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Bookbits for May 2024

by Sophie R.I.P. Paul Auster, who died on 30 April of complications from lung cancer. NPR is one of the many sites with an obituary, and The Guardian gathered tributes by fellow authors. Awards! The Pulitzer Prizes were awarded last night, and the honorees are: Nightwatch (Fiction), Primary Trust (Drama), No [...]

Sophie2026-08-13T17:01:43+02:00Tags: ABC Events, Awards, Bookbits, Bookish News, Obituaries, Recommendations, Sophie|

Bookbits for April 2024

by Sophie I hope everyone who celebrates had a lovely Easter and Holi, and a wonderful Eid al-Fitr to come next week to all who celebrate that! What do South Africa's former first couple, Black inexpression, and Uyghur poets have in common? Books about or by them were all National Book [...]

Sophie2026-08-11T23:45:49+02:00Tags: ABC Booklover Bags, ABC Events, Awards, Bookbits, Bookish News, Obituaries, Sophie|

ABC in the Wild: Made in Asia 2024

by Vika Manga, anime, cosplay, merchandise, K-pop, gaming, music! Heroes Made in Asia is an event for Asian pop culture fans featuring a market of all things Asian. This year's festivities took place in Gorinchem on February 24-25, where the ABC sold the latest and most popular manga and fantasy books. [...]

Lilia2026-08-15T13:48:18+02:00Tags: ABC Events, ABC in the Wild, anime, Asian Culture, Heroes Made in Asia, Heroes Made in Asia 2024, Manga, MIA, MIA 2024, Sakura Densya, Vika|

Bookbits for March 2024

by Sophie Let's start with bookish events in the country: Natali Simmonds hosts a resilience in writing workshop at ABC Amsterdam on 8 March, our Book Chats book club meets in Amsterdam on 22 March to discuss Scorched Grace, Emily Hund presents her book The Influencer Industry at the John [...]

Sophie2026-08-11T17:57:15+02:00Tags: ABC Events, Awards, Bookbits, Bookish News, interviews, Sophie, Women's History Month|

Bookbits for February 2024

by Sophie Let's start off with some award winners: this year's Newbery Medal (for best US children's book, basically) was won by Dave Eggers for The Eyes and the Impossible (illustrated by Shawn Harris). The Caldecott Medal (for best illustrations of a children's book) was awarded to Vashti Harrison for Big. [...]

Sophie2026-08-11T15:08:29+02:00Tags: ABC Events, Awards, Black History Month, Bookbits, Bookish News, Sophie|

Bookbits for January 2024

by Sophie Heyo! Happy 2024, first of all, may it be a very bookish and kind year to you and yours. To celebrate this new year we're bringing back an Olde Blogge favorite (to write, in any case): the Bookbits, bookish news in small bites. We hope you'll enjoy them throughout [...]

Sophie2026-08-11T14:37:36+02:00Tags: ABC Events, Best of 2023, Best of Lists, Bookbits, Bookish News, Sophie|

Thanksgiving: Giving Thanks for the Iroquois Confederacy

by Lynn What are you giving thanks for this Thanksgiving? At ABC, we’re thankful for our community of booklovers, both customers and staff. I’m also thankful for the Iroquois Confederacy—the model for our democratic Constitution. We have celebrated Thanksgiving at our stores since 1989 as a way [...]

Lynn Kaplanian2026-08-15T17:56:34+02:00Tags: ABC History, Events, Lynn, Thanksgiving 2023|

ABC Staff Picks: September 2023

by Lília Luke and Iris discuss books and interview author Natali Simmonds. In the season 4 kick-off of our ABC Staff Picks, our Luke and Iris are back discussing the books they and their colleagues are loving right now. They also interview author Natali Simmonds about her [...]

Lilia2026-08-15T17:51:45+02:00Tags: ABC Staff Picks, Best of Lists, Biography, Bob, Book Reviews, Crime Fiction, EmmaV, Fantasy, Floris, interviews, Iris, IrisM, Luke, MariaS, Naomi, Natali Simmonds, Romantic Fiction, Young Adult|

30 years of laughs with Amsterdam’s Boom Chicago

by Luke & Lauren While visiting Amsterdam a couple decades ago, two young Chicagoans—Andrew Moskos and Pep Rosenfeld—proceeded to do what most young American tourists do in the nation’s capital: they went to a coffee shop to get stoned. The year was 1992, the coffee shop may or may not have been [...]

Lilia2026-08-11T10:52:50+02:00Tags: ABC Events, Boom Chicago, Comedy, Events, History, Luke|

A short history of Open Mic Night (OMN)

by Lynn Open Mic Nights were initiated by Molly Ackerman, the first manager of the ABC Treehouse, in 2000. Artist Molly had come to the Thanksgiving Day dinner and marveled at the space in the ABC Treehouse. She had lots of paintings under her bed and wanted a [...]

Lynn Kaplanian2026-08-15T17:42:51+02:00Tags: ABC History, ABC Open Mic, Events, Lynn, Open Mic Night|

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