: myc [at] hearthgods [dot com]

Next Reading: March 12!

Romantic love, in the full sense of the term, is an emotion possible only to the man (or woman) of unbreached self-esteem: it is his response to his own highest values in the person of another—an integrated response of mind and body, of love and sexual desire. Such a man (or woman) is incapable of experiencing a sexual desire divorced from spiritual values. — Ayn Rand