We ought to celebrate and cheer on any newly opened independent bookstore, so as I find any, I will post a description here.
HULLABALOO BOOKS, a new concept in bookshops: Small is beautiful. Pocket
neighborhoods deserve art and literature too, thinks proprietor Michael de Zayas. In the budding, self-renewing Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, just off Franklin Avenue at Park Place, a literary, artistic, and creative community is sprouting an intimate new bookstore with "a concept considerably richer than simple commerce," says de Zayas. The commonly held opinion is that opening a profitable bookstore in the climate of electronic downloads and online book outlets is a fool's errand. Owner and community organizer Michael de Zayas thinks otherwise. His vision for the bookstore is a combination of not-for-profit cultural center for fiction readings, book launch events, visiting international writers, children's storytelling, open poetry readings, weekly contemporary poetry book study, writing workshops for adults and teens, adult literacy program, focused reading groups, an outdoor reading garden where people "experience the joys of thought, art, and each other's company",--all this in a small space of a profitable bookstore of new and used books carefully curated to suit the community. Bravo, Michael! Wishing you much success.
711a Franklin Ave. Brooklyn, NY11238-4202