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We’re so excited to be back!We’ve implemented health and hygiene procedures so that everyone can safely shop. Just a few quick guidelines:
Park Slope Dumbo Industry City (new location) Thank you!! —Daniel & Susanne & Chris & Megan & Nick & Brittany |
Catch up on our virtual events!
| Did you know we have over sixty virtual events recorded on YouTube that you can catch up on now? COVID has been rough, but that means we’ve been a durable source for online content, and you can count on it going forward. Check out eminences like Wayne Koestenbaum, Leslie Jamison, Ishmael Reed, Karen Russell and Carmen Maria Machado! And of course you can still buy their books from our website, including signed copies!
The literary year of 2021 has officially begun, and you can buy the latest releases from any of our three stores, including books like the wildly acclaimed debut from Robert Jones, Jr., the buzzy new novel for word buffs from Eley Williams, the desparately needed level-headed manifesto on and guidebook to drugs from Dr. Carl L. Hart, memoirs from Nadia Owusu and Gabriel Byrne, a seminar in book form from George Saunders, views on race and reconciliation from Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar and Michael Eric Dyson, the last, urgent lectures from Mark Fisher, and a timely look at Martin Luther King, Jr. from Stephen and Paul Kendrick. |
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| We are now OPEN seven days a week in our THREE stores – bring your mask and wallet and get ready to shop and support your local indie bookstore!
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Upcoming Virtual Book Launches!
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Book Launch: God I Feel Modern Tonight by Catherine Cohen Join CATHERINE COHEN for a one-of-a-kind book launch experience! Attendees will meet in the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge for a socially distanced, open air walk and reading down to POWERHOUSE Arena in Dumbo, where they’ll receive their books and Catherine will sign them! For anyone who isn’t in the city, we’ll also be doing a simultaneous livestream. For virtual or physical attendees, the price is $5 for general admission and $20 for a signed book – which you can pick up or have shipped! |
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Virtual Book Launch: Widowish by Melissa Gould in conversation with Robin Finn In her literary debut, award-winning television writer, Melissa Gould, shares her story of heartache and resilience in the wake of unimaginable loss. The popular author of the New York Times essay “My Husband Died and All I Got Was This Sweatshirt” and the Los Angeles Times piece, “Can One Person Have Two Soulmates?” has reclaimed what it means to be a widow. |
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Book Launch: Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler in conversation with Sheila Heti “This novel made me want to retire from contemporary reality. I loved it.” —Zadie Smith A woman in a tailspin discovers that her boyfriend is an anonymous online conspiracy theorist in this “incisive” and “funny” debut novel that “brilliantly captures the claustrophobia of lives led online and personae tested in the real world” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). |
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Featured Picks From Our Staff!
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a Mumbo Jumbo An infectious dance craze as the soul of Blackness in an alternate history of civilization truer than the “official” records, none of the dad-joke cheese of Pynchon and more densely well read, but with the same premonitory vision of America’s conspiratorial soul, but deeper and more fraught, both metaphor for and example of racism and suppression of Black accomplishment, hardly more than 200 pages with illustrations but encompassing all of recorded history, and enough packed in to give a different reading every time. If you believe that great American writing is destined to fulfill the world’s myths with the outsider vernacular of our culture, what you see in books like Moby Dick or The Making of Americans or Libra then this is maybe the Great American Novel; Dionysian Afrocentrism revealed as the pendulum controlling time. Offhandedly hilarious and incisively observant of the American situation, as relevant tomorrow as it was fifty years ago. |
Megan’s Pick I’ll Be Gone in the Dark True crime journalist Michelle McNamara spent the last years of her life deeply obsessed with the then unsolved case of the infamous Golden State Killer. She scoured thousands of police reports and other documents, tracking down clues all over the internet with fellow civilian detectives and law enforcement officials alike. They were all searching for the violent psychopathic serial rapist and murderer who had terrorized California for over ten years before vanishing. After Michelle’s sudden death in 2016, her book was finished by her lead researcher and a fellow crime journalist using notes that Michelle left behind. Michelle’s enthralling writing immerses you in the time of the Golden State Killer attacks and will keep you awake at night. Part true crime story and part the story of Michelle’s obsession with a killer she never got to see brought to justice, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark is an instant classic. Buy here |
Nick’s Pick: Sleepless Nights Caught somewhere between fiction, memoir and collage, Sleepless Nights is a cerebral series of vignettes which follow a woman whose circumstances closely follows Hardwick’s. This book is a meditation on a life and trades plot for layers of deep description and thought. Hardwick was a dynamic critic, founder of The New York Review of Books and a courageous writer whose language drives this book forward, page by page, scene by scene. Buy here a a |
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POWERHOUSE is voted one of the 10 best things to do in Dumbo, Brooklyn by Conde Nast Traveler. Check it out! Travel + Leisure selects POWERHOUSE as one of the World’s Coolest Bookstores. POWERHOUSE on 8th in Park Slope joins neighborhood solar panel community. Check it out here. Follow The POWERHOUSE ARENA on your favorite platform to stay up-to-date on all of our upcoming events: Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Instagram. |
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