Brooklyn

This event will take place at our Brooklyn location.

Join us for a reading and signing with J. Robert Lennon (Castle, Familiar) in honor of his new short story collection, See You in Paradise. He'll be reading with David Gilbert, author of And Sons.

All book group picks are 10% off!

This event will take place at our Brooklyn store.

Join Cullen Thomas for a memoir writing class, courtesy of Gotham Writers. Bring your ideas and leave with new pages in hand! Cullen Thomas is the author of the memoir Brother One Cell (Viking). His work has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, Salon, World Hum, Current Biography, and Penthouse. He also teaches Travel Writing, Creative Nonfiction 101, and Teen Creative Writing.

This event takes place at our Brooklyn location.

This event takes place at our Brooklyn location.

Greenpoint Comedy Night returns to the WORD bookstore! This month's show features beer from Brooklyn Brewery and headlining comedian Adam Newman (seen on Comedy Central and The Late Show with David Letterman). Admission is $6 and includes two beers. Audrey Murray hosts Garrett Barnes, Max Haddad, Sam Bourne, Ashley Morris, Dave Bergmann, and Zane Golia.

This event takes place at our Brooklyn location.

Join poets and writers Richard Levine, Claire Trevien Aimee Herman, Jenna Leigh Evans, and Puma Perl for a night of readings, followed by a signing.

Facebook RSVP encouraged but not required.

This event will take place at our Brooklyn location.

Essayist Kerry Howley spent three years investigating the world of cage fighting and documented in her debut nonfiction book Thrown. Join her and Jennifer Percy, author of Demon Camp: A Soldier’s Exorcism, for a conversation about violence and culture in America.

Facebook RSVP encouraged but not required.

This event will take place at our Brooklyn location.

In honor of her new novel Sister Golden Hair, Darcey Steinke will be in conversation with Rick Moody (The Four Fingers of Death, On Celestial Music). Sister Golden Hair follows 12-year-old Jesse as she moves through the summer of 1972 and navigates the gap between childhood and adulthood.

Facebook RSVP encouraged, but not required.

This event will take place at our Brooklyn location.

The Greenpoint Writers Group returns with the latest installment of their reading series Local Organic, featuring all new work and free wine to go around. Reading will be Nicholas DiMichele, Crispin Kott, Logan Medland, Luke Ohlson, Danielle Pollack, Vinny Senguttuvan, Hannah Thurman, and Kate Weinberg.

Facebook RSVP encouraged, but not required.

This event will take place at our Brooklyn location.

Thomas Page McBee (Man Alive) and Saeed Jones (Prelude to a Bruise) present a night of readings from their newest work. In his memoir Man Alive, McBee explores what it really means to be a man. In Prelude to a Bruise Jones explores how we reckon our past without being ravaged by it, and how we use people, and their bodies, to express ourselves.

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