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We’re so excited to be back!We’ve implemented health and hygiene procedures so that everyone can safely shop. Just a few quick guidelines:
Park Slope Dumbo Industry City (new location) Thank you!! —Daniel & Susanne & Chris & Megan & Nick & Brittany |
DAVID SEDARIS – his only NYC book signing at POWERHOUSE INDUSTRY CITY on DECEMBER 18th!
We are so very proud to welcome DAVID SEDARIS back to POWERHOUSE. He is our inaugural in-person appearance at our new store in Industry City, and our first in-person appearance since COVID began all those months ago. Purchase is required to get your books signed! Can’t make it? Buy a copy here or in any of our stores and let us know how he should inscribe it – we’ll ship or keep it for you to pick up.
You can also purchase ARCHWAY EDITION totes online here! And click over to our Holiday Gift Guide if you haven’t yet for even more ways you can support our stores this holiday season! |
All our stores are bustling with holiday shoppers (strictly within social distancing limitations!), and on Saturday, December 12th, we are having a little shopping event and holiday storytime at our new location in Industry City! Stop by all day – we’ll have a storytime at 5pm for the kids and we’ll be open late. There is so much great food and drink in Industry City, and the outdoor areas are heated!|
Call +1-718-666-3049 during open hours
or e-mail chris@powerhousearena.com to pick up! Or head to our virtual store where you can also buy these great titles: |
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| You can also buy an online gift card! You can use the code in our e-commerce store, or else take it into the store to be redeemed for a physical one.
We are now OPEN seven days a week in our three stores – bring your mask and wallet and get ready to shop and support your local indie bookstore! Park Slope Dumbo Industry City Thank you!! |
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Upcoming Virtual Book Launches!
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PEN Virtual Gala This jubilant evening will be hosted by film executive, founder of The Black List, and PEN America Trustee Franklin Leonard, accompanied by presenters and honorees including Patti Smith, Darnella Frazier, Marie Yovanovitch, Frank Bennack Jr., Spike Lee, Bono, Emma Thompson, and Madeleine Albright. Additionally, we’re particularly thrilled to have former U.S. President Barack Obama take part in this year’s virtual festivities, as he receives PEN America’s Voice of Influence Award and discusses his new memoir A Promised Land in a special author-to-author interview with Ron Chernow. |
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Memoir Monday: Michele Harper, Alicia Elliott, Elisa Gabbert, Carmen Maria Machado Tuesday, December 14, 8-9PMMemoir Monday is a collaboration between Narratively, Catapult, The Rumpus, Granta, Guernica, and Literary Hub to bring the very best first-person writing together in a weekly newsletter and a quarterly reading series. |
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Book signing for THE BEST OF ME by David Sedaris Join us at our new POWERHOUSE INDUSTRY CITY location for the only NYC book signing from POWERHOUSE favorite David Sedaris! Purchase required and social distancing strictly enforced! |
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Virtual Book Launch: That Old Country Music by Kevin Barry Tuesday, January 12, 7-8PMFrom the author of the wildly acclaimed Night Boat to Tangier, one of the New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2019, stories of rural Ireland in the classic mode: full of love (and sex), melancholy and magic, bedecked in some of the most gorgeous prose being written today.Register here Buy the book |
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Did you miss LOVE POEMS FOR THE OFFICE? |
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Featured Picks From Our Staff!
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a Mumbo Jumbo An infectious dance craze as the soul of Blackness in an alternate history of civilization truer than the “official” records, none of the dad-joke cheese of Pynchon and more densely well read, but with the same premonitory vision of America’s conspiratorial soul, but deeper and more fraught, both metaphor for and example of racism and suppression of Black accomplishment, hardly more than 200 pages with illustrations but encompassing all of recorded history, and enough packed in to give a different reading every time. If you believe that great American writing is destined to fulfill the world’s myths with the outsider vernacular of our culture, what you see in books like Moby Dick or The Making of Americans or Libra then this is maybe the Great American Novel; Dionysian Afrocentrism revealed as the pendulum controlling time. Offhandedly hilarious and incisively observant of the American situation, as relevant tomorrow as it was fifty years ago. |
Megan’s Pick I’ll Be Gone in the Dark True crime journalist Michelle McNamara spent the last years of her life deeply obsessed with the then unsolved case of the infamous Golden State Killer. She scoured thousands of police reports and other documents, tracking down clues all over the internet with fellow civilian detectives and law enforcement officials alike. They were all searching for the violent psychopathic serial rapist and murderer who had terrorized California for over ten years before vanishing. After Michelle’s sudden death in 2016, her book was finished by her lead researcher and a fellow crime journalist using notes that Michelle left behind. Michelle’s enthralling writing immerses you in the time of the Golden State Killer attacks and will keep you awake at night. Part true crime story and part the story of Michelle’s obsession with a killer she never got to see brought to justice, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark is an instant classic. Buy here |
Nick’s Pick: Sleepless Nights Caught somewhere between fiction, memoir and collage, Sleepless Nights is a cerebral series of vignettes which follow a woman whose circumstances closely follows Hardwick’s. This book is a meditation on a life and trades plot for layers of deep description and thought. Hardwick was a dynamic critic, founder of The New York Review of Books and a courageous writer whose language drives this book forward, page by page, scene by scene. Buy here a a |
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