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Books Are Magic
Books Are Magic is an independent bookstore in Brooklyn. It was founded by Emma Straub in 2017 with a brick and mortar location in Carroll Gardens. A second location was opened in Brooklyn Heights in 2022. History Emma Straub, who worked at BookCourt after having first set up an event there for a novella she had published called ''Fly-Over State'', witnessed various notable writers come in to shop and do events, including Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, and Don DeLillo. There were also frequent customers Straub saw, such as Paul Dano and Hope Davis. After a few years, Straub quit when she was several months into her pregnancy, as well as coming up on a deadline for a manuscript. In December of 2016, BookCourt owners Henry Zook and Mary Gannett closed BookCourt and sold their building. Straub and her husband, Mike, discussed with Zook and Gannett about the matter, after which Straub and Mike planned to open a bookstore on their own, consulted various booksellers they knew, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a Boroughs of New York City, borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the New York (state), State of New York. Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings County, one of twelve original counties established under English rule in 1683 in what was then the Province of New York. As of the 2020 United States census, the population stood at 2,736,074, making it the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City, and the most populous Administrative divisions of New York (state)#County, county in the state.Table 2: Population, Land Area, and Population Density by County, New York State - 2020 New York State Department of Health. Accessed January 2, 2024. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Greenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bordered on the southwest by Williamsburg at Bushwick Inlet Park and McCarren Park; on the southeast by the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway and East Williamsburg; on the north by Newtown Creek and the neighborhood of Long Island City in Queens; and on the west by the East River. The neighborhood has a large Polish immigrant and Polish-American community, containing many Polish restaurants, markets, and businesses, and it is often referred to as Little Poland. Originally farmland—many of the farm owners' family names, such as Meserole (Messerole) and Calyer, are current street names—the residential core of Greenpoint was built on parcels divided during the Industrial Revolution and late 19th century, with rope factories and lumber yards lining the East River to the west, while the northeastern section along the Newtown Creek through East Williamsburg became an industrial maritim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bookstores Established In The 21st Century
Bookselling is the commercial trading of books, which is the retail and distribution end of the publishing process. People who engage in bookselling are called booksellers, bookdealers, book people, bookmen, or bookwomen. History The founding of libraries in stimulated the energies of the Athenian booksellers. In Rome, toward the end of the republic, it became the fashion to have a library, and Roman booksellers carried on a flourishing trade. The spread of Christianity naturally created a great demand for copies of the Gospels and other sacred books, and, later on for missals and other devotional volumes for both church and private use. The modern system of bookselling dates from soon after the introduction of printing. During the 16th and 17th centuries, the Low Countries, for a time, became primary center of the bookselling world. Modern book selling has changed dramatically with the advent of the Internet. Major websites such as Amazon, eBay, and other big book distrib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fishs Eddy (retailer)
Fishs Eddy is a dinnerware, flatware and glassware retailer originally based in Gramercy Park, Manhattan, New York City that specializes in found dishes and serving pieces. History Fishs Eddy was founded in 1986, when founders and current owners Julie Gaines and David Lenovitz got lost in Upstate New York and stumbled upon a small town named Fishs Eddy. Gaines and Lenovitz discovered an old barn during that trip that had stockpiled restaurant dishware that had survived a fire. They offered to buy the whole lot, took it back to their apartment in Manhattan and used the inventory to open a store at 889 Broadway, near Union Square. They additionally opened a warehouse in Jersey City, New Jersey. A graphic novel about the history of the story, by Gaines and illustrated by her and Lenovitz's son, called Minding the Store, was published in 2018. In 2021, Fishs Eddy started giving tours of its dinnerware collection, located on the second floor of the store, primarily featuring vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Housing Works
Housing Works is a New York City-based non-profit fighting AIDS and homelessness. The charity is well known for its entrepreneurial businesses including a chain of thrift shops, which supports efforts to end AIDS and homelessness where they are based. They are also known for their social justice activism. , the organization has served 30,000 clients. In 1990, four members of the AIDS activist group ACT UP—Keith Cylar, Charles King, Eric Sawyer and Virginia Shubert—decided to dedicate themselves to serving one of New York City’s then-most neglected populations: the tens of thousands of homeless men, women, and children in the city living with HIV and AIDS. The activists called their new group ''Housing Works'' because they believed that stable housing was the key to helping HIV-positive people live healthy and fulfilling lives and to prevent the further spread of the virus. Operations The organization runs a chain of thrift shops, a bookstore café, and a dispensary as soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, cultural center of Southern California. With an estimated 3,878,704 residents within the city limits , it is the List of United States cities by population, second-most populous in the United States, behind only New York City. Los Angeles has an Ethnic groups in Los Angeles, ethnically and culturally diverse population, and is the principal city of a Metropolitan statistical areas, metropolitan area of 12.9 million people (2024). Greater Los Angeles, a combined statistical area that includes the Los Angeles and Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan areas, is a sprawling metropolis of over 18.5 million residents. The majority of the city proper lies in Los Angeles Basin, a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenna Bush Hager
Jenna Welch Bush Hager (née Bush; born November 25, 1981) is an American news personality, author, and journalist. She is the host of '' Today with Jenna & Friends'', the fourth hour of NBC's morning news program, ''Today.'' Hager and her fraternal twin sister, Barbara, are the daughters of the 43rd U.S. President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush. Hager is also a granddaughter of the 41st U.S. President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush, great-granddaughter of former U.S. Senator Prescott Bush, niece of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, and first cousin of former Land Commissioner of Texas George P. Bush. After her father's presidency ended, Hager became an author, an editor-at-large for ''Southern Living'' magazine, and a television personality on NBC, being featured, most prominently, as a member of ''The Today Show'' as a correspondent, contributor and co-host. Early life and education Jenna Welch Bush was born on November 25, 1981, at B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazmine Hughes
Jazmine Hughes (born October 25, 1991) is an American writer and editor. From 2015 to 2023, she was an editor at ''The New York Times Magazine''. Previously she served as contributing editor of The Hairpin. Her work has also appeared in ''The New Yorker, Elle, Cosmopolitan, and The New Republic''. Early life Hughes was born on October 25, 1991, in New Haven, Connecticut. She grew up with four sisters and was homeschooled until the fifth grade. She attended Connecticut College where she studied government and served as editor-in-chief of the school newspaper before graduating in 2012 at age 20. After college she attended the Columbia Publishing Course. Career Hughes began her career as a fact-checker at ''New York Magazine'', one of only two black employees (the other worked in the mail room) at the publication throughout her first year there. Hughes served as contributing editor of The Hairpin before becoming an associate editor at ''The New York Times Magazine'' in March 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Klay
Phil Klay ( ; born 1983) is an American writer. He won the National Book Award for fiction in 2014 for his first book-length publication, a collection of short stories, '' Redeployment''. In 2014 the National Book Foundation named him a 5 under 35 honoree. His 2020 novel, ''Missionaries'', was named as one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year as well as one of ''The Wall Street Journal''s Ten Best Books of the Year. Klay was a United States Marine Corps officer from 2005 to 2009. In addition to other projects, he currently teaches in the MFA writing program at Fairfield University. Early life Klay grew up in Westchester, New York, the son of Marie-Therese F. Klay and William D. Klay. His family background included several examples of public service. His maternal grandfather was a career diplomat and his father a Peace Corps volunteer; for years his mother worked in international medical assistance. He attended Regis High School in New York City, graduating in 2001. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hope Davis
Hope Davis (born March 23, 1964) is an American actress. Her performances on stage and screen have earned various awards. She made her film debut in Joel Schumacher's '' Flatliners'' in 1990. She then starred in the critically acclaimed films '' The Daytrippers'' (1996), '' About Schmidt'' (2002), '' Infamous'' (2006), and '' Asteroid City'' (2023). She received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture nomination for her role in '' American Splendor'' (2003). She received an Independent Spirit Award with the cast of '' Synecdoche, New York'' (2008). In 2016, she joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe portraying Tony Stark's mother Maria Stark in '' Captain America: Civil War'' (2016). In 1992, she made her Broadway theatre debut in ''Two Shakespearean Actors''. In 1997 she starred as Sasha in '' Ivanov'' opposite Kevin Kline and Marian Seldes. She earned acclaim for her role in Yasmina Reza's '' God of Carnage'' in 2009 acting alongside Jeff Dan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Straub
Emma Straub (born ) is an American novelist and bookstore owner. Her novels include ''Modern Lovers'', ''The Vacationers'', ''Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures'' and ''All Adults Here''. She is the author of a short story collection entitled ''Other People We Married''. In May 2022, Straub's novel ''This Time Tomorrow'' was published by Riverhead Books. Straub was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2024. Personal life Straub is the daughter of horror and suspense writer Peter Straub. She is married to Michael Fusco-Straub (born , a graphic designer, with whom she has two sons. A graduate of The Cathedral School of St. John the Divine, Saint Ann's School, Oberlin College, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, she lives in Brooklyn Brooklyn is a Boroughs of New York City, borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the New York (state), State of New York. Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings County, one of twel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Dano
Paul Franklin Dano (; born June 19, 1984) is an American actor. His work includes both independent and mainstream projects, and his accolades include nominations for a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Dano made his acting debut in '' L.I.E.'' (2001) and gained wider recognition for playing a troubled teenager in ''Little Miss Sunshine'' (2006). For playing identical twins in Paul Thomas Anderson's period drama ''There Will Be Blood'' (2007), he was nominated for the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor. After supporting roles in mainstream films such as ''Knight and Day'' (2010), ''Cowboys & Aliens'' (2011), and '' Looper'' (2012), Dano had critically acclaimed roles in ''12 Years a Slave'' and '' Prisoners'' (both 2013). For his portrayal of Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson in '' Love & Mercy'' (2014), he earned a nomination for the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor. In 2018, he starred as a convicted murderer in the Showtime mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
