St. Mark's Bookshop

Welcome to St. Mark's Bookshop

St. Mark's Bookshop was established in 1977 in New York's East Village, a community of students, academics, arts professionals and other eclectic readers. Our specialties include Cultural Theory, Graphic Design, Poetry & Small Press Publishers, Film Studies and Foreign & Domestic Periodicals & Journals.

Beginning in the Spring of 2008, we're hosting a reading series! Click here for more information!

Please Note: We update the inventory information on this website daily so that the inventory screen for each title will reflect our current stock quantity. Look for the Inventory Status field on each book's individual page:

- If there is a quantity indicated as "on our shelves now," that is the number of copies currently onhand.

- If, instead of a quantity, the book's status is listed as "usually ships in 1 to 5 days," then we do not have the book in stock but we can usually order it for you locally.

This Week's Arrivals

The very latest titles, shipped to our store within the last seven days. Fiction and non-fiction, cloth and paper, covering a wide range of tastes and subjects, all available for sale now at St. Mark's Bookshop.

Personal Days
by Park, Ed
In an unnamed New York-based company, the employees are getting restless as everything around them unravels. There's Pru, the former grad student turned spreadsheet drone; Laars, the hysteric whose work anxiety stalks him in his tooth-grinding dreams; and Jack II, who distributes unwanted backrubs-aka "jackrubs"-to his co-workers.
On a Sunday, one of them is called at home. And the Firings begin.
Rich with Orwellian doublespeak, filled with sabotage and romance, this astonishing literary debut is at once a comic delight and a narrative tour de force. It's a novel for anyone who has ever worked in an office and wondered: "Where does the time go? Where does the life go? And whose banana is in the fridge?"
"If P. G. Wodehouse worked in a modern-day office, he might have written this hilarious book."
-Vendela Vida, author of "Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name
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"The funniest book I've read about the way we work now."
-William Poundstone, author of "Fortune's Formula"
"With Personal Days Ed Park joins Andy Warhol and Don DeLillo as a master of the deadpan vernacular."
-Helen DeWitt, author of "The Last Samurai"
"The ideal read for anyone who has ever felt possessive about a stapler, confused by their boss's behavior, or suspicious of the stranger who works two cubicles down."
----Amanda Filipacchi, author of "Love Creeps
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"If you think Pam and Jim have it bad, try spending a day with Lizzie, Jonah, and Pru at their '"Office"'-like company.
You'll laugh, cringe, and thank God you don't work there." ---- "Cosmopolitan"
"Hysterical" -"Wired"
" Park's] sardonic humor will ring true to cube monkeys everywhere." -"Fast Company"
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" "A warm and winning fiction debut." -- "Publishers Weekly"
"Absolutely brilliant and lovable." -Heidi Julavits

Autographs

Numerous authors visit St. Mark's Bookshop and often sign copies of their books. Browse our current selection and order a copy via e-mail at no extra charge. These items are available from St. Mark's Bookshop ONLY by e-mail order. (Do not use the Book Sense electronic order system to purchase autograph copies.)

This page updated May 7, 2008.

Maps and Legends
by Chabon, Michael
Michael Chabon's sparkling first book of nonfiction is a love song in 16 parts — a series of linked essays in praise of reading and writing, with subjects running from ghost stories to comic books, Sherlock Holmes to Cormac McCarthy. Throughout, Chabon energetically argues for a return to the thrilling, chilling origins of storytelling, rejecting the false walls around "serious" literature in favor of a wide-ranging affection. His own fiction, meanwhile, is explored from the perspective of personal history: post-collegiate desperation sparks his debut, "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh;" procrastination and doubt reveal the way toward "Wonder Boys;" a love of comics and a basement golem combine to create the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &Clay; " and an enigmatic Yiddish phrasebook unfurls into "The Yiddish Policeman's Union."

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