Community Bookstore

since 1971
We’ve decided that our staff artist @perilouspaper is certifiably insane and probably a little masochistic too - but you really should still visit our garden.

We’ve decided that our staff artist @perilouspaper is certifiably insane and probably a little masochistic too - but you really should still visit our garden.

Thanks to Nell Freudenberger for featuring us on the Penguin UK tumblr today. onthestrand: And finally, I asked The Community Bookshop in Park Slope, Brooklyn,to fill out the On The Strand bookshop Q&A. Recommended novel and why: We recommend Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman because it is brilliant, insane and deserves a wider readership. Favourite (other) bookshop: Three Lives & Company Bookshop name and location: Community Bookstore / 143 7th Avenue, Park Slope / Brooklyn, NY (communitybookstore.net / communitybookstore.tumblr.com) Any information you believe is relevant or interesting: Our store is also home to a store cat named Tiny, who is very popular on the internet. He can be reached via @tinytheusurper. (photo thanks to Michele Filgate) - Nell Freudenberger

Thanks to Nell Freudenberger for featuring us on the Penguin UK tumblr today.

onthestrand:

And finally, I asked The Community Bookshop in Park Slope, Brooklyn,to fill out the On The Strand bookshop Q&A.

Recommended novel and why: We recommend Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman because it is brilliant, insane and deserves a wider readership.

Favourite (other) bookshop: Three Lives & Company

Bookshop name and location: Community Bookstore / 143 7th Avenue, Park Slope / Brooklyn, NY (communitybookstore.net / communitybookstore.tumblr.com)

Any information you believe is relevant or interesting: Our store is also home to a store cat named Tiny, who is very popular on the internet. He can be reached via @tinytheusurper.

(photo thanks to Michele Filgate)

- Nell Freudenberger

readandbreathe: .@tinytheusurper doesn’t care for @laphamsquart, even if it is all about him.

readandbreathe:

.@tinytheusurper doesn’t care for @laphamsquart, even if it is all about him.

It’s a happy coincidence that our April events feature only female writers (but Lev Grossman will be there for one).

Find out more here.

This is tonight!

Thursday, February 28th at 7pm

Matthew Goodman, author of Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World and Christopher S. Stewart, author of Jungleland: A Mysterious Lost City, a WWII Spy, and a True Story of Deadly Adventure

Join us for a night of journeys! Matthew Goodman’s latest book is the true story of Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland, two Victorian women who set out to travel around the world in less than eighty days. Christopher Stewart’s Jungleland is also a true adventure story. As Rich Cohen says, “This stunning book takes you deep into the jungles of Honduras, telling a story that explains all of Europe’s adventures on this side of the world: the quest for a lost city full of gold, a search that, in the end, reveals the treasure to be the journey itself. ”

More info, future events: http://communitybookstore.net/events/

Today’s chalkboard by A.C.

Today’s chalkboard by A.C.

TONIGHT: Tuesday, 2/19, 7pm: The Small Press Book Club meets to discuss Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis.

TONIGHT: Tuesday, 2/19, 7pm:
The Small Press Book Club meets to discuss Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis.

The Disgruntled Bookseller’s Staff Pick #9: Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose

The Disgruntled Bookseller’s Staff Pick #9: Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose