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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 |
TOMORROW: Lauren Oyler and Sheila Heti!
| Tomorrow we are very proud to be hosting the latest virtual stop for Lauren Oyler and her bestselling debut novel Fake Accounts, this time with a very special guest, Sheila Heti! This will be a very special event from two major writers – you won’t want to miss it.
Any upcoming book bought from our webstore with a “Pre-Order Now” button can be bought and we’ll have it ready for you as soon as it comes out! |
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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!
Park Slope Dumbo Industry City Thank you!! |
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Upcoming Virtual Book Launches!
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Book Launch: Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler in conversation with Sheila Heti Wednesday, February 24, 7-8PM“This novel made me want to retire from contemporary reality. I loved it.” —Zadie SmithA 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).Register here Buy the book |
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Virtual Book Launch: Abundance by Jakob Guanzon in conversation with Mina Hamedi Set in the fluorescent aisles of Walmart and the booths of Red Lobster, in discount motels and trucks, Jakob Guanzon’s debut novel Abundance reveals the inequities and anxieties around work, debt, addiction, incarceration, and health care in America today. Henry and his son, Junior, are down to their last few dollars and living in their truck, only six months after being evicted. But there is still some hope: today is Junior’s birthday, and Henry has a job interview tomorrow |
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Virtual Book Launch: Creative Types by Tom Bissell in conversation with Adrienne Miller Tom Bissell vividly renders the complex worlds of characters on the brink of artistic and personal crisis–writers, actors, and other creative types who see things slightly differently from the rest of us. Surreal, poignant, squirmingly awkward–and always just a little bit off–this collection is a brilliant new offering from one of the most versatile and talented writers in America today. |
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| Did you miss Victor Wooten? Click below for video of the event! Click below for video of the event! |
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Featured Picks From Our Staff!
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a Soldiers of Salamis I read this because I heard Roberto Bolaño was a character in it, and then remembered him writing about it favorably, and put two and two together – it is a book unavoidably in the Bolañoverse, almost completely contained by it. But the book is Cercas’, one Bolaño never could write, not about the historical fascist writer during the Spanish Civil War but the soldier who doesn’t kill the fascist writer, or maybe was just near the fascist writer, using Bolaño’s methods of sparkling hyper-fictionalized real life to slingshot beyond, into humanity just beyond the reach of words. Buy here |
Megan’s Pick In The Dream House When Carmen Maria Machado was in grad school, she was in a same-sex abusive relationship that left her struggling to regain her sense of safety and herself. After years of searching for the words to tell the story, Machado has bravely written a powerful and inventive memoir that explores her experience through narrative themes including horror tropes, “choose your own adventure” style page skipping, and fantasy elements. Infused with research on what it means to be a queer abuse survivor, Machado’s memoir is a must-read. Buy here |
Nick’s Pick: The Overstory This powerful and swirling novel attempts to explore and solidify our connections to the natural world, and more specifically trees. Told through the perspectives of characters from disparate backgrounds, their stories converge to become a poetic and harrowing portrait of humankind’s effect on the earth and a group of people trying to save it. It is more a call to action than a narrative and Powers’ dynamic and lyric prose sets a compassionate yet fierce tone. This is a powerful novel which will make you question your relationship to our dying world and if there’s any way to stop it. Buy here |
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