Holiday Gift Guide 2013: A Little Something for Everyone In Your Life
Brooklyn has become so closely associated with the world of writers and readers that you really don’t want to screw up on a gift for the lit-lover in your life. Follow our suggestions and you’ll look like you hang out talking real estate with Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss every weekend. Except, ew. Why would you do that? Gross.
n+1 pamphlet No Regrets: $9
This is the perfect gift for the lit-loving feminist in your life (what? you don’t have one in your life?! GET ONE! and then another!). Edited by Dayna Tortorici, this pamphlet is full of
great conversations with writers we love: Kristin Dombek, Emily Gould, Carla Blumenkranz, Sarah Marcus…so many more! Get it. Give it. Get another for yourself.
This is the perfect gift for the lit-loving feminist in your life (what? you don’t have one in your life?! GET ONE! and then another!). Edited by Dayna Tortorici, this pamphlet is full of
great conversations with writers we love: Kristin Dombek, Emily Gould, Carla Blumenkranz, Sarah Marcus…so many more! Get it. Give it. Get another for yourself.
The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories by Lydia Davis: $900 This signed, first-edition copy holds some of Davis’s most beautiful, unsettling stories and is the perfect (albeit expensive) gift for any lover of short fiction.
Bay Ridge Postcard History: $17 This is the perfect gift to familiarize a loved one (or a liked one) with one of Brooklyn’s most historically interesting neighborhoods. Plus, postcards! Who doesn’t love postcards?
Paul Auster’s New Book and the Paperback version of last book: $30 combined Paul Auster is synonymous with the Brooklyn lit scene of the last few decades. We can’t recommend you blow all your money on each of his works, but these two (Winter Journal and Report from the Interior) should definitely do the trick.
One Teen Story gift subscription: $18 YA fiction is all the rage, and a subscription to One Teen Story (suitable for people of all ages) is sure to be appreciated by the lit-lover
in your life.
in your life.
Stein Stone Notebook by Ogami: $14 Every reader is also a writer, and this beautifully designed notebook (complete with a Gertrude Stein cover quote) is the perfect place for jotting down thoughts and impressions.
“I Would Prefer Not To” Mug: $20 Every reader is also a drinker. Well, so is every
person. But readers will appreciate being able to drink out of this Melville House mug.
person. But readers will appreciate being able to drink out of this Melville House mug.
Emily Books Gift Certificate: $14.95-$159.95 You can give your loved one the gift of just one installment of an Emily Book, or a year-long subscription. Um, not that we want to tell you what to do, but give the gift of the whole year. You don’t want to seem stingy, and the smart, surprising Emily Books selections are one of the best books we can think of.
