Don't miss our essay panel tomorrow night! Phillip Lopate and Daniel Mendelssohn will be joining Kirsty Gunn for My Katherine Mansfield Project!

In light of an emotional week we are looking forward to celebrating some of the amazing women in New York's history on Tuesday 11/15 with author Julie Scelfo in discussion with Joanna Scutts, the postdoctoral fellow in Women's History at the New York Historical Society.

Calling all bad feminists! We will be hosting Roxane Gay for her Difficult Women book tour on January 13th at 7pm. You can preorder your copy of Difficult Women through our website or in store to reserve your ticket!

Do you have #FerranteFever?

Don't miss our #FerranteNightFever event this Friday 11/4 with translator Ann Goldstein, journalists Elissa Schappell and Jennifer Maloney, author Siddhartha Deb and Europa editor Michael Reynolds!

@KiskyLuella picks her favorite music memoirs: Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein, Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCaine and Motley Crue's The Dirt

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Gabby's favorite classics: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Grendel by John Gardner #astoriapicksthree

Our third birthday is on Sunday! To celebrate we're picking some of our favorite threes. Tag us and show off your own trios #astoriapicksthree

Kisky's favorite female coming of age stories - Love Me Back by Merritt Tierce, The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner and Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler

Lexi's pick!

"This gorgeous debut reads like a novel in stories. The prose is beautiful but just as impressive is how well you get to know each generation of characters in so few pages. The next great novel of the African diaspora."

Opening the store with Liberty's Fun Friday! We read books about feminism, video games, Margaret Thatcher, space and family.

"I LOVED this book and Johnson's ability to capture what it feels like to be young and invincible...I definitely knew these characters in college. Johnson's dark, comedic voice (and slang, I mean dude even added a lexicon!) is perfect for this vice-grip of a novel."

@KiskyLuella staff pick!

Gabby's pick!

"An honest portrayal of teenagers that still manages to be fantastical and adventurous. Charlotte is a true Holmes...she is intelligent & inquisitive - she is emotionless & a drug addict. Follow Charlotte as she learns how to accept the help of Jamie Watson, her true partner."

We're looking forward to our reading with Tara Altebrando on the 25th at 5pm for this thrilling and chilling YA novel!

Bari's pick!

"Reads like an episode of the show - a narrator walks us through the funny, sad, and sometimes shocking moments of Harriet's life. I was unable to take a break from this one and read it in one sitting!"

Kisky's pick!

"This book is hysterical while making you question your role...poetic and unforgiving, never will you laugh so hard while feeling so uncomfortable"

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