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  Friday @7p!  

  Playing is important. Come go full playful and make stick paper puppets with the sweeties from the Craft Society. Hand paint your puppets and have a snack to celebrate. Once dry, there will be a little theater where you can make an animated video of your puppets!  It's giving Juliette Binoche in that Hsiao-Hsien film.

Materials, instruction, and refreshments provided. Workshop is beginner friendly. TIX

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tix going fast for the naïve realists, professional Italians, and silly geese...

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  We had to postpone our Keep Greenpoint Weird Book Club as we were sick for a hundred years like everyone else (did you also think there was a creature sucking the life-force from your veins and pumping them back up with pure acid?) but it has now been rescheduled. See below! As above.  

No. 4  →  Drag City is a long-running, Chicago-based record label and book publisher. Their musical roster includes a wide range of artists and styles, notably Joanna Newsom (greatest of a generation), Silver Jews, Bill Callahan, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Ty Segall, and more. They've also been publishing books since the label's early days and we are pretty pumped about their latest! Join us in March. More details here! 

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  There are certain things we can't sell on our website, but they are always in stock. Just ask.  (Really wanted to say 'in our mouthsssss!!!!!!!' after 'in stock.' Hahahahahahaahahaahahhahaha Like, they are always in stock...in our mouths!!!!!!!!! Get it? Haha ah ha ciao) 

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  Have you ever wondered if you can order a book from us that is not food related? The answer is SI. Please feel free to email us with those inquiries at [email protected] or support our shop on bookshop.org.  

featured title just cause!

A    S E L E C T I O N

Salmon: A Red Herring / $17.95

Paperback

SALMON: A RED HERRING accounts for how we ended up in a deceptive world where sparrows molt pink, dogs turn blue, and honey glows maraschino red; where pharaohs tint paint, laptops flavor fog, and farms feed color. 

Forewords by Hannah Landecker, Bruno Latour, David Zilber, and Hans Ulrich Obrist

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our upcoming events + happenings

 C O O K B O O K   C L U B THUR FEB 27 IT IS SIMPLE: Cook your way through The League of Kitchens Cookbook: Brilliant Tips, Secret Methods & Favorite Family Recipes from Around the World in FEBRUARY and drop by with a dish on THURSDAY FEBRUARY 27th! All are welcome! It's a potluck party! It's mad civilized! Potlucks with all of you give us a dose of hope for the universe!   Free to hang, Bring a dish to eat, Books for sale 

 C R A F T   N I G H T FRI FEB 21 LINK TO TICKETS HERE. 

 From Craft Society: Come be playful and make stick paper puppets with us! Decorate your puppets with paints while enjoying a tasty spread. Once you are finished, there will be an optional theater "photo-booth" where you can make an animated video of your puppet(s)! Materials, instruction, and refreshments provided. Workshop is beginner friendly :) $40 event 

 K E E P    G R E E N P O I N T   W E I R D   B O O K   C L U B new date! TUE MAR 4  It is important to KEEP THIS NEIGHBORHOOD WEIRD. A lost feminist masterwork by a speculative fiction icon about a lesbian’s coming-to-consciousness during the social upheaval of the 1970s. Originally published in 1980, On Strike Against God is the only realist novel by feminist science fiction icon Joanna Russ.  Read through On Strike Against God by Joanna Russ in January and join us IN PERSON on March 4th!  Free event, Books for sale 

 B O O K B O O K   C L U B MON MAR 10 Every six-ish weeks we read a new memoir, a collection of essays, novels, or anything else we find interesting that somehow, in a big or small way, relates to food. Then we discuss. Read through The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa and join us IN PERSON in March. Free, Books for sale 

 C O M M U N I T Y   G R O U P TUE MAR 18 Love to write poetry and want a place to workshop it? Come join POETRY TABLE, a low stakes environment for your experiments, a place to meet fellow writers in the hood, and a way to establish a regular practice. Free, Drinks for sale 

 A U T H O R   E V E N T TUE MAR 11 Join us for a very special evening in celebration of Mother Sauce: Italian American Family Recipes and the Story of the Women Who Created Them.Author Lucinda Scala Quinn will be joined in conversation by fellow Italian cookbook author Dan Pelosi. $5 or book 

 A U T H O R   E V E N T THUR MAR 20 Join us for a very special evening in celebration of Jim Frank's instant classic Existential Bread alongside fellow bread baker Patrick Shaw-Kitch of the recently announced Brooklyn Granary + Mill. Expect an expert conversation between Jim and Patrick, inspired Q+A with all of you, a bread tasting (provided by BGM), + a book signing. Beverages and books for sale at the shop. Preorder above and see you there! $5 or book 

 A C C A D E M I A WED MAR 26 to MAY 7 Ever had an idea for a screenplay but have no idea where to start? If so, this class is for you! Local hero and screenwriting professor Sophie Finkelstein will introduce you to the craft of screenwriting and take you through an exploration into the universal art of storytelling. $695 for a 7 week intensive 

  ART NOW ON VIEW / i n   B O O K S HEADS WILL ROLL 

New sculptural objets de art from Daniel Zender.

S O C I A L   C L U B COMING IN 2025: Join us as we build a community around building community cookbooks! It's the COMMUNITY COOKBOOK COMMITTEE. Learn more here. Want to be a part of the reading/editing/ compiling team that makes this all happen? Email us to be added to the Google Group and we will keep you updated about when these meetings will resume.

PLEASE EMAIL [email protected] IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN HOSTING A COMMUNITY GROUP or HAVING AN EVENT.

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