• 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

• 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

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