• January at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: Banjo, Poetry, Philanthropy, Film, and Three Crazy Sales.

  ….And we’re back! We’re starting off 2011 right — with billions of bargains, an eclectic slate of readings and concerts and panels oh my, and a brand new La Marzocco espresso machine that’s kicking our coffee into a new decade of delicious.

  Plus, now you can buy all your books from Housing Works Bookstore Cafe – no matter where you live. Search for any book at shophousingworks.com. Low prices and free shipping on every book we stock! Even if we don’t have it, we’ll send you to an Amazon.com page where your purchase still supports Housing Works.

  Posted on December 29, 2010 at 12:52 am

• Upcoming Early Closings

  The bookstore will be closing:

  1/20 at 6:00pm

  Thank you for understanding our fundraising efforts!

  Posted on December 29, 2010 at 12:49 am

• Happy Holidays at Housing Works: Francine Prose, Jonathan Ames, Mary Gaitskill, and Gifts Galore.

  This December, everyone’s a member! Get 10% off everything all month long or join up for 30% off! Get great gifts for everyone on your list while you sip a cocoa and listen to Dickens with some of our favorite writers and performers.

  Plus, now you can buy all your books from Housing Works Bookstore Cafe – no matter where you live. Search for any book at shophousingworks.com. Low prices and free shipping on every book we stock! Even if we don’t have it, we’ll send you to an Amazon.com page where your purchase still supports Housing Works.

  Posted on December 15, 2010 at 12:18 am

• December at Housing Works: Bobby Long, Big Sales, Jonathan Ames and Mary Gaitskill Read Dickens.

  This December, everyone’s a member! Come try on our glorious 10% discount for size. Not big enough? Come to this weekend’s 30% off sale or join up for 30% discounts all month long!

  Housing Works Bookstore Cafe is your holiday gift solution, offering everything from rare first editions to brand new cookbooks, art books, stationery, DVDs, and toys. We even gift wrap! Or give a gift card or gift membership — it’s as good-hearted as donating to charity but your giftee still gets goodies!

  Feeling Scroogey? Forget the gifts! Buy yourself a beer and settle in for live music, slam storytelling, or a damn lot of Dickens.

  Posted on November 30, 2010 at 11:57 pm

• I’m Thankful for November at Housing Works Bookstore: Julie Powell, Bobby Long, and Blowout Sales.

  Tonight, legendary food writer Julie Powell reads from Cleaving, a memoir of marriage, meat, and more, in a free event focusing on international cooking. Plus, tickets are already on sale to see British singer-songwriter Bobby Long in a rare New York appearance. Buy them here. Or just join us for Moth stories, music writers, and a Black Friday blowout that’ll knock out your gifting list in one shockingly affordable socially conscious go!

  Posted on November 16, 2010 at 11:01 pm

• November at Housing Works Bookstore: Jeffrey Lewis, Suzanne Vega, Julie Powell, Spelling and Zines!

  

  Tonight! Learn about comics, photography, and design with Kickstarter. Tomorrow! The Lowbrow Reader hosts comedy and music including Jeffrey Lewis and Hess Is More. Friday! Relive or redeem your grade school humiliations, but with beer! Plus, there are still tickets for Suzanne Vega and Dawn Landes. Buy them here. Or come for sales, slams, mosques, music writing, foodie fun, zines and more, all month long.

  Posted on November 2, 2010 at 8:58 pm

• Rare Book Feature of the Week!

  

  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 to writing and activism, and she was an intellectual leader for such movements as birth control, immigration reform, women’s physical fitness, and even euthanasia. “In her time,” critics have written, “she was certainly the leading intellectual of the woman’s movement in the United States.” This book reproduces classic paintings which …

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  Posted on February 26, 2010 at 11:34 pm

• 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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