eally proud of myself for not going completely hog wild at the Brooklyn Book Festival this year. After walking around a couple of times, I decided on the purchase stops I wanted to make and stuck with them. I only got 5 books and 2 literary journals.
The Feminist Press at CUNY was having a Buy 2 Get 1 Free sale so I decided to jump on the opportunity to finally check out some of their books. I realize though I would love to work for a company like them, I haven’t actually read any of their titles! So I figured this was the perfect opportunity to rectify that and get to know their work better.
Next up, Bank Street Books. I’ve never been to this bookstore because it’s a children’s bookstore, but when I saw that Libba Bray was going to be signing at their booth, I bought a copy of Beauty Queens (had realized on the train I’d forgotten to bring A Great and Terrible Beauty *womp wimp*) as well as this book I heard about at BEA then forgot about until Britt, our Design Director at Side B Magazine, recommended it this week for the newsletter.
And finally I got the latest issue of Slice Magazine and the very first issue of Tin House Magazine :’)
In non-Brooklyn-Book-Festival-related acquisitions, I actually got The Night Circus and We Others at the Strand last week, using the gift card I got from Lee for my birthday this past January.
ecisions, decisions. Here’s where I tell you about my grand and epic plans to DO ALL THE THINGS at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday! (or not) Not surprisingly there are so many authors I want to see that there’s some overlap and I’ve had to make some tough decisions based on whether or not I’m able to see a particular author later on in the month/year. Please note that for each event, I’ve only named the authors I’m interested in seeing. See complete details at the 
here are two things I look forward to in September: Fashion’s Night Out and the Brooklyn Book Festival. Usually these two events take place within days of each other. Sadly for some idiotic reason, FNO has decided to go back to Thursday evening instead of Friday like last year (which made more sense because people don’t have work the next day, but who am I? an unfashionable, unstylish peon). Meanwhile the Brooklyn Book Festival is being held a little later this year, on Sept 18, I imagine because this time around it would have fallen on Sept 11. I’m still excited for both though even if my love of fashion has waned a bit over the years. Now the Brooklyn Book Festival lineup is looking SPIFFY TO THE MAX. Among those I want to see:
