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10 Quotes from Americanah

The next Bushwick event, Original Music Inspired by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah , is happening this Friday at Elliott Bay Book Co. This is a powerful novel by an insightful author who’s adept at crafting layers of story. It’s difficult to find a page that lacks an impacting passage, but we’ve narrowed it down to ten thought-provoking quotes. Take a look! Read more

10 Quotes From Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Mary Shelley was just twenty years of age when Frankenstein was first published back in 1818. Man, that was a long time ago. Fast forward nearly 200 years later to present day – our Bushwick book scientists worked around the clock to hand select the 10 best quotes from this ancient tomb. But they didn’t stop there. They went so far as to convert Mary Shelley’s primordial analog words into a futuristic digital format specifically designed to delight your visual senses and stimulate your non-zombie brains.

And stimulate they will…

*designs by Travis Young

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9 Great Shel Silverstein Quotes

Shel Silverstein wrote super funny poems and said a lot of great words. Here is but a small selection of his work in celebration of today’s Bushwick show at Folklife.

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Ten Inspirational Wally Lamb quotes from She’s Come Undone

In honor of our upcoming partnership event this Thursday with Book-It Repertory Theatre where we will be presenting original music inspired by Wally Lamb’s She’s Come Undone, here are ten of our favorite inspirational quotes from the book.

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