Word Up

Over the summer, a bookstore popped up in a former drugstore in Washington Heights. Community members rejoiced, a deal was negotiated with the landlord, and now it looks like this neighborhood in Upper Manhattan may have its own bookstore for a while to come. We hope so, anyway, as the volunteer-run Word Up is a charming place to look for titles in Spanish, Russian, or English, on poetry or politics or New York City, to stock up on self-published graphic novels or broadsheets, or to hear writers read and see performers perform, away from publicists, press packets, and general corporate rigamarole.