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November 12, 2014
WORD Bookstores Books of the Week - November 12, 2014
In the Largehearted Word series, the staff of Brooklyn's WORD bookstore highlights several new books released this week.
WORD Bookstores are independent neighborhood bookstores in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and Jersey City, New Jersey. Our primary goal is to be whatever our communities needs us to be, which currently means carrying everything from fiction to nonfiction to absurdly cute cards and stationery. In addition, we're fiends for a good event, from the classic author reading and Q&A to potlucks and a basketball league (and anything set in a bar). If a weekly dose of WORD here isn't enough for you, follow us on Twitter: @wordbookstores.
The Art of Asking
by Amanda Palmer
The brave and brazen musician, performer, and general cultural juggernaut shares her lessons on the virtues and challenges of asking for help, as an artist and as a person.
The Absolution of Acestes Laing
by Nicholas Rombes
A fascinating art-of-crime and crime-of-art story told through allusions to the history of obscure cinema.
Small Victories
by Anne Lamott
"The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless." Such is one of the many startling, ultimately life-affirming adages in Lamott's new collection.
Silence Once Begun
by Jesse Ball
New to paperback, Jesse Ball's formally innovative novels tells a powerful, if brutal story.
WORD Brooklyn links:
WORD website
WORD Tumblr
WORD on Twitter
WORD's Facebook page
WORD's Flickr photos
also at Largehearted Boy:
other Word Bookstores Books of the Week (weekly new book highlights)
List of Online "Best of 2014" Book Lists
Antiheroines (interviews with up and coming female comics artists)
Atomic Books Comics Preview (weekly comics & graphic novel highlights)
Book Notes (authors create music playlists for their book)
guest book reviews
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Books of the Week (recommended new books, magazines, and comics)
musician/author interviews
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
Short Cuts (writers pair a song with their short story or essay)
