Books

[rivkat]

Via Blog of a Bookslut: Sometimes Even Wolverine Is Sad. I nearly fell out of my chair laughing. The Bookslut is available as an xml feed for your friends page, by the way.

Fellow New Yorkers: Why didn't anyone tell me about the Housing Works Bookstore/Cafe down on Crosby Street? Much better organized (albeit smaller) than the Strand, chock full of quality books, most of them recent -- even a graphic novel section -- with hardcovers from about $12.50-4.00 and paperbacks about $2.00, except yesterday was 30% off day. Okay, so there are compensations to living in NYC.

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[lyra-sena.livejournal.com]

oh dear god! *cracks up* I want those dolls!!

[lyra-sena.livejournal.com]

pardon. I realize I should have referred to Wolverine as an "action figure". He would be most displeased that I called him a "doll."

*giggles*

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Sometimes even Wolverine is girly?

[corinna-5.livejournal.com]

How did you *not* know about Housing Works, is my question! They do great readings and live music, and best of all, the organization they fund is really good, really smart, and doing desperately needed work.

There's also several HW thrift stores; the largest, which has furniture is on W 17th Street.

Next, you're going to tell me you don't know about Pearl River Mart. Sigh. What sort of orientation does your school GIVE new faculty?!?

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I knew about the furniture, but we don't really need any more furniture and I don't need any more clothes, so the bookstore was the first real temptation. Pearl Mart looks cool, though.

[par-avion.livejournal.com]

Housing works is good. Unfortunately someof my favorite used/cheap bookstores have closed recently.

And I like the Strand Annex (by the Seaport) much more than the main store.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

Awww, I hate the Strand. Both versions. It's the tables with the books upright so you can't see the !@@##%$ titles.

cathexys reminded me that I hadn't (impoverished myself) visited labyrinthbooks.com recently. Fabulous "sale annex" with tons of cultural studies. hamiltonbooks.com has a less predictable range of scholarly books, but they're dead cheap when they have them and shipping is only $3.50 per order irrespective of size. Hamiltonbooks has a huge number of art books, for some reason.