• Happy Holidays from Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: 10% Off All December, Dickens, Lit Mag Party

  

  Stop by this month to admire our new look and enjoy 10% off everything the entire month of December; 30% off for members, so if you’ve been thinking of joining now is the time. Our elves are stocking great gifts for everyone on your list, including gift cards and gift memberships, and we’ve extended our Sunday hours to 7PM. This month is also brings one of my absolute favorite events of the year, our now-annual marathon reading of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Click through below to see the amazing lineup. This week we’ve got another all-star cast reading from Best Music Writing 2011, and next week we’ll be getting down with our favorite local literary magazines at what I hope is the first annual …

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  Posted on December 6, 2011 at 5:42 pm

• Cornucopia of Amazing at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: NYC Music, Emily Books, Ask Roulette & Sales

  There’s a lot to be thankful for this month at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: We are currently undergoing a makeover and will unveil our new look at the Black Friday Blowout Sale and Friday Night Happy Hour. Next week is packed with amazing events, followed by the monthly sale, a December-long holiday sale, and a Live From Home benefit concert with Brooklyn’s own Kevin Devine. Plus we’re planning the first annual (hopefully) Lit Mag Office Party and the second annual “A Christmas Carol” marathon. To top it all off we’ve extended Sunday shopping hours in December until 7PM. Give thanks, enjoy the holiday tomorrow, and we’ll see you soon.

  Posted on November 22, 2011 at 4:25 pm

• November at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: Mick & Keith, Black Friday Sale, Emily Books, Ask Roulette

  

  The good news is that we’re getting a makeover, fresh paint and new floors. The bad news is that HWBC will be closed Sunday 11/20 through Thanksgiving, 11/24. The good news is we’re going to do our best to make it up to you with a huge blowout sale on Black Friday, with 30 percent off everything and an extra-special Friday Night Happy Hour. So already cheap books at even cheaper prices, and already cheap beer in even cheaper buckets! Plus an amazing month of events coming up, including two great music events: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, the NYC music scene in the ground-breaking mid-seventies, and both featuring special guests. And our Cookbook Sale, on all cookbooks and food writing, has been …

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  Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:23 pm

• This Month at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: From Wall Street to Paris to New Orleans and More

  

  We’ve been busy preparing tricks and treats for our Granta magazine Halloween party on Monday. We dug out all of the Christopher Pike and R. L. Stine we could find for the swag bags, added National Book Award nominee Julie Otsuka to the bill, and are preparing our costumes to look good in the free photo booth. The October awesome seeps right on into November, kicking off with a memoir of New Orleans and food and a conversation about the Occupy Wall Street movement with n+1. Recover at our weekly happy hour, 4 to 8PM every Friday, with specials on bottles of wine and beer buckets and board games for your amusement.

  Posted on October 21, 2011 at 2:42 pm

• Scary Stories at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: Storychord, Clowes & Seth, Adam Ross, Coffin Factory

  Tear your eyes away from the changing leaves, pull on your apple-picking boots, tie your scarf on a little tighter, and prepare yourself for a crazy good October. Kick it off with I Like Your New Glasses, the nerdtastic mixer (now with lasers!), tomorrow night. Tell some scary stories in the dark (well, sort of dark) at Around the Campfire, with spooky music, ghost stories, a campfire-themed art installation, and s’mores (S’MORES). Talk of chain-smoking ray-gun-wielding teenage superheroes and great northern Canaidan cartoonists with Daniel Clowes and Seth. Delve into the dark side of marriage and peanut allergies at the inaugural Better Book Club discussion of Mr. Peanut. Plus readings with Poets & Writers, new lit mag The Coffin Factory, and a journalism panel …

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  Posted on October 11, 2011 at 4:01 pm

• October at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: I Like Your Glasses, Ghost Stories, Daniel Clowes & Seth

  October! It’s officially fall, the gourds come out to play, you put away the flip-flops and switch to tights and boots, it’s perfectly acceptable to drink apple cider daily, and there is so much awesome at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe I don’t even know where to begin. Seriously. Look at this! Lasers at I Like Your Glasses, s’mores around the campfire with Storychord.com, two of the best comics artists working today in conversation, a benefit concert with a country music legend, and more. You should just plan on spending most of the month here. Plus three — yes, three! in one month! — sales to keep your shelves full: our Monthly Sale, a bonus Columbus Day Sale because why not?, and the Media Sale. And …

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  Posted on September 27, 2011 at 4:05 pm

• September at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: The Wire, Kate Beaton, Pioneer One, Open Air Street Fair

  If you combined all of our events this month into one image, at least if you live in my brain, it’s Hark! A Vagrant featuring Omar Little reading Catcher in the Rye to babies in a Soviet space capsule. So it’s probably best we keep everything separate for now and you plan to come by for some beers or cappuccinos while we talk about the Dickensian aspect, publicly funded sci-fi space drama, keeping young Ada Lovelace away from those vile poets, and how awesome the first amendment is. Add to your to-do list for October: polish your specs for a new installment of I Like Your Glasses; finish your reading assignment for the launch of the Better Book Club; and prepare your best literary Halloween …

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  Posted on September 13, 2011 at 2:20 pm

• Back to School at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: Epic Win, The Wire, Pioneer One, and Kate Beaton

  I love fall. Maybe it’s because I was always a nerd and liked school, but I feel like September is the real beginning of the year, the time to make a fresh start. Treat yourself to some grown-up school supplies and mark your planner because this month we’ve got something for all the kinds of nerds, from the Internet to TV to Internet TV. We’re kicking it off with next week’s 4chan variety show, Epic Win, featuring tons of IRL “web personalities.” We’re reviving a travel-writing book club with brunchtime Malbec and a controversial book about the end of the world, In Patagonia. We’ll talk about the Dickensian aspect at a panel discussion on the greatest television show ever, The Wire. No homework this …

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  Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:36 pm

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