BookCourt Bookstore - Brooklyn NY

We want to create the ultimate literary destination: a Bookshop, Event Space, & Writers' Retreat!

Biographile asks us about local writers as friends + neighbors, and which memoirs we often recommend... 

The Brookyln Literary Walking Tour: Discover a journey through Brooklyn's literary past, ending at BookCourt!

In-Store Events

Gary Greenberg

Mon May 20, 7:00PM

Bound to spark intense debate among expert and casual readers alike, author and...

An evening of short fiction ... readings by both authors, followed by a panel discussion about...

Jonathan Schuppe

Wed May 22, 7:00PM

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist follows an embattled Little League team in inner-city...

John Strausbaugh

Fri May 24, 7:00PM

From Dutch farmers and Washington Square patricians to slaves and bohemians, from Prohibition-...

Ian Tattersall

Tue May 28, 7:00PM

Join Ian Tattersall & Will Harcourt-Smith for an in-depth discussion and audience Q&A...

The Salon

Wed May 29, 7:00PM

LIFE.com Editor Ben Cosgrove and Photo Editor, Liz Ronk talk about the history of legendary...

Mon May 20, 7:00PM

Wed May 22, 7:00PM

Fri May 24, 7:00PM

Tue May 28, 7:00PM

Wed May 29, 7:00PM

Lucy Cooke & Lucy Cooke
Sherri Duskey Rinker
Suzzy Roche & Giselle Potter
Karen Benke
Heroines
Kate Zambreno
“Psychologically examines the interior and exterior lives of powerful women writers...”
Lauren
Wittgenstein's Nephew
Thomas Bernhard
“This autobiographical work about friendship, illness, obsession, and death is the perfect introduction to Bernhard...”
Sam
Shozan Jack Haubner
John F. Goodman
John le Carre
Claire Messud
Jane Hunter
$25.00    $10.95
Steve Schaecher
$17.95    $9.00
Marjane Satrapi
$16.95    $8.00
Louise Baring
$65.00    $30.00

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” -Mark Twain

Our nod to this year's graduates. Here's our list of A+ titles for those sailing away from the safe harbor!

Joanna Hershon is the author of The German Bride, The Outside of August, and Swimming. She has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Edward Albee Foundation. An adjunct assistant professor in the creative writing department at Columbia University, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the painter Derek Buckner, and their twin sons.

Timber Press is a publisher of books on gardening, ornamental and edible horticulture, garden design, sustainability, natural history, and the Pacific Northwest.