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This month at WORD
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Thursday, 5 February, 7:30pm: Reading and signing with Toby Barlow.
"Sharp Teeth is Romeo and Juliet werewolf-style."
-Wall Street Journal
Abandoning her growing pack of lycanthropes in New Orleans, a werewolf
hides the truth about her nature from her kind-hearted dog-catcher
boyfriend, while her former leader, having fallen victim to a rival
gang, poses as the adopted pet of a lonely suburban woman.
Wednesday, 11 February, 7:30pm: an encounter with Chip Kidd.
Chip Kidd is a graphic designer and writer living in New York City and
Stonington, Connecticut. His book jacket designs for Alfred A. Knopf
(where he is associate art director) have helped spawn a revolution in
the art of American book packaging. The Learners is his second novel.
Tuesday, 17 February, 7:30pm: Francis Levy and David Evanier.
Francis Levy's fiction, humor,
essays, criticism, and poetry have appeared in a wide variety of
publications including The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New
Republic and others. Erotomania is his first novel. David Evanier lives in Brooklyn and is the author of seven books. His work has been included in Best American Short Stories. The Great Kisser is his last novel.
   
Thursday, 19 February, 7:30pm: Encounter with author Jeff Gordinier (X Saves the World), interviewed by Danielle Sachs. X Saves The World: How Generation X Got the Shaft But Can Still Keep Everything From Sucking is a vibrant and ironic chronology of '90s culture,a book that willring true to anyone who was moved by Nirvana or exhilarated by Pulp Fiction.
Thursday, 26 February, 7:30pm: Indie Press Nights: McSweeneys/The Believer, with Deb Olin Unferth and Ed Park. Deb Olin Unferth is the author of a collection of short stories (Minor Robberies) and of the novel Vacation,
an intricate tale of quests and escapes, of leaving and following,
fascinating and wonderfully written. One of our favorite books of 2008. Ed Park is a founding editor of The Believer and a former editor of the Voice Literary Supplement. He lives in Manhattan, where he publishes The New York Ghost.
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Ch-ch-ch-changes
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Three changes at WORD this month. First of all, there's someone new in the store--and writing this email. My name is Stephanie Anderson, and I've moved here from Bethlehem, PA and the Moravian Book Shop (the world's oldest bookstore) to help run things after Christine has her baby. I'd love to meet you, so please drop by, but you can also follow me online at my blog, Bookavore, or on Twitter (my name there is also bookavore).
Even more important, we've just extended our hours, as follows:
Monday-Thursday: 11am-8pm
Friday-Saturday: 11am-9pm
Sunday: 12noon-8pm
*Please note, occasionally our later hours will not be in effect if there is an event or book club meeting.
And coming soon to the WORD window, Bobby's Small Business. Bobby Tisdale, comedian-in-residence, is putting in an installation of the smallest business in Brooklyn. We'll leave it at that. Come see it for yourself.
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Book Clubs
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 Our book club pick for March is Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Filmflam, by Pope Brock. This book is non-fiction at its finest; think The Devil in the White City, but funny. It's the story of John R. Brinkley, a quack and a con man who found fortune and fame in a unique, if utterly ineffective, method of curing male impotence--surgically implanting goat testicles into the afflicted man.
But he didn't stop there, despite the vocal attempts of quack buster Morris Fishbein to shut him down. His schemes got more complex, and as he had to change his business to avoid Fishbein and the FDA, he ended up inventing a number of techniques that are still used in advertising and radio today. The same thing happened when he dipped into politics (that's right, he's the man to blame for a few of the tactics we all know and abhor).
This book is a fascinating biography of Brinkley, but even more than that, a rich slice of strange and unknown American history. The story and characters are so fantastical that it's easy to forget that this all really happened not even 100 years ago. Read it for yourself and then come join us to talk about it!
The discussions are as follows:
Wednesday, March 4th, at 7:30pm
Saturday, March 7th, at noon
Hope to see you all there!
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WORD January bestsellers
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Here's what everyone was buying in January:
1) Pyongyang by Guy
Delisle
2) Asta in the Wings
by Emily Watson
3) Cloud Atlas by
David Mitchell
4) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney
5) New Moon by
Stephenie Meyer
6) Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan
7) Middlesex by
Jeffrey Eugenides
8) A Place of My Own
by Michael Pollan
9) The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
10) 2008 Best American Comics edited by Lynda Barry
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