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We are a nonprofit bookstore, cafe, and event space in downtown NYC. All proceeds from every show you attend and everything you buy, down to a record and a PBR, go directly to our mission of fighting AIDS and homelessness. 126 Crosby Street, NYC
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Nov
Updated list of readers below for tomorrow’s reading of Bartleby, the Scrivener at the public atrium at 60 Wall Street. The reading is free and open to all; we’ll have portions of the text available for walk-up readers. Attendees are encouraged to bring donations for OWS; according to Haywood Carey of our panel on Monday, duct tape and blankets are currently needed.
- Nitsuh Abebe, New York magazine
- Jami Attenberg, The Melting Season
- Amanda Bullock, your Housing Works blogger
- Ryan Chapman, FSG
- Joshua Cohen, A Heaven of Others
- Allison Devers, Writers’ Houses
- Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries
- Rachel Fershleiser, Internet superstar and inventor of six-word memoirs
- Molly Fischer, journalist
- David Goodwillie, American Subversive
- Michele Hardesty, People’s Library
- Michelle Legro, editor, Lapham’s Quarterly
- Sam MacLaughlin, McNally Jackson Books
- Maureen Miller, editor, Rap Genius
- Eileen Myles, Inferno
- Maud Newton, When the Flock Changed
- Tom Roberge, New Directions
- Sarah Sarai
- Erich Strom
- Brendan Jay Sullivan, Texts, Drugs and Rock’n’Roll
- Adam Wilson, Flatscreen
- James Yeh, editor, Gigantic
- Daniel Zilio
Thank you to Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, McNally Jackson Books, and Justin Taylor for organizing; and to the People’s Library at Occupy Wall Street and to Melville House, publisher of the Art of the Novella edition of Bartleby, the Scrivener, for their support.
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