Bindlestiff Books will celebrate the dollar stroll with tables of $1 books (from picture books to novels, and lots of nonfiction too) from 5:30 to 8:30 in front of the store. We’ll keep the store open as well.
The Dollar Stroll has a long tradition, and now stretches from Clark Park or so through 52nd, with food, live music, popsicles, theater tickets, plants, and of course books. (Most for $1, but some stands will have specials at somewhat higher prices)
On Tuesday, June 14, Daniel Laurison will celebrate the release of his new book, Producing Politics: Inside the Exclusive Campaign World Where the Privileged Few Shape Politics for All of Us. The event begins at 6:30 at the Penn LGBT Center Goodman Room & Patio, 3907 Spruce Street.
Publishers Weekly called it an “illuminating insider’s view of American politics….Laurison’s case for how current campaign practices undermine democracy is detailed and persuasive. Readers will learn much from this peek behind the political curtain.”
You can RSVP for the event at https://bit.ly/ProducingPols Refreshments will be available on the patio, Dr. Laurison and others will speak about the book inside (please wear masks while indoors). Bindlestiff will be there for those interested in purchasing a copy. (We can also take advance orders, which will be available on the 14th.)
https://daniellaurison.com/research/producing-politics-book-launch-june-14th/
These are our best-selling titles for the last month:
Mikel Jollett, Hollywood Park
Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed
Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
Ocean Vuong, Time is a Mother
Qiuara Alegria Hudes, My Broken Language: A Memoir
Madeline Miller, Circe
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
David Lester, Prophet Against Slavery: Benjamin Lay, A Graphic Novel
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem
Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
Carmen Machado, Her Body and Other Parties
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Chicken of the Sea (picture book)
Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half
Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
bell hooks, All About Love
Jeff Kinney, Big Shot Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 16
Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer
Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
Samin Nosrat, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
Sarah Jaffe, Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
Karl Marx, Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy
Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
Elana Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend
Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents
Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Molly Ostertag, The Girl from the Sea
Erik Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar board book
Ursula K LeGuin, The Dispossessed
Tove Jansson, Comet in Moominland
These our our best-selling titles for the last month, in declining order of sales
Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed
Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
bell hooks, All About Love
Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees
Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King
Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem
David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Donna Tartt, The Secret History
Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language: A Memoir
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
Joan Didion, White Album
Zadie Smith, Grand Union
Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Dan Saks, Families Belong (board book)
Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You
Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
June Jordan, The Essential June Jordan
Carmen Machado, Her Body and Other Parties
Mona Damluji, Together (board book)
Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Herve Tullet, Press Here (board book)
Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
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The New York Times has published a multimedia documentation of how a book – in this case, Marlon James’ Moon Witch, Spider King (available at Bindlestiff) – is made, from conception through binding.
The Atheneum (219 S Sixth Street) is hosting a book festival for young readers Saturday, March 12, from 10 am – 3 pm. Several children’s book authors and illustrators will be presenting, and Bindlestiff Books are others will be selling books. Preregistration is required for the workshops, admission is free.
The Wolf Humanities Center will host Viet Thanh Nguyen reading from his latest novel, The Committed, before joining University of Pennsylvania scholars Josephine Park and Dagmawi Woubshet for a discussion. The event is Wednesday, March 16, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Harrison Auditorium at the Penn Museum, 3260 South Street. Bindlestiff Books will be there before and after the event, selling copies of the new paperback release of The Committed along with Nguyen’s other novels.
We have reached maximum capacity for this event and have a wait list, so we are not accepting new registrations.
Join New York Times bestselling author and Airborne Toxic Event frontman Mikel Jollett for an in-person event Friday, April 8, to discuss his remarkable memoir, Hollywood Park. Each ticket includes admission to the event and a signed paperback edition.
Hollywood Park is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country’s most infamous cults, and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction, and emotional abuse. Yet, ultimately, his is a story of fierce love and family loyalty told in a raw, poetic voice that signals the emergence of a uniquely gifted writer.
“Hollywood Park succeeds most in compassionately depicting the suffering and struggle of others with addiction: those left to obscurity; those barely holding on. Jollett’s life story shows that you can pass through the gauntlet of pain and trauma to self-reliance and sustainable meaning.”
— National Public Radio
(doors open at 5 pm)
Attendance is limited to the first 100 to sign up. To reserve your ticket (free with book purchase) for a short presentation and Q&A session, followed by individual book signing:
Please pre-pay for your copy ($17.99 paperback) via Venmo to @Bindlestiff4530. (Copies of the book are still available at Bindlestiff)
This event is presently fully subscribed…
These are our best-selling titles for last year:
Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Christine Kendall, The True Definition of Neva Beane
bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Matthew Burgess, Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring
Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
Kashuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun
Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Madeline Miller, Circe
Alice Walker, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem
Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age
Frank Herbert, Dune
Ashley Bryan, Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum
Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
David Graeber & David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Richard Powers, The Overstory
Mariame Kaba, We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Linda Ashman, Rain! (Board Book)
Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle: A Novel
Jericho Brown, The Tradition (poetry)
Jessica Love, Julián Is a Mermaid (picture book)
Samin Nosrat, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
Carole Lindstrom, We Are Water Protectors (picture book)
Octavia Butler, Kindred
Carmen Machado, In the Dream House: A Memoir
Maria Carluccio, The Sounds Around Town (board book)
Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You
Brit Bennet, The Vanishing Half: A Novel
Innosanto Nagara, A is for Activist (board book)
Monika Vaicenavičiene, What Is A River? (picture book)
Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed
Asali Solomon, The Days of Afrekete: A Novel
Ling Ma, Severance
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