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Warm Up For Sunday’s Downtown Literary Festival Kicks With Some Free Booze
(Illustration: Kate Gavino)To get people psyched for Sunday’s Downtown Literary Festival, tonight Housing Works Bookstore Cafe will host a happy hour from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., where the first 100 drinks...
View ArticleNan Goldin’s Goddaughter Scored a Major Book Deal For Her East Village Memoir
A 28-year-old child-actor turned photographer recently landed a six-figure book deal to tell the story of how she masqueraded as a boy while growing up in the East Village. According to Publisher’s...
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Lefty Lions Ralph Nader and Elizabeth Warren Are Plugging New Books
Just a few days after Chelsea Clinton announced at the Lower Eastside Girls Club that she’ll soon make Bill & Hill grandparents, Liberal Dream Week continues with a pair of progressive pols putting...
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Shakespeare & Co.: ‘We’re Not Going Anywhere Until Something Happens’
(Photo: Jenna Marotta)Last we checked in with Shakespeare & Co., it wasn’t ready to comment about rumors of a “possible closure.” Now manager Margot Liddell confirms that the bookstore can’t afford...
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You've Read These Writers on B+B, Now Hear Them Read IRL
Jesse Sposato. We’re proud + pleased to note that a couple of B+B contributors have readings coming up – right in our backyard! Aren’t we friggin’ literary? Jesse Sposato, whose Urban Campers series...
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These Brooklyn Literary Zine Publishers Take a Page From the Net
Gabby Bess at her workspace (Photo: Nicole Disser) Two new issues of established zines from Brooklyn-based writers and curators of the printed word are out and available as of the past few weeks. These...
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They Hate Us For Our Tweedom: a Closer Read of Marc Spitz’s Twee
The grandiose blurbs on the back cover of Marc Spitz’s Twee promise the reader a book that will analyze “the most polarizing and important youth movement since hop-hop,” and one that will do so “in the...
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James Franco Is Sliding Down the Strand’s Chimney
(Photo: James Franco’s Facebook) Want to sit in James Franco’s lap? We’re not sure he’ll let you do that (not after that slip-up with the 17-year-old) but he has donned a Santa suit in anticipation of...
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Open Wide for Mouthfeel, a Queer-Punk-Food Mag That Goes Deeper
inside Mouthfeel issue #1 When first you glance at Mouthfeel and prepare to take it all in, you might think: it couldn’t get more niche than this. And in some ways, you might be right. A food magazine...
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Jessamyn Hope Kibitzes About Her Kibbutz Novel, Safekeeping
Jessamyn Hope “I’m so happy with the cover. I really didn’t want it to be some woman’s sandals in the sand,” says Jessamyn Hope of her new novel Safekeeping, which launches tonight at Book Court in...
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In New Novel, Youngblood, the Iraq War is a Ghost Story
A new novel from Greenpoint-based author, Matt Gallagher (Photo: Nicole Disser) I’d just barely cracked Matt Gallagher’s debut novel, Youngblood, and, to my surprise, I was really, sincerely into it....
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