Bookstore Cafe
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Monthly 30% off Sale! All Day September 4th, 5th, and 6th!
Summer may be ending, but summer reading doesn’t have to! Enjoy 30% off all books, movies, and music all through labor day weekend.
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Punch Up Your Life: Comedy hosted by Joe DeRosa and Jared Logan
Performers TBA! $3 admission. Beer, wine, and snacks available for sale.
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Interstate 69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway
A reading, show, and party to celebrate Matt Dellinger’s Interstate 69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway. With live music by Andy Friedman, whose illustrated maps grace the book, plus beer, wine, and snacks.
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Exposing a Difficult Past: Housing Works Bookstore Cafe’s Panel at the Brooklyn Book Festival
A panel exploring the motivations for and process behind writing for the general public about life events most people would keep secret. With Piper Kerman (Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison), Darin Strauss (Half a Life), Kathryn Harrison (The Kiss), and Nelson George (City Kid: A Writer’s Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul Success), moderated by Elizabeth Wurtzel (Prozac Nation). At St. Francis College’s McArdle Hall, 180 Remsen Street in Brooklyn Heights
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Ru Freeman and Jessica Jiji: Novelists on “The East”
Sri Lankan novelist Ru Freeman (A Disobedient Girl) and Iraqi novelist Jessica Jiji (Sweet Dates in Basra) read from their books and discuss writing fiction about “the East” for an American audience. -
Punch Up Your Life: Comedy hosted by Joe DeRosa and Jared Logan
Performers TBA! $3 admission. Beer, wine, and snacks available for sale.
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Old Jews Telling Jokes
Readings and comedy from the book and website of the same name, plus video clips and Live Old Jews!
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Kids Book Sale: All Day September 17th-19th
Back to school! Back to flashlights under the covers! All paperbacks are $1 and all hardcovers are 30% off. Plenty of new and special stock, from board books through young adult novels.
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Violinist Hilary Hahn and Composer Jennifer Higdon in Conversation
A discussion of two works on Hahn’s upcoming album: the concerto Higdon wrote for her (recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music) and the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto.
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Punch Up Your Life: Comedy hosted by Joe DeRosa and Jared Logan
Performers TBA! $3 admission. Beer, wine, and snacks available for sale.
Annual Benefits
- Design on a Dime
- Fashion for Action
- Open Air Street Fair
- Fall Preview Sales
- World AIDS Day: 24 hour AIDS Vigil
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