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Bookstore Cafe
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This month we’re proud to present readings from the weightiest topics to the most frivolous, storytelling and stand up, a free class on book collecting, and a killer concert for kids. Still can’t get enough Housing Works Bookstore? Follow our blog, which is updated daily with event news, fabulous photos, author quotes, and all the bookish minutia your little heart desires.
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Here is a true rarity: the first book by fiction writer and women’s movement icon Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Gilman, author of “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Herland”, married the artist Charles Walter Stetson in 1884 but suffered from post-partum depression after the birth of her daughter Katherine. She separated from Stetson in 1888 (the year this book was published) to move back to California, and the two eventually divorced in 1894. Gilman then devoted her life…
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Dear Friend, Housing. Medical Care. Food. This is a holiday wish list for the tens of thousands of homeless and low-income New Yorkers living with HIV and AIDS. As 2009 comes to a close, we ask Housing Works’ closest friends to consider making a year-end Membership or Annual Fund donation . Now, more than ever, your support is needed. Your donation will directly fund vital services to the children, women, and men of Housing Works.…
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This wonderful illustration of colonial Philadelphia is just one of Norman Rockell’s additions to Benjamin Franklin’s legendary Poor Richard Almanack. Franklin began publishing his almanack in 1732, and it was so wildly popular (eventually selling over 10,000 copies) that he put out new editions for 25 years. Even Napoleon Bonaparte was a fan, and had it translated into Italian (the French was already immensely popular). The Almanack contained many things – poems, meteorological and astronomical…
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The Evergreen Tales or Tales from the Ageless The stories we learn as children leave indelible impressions on us – as much for their continuous resurfacing in popular culture and metaphor as for the warm memories their words conjure up. If you grew up with fairy tales like “Hansel and Gretel,” “Beauty and the Beast,” and “The Ugly Duckling,” you’ll find this exquisite collection of nine illustrated stories in three folios truly irresistible. The full…
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Housing Works is proud to celebrate Banned Books week, and doubly proud to make available to readers all those books that have faced censorship in one form or another. It’s a startling fact that between 2001 and 2008, American Libraries have been faced with 3,736 challenges. The challenges have been based on “sexually explicit” material, “offensive language,” “homosexuality,” “religious viewpoints,” or that curious catch-all “anti-family” material. In 2008, some of the top ten most challenged…
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That’s right, folks, it’s back! This Saturday 9/26 is the return of our most popular event, The Open Air Street Fair! We’ll close Crosby street and fill it with books, records, CDs, videos, and DVDs for $1 or less! We’ll invite you to stuff bags of amazing vintage clothes for only $20! We’ll sell you beer and barbecue right out in the street! And, for the first time ever, we’ll ask some of our favorite…
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“It is a work of art, and if you read it, you will be changed.” No small praise for any book, but when the book in question is science fiction and the source of the praise is Ursula K. LeGuin, readers are likely to sit up and take note. In Camp Concentration, Thomas M. Disch describes an America of the future at war in southeast Asia. Three months after his imprisonment for being a conscientious…
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It’s been a great fall so far here at Housing Works Bookstore — Elvis Perkins even left us a harmonica! This month’s amazing events continue with readings, a quiz show, a story slam, a rollicking evening of indie rock occult lit, and the return of The Open Air Street Fair! There are still some tickets left for October’s Salman Rushdie and Dredg collaboration, which The Onion calls “either an inspired pairing or the result of…
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