Bookstore Cafe Blog
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Housing Works Events: Suzanne Vega, Wells Tower, Jeffrey Lewis, Tea Partiers, Mosques, and Karaoke.
We’ve just announced some fabulous fall music news! We’re partnering with our friends at Stereogum to present a rare intimate performance with pioneering singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega and opener indie folk artist Dawn Landes. Buy tickets now! We’re also proudly joining forces with Alternet, Kickstarter, Harper’s, and The Lowbrow Reader, to bring you progressive politics, creative endeavors, spooky Halloween readings, and indie singers and comedians. Won’t you join us too?
Posted on February 4, 2010 at 2:43 am
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Housing. Medical Care. Food.
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. All the things we so often take for granted, are what our clients wish for the most.
Of course, there are other ways to help. Whether you donate items to the Housing Works Book Store Café, Thrift Shops, or purchase unique holiday gifts for your …
Posted on December 10, 2009 at 6:35 pm
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Rare Book Feature of the Week!
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 information among them – but is today most famous for Franklin’s proverbs and aphorisms, such as “He who lives upon hope will die fasting.”
This collectible volume, produced by the Limited Editions Club in 1964, weds Franklin’s earthy, homespun wisdom with the splendidly colorful and organized compositions of Norman Rockwell. …
Posted on November 13, 2009 at 11:37 pm
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Rare Book Feature of the Week!
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 set of nine volumes kept in three bright clipcases also includes “Bluebeard,” “Jack and the Beanstalk,” “Saint George and the Dragon,” “Dick Whittington and His Cat,” “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood,” and “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.” Each is exquisitely illustrated and signed by Jean Hersholt, Edy Legrand, …
Posted on November 6, 2009 at 11:43 pm
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Banned Book Week 2009!
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 books were Phillip Pullman’s Dark Materials Trilogy (for political viewpoints, religious viewpoints, and violence), The Kite Runner (offensive language, sexually explicit material, and for being unsuited to age group), and Uncle Bobby’s Wedding (you guessed it, homosexuality and unsuited to age group). But these books merely join a vast and …
Posted on October 2, 2009 at 10:04 pm
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Housing Works presents Salman Rushdie, Dan Zanes, Mountain Goats, Arthur Russell, and a Street Fair!
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 bands to play for you right in the middle of it all! It’s pretty much the best day ever, and if you miss it, you’ll be sad.
Other thing not to miss: A free DVD screening and show with Dan Zanes for the little ones. A collaboration between …
Posted on September 23, 2009 at 1:52 am
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Rare Book Feature of the Week!
“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 objector, poet Louis Sacchetti is transferred to an underground military compound, Camp Archimedes. Here, in the “camp concentration” of the title, he and the other inmates are fed a drug that increases their IQs to genius levels, while slowly killing them. Sacchetti’s written records of day-to-day life inside Archimedes …
Posted on September 18, 2009 at 9:59 pm
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September at Housing Works Bookstore: Comedy, Kids, Quizzes, Russians, Ryan Adams, and a Street Fair
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 a serious miscommunication.” And check out the newly announced line-up for our literary quiz show; you’ll have a chance to take on the biggest book-blogging talent out there.
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Posted on September 14, 2009 at 1:11 am
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