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powerHouse Arena [1]

Type: 
Indie Bookstore, Reading Venue
Website: 
https://powerhousearena.com [2]
Phone: 
(718) 666-3049
E-mail: 
brittany@powerhousebookstores.com [3]

The powerHouse Arena—a self-proclaimed laboratory for creative thought—is a gallery, boutique, bookstore, performance, and events space located in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood. The space is home to the art book publisher, powerHouse Books, and hosts book launch parties, readings and signings, and conversations for a host of voices in contemporary literature. The store carries a curated selection of design and photography books, along with a discriminating selection of nonfiction, lifestyle, illustrated, and New York-themed books. There are also locations in the Park Slope [4] and Sunset Park [5] neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York.

Genre: 
Poetry [6], Fiction [7], Creative Nonfiction [8]
Event types: 
Reading [9], Panel [10], Talk [11]
Representative readers: 

Salman Rushdie, Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt, Gary Shteyngart, David Sedaris, Mary Gaitskill, Jonathan Lethem, Joyce Carol Oates, Nelson George, Edmund White, Colum McCann, Jennifer Egan, T. C. Boyle, Jonathan Franzen, Julia Glass, Nassim Taleb, Pete Hamill, Tracy K. Smith 

Address: 
28 Adams Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Source URL:https://www.pw.org/literary_places/powerhouse_arena

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/literary_places/powerhouse_arena [2] https://powerhousearena.com [3] mailto:brittany@powerhousebookstores.com [4] https://www.pw.org/literary_places/powerhouse_on_8th [5] https://www.pw.org/literary_places/powerhouse_at_industry_city [6] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [7] https://www.pw.org/genre/fiction [8] https://www.pw.org/genre/creativenonfiction [9] https://www.pw.org/category/event_types/reading [10] https://www.pw.org/category/event_types/panel [11] https://www.pw.org/category/event_types/talk