In-Store: Booksellers Read (Again)!

Event guidelines:

• All attendees are encouraged to wear face masks at all times.
• RSVP is highly encouraged but not required.
• The event will be livestreamed for free on Youtube live: https://youtube.com/live/UCpPd3J_Hjk
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We're booksellers...of course we're going to host an event to read our own writing in our bookstore!

Books Are Magic's staff is filled with book lovers and book writers! This event showcases some of our very talented essayists, poets, comics, novelists, and more, with a night of readings and book signings.

Sarah Jane Abbott sells, ghostwrites, and edits books for kids. She is one in a long line of Franklin W. Dixons with a Hardy Boys book on the shelves. She lives in Brooklyn with her impish cat, Loki.

Alexa Brahme is a writer from southern California. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, the Robert J. Dau PEN Award, and Best of the Net. She currently lives in Brooklyn, where she is a bookseller at Books Are Magic. Her debut novel, Good News, is forthcoming from Algonquin Books in 2026.

Mikayla Bryant (she/her/hers) is an archivist, film photographer and writer born and raised in rural North Carolina. Bryant’s art explores the beauty of human interaction, nature, and the mundane. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York and is currently working on her first novel.

Bex Frankeberger is a writer whose work has been featured here and there, but most recently in Dizzy and Mizna. They live in Brooklyn.

Amali Gordon-Buxbaum is a writer from Albuquerque, New Mexico, currently living in Brooklyn. Her work can be found in Bodega Magazine.

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