• 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

• 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 …

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  Posted on February 28, 2012 at 10:24 pm

• 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 …

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  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 1:56 pm

• 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 …

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  Posted on January 31, 2012 at 7:43 pm

• January at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: Occupy 2012, Broadway, Poetry, Longreads with New York Mag

  Someday, it will snow, and it will feel like winter but you won’t hibernate, however tempting it is to hide out until spring, because there’s so much great stuff happening at the bookstore this month. We just added The State of the Occupation Address, a discussion of what Occupy has done and where it will go in 2012. Also this month: a night of music and poetry with Well&Often Press, an evening behind the Broadway curtain with actors Wicked green to living legend; plus we’re giving you a peek at our February lineup, including a new monthly event, Adult Education, and Valentine’s Day week awesomeness. Don’t forget Storytime and Singalong for Kids, every Wednesday at 11AM, and the Slush Pile, our Friday night happy hour. …

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  Posted on January 17, 2012 at 7:24 pm

• New Year More Awesome at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: Music, Poetry, Theater, Memoir, Food & Travel

  This month we’ve got everything. Seriously, everything, I’m not kidding, it’s ridiculous: classical music, a kickstarting ukulele wizard, speed-dating for therapy, a look behind the scenes of Broadway, a twisted (of course, it’s HWBC) new year new you panel, a night of poetry and music with a hip new press, the launch of a travel and food TV show, a panel on long-form journalism. Plus weekly Wednesday kids’ storytime and Friday happy hour. So whatever your resolution is, you can take care of it here, and all for a good cause. There’s even two gyms on the block if you strive to be some kind of classical-music-listening, poetry-reading, well-adjusted, charity-supporting superhero of 2012. I believe in you.

  Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:15 pm

• Happy New Year from Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: Grand Pianos, Ukeleles, Speed Shrinking and More

  

  First and foremost, a huge and heartfelt THANK YOU to the amazing Housing Works community for a wonderful year. We’re already lining up great events to ring in 2012: In January, we’re launching a new three-part series called Safe Space, pairing classical musicians with some of our favorite authors. The crazy-affordable admission will be worth it just to witness a grand piano in the middle of the bookstore, and the professional Beethoven sonatas and Pulitzer Prize–nominated literature icing atop that grand piano. Delicious, amazing, icing… lots of cookies in my life these days, I’m sure you understand. And Susan Shapiro is back for speed shrinking, the speed-dating therapy event to help you make and/or keep and/or decide to break your resolutions. But we …

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  Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:13 pm

• 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

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