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Independent Bookseller at 134 Prince Street | 4 Fulton St | 76 North 4th Street | City Point | 1 Rockefeller Center

New York, NY
Joined February 2009
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
4 years
Dear New York, Please come back to our stores. Sales remain down over 50% and we need you to keep this bookselling gig going. We have so many wonderful books and booksellers, all we need is you. #BoxedOut #ShopIndie
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
1 year
Our bookstore at Rockefeller center fully opens today. This store is our effort to resurrect the lost tradition of grand, midtown bookstores. Please come see it, and tell us what you think.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
5 years
Somebody is photoshopping Dr. Frasier Crane into our Williamsburg store on Google Maps and honestly that’s fine.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
5 years
Your McNally Jackson master class in doubling down: we’re staying at our Prince Street location and opening two new bookstores this year.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
6 years
Guys! We haven’t found the perfect new spot yet (we’re working on it), but fear not — we are definitely staying in the neighborhood.
@boweryboogie
Bowery Boogie
6 years
McNally Jackson Bookstore is Leaving Prince Street After 14 Years
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
4 years
Mentally we are here
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
12 years
This is a common mistake, but we'd like to remind everyone that what we're looking at here is not FrankenStorm, but FrankenStorm's monster.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
4 years
Thanks for your being so nice to us and the @ABAbook #BoxedOut promotion! We have a sudden influx of web orders, warming our hearts and our coffers. Thank you!
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
6 years
We’re open at 76 North 4th Street in Williamsburg. Come buy some books. We’ve got lots.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
6 years
In honor of Anthony Bourdain, we’ve collected some of the many books he loved, or as he might have said, “books to unfuck yourself.”
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
6 years
In honor of #IndigenousPeoplesDay , here's a collection of some of our favorite reads by Native authors.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
6 years
Taking our dedication to international literature to new heights, we are opening a store this fall in LaGuardia’s Terminal B.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
4 years
SOS: 20% of indie bookstores might not survive the year. October 13 and 14 we're hosting the Don't Box Out Bookstores Event. Calling all journalists, activists, and book lovers to help spread the word! Please save our stores #ShopIndie #BoxedOut
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
4 years
By the time you're done reading this post, Amazon made another $1.7M. But shopping indie means more local choice, tax dollars and jobs, and a truly unique diverse community. That’s why we support the national “Don’t Box Out Bookstores” event. Please #ShopIndie today. #BoxedOut
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
4 years
A rainy day at a bookstore is a whole mood.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
10 months
set your sweaty eyes on this hottie
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
8 years
Nope.
@JeffBezos
Jeff Bezos
8 years
Congratulations to @realDonaldTrump . I for one give him my most open mind and wish him great success in his service to the country.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
5 years
Na na na na Na na na na HEY he-ey Goodbye 👋
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
10 months
oh no. someone stole all our Ayn Rand. would be a shame if we never noticed and then never got it back in.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
3 years
A reminder that your local independent bookstore just wants your preschooler to enjoy reading books.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
8 years
We were lucky enough to occasionally get to sell books to David Bowie, who, in addition to being, you know, Bowie, was also a great reader.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
4 years
Come into McNally Jackson or shop our website and order a book with words in it!
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@mcnallyjackson
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8 years
You know it's 2016 when the store is filled with children reading books and adults running around searching for Pokemon.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
9 years
Now available: literary ice cream pops. Beat the heat with sugar AND culture. (Note: not actually available.) http://t.co/N2fiiIqNlw
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
12 years
I sometimes pretend to myself that I have insomnia, when what I really have is a good book and inadequate respect for tomorrow.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
7 years
No kidding, really? Guess we'll have to change...none of our plans.
@PublishersWkly
Publishers Weekly
7 years
Simon & Schuster is canceling the publication of 'Dangerous' by Milo Yiannopoulos "After careful consideration." Full story coming soon.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
6 years
Now that we’ve got your attention, are you registered to vote?
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
4 years
That Kurt Vonnegut was born on Veterans Day feels like a detail from a Kurt Vonnegut novel.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
5 years
Science fiction, neither white nor European
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
4 years
A million thanks to the inimitable Patti Smith for signing hundreds of copies of the paperback edition of Year of the Monkey at our Prince Street store.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
1 year
Breaking news: Our OG store at 52 Prince Street is MOVING… to 134 Prince Street. Help us say farewell to a beloved space that has fueled our hearts, our crooked minds, and straight-out-of-a-movie meet cutes by sharing your favorite memories made at 52.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
1 year
I am once again advocating for a doggie check in system where if you bring your dog to a McNally Jackson OR Goods for the Study you MUST check in with staff about how cute they are (spoiler: the answer is invariably VERY, but they always deserve a treat for being so).
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
3 years
During this particularly challenging holiday season we want to thank all of the mail carriers (including Roger, pictured here) who have worked so hard to keep our holidays happy.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
1 year
Oh, happy day.
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McNally Jackson
1 year
Work in a bookstore, they said. There’s no such thing as taking home too many books, they said. You’ll find the space for them, THEY SAID.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
6 years
Our new location in Williamsburg is opening soon—really soon!—and we need booksellers. Mostly part time but also full. Email your resume to sam @mcnallyjackson .com.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
4 years
You just might want to pre-order this new book from an up-and-coming thriller writer.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
4 years
A statement on the staff of McNally Jackson.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
4 years
"It was good just to see each other every so often to hear the mad sound of the brain of one echo in the mad sound of the brain of the other.” ―Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name Happy #WorldFriendshipDay
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
8 years
He bought great stuff, read weirdly and widely—across genres, in translation—and he was chatty and curious with staff.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
6 years
One fun thing that keeps happening here is people asking when we opened and we answer 10am, and they ask, no, how long have you been here and we answer since 10am and blow their minds.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
7 years
Your weekend plans: 1) Go see I Am Not Your Negro. 2) Read more Baldwin.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
8 years
We finally got verified, but if you think that means the quality of our tweets will go up you don't understand how literary careers work.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
3 years
Happy birthday to Haruki Murakami.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
3 years
A night of bad sex never sounded so good. Register here for what's sure to be a memorable evening:
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
1 year
Good luck to everyone buying Moby-Dick, To the Lighthouse, or Anna Karenina today!
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
4 years
The pandemic has put limits in how many of our lovely loyals we can let in at anytime, so we put a poem outside for reading while they wait.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
6 years
We're now open at 76 North 4th Street in Williamsburg. Join us on Saturday for champagne and 10% off everything. Discounts all day, champagne till it's gone, lots and lots of books. Come see.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
3 years
Happy birthday to Toni Morrison, who even sipped water like a legend.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
1 month
never did I ever think I’d have the opportunity to break the internet, until ….
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
4 years
Today's McNally Jackson #SwingStateSpotlight is Florida. Here are a few of our favorite books set in the Sunshine State, along with a link to donate to if you can.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
5 years
Never let it be said we do things by halves: the best books we read in 2018 are this year presented in the form of a treasure hunt. Prizes, you ask? Buy 1 of our favorites: 10% off Buy 5 of our favorites: 10% off + a mug Buy 10 of our favorites: 10% off + a mug filled with candy
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
3 years
barack: good morning mcnally jackson my independent bookstore mcnally jackson: hello obama
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
7 years
I just referred to Jennifer Egan—a person I've never met—as "Jenny Egan," so now I have to burn down the store with me inside. I'm sorry.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
4 years
McNally Jackson, Downtown Brooklyn edition. How it started: How it’s going:
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
5 years
Tonight at 7pm at Seaport, @jackisnotabird discusses his new book SORTED with @tyleroakley :
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
1 year
Our new store, six blocks west of our old store, is open. Please come say hello and let us know what you think. We’re at 134 Prince Street, between Wooster and West Broadway. Farewell Nolita, hello SoHo!
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
5 years
The first issue of @commune_mag is here and shelved uneasily in ‘Current Affairs,’ which is one way to say ‘the Present Conjuncture.’ Come and get it!
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
7 years
We're playing Tracy Chapman's Fast Car on repeat until the store closes ... just in case anyone was doubting our indie bookstore cred.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
4 years
Hello beloved, mask-wearing customers! Our Prince Street, Williamsburg, and Seaport stores are now open to the public — 12pm to 7pm every day.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
4 years
May we present: our favorite literature published in the last decade. Featuring novels and stories by @GarthGreenwell , @ValeriaLuiselli , @tejucole , and many, many more.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
5 months
We are SLINGING these books, let me tell you.
@anabnieto
Ana B. Nieto 🎙
5 months
Happy to inform that the line to the cashier is longer and fast at the bookstore ⁦ @mcnallyjackson ⁩ than at Nike store.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
8 years
Ladies and germs, our bestselling books of 2015—in order from top to bottom.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
7 years
If anyone's looking for a good place to take a nap, we just installed a rocking chair in our political biographies section.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
1 year
hey guys! You did It! You bought every book this weekend. After 11 months of too many books, we’ve officially run out. See you again next year!
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
4 years
Another day of uncertainty. But something we know for sure: we love @RavenLeilani and we now have signed copies of Luster available for purchase.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
8 years
So here's to Bowie, a hero forever and ever.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
4 years
Hey Twitter, what are some big fat classic novels you'd like to read or revisit? Our 6-week seminar on Dostoyevsky's The Idiot has been in such high demand that we'd love to plan more. I'm rooting for a return to Middlemarch, myself.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
4 years
Happy #IndieBookstoreDay ! Here are some of our favorite books published by indie presses in 2020.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
1 year
I demand we bring back the bookseller fashion from the brain & heart melting classic You’ve Got Mail.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
10 months
every single one of you better donate this — every indie is a treasure, but especially Yu & Me. it’s on all of us to make sure they get to rebuild and get back to being the coziest, most inviting community cornerstone that they are. go! donate! now!
@QianJulieWang
Qian Julie Wang🔸王乾 🔸הֲדַסָּה
10 months
due to a recent fire, Yu & Me Books in Chinatown NY needs to remain closed for a year. if you’ve ever been to the store or one of their events, you know that the store is the heartbeat of Chinatown. please consider supporting their GoFundMe so they can stay afloat & rebuild:
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McNally Jackson
8 years
A bummer to disappoint a customer, but it is also a relief that we don't carry any books by low IQ person Donald Trump.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
6 years
Wear your I Voted sticker to our cash register and we’ll give you 10% off your purchase and possibly a high five for being civically responsible.
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McNally Jackson
3 years
Snow night at Seaport.
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3 years
A nice holiday gift for Future You is to pre-order 2021 books right now, so that Future You will get "surprise" email notifications to pick up books in the new year.
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McNally Jackson
6 years
In honor of #Bloomsday we present you with this picture of James Joyce as a self-described "fierce-looking infant."
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McNally Jackson
8 years
New (neu?) favorite poem, a deeply moving ode to a dog covered in glue, from the Neu Jorker:
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
3 years
Happy to announce that all McNally Jackson locations are back to regular hours—11:30am to 7pm—for humans and dogs alike.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
5 years
Today is Independent Bookstore Day and to celebrate we're giving away Reader Reward Cards* in our stores to anyone who asks, up to and including you. *Normally $20, this card gets you 10% off everything for a year at all our bookstores: Prince Street, Williamsburg, and beyond.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
3 years
Who needs a book recommendation? Tell me what you're looking for and I'll provide some suggestions. Let's get that holiday shopping done early!
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
4 years
All McNally Jackson locations are open for business but closed to the public. We are still fulfilling phone and web orders at the stores, so please continue to shop with us in these confusing times.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
3 years
Happy 86th birthday to a real one.
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1 year
a VERY good boy
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McNally Jackson
6 years
For Mother's Day, we have collected our favorite books by and for and about mothers.
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McNally Jackson
6 years
Tomorrow, wear your I Voted sticker for 10% off your purchase. Show off your civic duty—voting—while performing your other civic duty, buying books. (Poem from The Carrying by Ada Limón)
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McNally Jackson
8 years
Our collection of David Bowie's favorite 100 books, because there's a terror in knowing what the world is about.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
4 years
Our favorite creative non-fiction of the decade features @lsjamison @ValeriaLuiselli @briangdillon @megogieblyn @NifMuhammad and @embot , among others. (Not pictured, @ChelseaHodson (thanks Kendall Jenner))
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
6 years
Oh thank God
@sza
SZA
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Low key feel like books r making a comeback .. could be jus me
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McNally Jackson
6 years
This week, we're highlighting the indie publishers and books that are currently in our Three Small Presses display. First up, Two Dollar Radio, the David Lynch of small presses.
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McNally Jackson
4 years
We can’t make any predictions for fall but we do know for sure that the books will be great.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
7 years
Alternative Staff Picks.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
6 months
McNally Jackson alum Justin Torres just won the National Book Award for Blackouts! We are over the moon for him and look forward to celebrating his work for a long long time to come.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
6 years
We sell a newfangled copy of Ulysses here, wherein every word of Joyce's original has been sorted into alphabetical order. Here is Will, admiring this page of wives, wilderness, Wilhelmina, Will, William, Willie, willing, willowpatterned, windbag and windingsheets.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
6 years
The bookstore and cafe are both open for business, snowbirds. Our soups today are turkey chili and roasted vegetable. See you soon.
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@mcnallyjackson
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6 years
We’re not ones to throw around words like “tomorrow” willy nilly, but we just pulled the paper off the windows at 76 North 4th Street.
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McNally Jackson
6 years
Our Summer Reading Matrix™️ is here for all—and we mean all—your beach read needs.
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McNally Jackson
10 months
Don’t believe the hype kids! Adulthood actually involves a lot more climbing on the furniture than you would think.
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@mcnallyjackson
McNally Jackson
11 years
Due to a bug, tonight we will creep into your apartment and steal every book off your shelves. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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