United Kingdom, Sept. 6 -- Steve Buscemi stunned a Brooklyn audience when he stepped to the podium at an erotic literary event and read aloud a notoriously graphic love letter by James Joyce.

The actor, 67, appeared at Laura Desiree's Eros Unbound night at the Red Pavilion in Bushwick, and read the work, including its repeated references to "dirty farts" in front of a star-studded crowd including Austin Butler.

Attendees told Page Six the Fargo star delivered Irish literary icon Joyce's famous letter to his partner Nora Barnacle with theatrical flair - even adopting an Irish accent as he described the writer's sexual fixation on what he called his "dirty little f***bird".

An audience member told the outlet: "He had the crowd in stitche...