Indie & Small Press Book Fair (NYC - Dec 2 & 3) (20 West 44th)
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THIS SATURDAY & SUNDAY
@ 20 West 44th Street
100+ Publishers
30 Thought Provoking Panels
Live Authors! (do not feed)
Join us this weekend at the Independent and Small Press Book Fair! Cozy
up to over 100 of the nation's top indie presses, buy delicious books,
attend panels featuring over 60 of New York City's top literary and
political figures, drink free wine, get your fortune told and have all
the books you bought gift-wrapped!
The Fair, which will take place this Saturday (10-6) and Sunday
(11-5)is free ($1 suggested donation) and open to the public, and will
take place at the Small Press Center, General Society of Mechanics and
Tradesmen, 20 West 44th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues in midtown
Manhattan.
Some of the authors being featured at this year's Fair include:
Relentless Aaron, Dore Ashton, Amiri Baraka, Jen Benka, Jennifer
Baumgardner, Colin Channer, T. Cooper, Michael Cunningham, Luis
Francia, Steve Freeman, Matthea Harvey, Elizabeth Holtzman, Emily
Jenkins, Caren Lissner, Lauren Baratz-Logsted, Jaime Manrique, Joe
Meno, Jonas Mekas, Mark Crispin Miller, Eileen Myles, Greg Palast, Ed
Park, Rachel Pine, Peter Plate, Katha Pollitt, Paul Robeson, Jr., Eyal
Press, Dan Simon, Martha Southgate, David Levi Strauss, Monique Truong,
Anne Waldman, Marissa Walsh and many more...
This year's Fair will be featuring some of the countries' most
cutting-edge presses, including: Akashic Books, AK Press, Allworth
Press, Archipelago, Coffee House Press, Contemporary Press,
Disinformation, The Feminist Press, Gingko Press, Haymarket Books, Ig
Publishing, McPherson & Company, Melville House Press, Nation Books,
The New Press, Ocean Press, PEN American, Persea Books, Seven Stories
Press, Seven Locks Press, Soft Skull Press, The Smith and many, many
more.
Also, to help kick off this very exciting event, the Independent and
Small Press Book Fair, in conjunction with Akashic Books & Seven
Stories Press, will be hosting a Pre-Book-Fair Fiesta, on Friday,
December 1st, from 8-11 p.m., at KGB Bar, on 85 E. 4th Street, at 2nd
Ave in the East Village. Please come and join us for a round of drinks
to celebrate Independent Publishing and the writers who publish with
them!!! Please note that as a preliminary to the party, acclaimed
authors Joe Meno and Peter Plate will be reading at Barnes & Noble
Astor Place, at 7p.m.
For more information on the Fair and for a complete list of panels and
events, please visit smallpress.org. You may also contact the Small
Press Center by emailing in...@smallpress.org or by calling
212.764.7021.
The Small Press Center gratefully acknowledges the support of: BOMB
Magazine, BookExpo, The Brooklyn Rail, Chelsea Now, Coral Graphics,
mediabistro.com, The Nation, The New York Observer, The New York Review
of Books, Publishers Weekly, Rodale, Inc, Thomson Shore and The
Villager.
The Small Press Center is an educational program of the General Society
of Mechanics and Tradesmen.
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