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Activism at WORD
“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
Drop by WORD Bookstores to write a letter to your senator or congressman and make your voice heard!
We will have letter writing stations available with stationery, stamps, and wine! Find us at WORD on these days:
WORD Brooklyn - every Sunday 12pm-2pm
WORD Jersey City - every Friday 5pm-7pm
JC: Jerome Buting Presents ILLUSION OF JUSTICE on March 1st
Purchase tickets here.
This event takes place in our Jersey City location and is ticketed.
Event starts 7:30pm
Tickets: $10.00 (redeemable as a $10 gift card which can be used against any purchase at WORD Bookstores)
Interweaving his account of the Steven Avery trial at the heart of Making a Murderer with other high profile cases from his criminal defense career, attorney Jerome F. Buting explains the flaws in America’s criminal justice system and lays out a provocative, persuasive blue-print for reform. Over his career, Jerome F. Buting has spent hundreds of hours in courtrooms representing defendants in criminal trials. When he agreed to join Dean Strang as co-counsel for the defense in Steven A. Avery vs. State of Wisconsin, he knew a tough fight lay ahead. But, as he reveals in Illusion of Justice, no-one could have predicted just how tough and twisted that fight would be—or that it would become the center of the documentary Making a Murderer, which made Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey household names and thrust Buting into the spotlight. Buting’s powerful, riveting boots-on-the-ground narrative of Avery’s and Dassey’s cases becomes a springboard to examine the shaky integrity of law enforcement and justice in the United States, which Buting has witnessed firsthand for more than 35 years. From his early career as a public defender to his success overturning wrongful convictions working with the Innocence Project, his story provides a compelling expert view into the high-stakes arena of criminal defense law; the difficulties of forensic science; and a horrifying reality of biased interrogations, coerced or false confessions, faulty eyewitness testimony, official misconduct, and more. Combining narrative reportage with critical commentary and personal reflection, Buting explores his professional and personal motivations, career-defining cases—including his shocking fifteen-year-long fight to clear the name of another man wrongly accused and convicted of murder—and what must happen if our broken system is to be saved. Taking a place beside Just Mercy and The New Jim Crow, Illusion of Justice is a tour-de-force from a relentless and eloquent advocate for justice who is determined to fulfill his professional responsibility and, in the face of overwhelming odds, make America’s judicial system work as it is designed to do.
Moderator: Robert Kolker is the New York Times bestselling author of Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery, a narrative-nonfiction chronicle of unsolved murder that was named one of the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books and one of Publisher's Weekly’s Top Ten Books of the year. An award-winning investigative journalist, he currently is a Projects & Investigations reporter for Bloomberg News. Jerome F. Buting, author of Illusion of Justice: Jerome F. Buting is a shareholder in the Brookfield, Wisconsin law firm of Buting, Williams & Stilling, S.C. He received his undergraduate degree in Forensic Studies from Indiana University and his law degree from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. He is a past board director of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, a past president of the Wisconsin Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and chair of the Wisconsin State Bar Criminal Law Section from 2005 to 2007. His present private practice is entirely criminal defense, both trials and appeals. He has defended the citizen accused in many serious high profile trial cases, including the Steven Avery case, and he obtained the reversal of convictions in State of Wisconsin v. Ted Oswald and State of Wisconsin v. Ralph Armstrong (reversing a 25 year old murder conviction). He lectures worldwide and is frequently sought after for his knowledge in the use of expert witnesses and DNA evidence. He is also the 2016 recipient of the Fierce Advocate Award from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Happy release day to #TwiceInABlueMoon by @christinalauren! 🌙💙 I was able to attend their author event last night in Brooklyn and it was so wonderful hearing #ChristinaLauren talk about their newest book child. Thanks again to #WordBookstores to hosting this event! And a casual reminder to support your local indie bookstores when you can! Purchasing a book at these events helps the bookstore, the authors, and supports the event! Q: What’s the last book you bought (bonus points if its from an indie!) and if you’ve read it, what did you think of it Twice In A Blue Moon starts off 14-years earlier in London. Tate Jones is on vacation with her grandmother when they befriend Sam Brandis and his grandfather. Tate and Sam become close and Tate tells Sam something she’s never told anyone - she’s the daughter of the worlds most famous actor and her mother has kept her hidden from the world growing up. Sam leaves without a trace and Tate’s secret is out to the world and she’s throwing into the spotlight at 18. Fast forward 14-years, Tate is now an up and coming actress herself set to start in a movie with her father for the first time. Little does she expect to see Sam on the set of the movie! Sam was her first love and he not only broke her heart, but betrayed her. This story tells what happens next. This is easily one of my favorite #CLo books and I highly recommend it! The #audiobook is always fantastic, thanks to @librofm for the Advanced Listening Copy! #LibroFM #ALC #AdvancedListeningCopy #BookNerdsAndFriends - Blue Books (at WORD Brooklyn) https://www.instagram.com/p/B37e4llAIvb/?igshid=ay36t3tf48oc
Tonight I attended @christinalauren's event in Brooklyn for the release of #TwiceInABlueMoon! 🌙💙 This was my first time seeing the duo in person and I fell even more in love with them hearing them talk about their books. They are such a great writing team and it was interesting to hear a little about their writing process. I highly recommend each and every CLo book. I'm still personally working my way through their 20+ books. Twice In A Blue Moon is officially out tomorrow (later today?!) and I've already listened to the audiobook thanks to @librofm's Advance Listening Copy program, and let me tell you. This is easily in my Top 3 favorite CLo books. I ADORE this book! Please check it out - the audiobook is also FANTASTIC and the story is just so good. If you love Roomies or Love & Other Words as much as I do, you'll also love this one. Speaking of Roomies. CLo mentioned they had written the screenplay for a #Roomies movie (?!??!) but movies take a longggggggggg time to happen compared to books. So. Hey @netflix, how is that Roomies movie by Christina Lauren coming along? I'm waiting. Q: Have you read Christina Lauren's books? Which is your favorite? OR which one would you like to read first? Thanks #WordBookstores for hosting this event at the Greenpoint Reformed Church! (at Greenpoint Reformed Church) https://www.instagram.com/p/B358qo3gn6a/?igshid=br6p2214709w
I’m gonna be in Jersey City doing this workshop next Sunday... so come thru... #OctaviasBrood #Repost @jelaninfinite with @get_repost ・・・ Next Sunday, 6/24, it's going down in Chilltown! Three @octaviasbrood contributing authors, @vgbnd, @mbotastic, and yours truly will be doing a reading, a talk, and a visionary fiction workshop at @wordbookstores in Jersey City. It'll be wizard time and you'll get some cool swag, too. You can sign up here: www.wordbookstores.com/BroodWorkshop. See you there! #octaviasbrood #visionaryfiction #writersofinstagram #writelife #wordbookstores #feedyourbrain #anotherworldispossible
Recommendations from some of our staff:
On A Hundred Thousand Worlds: “Such a rewarding story! The writing is full of heart and the characters are so honest. The resonance I felt for Alex (he’s just 9 years old!) is uncanny—his goals, fears, frustrations, all of it was tangible. By far the best book I’ve read in 2016.” ~Jasper
On How to Set a Fire and Why: “Lucia spends her days trying to follow one rule, “Don’t do things you aren’t proud of”, but circumstances are not making that any easier as her parents disappear and school becomes a battle ground. When she discovers her interest in fire, however, both her life and the novel light up. The story is brief and edge of your seat as Lucia befriends the Arson Club and, in the incredibly clipped and dagger true storytelling style only Jesse Ball has, descends.” ~Hannah
On Slade House: “Fans of The Bone Clocks will love this prequel to the story. But it also serves as a fun and interesting ghost story that anyone can enjoy even if you’ve never read the former. Mitchell can create an atmosphere of unpredictability better than anyone else. His stories just ooze unease and terror. New out in paperback, Slade House will have you guessing from one page to the next!” ~Katelyn
Have you read and loved any of these?
We've been getting so many requests for our Travel Light reading recommendations that we've listed them all here for you. Remember, even if you don't live near one of our stores, you can order any of these books online from WORD and we'll get them shipped right to your door! What will you take with you on vacation this year?
Native Guard: Poems
Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
Ficciones
Eleven Hours
The Transmigration of Bodies
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
Faber Pocket Guide to Shakespeare's Plays
Little Labors
Little Birds
Four Quartets
Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview
Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview
Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
James Baldwin: The Last Interview
Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview: And other Conversations
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview
Jane Jacobs: The Last Interview
David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview
Nora Ephron: The Last Interview
Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview
How to Think More About Sex
How to Age
How to Think About Exercise
Seven Good Years
The New World
Face: Cartography of the Void
Face: Strangers On a Pier
Face: A Time Code
Super Extra Grande
We Should All Be Feminists
Jesus' Son
Howl and Other Poems
No Matter the Wreckage
Oroonoko: Or, The Royal Slave, A True Story
Freeman's: The Best New Writing on Arrival
The Stranger
Leaving the Atocha Station
Interpreter of Maladies
Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
The Buddha in the Attic
Notes of a Native Son
The Literary Conference
On Booze
The Hare
Sophia
We Live in Water
Octopus Rises
Poor Clare
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Train Dreams
The Sense of an Ending
Invisible Cities
84 Charing Cross Road
Us, looking at our favorites from the Indie Next List for June
