Book Beat is celebrating Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, April 30th. Book Beat will have exclusive Independent Bookstore Day items, authors and more!
On this final day of National Poetry Month, the phenomenal M.L. Liebler, poet and creative writing professor at Detroit’s Wayne State University, will help staff the Book Beat from 12:00 – 2:00 PM. At 1:00 PM, he will be reading from his new poetry collection I Want to Be Once, joined by Metro Detroit Poet and Michigan Notable Book Award Winner Diane DeCillis. Afterward, M.L. will preform songs with The Beatles Forever Band. Local author Beth Rodgers will be at the store from 2:00 – 3:00 PM.
“Working in a bookstore is a liminal position, an uneasy balancing act. Attacks happen from all directions. We remain here to try and postpone the book-replacing e-readers in our Fahrenheit 451 world as long as possible.”
–Cary Loren, co-owner of Book Beat
For more information about the day and to see some of the exclusive items available only to Independent stores, visit Independent Bookstore Day’s official website here.
From their website:
Independent bookstores are not just stores, they’re community centers and local anchors run by passionate readers. They are entire universes of ideas that contain the possibility of real serendipity. They are lively performance spaces and quiet places where aimless perusal is a day well spent.
Indie bookstores, whether dusty and labyrinthine or clean and well-lighted, are not just stores, they are solutions. They hold the key to your love life, your career, and your passions. Walking the aisles of a good bookstore means stumbling upon a novel from India that expands your heart. It’s encountering an art book that changes the direction of your life. It’s the joy of having a perfect stranger steer you toward the perfect book.
In a world of tweets and algorithms and pageless digital downloads, bookstores are not a dying anachronism. They are living, breathing organisms that continue to grow and expand. In fact, there are more of them this year than there were last year. And they are at your service.