Located in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, powerHouse at Industry City is an offshoot of the famed Dumbo bookstore and event space. PowerHouse...
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Literary Places
This database of writerly destinations—places writers can visit for inspiration, to promote their writing, for research, and to discover community—includes historical sites, reading venues, literary collections, writing centers, and writers spaces. Save your selections to My P&W and populate a personal Google Map that can be used to plan reading tours and visits to literary meccas, or just to keep track of your favorite literary locales.
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PowerHouse on 8th is a bookstore, reading club, mini-gallery, and community space in the South Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, offering the best in fiction, nonfiction, children’s, YA, novelty, and cooking books, as well as decor and...
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Printed Matter, Inc., a nonprofit organization located in Chelsea, is one of the world’s largest publicly available sources for artists’ books. The organization has an open submission process, inviting artists and independent publishers to submit...
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A plaque honoring Richard Wright is mounted on the writer’s former residence in Fort Greene in Brooklyn, New York. Wright often visited the nearby Fort Greene Park to write notes for his novel Native Son.
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Rizzoli Bookstore has been a literary landmark and long-standing independent bookstore for over fifty years. Previously located at 57th Street for over twenty years, the bookstore is now located by Madison Square Park in New York City’s NoMad...
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Shakespeare & Co. is an independent bookstore located in the Upper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan. The store hosts a plethora of events including book signings, readings, talks, monthly book club meetings, and open mic nights for comics...
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Shakespeare & Co. is an iconic Manhattan bookstore in the Upper East Side neighborhood founded in 1983. The store is adjacent to the Hunter College campus and includes a high-quality café. Their...
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Sister’s Uptown Bookstore opened in 2000, and the Cultural Center was added in 2007. A staple in the community of Washington Heights, the shop features books by African American authors and holds events for writers, including workshops, poetry...
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Spoonbill & Sugartown, Booksellers was established in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg in 1999. The shop specializes in used, rare, and new books on contemporary art, architecture, and various design fields with an emphasis on...
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In 2013, the owners of Community Bookstore took over another neighborhood bookshop, renamed it Terrace Books, and stocked it with a mix of new, collectible, and curated used books. Terrace Books is a neighborhood bookstore in Windsor Terrace in...
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Terraza 7 is a live music venue and community center: the perfect hub for local art, political expressions and your favorite coffee or mixed drink. Located in the heart of Queens, New York, between Elmhurst and Jackson Heights, two locations...
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The Center for the Humanities encourages collaborative and creative work in the humanities at CUNY and across the city through seminars, conferences, publications and exhibitions. Free and open to the public, our programs and exhibitions aim to...
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The Corner Bookstore became an instant mecca for a book-hungry Carnegie Hill when it opened in 1978. Located in a landmark neighborhood in New York City, it has been satisfying the literary desires of this residential neighborhood for over three...
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Founded in the early 1970s, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe began as a living room salon in the East Village apartment of writer and poet Miguel Algarin. Today, the cafe is a nonprofit organization that provides a forum for innovative poetry, music, hip...
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Through its live programming, workshops, publications, website, and special events, The Poetry Project promotes, fosters, and inspires the reading and writing of contemporary poetry by presenting contemporary poetry to diverse audiences;...
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Novelist Thomas Wolfe lived in the brownstone at 5 Montague Terrace from 1933 to 1935. While living there he wrote the short story “Only the Dead Know Brooklyn,” as well as the novel Of Time and River.
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In 1991, the Greenwich Village Historical Society cited Three Lives & Company for being “a pocket of civility.” The shop boasts a knowledgeable staff who aid in directing customers to literary books that they might otherwise overlook and...
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Troubled Sleep, a name shared with a novel by Jean-Paul Sartre, is a new and used bookstore located in the historic district of Park Slope in Brooklyn, New York. The store carries a wide variety of quality books at low prices and specializes in...
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Truman Capote lived in the basement apartment of 70 Willow Street for ten years, which he rented from his friend Oliver Smith. While living there, he finished Breakfast at Tiffany’s and wrote the novel In Cold Blood. Capote’s...
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Unnameable Books is a bookstore located in the heart of Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Founded as “Adam’s Books” before being renamed, the store specializes in poetry, has an eclectic collection of used books, and carries work from many small...
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On the corner of Montague Terrace and Montague Street is the brownstone where W. H. Auden lived from October 1939 to September 1940. A plaque on the house notes that the poet wrote the long philosophical poem “New Year Letter” at this address....
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Westsider Rare and Used Books is located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and buys, sells, and trades rare and used books. The shop specializes in fiction and literature, modern first editions, art, illustrated books, graphic design, children'...
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The White Horse Tavern was made famous by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas as the bar where he drank his last whiskey. Inside, portraits of Dylan Thomas adorn the walls, and a plaque commemorating him hangs above the bar. In the 1950s and 1960s, many more...
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WORD has two bookstores, one in Brooklyn and one in Jersey City. Established in 2007, the Brooklyn location is a one thousand square-foot independent neighborhood bookstore in Greenpoint that hosts everything from the classic author reading and Q...
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WORD has two bookstores, one in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and one in Jersey City. Established in 2013, the Jersey City location has an inventory of current and past favorites from all genres and categories as well as a café serving coffee and treats...
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