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We’re looking forward to Ryan Goldberg’s Bird City, an infectiously impassioned narrative about New York City that offers city dwellers and bird lovers everywhere a surprising, delightful new view of the concrete jungle through its abundant and diverse bird population.

To celebrate, the folks at sent us a fun variety of their bird patches to give away with pre-orders! Place your order for Bird City with us before November 2nd to get a random species with your book, while supplies last.

This month, Foraging Friends will be hosting grown-up show and tell. Bring along stuff you’ve grown, stuff you’ve found, pictures of neat finds.

Foraging Friends meets September 18th @ 6:30.

Join us Friday, October 3rd at 6:30 for Naomi Washer discussing her new book, Marginalia, with Deborah Shapiro.

Comprised of a decade’s worth of notes made in the margins of other writers’ books, collected and arranged into an original work, Marginalia accumulates into an essay that interrogates both its own form and its author’s sense of self.

Bookseller Mrittika says, “At once poetic and psychoanalytical, Washer’s fragmented curation of side notes keeps us hooked on the dialogue unfolding between past versions of herself”.

Airplane Mode, our bi-monthly subscription for books in translation, is back in September. This month, we’re visiting Kuwait and India. Check our linktree for details on how to join.

The Book Censor’s Library by Bothayna Al-Essa, translated from the Arabic by Ranya Abdelrahman, is a madcap satire following a bureaucrat in the book censor’s office, tasked with reading books to ensure nothing unfit makes it into print. However, the more he reads, the more he is drawn into the stories, their characters, and the outlaw librarians secretly preserving history and culture.

The International Booker Prize winning short story collection Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi, includes stories were originally published between 1990 and 2023. They paint vivid, witty portraits of the lives of Muslim girls and women in South India and trace the ways Indian society has shifted over the last 30 years.

Rosemary Mosco, author of perennial Skunk Cabbage Books bestsellers A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching and The Birding Dictionary, is this year’s keynote speaker at . Will we see you there? 🐦 👁️

Registration for the Urban Birding Festival is required!

August is Women in Translation Month. Scroll through for our latest recs for works in translation. 🌏

For September, our With Feathers book club will be reading the first book in the Southern Reach series, Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. We join an expedition into Area X, a strange region that has been cut off from the rest of the world for years and where nature has reclaimed human civilization. An all-female group of scientists set out to map the terrain and the ways Area X mutates the land and the life forms around it.

We’ll meet at 6 pm on September 17th. No RSVP required.

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