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Ian MacAllen
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Notable NYC: 10/15–10/21
Saturday 10/15: Anaïs Duplan and Marie Buck join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Nivea Castro, Micaela Foley, Pamela L. Laskin, Maria Fernanda Snellings, and JP Howard celebrate the launch of Harlequin Issue 8. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Baby Boomers are finding bookstore ownership offers an enticing second career. The Internet, once a threat, could save independent bookstores. A ninety-year-old man runs bookstore in Suzhou, China that he inherited from his grandfather. The Community Bookstore in Brooklyn has…
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Notable NYC: 10/8–10/14
Saturday 10/8: David Abel and Mitch Highfill read poetry. Unnameable Books, 7 p.m., free. Alice Kaltman presents Staggerwing, stories. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free. Sunday 10/9: Bob Eckstein presents his illustrated book World’s Greatest Bookstores. BookCourt, 6 p.m., free. Peter Wohlleben…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
The Feminist Bookstore made famous by Portlandia has kicked the show out, saying the show “throws trans femmes under the bus.” Specialty bookstores are finding that filling a niche is often the best way to survive the onslaught of online competition.…
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Notable NYC: 10/1–10/7
Saturday 10/1: Lit Crawl NYC begins at 6 p.m. and continues in phases. Multiple Locations, 6 p.m., free. Moustafa Bayoumi, Paula Bomer, Joel Hinman, Patricia Park, and Joseph Salvattore join H.I.P. Lit and Epiphany for Lit Crawl NYC. The Vig…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Monkey’s Paw in Toronto sells random books from a biblio-mat machine. A manhunt is on for a thief who stole two rare books in New York City. The last bookstore in Peshawar, Pakistan is closing. A Dallas, Texas bookstore is…
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Notable NYC: 9/24–9/30
Sunday 9/25: Lynn Steger Strong, Michele Filgate, Saxon Baird, Jerome Ellison Murphy, and Miko Jeffries joins the Pigeon Pages reading series. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free. Monday 9/26: Colson Whitehead discusses The Underground Railroad with Lisa Lucas. BAM, 7 p.m., $25.…
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This Week In Indie Boosktores
A century-old Greek bookstore has closed due to the debt crisis. Colleges are giving up on campus bookstores, sending students to Amazon instead. You too could start your own bookstore.
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Notable NYC: 9/17–9/23
Sunday 9/18: Join the Rumpus at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The Rumpus is table 238 in front of the courthouse steps. Multiple stages and venues host the best writers and book lovers in the borough. Brooklyn Borough Hall, 10 a.m.,…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Chicago bookstores are worried about the arrival of a physical Amazon store. One bookstore is using clickbait tactics on social media to trick people into reading more books. Some people actually like airport bookstores. A rural Virginia bookstore has become…
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Notable NYC: 9/10–9/16
DON’T MISS OUR BOOKEND EVENTS! On Monday, 9/12, The Rumpus and the Brooklyn Book Festival present the New York premiere of After Adderall, the new feature film from Stephen Elliott. Videology, 7 p.m., free. And on Friday, 9/16, Molly Crabapple, Stephanie Danler, Eliah Eason,…
