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WORD Brooklyn

Name: WORD Brooklyn
Address: 126 Franklin Street, New York, NY, 11222, US
Telephone: (718) 383-0096
Price range: $$
Rating: 4.1

An independent bookstore located on the corner of Franklin and Milton Streets in the historic distric Open for limited browsing. Masks required.
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11/29/2023

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11/28/2023

📆Friday, Dec. 8: Join us in Jersey City for the 2023 Holiday Open Mic! Sign-ups start at 5:45pm with the show beginning at 6. All artists welcome. 💝

11/27/2023

Correction to our earlier post about holiday hours! We will be closing early on the 24th and closed Christmas day after extending store hours by one hour on 12/22 and 12/23. ✨

11/27/2023

Happy Cyber Monday! Head to our storefront on Bookshop.org for free shipping, all day. ✨ https://bookshop.org/shop/wordbookstores

11/27/2023

This month, Jerakah recommends RAT BOHEMIA by Sarah Schulman.

"In the midst of the AIDS crisis in the 1990s, Sarah Schulman explores the "rat bohemia" of New York City through the eyes of Rita Mae Weems, a le***an exterminator, and her close-knit community (including the perpetually unemployed Killer, and the HIV-positive David) as they navigate love, s*x, death, and poverty. Inspired by A Journal of the Plague Year (and rumored to have inspired Rent), Rat Bohemia is a brutally honest exploration of grief and bohemian spirit of a rat-ridden New York City." - Jerakah

11/25/2023

Our annual holiday gift guide is LIVE! 🎁✨Head to our website to find customed booklists for all the different readers in your life.

11/24/2023

This month, Steven recommends "A Curious Mix of People: the Underground Scene of 90s Austin" by Greg Beets and Richard Whymark.

"I love cultural histories of hyper-specific music scenes, and it doesn't hurt that I caught the tail end of this one myself. As a child of punk rock, I was raised in mosh pits across this great nation of ours, and I had plenty of blood spilled in Austin, Texas. A Curious Mix of People tells the story of a dazed and confused college town metamorphosing into the live music capital of the world and the sunburned psychedelic warriors who came together to crack its chrysalis and spill it out into the void." -Steven

11/22/2023

Holiday season is here! ❄ We're ready to help you find the perfect gifts for everyone in your life.

11/20/2023

Changing leaves + colder temps = bookstore weather💛

11/18/2023

This month, Mindy recommends Baking Yesteryear by B. Dylan Hollis.

"As someone whose grandmother-esque hobby is collecting vintage cookbooks and cookery books, B. Dylan Hollis's practical experimentations with half-forgotten recipes are so satisfying on a "glad someone else is doing the legwork on this one" kind of way. His new cookbook, arranged by decades, is also a brilliant overview of the way Western cuisine and tastes have evolved or endured in the face of great social and innovative changes. And also there are a lot of puns and wry commentary, which makes the reading of (if you're too lazy for the practical application of) it so much fun." -Mindy

11/17/2023

The semi-annual Shop Small Greenpoint Retail Crawl is BACK, beginning this Saturday, November 18th! Participants will have until November 26th to collect stamps and win prizes. 🍂

Rules for Participating:
To join the crawl, pick up a passport at any participating business. Three stamps will get you a swag tote filled with discounts and prizes, while eight stamps will get you entered into the Grand Prize drawing for one of three prizes, each valued at over $1000. Happy shopping!

Big thank you to and for the amazing map and flyers. 💚

11/15/2023

WORD X THE GRIND… Attention all Jersey City readers in Bergen-Laffayette: Our WORD pop-up at The Grind General Store is now open! We curated a selection of staff picks, new releases, merchandise, and more. Plus, you can now order books for pick-up. Just select The Grind General Store as your pick-up location when you checkout on our web-site and we’ll let you know when your order is ready. Come see us at the corner of Communipaw & Suydam Ave.

11/15/2023

For Niche November, Will recommends THE SILVER SCREAM by Roy Merkin (AKA Spencer Charnas & Andrew Justin Smith).

"I'm a fan of Ice Nine Kills. Their contributions to the horror metal genre, their cool merch, and the fact that they know their fans so well. For those confused by the blurb on the book: The Silver Scream is a wonderfully gory retelling of the slasher story that takes place throughout their music videos of the same named album. What can I say? I love a good horror movie adaptation." -Will

11/12/2023

For Niche November, Nicole recommends two books: THE POSTMORTAL by Drew Magary and BRUTAL PRINCE by Sophie Lark.

About THE POSTMORTAL: Set in a pre-apocalyptic world where there is a "cure" for aging and you can choose to live forever. However, there are still plenty of unfortunate ways for someone to die. What would society become? Discover a world that is disturbing, witty, and feels all too real.

About BRUTAL PRINCE: Ultimate enemies to lovers in a dark Irish mafia romance. Attempted murder, to pure hatred, to arranged marriage.... to power couple? The fairytale I live for.

11/09/2023

This month, Em is highlighting POUKAHANGATUS by Tayi Tibble.

"I love an irreverent, funny, and unapologetic poetry collection: cue Māori writer Tayi Tibble's book, Poukahangatus. The title is her own portmanteau meant to sound like the infamous and white-washed Disney film (with unfortunately fire music), Pocahontas. Standout poems include but are not limited to "I Wear Aviators to the Club," "LBD," "Vampire versus Werewolves," "Our Nan Lets Us Smoke Inside," "Hawaiki," and "A Sugar Daddy is Essentially an Arts Patron." This lively and smart coming-of-age book depicts life as a 21st-century Māori woman, unpacking topics like mythology, grief, clubbing, childhood, religion, family, heartbreak, and more. You'll learn some New Zealand slang too." -Em

11/08/2023

Join us this Friday to celebrate the launch of CLASS, Stephanie Land’s follow-up to her debut memoir MAID. This event will take place in-store in Jersey City; tickets are available on our website. 🎒🧸

11/07/2023

Thanks for stopping by, ! Come grab a signed copy of CALL YOU WHEN I LAND, out today✨

11/04/2023

This month, we're recommending some of our most-loved, least-talked-about favorites -- call it Niche November. To start off, Eileen recommends THE UNWINDING OF THE MIRACLE by Julie Yip-Williams.

"This devastating and deeply felt memoir is not for the faint of heart. It tells the story of Julie Yip-Williams, who, born blind in war-torn Vietnam, emigrated to the United States at the age of four and went on to attend Harvard Law School and travel the world. Then, at the age of 37, with two young daughters, she was diagnosed with terminal colon cancer. This memoir was written during the final four years of her life. It is a brutal, beautiful glimpse into the miracle of human life -- including what happens at the end of life, as the miracle begins to unwind." -Eileen

11/02/2023

📆Thurs., Nov 9: Join us in Brooklyn to celebrate the launch of WITH OR WITHOUT YOU by Eric Smith. Eric will be joined in conversation by Navdeep Singh Dhillon. ✨

About the book:
Everyone knows Jordan Plazas and Cindy Ortiz hate each other. According to many viral videos of their public shouting matches, the Plazas and Ortiz families have a well-known food truck rivalry. Jordan and Cindy have spent all of high school making cheesesteaks and slinging insults at each other across their shared Philadelphia street. But the truth? They’re in love, and it’s all just an act for the tourists. When the fake feud lands them a reality tv show pilot, Jordan and Cindy find themselves having to lie on a much bigger scale. Trapped between pursuing their dreams or their love, can they find a way to have their cheesesteak and eat it too?

11/01/2023

We've got some great events coming up this month! ✨ Head to our website to get tickets and RSVP.

10/30/2023

📆Friday, Nov. 10: Join us at the Nimbus Art Center in Jersey City to celebrate the launch of CLASS with Stephanie Land. Tickets are available on our website and Instagram story.

About the book:
In Class, Land takes us with her as she finishes college and pursues her writing career. Facing barriers at every turn including a byzantine loan system, not having enough money for food, navigating the judgments of professors and fellow students who didn’t understand the demands of attending college while under the poverty line—Land finds a way to survive once again, finally graduating in her mid-thirties. Class paints an intimate and heartbreaking portrait of motherhood as it converges and often conflicts with personal desire and professional ambition.

10/28/2023

📆Tuesday, Nov. 7th: Join us in Brooklyn to celebrate the launch of CALL YOU WHEN I LAND by Nikki Vargas. Nikki will be joined in conversation by Christen A. Johnson. RSVP is encouraged but not required.

About the book:
At twenty-six years old, life looked a certain way for Nikki Vargas. She’d settled in New York City ready to join the ranks of the Carrie Bradshaws of the world, had landed in a promising advertising career, and was newly engaged to her college sweetheart. But she couldn’t shake a deep underlying sense of imposter syndrome, a voice telling her that she was rocketing towards a future that didn’t look like her. And so, she bought a plane ticket: first to Cartagena. Then to Panama. Then to Iguazú. The story that unfolds in this soul-stirring memoir from Colombian immigrant and travel journalist Nikki Vargas whisks us through the countries that brought her new love, self-discovery, and the inspiration to launch the first international feminist travel magazine, Unearth Women.

10/25/2023

📆Wednesday, Nov. 1: Join us next week to celebrate the launch of THE BURDEN OF JOY by Lexi Kent-Monning. Lexi will be joined in conversation by Geoff Rickly.

About the book:
Lexi's debut novel has been described as "an incessant dagger to the heart." After her husband leaves her on Valentine's Day to join a commune that time forgot, her home stops belonging to her. Instead, she discovers a parade of dead animals, a man who turns her blue eyes green, true love in equal parts co***ne and M**A, and a revolving door of solitude. In the end, Lexi must ask herself, is her craving to nurture virtuous or hedonistic?

10/21/2023

This month, Mindy recommends GRAVE EXPECTATIONS by Alice Bell. 👻

"Fun, readable, lightly spooky but full of found family feels, Grave Expectations is what you want to read when the weather cools down and your thoughts turn to (fictional) murder and ghosties, but you also don't want to have to sleep with your lights on. A medium stuck in a rut and her ghostly bff are invited to entertain the ultra-rich and end up stumbling over a murderous mystery and blowing it wide open." - Mindy

10/20/2023

📆Join us this Tuesday, 10/24, to celebrate the launch of HOW TO WIN AT CHESS with Levy Rozman (AKA Gothamchess). Levy will be chatting about the King's Game, signing books, and playing a game of Guess the ELO live! 👑

To join in the fun, buy a ticket and submit a game to [email protected]. Levy will pick 5-10 players to analyze live. If you want Levy to guess your Elo, please send an email to [email protected] with the subject line: Guess My Elo. In order to be eligible, your submission email must include the following:

The MOVES of the game (copied from chesscom via the 'share' option).
The LINK to the game (on chess.com) - PREFERABLY RAPID CHESS.
Tell us which color you played.
The Elo of the players cannot be more than 200 points apart.

Whether you want to become a recreational chess player or are training to be a Grandmaster, How to Win at Chess is the perfect interactive introduction to the world of chess! Tickets available on our website. ✨

10/19/2023

Join us next Thursday for another Drink 'N Draft! 🍸Tickets are available for purchase on our website.

Stuck in your writing? In need of a little more time or inspiration? Drink 'N Draft makes space for you to get out of your head and onto the page. Each night includes a series of visual prompts that lead you toward new creative choices in your work, and the chance to experiment with different styles of writing. All genres are welcome, no experience necessary. ✨

Supplies: All supplies (pens, paper, wine!) will be provided, though you're encouraged to bring your own notebook if you'd like.

10/18/2023

This month, Jerakah recommends EMILY THE STRANGE: ALL THINGS STRANGE by Rob Reger and Buzz Parker. 🕸

"Since the '90s, Emily the Strange has been incomparable representation for the odd, spooky girls (and g**s and theys). This collection of graphic novels, originally published in the early '00s, follows thirteen year old evil-scientist Emily as she experiments with golems, potions, and all things creepy-crawly (with the help of her many black cats). You'll find yourself falling in love with the irreverent, cynical, spooky lens with which Emily views the world. For fans of Edgar and Ellen, Nightmare Before Christmas, and the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. Buy this book for all the weirdos in your life!" - Jerakah

10/14/2023

For a dark twist on many of our present-day issues, Em recommends FRIDAY BLACK by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.

"This captivating, witty, and macabre dystopian short-story collection is a must-read. Numerous urgent "what ifs?" are unpacked with electric humor and a brilliantly engaging narrator. Themes like Blackness, accountability, complacency, American folly, and surrealism are prevalent, handled with precision and empathy. My favorite short story is either “Zimmer Land” or the titular story "Friday Black", which pulls from the annual capitalist day of stampede inducing sales. "Zimmer Land" is about a theme park whose white patrons get to enact—or as it is marketed "problem solve"—their fantasies. In other words, these racist white patrons are encouraged by the amusement park to act out their violent desires against people of color they find threatening." - Em

10/13/2023

📆10/24: Join us for the launch of OPPOSABLE THUMBS: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever by Matt Singer. ✨ Matt will be joined in conversation by Alison Willmore. You can RSVP on our website.

About the book:
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB. You asked whether Siskel & Ebert had given it “two thumbs up.” In OPPOSABLE THUMBS, award-winning editor and film critic Matt Singer eavesdrops on their iconic balcony set, detailing their rise from making a few hundred dollars a week on local Chicago PBS to securing multimillion-dollar contracts for a syndicated series -- a move that convinced a young local host named Oprah Winfrey to do the same. 📽

10/11/2023

This month, Steven recommends OUT THERE SCREAMING: An Anthology of New Black Horror, edited by Jordan Peele.

"A couple years ago, my friend Deidre (name-drop, much?) and I were joking about Jordan Peele's outsized, if well-deserved, influence on modern horror, and one of us (it was me. bragging.) prognosticated that, within our lifetimes, we would witness the birth of the Jordan Peele Style of Cinema and Letters. This book is that prediction made flesh. (I also guessed there would be a "Jordan Peele" section at the video store. They can't all be winners.) Out There Screaming is a collection of new horror from nineteen Black authors that is as blood-shattering and bone-curdling as I am prescient, all curated by the modern maestro of malevolence himself, Jordan Peele." -Steven

10/10/2023

We still have some tickets available for this Thursday’s event celebrating the launch of A HOLLY JOLLY EVER AFTER! ❄️ Tickets include a signed copy of the book + merch. Head to our website or story for the link to buy tickets.

10/10/2023

We still have some tickets available for this Thursday's, event celebrating the launch of A HOLLY JOLLY EVER AFTER! ❄ Tickets include a signed copy of the book + merch. Head to our website or use the link in our Instagram story to get tickets!

10/09/2023

Join us Thursday, Oct. 19 to celebrate SCENIC OVERLOOK, Anne Ray's debut fiction novel. Anne will be joined in conversation by Stacey D'Erasmo. 🌟

About the book:
Flipping the American road-trip genre on its head, Scenic Overlook follows a radically independent woman as she grapples with grief, uncertainty, indecision, and the perils of newfound adulthood. This gripping novel-in-stories explores what it means to grow up—and what it means to grow.

10/07/2023

It's finally getting cold out, which is why Eileen recommends this spooky-cozy-classic from Agatha Christie. 🕸

"AND THEN THERE WERE NONE has been described as the best crime novel of all time, and for good reason. It follows the story of ten strangers who have been lured to an island where they begin to be killed off, one by one. But who is the murderer? And will anyone be able to make it out alive? I first read this book 12 years ago, and I still consider it an all-time favorite." -Eileen

10/05/2023

📆Thursday, Oct. 12: Join us for a conversation with Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone in celebration of A HOLLY JOLLY EVER AFTER! ❄ Check out our story or head to our website for tickets.

About the book:
Winnie Baker did everything right. But after her perfect life falls apart, Winnie is ready to redefine herself—and what better way than a steamier-than-a-steaming-hot-mug-of-cider Christmas movie? When Winnie and perpetually single former boy-band member Kallum Lieberman are reunited as costars on a steamy holiday film, Kallum’s teenage crush on Winnie begins bubbling to the surface, and Winnie might be catching feelings herself.

They say opposites attract, but is this holly jolly ever after really ready for its close-up?

10/05/2023

What a great night celebrating the paperback launch or WHERE THE DEER AND ANTELOPE PLAY! Thank you, & 💚

10/03/2023

📆Tuesday, Oct. 10th: Join us to celebrate the launch of THE MIS-ARRANGEMENT OF SANA SAEED by Noreen Mughees! ✨ Noreen will be joined in conversation by Artavia Jarvis. Head to our website to RSVP.

About the book:
Perfect for fans of Sonali Dev and Uzma Jalaluddin, Noreen Mughees’s immersive debut novel reunites star-crossed childhood sweethearts against all odds, only for their second chance to clash with their parents’ strict beliefs.

10/01/2023

October is here and we have a ton of exciting events coming up! 🎃✨ Head to our website to RSVP and get tickets for events.

09/27/2023

For her September staff pick, Nicole recommends A PRACTICAL PRESENT FOR PHILIPPA PHEASANT.

"Beautiful and unique! A heartwarming story of how much one person (or pheasant) can do for their community if they put their mind to it. I just adore Philippa's care for her neighborhood and how she wants to make the forest safer for all of her friends. We could all use a friend like Philippa! Crossing Guards rule!" -Nicole

09/24/2023

📆 10/4: Join us to celebrate the paperback launch of Nick Offerman's WHERE THE DEER AND THE ANTELOPE PLAY! Nick will be joined in conversation by Laurie Anderson. Tickets can be purchased on our website and include the cost of admission + a book. ✨

About the book:
This hilarious and rousing love letter to America's trails, farms, and frontier explores the people who inhabit the land and what the land means to all of us, from farmers to National Park enthusiasts to people who simply love to walk outside. 🌳

Address

126 Franklin Street
New York, NY
11222

Opening Hours

Monday	11am - 6pm
Tuesday	11am - 6pm
Wednesday	11am - 6pm
Thursday	11am - 6pm
Friday	11am - 6pm
Saturday	11am - 6pm
Sunday	11am - 6pm

Telephone

(718) 383-0096

Website

http://www.wordbookstores.com

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We asked some of our favorite poets to celebrate Valentine’s Day with us by sharing a meaningful love poem. Tobias Wray (@tobiaswray) — author of NO DOUBT I WILL RETURN A DIFFERENT MAN and former director of University of Idaho’s creative writing programs — chose Mary Angelino’s “Ariadne’s Thread.” Thanks for sharing this with us, Tobias! 💕 #LovePoem #Poetry #PoetryReading #TobiasWray #MaryAngelino

We asked some of our favorite poets to celebrate Valentine's Day with us by sharing a meaningful love poem. Thomas Bolan (@hopefully_romantic_) selected to read “Why I Took the Batteries out of the Smoke Alarm” from his chapbook, Hopefully Romantic. Thanks for sharing this with us, Thomas! 💕 #LovePoems #ThomasBolan #ValentinesDay

We asked some of our favorite poets to celebrate Valentine's Day with us by sharing a meaningful love poem. Cameron McGill (@cameronreadmcgill) — poet, educator, musician, and author of MERIDIANS and IN THE NIGHT FIELD — selected Pablo Neruda’s One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII (“I don’t love you as if you were a rose”). Thanks for sharing this reading with us, Cameron! 💕 #LovePoems #Poetry #PoetryReading #CameronMcGill

One final read-aloud, this time with our wonderful staffers Amanda, Hanz, and Lorenzo! They’re reading WHAT IF, PIG? by @linziehunter 🐷📖 #WorldReadAloudDay

The Wigtown Book Festival presents The Bookshop Band World Tour DAY 4

Join the Bookshop Band - Beth Porter and Ben Please - on their concert tour of bookshops around the globe, featuring a host of special guests from the world of books brought to you by the magic of the interweb. Where will they venture tonight? The gigs are free, but if you'd like to show your appreciation and donate to The Wigtown Book Festival please follow this link: https://wigtownbookfestival.ticketsolve.com/products/donation Bookshop link: https://bookshop.se Bookshop Band merch: https://www.thebookshopband.co.uk/shop1

The Wigtown Book Festival presents The Bookshop Band World Tour DAY 3

Join the Bookshop Band - Beth Porter and Ben Please - on their concert tour of bookshops around the globe, featuring a host of special guests from the world of books brought to you by the magic of the interweb. Where will they venture tonight? The gigs are free, but if you'd like to show your appreciation and donate to The Wigtown Book Festival please follow this link: https://wigtownbookfestival.ticketsolve.com/products/donation Bookshop link: Bookshop Band merch: https://www.thebookshopband.co.uk/shop1

The Wigtown Book Festival presents The Bookshop Band WORLD TOUR - Night 1

Join the Bookshop Band - Beth Porter and Ben Please - on the opening night of their concert tour of bookshops around the globe, featuring a host of special guests from the world of books brought to you by the magic of the interweb. Where will they venture tonight? The gigs are free, but if you'd like to show your appreciation and donate to The Wigtown Book Festival please follow this link: https://wigtownbookfestival.ticketsolve.com/products/donation Bookshop link: https://tertuliabookshop.com Bookshop Band merch: https://www.thebookshopband.co.uk/shop1

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Signed books! We have them! Stacey Abrams! Alison Bechdel! Peter Brown! Andy Weir! Olivia Laing! Full list here: https://shop.wordbookstores.com/signedbooks

It’s time for Staff Pick Roulette! Screenshot when your feeling lucky and find your next read. Everyone’s a winner. #bookstagram #bookrecs #reading #staffpicks #indie #shopsmall

TONIGHT!! Come celebrate the launch of Clay McLeod Chapman’s novel, WHISPER DOWN THE LANE with special guest Elijah Wood. Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/claymcleodchapmanxelijahw We 🖤this book, and we’re not alone. “[A] spellbinding psychological thriller…a suspenseful tale of paranoia that will keep readers riveted until the last surprise is sprung.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

It’s here!! The tenth Dog Man book has arrived. Come by for a copy or order online: https://shop.wordbookstores.com/book/9781338680454

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It’s #NationalPuzzleDay so Mindy made a puzzle out of puzzles. We have a new list of puzzles up on Bookshop (link in bio) and plenty puzzles for all ages in both stores—prepare for the cold week ahead with fresh jigsaw fun.