Join us for September's Graphic Novel Book Club pick: Raging Clouds by Yudori Amélie is a brilliant woman trapped in the restricting social mores of high Dutch society in the mid-16th century. Her marriage to Hans, a swashbuckling merchant, is a terrible match. While he charms the townsfolk, at home he is her intellectual inferior and treats […]
Welcome to the fourth Queens Reading Series Event — ~❀poetry❀~ edition with some brilliant poets and writers. The readers are: Hannah Lee Nahar is a writer and teaching artist. Their work is published in Best New Poets, No, Dear, West Branch, Salt Hill, Mississippi Review, and elsewhere. They live in Brooklyn. Naomi Shuyama-Gómez is a […]
Join us for a Tasting and Teach-In about Egyptian, Indian, and Puerto Rican dishes featuring Rice and Lentils! Rice and Lentils together form the basis of nutritious, delicious, and cheap meals that have fed our peoples for generations. At this event, we will serve small portions of three different dishes that feature Rice and Lentils: […]
To celebrate the World’s Borough Bookshop’s third anniversary, these native Queens writers will share how growing up here shaped their lives, writing, and art. Alvin Eng, author of Our Laundry, Our Town Heather Eng, author of Double Happiness Sylvia Chen, author of Tricky Chopsticks and Sparkles for Sunny Heather Eng is a third-generation Chinese American writer who grew up […]
This is our AAPI MARKET/ CELEBRATION/PARTY! We’ll have food, baked goods, all types of fun art for all ages and few activist friends tabling the spread the word on causes that affect us all! Over 35+ AAPI Creatives. So come by and party and support your local artists! Location: Outside the World's Borough Bookshop, 3406 […]
Join Alvin Eng discussing his book Our Laundry, Our Town My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond. Leading the conversation will be author and essayist, Radha Vatsal. With humor and grace, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese American in New York City. Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and processes […]
Interactive talk on showing up, speaking up and standing out at work. Learn to pitch, ace interviews, build your digital presence and more. Whether you’re starting your first internship or “corporate” job, or just trying to figure out what “professional” means in today’s remote, hybrid, or distributed world — this convo is for you. Join […]
Join World's Borough Bookstore and AAWW for a celebration of Wenzhou Street Sonnets by Mila Jao Barry, featuring Stine An! Join the Asian American Writers' Workshop and World's Borough Bookstore for a celebration of Wenzhou Street Sonnets by Mila Jao Barry, featuring Stine An! Mila Jao Barry is a poet, hand-cut printmaker, and community arts […]