Desk Set
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"Better read than dead."
Female
92 years old
BROOKLYN, New York
United States
Last Login:7/19/2008
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| General | Establishments we haunt: Enid's, Daddy's, Great Jones, Booklyn, Proteus Gowanus, The Greenpoint Public Library, The City Reliquary, Coco 66, Brooklyn Social Club, The Frick Collection, the American Kennel Club Library, The New York Review of Books, The Cooper Hewitt, NYPL, The Society Library, The Metropolitan, The New York Historical Society, Grolier Club, The Transit Museum, The Central Library, Brooklyn Historical Society Library and the future of the book.
Brooklyn! Manhattan! New Orleans!
| | Music | The Woods, Magnolia, Oakley Hall, The Big Sleep, Blood on the Wall, Dead Moon, Johnny Thunders, Television, Neu, The Velvet Underground, Wire, Brian Eno, The Smiths, Enon, T.K.Webb, The Durty Nana's, Another Saturday Night, Coco Rosie, Metallic Falcon, Roxy Music, CAN, My Bloody Valentine, Amon Duul, The Cure, Grizzly Bear, Goldfrapp, Sigur Ros, My Bloody Valentine, Joy Division, Jubilee, John Fahey, The Meters, Dr. John, Love is All, Devo, Wire, Karen Dalton, Magazine, New Order and Kudu. | | Movies | Movies that feature librarians of course: Desk Set, Party Girl, The Archivist, Foul Play, It's a Wonderful Life, Ghostbusters, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Breakfast Club, Salmonberries, Off Beat!, and Storm Center. | | Books | Pretty much everything in the 800s (or P if you're kicking it LC style), bibliographies, encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, museum catalogs, manuscripts and archives, fiction, nonfiction, biographies, journals, online journals, databases, travel lit, children's lit, YA, graphic novels, art books, artist books, cookbooks, audiobooks, e-books, books on books, books on book making, and books on book reading. almost all the books. Not so much textbooks. | | Heroes | Noam Chomsky, Debbie Harry, Kurt Vonnegut, Zora Neal Hurston, John Fante, Truffaut, Salinger, Julia Child, Mevil Dewey, Henriette Avram, David B., M.F.K. Fisher & Roald Dahl. |
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Librarians Rock!, Ladies & Lads of Library Land, Teen Lit, Library Lovers, greenpoint - williamsburg network, YA/Teen Books Discussion Group, Young Adult Writers, Critical Mass - NYC
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Desk Set's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Friends | | Body type: | 0' 0" | | Zodiac Sign: | Taurus | | Education: | Grad / professional school | | Occupation: | librarians, archivists, people who like books |
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About me:
Don't miss The Desk Set's 4th
Dance, Dance, Library Revolution
Books Through Bars Benefit Dance Party
Friday May 16th
10:30 pm - 4:00 am
Enid's
560 Manhattan Ave.
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
You don't have to be a librarian, you just have to dance with one.
Bring a new or gently used paperback dictionary, thesaurus, or English/Spanish dictionary and receive one free drink, courtesy of Enid's! Books Through Bars, a national nonprofit provides books to prisoners all over the country.
Purchase your dictionary at Word Bookstore in Greenpoint;
tell them it is for the Desk Set/Books Through Bars,
and get 10% off!
Enter the Bibliophile Raffle!
one ticket for $2
five tickets for $5
fifteen tickets for $10
ALL PROCEEDS GO TO BOOKS THROUGH BARS
You can buy raffle tickets using Pay Pal by sending money to mariafalgoust@gmail.com
We will send you your raffle ticket numbers by email.
Or you may buy tickets at the party.
The Raffle Prizes Include
* gold membership to Brooklyn Vanguard ($275)
* dual/family membership to Morgan Library ($150)
* individual membership to MoMA ($75)
* membership to New York Society Library ($150)
* subscription to Believer, McSweeney's ($45)
* subscription to Tokion Magazine ($35)
* 4 tickets to the Greenwich Village Literary Pub Crawl ($60)
* A print (ink on archival paper) by artist Ky Anderson: "Pair" ($50)
* signed copy of How Sassy Changed my Life by Kara Jesella and Marisa Meltzer book ($18)
* A selection of 33 1/3 series titles & The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia from Continuum Publishing ($125)
* Magic Hat gift basket
* Speed Racer, 40th anniversary edition boxed set, from Diamond Comic Distributors ($40)
* The Strand gift card, tee-shirts & totes
* St.Mark's Book Shop, $40 gift certificate
* Word Books gift certificate
* Brooklyn Kitchen vintage cookery encyclopedia set
* Houghton Mifflin Gourmet cookbook, Baking: From My Home to Yours, & Hello, Cupcake!
The founders of The Desk Set,
Sarah Murphy & Maria Falgoust,
will be tending bar from 10:30 - 11:30 and will donate all tips directly to Books Through Bars. Be generous!
The amazing Jonathan Toubin from New York Night Train will be spinning 60s parties music: soul, garage, boogaloo, psych, international pop, etc all night long!
Be prepared to let your hair down and shake it.
Raffle ticket prizes will be drawn by our very special guest,
Rob Sheffield, author of Love is a Mixtape
Saturday, May 17th
Happy Hour at Enid's
Please join us for cocktails and to hang out with Rob!
You do not need to be present to win.
Expect Dewey Decimal themed cocktails.
New Spring 2008 Desk Set tote bags for sale for $12.
Buy them at the party or email thedeskset@gmail.com
and we'll hook you up.
Thank you to the incredible Gilbert Ford for contributing such amazing posters for our parties, and to all of our generous raffle donors, volunteers and folks at Enid's!
yours,
Sarah & Maria
The Desk Set is an informal group of librarians, archivists, library science students, and other individuals who love books. The Desk Set gatherings usually entail meeting up at bars in Greenpoint or Williamsburg; and sometimes we go on field trips, have picnics, or book swaps.
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Who I'd like to meet:
Librarians (all kinds!), book lovers, writers, illustrators, archivists, publishers, artists, bibliophiles, and people who heart librarians!
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