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Bookstore Café Events

  • Bookstore Cafe
  • 126 Crosby Street, New York, NY 10012 :: 212-334-3324

A paperback release party for Joanna Smith Rakoff’s A Fortunate Age, featuring a reading by the author, drinks and snacks, and performances by M Shanghai String Band and the Story Pirates.

Joanna Smith Rakoff is the author of the novel A Fortunate Age, which was a New York Times Editors’ Pick, a winner of the Elle Readers’ Prize, a selection of Barnes and Noble’s First Look Book Club, an IndieNext pick, and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller.

In 2002, the M Shanghai String Band got together in the basement of a Chinese bistro in Brooklyn to share good food and play some music. This acoustic-culinary combination was too special not to repeat, and the band (named after the restaurant) was born. Their debut album “Up From the Ground Below” was recorded in the restaurant’s dining room. Its twenty songs were captured completely live in one day.

Story Pirates is a nationally respected arts and creative writing organization founded in 2003 to celebrate the words and ideas of young people, to promote literacy as a vital part of early childhood education, and to preserve the spark of youthful creativity often lost in the transition to adulthood.

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Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

Since opening its doors in 1998, Housing Works’ Bookstore Café has been an unparalleled hotspot for New York’s literary community, hosting countless readings, panels, and parties for every major publisher, as well as magazines from Lucky to The New Yorker. Every dollar from every customer goes to support Housing Works’ mission to end homelessness and AIDS.