Sunday, July 28 – Mercer County
Trenton Museum Society at the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, Trenton, New Jersey
Readings, Signing and Reception
4 pm
On Sunday, July 28 at 4 pm, at the Trenton City Museum, Ellarslie in Cadwalader Park, area writers read selections from The Bookshop on Lafayette Street, a collection of stories and poems published by Ragged Sky Press and inspired by Trenton's own Classics Books. Free will donations are gratefully accepted at the door.
Everything to love about bookstores is in the collection: the sense of wonder and discovery, the cozy clutter, idiosyncratic book lovers, the feeling of being in a magic haven buttressed against the cruelties of the world, and, of course, the adventure of books themselves.
Contributors include Ilene Dube, Jeff Edelstein, Barry Gross, John Gummere, Yusef Komunyakaa, Doc Long, Eric Maywar, Leon Rainbow, Jackie Reinstedler, Nancy Scott, Thomas Webster, and David Lee White.
This collection is for readers who long to open a hidden passageway when they pull a book from the shelf or secretly hope the bookseller will lock them in the bookstore overnight. There is a story about the five greatest bookstores of all time, another about a woman who brings her date to a bookshop to see how he handles himself around books, and another about the ghosts of books burnt in book burnings. There is a play about the most annoying customer in the world, a story about the bookseller and the troll, and a story about a boy who rode on the tops of trains and what that meant.
Books will be for sale at the event. Readers can also purchase a copy from Ragged Sky Press (http://www.raggedsky.com/) or directly from the Bookshop on Lafayette Street, Classics Books in Trenton (4 West Lafayette Street).
The Trenton Museum Society Presents
