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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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Apr
Apr
This week at HWBC:
(Exciting lineup is ~NOT~ an April Fools joke)
TONIGHT we are proud to present kickass lady Kelly Oxford in conversation with fellow kickass lady Olivia Wilde about Oxford’s new book Everything is Perfect When You’re a Liar.
Tomorrow reunited 90s darlings Spacehog perform Live From Home at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe! Tickets are still available — buy them for $15 here or enter to win a pair via Flavorpill!
Wednesday, Tumblr and Forced Meme team up for a STFU Parents books shower! Enjoy beermosas and games with proud parents Blair Koenig and Perigee Books as well as special guests Eliot Glazer, Judy McGuire, Chris Mohney, and Julieanne Smolinski.
Friday our regular happy hour gets a kick of bluegrass and pizza with Two Boots Presents Americana Jamboree, featuring music from Odetta Hartman, Cricket Tell the Weather, and Toot Sweet.
Finally Saturday and Sunday is the first weekend in April (WHAT) so come on in for our monthly sale — 30% off everything!
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Feb
Feb
Librarians: we know you’re stuck sitting in a chair most of the day. Why not get fit with this insane, super bizarre librarian workout from 1987?!
The Betty Glover Librarian Workout ad is awesome. It has: Van Halen music (and so much other great 80s music that it’s impossible to list it all), an old lady (Betty Glover) with a riding crop (and this predates Fifty Shades of Grey by over 20 years!), and librarians exercising. (via Betty Glover Librarian Workout Tape Ad (VIDEO))
This, including riding crop wielding, will now be mandatory procedure for all HWBC booksellers.
09
Dec
Dec
Conversations with Women | About
In a recent article in the New Inquiry, Emily Cooke has dubbed them the “new semi-autobiographers.” Them: Kate Zambreno, Sheila Heti, Eileen Myles, Dodie Bellamy, Chris Kraus. They narrate their inner lives. Making their mess public (blood stains and all). They unearth the political from the personal; everyday as a revolution. Every sentence as an utterance against the silencing of the feminine. This uncensored self as a profound feminist act.
What if it weren’t just writers? What if it were all of us? Women, writing ourselves in, writing to each other, writing. Sharing.
This is what I want: I want women (writers, artists, thinkers, secretaries, doctors, lovers, human beings) to share their conversations with other women. There are two rules:
(1) It must be a conversation with another woman or women — e.g. letter, email, telephone call, IM, text message. The format can be: image, video, audio, text.
(2) It must not be fictional. It must be an actual conversation.
Send submissions to Siân Evans at conversationswithwomen@gmail.com.
Cool new Tumblr project! Click above to read the entire “about” and send in your submissions to Siân, who is amazing.
16
Nov
Nov
The Tumblr Prep! lineup drops knowledge on your ass (L-R: Jen Adams/The Books They Gave Me, Phil Edwards/Fake Science 101, Michelle Legro/My Daguerreotype Boyfriend, Jason Oberholtzer/I Love Charts) (via 11.15.12 - Tumblr Prep! A Night of Literary Education - HAVE BOOTH WILL TRAVEL)
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Nov
Nov
Here’s what’s coming up this week at The Bookstore:
Design Rebels Unite | TONIGHT 7pm | A panel of talented designers tackle the curious conundrum that design professionals face when attempting to make their work meaningful while still paying the rent.
The Moth StorySLAM: Wash | Tuesday, 7pm | One of the most well known and storied story telling events in the city. $8 at the door, and it always sells out, so come early.
First We Take Manhattan: Leonard Cohen | Wednesday, 7pm | Authors Syvlie Simmons and Alan Light along with musician Suzanne Vega and producer John Lissauer take on the legacy of the renowned songwriter.
Tumblr Prep!: The Books They Gave Me, Fake Science 101, I Love Charts, and My Daguerrotype Boyfriend | Thursday, 7pm | Let Tumblr educate you on the stuff you really need to know. And like any good educational experience, there’ll be free booze!
Festa Brasiliera: Celebrating Granta 121: The Best of Young Brazilian Novelists | Friday, 7pm | Join Granta and a slew of youthful Brazilian writers providing the best in their country’s unique brand of literature.
Moby Dick Marathon NYC | Saturday, 10am - 3pm, Sunday 10am - 4pm | Housing Works is proud to host to the first ever marathon reading of Herman Melville’s classic American epic, Moby Dick. The marathon starts at WORD in Brooklyn on Friday night and continues with us through the rest of the weekend. There will be merchandise from Out Of Print, chowder provided by Littleneck, original works from the artist Matt Kish, and beer from Sixpoint.
And don’t forget about:
Cookbook Sale | Nov. 12 - 21 | Housing Works Bookstore is the perfect place for all your cookbook needs. Like much of our selection, normally expensive cookbooks are much less expensive here. Add a 30% discount to that, and you can afford enough cookbooks to get you from this Thanksgiving to the next one.
24
Sep
Sep
Home No. 5: EAT YOUR FEELINGS: Stories of Food, Jews & Your Mom, November 1
Speaking of readings, did I mention that I am having a Manhattan launch party for The Middlesteins at Housing Works on November 1? It will be called EAT YOUR FEELINGS: Stories of Food, Jews & Your Mom. It is sponsored by the great people at Tumblr, who will be providing free drinks.
Look who will be joining me!
- Gabrielle Bell (The Voyeurs)
- Jason Diamond (Vol 1. Brooklyn)
- Rachel Fershleiser (Tumblr Literary Outreach, Six-Word Memoirs)
- Emily Gould (And The Heart Says Whatever)
- Eliot Glazer (My Parents Were Awesome)
- Maris Kreizman (Slaughterhouse 90210)
- Beth Lisick (Everybody Into the Pool, Helping Me Help Myself)
- Rosie Schaap (The New York Times Magazine “Drink” columnist, the forthcoming Drinking with Men)
- Bex Schwartz (VH1)
Coincidentally this actually also falls on my birthday and I will be 29 years old (I will not be 29 years old) so come celebrate!
This will be so, so great you guys. Save the date.
24
Sep
Sep
Have you missed the Jolie-Pitt family’s unique styles since they’ve been abroad? Screen-printing, Justin Bieber’s old haircut, Angelina’s weekend-Maleficent clothes … I haven’t even missed judging them.
I can’t believe we ever let these people become celebrities.
Tomorrow! Here! Free! Suri’s Burn Book (Allie Hagan) + F*ck! I’m in My 20s (Emma Koenig) + Tumblr + Free Drinks + you, obviously, because that = Awesome.
18
Sep
Sep
13 September 2012 Cole Stryker Hacking the Future w/ danah boyd, Clay Shirky (by NewYorkRawVideos)
Missed last Thursday’s panel on anonymity, privacy, and identity on the web for Hacking the Future? Here’s the whole thing on video. SPOILER ALERT: There wasn’t actually a guy named Homer, WTF.
04
Sep
Sep
Posted one day late because I can only assume you were all barbecuing yesterday while I was laboring away at reading the entire bookternet for you. It’s cool.
- Tuesday, September 4 at 7PM, Free
How Not to Read: Harnessing the Power of a Literature-Free Life with Dan Wilbur, Community Bookstore, Perigee, and Tumblr
Tonight kick’s off our fall season with HOW NOT TO READ, the first book from Better Book Titles’ Dan Wilbur. Dan is a comedian and a bookseller, the most dangerous combination of things to be, so he invited some friends along: Chris Gethard, Elna Baker, Adam Newman, and Community Bookstore. Plus free drinks while they last thanks to sponsor Perigee!
- Wednesday, September 5 at 10:30AM / $5 per family
Storytime and Singalong for Kids
Our baby and kid’s storytime and singalong is back! Bring the little ones (ages zero to three) to dance when the spirit says dance. Every Wednesday at 10:30AM.
- Wednesday, September 5 at 7PM / FREE
Adult Education Presents: The Political Animal
As Election Day approaches Adult Education — a monthly lecture series devoted to making useless knowledge somewhat less useless – returns from summer hiatus with DAVID HILL, “Give Metta World Peace A Chance” and PHIL CAMPBELL, “Strange Bedfellow.” Hosted, as ever, by Charles Star.
- Friday, September 7 at 6:30PM / FREE
Two Boots Americana Jamboree
A boot-stompin’, down-home edition of our happy hour, featuring music from Dan Whitener, Young Lungs, Odetta Hartman, and more. Plus our regular Friday Night Happy Hour specials ($12 beer buckets!) and pizza, of course. Presented by Two Boots pizza, Americana Jamboree is the first Friday of every month. Full honky tonk regalia encouraged: Western shirts, bolo ties, and your party boots!
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Aug
Aug
“The website gets a lot of traffic on Tumblr, with most posts generating more than 100 re-bloggings or “likes” from other Tumblr users. So what started out as a trend for the villains in a movie, something that made them seem over the top, has now turned into an accepted way to critique the lives of others.”
Haters gonna hate.
Tumblrs gonna publish.
And party.
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“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.”
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This Week's Readings
MONDAY: Book launch for Lisa Hanawalt’s My Dirty Dumb Eyes, a...
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Coffee and yogurt outside all summer long on my new twee as hell bistro set from gardeners.com.
