Welcome to *Spotlight on NYC Bookstores*

This blog is an evolving directory of bookstores in the five boroughs of New York.

It was created as a guide for those visiting Manhattan in May 2010 for Book Expo America, Book Blogger Con, or Book Week.

Please use it as a self-guided tour to bookish delights in the Big Apple!

Bluestockings - Manhattan

Bluestockings

“Bluestockings is a bookstore, fair trade cafe, and activist center in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

We carry over 6000 titles on topics such as queer and gender studies, global capitalism, feminism, police and prisons, democracy studies, and black liberation. You can also find some good ‘ole smutty fiction. We also carry magazines, zines, journals, [...]

St. Mark's Bookshop - Manhattan

St. Mark’s Bookshop

Specialties include Cultural Theory, Graphic Design, Poetry & Small Press Publishing, Film Studies, and Foreign & Domestic Periodicals and Journals.

31 Third Avenue (between 8th and 9th)
New York, NY 10003
Phone: 212-260-7853    
Fax: 212-598-4950

http://www.stmarksbookshop.com/

Monday – Saturday:  10 a.m. – Midnight
Sunday:  11 a.m. – Midnight

Convenient to the 6 Train at Astor Place and the N/R Trains at Broadway [...]