McNally Jackson

Miscellany from Prince Street.

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McNally Jackson partners with sport culture and print festival BLEED & SCORE today at BERG’N in Brooklyn! Gorgeous books: surfing, cycling, Iverson pictorials! George Plimpton. Journals. Sportswriting from The New Yorker. Much coolness.

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Tomorrow night.

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Daily Action

David France joins Benjamin Moser for our inaugural Daily Action Book Club event, featuring questions from Book Club members! In "How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science...

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Step 1: Go see I Am Not Your Negro. Step 2: Read more Baldwin.

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The new George Saunders is here.

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Things are grim, but you can maybe take heart in the fact that people are still making their own weird little books. @bookriot talked to us about micropresses and our chapbook section.

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We got new mugs, we got new totes. Look at ‘em! Get them in store, or give us a call* and we’ll ship right to your very door. Or wherever you want.

* [phone], and I promise we’re nice on the phone.

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Look at all these January events! Look at them.

Finks! Poetry! Writing against the blasted patriarchy! Zadie! Unsettlers! Weird places! Moshfegh, Ackerman, Hennessy, females! (Plus more!)

Dang.

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Listen: Your 2017 Reading List

Sarah McNally, the owner of the McNally Jackson bookstore on Prince Street in Manhattan, talks about books to put on your 2017 reading list.

Over on @wnyc, listen to the bosslady discuss what’ll be good in 2017.

Look forward to new stuff from Teju Cole, Elif Batuman, Carlo Rovelli, Rachel Cusk, Mohsin Hamid, Joan Didion, Paul Auster, + lots more.

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Happy New Year, y’all. To ring out the old / in the new, here’s a list of the books you bought the most this year. Or, last year, I guess. 2016! (Bold means one of us staff picked it.)

My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante

M Train, Patti Smith

A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara

We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Between The World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, J. K. Rowling

Black Panther (all comics + book), Ta-Nehisi Coates 

The Girls, Emma Cline

The Girl on The Train, Paula Hawkins

The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson

Sweetbitter, Stephanie Danler

Just Kids, Patti Smith

The Sellout, Paul Beatty

When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi

The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty, Amanda Filipacchi

Barbarian Days, William Finnegan

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Carlo Rovelli

The Vegetarian, Han Kang

Modern Romance, Aziz Ansari & Erik Klinenberg

Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo

The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead

The Wisdom of Insecurity, Alan W. Watts

The Story of a New Name, Elena Ferrante

Hillbilly Elegy, J. D. Vance

How Not To Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg

The Woman Destroyed, Simone de Beauvoir

The Art of Inequality, Reinhold Martin, Jacob Moore, and Susanne Schindler, eds.

Milk and Honey, Rupi Kaur

Swing Time, Zadie Smith

The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, Elena Ferrante

Luckiest Girl Alive, Jessica Knoll

All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr

The Rap Year Book, Shea Serrano

Me Before You, Jojo Moyes

I Love Dick, Chris Kraus

The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben

Grief Is The Thing With Feathers, Max Porter

Born To Run, The Boss

How To Relax, Thich Nhat Hanh

Bluets, Maggie Nelson

The Critic as Artist, Oscar Wilde

The Soul of An Octopus, Sy Montgomery

The Hatred of Poetry, Ben Lerner

So Sad Today, Melissa Broder

Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow

Known and Strange Things, Teju Cole

A Manual For Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin

Gratitude, Oliver Sacks

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If you've got Christmas cards to buy, be on the cutting edge of NYC shopping and visit our brand new Goods for the Study at 50 West 8th Street. 

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Book Sculptures by Allison Glasgow

I am a life-long bookseller and avid reader. I began making these book sculptures when struggling to come up with a gift for my boss, celebrating the ten year anniversary of her bookstore. There was no book I could give her that she hadn’t already discerned, so I decided to take a favorite book of poems and reconfigure it into a tree. Dismantling a book is not done without consciousness. Books are precious items. All the books used in my art have been loved and read, and are chosen because of their particular worth. Taking apart text, line by line, I like to think I am reading these books in a different way. Words take on different meanings when isolated or spun into a physical form. These art pieces are an attempt to read words as objects.

Ready to Ship and Custom Orders in Allison’s Etsy Shop: The Poet Trees

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Did you know that our own Allison Glasgow makes these amazingly cool book sculptures?

Did you know that she takes commissions?

Now you do.

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The newest member of the McNally Jackson family is our second Goods for the Study location at 50 West 8th Street. Drop by and join us in welcoming this young shop into the world, any day of the week between 10am and 8pm.

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How to Open an Independent Bookstore

As big chain bookstores shutter their doors, independent bookstores in New York City are stepping in to fill the void.

Listen to the bosslady discuss indie bookstores with Emma Straub (who will fill the hole left by BookCourt’s closing) and Noëlle Santos of the Lit Bar (coming soon in the Bronx) on the Brian Lehrer Show.

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Nicola Yoon at McNally Jackson, 11/29/16

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From last night’s reading with Nicola Yoon, who read from and talked about her book The Sun is Also a Star.

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For his bookshop and website One Grand Books, the editor Aaron Hicklin asked people to name the 10 books they’d take with them if they were marooned on a desert island. The next in the series is Maggie Nelson, author of “The Argonauts” and a 2016 MacArthur fellow, who shares her list exclusively with T.