Sometimes a girl has to wear a lot of pink, you know? xoxoxoxoxo
With Emma Straub and Maris Kreizman celebrating Laura Lamont’s life in pictures. Read it!
I wish another bespeckled brunette was in this pic. Sigh.
Well, now we know for sure Daniel Handler has held books. But has he actually read them, as our t-shirt promises? It’s hard to say.
These fun moments make it all worthwhile.
YES WORLD BOOK NIGHT!!!!
WORD is proud to announce the complete details for our pre-World Book Night bash this Sunday! We really love the mission of World Book Night and want to celebrate it with you, as well as the Greenpoint Soup Kitchen and Food Pantry, an organization which we work with year-round to help get books to Greenpointers in need. At our party (7pm at The Diamond, April 22), we’ll be asking for a suggested donation of $5, all of which which will go to the Soup Kitchen.As a special treat, we will be there at 7pm sharp with a supply of free drink tickets so show up early and ready to celebrate! Free drinks are thanks to the generosity of our friends at W. W. Norton (publishers of World Book Night book The History of Love) and Small Demons.We’ll have fabulous authors on hand (all WBN givers) to make the party a little fancier: Sean Ferrell, Jim Hanas, Katie Kitamura, Julie Klam, Emily St. John Mandel, Travis Nichols, Olegbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, Rachel Shukert, Emma Straub, and Colleen Venable. All givers will wear a nametag with the title of their WBN book and the place they’ll be giving it away.You do not have to be picking up your WBN books at WORD, or even a WBN giver at all, to attend; you just have to dig books.But! If you want to be a giver and missed the sign-up, don’t fret! We have 15 or so extra boxes of books to hand out to last-minute givers. Please email Stephanie at stephanie at wordbrooklyn to get a list of available books and get on our giver list. First come, first served.
Today’s daily photo is brought to you by OH MY GOD WE ARE SO HUNGRY WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE MAKE US THE AVOCADO AND CHORIZO TOAST DESCRIBED IN FRESH & EASY* AND BRING IT OVER ASAP THANKS
*insert a dirty joke here because we are too hungry too think of a good one
Today is our fifth anniversary, and we want to give you a present! How do you know what present to give someone? Well, you check their wishlist, of course. Their WORD wishlist! We’ve recently had the ability to make a wishlist added to our website. All you have to do to make one is log in to your account and then start looking for books you want—-on each book page, there’s one button to add to cart, and another to add to wishlist. Click the right one, and voila.
And here’s where the present-giving comes in. We’re going to randomly select five people and then randomly select a book from each wishlist to be their present!
If you want to be a part of the fun, just make a wishlist and add books to it by midnight tonight. We’ll make our selections tomorrow. Please make sure there’s a working email address associated with your account so we can let you know if you’ve won.
In the meantime, we invite you to drop by 126 Franklin St at some point today, because otherwise we will eat all the donuts, and die of happiness. (Also, some of our anniversary deals are only available in-store.)
Lots of love and thanks from all of us at WORD! xo
(ps: yes, the expiration date thing is weird, we’re going to fix it. In the meantime, be optimistic and set it for some time in the next few decades.)
Jenn has read books, and now she’s got the shirt to prove it! Have you also read books? You might need one.
The most awesome shirt ever in the universe, with our logo on the back, designed by our friends at M+E.
Good advice for life in general.
You guys! My friend’s foot is in the NY Times headlines of the day. This is it, nerds. WE HAVE MADE IT.
:)
