Do you love magic, time travel, and intimate connection with another human who may be dead or thousands of miles away?
Then turn off your computer, your phone, and your television, and read a book instead. Because today is National Read-A-Book Day.
What else can you do to celebrate National Read-A-Book Day?
Well, we're in New York City, which is absolutely the best possible city to celebrate this holiday.
Lose yourself in a whirlwind day of stack perusing at Community Bookstore, Housing Works, McNally Jackson or any of NYC's other amazing bookstores.
Get yourself to the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Poets House, The Center for Fiction or any of NYC's other excellent literary meeting spots to hear a reading that articulates and dissipates all your unsaid ails. Since there's nothing that heals a wound better than hearing someone say it out loud.
Finally, nothing goes better with a good book than a stiff drink. So check out all the best bars to toss back whiskey shots while barreling through your latest page-turner (might we recommend The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo?).
However you choose to celebrate this momentous occasion, do it with the knowledge that there's no better city to do it in.
Whether it's writing, drinking, or listening, NYC writers do it best. If NYC isn't the literary capital of the solar system, it's definitely one of them.
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