Afternoon Bites: Charles Yu, WORD, Brian Wood, and more

The generally kickass witer Charles Yu made a recent appearance on the Bat Segundo Show. Greenpoint’s excellent WORD is holding a holiday open house this weekend. And if you’d like them to handsell you some books… Also in news of northern Brooklyn bookstores we love: Jon Reiss profiles the fine people of Book Thug Nation. Brian Wood on his experiences with the digital world as a comics creator. (If you’ve read and enjoyed The Dewey Decimal System or Zone One […]

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Vol. 1 Brooklyn Prepares to Dominate Piethos Reading Series

Dear Corey from Book Thug Nation, Prepare to lose your crown. Dear everybody else, Prepare for Tobias Carroll to run wild all over your asses, this Friday night.  The pie is ours. Brooklyn, NY–Slice magazine proudly announces the second installment of Piethos, a competitive reading series that pits blogs, magazines, publishing houses, bookstores, and other Brooklyn-based literary organizations against one another to win a delicious, locally sourced pie.

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