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What's happening at WORD?
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John Scalzi signed books -- and a ukelele -- at the Brooklyn launch
for his comedic new novel, Redshirts.
WORD is bidding a very fond farewell to our manager, Stephanie Anderson. She's been an integral part of our success the past three years, not to mention a never-ending source of top-notch book recommendations. We hope you'll join us in wishing her all the best of luck at her new position as Head of Readers' Advisory at the Darien Public Library. And not to worry -- she'll still be running the basketball league and the Classics Book Group, so you'll see her around! (You can check out, but you can never leave.)
We also hope you'll join us in welcoming our new manager, Emily Pullen. Emily has been an assistant manager at Skylight Books in Los Angeles for almost six years, moonlights for indie publisher Two Dollar Radio, and runs the amazing Corpus Libris blog. She's starting this month; next time you're visiting, say hello! |
This month's featured event:
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Monday, July 30, 7 p.m.
Books Beneath the Bridge: Short Story Night      For our night at the Books Beneath the Bridge summer reading series, we'd like to introduce you to some of our favorite short story authors. Join us for a reading with Robin Black, Tania James, Rajesh Parameswaran, Jim Shepard, and Charles Yu at the Pier 1 Granite Prospect. (And if you're coming from North Brooklyn, we highly recommend taking the East River Ferry down! Greenpoint to DUMBO in 15 minutes, unbeatable.) We encourage you to arrive early so you can be one of the lucky recipients of our special giveaway commemorating the event: With the authors' help, and the Brooklyn Public Library's Espresso Book Machine, we've put together a limited edition chapbook containing the stories that will be read that night signed by each author. We'll hand them out til they are gone! Plus the Brooklyn Bridge Park folks will be supplying cookies and lemonade -- it's a win-win-win situation if ever there was one.
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 This month at WORD!
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 For writers and students of the interwebs:
Wednesday, July 11, 7 p.m.
Social Media Workshop with Pubslush PressPubslush Press presents a social media workshop geared towards writers and authors, published and unpublished, led by development director Amanda Barbara and founder Jesse Potash. Come with questions! Refreshments will be served.
Pubslush is a publishing platform on which authors raise funds and build an audience for new book ideas, and trendsetting readers pledge their support to bring books to life. Their publishing arm, powered by readers, acquires books from this platform, and for every book they sell, they donate a children's book to a child in need.
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For those with indie tastes:
Tuesday, July 17, 7 p.m.
A Night with Akashic and Brooklyn Rail
    
Akashic Books and Brooklyn Rail present a multi-author reading! Donald Breckenridge (This Young Girl Passing), Mickey Hess (The Nostalgia Echo), Nathan Larson (The Nervous System, The Dewey Decimal System), Joe Meno (Office Girl, The Great Perhaps), and Leigh Stein (Dispatch from the Future, The Fallback Plan) will all join forces for a rapid-fire reading and signing. Highly recommended, especially for those who enjoyed last month's PANK reading!
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 For YA readers and Internet fashionistas:
Wednesday, July 18, 7 p.m.
The Fug Girls present Messy
Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, founders of the must-read blog Go Fug Yourself, present their second YA novel, Messy (sequel to Spoiled), which continues the adventures of Brooke Berlin. When she teams up with a ghost-writer to create the ultimate Hollywood insider blog, Brooke gets a taste of the big time. But how long can she keep up the charade?
Heather and Jessica will dish on their blog, writing for teens, and the meta-fun of their newest book.
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 For the socially mobile:
Wednesday, July 25, 7 p.m.
The Believer presents Karolina Waclawiak
Join The Believer in celebrating the launch of deputy editor Karolina Waclawiak's debut novel, How To Get Into the Twin Palms. She'll be in conversation with Ross Simonini, interviews editor.
Anya is a young woman living in a Russian neighborhood in Los Angeles, struggling between retaining her parents' Polish culture and the American-ness she was submerged in growing up. She chooses to blaze a new path, and decides that the best way to assimilate within her adopted community is to gain entrance to the exclusive club the Twin Palms. How To Get Into the Twin Palms is funny and moving, providing a humorous twist on the typical immigrant tale of belonging.
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All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
Facebook RSVPs appreciated but certainly not mandatory.
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Book groups
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 Book Group has declared this the Summer of Indie Presses! Our next pick is Zombie, by J.R. Angelella, from Soho Press. Located here in New York, Soho publishes literary fiction and international crime for both adults and teens. Jeremy is fourteen, obsessed with zombie flicks, and struggling at school and at home. Angelella has written a truly surprising, frequently sinister, and very clever YA novel. Join us on Saturday, August 4, at noon for discussion -- we'll be joined by both Angelella and his editor Mark Doten!
 Classics Book Group continues with Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, perhaps the most British book ever written. From the man who brought you The Slaves of Solitude comes a sort-of trilogy full of characters worth loving and hating in equal measure. Come discuss the second half with us on Saturday, August 11th, at noon. (Can't wait to find out what else we have planned for this year? The full list is up online!)
 Music Writing Book Group will shift gears in August to Preston Lauterbach's The Chitlin' Circuit, an important history of the network of venues safe for Black performers from the 19th century through the 1960s, which provided space for many American popular musics. Lauterbach explains the complex logistics of the entertainment industry, and studs the book with fascinating, little-known characters. The discussion will be on Saturday, August 11, at 3 p.m.
 The Wodehouse Book Group will be wrapping up their discussion of A Bounty of Blandings on July 29, and moving on to Leave It to Psmith (with a silent P). A lovelorn imposter, criminals disguised as poets with a plan to steal a priceless diamond necklace, a secretary who throws flower pots through windows, and a nighttime heist that ends in gunplay. How will everything get sorted out? Leave it to Psmith! They meet on the last Sunday of each month; August's discussion will be on the 26th at 3 p.m.
As always, all book group picks are 10% off in the month before their discussion. And if you need help remembering to mark your calendar, or can't make the discussion but still want to complain about that thing that happened on page 210, you can join our Facebook groups! There's one for the regular group, one for Classics, and one for Music Writing.
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WORD's June bestsellers
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- Darth Vader and Son, Jeffrey Brown
- Fifty Shades of Grey, E.L. James (ebook available)
- The Listeners, Leni Zumas (ebook available)
- The Mere Weight of Words, Carissa Halston
- The Letter Q, edited by Sarah Moon
- New York Baby, Puck and Violet Lemay
- Norman Street, Ida Susser
- Bossypants, Tina Fey (ebook available)
- The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes (ebook available)
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