826NYC Review on Sale Now!

August 17, 2005

Today the center welcomed Ann Brashares and Cecily von Ziegasar, the authors of Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants and Gossip Girl, respectively. They came as a part of our Wednesday Lunch Sessions for the Young Adult Writers' Colony, where established professionals from the publishing world come to speak to the colony's students about their jobs and also answer a multitude of questions. Last week we were pleased to welcome Brashares's Random House editor, Wendy Loggia, and Liesa Abrams an editor at Penguin's young adult imprint, Razorbill. The week before that we were delighted to host 826NYC advisor, Jonathan Safran Foer and his dog, George.

The first issue of The 826NYC Review arrived yesterday and features stories, poems, interviews, reviews, choose-your-own adventures, guest appearances by Hilary Duff, headlines written about mold, and a touching afterword from the review's publisher, H. Mildew. They are on sale in the Superhero Supply Store, and 826NYC will be hosting a party celebrating the release September 13th.

In other store news, the villain containment unit is up and running for all to use.

Workshops are going well as the summer season starts to wind down and we prepare for school starting again. We are hosting a workshop with The Family Center group, TEACH, while they make an educational film as part of their outreach programming. The storywriting drop-in sessions have been producing gigantor books on a weekly basis, including Four Stories, Some With Water and The Golden Future. For more stories from the center and the unique perspectives of volunteers, staff, visitors, and just plain hooligans, please check out our blog .

Teachers Have It Easy

August 02, 2005

Be sure to join two members of 826NYC's board--Dave Eggers and Ninive Calegari--and journalist Daniel Moulthrop, as they discuss their new book, Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America's Teachers. The event takes place Thursday, August 4th (7pm) at Housing Works (126 Crosby Street).