February 2012
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WatchUkulele superstar and Kickstarter Julia Nunes talks to Nonstop New York after her show at the bookstore last month!
WatchCheck out at NYC New York or next time you’re in a yellow cab! You might spot some familiar faces in our feature. (via Crosby Street Shopping Guide | NBC New York)
Other Things: ONE HUNDRED WORDS OF HEARTBREAK →
THE CONTEST: One hundred words of heartbreak. The heartbreak does not have to have taken place on Valentine’s Day. The heartbreak does not have to be yours. The heartbreak can be yours. The heartbreak does not require a take-away or silver lining. Usually, it’s better if it doesn’t. THE JUDGE:
YES YES YES I love Alison’s contests! And this is keeping with...
WatchFrom the band’s name I expected simple folk and was stunned to hear what felt like an entire orchestra pour out of my tiny minivan speaker.
Ari Picker has a knack for creating expansive songs that still remain privately his own. “Red,” from the band’s new album A Church That Fit Our Needs is dramatic and dark without veering into exaggeration or pure macabre.
—Dan Raby,...
the skint - free and cheap new york. every day →
7pm: monthly lecture series adult education presents ‘miscellany’, where you’ll learn about curing cabin fever, making money off #ows, what it takes to be a ceo, the real-life version of thor, and the origins of gospel blues via seinfeld, john tesh and star trek. housing works bookstore (new location), free.
It’s true! Tonight!
“Call me dictatorial, but I don’t think anyone should read for longer than twenty...”
– How to Be an Indie Bookseller’s Dream - Speakeasy - WSJ
PREACH IT, EMMA.
"Not to Put Too Fine a Point Upon It": How Dickens... →
Among writers quoted in the current edition of the OED, Dickens lags behind only Shakespeare, Scott, Chaucer, Milton, and Dryden for total number of citations (9,218). No one in the past two centuries comes close. Of the Dickens citations in the OED, 258 citations are the earliest recorded by the dictionary for a particular word, and 1,586 are the earliest for a particular sense of a word.
Register to be a World Book Night 2012 Giver →
Do you love a book so much you want everyone to read it?
World Book Night launched in the UK in 2011 and saw passionate readers across that beautiful country, give 1 million books to light or non readers to spread the joy and love of reading. Reading changes lives and at the heart of World Book Night lies the simplest of ideas and acts - that of putting a book into another person’s hand and...
“Housing Works is a great place for a reading. Its large, open room was outfitted...”
– The Coffin Factory Issue Release Party at Housing Works | The Outlet: the Blog of Electric Literature
Great writeup of last night’s great Coffin Factory party at Electric Lit! Coffin Factory kindly donated some issue twos, swing by and pick one up.
The Millions : Dashboard? More Like Bookshelf:... →
“Safe Space”: Housing Works Bookstore Café : The... →
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN: ABOVE AND BEYOND
“SAFE SPACE”
Housing Works’ new series in which a musician performs and a writer reads, and then the two talk, continues with the pianist Jeremy Denk, who wrote in these pages recently about the perils of making a recording, and the critic James Wood, a critic for this magazine. (Housing Works Bookstore Café, 126 Crosby St. 212-334-3324. Feb. 13 at...
underwater
This one’s for Jody, who at Ask Roulette last night admitted he was crushed when a friend told him you had to be a woman to really understand Didion’s writing and he was like, “well, damn.”
kelsfjord:
JOAN DIDION: So I abandoned the idea of being an oceanographer, but I can see myself still as an oceanographer, if I could get to that point.
BLVR: Does it seem like a...
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This is the most excited I’ve been about planks of wood since that time I was nearly murdered by pirates. - Dan
Next Monday, February 6th, we’re ripping up our shabby carpeting and installing wood floors! To accomplish this, we need to box up books and move shelves, then put the shop back together again on Monday night. Can you help us? It will be a fun community effort...
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Longreads: The New York Observer covers our... →
longreads:
The New York Observer covers our “Behind The Longreads” event with New York magazine:
“It’s somehow thrilling and somewhat unbelievable that there is now a thriving community of lovers of long-form periodical nonfiction,” Mr. Moss told a packed audience of readers and—judging by the…
January 2012
A Review: The Letter All Your Friends Have Written...
PARTY TONIGHT, here, for this book! It’s free! There’s going to be music! And poetry, duh.
booksmatter:
The distinguishing feature of this poetry collection is not, in fact, the poems—though they are good—but the book’s genesis. As Tishon and Meissner explain in the introduction: “…we’ve been friends for roughly five years. In those five years we’ve shared countless letters. These...
