Bridge Street Books

Sally Rooney! Richard Powers! Timothy Snyder! &&&
We’re open 11-9 Mon-Saturday, 12-9 Sunday. Come on by!

It’s Independent Bookstore Day. 10% Off storewide at Bridge Street all day! Open 11-9. Come on by!

Eileen Myles reading at Bridge Street Wednesday April 26th 8PM for their new book a ‘Working Life.’ O yeah.

Upcoming events at Bridge Street! Anne Boyer & Peter Gizzi reading Sunday April 23rd, 8 PM. Eileen Myles reading Wednesday April 26th, 8PM. Yay!

We will be closing at8 PM tonight for this event--

SUNDAY, April 9th, 8 PM

THE EDGE READING SERIES
at Bridge Street Books presents

TERENCE WINCH
DIANE WARD
& PHYLLIS ROSENZWEIG

Phyllis Rosenzweig was a curator for many years at the Hirshhorn Museum. She co- published the poetry journal Primary Writing with Diane Ward from 1995 to 2008 and currently edits Primary Writing Books. Her work has appeared in several magazines. Her publications include the chapbooks: Seventeen Poems (O Press, 1975); Dogs (EdgeBooks, 1996); Reasonable Accommodation (Potes and Poets Press, 1997); and Girls (Primary Writing Books, 2011). She has lived in Washington, D.C. since 1973.

Diane Ward was born in Washington, DC and currently lives in Los Angeles, California. She attended the Corcoran College of Art in DC, and earned a PhD in Geography at UCLA. Her books of poetry include a collaboration with Tina Darragh and Jane Sprague in #8 of the Belladonna Elders series, No List (no list), Seeing Eye Books, Flim-Yoked Scrim, Factory School, and When You Awake from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. “InHouse,” appeared in Kindergarde, the First Avant Garde Anthology for Children and was included in the Black Mountain Anthology from Lorimer Press. Her poem, “Fade on Family,” was set to music by the Los Angeles composer Michael Webster, and performed as part of The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound series at the Schindler House in West Hollywood. She was a member of the Los Angeles-based Readers Chorus that performed at Disney Hall, and the Museum of Jurassic Technology, among other places. She has worked in urban agriculture for the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, and in Oakland where she worked in collaboration with others to advance economic opportunities, address food scarcity, and build community.

Terence Winch’s latest book, That Ship Has Sailed, was published in 2023 as part of the Pitt Poetry Series (University of Pittsburgh Press). He is the author of eight earlier poetry collections. Winner of an American Book Award and a Columbia Book Award, he has also written a young adult novel called Seeing-Eye Boy and two story collections, Contenders and That Special Place. He is the recipient of an NEA Poetry Fellowship and a Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Writing, among other honors. Also a musician and songwriter, Terence Winch has played traditional Irish music all his life.

BRIDGE STREET BOOKS
2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20007
ph 202 965 5200

Located in Georgetown, next to the Four Seasons Hotel, five blocks from the Foggy Bottom Metro, blue & orange lines.

UPCOMING:

Saturday April 8th, 2PM
DOUG LANG MEMORIAL
@ The Flagg Building, 500 17th St NW

Friday April 14th, 7 PM
JUSTIN MARKS & RYAN WALKER
@ Rhizome DC

Friday, April 21st, 7 PM
MATTHEW KLANE, WARREN LONGMIRE,
& ALEXANDRA JACOBS
@ Rhizome DC

Sunday April 23rd, 8 PM
ANNE BOYER & PETER GIZZI
@ Bridge Street Books

Wednesday April 26th, 8 PM
EILEEN MYLES
@ Bridge Street Books

Aidan Levy, author of Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins stopped in to sign copies. Come on by to pick yours up!

Happy Merry! Open til 7.

Happy Birthday to Philip Levy, our beloved founder. Hard to believe he left us five years ago. Thanks to all of you who’ve helped us through.

Some of what’s new in Art— Basquiat/Haring, Sophie Calle, Sun Ra, Picasso, Brainard, Women Painting Women, Gilliam, &&&

New! Bob Dylan! NK Jemisin! Annie Ernaux! Best American Stories Essays SF Science Food! Messi! Ronald! Exclamation! Etc!

Poets Allison Cobb & Brian Teare reading at Bridge Street Sunday October 23rd at 8 PM. Come on by!

Some of our recent hardcover bestsellers— Moshfegh, Keefe, Robb, Brooks, &&&. Open 11-9 Mon-Sat, 12-9 Sunday.

Hi hi— we’re open July 4th 11-6. Come on by!

How about this one! & look at that list of contributors. Open 11-9 Mon-Sat, 12-9 Sun.

New Batuman, Straub, Millard, the Pulitzer Prize winning Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott now in paperback, &&&. Open 11-9 Mon-Sat, 12-9 Sunday. Seeya soon!

Independent Bookstore Day! 10% off everything all day! Come on by!

Happy Sant Jordi day! Books and Roses day! In Catalonia you give a book and a rose to a loved one. Sounds good huh?

New Ocean Vuong, Egan, St John Mandel, Wohlleben, Chomsky, &&&. It’s Spring! Come on by.

New Ocean Vuong, Jennifer Egan, Emily St John Mandel, Peter Wohlleben! Come on by!

A few of what’s new—Good Bookstores! Aptow! Lahiri! Cave Dwellers! &&& Hours: 11-9 Mon-Sat, 12-9 Sun.

New Azar Nafisi! Also Dolly Parton with Patterson, Karen Fowler, Rumi NYRB, &&&. Open 11-9 Mon-Sat, 12-9 Sunday. Come on by!

Bridge Street Books updated their business hours.

New Hanya Yanagihara! Also How I Became a Tree, The Next Civil War, &&&. Winter Hours: 11-8 Mon-Thurs, 11-9 Fri-Sat, & 12-8 Sunday. Seeya soon!

Winter hours. We’ll be closing at 8 Sun-Thurs for a few months, cuz yakow, cold!