Bookstore Cafe Blog
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Spring at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: Glen Hansard, Open Air Street Fair, BEA Parties, Lit Mags
In May, we’ve got lit mags galore as we welcome harlequin creature, Agriculture Reader, 6×6, Granta, Moonshot, and The Lowbrow Reader (just added to the bill: Wyatt Cenac!) for readings, music, comedy, and more at various events throughout this month. And we’re gearing up for a big June as we prepare for the best-ever Open Air Street Fair, an annual outdoor tradition wherein we take over all of the cobblestones on Crosby Street with dollar books, an Americana Jamboree from Two Boots, thrift finds, a food truck rally, and more. Also in June, we’re hosting BEA parties with two of our favorite bookternet buds, Bookrageous and Tumblr. Plus, we just announced the next benefit concert in our Live From Home series: Glen Hansard, of …
Posted on May 8, 2012 at 1:13 pm
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May at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: Tech Longreads, Coney Island, Lit Mags, Travel & Food
April showers bring the awesome at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe this May (see what I did there?). We’re celebrating everything from Coney Island, to a new food and travel show, to reinventing your life with The $100 Startup, to a night of storytelling and music with three of our favorite literary magazines, to a night of tech storytelling as part of Internet Week New York, and beyond. Note: The American Poet launch on Thursday 4/26 has moved to the powerHouse Arena in DUMBO and now there are free drinks.
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 1:27 pm
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April Showers at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: Vonnegut, Magic, Philip Levine, Guy Delisle and More
April showers of poetry and magic and more: Tonight we’re celebrating the life and work of Kurt Vonnegut. Next week join us for the second installment of the Better Book Club with Lev Grossman, Haley Tanner, magic, and comedy. April is, of course, National Poetry Month; stop by our Poetry Sale to stock up and impress your friends and more-than-friends, and on Monday 4/23 join Knopf, Tumblr, Poet Laureate Philip Levine, Tracy K. Smith for a Celebrate Poetry celebration. I tried to make this intro a poem but it turns out poetry is pretty hard.
Note: The Behind the Longreads with Kill Screen event previously scheduled for 4/17 has been postponed. The American Poet launch on Thursday 4/26 has moved to the powerHouse Arena …
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 1:00 pm
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In Like a Lion at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: National Poetry Month, Ask Roulette, The Baffler
April is definitely in like a lion here; we’ve got events almost every night. We’re kicking it off with McNally Jackson as we celebrate the return of The Baffler. We’re also celebrating Michael Robbins’ debut poetry collection — April is National Poetry Month, and there’s more to come — which is titled Alien vs. Predator, so it’s guaranteed to be awesome. Plus we’ve gathered some of our friends to celebrate Kurt Vonnegut on the fifth anniversary of his death with readings, and songs from the Bushwick Book Club. And the return of Ask Roulette, where it’s totally not creepy to ask strangers any question you want. And more! I told you, every night! See you soon.
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:14 pm
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March at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: Patti Smith, Slaughterhouse 90210, the New Yiderati and More
It’s spring (almost)! Emerge from your hibernation and start reading outside instead of inside! Eat lunch in the park! Switch to iced coffee! At HWBC, we’re springing forward with a bunch of great events featuring some our favorite bloggers, writers, and more. We’re redefining the Jewish experience in literature with the New Yiderati, the Jewish Book Council, and Vol 1 Brooklyn. We’ll be geeking out about Downton Abbey and Veronica Mars and such with Slaughterhouse 90210, our favorite books and TV Tumblr, plus great writers reading about pop culture; plus free drinks from sponsor Tumblr. And Patti Smith, rockstar poet and National Book Award winner, will be here to discuss the artistic life with Glenn Kurtz.
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:19 am
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Geek Week at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: Dragons, Science, Spelling, Trivia & More
Geeks and nerds of all stripes, rejoice! We love you (we are you) and we want to discount our books for you and invite you to our just-the-right-kind-of-geeky events. We’re kicking things off with a discussion of the past, present, and future in sci fi and fantasy at Dragons in Space (yes), and there’s free wine, and WORD bookstore will be there, so you have to come. And then you have to stay for a special science Adult Education, the return of the NYC Spelling Bee, and a Geeks vs. Nerds trivia happy hour. We’re also geeking out over the trio of literary superstars who will be here on March 12 for a reading with McSweeney’s. And every single event is free. May …
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 10:24 pm
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February at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: Amy Ray, The Rumpus, Anti-Foodie Foodies, & Taste of Home
February might be a short month but we sure packed a whole lot of awesome into it. Our Valentine’s week is in full swing: tonight We’ve Got Mail, and tomorrow we’re celebrating Sara Benincasa’s hilarious new memoir, Agorafabulous!, with free booze, Todd Hanson from The Onion, and Michael Kupperman (Mark Twain’s Autobiography 1910-2010, Tales Designed to Thrizzle, which made me laugh so hard I spit out my coffee on the G train once); Friday we’re keeping it going with Live From Home with Lost in the Trees, who sound like a Southern Bon Iver, beautiful and unsettling. Plus, next week we’re asking “Has Food Worship Jumped the Shark?” with food world stars from the page to the kitchen, and The Rumpus celebrates their new snail-mail …
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 1:56 pm
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February at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: Grand Pianos, You’ve Got Mail, Foodies and Live From Home
Valentine’s week at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe has everything, for valentines romantic or platonic, musical or literary: the return of Safe Space with New Yorker critic and author of How Fiction Works James Wood with classical pianist Jeremy Denk, which means we will have a grand piano inside the bookstore, an event in itself; a “Love Hurts” edition of The Moth; an interactive (as in you get to make dial-up modem sounds and more) of You’ve Got Mail, the indie bookstore cult classic; a launch party for comedian Sara Benincasa’s memoir of Agorafabulous!-ness; and a Live From Home with Lost in the Trees, orchestral pop (think Southern Bon Iver). Also, we’re proud to be the new home of Adult Education, and you can now enjoy …
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 7:43 pm
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