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163 Court St. Brooklyn, NY 11201

718-875-3677

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Best BookStore Expanding in the Face of a Vanishing Industry
Award Winner 2009

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This neighborhood store, which underwent a mini-financial boom after the publication of Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn (the store sold 1,000 copies in a few weeks), specializes in dignified subway reading. The "magazine section" consists, essentially, of the Believer, Bookforum, and the New York Review of Books. What more could you possibly want?

Kate Sekules: The Boxer's Heart: A Woman Fighting

7:00 p.m. June 1

Kate Sekules read from her candid memoir of the world of women's boxing.
Zoe Fishman: Saving Ruth: A Novel

7:00 p.m. June 2

The Atlanta-based Zoe Fishman reads from her latest book, Saving Ruth.
Exit Laughing

7:00 p.m. June 3

Victoria Zackheim hosts this reading from Exit Laughing, a collection of 24 personal stories on the subject of death and humor, which she edited.
Tracie McMillan: The American Way of Eating

7:00 p.m. June 4

Tracie McMillan presents her book The American Way of Eating.
Marc Dolan: Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock 'n' Roll

7:00 p.m. June 5

Marc Dolan's Springsteen biography explores "how a gifted, ambitious community college dropout achieved superstardom."

2009 | Best BookStore Expanding in the Face of a Vanishing Industry

Last fall, we were walking past our favorite independent bookstore, BookCourt, when we stopped and did a double-take. The once-crammed shop in Boerum Hill had doubled in size, adding an extra 1,800 feet, with a new sky-lit ceiling and a large room for hosting the kinds of readings and panel discussions you would never find at the nearby Barnes & Noble. (For instance, on a recent summer evening, the store was packed with hip, young literary types who came to see author and longtime... More »
2005 | Best Brooklyn Bookstore

The staff at BOOKCOURT is both good-looking and well-read, the books are well displayed, and the children's section is appropriately in its own little nook, perfect for whiling away the hours. Singles say the store is excellent for date browsing as well. More »

BE PREPARED

By Angela Ashman | Wed, March 28, 2012

Rory Hendrix, the young protagonist of Tupelo Hassman's debut novel, Girlchild, lives in a trailer park outside Reno at the mercy of a mother who chooses all the wrong men. Told she's going to grow up to be just like her mom (one of the "third-ge... More »
BLOOD TIES

By Angela Ashman | Wed, February 29, 2012

Ellen Ullman, a pioneering woman in the male-dominated field of computer programming during the ’70s and ’80s, made the tech world accessible for non-geeks with her 1997 cult classic memoir Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents an... More »
Adam Wilson: Release Party for Flatscreen

By | Wed, February 22, 2012

Adam Wilson (whose writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Times, and other publications) reads from his debut novel, Flatscreen, which concerns a young loser's struggle "to become a new person in a world where nothing is new." ... More »
THIS WAY OUT

By Angela Ashman | Wed, February 01, 2012

When life doesn’t go the way you planned, how do you find a new direction? In its latest issue, Granta, the award-winning British literary magazine, explores the theme of exit strategies, both personal and political, via memoir, fiction, and poetr... More »
Jhumpa Lahiri

By | Wed, December 21, 2011

Jhumpa Lahiri, the Pulitzer Prize-winning chronicler of Bengalese-American life, will speak with visual artist Simon Dinnerstein this Sunday at BookCourt about her essay in "The Suspension of Time: Reflections on Simon Dinnerstein and The Fulbrigh... More »
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163 Court St. Brooklyn, NY 11201

718-875-3677

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