Required Reading: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

Making up almost 30% of NYC’s population, the Latinx community is an integral part of the city. This Hispanic Heritage Month, we’re celebrating the richness of Latinx history, along with… READ MORE

The background is a photo of the New York City skyline when the Twin Towers still stood. Above the image is the book cover for 110 Stories.

Random Notes—September 11, 2001, 4:00 P.M. by Paul Auster

Excerpted from 110 Stories: New York Writes after September 11, edited by Ulrich Baer Our fourteen-year-old daughter started high school today. For the first time in her life, she rode… READ MORE

Brown and Gay in LA: A radical redefinition of what it means to be a gay person of color in America.

Excerpt from Brown and Gay in LA by Anthony Christian Ocampo “We need to talk,” my partner Joe tells me the night after the 2016 election. “If something happens to… READ MORE

Consuming True Crime: A Conversation with Diana RIckard

Consuming True Crime: A Conversation with Diana Rickard

How has true crime storytelling changed in the last 10 years? What is “the new true crime”? What impact has this narrative shift had on the way people consume true… READ MORE

Required Reading: Labor Day

Required Reading: Labor Day

Did you know that the first Labor Day was celebrated in NYC in 1882? Thousands marched from City Hall to Union Square in a protest against low wages, unfair hours,… READ MORE

There’s Something About Hasia

February 23, 2009

Hasia Diner is getting an extraordinary amount of pre-pub buzz for her forthcoming book, We Remember with Reverence and Love: , coming out in April from NYU Press From Kirkus… READ MORE

Is Graffiti Good for Soho?

February 18, 2009

Just one of the many interesting points in the NYTimes City Room review of Graffiti Lives by Greg Snyder: A provocative map in the book points out that unlike other… READ MORE

Tales for Little Rebels on Book TV

February 12, 2009

Editors Philip Nel and Julia Mickenberg talk about their collection of Radical Children’s Literature at Bluestockings Bookstore in NYC – and luckily C-SPAN was there to tape it.

Count Sperm Tonight at Bluestockings

WSQ: Trans- at Bluestockings Thursday, Feb 12, 7pm Featuring Lisa Jean Moore, author of Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man’s Most Precious Fluid Join fiction, non-fiction, and poetry contributors as they… READ MORE