Earlier this year the Barnes & Noble at Lincoln Center closed its doors, but unlike Borders (R.I.P.) the company still has plenty of stores open in the boroughs. And this fall they're bringing some amazing names to their "Upstairs in the Square" makeshift lit parlour. Some highlights are below—these are all held at the Union Square Barnes & Noble at 33 East 17th Street, are free of charge, and are things you can't do on your Kindle!
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Colin Meloy Gives Us One More Reason To Keep Barnes & Noble Alive
Spotted: Hipster Lit Shelf In Hamptons Bookstore
Attention, hipsters of Sag Harbor (surely there are a few of you, in artfully frayed seersucker?): there is now an entire section of your local bookstore devoted to Hipster Lit, so you may go forth and read in a disaffected manner.
Good-Bye, Borders: Book Seller Prepares To Liquidate 399 Stores
After filing for bankruptcy in February and hoping for a savior in spite of its debt, Borders has decided to liquidate. President Mike Edwards said, "Following the best efforts of all parties, we are saddened by this development. We were all working hard toward a different outcome, but the head winds we have been facing for quite some time, including the rapidly changing book industry, [electronic reader] revolution, and turbulent economy, have brought us to where we are now."
St. Mark's Bookshop Slashes Staff In Struggle To Stay Afloat
East Village lit-lover haunt St. Marks Bookshop is the latest small bookstore getting squeezed by a combination of e-book sales and rising rent costs, The Villager reports.
Staff Picks: McNally Jackson Tells You What To Read
Welcome to our newish weekly column, Staff Picks, in which we ask the staffers at our favorite book, music, and movie stores around to town to share with us what they're reading, listening to, and watching this week. We figure they're good people to ask. Last week we talked to Aaron Hillis at reRun Theater, and this week we check in with Soho indie bookstore mainstay McNally Jackson, where manager Sarah Gerard tells us what she's been flipping through lately.
Beloved Atlantic Book Shop Forced Out Of Business, Can Markowitz Save It?
Sad news comes from Vanishing New York today, who reports that well-loved Cobble Hill bookstore Atlantic Books is going out of business. We spoke to store manager Jed Hershon about the news, which, distressingly, comes on the heels of several other indie bookstore closings in recent memory. People, put down your Kindles and learn to love the musty smell of old books!
Staff Picks: WORD Bookstore Tells You What To Read
Welcome to our new weekly column, "Staff Picks," in which we ask the staffers at our favorite book, music, and movie stores around to town to share with us what they're reading, listening to, and watching this week. We figure they're good people to ask. To kick things off, we talked to Greenpoint indie bookstore WORD, whom we typically trust in all things reading-related. Here's what store manager Stephanie Anderson has been dog-earing recently:
Missing The Lincoln Square Barnes & Noble
Reader Patrick sent us photographs of notes in the window of the now-shuttered Barnes & Noble location at Broadway and West 66th Street. One note is from the store employees, thanking customers for their patronage, and then former customers have added their appreciation and good wishes to the 200-some workers, many of whom are out of work.
Queens Readers Starving for Bookstores
Though Queens is the biggest borough with the most profitable mall in the country, it boasts only five chain bookstores (one of which is the Borders in JFK) and one independent bookstore, forcing many residents to schlep into Manhattan any time they need a new book. "It's pretty extreme how few [bookstores] there are in Queens," Seaburn Books employee Ariadne Reza told the Daily News. Barnes & Noble spokesman David Deason cited tough times for expansion, but Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. has reportedly been reaching out to chains. There hasn't been a bookstore in the 150-storefront Queens Center Mall for 10 years, when good old Walden Books closed down.
Rare Bookstore Cat Soon To Be On Streets?
The people at Skyline Books emailed us to let us know they'd be closing up shop January 31st, 2010 — after being in business since September of 1990. Sigh. They say they're just one of many independent bookstores folding under the pressures of increasing rents, online bookselling, and the city's changing landscape. They also believe they are one of the last bookstores to have a cat! (Our own John Del Signore points out that "Spoonbill & Sugartown has a 3 legged cat who will outlive us all.") The shop told us the owner may not be able to take her home due to other pets, saying: "Linda is a territorial cat. She's had complete run of that bookstore her entire life, she's 8 years old, and for 8 years any dog that's intruded on her domain has been sent packing and she's pretty good at it. Ideally if another bookstore could take her. She's a book store cat, and there just aren't any left, book stores or book store cats. it's very sad."
Björk and Dirty Projectors @ Housing Works
This past Friday night a small crowd gathered for an intimate show at Housing Works Bookstore, where Björk and Dirty Projectors performed a suite of six songs written by Dave Longstreth specifically for the occasion. Amongst the nearly 300 lucky ones in the room were David Byrne, MIA, members of the National and Vampire Weekend, and even Haley Joel Osment. The night began with two openers handpicked by the headliners—fellow Iceland native Olof Arnalds and Kurt Weisman from Vermont. Starting a little after 8, the sound was soft for them, with notes hanging in the humid air and often not making it to the balcony above—but once the main event began, Longstreth, Björk & Co. belted it out amongst the books. Here's more on the evening, and the suite's muse: a whale hailing from Northern California.
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