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Shakespeare & Co. is an iconic Manhattan bookstore in the Upper East Side neighborhood founded in 1983. The store is adjacent to the Hunter College campus and includes a high-quality café. Their second location is in the Upper West Side on Broadway.
192 Books is a general interest bookstore in the Chelsea neighborhood featuring recent titles and past best-sellers, as well as selected rare and out-of-print books, on a variety of subjects, including literary fiction, art and photography, history and biography, natural history and science, works in translation, film, poetry, music, and current affairs. 192 Books hosts art exhibitions and an extensive series of readings by distinguished writers and artists, signings, group readings, discussions, and a weekly story hour for children at eleven each Wednesday.
This video, produced by Slow Clap, is based on Ben Mirov's poem "High-Fives," from the book Hider Roser, published by Octopus Books. It features music by the band Javelin and stars Dashiell Hillman, Adrian Deane, and Kelly Sanchez.
Polly Courtney, the author of six novels who self-published her latest, Feral Youth (2013), after being frustrated by the “chick-lit” covers assigned to her by HarperCollins, offers the second in her series of how-to videos on self-publishing.
The Sacramento Poetry Center is a nonprofit literary center that offers readings, workshops, poetry contests, publications, and lectures. The center is not affiliated with any college or university, provides most of its services for free, and also houses a library, runs an annual conference, and participates in the community with outreach and fundraising for fellow nonprofits.
Watch this video that is both a clever book promotion for The Best of McSweeney’s and a playful commentary on the demise of print. Fittingly, this clip also honors an era of film rendered obsolete by the relentless advance of technology.
This video addresses the common but debilitating abuse of language known as nominalizations, or, as Helen Sword characterizes them, zombie nouns. Animation by Bran Dougherty-Johnson.
This video explores the various compelling reasons why—from professional etiquette concerns to hiding one’s tarnished identity—some notable authors chose to write under pseudonyms.
