Get Your Book On

A couple of events for the local bookworms this week:

Wednesday, October 24th, 7:00pm:
A reading by New York Calling essayists Luc Sante, Tim McLoughlin, and Brian Berger

Spoonbill & Sugartown
218 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
718-387-7322

PRAISE FOR New York Calling:

“An exacting look at the state of the city after thirty-five excruciating years of civil war. . . . We emerge with a terrific sense of immigrant muscle, ethnic flavor, and multicultural diversity as a big city’s jumping beans.”

John Leonard, Harper’s Magazine
"A mind-opening collection. . . . Through the lens of New York politics, music, art and counterculture, we hear several, often fascinating takes on essentially the same story: how the squalor, struggles, crime, drugs, and free expression of the 1970s and 1980s gave way to a cleaner and safer city in the the subsequent two decades, but one in which commercial development has often trumped, protecting existing residents and preserving a rich past. . . . The essays, whether read discretely or as a complete work, offer a near unforgettable impression of an era."

Time Out New York
"Berman (On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle) establishes the personal tone of this collection of original essays in his introduction, recalling how New York City's very special form of peace, harmony, and democracy . . . had unraveled in the 1970s and '80s. . . . With 230 photographs sprinkled throughout, this multivoiced collection establishes itself as a unique document of the city's last three decades."

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DAVID REES GETS HIS WORD ON, 10/26
Author of Get Your War On Series Gives Multimedia Presentation at Greenpoint's Favorite Independent Bookseller

Political cartoonist David Rees brings his biting political humor to Greenpoint's WORD, Friday, October 26 at 7:30 p.m. The author and illustrator of the popular Get Your War On series will present his cartoons and brand new, never-before-seen material.

A selection of the comics in the series was compiled in Rees' Get Your War On book, published by Soft Skull in 2002. Riverhead Books published Get Your War On II in 2004. The series now appears in every issue of Rolling Stone magazine, and a nearly $100,000 from book profits has been donated toward land mine removal in western Afghanistan.

WORD, an independent bookseller with selections for adults and children, opened in Greenpoint in March and has been featured in The New York Times, Lucky Magazine, New York Magazine's Intelligencer, The Brooklyn Paper and Shelf Awareness .

WORD is located at 126 Franklin Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Take the G train to Greenpoint Avenue. Call 718.383.0096 or visit wordbrooklyn.com.

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For more information contact Christine Onorati at info@wordbrooklyn.com or 718.383.0096 or Emily Farris at 917.548.8472 or emilyfarris@gmail.com.