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Book Banter Books 📚Free-range bookstore for the literary traveler. Events, banter & bookish magic. 🪄 Book Banter is expanding beyond the screen! Let's Talk Books!

We’re bringing our love of stories into the physical world as a pop-up bookstore—creating fun, interactive literary events that support and uplift our vibrant book-loving community. Originally launched as a virtual event series, Book Banter has become a lively space that brings authors and readers together for engaging conversations about books, storytelling, and the writing life. Whether online or in person, you are invited to join the conversation and share in the joy of reading.

09/09/2026

Book Banter with Rayna Featuring Lauren Rhoades podcast episode is now available wherever you listen to podcasts.
Link in bio will take you where you need to go.

Today’s National Translation Month pick: The Rabbit Back Literature Society by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, translated from...
09/08/2026

Today’s National Translation Month pick: The Rabbit Back Literature Society by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, translated from Finnish by Lola Rogers. 🇫🇮

A mysterious literary society, a disappearing author, and a town where books may not be quite what they seem. A strange, witty, wonderfully weird read for anyone who loves a little mystery with their literary fiction. ✨ 

Grab a b**r and a book and pass some time with us tonight Parleaux B**r Lab 6-8pm
09/08/2026

Grab a b**r and a book and pass some time with us tonight Parleaux B**r Lab 6-8pm

09/07/2026

📖 Let’s Talk About a Book That I Don’t Know Much More About Than You Do National Translation Month Edition.

Today’s book is A Perfect Day to Put Your Head in the Oven by Lee Chia-Ying, translated from Taiwanese by Lin King.

Here’s what I know:
    •    It started with a woman trying to write a novel...and failing.
    •    So she decides to write a memoir instead.
    •    Which forces her to relive her childhood where she discovers things are not as they seemed

This one is supposed to be charming and funny and with this title I am really looking forward to giving this one a go. It comes out January 12th so do your future self a favor and pre-order this one so we can read it together.

09/06/2026

What are you reading today?

P.S. Today’s Translation Month pick: Jacob the Mutant by Mario Bellatin, translated from Spanish by Jacob Steinberg. 🇲🇽

Y’all Mario Bellatin is magnificent and strange and you need to google him.
Conceived of as a set of fragmentary manuscripts from an unpublished Joseph Roth novel, this one is a novella in a perpetual state of transformation — a story about a man named Jacob, an ersatz rabbi and owner of a roadside tavern. ✨

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Today’s book in translation pick: Kiki and the New Magic by Eiko Kadono, translated from Japanese by Emily Balistrieri. ...
09/06/2026

Today’s book in translation pick: Kiki and the New Magic by Eiko Kadono, translated from Japanese by Emily Balistrieri. 🇯🇵

A charming sequel to Kiki’s Delivery Service, what more do we need to say?! Perfect for those who need a little enchantment in their lives.

Today’s National Translation Month pick: Witches by Brenda Lozano, translated from Spanish by Heather Cleary. 🇲🇽A haunti...
09/05/2026

Today’s National Translation Month pick: Witches by Brenda Lozano, translated from Spanish by Heather Cleary. 🇲🇽

A haunting, beautifully written novel set in Mexico, it follows a journalist investigating a murder and a healer whose story opens up a world of magic, tradition, and resistance. 

See you tonight!✨ Books, Banter & C***r with Nathaniel Rich🗓️ Friday, September 4⏰ Pop-up 5-7pm, author 6-7pm📍 Broad Str...
09/04/2026

See you tonight!

✨ Books, Banter & C***r with Nathaniel Rich
🗓️ Friday, September 4
⏰ Pop-up 5-7pm, author 6-7pm
đź“Ť Broad Street C***r & Mead 2723 S. Broad St.

09/04/2026

Today’s National Translation Month pick: Hunting in America by Tehila Hakimi, translated from Hebrew by Joanna Chen. 🇮🇱

A haunting, twisty novel about an Israeli woman who moves to America, takes up hunting, and finds herself caught between predator and prey. A strange and unsettling read that asks what happens when we try to reinvent ourselves.

Today’s National Translation Month pick: Hunting in America by Tehila Hakimi, translated from Hebrew by Joanna Chen. 🇮🇱A...
09/04/2026

Today’s National Translation Month pick: Hunting in America by Tehila Hakimi, translated from Hebrew by Joanna Chen. 🇮🇱

A haunting, twisty novel about an Israeli woman who moves to America, takes up hunting, and finds herself caught between predator and prey. This strange and unsettling read will make you question what happens when we try to reinvent ourselves.

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