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Show Me The Women Book Club

by Milette Millington July 8, 2022June 28, 2022

Selection: Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall. 10% off when purchased through WORD the month prior to the meeting. Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake […]

Tuesday, July 5, 7:30 PM ET Paisley Currah presents Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity In conversation with Andrea Long Chu

by Milette Millington July 5, 2022June 14, 2022

Romance Book Club

by Milette Millington July 2, 2022June 17, 2022

Book Launch: Maddie Mortimer presents Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

by Milette Millington June 29, 2022June 10, 2022

Well-Read Black Girl Book Club

by Milette Millington June 28, 2022June 17, 2022

Nonfiction Book Group with Sammi: Discussing Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

by Milette Millington June 28, 2022June 3, 2022

Nour Chamoun and Christina Hawatmeh present The Year Time Stopped: The Global Pandemic in Photos, in conversation with contributors Simi Vijay, Sarah Aoun, Jason Little, and Jenna Petrone

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Keith Gessen presents Raising Raffi: The First Five Years In conversation with Jessica Grose

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by Milette Millington June 14, 2022May 31, 2022

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by Milette Millington June 11, 2022May 31, 2022

Book Launch: Leila Mottley presents Nightcrawling

by Milette Millington June 6, 2022May 27, 2022
Mateo Askaripour
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Meet Mateo Askaripour: a Brooklyn Author With a Hit Debut Novel

by Nigel Roberts January 13, 2021January 25, 2021
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Brooklyn Novelist Pens Love Letter to Golden Era of Hip-Hop with New Book

by Gabriella Thalassites April 15, 2019January 28, 2021
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New Book ‘Bobby in Naziland’ Tells a Different Tale of Flatbush

by Matthew Allan April 1, 2019January 28, 2021

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