Grilled Cheese in Greenpoint; Free Bird in Red Hook
What’s better than a warm grilled cheese sandwich and milk on a cold autumn afternoon? How about grilled cheese and milk from vendors of the Greenpoint Food Market. Or how about grilled cheese and milk with a story? Yup – we thought you’d like all of this, so we planned it! For this Sunday at 2 pm! We’re hosting a reading for kids, but are encouraging grilled cheese lovers of all ages to join us for the story time – since it comes with a snack too! (We all

WORD on Wednesdays: 11 November 2009
WORD on Wednesday, 11 November 2009. Happy Wednesday! You’ll see that Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, Jane Gardam, Street Gang, and The City Out My Window are still hanging out on the front table. Not a ton of new releases for us this week, so there’s a lot in common with previous weeks. But you didn’t click on th

Words Wanted.
We know you have things to say. So we’re giving you TWO chances to do so: Speak out about what you believe OR write about where you love. Or do both! We’ve got two events coming up in the next ten days that require YOUR words. Your voice. Your 2 cents. And you will be rewarded with prizes at both! Here’s the scoop: It’s Obsolete! Or is it…?

YA NOT? takes on sex, drugs, vampires, and other fun stuff
L to R: Libba Bray, Robin Wasserman, and Carolyn MacCullough Last night we had our fourth installment of YA NOT?: a literary salon for not-so-young adults, and hosted not one, not two, but THREE fantastic YA authors. It was the sort of evening that started with the reveal that originally the authors had intended to name the evening “Hookers and Blow,” and ended with Robin recommending that everyone in the audience eat fruit. Some highlights: Robin, on being

WORD on Wednesdays: 4 November 2009
WORD on Wednesday, 4 November 2009. New this week on WORD’s front table! Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer. I loved this book, as a fellow vegetarian who sometimes caves and eats me. It’s basically The Omnivore’s Dilemma