See you all out tonight at Friends With Benefits tonight at Bruar Falls (245 Grand Street in Williamsburg). We have a stellar lineup for you to check out, all for the recommended price of a donated book that will go to our friends at Books Through Bars.
Mike Edison (Author, I Have Fun Everywhere I Go)
Franz Nicolay (of The Hold Steady)
Leni Zumas (Author, Farewell Navigator)
Vincent Cacchione (Soft Black)
Jesse Sposato (Sadiemagazine.com)
Things get going around eight.
A note from Books Through Bars:
We are always looking for new books and used books in good condition on the following:
- African-American history, especially 20th century
- Native American history
- Latin American history
- Radical politics
- Social sciences and psychology
- Dictionaries, thesauruses, and Spanish-English dictionaries
- Learning world languages
- How-to (drawing, chess, sign language…)
- Mayan and Aztec history
- Memoirs and fiction by people of color
- Mythology
- Poetry anthologies
With few exceptions, we want only paperbacks since most prisons do not accept hardcover books, and they are expensive to mail.
We do not take: religious books, including Bibles; legal books (except legal dictionaries); old magazines (besides National Geographic); white supremacist literature or anything advocating racial animosity, sexism or homophobia; business books; encyclopedias; mass market fiction (such as Danielle Steele and Stephen King).
