Moonshot! and Spring Sale!

During our upcoming sale weekend, we will host a special event for children on Saturday morning. New York-based author/illustrator Brian Floca will read from and sign copies of his new book: Moonshot! The Flight of Apollo 11. All the details about Brian Floca’s visit are here.

And check out this cool trailer for the book:

Hope to see you soon at the store – great savings all weekend long!

Spring Sale and Buy Backs!

As the spring semester draws to a close, we shift our focus towards two things here at the store:

First – It’s Buy Back time!
Sell your gently used books back to Book Culture for CASH or for even more in STORE CREDIT! We will look at ALL books. No receipt necessary. They do not need to be coursebooks and they do not have to be books purchased from us. Once we assign a retail value to your books, we will give you up to 25% in CASH or up to 40% in Store Credit. We can look at books from 10 AM to 5 PM Monday through Saturday.

Second – our Spring Sale is coming soon!
Next weekend, Friday May 15 – Sunday, May 17 we’ll be offering up big savings all weekend long – 20% off everything!** Plus, this year we are hosting a special event for kids on Saturday morning, May 16 at 11 am during the sale weekend. Hear Brian Floca read from Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11! Bring the entire family and save big!

(**Cannot be combined with other sales. Usual exclusions apply: Not valid on textbooks, periodicals or short discount titles.)

What Ed Park’s Students Are Reading

Ed Park, a founding editor of The Believer and author of Personal Days, is currently teaching two classes at Columbia University. He received his M.F.A. at Columbia, and this semester is a lecturer in the graduate writing program. His two courses are The First Person and A Comic Novel. Here’s a look at the required reading for the comic novel class:

Ed Park will be appearing at Book Culture on April 29th with Damion Searls. More info about the event can be found here.

Book Culture Events – Feb. and March

Our first store event for the new year is two weeks from tonight! We will kick things off with Dissent Magazine’s Winter Issue Launch event on February 25th. Other highlights include Rashid Khalidi, talking about his new book, Sowing Crisis on March 9th. Please check our store events schedule to see what else we have planned for February and March.

We also continue to provide bookselling for all Symphony Space literary events. (Including one this evening with Jonathan Lethem!) More info about all of our off-site events can be found here.

Videos of Book Culture Events

We’ll start off the new year with an abbreviated look back at 2008 — here are links to videos of several events that took place at our store.

The Book TV crew visited us three times in 2008. You can watch these author events on their website:

1) David Hajdu in conversation with Krin Gabbard, discussing Hajdu’s “Ten-Cent Plague”

2) Tom Engelhardt in conversation with Michael Schwartz, discussing The World According to TomDispatch

3) Jan Van Meter in conversation with Alan Ampolsk, discussing Van Meter’s Tippecanoe and Tyler Too

In November we held an event with the authors and photographer of Nightshift NYC. They recorded their own video of the event, which can be seen in pieces on YouTube:

More videos after the break…

New Year’s Day Sale at Book Culture!

Start off the new year with some sale day shopping at Book Culture:

Thursday, January 1, 2009

11 am – 7 pm

20% off practically everything!*

*Cannot be combined with other sales or coupons. Usual exclusions apply:
Not valid on textbooks, periodicals or short discount titles.

Join us for a special New Year’s Day Brunch too!

From 11 am – 1 pm we’ll serve complimentary bagels, OJ, prosecco & fruit

Book Culture’s Give Back Program

We’ve started a Give Back Program to benefit schools and non-profits in the neighborhood. It’s easy – organizations/schools join up with us, create an account and then let their members/parents know that shopping at Book Culture benefits their group. Each time a customer designates (at the register, via phone, or on our website) that their purchases should go to support a certain school, Book Culture will donate 15% of sales from each purchase.

Five schools have already joined, and earlier this week we held a special “Give Back Shopping Night” for one of the schools. Members of faculty and staff, as well as parents and students, from Bard High School Early College came to shop during a special three hour period. There were refreshments, door prizes and readings from both a student, Molly Wyrick-Flaxe, and a parent, the author Andre Aciman. See photos of the event here.

Contact Chris Doeblin (chris@bookculture.com) if you are interested in signing up your school for the program.

Book Culture’s December Sale is on now!

Book Culture’s Free Signature Gift Wrap

We’ve recently added green ribbon and Book Culture stickers to our free signature wrap – be sure to ask for it when shopping at the store. And don’t forget, our December Sale starts tomorrow!

Fall Author Events at Book Culture

Our store event season kicked off this week with three readings, from Mark Mazower, Stephanie Elizondo Greist and Bragi Olaffson. See more event photos here.

Next up: two great politically-themed programs, which are such to result in some interesting conversation. Don’t miss these upcoming events, which both begin at 7 pm in the upstairs event space at our store:

Tuesday, Oct. 14th: Jessamyn Conrad, author of What You Should Know About Politics…but Don’t, in conversation with political blogger and activist Matt Stoller.

Thursday, Oct. 16th: Dagmar Herzog, author of Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics, in conversation with Nation correspondent Richard Goldstein.